Some movies are so jam-packed with memorable lines that they seem to transcend their meager runtimes and enter the cultural canon. The ability to start telling a joke from your favorite movie, only for someone you just met to finish the line, is an unparalleled joy (and a great way to find people you actually want as your friends).

David and Jerry Zucker and Jim Abrahams’ “Airplane!” flew into the spoof movie zeitgeist in 1980 with enough raunchy humor, gags and truly absurd lines to make a nun blush. Sure, there might be some other truly hilarious spoof movies like “Tropic Thunder,” “The Other Guys” and “Spaceballs” (this is not debatable — these are some of the best movies ever made. Take that, Citizen Kane!), but nothing beats the movie that did it first and best. So fasten your seat b

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