# Which TV episode made you laugh so hard that you cried and what scene was it? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [September 12, 2012, 12:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-tv-episode-made-you-laugh-so-hard-that-you-cried-and-what-scene-was-it/634449 "2012-09-12T00:31:17Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 7
**Author:** ![Loach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/loach/32/350_2.png) [@Loach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Loach)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2012, 12:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-tv-episode-made-you-laugh-so-hard-that-you-cried-and-what-scene-was-it/634449/121 "2012-09-13T12:12:33Z")
> [@cmkeller](#): > > Hometownboy: > > Blood. “I only give BLOOD.” Thanks. It didn’t make sense the other way. > [@woodstockbirdybird](#): > > If only somebody had provided the link elsewhere in the thread. God forbid someone does not get credit for their hard work in posting a youtube clip. You are right I missed that you posted the link earlier. ---
**Author:** ![polar\_bear](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ec9cab/32.png) [@polar\_bear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/polar_bear)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2012, 12:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-tv-episode-made-you-laugh-so-hard-that-you-cried-and-what-scene-was-it/634449/122 "2012-09-13T12:19:31Z")
Family Guy: the scene where Stewie and Brian hop dimensions and end up in the ‘Disney dimension’. ---
**Author:** ![Wheelz](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wheelz/32/5718_2.png) [@Wheelz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wheelz)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2012, 12:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-tv-episode-made-you-laugh-so-hard-that-you-cried-and-what-scene-was-it/634449/123 "2012-09-13T12:31:03Z")
Speaking of _Everybody Loves Raymond_, which I usually found amusing but not laugh-out-loud funny, there was an episode in which Ray complains to Deborah that he never gets to make any decisions around the house. So Deborah calls him on it, and says that he now has full autonomy to make all the decisions. Ray changes the brand of facial tissues they buy, rearranges things in the kitchen, buys a new garden hose – mostly seemingly innocuous stuff. The final, absolutely hilarious scene features a bizarre chain of events where every decision Ray has made leads somehow to the kitchen curtains being set on fire. The climax of the scene has Ray running outside and then back in with the new hose – which is too short to reach the fire. Easily the funniest bit ever on that show. (Can’t find a clip right now but I’ll look later…) ---
**Author:** ![lieu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c2a13f/32.png) [@lieu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lieu)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2012, 12:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-tv-episode-made-you-laugh-so-hard-that-you-cried-and-what-scene-was-it/634449/124 "2012-09-13T12:45:32Z")
Kramer: _“I’m out.”_ ---
**Author:** ![Evin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/59ef9b/32.png) [@Evin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Evin)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2012, 12:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-tv-episode-made-you-laugh-so-hard-that-you-cried-and-what-scene-was-it/634449/125 "2012-09-13T12:59:28Z")
Seinfeld Kramer & Mel Torme, The Velvet Fog. HAHAHAHAHAHA [![]( " - YouTube") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CVA3BLEDIio) ---
**Author:** ![SykoSkotty](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c0e974/32.png) [@SykoSkotty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SykoSkotty)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2012, 1:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-tv-episode-made-you-laugh-so-hard-that-you-cried-and-what-scene-was-it/634449/126 "2012-09-13T13:33:33Z")
Speaking of Roseanne, this one is classic and had me screaming with laughter: [![]( " - YouTube") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=izGw9QGMVuY) ---
**Author:** ![Bass\_Chick](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/43a26b/32.png) [@Bass\_Chick](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bass_Chick)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2012, 1:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-tv-episode-made-you-laugh-so-hard-that-you-cried-and-what-scene-was-it/634449/127 "2012-09-13T13:53:51Z")
Stains - the dog that wanted the cupcakes on “It’s Me or the Dog” - _still_ makes me laugh. 😃 AWAY! AWAY! [- YouTube](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tlDW9nr7yiY) Frame :30 ---
**Author:** ![ThelmaLou](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thelmalou/32/390_2.png) [@ThelmaLou](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ThelmaLou)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2012, 2:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-tv-episode-made-you-laugh-so-hard-that-you-cried-and-what-scene-was-it/634449/128 "2012-09-13T14:29:18Z")
> [@TriPolar](#): > > If you reduce it to one line, “As God is my witness I thought turkeys could fly”. Bingo! I actually have managed to work this line into conversations over the years. Hard to find the right context, but not impossible. ---
