De plane! De plane!

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, "De Plane!

Instead, it was disassembled and stored until 1967, when it was imported into the US, reassembled, and finally completed using nine-cylinder, 300 hp Lycoming model R-680 radial engines in what was called a Mansdorf Gannet conversion.

During the filming of the actual episodes, the guests climbed out of a papier-mâché and plywood mock-up of the back of the plane.

The aircraft was later rented or sold to parties who used it to smuggle drugs into the United States, and it crashed in a swamp on at least one occasion.

It had a gear-collapse accident in the 1990s, and was repainted deep red, so it is not as recognizable as De Plane of the television series when it was painted white.

[10] In 1992, Hervé Villechaize referenced his famous catchphrase in a Dunkin' Donuts commercial for minisize doughnuts, where he requested, "De plain!

In Two Broke Girls, the main character, Max Black, gets her boss, Han Lee, to say, "The plain!