# 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:** 6
**Author:** ![Firebringer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/f04885/32.png) [@Firebringer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Firebringer)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2005, 12:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/funniest-movie-scenes-ever/329274/101 "2005-11-06T12:36:24Z")
Can’t believe no one’s mentioned the Steve Martin/Michael Caine film called **Dirty Rotten Scounderls** about the two conmen. Has two epic scenes First The Wheel Chair scene in the hotel room where Martin is playing a war vetran with supposedly no feeling in his legs and Caine plays the doctor. Second the Monkey Boy Scene with Martin as Ruprecht the Monkey boy. Also on a slightly sick note **Deliverance** the ‘Squeal little piggy’ scene As far as the **Life of Brian** is concerned my favourite scene has to be the ‘What have the Romans done for us’ one ---
**Author:** ![Chanteuse](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/9de053/32.png) [@Chanteuse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chanteuse)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2005, 2:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/funniest-movie-scenes-ever/329274/102 "2005-11-06T14:55:52Z")
> [@Firebringer](#): > > Can’t believe no one’s mentioned the Steve Martin/Michael Caine film called **Dirty Rotten Scoundrels** about the two conmen. Has two epic scenes > > First The Wheel Chair scene in the hotel room where Martin is playing a war vetran with supposedly no feeling in his legs and Caine plays the doctor. > > Second the Monkey Boy Scene with Martin as Ruprecht the Monkey boy. You’re right, I can’t believe I forgot to mention these two scenes. I couldn’t even _breathe_ when Michael Caine took that running swing at Steve Martin’s legs! And when “Ruprecht” peed on himself (or pretended to, of course) at the table, I almost died laughing. ---
**Author:** ![gouda](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/c77e96/32.png) [@gouda](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gouda)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2005, 3:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/funniest-movie-scenes-ever/329274/103 "2005-11-06T15:03:05Z")
I know it’s been mentioned already, but I gotta say it anyway: Peter Sellers as Hurundi Bakshi in **The Party**. So much of that movie has me on the floor… the dinner scene is probably the funniest in the entire movie! ---
**Author:** ![divemaster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/divemaster/32/78_2.png) [@divemaster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/divemaster)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2005, 3:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/funniest-movie-scenes-ever/329274/104 "2005-11-06T15:15:31Z")
\*\*The Naked Gun \*\* has been mentioned a few times, but not my favorite funny scene. The entire baseball game had me on the floor. From the singing of the National Anthem, to the Jumbotron highlights, to the crazy rundown (“I’ve never seen this before, but it looks like the \*umpires \* have Johnston (or whoever) in a rundown!”), to “I. Must. Kill. The. Queen.” and of course “Look! It’s Enrico Palazzo!” ---
**Author:** ![sciurophobic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/cab0a1/32.png) [@sciurophobic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sciurophobic)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2005, 4:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/funniest-movie-scenes-ever/329274/105 "2005-11-06T16:08:24Z")
**Singing in the Rain** : The disastrous preview of “The Dueling Cavalier.” No quotes would do it justice, except maybe “Yesssssss!” “Noooooooooo!” ---
**Author:** ![bobkitty](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/c67d28/32.png) [@bobkitty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bobkitty)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2005, 4:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/funniest-movie-scenes-ever/329274/106 "2005-11-06T16:39:05Z")
**Better off Dead** , when John Cusack’s character is walking back to his car after the school dance, and out in the fog he sees the newspaper boy on his bike. The whole scene where he runs through the woods and leaps over the car- newspaper boy in hot pursuit- only to stop, frantically pat himself down, and scream “KEEEEYYYSS!!!” sends me into fits. ---
**Author:** ![unwashed\_brain](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/a9adbd/32.png) [@unwashed\_brain](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/unwashed_brain)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2005, 5:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/funniest-movie-scenes-ever/329274/107 "2005-11-06T17:16:38Z")
**Pulp Fiction** , where Vincent Vega accidentally shoots Marvin in the head when the car Jules is driving goes over a bump. 😛 ---
**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, 9:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/funniest-movie-scenes-ever/329274/108 "2005-11-06T21:32:26Z")
> [@unwashed brain](#): > > **Pulp Fiction** , where Vincent Vega accidentally shoots Marvin in the head when the car Jules is driving goes over a bump. 😛 “Car didn’t hit no muthafuckin’ bump.” ---
