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Being a bus driver myself now, I wondered if any of you ever heard about this movie. I remember watching it when I was about 11 years old. I didn't find it particularly funny back then, but rather was impressed by the design of the atomic driven articulated bus. I even used to make some little copies out of LEGO.

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OMG, I remember that movie. It was a disaster movie satire about a nuclear powered bus. The stupid thing could change its own tires while moving, wash itself, and even had a swimming pool and a bowling alley on board!

Must be a great bus to drive around with! But, rocket gear on an articulated bus? Are they nuts?!

The movie was kind of a predecessor to the later following Zucker/Zucker/Abrahams parody 'Airplane'. The Big Bus never striked me as equally funny though.

Yeah the best gag was "I only ate a foot".

"Strange Wings" wrote:Must be a great bus to drive around with! But, rocket gear on an articulated bus? Are they nuts?!

Might work for great accelerations on straight lines, just don't touch the wheel

Oh I know, they must be using a tesseract, great for bending the laws of physics

"fafner" wrote:Oh I know, they must be using a tesseract, great for bending the laws of physics

I'm all for a tesseract wormhole! Great way to loose oneself in. Literally!

I remember the line from the guy on the ground, as they pulling the sheet over his face, "I'm not dead yet!"

I guess that was the 1st disaster film spoof, though not the best. I still woulds like to see it again. The thing is, it spoofed disaster transportation films in general, while Airplane spoofed a particular film, THE BIG BUS -- wait a minute! there is a link to a NEOPLAN JUMBOCRUISER on the Wikipedia page! Somebody really did mage a huge bus!

Anyway, so I had seen the Poseidon adventure, & that was about it, until much later.

I did see the [Zero Hour] airliner disaster film, on TCM a few years ago, & had not seen Airplane itself in full until TCM ran them both one after the other, though Airplane was 1st! So, for those seeing Zero Hour only after seeing Airplane, I can imagine them laughing at a totally serious movie, because item for item, Airplane spoofed it. But even seeing Zero Hour before Airplane, I could not help thinking S. Haydon's character was General Ripper, whom he played in Dr. Strangelove.

While I cannot recall much specifics from THE BIG BUS, I suppose it did spoof airline disaster films.

"jeffbert" wrote:there is a link to a NEOPLAN JUMBOCRUISER on the Wikipedia page! Somebody really did mage a huge bus!

Yeah, I spotted that one too! Too bad their bus lacks the atomic rocket propultion!

Although "Airplane II: The Sequel" wasn't as funny as its predecessor, Wiliam Shatner did a splendid job in spoofing his 'Cpt. Kirk' image!

I never watched the AIRPLANE sequels. I guess I will see if I can find them in streaming.

"jeffbert" wrote: I never watched the AIRPLANE sequels. I guess I will see if I can find them in streaming.

There was only one (thankfully).