In an alternate universe, "Airplane!" may have just starred Bruce Jenner and Sigourney Weaver. That is just a modicum of the insanely entertaining tidbits gleaned from the A.V. Club's oral history of ...

From the creators of The Naked Gun, Airplane!, largely considered one of the funniest movies of all time, is now streaming ...

The new book “Surely You Can’t Be Serious: The True Story of ‘Airplane!,’” on sale Oct. 3, is an in-depth, behind-the-scenes look at how the iconic 1980 movie was made. It was written by ...

In 2008, Nielsen and the rest of the "Airplane!" cast reunited on TODAY — see what they said about the movie in the video below.

The trick to “Airplane!” — and one of the reasons it remains so funny nearly four decades later — is how utterly earnest the movie is. The film has jokes. Lots of jokes.