**Author:** ![inedible\_knapsack](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/49beb7/32.png) [@inedible\_knapsack](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/inedible_knapsack)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2012, 2:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-tv-episode-made-you-laugh-so-hard-that-you-cried-and-what-scene-was-it/634449/129 "2012-09-13T14:32:50Z")
The _Seinfeld_ episode “The Gum,” in which George finds out his nemesis Lloyd Braun had a nervous breakdown after botching the election. He gloats about Braun’s breakdown to a potential romantic interest, who then accuses George of being on the brink of insanity himself. A series of ridiculous events seemingly proves her point, much to George’s dismay: DEENA: I’m… I’m concerned. George? George, are you listening to me? GEORGE: You see that woman on the horse? (points) [The cashier from the cafe is passing by on horseback.] GEORGE: She stole twenty dollars from me. (getting angry) Yeah, I might’ve gotten it back, but Lloyd Braun interfered! The scene near the end after George’s car burns is what kills me. It’s too long to post here, but…good God. I wish I weren’t at work so I could see if it’s on YouTube. I laugh until I cry every time I watch this episode. That show was pure genius, but season 7 was the high point, IMO. Arrested Development, all of it. ---
**Author:** ![Double\_Foolscap](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/85e7bf/32.png) [@Double\_Foolscap](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Double_Foolscap)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2012, 2:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-tv-episode-made-you-laugh-so-hard-that-you-cried-and-what-scene-was-it/634449/130 "2012-09-13T14:40:00Z")
I have twice had to stop TV shows to finish laughing. _30 Rock_, when Tracy breaks down about his school bully, Baby, not existing and he’s just too chicken to go to his reunion. Milton Jones (played by Alan Alda): “Crying about a chicken and a baby? I though this was supposed to be a comedy show.” _The Big Bang Theory_, when Raj has mentioned that cows are gods in Hindu faith, and Sheldon smugly corrects him. Raj: “Do not tell me about my own culture, Sheldon! In the mood I’m in, I’ll take you out, I swear to cow!” ---
**Author:** ![terentii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terentii/32/212_2.png) [@terentii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/terentii)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2012, 2:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-tv-episode-made-you-laugh-so-hard-that-you-cried-and-what-scene-was-it/634449/131 "2012-09-13T14:46:44Z")
“Family Guy” when Stewie freaks out after seeing a vagina for the first time, and when Meg lets a pussy fart in the bathtub. ---
**Author:** ![Dendarii\_Dame](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/bbce88/32.png) [@Dendarii\_Dame](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dendarii_Dame)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2012, 2:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-tv-episode-made-you-laugh-so-hard-that-you-cried-and-what-scene-was-it/634449/132 "2012-09-13T14:48:06Z")
“Zoo Animals on Wheels” from _Get a Life_. The main character’s playing the lead in the parody of Cats and Starlight Express. His dad says to his mom, “I’ll give you a million dollars if you just shoot me now!” _The Cosby Show_: The episode in which Theo gets an earring. “When they see this earring, they’re gonna know they’re dealing with a man!” MS3TK: _Mitchell_ (especially the low-speed chase scene) and the short _The Story of Home Economics._ (Would she smoke thin black cigarettes and reject the triune God?) ---
**Author:** ![Dendarii\_Dame](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/bbce88/32.png) [@Dendarii\_Dame](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dendarii_Dame)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2012, 2:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-tv-episode-made-you-laugh-so-hard-that-you-cried-and-what-scene-was-it/634449/133 "2012-09-13T14:49:32Z")
> [@Dendarii\_Dame](#): > > “Zoo Animals on Wheels” from _Get a Life_. The main character’s playing the lead in the parody of Cats and Starlight Express. His dad says to his mom, “I’ll give you a million dollars if you just shoot me now!” > > _The Cosby Show_: The episode in which Theo gets an earring. “When they see this earring, they’re gonna know they’re dealing with a man!” > > MS3TK: _Mitchell_ (especially the low-speed chase scene) and the short _The Story of Home Economics._ (Would she smoke thin black cigarettes and reject the triune God?) Sorry, I meant to edit, not quote this. :smack: Any _Family Guy_ episode with the giant chicken/Peter fights. ---
