Too bad Julie Haggerty couldn't chime in. I'd love to know what she thought about doing the blowing-up Otto scene, among other things.

Well, Will, you take the good, you take the bad, you take them both and there you have- something.

I loved the passenger in the cab. I had no idea who he was, but that wasn't really the joke. And they came back to him at just the right points, giving you just enough time to forget about him.

I read that Bible story in an interview with him too. Al White is such an interesting dude. I was astonished at how much work went into the Jive scene. He really got what ZAZ were doing and helped create a classic bit.

The bit where a guy is talking to William Shatner on a monitor and it turns out it's just a door is one of the best sight gags I've ever seen. I also like the random gag of Stryker happening upon Jack Jones singing The Love Boat theme as he's escaping from a mental hospital.

"In women's tennis it is always best to root against the heterosexual."

Well observed. No matter how silly Airplane gets it still has to have some sort of momentum, and simply joke after joke will not keep things interesting and moving along. The stakes are played dead straight for the most part, giving the film some tension, which the jokes in turn puncture. It's insanely brilliant for…

I believe someone went to the trouble to find out if Mota ever pinch-hit for Borbon. He hadn't. You could call it a pointless endeavor, but I would just call it an example of how so many lines and bits from Airplane! became part of our shared cultural lexicon.

"We have clearance Clarence."
"Roger, Roger. What's our vector Victor?"

I was laughing so hard, and it was not because it was fart jokes as much as the idea that one guy could be so obsessive about it. The man obviously could keep a straight face as well in front of unsuspecting strangers. "Oh, I'm sorry, I just ate a burrito."

And in that twisted state, how would the landing gear deploy?

Man, I knew Leslie Nielson was a goofball, but wow. Just reading those fart machine stories had me laughing so hard I was tearing up.

The bickering in the Connectitron sketch kind of reminded me of Titan Maximum. (I miss that show.)

I thought that was very funny as well. I'm not exactly sure what other angle you can take on such a premise other than go balls-out crazy and make the boy 5 like South Park did in "Miss Teacher Bangs a Boy."

"While our husbands are away, we're the racists."

I saw The Matador recently for the first time (I somehow missed it when it came out) and it was one of those films that's on HBO or whatever and you go in with basically no expectations, good or bad, and you get totally pulled in.

I saw a taping report for this episodes and it says that Howard's half-brother reveals that Howard's dad left his family as well, and they end up bonding a little over that. That was edited out for whatever reason. (Perhaps they want to save that revelation for a future episode.) Maybe that's why their encounter…

I think the idea is that they aren't the best couple. It's still clear that their relationship is based on Leonard finally getting the prom queen and Penny (after years of screwing around) settling for a nice, but somewhat dull guy who worships her. They have ever so slightly touched on that aspect of their…

I know it was a gag, but I so want to believe Christopher Lee misread the cue card when he said, "I would like you to meet- LOAF!"

Yeah, that erotic bakery sketch is one that is still stuck in my head.