Peter Graves credited as playing...
Captain Clarence Oveur
- 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!
- 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?
- 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?
- 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.
- [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.
- 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?
- 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!