# Funny scenes in movies! **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [June 2, 2015, 6:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/funny-scenes-in-movies/721465 "2015-06-02T18:43:03Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 4
**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:** [June 3, 2015, 7:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/funny-scenes-in-movies/721465/61 "2015-06-03T19:51:21Z")
> [@terentii](#): > > She was a _nun_, not a nurse! :eek: But it was the stewardess, Randi, who actually did the playing and singing. ---
**Author:** ![Boyo\_Jim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/87869e/32.png) [@Boyo\_Jim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boyo_Jim)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2015, 7:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/funny-scenes-in-movies/721465/62 "2015-06-03T19:57:24Z")
Is it Billy? “Have you ever been in a Turkish prison, Billy?” ---
**Author:** ![gigi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a587f6/32.png) [@gigi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gigi)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2015, 8:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/funny-scenes-in-movies/721465/63 "2015-06-03T20:19:45Z")
> [@terentii](#): > > Leo Bloom (Gene Wilder) in _ **The Producers** _: > > “I’m _hysterical_! I’m _wet_! And I’m _hysterical_! I’m in _pain_! And I’m _wet_! And I’m still _hysterical_!” > > Actually, just about any line from that movie cracks me up. It’s one I never tire of seeing and never fail to laugh at. “And I’m wearing a cardboard belt!” And Spinal Tap with the tiny Stonehenge! ---
**Author:** ![stillownedbysetters](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/41988e/32.png) [@stillownedbysetters](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/stillownedbysetters)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2015, 8:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/funny-scenes-in-movies/721465/64 "2015-06-03T20:31:02Z")
It’s a scene at the end of the Ryan O’Neal-Barbra Streisand film “What’s Up Doc?”. Filmed shortly after the phenomenally successful “Love Story”, with Ryan O’Neal as the love interest, that spawned the unforgiveably schmaltzy “Love means never having to say you’re sorry”, “Doc” takes a shot at it by having Barbra’s character utter the line and O’Neal’s character riposts “That’s the dumbest thing I’ve ever heard.” I still laugh out loud every time I see it. ---
**Author:** ![Sauron](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ce7236/32.png) [@Sauron](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sauron)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2015, 8:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/funny-scenes-in-movies/721465/65 "2015-06-03T20:31:15Z")
> [@Boyo\_Jim](#): > > Is it Billy? > > “Have you ever been in a Turkish prison, Billy?” Joey. ---
**Author:** ![Sage\_Rat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sage_rat/32/399_2.png) [@Sage\_Rat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sage_Rat)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2015, 10:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/funny-scenes-in-movies/721465/66 "2015-06-03T22:15:10Z")
**Hudson Hawk** “Bonnie! Ball ball!” “I think Bonnie found my ball ball!” **Oscar** Basically every scene with Marisa Tomei or Tim Curry was classic. Tomei: I’m not a little girl anymore! Look! Stallone: Put that away! Guh…I"M YOUR FATHER Curry [eyeing a stack of ladies’ underwear]: Oh yes and this is money. Really, this is quite impressive Mr. Provolone. (Paraphrasing since I can’t find the dialogue on the web) **The Freshman** Larry London: Carmine said one boy, here are two! Larry London: Carmine said one boy, here are two!! Larry London: [sings in German] Mein Herz schwebt in Blut! That means ‘My Heart Swims In Blood’. Clark Kellogg: Yeah. Victor Ray: [hands Clark a fake passport] Is that a piece of work or what? Clark Kellogg: What is this? “Rodolfo Lasparri”? Victor Ray: Clark, I gotta tell you. The odds are pretty good we’re all gonna be on a plane to Palermo, Sicily tonight, at midnight, _if_ we’re still walking. Clark Kellogg: I don’t want to go to Palermo, Sicily! Victor Ray: Have you ever been there? Clark Kellogg: No, of course not! Victor Ray: Then you really can’t make an informed judgement, can you, Rodolfo? ---
**Author:** ![standingwave](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9de0a6/32.png) [@standingwave](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/standingwave)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2015, 10:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/funny-scenes-in-movies/721465/67 "2015-06-03T22:35:03Z")
More Airplane… McCroskey: Looks like I picked the wrong week to