7/24/15
Top 10 Sex and Dating Tips from “Airplane!” Quotes

Earlier this week we celebrated the 35th anniversary of the movie Airplane! with 35 little known facts about the classic comedy. Today, because Airplane! is pretty much the most quotable movie in the entire history of movies, we offer you ten sex and dating tips via some of our favorite lines:

1. R-E-S-P-E-C-T, Find Out What It Means to Your Partner

Elaine: It takes so many things to make love last. But most of all, it takes respect, and I can’t live with a man I don’t respect.
Ted Striker: [turns to camera] What a pisser!

2. Long-Term Monogamy Makes Tragedy More Bearable

[Randy is crying]
Rumack: Randy, are you all right?
Randy: Oh, Dr. Rumack, I’m scared. I’ve never been so scared. And besides, I’m 26 and I’m not married.
Rumack: We’re going to make it, you’ve got to believe that.
[a woman passenger comes in]
Mrs. Hammen: Dr. Rumack, do you have any idea when we’ll be landing?
Rumack: Pretty soon, how are you bearing up?
Mrs. Hammen: Well, to be honest, I’ve never been so scared. But at least I have a husband.
[Randy cries harder]

3. If You Want to Talk Dirty, Make Sure Your Audience is “On Board”

Captain Oveur: You ever been in a cockpit before?
Joey: No sir, I’ve never been up in a plane before.
Captain Oveur: You ever seen a grown man naked?

4. Heartbreak Can Exacerbate Addiction

Ted Striker: It was at that moment that I first realised Elaine had doubts about our relationship. And that, as much as anything else, led to my drinking problem. [Pours drink over face].

Also, see McCroskey: Looks like I picked the wrong week to quit smoking. / Looks like I picked the wrong week to quit drinking. / Looks like I picked the wrong week to quit amphetamines. / Looks like I picked the wrong week to quit sniffing glue.

5. Beware the Guy Who Wants to See a Gladiators Movie on a First Date

Captain Oveur: Joey, do you like movies about gladiators?

6. Virginity Is Nothing to Be Embarrassed About. Ditto Feeling Nervous in Bed

Hanging Lady: Nervous?
Ted Striker: Yes.
Hanging Lady: First time?
Ted Striker: No, I’ve been nervous lots of times.

7. Wash All Digits and Other Poking Items Before Moving from One Orifice to Another

Rex Kramer: Get that finger out of your ear! You don’t know where that finger’s been!

8. Discuss Birth Control Options Before You Have Sex

Male announcer: The red zone is for immediate loading and unloading of passengers only. There is no stopping in the white zone.
Female announcer: No, the white zone is for loading of passengers and there is no stopping in a RED zone.
Male announcer: The red zone has always been for loading and unloading of passengers. There’s never stopping in a white zone.
Female announcer: Don’t you tell me which zone is for loading, and which zone is for stopping!
Male announcer: Listen Betty, don’t start up with your white zone shit again.
[Later]
Male announcer: There’s just no stopping in a white zone.
Female announcer: Oh really, Vernon? Why pretend, we both know perfectly well what this is about. You want me to have an abortion.
Male announcer: It’s really the only sensible thing to do, if it’s done safely. Therapeutically there’s no danger involved.

9. To Cheat, Or Not to Cheat: It’s a Clear Moral Choice

First Jive Dude: Shiiiiit, maaaaan. That honky muf’ be messin’ mah old lady… got to be runnin’ cold upside down his head, you know?
[Subtitle: GOLLY, THAT WHITE FELLOW SHOULD STAY AWAY FROM MY WIFE OR I WILL PUNCH HIM]
Second Jive Dude: Hey home’, I can dig it. Know ain’t gonna lay no mo’ big rap up on you, man!
[Subtitle: YES, HE IS WRONG FOR DOING THAT]
First Jive Dude: I say hey, sky… subba say I wan’ see…
Second Jive Dude: Uh-huh.
First Jive Dude: …pray to J I did the same-ol’, same-ol’!
[Subtitle: I KNEW A MAN IN A SIMILAR PREDICAMENT, AND HE ENDED UP BEING SORRY]
Second Jive Dude: Hey… knock a self a pro, Slick! That gray matter backlot perform us DOWN, I take TCB-in’, man!
[Subtitle: DON’T BE NAIVE ARTHUR. EACH OF US FACES A CLEAR MORAL CHOICE]

10. It’s Never Too Early to Learn Proper Date Etiquette

Young Boy with Coffee: Excuse me, I happened to be passing, and I thought you might like some coffee.
Little Girl: Oh, that’s very nice of you, thank you.
[takes coffee]
Little Girl: Oh, won’t you sit down?
Young Boy with Coffee: Cream?
Little Girl: No, thank you, I take it black, like my men.

Want the inside scoop on this movie’s anniversary?
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