Caddyshack (1980)

Four knockout comedic performances by Chevy Chase, Rodney Dangerfield, Ted Knight and Bill Murray carry a Marx brothers-style farce set at a snobby golf country club. Chase and Murray improvised most of their dialogue, including their only scene together — ever.

d: Harold Ramis | imdb.com | trailer | Chase vs. Murray
Be the ball. | Cinderella story | A little poem | Dinner at Bushwood

Airplane! (1980)

A spoof of disasters films, specifically the “Airport” movies and “Zero Hour” (1957), this comedy standard is sophomoric and really funny. Robert Stack, Lloyd Bridges, Peter Graves and Leslie Nielsen are outstanding, satirizing dramatic versions of themselves.

d: Jim Abrahams, David Zucker, Jerry Zucker | imdb.com | trailer
Don’t call me Shirley. | I speak jive. | Rex Kramer | Johnny