In “Airplane!,” Lloyd Bridges’ character tries to quit smoking, drinking, amphetamines and sniffing glue. If his “addictions” were to be taken literally, there would be no laughs.

Here’s the bad news: I picked the wrong week -- to steal a line from the glorious 1980 movie Airplane!-- to quit sniffing glue. Don’t worry, and don’t place a panicked call to my parents, ...

BRIDGES: (As Steve) Looks like I picked the wrong week to quit sniffing glue (sniffing). JERRY ZUCKER: And the whole idea of the kid in the cockpit. ZUCKER: Yeah.

One thing’s for certain though, I’m not going to make the same mistake that Steve McCroskey, Lloyd Bridges’s character in Airplane!, did when he declared, prior to that glue reference ...

BRIDGES: (As Steve) Looks like I picked the wrong week to quit sniffing glue (sniffing). JERRY ZUCKER: And the whole idea of the kid in the cockpit. ZUCKER: Yeah.