I Genuinely Need To Rewatch “Airplane!” After Hearing Robert Hays’s Hilarious Behind-The-Scenes Stories

Robert: It was hard to keep a straight face in almost any scene with Leslie, but especially in our first. 

Lorna Patterson, who was wonderful, comes up to me and says, “There’s a problem in the cockpit.” And we do the “Cockpit, what is it? It’s a little room where the pilot sits, but that’s unimportant right now.” So I go into the cockpit for the first time, and Leslie says, “Mr. Striker, can you fly this plane?” And I say, “Surely can’t be serious!” That’s the first time I say that, and then Leslie delivers the other half of the famous

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