# Funniest Sitcom Moments **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [March 10, 2010, 9:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/funniest-sitcom-moments/531959 "2010-03-10T09:37:31Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 5
**Author:** ![tdn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/94ad74/32.png) [@tdn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tdn)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2010, 5:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/funniest-sitcom-moments/531959/81 "2010-03-11T17:46:54Z")
_ring_ _ring_ “Hi, you’ve reached Cheers. No one is here to take your call right now, so at the beep, leave a message.” _beep_ “Hi Sam, it’s Diane. I’m just calling to say I love you.” _beep_ “Hi Sam, it’s Woody. We need to order more straws and peanuts. Oh, and I have a message from Diane. I love you. OK, bye Sam.” _beep_ “Sam? It’s Woody again. When I said that I love you, that wasn’t me saying that, that was from Diane. I don’t love you. Well, bye Sam.” _beep_ “Sam? It’s Woody. Don’t get me wrong, I think you’re great guy and all.” ---
**Author:** ![BMada](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/96bed5/32.png) [@BMada](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BMada)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2010, 6:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/funniest-sitcom-moments/531959/82 "2010-03-11T18:20:20Z")
> [@Saintly\_Loser](#): > > Wasn’t that \*every \*episode? [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GPmZ5TFKlwU](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GPmZ5TFKlwU) this episode specifically was funny. ---
**Author:** ![DigitalC](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ebca7d/32.png) [@DigitalC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DigitalC)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2010, 7:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/funniest-sitcom-moments/531959/83 "2010-03-11T19:09:49Z")
> [@BMada](#): > > let me add a few youtube clips that are from It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia. Not episodic. NOT SAFE FOR WORK clips! > > [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UE6GC47NxgI](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UE6GC47NxgI) Dayman/Nightman > [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hIs5BYWt\_SM](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hIs5BYWt_SM) Devito Sex Tape > [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-xQSk-\_zh-0](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-xQSk-_zh-0) Dick Towel What, no [Kitten Mittons](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vCaTpFwcC9o)? ---
**Author:** ![BMada](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/96bed5/32.png) [@BMada](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BMada)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2010, 7:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/funniest-sitcom-moments/531959/84 "2010-03-11T19:30:07Z")
> [@DigitalC](#): > > What, no [Kitten Mittons](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vCaTpFwcC9o)? kitten mittons are work safe and from the actual show. Clips were NSFW and extra clips. Shotgun shot blasts you in the mouth! Awesome! I’m wasted! Nudey Pen! Egg! ---
**Author:** ![bouv](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bc8723/32.png) [@bouv](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bouv)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2010, 7:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/funniest-sitcom-moments/531959/85 "2010-03-11T19:52:22Z")
> [@DigitalC](#): > > What, no [Kitten Mittons](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vCaTpFwcC9o)? Oh, you mean like this? > [@bouv](#): > > But my all-time favorite Always Sunny moment (at least right now, it changes day to day) is Charlie’s [“Kitten Mittons!!” video.](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vCaTpFwcC9o) (and unlike most Always Sunny clips, this one is actually works safe! Astonishing!) ---
**Author:** ![Robot\_Arm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/robot_arm/32/18280_2.png) [@Robot\_Arm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Robot_Arm)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2010, 7:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/funniest-sitcom-moments/531959/86 "2010-03-11T19:54:21Z")
There was a British show called _Murder Most Horrid_. It was an anthology show, with Dawn French starring as a different character in each episode. The whole episode _Overkill_ is brilliant, and the body count reaches double digits. ---
