Lloyd Bridges as Steve McCroskey
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Lloyd Bridges as Steve McCroskey is the harried, increasingly frazzled air traffic control supervisor whose escalating declarations about what he’s “picked the wrong week” to quit provide one of the running gags in the disaster-movie spoof Airplane!.
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| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
fictionalCharacterPortrayal
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filmCharacter ⓘ |
| appearsIn | Airplane! NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| associatedCatchphraseTheme | escalating personal vices ⓘ |
| basedOnGenreParodyOf | 1970s disaster movies ⓘ |
| characterName | Steve McCroskey NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| characterTrait |
harried
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increasingly frazzled ⓘ |
| countryOfOriginOfWork |
United States of America
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surface form:
United States
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| filmDirectorOfWork |
David Zucker
NERFINISHED
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Jerry Zucker NERFINISHED ⓘ Jim Abrahams NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| filmReleaseYear | 1980 ⓘ |
| genreOfWork |
comedy film
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disaster film parody ⓘ |
| hasCultFollowing | true ⓘ |
| humorStyle | deadpan delivery ⓘ |
| medium | feature film ⓘ |
| narrativeFunction | comic relief ⓘ |
| notableFor | running gag about quitting various vices ⓘ |
| notableSceneContext | air traffic control tower during in-flight emergency ⓘ |
| occupationInFiction | air traffic control supervisor ⓘ |
| partOfFranchise | Airplane! film series NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| portrayalEra | late career role for Lloyd Bridges ⓘ |
| portrayedBy | Lloyd Bridges NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| roleType | supporting character ⓘ |
| runningGagPhrase |
I picked the wrong week to quit amphetamines.
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I picked the wrong week to quit drinking. ⓘ I picked the wrong week to quit smoking. ⓘ I picked the wrong week to quit sniffing glue. ⓘ |
| workLanguage | English ⓘ |
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