**Author:** ![Tevildo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/b9bd4f/32.png) [@Tevildo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tevildo)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2005, 10:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/funniest-movie-scenes-ever/329274/109 "2005-11-06T22:33:13Z")
The film’s been mentioned before, but not the funniest scene from it: **The Big Lebowski** - The Dude nails a chair to the floor to keep his door shut. It opens outwards. ---
**Author:** ![Odinoneeye](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/97f17d/32.png) [@Odinoneeye](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Odinoneeye)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2005, 11:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/funniest-movie-scenes-ever/329274/110 "2005-11-06T23:59:40Z")
Havn’t read the whole thread, so maybe these were mentioned. **Monty Python’s The Meaning of Life**. The whole Death sequence. “You Americans, you talk and you talk and you say let me say this or I just wanna say that, well you’re dead now, so SHUT UP!” **Bill and Ted’s Excellent Adventure** - When Bill is introducing the historical figures to Missy and trying to make up pseudonyms for them. “This is Dennis Freud, Bob Genghis Khan, Missy of Arc, etc.” **Ghostbusters** - the whole hotel scene. Best visual gag was when Igon looks up at a hotel guest, slowly pokes him, them walks away. ---
**Author:** ![Monkey\_Chews](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/65b543/32.png) [@Monkey\_Chews](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Monkey_Chews)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2005, 1:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/funniest-movie-scenes-ever/329274/111 "2005-11-08T01:56:49Z")
Even more **Clue** love here. Mrs White trying to express her rage: “I hated her so much. There were flames… flames, on the side of my face… breathing… breathless… heaving breath… flames!” Mr Green: “Mrs Peacock was a man!?!” Mrs. Peacock: “Everything all right?” Col. Mustard: “Yep, two corpses, everything’s fine.” Anything Yvette says: “I voz liss-on-ing!” “I voz frightened, for I also drink ze cognac!” Mrs White: “Well, he was always a rather stupidly optimistic man. I’m afraid it came a a great shock to him when he died.” Wadsworth: “And to make a long story short -” Everyone: “TOO LATE!” “I / Am / Your singing telegram!” \ And the line a few of my gay friends and I like to say as we leave the room: “I’m going home to _sleep with my wife!_” I’m cracking up right now. I’ve gotta watch that movie again. ---
**Author:** ![Odinoneeye](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/97f17d/32.png) [@Odinoneeye](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Odinoneeye)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2005, 2:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/funniest-movie-scenes-ever/329274/112 "2005-11-08T02:42:20Z")
Again from Clue Mrs White: He had threatened to kill me in public Miss Scarlet: Why would he want to kill you in public? Wadsworth: No, I think she means he threatened, in public, to kill her. Scarlet: Oh. ---
**Author:** ![Princhester](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/3e96dc/32.png) [@Princhester](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Princhester)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2005, 9:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/funniest-movie-scenes-ever/329274/113 "2005-11-08T09:33:20Z")
**Life of Brian** : Many people miss it, but for humour and irony and comment on human nature I just can’t go past the scene where Brian is reluctantly preaching to his followers from his window, trying desperately to persuade them not to be followers. He yells out “You are all individuals” and the whole crowd repeats back to him in unison “Yes, we are all individuals” and then to top it off (and many people miss it) one lone guy says quietly “I’m not”. I love it. ---
**Author:** ![Grossbottom](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/ba8739/32.png) [@Grossbottom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Grossbottom)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2005, 1:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/funniest-movie-scenes-ever/329274/114 "2005-11-08T13:53:29Z")
Top Secret - Cedric has been smashed into a cube of scrap metal and comes waddling into the hotel room. He starts coughing, so Hillary administers an oil change of Hawaiian Punch. Big Lebowski - The scene when he’s driving and drops the roach, freaks out and starts squealing, and the car plows into a dumpster. Something about that scene puts me into hysterics. ---
