Still craving for the love of his life, Ted Striker follows Elaine onto the flight that she is working on as a member of the cabin crew. Elaine doesn't want to be with Ted anymore, but when the crew and passengers fall ill from food poisoning, all eyes are on Ted.
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To get the film green-lighted by Paramount, Jim Abrahams, David Zucker and Jerry Zucker pitched it as "
Animal House on a plane" - which, of course, was far from the truth, but the only way they could get the studio execs to understand it was a zany comedy.
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Goofs
Errors in geography:
The Peace Corps scene is set in Africa, but the sound of a kookaburra can be heard in the background. The kookaburra is an Australian bird.
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Quotes
[first lines]
Male announcer:
The white zone is for immediate loading and unloading of passengers only. There is no stopping in a red zone.
Female announcer:
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Crazy Credits
The closing credits are followed by a brief scene of the man in the abandoned taxi from earlier in the film, still waiting for the driver to come back and saying "Well, I'll give him another twenty minutes, but that's it!"
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