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‘Airplane!’ With Bill Simmons and Bill Hader

The Rewatchables

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Casting What-Ifs, Auditions, and Airplane!'s Legacy

Stories about casting near-misses (Letterman, others), how actors were directed to play it straight, and why Airplane!'s deadpan parody proved hard to replicate in later spoofs.

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