In Airplane! (1980), the voice actors for the airport announcers Betty and Vernon, the couple who argue about the red and white zones over the intercom were in fact a real-life married couple who made the intercom announcements at LAX Airport at the time.
>For the “red zone/white zone” send-up of curbside terminal announcements in which public address announcers “Betty” and “Vernon” argue over the red and white zones, ZAZ went through the usual process of auditioning professional voice actors but failed to find ones who could provide the desired verisimilitude. Instead, the filmmakers ultimately sought out and hired the real-life married couple who had recorded the announcement tapes which were then being used at Los Angeles International Airport. ZAZ lifted some of their dialog directly from the 1968 novel Airport, written by Arthur Hailey who had also written Zero Hour!’s script. The lifted lines included ones about an unwanted pregnancy, which David Zucker said of the couple “they got a kick out of it”.
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Source: 2015 Nerdist podcast discussion with Jim Abrahams and David & Jerry Zucker (https://web.archive.org/web/20150222081357/http://www.nerdist.com/pepisode/nerdist-podcast-airplane-the-movie/) – discussed at ~34 min mark.
>For the “red zone/white zone” send-up of curbside terminal announcements in which public address announcers “Betty” and “Vernon” argue over the red and white zones, ZAZ went through the usual process of auditioning professional voice actors but failed to find ones who could provide the desired verisimilitude. Instead, the filmmakers ultimately sought out and hired the real-life married couple who had recorded the announcement tapes which were then being used at Los Angeles International Airport. ZAZ lifted some of their dialog directly from the 1968 novel Airport, written by Arthur Hailey who had also written Zero Hour!’s script. The lifted lines included ones about an unwanted pregnancy, which David Zucker said of the couple “they got a kick out of it”.
They were married? Surely you can’t be serious.