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The Rewatchables

‘Airplane!’ With Bill Simmons and Bill Hader

The Rewatchables

The Ringer

Tv & Film

4.613.6K Ratings

🗓️ 23 September 2025

⏱️ 97 minutes

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Summary

Looks like we picked the wrong week to quit rewatching movies. The Ringer’s Bill Simmons is joined by actor, writer, and director Bill Hader to revisit an all time comedy classic, ‘Airplane!’ starring Robert Hays, Julie Hagerty, Leslie Nielsen, and Robert Stack. Producers: Craig Horlbeck, Chia Hao Tat, and Ronak Nair Chad Powers - Series Premieres Sept. 30 on Hulu Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

All right, the man, the myth, the legend, Bill Hader is here.

0:17.4

We haven't done this since COVID.

0:19.1

It's been almost a half-decade drought for you in the

0:21.9

re-watchables. That's true. That's very true. But you're back and I asked you, let's do a movie.

0:28.3

I sent you a bunch of titles and you saw airplane and you were out of your mind excited to discuss

0:34.0

your plane. Yeah, yeah. I've talked about airplane and others. I'm in that book that came out about airplane, but that is such a formidable movie for me, you know? So, yeah, it was, yeah, that was the one that my eyes immediately went to, you know. So you didn't see it when it came out. Did you? You saw it after, probably? Yeah. No, that movie came out when I was like two years old or something. But I can't remember a time when that movie wasn't in my life. You know, it's like, you know, whatever, like Star Wars or Indiana Jones or something like that. It was just always, I don't know if I can like remember the exact moment when I saw it. It was just always, I don't know if I can, like, remember the exact moment when I saw it.

1:14.3

It was just always there. Because it was on cable for 30 straight years. And then it was also, like,

1:20.4

on TBS and WGN and where I grew up in, in Oklahoma, like, we got those channels. And so it was, like, edited for those. And so, I mean, it was just constantly on television. And I'd watch it every time I was on. And still, to this day, I just showed it to my girlfriend, Allie hadn't seen it. And since she was a kid, she said, and we watch, I was like, oh, we got to watch airplane.

1:45.7

Yeah.

1:46.1

We watched it. And I'm still, I know every word to it, and I'm still like dying, laughing, you know, just watching her reaction to it. It was really fun. Well, it was funny reading the book. The book came out, I think, two years ago. It's like a mix of an oral history,

1:59.9

but there's a lot of people like you in there.

2:02.1

Because I saw this movie in the theater.

2:03.9

I think I two years ago. And it's like a mix of an oral history, but there's a lot of people like you in there. Because I saw this movie in the theater. I think I was 10, the summer in 1980. And just immediately it was like, I can't believe this happened. And then it was in my life, like for the next 45 years. And I always felt like it was one of the great movies, like the great

2:18.2

comedies, influential, the whole thing. But I didn't know, I didn't know how many other people felt that way. And then you see that book. And it's like a who's who of all these people like, yeah, that was the moment. Yeah, that was the movie that like, you go, oh, that's how you do it. You know, There's certain films like that for me, like Spinal Tap or Monty Python, the Holy Grail, or Life of Bryant, you know, there's certain films like that for me, like Spinal Tap or Monty Python,

2:35.9

the Holy Grail, or Life of Brian, you know, these things where you went, oh, or those, you know,

2:41.4

young Frankenstein and Blazing Saddles and then the early kind of Woody Allen movies

2:47.9

like Love and Death and some of those things. They were always, they were just kind of like, oh, that's how you're supposed to do comedy.

2:54.7

And then you would see other, whatever, more famous comedies.

2:58.5

And they wouldn't do it for you because there wasn't this kind of edge to it.

3:02.1

Yeah.

3:02.7

But airplane is different because I don't know if you could do, because my friend of Kiva just did that naked gun movie, which was really fun.

3:13.2

But the thing is with this movie, Airplane, which is so hard to replicate, is that everybody, whether it's Saturday Night Live or just whatever, all these people do a funny version of themselves, you know?

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