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‘Airplane!’ With Bill Simmons and Bill Hader

The Rewatchables

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Zero Hour and Airplane!'s Structural Origins

Simmons and Hader trace Airplane!'s structure and several direct lifts back to the 1950s film Zero Hour!, explaining how the parody mapped onto an established melodrama template.

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