**Author:** ![WPA-Guy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/a6a055/32.png) [@WPA-Guy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WPA-Guy)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2010, 8:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/funniest-sitcom-moments/531959/87 "2010-03-11T20:20:57Z")
From the Vicar of Dibley: Alice: You know that stuff that they’re selling now at the local shop? Vicar: Which stuff? Alice: I Can’t Believe It’s Not Butter. Vicar: Oh, yes. Alice: Well, you know, I can’t believe it’s not butter. Vicar: Yeah, well, I believe that is the idea, yeah. Alice: Then yesterday, um, I went to Crookendon and I bought this other stuff like a sort of home brand…you know. Vicar: Yes… Alice: And, you know, I can’t believe it’s not I Can’t Believe It’s Not Butter. Vicar: Hmm. I’m losing you now… Alice: All right, well, you know I Can’t Believe It’s Not Butter? Vicar: Yeah, yeah, yeah… You think it is butter? Alice: No, no. I mean you know the stuff I can’t believe is not butter is called I Can’t Believe It’s Not Butter? Vicar: Probably, yeah, yeah… Alice: Well, I can’t believe the stuff that is not I Can’t Believe It’s Not Butter is not I Can’t Believe It’s Not Butter and I can’t believe that both I Can’t Believe It’s Not Butter and the stuff that I can’t believe is not I Can’t Believe It’s Not Butter are both, in fact, not butter. And I believe they both might be butter…in a cunning disguise…and in fact there’s a lot more butter around than we all thought there was. ---
**Author:** ![Mixolydian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/da6949/32.png) [@Mixolydian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mixolydian)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2010, 9:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/funniest-sitcom-moments/531959/88 "2010-03-11T21:45:23Z")
> [@Mach Tuck](#): > > _“All right Mr. Kramden, for one hundred dollars - who is the composer of Swanee River?”_ > > We then see an absolutely priceless reaction from Jackie Gleason, followed by an answer that makes me laugh every time I think of it. > > I won’t spoil it for those who are unfamiliar. Go rent, buy or steal the Honeymooners episodes **The $99,000 Answer**. That one, the episode where Ralph “offers” to pick up the dinner tab, and also, the “Chef Of The Future” episode. (“Can it core a apple?” “Oh, it can core a apple”) But I have to agree with ianzin, the Fawlty Towers “The Germans” cannot be topped. ---
**Author:** ![voguevixen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/b5ac83/32.png) [@voguevixen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/voguevixen)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2010, 1:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/funniest-sitcom-moments/531959/89 "2010-03-12T01:03:40Z")
The episode of Everybody Loves Raymond where they came back from a trip and left the suitcase on the stairs, each of them thinking the other would take it up, then getting progressively more stubborn that it wasn’t THEIR job to take it up, then Ray putting some old cheese in it to make Deb put it away when it started to smell but she dug her feet in and people were coming to the house going “GOD WHAT’S THAT SMELL?!” “Oh, the suitcase.” There was another episode where Deb gave Ray a DVD player and Marie said “What is it? Is it for porn?” Ray blurts: “MA!!!” and she says scoldingly: “I don’t like that, Raymond.” We are constantly saying “I don’t like that, Raymond” at our house. ---
**Author:** ![KennerTheGreat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/a8b319/32.png) [@KennerTheGreat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KennerTheGreat)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2010, 1:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/funniest-sitcom-moments/531959/90 "2010-03-12T01:24:40Z")
I always liked the line from the Batman TV movie/pilot episode, where Batman’s trying to dispose of a bomb before it goes off, but there’s something or someone everywhere he tries to get rid of it. **Batman** : Some days, you just can’t get rid of a bomb! ---
**Author:** ![Maserschmidt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/maserschmidt/32/18829_2.png) [@Maserschmidt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Maserschmidt)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2010, 1:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/funniest-sitcom-moments/531959/91 "2010-03-12T01:27:27Z")
> [@voguevixen](#): > > The episode of Everybody Loves Raymond where they came back from a trip and left the suitcase on the stairs, each of them thinking the other would take it up, then getting progressively more stubborn that it wasn’t THEIR job to take it up, then Ray putting some old cheese in it to make Deb put it away when it started to smell but she dug her feet in and people were coming to the house going “GOD WHAT’S THAT SMELL?!” “Oh, the suitcase.” THat has become an embedded metaphor in our house when one of us doesn’t want to do something. Great episode. The Dick Van Dyke show scene where Laura Petrie has ‘outed’ Alan Brady’s toupee, and he reads her the riot act over it. “Fellas…there she is…the little lady who put you out of business!” Oh, and the funniest single episode ever is indeed the German episode on Fawlty Towers. ---
