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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Replying to @adambonin
The Krishna joke, at least, was universal when the movie came out. The Jarvis joke was not.
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Replying to @baseballcrank
I have no gauge for how widely known he was nationally in 1980. Who would the modern equivalent be?
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Replying to @adambonin
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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Replying to @baseballcrank
I ran out of space in the original tweet, because what I'm really interested in is what joke is most missed now, not then. You and I are among the 3% who know who Manny Mota was, for instance.
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Replying to @adambonin
More Dodger fans know, but fair. Ditto how many know who had the two biggest feets in basketball.
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Replying to @baseballcrank
I still want to see the original version of the script when they were hoping to have Pete Rose as the copilot.
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Replying to @adambonin
Honestly, I never saw the Airport movies or The High and the Mighty, so I probably to this day have missed like 20% of the reference gags.
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Replying to @adambonin @baseballcrank
Leslie Nielsen means something different in 2020 than in 1980, too.
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Peter Graves, too.
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