July 16: Airplane!

Friday morning, as I was making breakfast, my husband turned to me and asked, "How about some coffee, Johnny?" I didn't get the reference and said something like, yeah go ahead and make some. Then he proceeded to inform me that he was quoting from the movie "Airplane!" which I've only ever seen once, on my phone, on shared headphones, while we were waiting at the airport on our honeymoon in Hawaii (I know, great place to watch a movie about an impending airplane crash, but it's more funny than scary). Even if I had seen the movie 100 times, I'm not confident I would remember this one particular quote. My husband has a knack for remembering obscure quotes verbatim. I mentioned that we should watch it again, and we agreed to watch it that night, and it resulted in an amazingly delightful evening. I basically didn't remember any of it, so it was like watching a whole new movie. One of my favorite parts was at the end, I was reading the credits, and saw the name of the blow up doll used as an automatic pilot (Otto) and finally got that joke. "Otto" the "auto"-matic pilot. hahahaha. I told my husband, and he said, wait, you just finally got that?!? Of course I didn't get that joke when they said his name during the movie. Another delightful moment was during the movie, when I recognized immediately what is definitely one of the most famous quotes from the movie. Rumack asks Ted if he can fly the plane. Shocked, Ted says "surely you can't be serious," to which Rumack responds with the iconic line, "I am serious, and don't call me Shirley." I remembered this quote not from watching the movie 7 years ago, but from a round of Jeo-Party I created a few months ago about AFI's Top 100 Movie Quotes list, on which this quote is listed as #79. Also during the movie, apparently one of my husband's favorite scenes contained a bit of humor I did not even notice. He made me watch the scene three times and I still didn't get what was so funny about it. He finally told me that the character (Kramer) went from looking into the mirror to walking through the mirror; I totally missed it. All three times. hahahahaha. I also giggled when the "How about some coffee, Johnny" line was spoken; it was SUCH an obscure line (though it is repeated so I *guess* I see why my husband has remembered it). And last but not least, my favorite credit listed was for someone with the title: "Generally in charge of a lot of things." I want that to my new answer to the question of what I do for living. I'm generally in charge of a lot of things. Hahahahaha. 

With delight,

♥Jamie