Baby There's No Plane

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Baby There's No Plane is a viral audio clip of Taylor Armstrong from The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills talking about the financial toll her relationship with ex-husband Russell Armstrong took on her, recounting a story where her daughter asked her, "Mommy can we go on our plane again?" and she told her, "Baby, there's no plane." In January 2025, the audio was popularized on TikTok as a lip dub sound, in which users lip sync to the audio alongside captions that alter the speech to fit a situation in their own lives. Notably, Taylor Armstrong is the woman present in the woman yelling at a cat meme.

Origin

On January 14th, 2013, season three, episode nine of The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills, "Moroccan Madness," aired.^[1] In one scene of the episode, Taylor Armstrong, drunk, vents to other cast members about her ex-husband Russell Armstrong, who went bankrupt in 2005 and took his own life in 2011. Specifically she talks about financial burdens caused by Russell, recounting a story where her daughter asked, "Mommy can we go on our plane again?" and she told her, "Baby, there's no plane," suggesting they were too broke to afford their plane.^[2]

On February 24th, 2024, TikToker^[3] @ryinskott posted the clip, garnering over 830,000 views in a year.

On November 24th, TikToker^[4] @cronenbitch posted a stylistic, darmatic edit of the scene, garnering over 5.4 million views in two months.

Spread

The audio became notably popular in January 2025 as the source of lip dubs. For example, on January 3rd, 2025, TikToker^[5] @castlemircat posted a lip dub video to the sound captioned, "who was your first kiss? baby there's no plane," using the phrase "baby there's no plane" to communicate that she's never had a first kiss, garnering over 420,000 views in 10 days.

On January 10th, TikToker^[6] @rpattzfanaccount posted a video using the audio in which she shows off how she has no right ear, garnering over 1.4 million views in three days. On January 13th, Dexerto^[7] published a piece on the sound.