Sunday, March 9, 2014

LITTLE BIG SCREEN - "AIRPLANE!" AND SIMPLE


"Toobworld Goes To The Movies" with another invasion from the Cineverse into Toobworld via blipverts:


I've looked through Lee Goldberg's wonderful compendium of "Unsold TV Pilots" and there's no listing for any attempt to translate "Airplane!" into a TV series.  (I would think the poorly conceived "Airplane! 2" scotched that idea.)

So this commercial may be the first attempt to absorb one of the funniest movies ever made into the Toobworld Dynamic.  

Whether it brings the entire movie along with it, or if these are just the televersions of Ted Stryker and Roger "Kareem" Murdock, is hard to say.  The movie just might belong in the alternate TV dimension of Doofus Toobworld.

For now I'll go with Ted and Kareem - and Otto Pilot! - being the televersions of their Cineverse characters.

AS THEY LOOKED THIRTY-FOUR YEARS AGO

BCnU!

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