I've long believed the joke in AIRPLANE! which is most forgotten/obscure is that it's Prop 13 sponsor Howard Jarvis in Striker's cab letting that bill run up. But I wonder if second place is the whole idea of Hare Krishna et al solicitation in airports, which is long gone.
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I have no gauge for how widely known he was nationally in 1980. Who would the modern equivalent be?
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Even today, a Soros or Koch brothers joke would sail over the heads of a lot of not-political people. But everybody knew Hare Krishnas in airports.
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