Funny TV/Movie Lines That Took You Completely By Surprise

No worries. I had a copy of the video (entitled “Flying Cop” in Japan), so it was fresh in my mind.

Here’s another Doctor Who memory:

HARRY SULLIVAN IS AN IMBECILE!

An episode of Third Rock from the Sun where William Shatner (as the big giant head) was describing why he was late…he told a story about how he was on a plane and he saw a"monster" on the wing of the plane and how nobody would believe him…etc, etc. After he finished the story, John Lithgow exclaimed, “The same thing happened to me!” (Funny if you are Twilight Zone fan and you’ve seen the Twilight Zone Movie)

Oh, hey! I never made that connection. I always laughed at the line immediately following that, where Sawyer says, “Hey, if you and Chewy are done…” Now that I get the reference, it’s much funnier.

There was a British comedy-anthology show called Murder Most Horrid. Dawn French was in every episode, but it was always different characters and stories. (Had to be. People died. A lot. It was hysterical.)

In one episode, Dawn plays a depressed, dowdy woman who accidentally interupts an assassin’s plot. She is forced to carry out the hit herself, infiltrating an office building with the streetwise, sexy assassin (Amanda Donahoe) giving her instructions by radio. She has to talk her way past the security guard at the front desk.

ASSASSIN: It’s just a dumb security guard; all they really need is a blow job. Just ask him where the bathroom is.
DAWN: (to guard) All you really need is a blow job. Where’s the bathroom?

(guard points, DAWN starts walking that direction. The guard follows.)

DAWN: (over the radio) What’s a blow job?
ASSASSIN: You don’t know what a blow job is?
DAWN: No, what is it?
ASSASSIN: That’s oral stimulation of the genitals.
DAWN: (amazed) Really!? (glances back over her shoulder, perplexed) You wouldn’t think he could reach.

SNL recently played a re-run of Will Farrell hosting. They did their great Celebrity Jeopardy skit with Sean Connery of course. One of the categories was Japan US Relations. Sean Connery asked for Jap Anus Relations for $200! Gawd, I about choked to death!

There were 2-3 other people watching this ep with me, and I was the only one who got the joke. I started laughing during Shatner’s line and just fell out with Lithgow’s reply. After I was able to get control I had to explain the joke, and just couldn’t do it justice. This ties with Mulder’s last line in “Jose Chung’s From Outer Space” as my favorite moment ever in television.

I don’t remember that one - please elaborate

See Gail’s post above.

I too remember losing it when watching that episode. :smiley: My wife didn’t get it and I had to explain it to her (she’d seen the TZ episode, but not the movie).

To recap for those who are in the dark:

There is a classic Twilight Zone episode called Terror at 20,000 Feet. In it, a very nervous (and, IIRC, just released from a sanitarium) William Shatner is going on a flight with his wife. Bill has a window seat. During the flight, he sees a monster on the wing of the plane, causing damage. He shows his wife the scene outside, but the monster is gone. When he looks again (without his wife), it’s there. He then calls over a flight attendant, but by the time she looks, the monster is gone again. The tension builds every time he looks out on the wing and sees the monster doing more and more damage. Finally, he steals a gun (shows how dated the show is) and shoots at it through the window. The plane lands, but he is sent away to a sanitarium again (since no one else saw the monster).

They redid the episode later in the Twilight Zone movie with John Lithgow as the plane passenger.

Zev Steinhardt

And don’t forget

As they’re leading Shatner away, the camera pans to the wing of the plane that just landed and we see that part of the aluminum skin is peeled up just as Shatner saw it before shooting.

Muppet Show, years later. Rolph The Dog singing bout cruelty to fruit.
“I’ve even balled a melon…”

In the “War Stories” episode of Firefly, the crew of the Serenity goes to rescue Mal, who was kidnapped and tortured by Niska. Mal has since gotten free and is fighting the guy who had been torturing him.

(Jayne aims his gun)
Zoe: Wait, Jayne, this is something the captain needs to do for himself.
Mal (offscreen): NO IT’S NOT!!
Zoe: Oh. (She and Jayne fire at the torturer).

Makes me laugh every time. :smiley:

Not a line, but I love the Season 7 episode of BtVS with Buffy, Spike and the rocket launcher outside the principal’s office. I must have replayed that scene 10 times.

In the original Justice League series, there was an episode in which Flash was bragging about getting to the scene of a disaster and dealing with the problem before emergency personnel arrived on the scene.

Hawgirl (bored by Flash’s story): Wow, that’s fast.
Flash: Hey, I’m the fastest man alive.
Hawgirl: That’s probably why you can’t get a date.

I must have giggled for a good five minutes.

Prior to the airing of the Season 2 finale of The O.C., there was a rumor that the writers were bringing back a particularly loathsome Season 1 character named Oliver. Given that Oliver had been gone for about 35 episodes, it was kind of a long shot, but the fans were pretty unhappy.

At one point during the finale, things are going particularly bad for the characters we like. The doorbell rings. And one character (Seth) says:

“The way things have been going, I bet that’s Oliver.”

CRACKED me UP. It was such an obvious shout-out to the rumor–Oliver was long gone and hadn’t even had a mention all season. Just too funny.

OMG, someone else remembers that line!! Back in the 90’s all the hiphop wannabees would have those stupid looking cut off pantyhose things on their head where I worked, but they all thought I was stupid when I quoted that to them. And don’t forget the followup:

“Shut up and drive.”

There was an old commercial for rolo’s, where a young boy is tormenting a baby elephant by teasing him with candy. Flash forward to present day, where grown u man is watching a circus parade, munching rolo’s. He recieves a tap on the shoulder by an elephant trunk, and turns round to be smashed in the face by said elephant.

We could’nt let Dad watch this commercial, as the laughter got too much for him at times.

I saw a random episode of the original G.I. Joe cartoon several years ago. I watched it religiously when I was little and couldn’t resist seeing it again.

The loose cannon Shipwreck hops into a little submarine/aircraft to dive after a bad-guy vessel. His communicator says, “The ship is probably covered in sediment.”

“Sediment, my left barnacle,” Shipwreck replied.

I got a good chuckle out of that.

NONONO not the TZ refernce - I got that and fell off my chair laughing
I meant the X-Files refernce

how about anther season 7 scene - Spike’s chip is malfunctioning and Buffy picks up the receiver
Spike: Who you gonna call?
Buffy looks at him with “one of those” looks
Spike: That phrase will never be useable again, will it?

I did too. Flash said something else a minute or two later that was even more deserving of comment. I think it was “hold on, lady, this’ll only take a minute.”

Sorry to have been deliberately vague in my previous post. Mulders line is

How the hell should I know?

which without the context of the entire episode is pretty meaningless. The ep “Jose Chung’s From Outer Space” is one of the few X-files episodes that really allowed itself to get silly/funny. Kind of like “The joke is out there” if you catch my meaning. Charles Nelson Reilly plays Jose Chung, who is interviewing Scully about the incident of two kids being abducted. Most of the story is told in flashback, there are many goofy characters, none of their memories are even remotely similar, and there are several plot twists deconstructing the whole alien abduction mythos. All in all one of my favorite television episodes of all time. I know I haven’t explained this well, but if you ever get a chance to see this ep, take it.

Jack