**Author:** ![Nzinga\_Seated](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/b5ac83/32.png) [@Nzinga\_Seated](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nzinga_Seated)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2010, 2:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/funniest-sitcom-moments/531959/92 "2010-03-12T02:34:50Z")
> [@tdn](#): > > Cheers: > > Sam: I’m going up to Charlestown today to see Old Ironsides. > > Woody: Wow, can you get me Raymond Burr’s autograph? > > Sam: No, Woody, I’m talking about the ship the USS Constitution. Its nickname is Old Ironsides. > > Woody: Yeah, I know. Raymond Burr is going to be there. Can you get me his autograph? That scene reminds me how much I really did love cheers. Big shout out to DMark for this thread! I love this thread so much. The moments in the OP are classic. I remember when the little kid hits the clown and says, “Happy Birthday, Dorothy”, it was just a such a sweet and funny moment. Love Dorothy Zbornack, R.I.P. And when Jackie makes the call to tell the reletive that Dad DIED, that makes me laugh just remembering. I [love this scene from cheers](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hlc05uEPLxo). It is the timing of that slap back, man. Such quick and perfect timing. So unexpected. ---
**Author:** ![In\_Winnipeg](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/a8b319/32.png) [@In\_Winnipeg](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/In_Winnipeg)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2010, 4:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/funniest-sitcom-moments/531959/93 "2010-03-12T04:27:22Z")
“Frank Burns eats worms!”/“You tell him, Ferret-face!” “Emotionally exhausted and morally bankrupt.”/“We addressed him, but we didn’t mail him.” ---
**Author:** ![The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/the_other_waldo_pepper/32/12370_2.png) [@The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Other_Waldo_Pepper)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2010, 5:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/funniest-sitcom-moments/531959/94 "2010-03-12T05:01:19Z")
> [@Labrador\_Deceiver](#): > > I’m surprised nobody has yet mentioned [Macho Business Donkey Wrestler](http://www.youtube.com/watch#!v=RzNUg_IcKrI&feature=fvw) from News Radio. > > “What did you mean when you said ‘Feel my skills, donkey, donkey, donkey donkey?’” Great episode, but what floored me was the Clash of the Titans arc: “Well, this is a very convenient alibi you’ve concocted here, Mr. James.” “Thank you.” “Yes, and I suppose now you’re going to tell the court you have no idea who this mysterious stranger was or where he could be located today.” “Of course I know who it was. It was Adam West.” “Adam West?” “Yeah.” _“Batman?”_ “That’s the one.” “No. Adam West is not DB Cooper.” …and cue, out of nowhere, Adam West: “I’m afraid I was, your honor.” And that’s all just a quick throwaway to move the story along, so we can watch Patrick Warburton square off against Stephen Root for increasingly over-the-top feats of plainspokenly cheerful end-justifies-the-means one-upmanship; the whole thing is absurd, but pairing enthusiasm with straightforward _ **blandness** _ makes for a whole different _ **kind** _ of zany. ---
**Author:** ![FordTaurusSHO94](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/f07891/32.png) [@FordTaurusSHO94](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FordTaurusSHO94)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2010, 5:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/funniest-sitcom-moments/531959/95 "2010-03-12T05:12:59Z")
I’m watching the Seinfeld episode where Kramer accepts a Tony Award. He offers a woman some beef jerky and then clamps his teeth onto it and pulls so he can get a piece to eat. As he tears the piece loose, he punches a man in the back of the head. I laugh ever time. ---
**Author:** ![Noel\_Prosequi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/b19c9b/32.png) [@Noel\_Prosequi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Noel_Prosequi)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2010, 6:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/funniest-sitcom-moments/531959/96 "2010-03-12T06:34:52Z")
> [@ianzin](#): > > German guest: “Stop talking about the war!” > > Basil: “Well you started it!” > > German guest: “We did _not_ start it!” > > Basil: “Yes you did. You invaded Poland”. > > Can possibly be matched. Cannot be bettered. And of course, the whispered follow up - “I may have mentioned the war once, but I think I got away with it.” ---
**Author:** ![maplekiwi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a4c791/32.png) [@maplekiwi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/maplekiwi)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2010, 6:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/funniest-sitcom-moments/531959/97 "2010-03-12T06:57:11Z")
> [@sqweels](#): > > Fawlty Towers runner-up is when Basil is pantomiming to make Mrs. Richards think her hearing aid broken–Sybil inadvertently plays along–then he yells into the receiver. > > . That my favourite moment from my all time favourite comedy. Third Rock From the Sun When Dick is robbed. He is phoned by the police station - when he sees the perp he lunges for the throat. Officer Dan: I think thats a positive ID ---
**Author:** ![Fugazi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/f08c70/32.png) [@Fugazi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fugazi)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2010, 7:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/funniest-sitcom-moments/531959/98 "2010-03-12T07:37:56Z")
This is from a long time ago, but I still remember it so it must have been pretty funny. An episode of Barney Miller. Yemana was in the back room and got bit by a rat on the knee. Wojo pulls out his night stick and says something like, “I’ll take care of this. How’d he get your knee, were you kneeling down?” Yemana says, “No, I was standing up. He just reared up on his hind legs and bit me” Wojo stares at him for a moment, then puts away the night stick and pulls out his gun and disappears into the back room. From this week’s episode of The Big Bang Theory. When Raj is trying to clean the drawn on penis on the Aquaman doll with his finger, I couldn’t breathe from laughing so hard. ---
**Author:** ![DMark](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e68b1a/32.png) [@DMark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DMark)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2010, 7:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/funniest-sitcom-moments/531959/99 "2010-03-12T07:55:20Z")
> [@Nzinga\_Seated](#): > > Big shout out to DMark for this thread! I love this thread so much. > > And when Jackie makes the call to tell the reletive that Dad DIED, that makes me laugh just remembering. Thanks, **Nzinga, Seated**. And I found the link to that Jackie telephone call!! It still cracks me up!! [![](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/_zheeF5yPak/hqdefault.jpg "Roseanne: Jackie makes a phone call") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_zheeF5yPak) ---
**Author:** ![torie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/77aa72/32.png) [@torie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/torie)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2010, 8:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/funniest-sitcom-moments/531959/100 "2010-03-12T08:31:50Z")
I vote for the whole two-parter of Cheers when Woody gets married to Kelly. Everything goes wrong, and the whole cast scrambles to keep everything together. I could watch it a million times. > **[YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch#!v=E4hw9fDLi2I&feature=related)** > > Enjoy the videos and music you love, upload original content, and share it all with friends, family, and the world on YouTube. > **[YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch#!v=4i3nDPnTuKc&feature=related)** > > Enjoy the videos and music you love, upload original content, and share it all with friends, family, and the world on YouTube. > **[YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch#!v=iCFbWoV_k0Q&feature=related)** > > Enjoy the videos and music you love, upload original content, and share it all with friends, family, and the world on YouTube. > **[YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch#!v=Ls-fnAPVDK4&feature=related)** > > Enjoy the videos and music you love, upload original content, and share it all with friends, family, and the world on YouTube. > **[YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch#!v=g7sLaE3zxWE&feature=related)** > > Enjoy the videos and music you love, upload original content, and share it all with friends, family, and the world on YouTube. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/funniest-sitcom-moments/531959.md?page=4) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/funniest-sitcom-moments/531959.md?page=6)