A couple of months ago, I was at a party somewhere, and a boy came up to me who was, like, 8 or 10 years old, and he said, “Oh, I really liked Airplane! I thought it was really funny!” And I said, “How was it that you came to see it?” And he said, “Well, my grandfather made me watch it.” [Laughs.] If you’d told us in 1980 that the grandkids of the audience would be the ones who’d keep the movie going, it would’ve been very gratifying. But I don’t think we ever anticipated it. And it’s one of the great thrills, I think, of all of our lives that it still remains well known.
Via Instapundit [1], “Surely you can’t be serious: An oral history of Airplane! · Oral History · The A.V. Club [2]”
It's an oral history of the making of “Airplane! [3]” from many people who were involved in the making of one of the funniest movies to ever come out of Hollywood. And stop calling me Shirley.
[1] http://pjmedia.com/instapundit/205348/
[2] http://www.avclub.com/article/surely-you-cant-be-