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Ze Plane! Ze Plane! (also sometimes quoted as Da Plane! Da Plane! or The Plane! The Plane!) is a cultural reference to the typical opening of ''Fantasy Island'', a television series which aired in the late 1970s and early 1980s. Each episode began with the diminutive Tattoo (played by Hervé Villechaize), one of the main characters, spotting the seaplane approaching the island and running up a tower and excitedly yelling, with a French accent, "Ze Plane! Ze Plane!" and ringing a bell. 〔Farkas, Anna. ''The Oxford Dictionary of Catchphrases'' p.59 (Paperback ed. 2003) (ISBN 978-0198607359)〕〔("The hit show turned Villechaize into a larger-than-life character thanks to his catchphrase, 'De plane! De plane!'")〕〔("Herve Villechaize, the diminutive actor whose shout, "The plane! The plane!" greeted arriving guests on the television show "Fantasy Island," died Saturday at his home in Los Angeles.")〕〔("Every Saturday night, millions of television watchers sit down and watch a little man less than four feet tall run up into a belfry, ring a bell three times, and excitedly announce 'The Plane. The Plane.'")〕〔(" 'De plane. De plane.' — one of the more familiar cries on prime-time television — will be heard no more this fall. For 5½ years, a midget named Tattoo used those words to announce the arrival of guests on "Fantasy Island.")〕〔("his diminutive sidekick -- given to frenzied exclamations of 'De plane! De plane!'")〕 ==The actual plane== The actual aircraft used in the series was a Grumman Widgeon seaplane,〔(GRUMMAN G-44 WIDGEON ), WeLoveSeaplanes.com, Accessed 2009-10-7〕 U.S. registry N4453. It was manufactured in France under license from Grumman with 200 hp engines which were later replaced with seven cylinder 300 hp Lycoming radial engines in what was called a Masandorf conversion.〔Les Ailes Québécoises (Les Ailes Québécoises Forum ), Mar 27, 2005〕〔Seaplane Pilots Association (Seaplane Pilots Association Forum ) July 31, 2001〕 It was one of the few Grumman Widgeons manufactured with radial engines, and it is often mistaken for a Grumman Goose. It was rented from a local charter company by a contract production company, and almost all of the footage of the plane used throughout the series and films was shot in one day and recycled over the entire run. During the filming of the actual episodes, the guests climbed out of a paper-mache and plywood mock-up of the back of the plane. Prior to being owned by the charter company, the plane belonged to author Richard Bach, which he mentions briefly in his book ''The Bridge Across Forever'' (although he does not mention the television series by name, he makes it clear from the context that he is indeed talking about ''Fantasy Island'').〔Bach, Richard, ''The Bridge Across Forever'' p.182 (1989)(ISBN 978-0440108269)("She would become a television-star airplane, opening each episode of a wildly popular TV series")〕 The aircraft was later rented or sold to parties who later used it to smuggle drugs into the United States, and it crashed in a swamp on at least one occasion. It was confiscated by the DEA and sold by the U.S. Marshals Service at auction. It again fell into the hands of other drug smugglers and was eventually confiscated and sold again. It was involved in a gear collapse accident in the 1990s and repainted deep red, so it is not as recognizable as Ze Plane of the television series when it was painted white.〔Seawings, the Flying Boat Site (The Flying Boat Forum ) November 12, 2008〕 Ze Plane! Ze Plane! has at times been on display on the airshow circuit in the American Midwest,〔( Airliners.net ), Picture of the SCAN 30 (G-44A Widgeon) aircraft ("Grumman Widgeon, originally used as "da plane" in the TV series "Fantasy Island" on display at Airfest 2003.")〕 and is currently owned by the Ozarks Auto Show, Inc.,〔FAA Registry (N4453 )〕 a regional antique dealer, of Hollister, Missouri, and is stored in a hangar at the M. Graham Clark Downtown Airport near Branson, Missouri along with several other special interest aircraft. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Ze plane! Ze plane!」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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