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This Is Either Exhausting, Genius, or Both

By Petr Navovy | Videos | January 24, 2022 |

By Petr Navovy | Videos | January 24, 2022 |


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The 1980 David and Jerry Zucker and Jim Abrahams original Airplane! is regularly ranked very highly on lists of the funniest American movies of all time. And for good reason. It’s pretty remarkable just how well it holds up even now, forty-two years later. One of the reasons it works so well is that it commits with a complete straight face to the ludicrous situations it presents—and to the incredibly silly jokes and word plays it launches at the viewer at a machine gun rate. Airplane! must have one of the highest joke per page ratios of any script ever produced, and it’s this relentless assault that YouTube channel Real Big Boys brings to mind in a video that is determined to launch more puns at you than you could possibly digest in time before starting to feel overwhelmed: