A Night at the Opera
The entire stateroom scene.
There is none better.
Hotshots: The Admiral :I’ve personally flown over a hundred-ninety-four missions and I was shot down every one. Come to think of it, I’ve never landed a plane in my life.
I have to second the scene in rat race wheer the man ends up imitating hitler at a wwII function
“Mongo only pawn in game of life”
Also from “Everything You Always Wanted to Know about Sex…”:
The last scene of the “sheep” segment. After losing the sheep he loves, a man (I’m almost certain it wasn’t Woody, but I can’t remember who else was in it) is sitting on the sidewalk drinking Woolite.
Gene Wilder.
Harold and Maude contain many.
- One of Harold’s dates shows up and starts talking with his mother as Harold sets himself on fire. “She was just telling us the funniest story about…Walter Cronkite…”
- Harold gets sent to his uncle for a lecture. Harold’s uncle: “I was General Mac Arthur’s right hand man…”
The Jerk has too many; my highlights
- When Mr. Hartunian offers Navin the storeroom as a bedroom, they walk through the bathroom to get there (Mason opens the door and turns on the light - there’s a customer at the urinal who apparently didn’t care that he was in the dark- cracks me up); Navin talks about all the redecorating that he would do; “Navin! Navin! It’s in here!” “Oh. Well, I probably couldn’t afford this place anyway.”
- Navin gets robbed at the gas station and he hooks the car up to the church. “‘What kind of ciarette is that?’ ‘Joint.’ ‘They don’t make them very well.’; ‘Guess what? You’re our eighth customer today! You win a free oven mitt!’”
Lastly, isn’t anyone here familiar with Caddyshack?
- Brian Doyle-Murray breaking up the fight at the beginning of the movie and subsequent dressing down of the caddies. “there’s been a lot of bad caddying…” “You! Pick up that blood.”
- Bill Murray’s improv at the flower bed. “The former greenskeeper, about to become Master’s champion…”
- Chevy Chase stumbles into Bill Murray’s abode. “‘This where you live, Carl?’ ‘Yeah, do you like it?’ ‘Well…it’s…really…really awful.’”; “It’s a hybrid. A mixture of Kentucky bluegrass and Northern California sensemilla.”
I’ll leave it at that. There are simply too many to list.
Steve Martin in Dirty Rotton Scoundrels was pretty good when…
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he had to go to the bathroom. “Thank you.”
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“Not Mother?” and
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“Ruprecht, are we going to need the genital cuff?”
Another Steve Martin classic…
In The Lonely Guy when he and Charles Grodin are buying ferns.
“Doesn’t your guy want to wave good-bye to my guy?”
Porky’s.
So, the guys were spying on the girls in the shower, and one of them stuck his “tallywhacker” through an opening in the wall, and he was “spotted” by the girls’ coach.
The following scene, with the coach, some of the guys, and the principal, is just outrageously funny. The coach tries to convince the principal to hold a “line-up” so she can identify the miscreant. Meanwhile, the guys in the background are dying laughing, and eventually the principal caves and joins in. Oh, man, that scene kills me…
The “Biggus Dickus” scene from “Life of Brian”
Albert Brooks trying to convince Garry Marshall’s casino manager to give him his money back in “Lost in America”
The telephone call between Peter Sellers and an unseen Soviet Premier in “Dr. Strangelove”
I love Caddyshack.
Bill Murray describing golf with the Dali Lama. “So I got that goin’ for me, which is nice.”
The restaurant scene (Mr. Creosote) in Monty Python’s The Meaning of Life.
I hate to be an asshole. But could people describe their favourite funny scenes instead of just saying “the [insert name here] scene in [insert film here]”
I apologise in advance for being bossy and an arsehole. But I rather wanted to have a good laugh at recolected funny scenes.
Thanks.
“Just wait 'til Biggus Dickus hears of this. . .”
In one of the Cheech and Chong movies, Cheech is inside a mental hospital for some reason, falls asleep – probably stoned – and wakes up to find himself in a straightjacket. As he opens his eyes, one of the patients is leaning over very close to him and starts cackling and acting like a hen. I actually fell out of my seat in the theater laughing at the sight.
A little later Cheech, is still in the straightjacket and has a problem. With that therrifically expresive voice of his, he’s crying out “My balls itch! Somebody please scratch my balls!”
In Arizona Dream, which I may be the only person to have seen…
Lili Taylor threatens to kill herself, she runs upstairs and takes her pantyhose off while Johnny Depp tries to stop her. She ties the pantyhose around her neck and around a ceiling fixture, jumps off the stairwell… and bounces back up when the hose stretch tight.
Kudos to the mel brooks/monty python fans for being able to pick just one!
in “silent movie”, the car chase scene with mel and company in the chase car which happens to be an exerminator’s truck with a large fly on top. cut to henny youngman ordering a soup at an outdoor cafe. (sorry lobsang, you’ll just have to rent it, but you’ll also get mel and company visiting the hospital and dom deluise and marty feldman getting into a game of pong on the heart monitor).
in the clint eastwood movie “kelly’s heros” where he and two compadres face down a german tiger tank. they begin walking down this alleyway side by side as the turret of the tank spins to them. closeup of the tank’s cannon. close up of donald sutherland loosening the 45 on his hip. cannon points right at them. close up of their feet on the cobblestone. the sounds of their footfalls have the sounds of spurs added, then the sounds of music reminiscent of “the good, the bad, and the ugly”. a wonderful poking of fun of eastwood by eastwood.
Favorite line in Blazing Saddles…
Sheriff Bart (Cleavon Little) and pal Waco Kid (Gene Wilder) trying to lure away KKK members, so as to knock them out, steal their outfits, and disguise themselves.
Waco Kid: “Oh boys! Look what I found over here!”
(has a hold of Bart)
Bart: “Hey, where are all the white women at?”
I probably should just C&P the whole script from Airplane, but here’s two…
Leslie Neilson to Peter Graves after the passengers start getting sick:
LN. How soon can we land?
PG. I can’t tell.
LN. You can tell me, I’m a doctor.
PG. No, I mean I don’t know.
LN. Can’t you take a guess?
PG. Well, not for another half hour.
LN. You can’t take a guess for another half an hour?
In the cockpit, Ted Stryker to Leslie Neilson’s character and that flight attendant [not Elaine]:
TS. It’s an entirely different kind of flying, altogether.
LN and FA. [Together.] It’s an entirely different kind of flying.
OK one more, but it isn’t really a scene – Ted’s “drinking problem.” The thing is, I didn’t get the joke the first half dozen times I saw the movie. Then one day it just clicked and it was the funniest thing in the world. [For the underprivileged who haven’t seen this cinematic magnum opus, the joke is that Ted has a literal drinking problem – he has a problem drinking. He just opens his mouth and sort of splashes the contents of the glass in the general direction of his face.]
moonchilde reminded me of a (not necesarily funny) quote which me and friends started to use constantly after watching the film…
“It’s still up… No it aint.”
(Donald sutherland is looking through binoculars at a bridge - “it’s still up” seconds after him saying that the bridge gets blown up - “no it aint”)