# 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:** 14\ **Page:** 7
**Author:** ![Alessan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alessan/32/465_2.png) [@Alessan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alessan)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2010, 8:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/funniest-sitcom-moments/531959/121 "2010-03-14T08:46:24Z")
> [@Cuckoorex](#): > > Not technically a sitcom (though Supernatural has enough humor that it could almost be a hybrid) the scene from this season’s episode “Changing Channels” where the Trickster traps the Winchesters in TV land. Actually the whole episode is hilarious but I nearly fell out of my chair over the back-to-back Nutcracker (Japanese game show) and Herpexia scenes. I’ll try to find the clips. [Nutcracker](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LeBYenU5ntU&NR=1) [Herpexia](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2otP3okU4aw) And my favorite: [CSI - Supernatural](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3K4yioL2ngI&feature=related). Pure awesome. ---
**Author:** ![Marley23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2010, 9:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/funniest-sitcom-moments/531959/122 "2010-03-14T09:14:05Z")
> [@DMark](#): > > Thanks, **Nzinga, Seated**. > > And I found the link to that Jackie telephone call!! > It still cracks me up!! > [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=\_zheeF5yPak](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_zheeF5yPak) Great stuff, but my favorite is at the very end of an episode where Dan’s father visits and they have yet another fight. At the end, Dan and Roseanne are in bed talking about what’s happened, and Dan starts doing an impression of his father, telling these insane, rambling stories. The scene feels improvised to me. I can’t find a video but here’s a quote. > [@](#): > > Roseanne: Would you stop hogging all these blankets? > Dan: Blankets? Let me tell you a little somethin’ about blankets. I came _this_ close to inventing the blanket in 1969. It was right after Woodstock, and a guy from, that guy named Navajo Joe, walks to me and says, “I already invented the blanket,” so I… he took it away from me. 1969, that was a great year, wasn’t it? Woodstock. Who was on the mound that year? Fergie Jenkins. Boy what a set of choppers he had, you talk about teeth, but he went plum idjit on me, and he went and, ah, sunk all his money into, ah, into whatcha call it… hairdryer stock, and tried to invent a five speed ah, photon mix ah hairdryer, and he lost all his dough, see, and, ah, then he couldn’t do nuttin’ about it, so ahhh, so I ups to him and says, “Fergie, what the heck do you know about hairdryers, anyway,” so he goes, “Well, it gets windy in Chicago.” I says “Chicago! Chicago, yeah, I was almost in the band Chicago!” I used to mix their soundtracks for 'em. But I couldn’t quite get it, see. > Roseanne: [chuckling] Good night, Ed. > Dan: Night? Night? What the hell do you know about “night”? I was almost on “The Edge of Night” one time, ‘cept I got my foot cut off in Vietnam, you see, and I couldn’t… couldn’t quite make it to the audition. And the cab driver didn’t speak English see, so he didn’t know what the heck he was doin’… > Roseanne: [laughing hysterically] Shut up! > Dan: I was shut up in a cave one time, Myramac Caverns… ---
**Author:** ![Annie-Xmas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecc23a/32.png) [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)\ **Post date:** [March 15, 2010, 1:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/funniest-sitcom-moments/531959/123 "2010-03-15T13:52:01Z")
Dharma & Greg are competing for the coveted “Duck Award.” a statue given to the couple who has sex in the most outrageous public place. When Greg’s very stuffy parents end up having sex on the courthouse steps, Dharma gives the statue yo her MIL Kitty. Kitty: This isn’t even a duck. It’s a goose. Why don’y you call it the Goose Award? Dharma: Cause goose doesn’t rhyme. ---
**Author:** ![Alka\_Seltzer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/c89c15/32.png) [@Alka\_Seltzer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alka_Seltzer)\ **Post date:** [March 15, 2010, 7:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/funniest-sitcom-moments/531959/124 "2010-03-15T19:45:04Z")
Patrick Stewart explaining his [screenplay](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fg_cwI1Xj4M) to Ricky Gervais’ character on Extras. ---
**Author:** ![Tom\_Scud](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/f08c70/32.png) [@Tom\_Scud](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tom_Scud)\ **Post date:** [March 15, 2010, 8:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/funniest-sitcom-moments/531959/125 "2010-03-15T20:36:31Z")
It seems to be a byword for a badly-written gag, but the rake scene in the Simpsons still makes me giggle when I think of it. (_whack_ … brrrrr … _whack_ … brrrr … [pan out]) ---
**Author:** ![pancakes3](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ba9def/32.png) [@pancakes3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pancakes3)\ **Post date:** [March 15, 2010, 10:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/funniest-sitcom-moments/531959/126 "2010-03-15T22:01:45Z")
> [@Alka\_Seltzer](#): > > Patrick Stewart explaining his [screenplay](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fg_cwI1Xj4M) to Ricky Gervais’ character on Extras. HAHA. wow. that was good. ---
