# Funniest movie scenes ever **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [November 3, 2005, 11:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/funniest-movie-scenes-ever/329274 "2005-11-03T11:40:16Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 5
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [November 4, 2005, 8:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/funniest-movie-scenes-ever/329274/81 "2005-11-04T20:06:14Z")
> [@](#): > > And then the dart scene. Oh gad, I am giggling just thinking about it. What _kills_ me about this that the movie that **Toung Frankenstein** is most directly parodying – **Son of Frankenstein** – actually has such a scene of dart-playing between Frankenstein (Basil Rathbone!) and the one-armed, one-eyed officer (Lionel Atwill). Mel Brooks didn’t have to make it up – just make it funny. I also love that you can count about eight darts as he drives away – in the two mounted tires, the spare, and his aide’s kepi – yet only two darts actually went out the window. And the Officer puts his monocle in the eye _with_ the eyepatch. It was a while before I caught that. ---
**Author:** ![Anaamika](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/5f9b8f/32.png) [@Anaamika](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anaamika)\ **Post date:** [November 4, 2005, 8:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/funniest-movie-scenes-ever/329274/82 "2005-11-04T20:07:20Z")
All these \*Clue \* lovers! My brothers! My sisters! 🆒 And _Young Frankenstei_n has got to be one of the funniest movies ever. I just remembered another, sort of obscure. In _All of Me_, when Steve Martin first becomes possessed by her after being hit on the head with the bowl, and then one side of body is hers and one is his…that was hilarious. His acting was _superb_. I also liked the guy who played the Indian swami. “Get Edwina…back in bowl!” “Backinbowl! Backinbowl! Fixbowl! Fixbowl!” ---
**Author:** ![ccwaterback](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/df705f/32.png) [@ccwaterback](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ccwaterback)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2005, 1:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/funniest-movie-scenes-ever/329274/83 "2005-11-05T01:57:32Z")
The absolute funniest movie I have ever seen is a short by **Laurel & Hardy** called **Big Business**. > **[Big Business (Short 1929) - IMDb](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0019688/)** > > Big Business: Directed by James W. Horne, Leo McCarey. With Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy, James Finlayson, Charlie Hall. Ollie and Stanley are two Christmas Tree sales reps who get into one of their usual mutual-destruction fights with a disgruntled... Cousin Eddy in **Christmas Vacation.** “Shitter’s full”. ---
**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:** [November 5, 2005, 2:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/funniest-movie-scenes-ever/329274/84 "2005-11-05T02:04:46Z")
_Clue_: the secret passages. (“Let us in! Let us in!” “Let us out! Let us out!”) Wadsworth pausing to watch Yvette polish the glasses. That would give me pause, too. 😃 _A Night at the Opera_: the stateroom scene. In particular: _honk_ _honk_ honk\* _honk_ _honk_ _honk_ “Either it’s foggy out or that’s another dozen hard boiled eggs.” _A Day at the Races_: Tootsi Frootsi Ice Cream. ---
**Author:** ![parthenokinesis](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/cc9497/32.png) [@parthenokinesis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/parthenokinesis)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2005, 2:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/funniest-movie-scenes-ever/329274/85 "2005-11-05T02:26:28Z")
Ok I got a few **Rat Race** - Seth Green and his brother chasing the guy in the hot air balloon through the cow pasture. **Shaun of the Dead** - “Don’t Stop Me Now” **Clue** - Martin Mull questioning Tim Curry in the kitchen “No, meaning yes?” **Return of the Living Dead** - when the paramedics first show up and start working on Frank and Freddie “What do you mean no blood pressure no pulse?” ---
**Author:** ![TastesLikeBurning](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/839c29/32.png) [@TastesLikeBurning](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TastesLikeBurning)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2005, 2:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/funniest-movie-scenes-ever/329274/86 "2005-11-05T02:48:56Z")
**The Big Lebowski** : 1. Scattering Donnie’s ashes. 2. The local Police Chief throwing a coffee mug at The Dude’s head. 3\> Waletr smashing up the car, only to find out later it’s the wrong car. ---
**Author:** ![Kent\_Clark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kent_clark/32/105_2.png) [@Kent\_Clark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kent_Clark)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2005, 3:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/funniest-movie-scenes-ever/329274/87 "2005-11-05T03:04:07Z")
The Baby Louie cartoon that was the opening for _Who Framed Roger Rabbit?_ ---
