More than four decades after its release, Airplane is still held up as the standard other spoof movies are compared against . Its sequel, unfortunately, is not held in such high regards. The underwhelming follow-up is sometimes still cited as a cautionary tale for continuing a franchise without its creators, which makes sense, given its creators actually had a fantastic idea for the second round. Unfortunately, it didn’t end up happening, not because Paramount wasn’t interested but because Francis Ford Coppola put his foot down.

Recently, we got a chance to sit down with Airplane ’s David Zucker, who just launched MasterCrash , an online course that outlines the rules of making a good spoof movie. He's talked in the past about being frustrated about what happened with the seque

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