quit smoking. McCroskey: Looks like I picked the wrong week to quit drinking. McCroskey: Looks like I picked the wrong week to quit amphetamines McCroskey: Looks like I picked the wrong week to quit sniffing glue. ELAINE You got a telegram from headquarters today. ``` STRIKER Headquarters!? What is it? ELAINE It's a big building where the generals meet. But that's not important right now. DR. RUMACK You'd better tell the Captain. We've got to land as soon as we can. This woman has to be gotten to a hospital. ELAINE A hospital? What is it? DR. RUMACK It's a big building with patients. But that's not important right now. RANDY Excuse me, sir. There's been a little problem in the cockpit and I was wondering... STRIKER The cockpit? What is it? RANDY It's the little room at the front of the plane where the pilots sit. But that's not important right now. ``` ---
**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:** [June 3, 2015, 10:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/funny-scenes-in-movies/721465/68 "2015-06-03T22:56:45Z")
> [@standingwave](#): > > The scene from **Monty Python’s Life of Brian** where the Roman Centurion (John Cleese) catches Brian painting graffiti and bizarrely decides to give him a lesson in Latin grammar: [https://youtu.be/KAfKFKBlZbM](https://youtu.be/KAfKFKBlZbM) (3:13) Cleese was a Latin tutor while at Cambridge so that scene was him in teaching mode 😃 ---
**Author:** ![dougie\_monty](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/439d5e/32.png) [@dougie\_monty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dougie_monty)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2015, 11:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/funny-scenes-in-movies/721465/69 "2015-06-03T23:44:21Z")
> [@Superdude](#): > > But it was the stewardess, Randi, who actually did the playing and singing. Ok, punch out the stewardess. And while you’re at it, punch out the production executive who thought up that inane gag. ---
**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:** [June 3, 2015, 11:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/funny-scenes-in-movies/721465/70 "2015-06-03T23:56:44Z")
_Hot Shots: Part Deux_, Charlie Sheens’ fight-finishing move (walnuts!). _The Big Lebowski_, the absolutely dead-pan delivery of “Obviously you’re not a golfer.” cracks me up every time. ---
**Author:** ![Ulf\_the\_Unwashed](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/b4bc9f/32.png) [@Ulf\_the\_Unwashed](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ulf_the_Unwashed)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2015, 12:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/funny-scenes-in-movies/721465/71 "2015-06-04T00:11:20Z")
The credits, among many other moments, in _Monty Python and the Holy Grail_. It’s interesting. I’m not familiar with many of these movies, so for me they’re quotes out of context…and as it turns out quoting them out of context is often not very funny. As they say, “guess you had to be there.” ---
**Author:** ![enipla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/54ee81/32.png) [@enipla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/enipla)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2015, 12:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/funny-scenes-in-movies/721465/72 "2015-06-04T00:22:07Z")
Airplane - “TAKE YOUR CRASH POSITIONS!” “I take my coffee black. Like my men” A fish called Wanda - “No, Otto, Apes do read philosophy, they just don’t understand it” Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid - “Use enough dynamite there Butch?” Blazing Saddles - “Somebody go back and get a shit load of dimes!” ---
**Author:** ![D\_Odds](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/d_odds/32/2882_2.png) [@D\_Odds](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/D_Odds)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2015, 12:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/funny-scenes-in-movies/721465/73 "2015-06-04T00:28:59Z")
> [@carlb](#): > > So much of _A Fish Called Wanda_ > [ul] > [li]“The London Underground is not a political movement.”[/li][li]“Oh, no! It’s K-K-K-Ken! C-C-Coming to K-K-Kill me!”[/li][li]John Cleese’s monologue in Russian (and Jamie Lee Curtis’s reaction to it).[/li][li]Ken trying to kill the old lady (and repeatedly failing).[/li][/ul] > There aren’t many movies that make me laugh out loud time and again, but this one absolutely does. This is the first movie I thought of. My favorites, guaranteed to make me laugh every viewing: **Otto** : Oh, you English are _so_ superior, aren’t you? Well, would you like to know what you’d be without us, the good ol’ U.S. of A. to protect you? I’ll tell you. The smallest fucking province in the Russian Empire, that’s what! So don’t call me stupid, lady. Just thank me. **Wendy** : Well, _thank_ you for popping in and protecting us. **Otto** : If it wasn’t for us, you’d all be speaking _German!_ Singing “Deutschland, Deutschland über alles…” and **Wanda** : Oh, right! To call you stupid would be an insult to stupid people! I’ve known sheep that could outwit you. I’ve worn dresses with higher IQs. But you think you’re an intellectual, don’t you, ape? **Otto** : Apes don’t read philosophy. **Wanda** : Yes they do, Otto. They just don’t understand it. Now let me correct you on a couple of things, OK? Aristotle was not Belgian. The central message of Buddhism is not “Every man for himself.” And the London Underground is not a political movement. Those are all mistakes, Otto. I looked them up. ---
