# 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:** 9\ **Page:** 9
**Author:** ![cbawlmer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/71e660/32.png) [@cbawlmer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cbawlmer)\ **Post date:** [November 11, 2005, 12:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/funniest-movie-scenes-ever/329274/161 "2005-11-11T00:57:22Z")
> [@Stranger On A Train](#): > > (That’s not be best line, but I don’t want to spoil it for the good folks who haven’t seen it yet, and besides, I don’t want to offend all the Midwesterners by using the word “fuck” too much. 😉 ) Now you’ve offended all the Midwesterners who like to say “fuck” a lot, you stereotyper! 😉 \*Adaptation \* was a completely hysterical movie. I liked the overly ambitious school plays the boy kept producing in _Rushmore_. And the cameo by a famous real-world athlete (I don’t want to spoil it) towards the end of _Dodgeball_. The whole bit in _Annie Hall_ when they go to Annie’s family’s house for Easter, especially the part with Christopher Walken as Annie’s insane brother. Speaking of Walken, the scene in _Pulp Fiction_ where he tells young Butch the origin of his father’s watch. Marvelously written and acted for maximum comic effect. ---
**Author:** ![Othersider](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/cab0a1/32.png) [@Othersider](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Othersider)\ **Post date:** [November 11, 2005, 3:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/funniest-movie-scenes-ever/329274/162 "2005-11-11T03:54:40Z")
The first time I saw _Dodgeball_ was one of the times in my life I laughed hardest. It was still funny the second time, but not nearly as much. The commentary from Gary Cole and Jason Bateman was pure gold. Scratch that, it was better than pure gold. I think, though, that I can’t remember laughing as hard at anything as I did at _Life of Brian_ during the scene where Pilate (Michael Palin) is addressing the crowd. I think the best way to describe it might be thinking I caused an internal injury from laughing so hard. _Pilate: Whom would you have me weewease? Bob Hoskins: Weewease Woger! Pilate: Vewy well. I shall…weelease…Woger!_ Man, that scene kills me every time. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Battle\_Pope](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/4bbf92/32.png) [@Battle\_Pope](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Battle_Pope)\ **Post date:** [November 11, 2005, 5:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/funniest-movie-scenes-ever/329274/163 "2005-11-11T05:26:16Z")
> [@Othersider](#): > > I think, though, that I can’t remember laughing as hard at anything as I did at _Life of Brian_ during the scene where Pilate (Michael Palin) is addressing the crowd. I think the best way to describe it might be thinking I caused an internal injury from laughing so hard. I has to go to a school presentation evening in which I was to recieve an award. The Headmistress of the shool had that exact speech problem. Its not fun being up on stage in front of 500 or so people when you are desperate not to laugh. Back on topic: **Christmas Vacation** when Clark starts his rant: “Hey. If any of you are looking for any last-minute gift ideas for me, I have one. I’d like Frank Shirley, my boss, right here tonight. I want him brought from his happy holiday slumber over there on Melody Lane with all the other rich people and I want him brought right here, with a big ribbon on his head, and I want to look him straight in the eye and I want to tell him what a cheap, lying, no-good, rotten, four-flushing, low-life, snake-licking, dirt-eating, inbred, overstuffed, ignorant, blood-sucking, dog-kissing, brainless, dickless, hopeless, heartless, fat-ass, bug-eyed, stiff-legged, spotty-lipped, worm-headed sack of monkey shit he is. Hallelujah. Holy shit. Where’s the Tylenol?” ---
**Author:** ![Chanteuse](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/9de053/32.png) [@Chanteuse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chanteuse)\ **Post date:** [November 11, 2005, 1:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/funniest-movie-scenes-ever/329274/164 "2005-11-11T13:36:53Z")
> [@Vagus](#): > > Back on topic: **Christmas Vacation** when Clark starts his rant: > > “Hey. If any of you are looking for any last-minute gift ideas for me, I have one. I’d like Frank Shirley, my boss, right here tonight. I want him brought from his happy holiday slumber over there on Melody Lane with all the other rich people and I want him brought right here, with a big ribbon on his head, and I want to look him straight in the eye and I want to tell him what a cheap, lying, no-good, rotten, four-flushing, low-life, snake-licking, dirt-eating, inbred, overstuffed, ignorant, blood-sucking, dog-kissing, brainless, dickless, hopeless, heartless, fat-ass, bug-eyed, stiff-legged, spotty-lipped, worm-headed sack of monkey shit he is. Hallelujah. Holy shit. Where’s the Tylenol?” Oh, man, I’d forgotten about this! I agree, that’s one hilarious scene–I about died laughing just reading this! And the follow-up, where Randy Quaid takes this seriously and kidaps the boss–that was funny,too! ---
