Airplane

Other mistake: In the closing credits, Ann M. Nelson, who hung herself early in the film out of sheer boredom at Striker's longwinded story, is listed as the "Handing Lady" rather than the "Hanging Lady."

Michael Albert

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Other mistake: When Johnny reads in the folded newspaper, 'There's a sale at Penny's!', the viewer can read the headlines right way up - which means, from his side, he is holding the paper upside down.

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Suggested correction: It's a reasonable bet that this was done deliberately as a sight gag. Throughout the movie, Johnny is portrayed as being somewhat 'special'.

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Mistakes

Revealing mistake: When Kramer is walking through the airport and all the cult members come after him and he's flipping them behind him, look down to the lower left and you can see the mat they are landing on. (00:54:50)

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Quotes

Ted Striker: Surely you can't be serious.
Rumack: I am serious, and don't call me Shirley.

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Trivia

Trivia: The credits list "generally in charge of a lot of things" as one of the job titles. (01:26:00)

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Questions

Question: Captain Oveur was saying things to Joey. What I didn't understand is the jokes behind the lines "Have you ever been in a Turkish Prison" and "Do you like movies about gladiators." What are the jokes behind these? Please explain. Thank-you.

Hamster ★

Chosen answer: All of his questions to Joey are filled with homosexual innuendos; the perverted captain is trying to see if Joey has any such tendencies. In a Turkish prison, men who are sexually frustrated will resort to "companionship" with other men (even forcefully). Movies about gladiators depict ripped, muscular men, and the question about seeing a "grown man naked" obviously fits the pattern.

Matty Blast

The gladiator reference is about Spartacus. There is a scene in there about homosexuality.

What scene are you talking about? If you mean the "snails and oysters" scene, that was not part of the movie until it was restored in 1991.

And also a veiled reference to the "Sword and Sandals" movies that the ultra-buff actor Steve Reeves made back in the 1950s and 1960s that featured well-built and handsome male actors playing characters from ancient Greece and ancient Rome.

Scott215

Answer: I believe this joke is just to make the watcher extremely uncomfortable and it works great.

Answer: The Turkish prison question is a reference to the movie Midnight Express.

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