I'm about to ask three guys how they made a funny movie 43 ... OF FILM, "AIRPLANE!") KAREEM ABDUL-JABBAR: (As Roger) We have clearance, Clarence. PETER GRAVES: (As Captain Oveur) Roger, Roger.

That line, said not by Leslie Nielsen but to him (by Robert Hays, the ostensible male lead of “Airplane!,” the movie in question ... is that he was the captain of the S.S. Poseidon.