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{{quote|''[[Ascended Meme|...enough is enough! I have '''had it''' with these motherfuckin' snakes on this motherfuckin' plane!]] Everybody strap in; I'm about to open some fuckin' windows!''}}
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The 2006 "[[Psychological Thriller]]" '''''Snakes on a Plane''''' does pretty much [[Exactly What It Says on the Tin]]. A witness to a murder of a prosecutor gets hunted by <s>Asian</s> Hawaiian gangsters, so the FBI puts him under the escort of agent Neville Flynn ([[Samuel L. Jackson]]) as he flies from Hawaii to California to testify. The gangsters come up with an unusual method of trying to bring the plane down: they unleash snakes on the plane during the flight to try and bring it down before it gets to California. Lots of people die, sacrifices get made to save lives, and Flynn kicks reptilian ass.
The movie turned out exactly as ludicrous as the premise and title sound, and it [[Refuge in Audacity|reveled in its]] [[So Bad It's Good]]-ness, with cheesy glowing effects, [[Gory Discretion Shot|Gory Discretion Shots]], and tons of snakes. When the studio wanted to give it a [[Executive Meddling|serious title]] (''Pacific Air Flight 121'') and turn it into a more serious horror/action film, Jackson threatened to quit the project altogether. When the absurd title gained popularity with Internet nerds and became [[Memetic Mutation|a huge online meme]], the studio turned the film into a dark-comedy horror/action film,
In 2010, an actual plane crashed in the Congo due to a panic caused by an escaped crocodile. How many passengers survived? One (plus the crocodile, which an emergency response unit promptly slaughtered with machetes after arriving at the scene).
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In 2012, [http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/sideshow/snakes-plane-australian-pilot-makes-emergency-landing-discovering-140345209.html it happened for real], though only one snake showed up.
▲=== ''Snakes on a Plane'' provides examples of the following tropes (on a plane): ===
* [[Anyone Can Die]]: Unless you're Samuel L. Jackson.
* [[Armor Is Useless]]: Mentioned in the article, armor is often only useful when concealed. The witness is bitten by a snake that had escaped notice and turns out to be wearing body armor.▼
* [[Artistic License: Biology]]: Snakes in reality act NOTHING like the snakes on this plane.
** Then again, the pheromones and stuff, so it's also [[Artistic License Chemistry]].
* [[Ascended Meme]]: Seemingly out of nowhere, the internet pounced upon the pitch and made it a [[Memetic Badass]] of a movie. With a proven audience, the obvious thing to do was to make it.
▲* [[Armor Is Useless]]: Mentioned in the article, armor is often only useful when concealed. The witness is bitten by a snake that had escaped notice and turns out to be wearing body armor.
* [[Badass]]: Did you not ''see'' who stars in this thing?
* [[Becoming the Boast]]: All those flight hours Troy logged? They were on a [[PlayStation 2]] game. Nevertheless, he's able to successfully land the plane.▼
* [[Black Dude Dies First]]: Extremely averted.
▲* [[Becoming the Boast]]: All those flight hours Troy logged? They were on a [[PlayStation 2]] game. Nevertheless, he's able to successfully land the plane.
* [[Boob Bite]]: a female participant in the mile high club gets her breast bitten by a ''milk'' snake. [[Somewhere a Herpetologist Is Crying]] because milk snakes are not venomous and their fangs could barely make a flesh wound even if they were.
* [[Book Ends]]: "What was the first thing I ever said to you?"
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** After Jackson "opens up a fucking window", when the python (which had previously eaten a man) gets sucked out you can see a human shaped bulge in it.
* [[Gag Boobs]]: The chick of the first couple to be killed has a pretty impressive rack. When they are attacked by snakes, one of them bites her on the nipple. The species of snake that bit her was apparently a 'milk snake'.
* [[Gory Discretion Shot]]▼
* [[Gosh Dang It to Heck]]: FX had "monkey-fighting" snakes on a "Monday-to-Friday" plane, followed by "fricking" windows.
** And [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PX9y2lAuo90 that's not even HALF of it]! For one, there's a Thai "[[Everything's Better with Princesses|princess]]".
▲* [[Gory Discretion Shot]]
* [[Groin Attack]]: Victim number 3 learns the hard way [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mh5ykyP08c4 why you should NOT use the toilet when there are snakes on a motherfucking plane].
{{quote|"Fucking snake, get off my dick!"}}
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* [[It's the Only Way]], [[Lampshade Hanging|lampshaded]]: The villain releases a bunch of snakes onto a single plane to catch one kid who may have been the witness to the murder he committed. One of his lackeys questions whether or not it was all worth it, and he responds with "Don't you think I've exhausted every other option?!"