**Author:** ![BMada](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/96bed5/32.png) [@BMada](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BMada)\ **Post date:** [March 15, 2010, 10:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/funniest-sitcom-moments/531959/127 "2010-03-15T22:12:34Z")
Arrested Development, whenever Franklin is on camera and family members treat the puppet as if was a real person. ---
**Author:** ![hamwater](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/0ea827/32.png) [@hamwater](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hamwater)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2010, 12:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/funniest-sitcom-moments/531959/128 "2010-03-16T00:31:22Z")
_Friends_. The Hanukkah Armadillo was classic, that’s for sure. But then there was the trivia contest that Ross refereed (“What is Joey’s favorite food?” “How many different ways does Monica sort hand towels?” “What is Chandler’s job?”). I just about died. I love that one! ---
**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:** [March 16, 2010, 12:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/funniest-sitcom-moments/531959/129 "2010-03-16T12:46:20Z")
Some great ones mentioned so far - the Roseanne scenes of Jackie calling about her DEAD DAD, and her shrinking in the bathtub after smoking pot, are fantastic. I also loved the scene of them finding out they have [won the lottery](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CVFS88f5Ypw) - even though the show is jumping the shark right before your very eyes, the scene itself is gut-bustingly funny. The actors just go for it. Some other great Golden Girls moments. [Blanche walks around spouting nonsense in a sleep-deprived delirium](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=54y-Mjxz9vw). [Blanche finds out that Rose’s dinner date is a little… well, has a few shortcomings.](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F1jvlIUJ2xU). [Blanche responds to one of Sophia’s insults](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f1djFmCOq24). I love Blanche. I mean, I love them all. But I love Blanche. ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2010, 1:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/funniest-sitcom-moments/531959/130 "2010-03-16T13:17:40Z")
> [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > …_Friends_. The Hanukkah Armadillo was classic, that’s for sure. But then there was the trivia contest that Ross refereed (“What is Joey’s favorite food?” “How many different ways does Monica sort hand towels?” “What is Chandler’s job?”). I just about died. > [@hamwater](#): > > …I love that one! “I know!!!” - Monica There was so much great stuff on the brilliant but prematurely-cancelled _My Name is Earl_: - Randy and Earl are stranded in the water tower (“Are we gonna die in here, Earl?” “No!” “Probably not!” “Maybe…”) - the gay copy-place guy trying desperately to hide his attraction to the cop - Earl throwing a prom in prison - Catalina declares, “I will not jump for Joy!” - The stoner who Randy and Earl rob blind - Randy and Earl taking advantage of the quasi-Amish women as they go out into the modern world - the alternate-universe episode, _My Name Is Randy_ - Joy trying to pass for an Orthodox Jewish woman - Crabman and his dad (Danny Glover) taking Earl on a long spy mission and having to keep re-sedating him ---
**Author:** ![descamisado](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e480ec/32.png) [@descamisado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/descamisado)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2010, 4:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/funniest-sitcom-moments/531959/131 "2010-03-16T16:21:31Z")
Blanch: “Blah, blah, blah, Fiddle-dee-dee, blah, blah, blah . . .” Dorothy (incredulous expression on her face): “_Fiddle-dee-dee, Blanche._” ---
**Author:** ![ProfessorX](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ce7236/32.png) [@ProfessorX](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ProfessorX)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2010, 9:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/funniest-sitcom-moments/531959/132 "2010-03-16T21:07:14Z")
The shrinkage episode from Seinfeld has always been one of my all time favorites ---
**Author:** ![Novelty\_Bobble](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/a3d4f5/32.png) [@Novelty\_Bobble](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Novelty_Bobble)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2010, 10:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/funniest-sitcom-moments/531959/133 "2010-03-16T22:03:14Z")
Pretty much anything from “I’m Alan Partridge” but particularly [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GtURTBLuNtg](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GtURTBLuNtg) ---
**Author:** ![salinqmind](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/3ec8ea/32.png) [@salinqmind](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/salinqmind)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2010, 12:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/funniest-sitcom-moments/531959/134 "2010-03-17T00:19:44Z")
The one I still weep with laughter at - Frasier - A Lilith Thanksgiving. Lilith and Frasier leave their allergy prone, accident prone son with dad, who pooh-pooh’s their fussiness until he finds out they ain’t kidding…And Niles, dear Niles, swigging away at the brandy, basting the turkey in the oven every 15 minutes. Lilith and Frasier come home and take the turkey away, Niles comes back and opens the oven door only to find it…gone! The look on his face could make a statue laugh… [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/funniest-sitcom-moments/531959.md?page=6)