**Author:** ![DSYoungEsq](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/c6cbf5/32.png) [@DSYoungEsq](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DSYoungEsq)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2005, 3:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/funniest-movie-scenes-ever/329274/88 "2005-11-05T03:13:40Z")
_Life of Brian_: Romans Go Home. Priceless, especially when seen the year after having spent four years in Latin classes… Any of a number of throw-away sight gags in _Shrek_. For an old time classic: _The Court Jester_, certainly when Glynis Johns explains to the king about her father’s twisted, plague-ridden body writhing in agony from “Breckenridge’s Scourge.” But, even better, Danny Kaye and Robert Middleton walking up to stand before the king and drink the ceremonial toast, each trying desperately to remember that the Pellet with the Poison is in the Vessel with the Pessel (all while “Sir Griswold” keeps having to shoulder the Jester off of him because the Jester’s armor has been magnetized by a lightening strike). Roll on the carpet laughing the first time you see it stuff. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Chanteuse](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/9de053/32.png) [@Chanteuse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chanteuse)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2005, 3:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/funniest-movie-scenes-ever/329274/89 "2005-11-05T03:28:12Z")
From **The Gods Must Be Crazy** –Steyn has winched the Antichrist up into a very tall tree. When his friend finds them and asks where the jeep is, Steyn points up, and his friend stares and says, “Whaaaat in the hell did you do _that_ for?” Kills me. Also–I second the final scene where he knocks the table over–he put that same item (cup? pitcher? I can’t remember now!) back on the table about 20 times, all the while explaining why he’s such a klutz whenever he’s around a woman. Priceless! From **Noises Off!** –The first rehearsal. Freddy: “Why does my character do this illogical thing–wouldn’t it make more sense if he did this other thing instead?” Director Lloyd (flat-voiced, trying to discourage more questions): “No.” Freddy: “It just seems it would be more logical–” Lloyd (flatly): “No.” It was just the way he tried SO HARD to keep from having to discuss it, and dopey Freddy just wouldn’t let it go–cracks me up every time. **Kuffs** –After having a terrible shootout in his apartment, Kuffs hears a knock at the door. He looks through a bullet hole in the door and sees a stern-looking man in a suit. He yanks the door open and yells, “FREEZE, asshole!” The guy, an accountant, throws both hands in the air, blows a raspberry, and keels over sideways. Absofreakinlutely hilarious! ---
**Author:** ![Superdude](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/superdude/32/13450_2.png) [@Superdude](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Superdude)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2005, 6:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/funniest-movie-scenes-ever/329274/90 "2005-11-05T06:26:36Z")
> [@parthenokinesis](#): > > **Clue** - Martin Mull questioning Tim Curry in the kitchen “No, meaning yes?” “But look what happened to the cook!” As much as I generally dislike Ben Stiller movies, Rip Torn in _Dodgeball_ kills me. “It’s like watching a bunch of retards trying to hump a doorknob out there.” ---
**Author:** ![anyrose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/54ee81/32.png) [@anyrose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/anyrose)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2005, 8:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/funniest-movie-scenes-ever/329274/91 "2005-11-05T08:36:37Z")
> [@Chanteuse](#): > > \ > From **Noises Off!** –The first rehearsal. Freddy: “Why does my character do this illogical thing–wouldn’t it make more sense if he did this other thing instead?” Director Lloyd (flat-voiced, trying to discourage more questions): “No.” Freddy: “It just seems it would be more logical–” Lloyd (flatly): “No.” It was just the way he tried SO HARD to keep from having to discuss it, and dopey Freddy just wouldn’t let it go–cracks me up every time. \ even funnier to me because when I was in college doing theatre, at least one person in each show asked questions like that - and always got the same response ---
**Author:** ![Cardinal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cardinal/32/4000_2.png) [@Cardinal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cardinal)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2005, 9:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/funniest-movie-scenes-ever/329274/92 "2005-11-05T09:50:41Z")
> [@JeffB](#): > > _The Gods Must Be Crazy_ – the Landrover (I think) up the tree and the fire marshall rhino. My mom nearly choked when he had to pull off the teacher’s panty tag because it was caught on the bush. He has nowhere to put it, so he pulls open the panties and drops the tag down her butt. ---
**Author:** ![VarlosZ](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/d78d45/32.png) [@VarlosZ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VarlosZ)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2005, 10:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/funniest-movie-scenes-ever/329274/93 "2005-11-05T10:50:37Z")
Noises Off: The whole Cleveland performance at the end, when everything goes wrong. “The sardines. . . _they’ve gone!_ Oh, no they haven’t, they’re right there.” South Park: The “Uncle-Fucker” song, made especially funny because the movie had been clean up to that point. ---
**Author:** ![DWMarch](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dwmarch/32/1010_2.png) [@DWMarch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DWMarch)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2005, 12:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/funniest-movie-scenes-ever/329274/94 "2005-11-05T12:03:58Z")
Harlem Nights had some great comedy in it, like the scene at Benny’s house where Vera volunteers to make a sandwich. Or Arsenio Hall’s scene, where he’s chasing after Eddie Murphy and accidentally shoots one of his lackeys in the back of the head. And who could forget this classic exchange: **Sugar Ray:** Vera, do you have a girl who can turn him out? **Vera:** I have got a girl whose pussy is so good, if you threw it up in the air, it would turn into sunshine. I’d also have to nominate the scene in the modern version of The Italian Job where Seth Green is mocking Handsome Rob and his amazing abilities with women. I have to disagree with the people who nominated those scenes from Something About Mary. The guy gets his dick caught in his zipper and later on somehow manages to jizz in his own hair. I don’t see the funny in either situation. ---