** On the heroic side, Jackson's character tells the plan to his superiors at the FBI, to which they respond, "What kind of insane plan is that?"
* [[Mile-High Club]]▼
* [[Kick the Dog]]: When the snakes are loosed on the plane, one businessman throws a [[Rich Bitch]]'s chihuahua into their path so that he can get himself out of there safely. It more or less fails completely as the massive snake swallows it whole in less time than it took to throw the thing. Have a nice [[Karmic Death]], buddy!
** Made especially bad as the dog in question had earlier saved its master by driving the snakes away from her while she was unconscious and the master herself was less of a [[Rich Bitch]] and actually a fairly nice person.
* [[Kingpin in His Gym]]: Crime boss Eddie Kim is shown practicing karate while ordering the titular plan. Could have been a [[Chekhov's Gun]] for an eventual Kung Fu faceoff with [[Samuel L. Jackson]], but [[They Wasted a Perfectly Good Plot|nope]].
▲* [[Mile-High Club]]
* [[Mistaken for Gay]]: The film's only plot twist.
* [[The Mockbuster]]: [[The Asylum]]'s ''Snakes On A Train''. Totally not kidding.
* [[Nerd]]: Averted. Dr. Steven Price, the snake expert consulted by the FBI, is a bit eccentric (which Ph.D isn't?), but is professional, calm and collected, basically gives the FBI their most important leads and greatly assists medical personnel with treatment. He manages to communicate his expertise to laypeople quickly, in terms they understand, without coming across as an arrogant asshole or using [[Spock Speak]] -- professional, but clearly understands that people's lives are at stake. Dr. Price should be the model for film scientists everywhere.
* [[One-Scene Wonder]]: The martial artist. People wished he got more scenes.▼
* [[Oscar Bait]]: [[Played for Laughs]] during the MTV movie awards:▼
{{quote|'''Samuel L Jackson:''' I'm here tonight to present the award everyone's been waiting for: best movie. This award holds a special place in my heart because next year I'll be winning it for Snakes on a Plane. Now I know, I know that sounds cocky, but I don't give a damn. I'm guaranteeing that Snakes on a Plane will win best movie next year. Does not matter what else is coming out. New James Bond... no snakes in that! Ocean's 13... where my snakes at? Shrek the Third... green, but not a snake. No movie shall triumph over Snakes on a Plane. Unless I happen to feel like making a movie called Mo' Motha-fuckin' Snakes on Mo' Motha-fuckin' Planes.}}▼
* [[One-Liner]]: Other than the infamous "Enough is ''enough''! I have ''had'' it with these muthafuckin' '''snakes''' on this muthafuckin' '''plane!'''", there's also [[Samuel L. Jackson]]'s "ALL PRAISES TO THE PLAYSTATION!"
** "WHO'S YOUR DADDY NOW [[Just Add Bitch|BITCH]]!?"
** "Great, snakes on ''crack!''"
▲* [[One-Scene Wonder]]: The martial artist. People wished he got more scenes.
* [[Orifice Evacuation]]
▲* [[Oscar Bait]]: [[Played for Laughs]] during the MTV movie awards:
▲{{quote|'''Samuel L Jackson:''' I'm here tonight to present the award everyone's been waiting for: best movie. This award holds a special place in my heart because next year I'll be winning it for Snakes on a Plane. Now I know, I know that sounds cocky, but I don't give a damn. I'm guaranteeing that Snakes on a Plane will win best movie next year. Does not matter what else is coming out. New James Bond... no snakes in that! Ocean's 13... where my snakes at? Shrek the Third... green, but not a snake. No movie shall triumph over Snakes on a Plane. Unless I happen to feel like making a movie called Mo' Motha-fuckin' Snakes on Mo' Motha-fuckin' Planes.}}
* [[Product Placement]]: Taken to an absurd extreme, from the slow-motion drinking of Red Bull in the opening sequence to the Pepsi bottle careening toward the camera on a steward's cart.
** Forget that, there's one shot where someone opens their MacBook laptop, causing the entire Apple logo to fill the screen for a solid three seconds.
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* [[Suck Out the Poison]]
* [[Terrified of Germs]] The rapper is very much so.
* [[Together in Death]]: Among the passengers are a pair of newlyweds flying back from their honeymoon. They get bitten around the same time and die in each
* [[Too Dumb to Live]]: Eddie Kim.
* [[Villain Exit Stage Left]]: Eddie Kim, the gangster who released the snakes, disappears completely from the film after releasing said [[Expospeak Gag|eponymous limbless reptiles onto the aforementioned fixed-wing aircraft]]. But it's mentioned that, in their hunt to find the anti-venom, the authorities gathered enough evidence to charge Eddie with attempted murder for the whole flight.
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