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Airplane!

Picking Nits

Airplane! The Rewatchables

The war timeline, medical equipment, food-poisoning symptoms, speed of onset, storage of sick passengers, and proposed Lake Michigan diversion are questioned.

In the discussion (6)
Approx. transcript time · 01:23:18Read transcript
  • Ted’s age and conflicting wartime flashbacks make his war history unclear in a 1980 setting.
  • The tube pulled from the sick girl is questioned because its removal immediately causes convulsions.
  • The poisoned fish should cause vomiting or diarrhea rather than sedation.
  • The group argues the fish symptoms would not happen that fast.
  • The group asks where all the incapacitated passengers were placed.
  • Kramer’s immediate proposal to divert the airplane into Lake Michigan is criticized for risking innocent people.