Soul Plane was a non-stop parody of black stereotypes. Damn that was good.

Ski Patrol, Police Academy 2, and Airplane the list goes on for 80s movies with a single brief topless shot.

I'd argue the self-aware humor of Airplane was really calling out stereotypes like the one pictured, and defusing tensions with humor. Now Revenge of the Nerds, there's a problematic movie.

Frankly a plain topless shot is not in my opinion grounds for anything heavier than a PG rating

Airplane was released in 1980, before the PG-13 rating existed. I’m not sure how the film would be rated today, but I’d wager it would not hit PG standards without significant edits.

I think you can still maintain a PG-13 rating as long as the boobs shown are not directly sexualized and they only appear in one shot or scene.

That’s fun :)

alt-text: map of “"AIRPLANE!" (1980) - international release names translated to English”

I had it on DVD and the French title translates to "Is there a pilot on this airplane?"

"Hey, we're flying!" in Finnish. "Hei, me lennetään!"

it was a fellow passenger that spoke jive, and the Brady Bunch mom to boot!

e. am stupid, was leave it to beaver mom

I mean, the producers (David and Jerry Zucker) are Jewish themselves, so these jokes in Airplane are self-deprecating

EDIT: “were” to “are”; AFAIK the Zuckers are still with us 😅

Naked Gun is another great one.

Kentucky Fried Movie is up there as well.

Looks like I picked the wrong week to quit amphetamines

I don't (and I'm not Jewish), but I can see how it might.

The way I see it, if it was a joke to poke fun and it was good-natured, it shouldn't be offensive. I mean the Zucker brothers who were writers on the movie are themselves Jewish, so they thought it was hilarious. All that being said, I don't get to speak for Jews as to what they find offensive.

I am serious, and stop calling me Shirley.

"Where all the white women at?"