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Millard Fillmore is the 13th President of the United States.

Adolf Hitler is credited as the Worst Boy.

The lights just keep going back and forth.

Cow Tools: The machine in Alpha Beta Base that triggers Murdoch's Billions of Buttons Freak Out has no purpose that anyone on the crew can figure out.

After the Mayflower space shuttle malfunctions, someone in the space traffic control room asks 'What do your people think?' The audience is briefly granted the power of Telepathy so we can hear the controllers' thoughts.

Conveniently Coherent Thoughts: Played for laughs.

McCroskey's Droste Image gag is repeated.

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In the courtroom scene one of the jive talking passengers from the previous movie appears as a witness, as does the hysterical woman.The scene even does a Beat so you don't miss it. Roger Murdock was the character in Airplane! played by Kareem Abdul-Jabaar. While talking to Buck Murdock on the radio, Ted says 'Roger, Murdock'.Closest Thing We Got: In an inversion from the first film, Ted knows exactly what he's doing, having been a test pilot for the lunar shuttle rather, it's the shuttle itself that's malfunctioning.

Chekhov's Gun: Joe Seluchi's suicide bomb is used to blow up R.O.K., allowing Striker to regain control of the shuttle.

You could say that by this time, his lungs were aching for air.

Celebrity Paradox: In a scene cut from the final film (though occasionally added to television broadcasts to fill time), we see McCroskey in the Old Folk's Home (for senility) as the nurse mentions that he '.thinks he's Lloyd Bridges.' He's hiding under his blankets with a snorkel sticking out of the top.

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The Cameo: Bob Costas, Pat Sajak, Jack Jones and Art Fleming each cameo in roles from their respective TV news broadcasts and/or game shows.

smiles after Ted and Elaine discuss 'blowing' the computer, a reference to Elaine needing to manually inflate Otto in the first film.

Call-Back: The most acute one is when a display on R.O.K.Bystander Syndrome: The passengers are freakishly calm when told that they are off course and asteroids are smashing into the ship.He also kills a couple of people in the Mayflower. The Bore: Ted's Running Gag of making people Driven to Suicide because he bores them with his reminiscing is taken up to eleven early on with him making what looks like the entire wing of his psychiatric hospital (patient and doctor alike) blow their brains out after he finishes his tale.Black Dude Dies First: The African American navigator is ROK's first victim, although the white co-pilot is killed seconds later.The dog then gets up and everyone laughs. After a beat for everyone to freak out, the guard announces that the gun is loaded with blanks and that Scraps is fine. The guard then says no and shoots the dog, which then falls down. Black Comedy Pet Death: This movie has a brief moment at the beginning where a child asks a security guard if his dog Scraps can go on the shuttle.

Played for Laughs as the crew state they have no clue what the machine does. Billions of Buttons: Again, a slow pan across an endless panorama of buttons, knobs and switches, only this time at Alpha Beta Base, which sends Murdoch into a Freak Out.Bilingual Bonus: The woman translating into American Sign Language during a TV news broadcast doesn't think much of the woman speaking.However, Google later announced it was a ‘ghost’ image, with the Maps satellite image being a composite of several images. The plane, which appears to be a Boeing 737 or Airbus A380 plane, was found in a forest in the Cardwell Range between Townsville and Cairns. In one incident of a 'ghost' image, Google Maps users thought they had seen a plane pictured at the bottom of Lake Harriet in the US state of Minnesota in 2016. The plane itself appears to be a Boeing 737 or Airbus A320 - however, ghost images do appear on the map service from time to time. Google have not responded to immediate requests for comment, and are yet to confirm if the image is that of a ghost. 'There appears to be a phenomenon called ghost images and that could be what this is,' the Bureau said in a statement to the Cairns Post. Eagle-eyed Google Maps users claimed to have spotted what appears to be a 'downed airliner' among the trees in an Australian rainforest. The Australian Transport Safety Bureau have said that they are unaware of any missing passenger jets in the location of the reported downed jet, saying the image was likely a 'ghost' image.

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