# Funniest moments in recent TV **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [October 5, 2009, 2:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/funniest-moments-in-recent-tv/512669 "2009-10-05T14:38:13Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 6
**Author:** ![Annie-Xmas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecc23a/32.png) [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 2009, 7:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/funniest-moments-in-recent-tv/512669/101 "2009-10-22T19:23:49Z")
House and the mother with the masturbating daughter. ---
**Author:** ![dyingbreed](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/779978/32.png) [@dyingbreed](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dyingbreed)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 2009, 8:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/funniest-moments-in-recent-tv/512669/102 "2009-10-22T20:32:32Z")
Family Guy + Ipecac = Hilarious. [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4eYSpIz2FjU](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4eYSpIz2FjU) ---
**Author:** ![Morbo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/morbo/32/389_2.png) [@Morbo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Morbo)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 2009, 8:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/funniest-moments-in-recent-tv/512669/103 "2009-10-22T20:43:53Z")
> [@ZipperJJ](#): > > Sort of. I am looking for funny moments in the last 20 years TV that are already or will become classics. Roger that. OK then, how about [this](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ga-ULeG09QY)? Referenced on Page 1, but here’s the link. Mike Myers’ reaction: priceless. ---
**Author:** ![VarlosZ](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/d78d45/32.png) [@VarlosZ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VarlosZ)\ **Post date:** [June 23, 2011, 2:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/funniest-moments-in-recent-tv/512669/104 "2011-06-23T02:06:21Z")
From _NewsRadio_: Jimmy James reads from his autobiography, which has been translated into Japanese and then back into English. Stephen Root’s timing is absolutely perfect. [Link – the second half of the reading starts at 2:20](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U2MPEYU1XkI&feature=related). ---
**Author:** ![VarlosZ](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/d78d45/32.png) [@VarlosZ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VarlosZ)\ **Post date:** [June 23, 2011, 2:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/funniest-moments-in-recent-tv/512669/105 "2011-06-23T02:37:02Z")
If the question is more about the funniest moments from a historical perspective – i.e., about which bits will be remembered and referenced as classics in the future – that’s a little harder, but I can think of at least a couple: _SNL_, “[Lazy Sunday](http://www.hulu.com/watch/1397/saturday-night-live-snl-digital-short-lazy-sunday)” _Friends_, [the roommate quiz episode](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Aeligl3TW1Q&feature=related). _Seinfeld_, tons of candidates. I don’t know, how [George’s marine biologist story](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0u8KUgUqprw) (already mentioned)? Or [the JFK parody](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gcaq4ElAJrE&feature=related) from the Kieth Hernandez episode? _The Simpsons_, obviously, but it’s hard to think of particular bits or moments that will be picked out, because the episodes don’t really work that way. Perhaps Homer’s skateboard jump, which is a brilliant bit of slapstick. Others along these lines? ---
**Author:** ![salinqmind](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/3ec8ea/32.png) [@salinqmind](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/salinqmind)\ **Post date:** [June 23, 2011, 2:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/funniest-moments-in-recent-tv/512669/106 "2011-06-23T02:45:50Z")
As mentioned, Malcolm in the Middle’s roller-skating dad - awesome! There were a lot of funny moments in that show. Frasier - The whole Thanksgiving episode, but especially Niles, nipping at the brandy, kept coming into the kitchen to baste the turkey. Frasier and Lillith ran home, took the turkey out of the oven, and the next time Niles came down to baste it - it wasn’t there! His reaction had me in stitches, he looked all over for that turkey. Married With Children - the pirate movie spoof. Jefferson was a pirate who was “strangely attracted to the cabin boy” - played by (flat chested) Marcy. She finally whipped open her shirt and said , ‘as you can see, I’m no cabin boy! I’m a cabin girl!’ and Jefferson trying REALLY hard to see her boobs, squinting, and her getting ticked off. “look! LOOK!” I tell you, I spent a lot of time ROTFLMAF watching MWC, but that episode was. …Also, Al taking the Scouts out in the woods, telling them a horror story about the horrible red-haired monster that stalked him, and its evil cry…“marry meee”. And ‘owl in my hair - owl in my hair!’ ---
**Author:** ![notfrommensa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/f14d63/32.png) [@notfrommensa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/notfrommensa)\ **Post date:** [June 23, 2011, 3:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/funniest-moments-in-recent-tv/512669/107 "2011-06-23T03:12:38Z")
[Debbie Downer](http://panasonicyouth.buzznet.com/user/video/228337/snl-debbie-downer-featuring-lindsay/). SNL. I think some of the all time funniest moments is when the cast cannot keep a straight face. ---
**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\ **Post date:** [June 23, 2011, 3:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/funniest-moments-in-recent-tv/512669/108 "2011-06-23T03:14:05Z")
> [@pedescribe](#): > > The part in _Krusty Towers_ (Spongebob Squarepants) where Patrick first tries to check in. > > Patrick is as dumb as a stone, and Squidward, who hates his job, isn’t trying to help, so it’s this big long runaround that’s just…hilarious. It manages to have that comedic escalation appropriate for a self-contained sketch without going beyond simple dialogue. I’m partial to [Squidward’s reaction to Spongebob’s noisy bubbles](http://www.123video.nl/playvideos.asp?MovieID=574890) (4:30 on). [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/funniest-moments-in-recent-tv/512669.md?page=5)