I member.

@Background Pony #3E10
Не уместились в кадр.

А где “Радист Морзе” и “Мис Бурпл”?

Главное по ролям все подобраны идеально )
Шикарно

это прекрасно

TAT :| 8D

So this is what it’s like to fly United Airlines :V

@vargr
It ended for about twenty years ago.

@gor1ck
Well. Comedy has moved on, hasn’t it!

Just an explanation.
This is a reference to a popular sketch show Calambur which ran on several Russian TV channels from 1996 to 2001, and later, while on re-runs. This particular segment titled The Steep Dive was making fun of overused tropes from American disaster movies. All the action took place in the cockpit of a falling Broiler-747 airliner with a constantly panicking co-pilot Drinkins and the Captain (a.k.a The Commander), who was making fun of him with a rather dark sence of humor.
An example of some dialogues:

Drinkins: Sir, we should do something! Let’s try to lower the gear at least!
Commander: Let’s lower the bucket instead. So we’ll have something to kick!

Or like this:

Drinkins: Sir, how long it took for you to learn to fly?
Commander: About seven or eight.
Drinkins: Months or years?
Commander: Aircrafts!

Time after time they are being visited by other crew members, such as the stewardess or the radio operator Morse. The Stewardess in most cases would complain about the behaviour of one of the passengers: Mrs Burple, an owerweight woman in red dress and with a very bad temper. Radio operator Morse would usually complain about the malfunctioning hardware of the aircraft. Whenever any of them will enter the cocpit, commander would always ask the co-pilot:
Who is it, Drinkins?
Of course, he would do that just to troll Drinkins by pretending to be senile and abscent-minded.
The characters would also break the fourth wall on some occasions, such as complaining that they are sick and tired of this show, or when Commander asks Drinkins how many episodes do they have left. One of the running gags is the fact, that according to the plot, the aircraft is falling during 325 episodes. Judging by the fact that each episode at average lasts for five minutes, it’s not hard to calculate that the plane should be falling for more than 27 hours, while the maximal flight duration of a real-life 747 of that time is just slightly more than 20 hours.
On this particular image Princess Celestia is impersonating the Commander (albeit the Commander also have bushy moustache, similar to Theodore Roosevelt), Princess Luna is impersonating Drinkins, while Twilight Sparkle impersonates the Stewardess.
Apart from Steep Dive, Calambur also had several other sketches, such as The Village Of Fools, Bar Calambur, The Iron Kaput and several others. The Village of fools was a particularly popular one, as it was mostly based on slapstick humor with plots revolving around the complicated relations of a lazy drunkard with his wife, who often smacks him with a frying pan for constantly drinking, and drinking buddy, the Silly Sailor, who secretly happens to be his wife’s lover. Both the man and silly sailor have clownish makeover (hence the name) and usually don’t speak, mostly relying on gestures and comical sounds.
Bar Calambur was a sketch set in a bar, with jokes mostly revolving around food and drinks, while The Iron Kaput, which temporarily replacet The Steep Dive, tells a story about a secret super-heavy tank built by pre-World War One Germany being tested in Africa by a crew of an over-confident major Von Schwaltzkopf, the seemingly-normal loader Hans Schmulke and two dim-witted soldiers Drunkel and Zhrunkel. This sketch was mostly based on military-related humor, when the stupidity of the crew members who often mishandle military hardware, such as guns, shells and grenades, would lead to comically catastrophic results.

I think this will pass as an explanation: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_lenKvjx-xo

@DevilShadow024
Here, let me clean it up for you:

lmao wtf!!!

-Mа’аm, we need to do something! Let’s try to lower the landing gear?!

Don’t worry, guys! Only alicorns and pegasi were present on board, so no one was hurt upon the plane’s failure! Well, except the princesses’ pride, as they’ve been denied pilot licenses in the unprecedented move.

Passenger aircraft Broiler 747 crashed over the Atlantic ocean in the 325 series. The crew of the ship bravely fighting to save the lives of passengers.

Actors:

Do not be disheartened and the brave commander

Inventive and nahodchivyh second pilot Drinkins

Cute and cool stewardess

Cold-blooded and charming Radio operator Morse
And

The incomparable Miss Mucul as Miss Burpol

In the series of a steep dive.