Airplane! (1980)
Peter Graves: Captain Clarence Oveur
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Quotes
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Joey : Wait a minute. I know you. You're Kareem Abdul-Jabbar. You play basketball for the Los Angeles Lakers.
Roger Murdock : I'm sorry, son, but you must have me confused with someone else. My name is Roger Murdock. I'm the co-pilot.
Joey : You are Kareem! I've seen you play. My dad's got season tickets.
Roger Murdock : I think you should go back to your seat now, Joey. Right, Clarence?
Captain Oveur : Nahhhhhh, he's not bothering anyone. Let him stay here.
Roger Murdock : But just remember, my name is...
[showing his nametag]
Roger Murdock : ROGER MURDOCK. I'm an airline pilot.
Joey : I think you're the greatest, but my dad says you don't work hard enough on defense.
[Kareem gets angry]
Joey : And he says that lots of times, you don't even run down court. And that you don't really try... except during the playoffs.
Roger Murdock : [breaking character] The hell I don't! LISTEN, KID! I've been hearing that crap ever since I was at UCLA. I'm out there busting my buns every night! Tell your old man to drag Walton and Lanier up and down the court for 48 minutes!
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Captain Oveur : Joey, have you ever been in a... in a Turkish prison?
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Rumack : Captain, how soon can you land?
Captain Oveur : I can't tell.
Rumack : You can tell me. I'm a doctor.
Captain Oveur : No. I mean I'm just not sure.
Rumack : Well, can't you take a guess?
Captain Oveur : Well, not for another two hours.
Rumack : You can't take a guess for another two hours?
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Operator : [Captain Oveur is on the phone with the Mayo Clinic] Excuse me, Captain Oveur, but I have an emergency call on line five from a Mr. Hamm.
Captain Oveur : All right, give me a Hamm on five, hold the Mayo.
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Roger Murdock : Flight 2-0-9'er, you are cleared for take-off.
Captain Oveur : Roger!
Roger Murdock : Huh?
Tower voice : L.A. departure frequency, 123 point 9'er.
Captain Oveur : Roger!
Roger Murdock : Huh?
Victor Basta : Request vector, over.
Captain Oveur : What?
Tower voice : Flight 2-0-9'er cleared for vector 324.
Roger Murdock : We have clearance, Clarence.
Captain Oveur : Roger, Roger. What's our vector, Victor?
Tower voice : Tower's radio clearance, over!
Captain Oveur : That's Clarence Oveur. Over.
Tower voice : Over.
Captain Oveur : Roger.
Roger Murdock : Huh?
Tower voice : Roger, over!
Roger Murdock : What?
Captain Oveur : Huh?
Victor Basta : Who?
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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?
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[an epidemic of food poisoning is sweeping the plane]
Captain Oveur : What is it, Doctor? What's going on?
Rumack : I'm not sure. I haven't seen anything like this since the Anita Bryant concert.
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Captain Oveur : Joey, do you like movies about gladiators?
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Female announcer : Captain Oveur, white courtesy phone. Captain Clarence Oveur, white courtesy phone.
Female announcer : [Oveur picks up the red phone] No, the white phone.
Female announcer : Captain Oveur, white courtesy phone. Captain Clarence Oveur, white courtesy phone.
Captain Oveur : [to announcer] I GOT IT!
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Captain Oveur : Have you ever seen a grown man naked?
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Captain Oveur : Joey, do you like movies about gladiators?