**Author:** ![Othersider](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/cab0a1/32.png) [@Othersider](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Othersider)\ **Post date:** [November 11, 2005, 2:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/funniest-movie-scenes-ever/329274/165 "2005-11-11T14:16:42Z")
> [@Vagus](#): > > I has to go to a school presentation evening in which I was to recieve an award. > The Headmistress of the shool had that exact speech problem. Its not fun being up on stage in front of 500 or so people when you are desperate not to laugh. That reminds me of another: The scene from _The Princess Bride_ with the Impressive Clergyman. _“Mah-wige…mah-wige is what bwings us togewer today…mah-wige, that bwessed awwangement, that dweam wiffim a dweam…”_ ---
**Author:** ![bobkitty](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/c67d28/32.png) [@bobkitty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bobkitty)\ **Post date:** [November 11, 2005, 3:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/funniest-movie-scenes-ever/329274/166 "2005-11-11T15:13:58Z")
> [@ddgryphon](#): > > And I forget _The Money Pit_ when Tom Hanks becomes trapped in the upstairs floor/rug and amuses himself by singing the name game among other odd behavior. Or the scene where Shelly Long is racing around in the background being attacked by the raccoon… heeee. ---
**Author:** ![priapus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ed655f/32.png) [@priapus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/priapus)\ **Post date:** [November 11, 2005, 3:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/funniest-movie-scenes-ever/329274/167 "2005-11-11T15:41:49Z")
How could I forget A New Leaf? Walter Matthau as spoiled playboy.He finds he must get married to get some money and the scene where a “ripe” woman is about to take off her top and he yells,“Don’t let them out!”. ---
**Author:** ![beckwall](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/b487fb/32.png) [@beckwall](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/beckwall)\ **Post date:** [November 11, 2005, 4:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/funniest-movie-scenes-ever/329274/168 "2005-11-11T16:10:47Z")
> [@cbawlmer](#): > > The whole bit in _Annie Hall_ when they go to Annie’s family’s house for Easter, especially the part with Christopher Walken as Annie’s insane brother. > > Speaking of Walken, the scene in _Pulp Fiction_ where he tells young Butch the origin of his father’s watch. Marvelously written and acted for maximum comic effect. OH yeah! When Chris is driving them to the airport in Annie Hall. I think he verbalized how he likes to drive crazy and on the other side of the road??? Look on Woody’s face - precious. And that scene in Pulp Fiction - I bet even QT was cracking up during that one. ---
**Author:** ![Malacandra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Malacandra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Malacandra)\ **Post date:** [November 11, 2005, 4:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/funniest-movie-scenes-ever/329274/169 "2005-11-11T16:31:39Z")
> [@Othersider](#): > > The first time I saw _Dodgeball_ was one of the times in my life I laughed hardest. It was still funny the second time, but not nearly as much. The commentary from Gary Cole and Jason Bateman was pure gold. Scratch that, it was better than pure gold. > > I think, though, that I can’t remember laughing as hard at anything as I did at _Life of Brian_ during the scene where Pilate (Michael Palin) is addressing the crowd. I think the best way to describe it might be thinking I caused an internal injury from laughing so hard. > > _Pilate: Whom would you have me weewease? > Bob Hoskins: Weewease Woger! > Pilate: Vewy well. I shall…weelease…Woger!_ > > Man, that scene kills me every time. 😃 And of course it continues (after Pilate has been asked for several fictitious prisoners with names beginning with R, only to be told there is no such person under sentence): PILATE (getting puzzled): Do we have _any_ pwisoners in our cells at all, centuwion? CENTURION: Oh, yes, sir (consults scroll); we have Samson the Sadducee strangler, Silas the Syrian assassin, several seditious scribes from Caesarea… _Biggus Dickus has until now been merely an interested observer_ BIGGUS DICKUS (grabs scroll): Let _me_ thpeak to them Pontiuth! CENTURION (instinctively): Oh, _no_! :eek: [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/funniest-movie-scenes-ever/329274.md?page=8)