boyajian@akov68.DEC (04/24/85)
Unless I missed a posting or two, no one has yet mentioned the end of either
AIRPLANE or AIRPLANE II -- THE SEQUEL. In the first movie, there's a running
gag where every once in a while, there is a scene switch to a passenger in a
taxi-cab that Robert Hays left running at the airport. At the very end of the
credits, we switch to that scene, and the passenger looks at his watch and
says, "OK, I'll wait just 10 more minutes."
At the end of the credits in AIRPLANE II, there is a card proclaiming
"Coming Soon --- AIRPLANE III", after which we flash to Shatner saying in a
sinister tone, "That's just what they'd be expecting us to do!" (This is a
reference to a scene with Robert Stack in the first movie).
Also, there are some weird credits in the closing titles to those
movies, such as:
Best Boy What's a Best Boy?
Worst Boy Adolf Hitler
Author of A Tale of Two Cities
Charles Dickens
as well as a listing of someone as "Generally in Charge of a Lot of Things".
And at the end of the copyright notice, the [paraphrase] "unauthorized
duplication is prohibited by law" is followed by a "So there!"
And then there is the end of ANIMAL HOUSE. If you recall, in the "what are
they doing now?" section at the end, Babs is mentioned as having become a
tour guide for Universal City Studios. At the very end of the credits, where
Universal usually puts a card saying "When in Hollywood, visit Universal City
Studios", ANIMAL HOUSE adds a "(Ask for Babs)". This gag is repeated on at
least three other movies that I know of: THE BLUES BROTHERS, AN AMERICAN WERE-
WOLF IN LONDON (both John Landis films, as is ANIMAL HOUSE), and CONTINENTAL
DIVIDE (another John Belushi film). I've always wondered what happens if you
*do* ask for Babs.
And both AMERICAN WEREWOLF IN LONDON and the THRILLER video end with the
disclaimer, "Any resemblence to actual persons living, dead, or undead..."
--- jayembee (Jerry Boyajian, DEC, Maynard, MA)
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ARPA: boyajian%akov68.DEC@DECWRL.ARPAjeff@rtech.ARPA (Jeff Lichtman) (04/25/85)
> Unless I missed a posting or two, no one has yet mentioned the end of either > AIRPLANE or AIRPLANE II -- THE SEQUEL. In the first movie, there's a running > gag where every once in a while, there is a scene switch to a passenger in a > taxi-cab that Robert Hays left running at the airport. At the very end of the > credits, we switch to that scene, and the passenger looks at his watch and > says, "OK, I'll wait just 10 more minutes." > > --- jayembee (Jerry Boyajian, DEC, Maynard, MA) The person in the cab was Howard Jarvis, one of the co-authors of California's infamous (:-) Proposition 13 (the one that cut way back on property taxes). This bit got a lot of howls in Berkeley. -- Jeff Lichtman at rtech (Relational Technology, Inc.) aka Swazoo Koolak {amdahl, sun}!rtech!jeff {ucbvax, decvax}!mtxinu!rtech!jeff
jay@umd5.UUCP (04/25/85)
While we're on the subject of film credits, does anybody know what film(s) started the current trend of using end credits to flash the name of everybody remotely associated with the making of that film. Of course, "Citizen Kane" and "Magnificent Ambersons" (both by Welles) used no opening credits at all, using end credits (like radio) to feature the usual listing of cast and production crew. But sometime in the mid 70's (my guess), someone got the notion (unions, perhaps?) that the end of a film is the right place to give credit where it may or may not be due. Anybody have any thoughts on the matter? -- Jay Elvove ..!seismo!rlgvax!cvl!umd5!jay
lauren@vortex.UUCP (Lauren Weinstein) (04/28/85)
Actually, when I started this discussion, I was most interested in "very creative" credits more than simply "silly" ones. We could go on endlessly listing movies where they said silly things in the opening or closing credits -- but they don't usually class as "great" creative (especially in terms of graphic layout) displays. I'm willing to give "Monty Python" a point, but it pretty much represents the entire genre of "silly" credits. Remember, I didn't say I was looking for "funny" credits. I said I was looking for particulary interesting or creative ones. I really can't consider the credits for movies like "Airplane" to be particulary great or creative -- they're just plain silly. There's nothing wrong with that, but I think we can do a lot better. --Lauren--
kellym@iddic.UUCP (Kelly McArthur) (05/01/85)
> >And then there is the end of ANIMAL HOUSE. If you recall, in the "what are >they doing now?" section at the end, Babs is mentioned as having become a >tour guide for Universal City Studios. At the very end of the credits, where >Universal usually puts a card saying "When in Hollywood, visit Universal City >Studios", ANIMAL HOUSE adds a "(Ask for Babs)". This gag is repeated on at >least three other movies that I know of: THE BLUES BROTHERS, AN AMERICAN WERE- >WOLF IN LONDON (both John Landis films, as is ANIMAL HOUSE), and CONTINENTAL >DIVIDE (another John Belushi film). I've always wondered what happens if you >*do* ask for Babs. > Didn't John Landis also direct this first segment of the Twilight Zone movie? I really don't remember (despite all the press surrounding that bit of unpleasantness with Vic Morrow) but if he did, here's another "inside joke" if you will: In the first segment of the Twilight Zone movie, right after Vic's character is uncerimoniously dumped into a swamp in Viet Nam, we are treated to scene involving a group of nervous American GI's. Immediately after they all form a cirlcle and empty their clips into the underbrush, a black soldier is seen exhaling from a hit off his joint, and a chicano soldier exclaims: "I told you guys we shouldn't have shot lieutenant Niedermeyer!" Does this name ring a bell? Think about it...... [****WILL THE REAL LIEUTENANT NIEDERMEYER PLEASE REPLACE THIS LINE****] -- Kelly McArthur 63-281 tektronix!iddic!kellym Information Display Division Tektronix, Inc Wilsonville, Oregon 97070 (503) 685-4536