**Author:** ![want2know](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/50afbb/32.png) [@want2know](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/want2know)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2005, 4:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/funniest-movie-scenes-ever/329274/95 "2005-11-05T16:57:19Z")
> [@Caricci](#): > > In **Austin Powers II: the Spy who Shagged Me** when Dr. Evil and Scott go on Jerry Springer in the opening scene and Dr. Evil is running around with the Klansman’s hood yelling “I got the hood! I got the hood!” In that scene, I’ve got to go with the “shaved scrotum” monologue. Leslie Nielsen’s endless leak in **Naked Gun**. Trooper’s heart attack in **Animal House**. Just about every minute of Mel Brooks’ **Silent Movie** , but especially Mel mouthing the words “YOU SON OF A BITCH” to Marty Feldman and the title card says “You bad boy!”. That, and the two old ladies saying “FAGS!” A forgotten classic! ---
**Author:** ![SmartAleq](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/smartaleq/32/163_2.png) [@SmartAleq](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SmartAleq)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2005, 7:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/funniest-movie-scenes-ever/329274/96 "2005-11-06T07:43:40Z")
In **Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy** , when John Malkovich purses up his lips and says “Bless You,” I just lose it every time. In the new Family Guy DVD movie, the Elmer Fudd/Bugs Bunny cartoon segment is friggin’ hilarious, albeit totally WRONG! **Baseketball** –“How to speak San Franciscan; Vajoina!” Classic! The secret signal in **Team America, World Police**. I’ve been trying to find that as a still to import to my phone for wallpaper. No luck so far, guess I’ll have to pull it off the DVD myself, dagnabbit. (Heh, the SO just read this over my shoulder and is now collapsed in my lap, eyes squirting tears and I think he just peed a little bit.) I think it’s the random patches of pendejos all over his face (the puppet, not the SO!) that really makes the scene. Not a movie, but [this](http://www.ebaumsworld.com/flash/fartingcat.html) makes me laugh hysterically. The SO is still laughing himself sick next to me, and everytime he looks like he’s about to wind down I just wag my hands in the air and go “AAAUUUGH” and he’s off again. Blessed are the easily amused, my mom always says, for they will be… Spouse torture, it’s the best! 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Superdude](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/superdude/32/13450_2.png) [@Superdude](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Superdude)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2005, 8:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/funniest-movie-scenes-ever/329274/97 "2005-11-06T08:17:11Z")
> [@Caricci](#): > > In **Spinal Tap** when the midget is dancing around the 18 inch stonehenge and is, of course, MUCH taller than it. Which reminds me of Fred Willard as the commentator from _Best In Show_: "Doctor, question that’s always bothered me and a lot of people: Mayflower, combined with Philadelphia - a no-brainer, right? Cause this is where the Mayflower landed. Not so. It turns out Columbus actually set foot somewhere down in the West Indies. Little known fact. " - or - “And to think that in some countries these dogs are eaten.” - or - "I went to one of those obedience places once… it was all going well until they spilled hot candle wax on my private parts. " Roger Ebert mentioned in passing on his show that he felt that Fred Willard should have received an Academy Award nomination for this role. I can’t disagree. ---
**Author:** ![parthenokinesis](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/cc9497/32.png) [@parthenokinesis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/parthenokinesis)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2005, 9:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/funniest-movie-scenes-ever/329274/98 "2005-11-06T09:23:33Z")
> [@Superdude](#): > > Roger Ebert mentioned in passing on his show that he felt that Fred Willard should have received an Academy Award nomination for this role. I can’t disagree. Willard was funny, but the dude sitting next to him deserved the statue just for being able to keep a straight face. ---
**Author:** ![Jeff\_Lichtman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jeff_lichtman/32/1531_2.png) [@Jeff\_Lichtman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jeff_Lichtman)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2005, 9:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/funniest-movie-scenes-ever/329274/99 "2005-11-06T09:41:08Z")
**The Russians Are Coming, The Russians Are Coming** - the scene where Mr. Everett takes such a long time to discover the predicament his wife Muriel is in. ---
**Author:** ![Jman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jman/32/4416_2.png) [@Jman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jman)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2005, 12:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/funniest-movie-scenes-ever/329274/100 "2005-11-06T12:22:09Z")
While definitely the weakest of the 3 Austin Powers films, the scene in **Austin Powers in Goldmember** with mini-me and Austin in the henchmen physical had me nearly pass out from lack of breathing, I was laughing so hard. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/funniest-movie-scenes-ever/329274.md?page=4) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/funniest-movie-scenes-ever/329274.md?page=6)