**Author:** ![Truman\_Burbank](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ecc23a/32.png) [@Truman\_Burbank](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Truman_Burbank)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2015, 12:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/funny-scenes-in-movies/721465/74 "2015-06-04T00:30:49Z")
Although I hesitate to use this clip. the prior 30 seconds has the band in full-tilt boogie rock and roll, and then this happens: The fact that it is loud as hell, but he can hear her crying…and then mis-hears her name. Breaks me up every time. This has probably made me laugh a hundred times, at least. ---
**Author:** ![Sefton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/5daacb/32.png) [@Sefton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sefton)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2015, 1:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/funny-scenes-in-movies/721465/75 "2015-06-04T01:20:22Z")
In _Top Secret!_, the hero is introduced to members of the French Resistance: Du Quois: This is Chevalier, Montage, Detente, Avant Garde, and Deja Vu. Deja Vu: Haven’t we met before, monsieur? Nick: I don’t think so. Du Quois: Over there, Croissant, Souffle, Escargot, and Chocolate Mousse. And this exchange: Hillary: Nick? What does that mean? Nick: Oh, nothing. My dad thought of it while he was shaving. ---
**Author:** ![Patch](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/a183cd/32.png) [@Patch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Patch)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2015, 1:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/funny-scenes-in-movies/721465/76 "2015-06-04T01:31:34Z")
> [@Boyo\_Jim](#): > > Yet another _Airplane_ one – the people who line up to punch out the panicky woman. When Kramer hears about this the shit will really hit the fan. ---
**Author:** ![Wendell\_Wagner](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/8491ac/32.png) [@Wendell\_Wagner](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wendell_Wagner)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2015, 1:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/funny-scenes-in-movies/721465/77 "2015-06-04T01:55:35Z")
Battle Pope writes: \> . . . Cleese was a Latin tutor while at Cambridge . . . Actually, he spent the two years between graduating from high school and entering Cambridge teaching at the high school he graduated from. One of the things he taught was Latin. He wasn’t a tutor for Latin or anything else at Cambridge. He studied law there and spent his spare time writing comedy sketches for and acting in shows put on by Cambridge students. ---
**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:** [June 4, 2015, 2:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/funny-scenes-in-movies/721465/78 "2015-06-04T02:04:26Z")
> [@Wendell\_Wagner](#): > > Battle Pope writes: > > \> . . . Cleese was a Latin tutor while at Cambridge . . . > > Actually, he spent the two years between graduating from high school and entering Cambridge teaching at the high school he graduated from. One of the things he taught was Latin. He wasn’t a tutor for Latin or anything else at Cambridge. He studied law there and spent his spare time writing comedy sketches for and acting in shows put on by Cambridge students. ahh\* mea culpa\*, I was going by my memory of the commentary track on the DVD. ---
**Author:** ![BurnMeUp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/91b2a8/32.png) [@BurnMeUp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BurnMeUp)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2015, 6:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/funny-scenes-in-movies/721465/79 "2015-06-04T18:39:02Z")
The entire [Opera](https://youtu.be/Ws1Y13AeGc4) in “The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes’ Smarter Brother” ---
**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2015, 8:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/funny-scenes-in-movies/721465/80 "2015-06-04T20:43:22Z")
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