perhaps the most famous of which hails from “Airplane!”: “Surely, you can’t be serious.” “I am serious … and don’t call me Shirley.” ZAZ also spurred Leslie Nielsen’s rise to fame.

“Can you fly this plane and land it?” asked a somber Dr. Rumack, played by Leslie Nielsen in the 1980 aviation crisis parody “Airplane!” “Surely you can’t be serious,” replied a ...

Like Airplane!, Jim Abrahams, David Zucker, and Jerry Zucker were behind this film, and Leslie Nielsen appeared again as well, though unlike with Airplane!, he’s the lead of The Naked Gun.