Subj : Re: And good new comedies
To   : Nightfox
From : boraxman
Date : Sat Apr 19 2025 22:07:03

On 18 Apr 2025 at 06:07p, Nightfox pondered and said...
 
 Ni>   Re: Re: And good new comedies
 Ni>   By: boraxman to Nightfox on Sat Apr 19 2025 12:33 pm
 Ni> 
 Ni>  bo> I didn't know it was called Airplane! until much later.  I also didn'
 Ni>  bo> realised that ZAZ didn't make Flying High 2 until much later too.
 Ni> 
 Ni>  bo> I think it was to make the name more distinctive.  There was an Austr
 Ni>  bo> movie called "Airport 80" at the time, and perhaps it was too similar
 Ni> 
 Ni> I suppose that makes sense.
 Ni> 
 Ni>  bo> also call Burger King "Hungry Jacks" because there was an already exi
 Ni>  bo> Burger King business in Australia.
 Ni> 
 Ni> I'd heard about that.
 Ni> 

They must have closed down, because in the 2000s we had "Burger King" start in Australia as well.  So both Hungry Jacks and a few Burger King stores, having pretty much the same thing.

The Burger Kings dissappeared within a few or several years.

 Ni>  bo> Here is another tidbit.  Airplane! is largely a parody
of an earlier  Ni>  bo> flight "disaster" movie called Zero Hour!.
 Ni> 
 Ni> I'd heard about that too. :)

Many of the scenes are quite similar.  I'll have to watch Zero Hour!

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