Airplane! Quotes

Context

This line is spoken by Steven McCroskey, played by Lloyd Bridges, in the film Airplane!, directed by Jim Abrahams, David Zucker, and Jerry Zucker (1980).

Airplane! is a product of another time—a time when people moved freely about airplane cabins and even the cockpit. It was a time when stewardesses (who were still called "stewardesses") actually served food. Considering all the crazy stuff that happens in Airplane!, maybe it's for the best we do neither of these things today.

The captain, co-pilot, and navigator are all knocked out by a severe case of food poisoning. Who will fly the plane? Oh, the humanity. Air traffic tower supervisor Steven McCroskey has to guide the plane to safety and, boy, is he stressed out. He starts falling back on all his old vices—drinking, smoking, amphetamines, and, of course, sniffing some super-duper glue.

Take a whiff of this clip.

Where you've heard it

You hear this quote if someone is having a very stressful day. Feel free to substitute the vice of choice for sniffing glue: "Looks like I picked the wrong week to stop eating brown sugar directly from the bag," "Looks like I picked the wrong week to quit Twitter," "Looks like I picked the wrong week to stop shooting up Krokodil," etc., etc.

Pretentious Factor

If you were to drop this quote at a dinner party, would you get an in-unison "awww" or would everyone roll their eyes and never invite you back? Here it is, on a scale of 1-10.

Ha-ha—you think you're very funny with your glue-sniffing joke, don't you? Huffing is all fun and games until… oh, we don't know… someone dies. If you or a friend has an inhalant abuse problem, you can get help from the National Inhalant Prevention Coalition. And yes, we are very fun to have at parties. We have no idea why you'd insinuate otherwise.