739: Above the Zeppo Level

The Incomparable Mothership

Jason Snell

Arts, Tv & Film, Leisure

4.8 • 694 Ratings

🗓️ 25 October 2024

⏱️ 67 minutes

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Summary

Do you like gladiator movies, Joey? It’s 1980’s “Airplane!”—the comedy version of “Zero Hour!”—with serious actors playing ridiculous parts more or less straight. How does the comedy hold up? What’s unique about the approach? Why was it such a huge hit? We put the ZAZ boys under the microscope. Surely we’ll all have a good time! (Don’t call us Shirley.)...

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0:51.9	The incomparable.
0:58.7	Number 73939 October 24.
1:01.8	Everyone, start your engines.
1:08.7	It's Aviator, and we're back for airplane with an exclamation point. I am your pilot, Jason Snell, and here with me are my crew.
1:16.2	My co-pilot, Shelley Brisbane. Hello, tonight I'll be being played by Ethel Merman.
1:23.8	And I will call you Shelley. I wasn't going to do the obvious joke. Come on, man.
1:28.7	I can't do that.
1:30.4	My other co-pilot, he may look like Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, but I assure you it is Steve Lutz.
1:37.8	Jason, you ever hang around the gymnasium?
1:43.5	Our stewardess for the evening, Philip Michaels.
1:47.2	Hello?
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