Soul Plane was a non-stop parody of black stereotypes. Damn that was good.

Ski Patrol, Police Academy 2, and Airplane the list goes on for 80s movies with a single brief topless shot.

I'd argue the self-aware humor of Airplane was really calling out stereotypes like the one pictured, and defusing tensions with humor. Now Revenge of the Nerds, there's a problematic movie.

Frankly a plain topless shot is not in my opinion grounds for anything heavier than a PG rating

I think you can still maintain a PG-13 rating as long as the boobs shown are not directly sexualized and they only appear in one shot or scene.

Airplane was released in 1980, before the PG-13 rating existed. I’m not sure how the film would be rated today, but I’d wager it would not hit PG standards without significant edits.

That’s fun :)

alt-text: map of “"AIRPLANE!" (1980) - international release names translated to English”

I had it on DVD and the French title translates to "Is there a pilot on this airplane?"

"Hey, we're flying!" in Finnish. "Hei, me lennetään!"

I mean, the producers (David and Jerry Zucker) are Jewish themselves, so these jokes in Airplane are self-deprecating

EDIT: “were” to “are”; AFAIK the Zuckers are still with us 😅

it was a fellow passenger that spoke jive, and the Brady Bunch mom to boot!

e. am stupid, was leave it to beaver mom

Naked Gun is another great one.

Kentucky Fried Movie is up there as well.

Looks like I picked the wrong week to quit amphetamines

I don't (and I'm not Jewish), but I can see how it might.

The way I see it, if it was a joke to poke fun and it was good-natured, it shouldn't be offensive. I mean the Zucker brothers who were writers on the movie are themselves Jewish, so they thought it was hilarious. All that being said, I don't get to speak for Jews as to what they find offensive.

I am serious, and stop calling me Shirley.

"Where all the white women at?"