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Being a certain age helps as it's been watered down over the years.
The first time I saw it was when aerobatic master Art Scholl was still alive. He dressed in overalls as an old hick who won a free ride in a Piper Cub. He sat in the cockpit while the pilot walked about inspecting the plane. With the pilot at the rear Art pushed the throttle forward and barely took off at near stall speed while the pilot gave chase. Then Scholl proceed to push the envelope doing maneuvers that appeared on the edge of controllability, even stalling and recovering just feet above the runway. It was breathtaking, but not the punch line.

Finally Art gained a few hundred feet of altitude and pushed a dummy out of the cockpit. It landed with a thud and the announcer let the people of the hook. Scholl safely landed the plane and took a well deserved bow. I think they quit doing that part to keep people from being triggered.