Airplane (1980)
June Cleaver speaking jive is deeply inappropriate — and one of the funniest things that has ever happened in a movie.
God bless Zucker-Abrahams-Zucker for coming up with the idea of Barbara Billingsley delivering the line, “Oh stewardess? I speak jive.” And also for the 7,000 other great jokes in Airplane, one of the all-time greatest comedies.
You can question its taste if you want to, but you’d be better off just going with the laughs. There are a lot of them.
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