**Author:** ![Fromage\_A\_Trois](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/a88e57/32.png) [@Fromage\_A\_Trois](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fromage_A_Trois)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2005, 2:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/funniest-movie-scenes-ever/329274/115 "2005-11-08T14:12:45Z")
**South Park - Bigger, Longer and Uncut** - the whole “How would you like to suck my balls?” scene is great. I love Stan’s “Holy sh\*t, dude” at the end. **Team America, World Police** - the “Dicks f\*ck assholes” speech at the end. Beautiful. **History of the World, Part I** - so many parts of it, but I love the little piece where there’s the big banner saying “1st Annual Orgy - First Served, First Come”. I think that’s the same scene with Hugh Hefner saying to someone “It’s a totally new concept, it’s called a ‘Centrefold’”. ---
**Author:** ![Knowed\_Out](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/knowed_out/32/7380_2.png) [@Knowed\_Out](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Knowed_Out)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2005, 4:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/funniest-movie-scenes-ever/329274/116 "2005-11-08T16:37:22Z")
I considered the entire movie \*\*The Full Monty \*\*a buildup to the last 5 minutes. Mostly the scene where the camera’s behind the dancers and they tear their pants off simultaneously with a massive RIP and you see the flash of their butt cheeks. Had me laughing for a solid hour. The scene in \*\*Big Trouble in Little China \*\*where Kurt Russel catches the dagger Lo Pan threw at him and instantly throws it back right into the middle of his forehead. This was after him being such a klutz throughout the movie as his friend Wang did all the fighting. The scene in \*\*Ruthless People \*\*where Danny DeVito is palling it up with a cop who’s watching his house, when the phone rings. DeVito picks up the phone, says hello, and says “Mary? Who’s this? Sheila? Hey Sheila, Mary can’t come to the phone right now. My dick is in her mouth. She’ll call you back later.” Then he says to the cop, “I love getting wrong numbers.” ---
**Author:** ![Horatio\_Hellpop](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e5b9ba/32.png) [@Horatio\_Hellpop](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Horatio_Hellpop)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2005, 7:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/funniest-movie-scenes-ever/329274/117 "2005-11-08T19:20:37Z")
**Garden State** , the scene where Natalie Portman tugged on her ear and later, where she raised her hand. Doesn’t sound like much, but in context, pure comedy gold. ---
**Author:** ![Stonebow](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ed8c4c/32.png) [@Stonebow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stonebow)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2005, 7:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/funniest-movie-scenes-ever/329274/118 "2005-11-08T19:58:58Z")
**Snatch** , the series of scenes after Tommy throws Turkish’s milk out the window. ---
**Author:** ![Anaamika](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/5f9b8f/32.png) [@Anaamika](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anaamika)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2005, 8:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/funniest-movie-scenes-ever/329274/119 "2005-11-08T20:05:06Z")
Oh, I forgot a great one. Kingpin, when he is pretending to be Amish. He is trying to be ultra-helpful, and one morning they are heading somewhere. One says: Where is he? Sleeping late? And he comes running up and says “I thought I’d wake up early and milk the cow. It was really hard to get her started but once she did, wow!” He’s got milk on his upper lip, making it evident he’s been drinking from the bucket. And they all stare at him, and one says “We don’t have a cow. We have a bull.” ---
**Author:** ![flight](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/bbce88/32.png) [@flight](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/flight)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2005, 9:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/funniest-movie-scenes-ever/329274/120 "2005-11-08T21:44:26Z")
> [@Knowed Out](#): > > The scene in \*\*Big Trouble in Little China \*\*where Kurt Russel catches the dagger Lo Pan threw at him and instantly throws it back right into the middle of his forehead. This was after him being such a klutz throughout the movie as his friend Wang did all the fighting. “It’s all in the reflexes.” At the time he still has the red lipstick on him. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/funniest-movie-scenes-ever/329274.md?page=5) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/funniest-movie-scenes-ever/329274.md?page=7)