Reply To: Word Association
(Dear me, you haven’t seen “Airplane!”. First off, the tall gentleman to the left of the picture, with his own autograph adorning his shirt, is basketball player Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, known for his “Skyhook” shot — “skyhook” reminding me of both Abdul-Jabbar and airplanes made the choice of pictures inevitable. More pertinently, in this scene in “Airplane!”, the captain (Peter Graves) asks the boy, who’s visiting the cockpit, a series of increasingly uncomfortable questions, including, “Joey, do you like movies about gladiators?” — ETA: Rob ninja’d me to the YouTube link.)