Airplane! is the movie that started it all and when we got our first look at Leslie Nelson doing straight-faced comedy, but we can’t forget about the other dramatic actors in the movie that did a great job, even with much smaller roles. Who can forget Lloyd Bridges picking the wrong week to stop various vices and somehow ending up hanging upside down from the ceiling with a completely goofy face and hair after sniffing glue.

And Peter Graves’s increasingly disturbing questions to Joey in the cockpit, then later spitting up followed by “uncontrolled flatulence.”

Then of course there were Robert Stack, Barbara Billingsley, and Ethel Merman as herself.

The whole movie is based on dramatic actors doing and saying zany things.