Isn't anything in Hollywood ever made just for laughs?

I watched the rather comely Lorna Patterson (who played stewardess Randi)comment on a DVD how her character was pretty destitute (not quite the actual word she used but very close) because she breaks down to Leslie Nielson's Dr. Rumack about (her!) having no husband.
Look, I thought this whole movie was just supposed to be one great big sidesplitting joke--if so why was it in anyway a character blemish if she broke down? Did they actually and honestly make this ultra-far fetched and hilarious film as a bit of a drama too?

I am not only talking of this movie. I mean TV shows and movies in general. It seems like nothing from this to Green Acres was ever intended to merely to be for laughs. And they often seemingly initially meant it to be credible a little since this movie and Green Acres become both more impossible and funny as they go on in the series (all right there was only a single sequel to the Airplane film series but the point stands).

Look at other shows. The Munsters. I discovered some felt it was a real horror show and it did get more lightweight as time passed (Herman Munster went from one third as terrifying as Karloff's Frankenstein --er Frankenstein monster-- to much, much more fun). And (back to Nielson) I discovered that his actually similar 'Dracula: Dead and Loving It' film had some honestly bad tough moments in it towards the end of the movie--when I was sure that was just supposed to all be for laughs.

Do you suddenly cringe at the suggestion that maybe in early Three Stooges shorts they were also supposed to be more serious?