Daily Dialogue — January 5, 2011

Dr. Rumack: Can you fly this plane?

Ted Striker: Surely you can’t be serious?

Dr. Rumack: I am serious… and don’t call me Shirley.

— Dr. Rumack (Leslie Nielsen), Ted Striker (Robert Hays), Airplane (1980), screenplay by Jim Abrahams, David Zucker & Jerry Zucker

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The Daily Dialogue theme for the week is snappy answers to dumb questions, suggested by Richard. Today’s suggestion by Vic.

Trivia: The film is mostly a parody of Zero Hour!, a film that had a main character named Ted Stryker and such famous “not meant to be funny” lines like “We have to find someone who can not only fly this plane, but who didn’t have fish for dinner.”

Dialogue On Dialogue: Of course, we could have highlighted this:

Stewardess: There’s been a little problem in the cockpit.

Ted Striker: The cockpit? What is it?

Stewardess: It’s the little room in the front of the plane where the pilots sit. That’s not important.