**Author:** ![TruCelt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/trucelt/32/523_2.png) [@TruCelt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TruCelt)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2012, 3:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-tv-episode-made-you-laugh-so-hard-that-you-cried-and-what-scene-was-it/634449/134 "2012-09-13T15:20:44Z")
BBT, he one where Sheldon couldn’t sleep. I laugh every time I think about Sheldon in the ball pit “Bazinga!” and Leonard trying to chase him down. "Bazinga! And the security guard, “I understand, I have a brother who’s special too. . .” Pretty much every Carol Burnette show, but especially any time Tim Conway came out as the shoffling old man. I would seriously worry about peeing my pants when he came out. ---
**Author:** ![Charlie\_Wayne](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/4bbf92/32.png) [@Charlie\_Wayne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Charlie_Wayne)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2012, 3:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-tv-episode-made-you-laugh-so-hard-that-you-cried-and-what-scene-was-it/634449/135 "2012-09-13T15:28:34Z")
> [@FriarTed](#): > > Seinfeld- the one where he forgets his date’s name, which rhymes with a female body part. > He finally remembers & yells out her name. > > It’s my Mom’s name. Dolores? Or Mulva? ---
**Author:** ![Charlie\_Wayne](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/4bbf92/32.png) [@Charlie\_Wayne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Charlie_Wayne)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2012, 3:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-tv-episode-made-you-laugh-so-hard-that-you-cried-and-what-scene-was-it/634449/136 "2012-09-13T15:32:56Z")
Modern Family. Jay and Gloria go to see their neighbor to complain about his barking dog. The neighbor becomes angry and says something like, “How can you complain about my dog when I have never once complained about your parrot which is much, much louder and creates a much bigger disturbance than my dog?” Jay and Gloria look at each other with puzzled looks on their faces and ask, “Parrot?” They don’t have a bird. Then we get some flashbacks and see exactly what the neighbor is complaining about. Sophia Vergara is a very beautiful woman but she has a mouth that can rival a transport truck’s horn. Unbelievable. ---
**Author:** ![Charlie\_Wayne](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/4bbf92/32.png) [@Charlie\_Wayne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Charlie_Wayne)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2012, 3:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-tv-episode-made-you-laugh-so-hard-that-you-cried-and-what-scene-was-it/634449/137 "2012-09-13T15:36:50Z")
The Andy Griffith Show. Barney takes Gomer to the city to confront two men who own a company that has enlisted a bunch of kids from Mayberry to sell their salve. Barney comes back and he and Gomer talk to Andy. Barney puffs his chest up and feels enormously smug when he explains to Andy how he “outfoxed a fox”. Then the phone rings. What happens in the next ten seconds is just about the funniest thing I’ve ever seen on TV and convinced me that Don Knotts is the funniest TV actor ever. Even funnier than Lucy and the whole Seinfeld cast all put together. I just wish I knew how to upload a scene to Youtube and then link to it in this forum. But I don’t know how to do either of those things. Sorry. ---
**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:** [September 13, 2012, 4:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-tv-episode-made-you-laugh-so-hard-that-you-cried-and-what-scene-was-it/634449/138 "2012-09-13T16:05:35Z")
The Vicar of Dibley has the ultimate dumb blonde - Alice Tinker: ALICE TINKER You know that stuff that they’re selling now at the local shop? GERALDINE GRANGER Which stuff? ALICE TINKER I Can’t Believe It’s Not Butter. GERALDINE GRANGER Oh, yeah. ALICE TINKER Well, you know, I can’t believe it’s not butter. GERALDINE GRANGER Yeah, well, I believe that is the idea, yeah. ALICE TINKER Then yesterday I went to the supermarket and I bought this other stuff, like a sort of store brand, you know. GERALDINE GRANGER Yes? ALICE TINKER And, you know, I can’t believe it’s not I Can’t Believe It’s Not Butter. GERALDINE GRANGER Mmmm? [pause] I’m losing you now. ALICE TINKER Oh, right. Well, you know I Can’t Believe It’s Not Butter? GERALDINE GRANGER Yeah, yeah, yeah, you think it is butter. ALICE TINKER No, no. I mean, you know the stuff that I can’t believe is not butter is called I Can’t Believe It’s Not Butter? GERALDINE GRANGER Probably, yeah, yeah. ALICE TINKER 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:** ![Sister\_Vigilante](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9de0a6/32.png) [@Sister\_Vigilante](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sister_Vigilante)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2012, 4:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-tv-episode-made-you-laugh-so-hard-that-you-cried-and-what-scene-was-it/634449/139 "2012-09-13T16:13:39Z")
Frasier - Frasier gives his son’s Bar Matzvah speech in Klingon. [- YouTube](http://youtu.be/Z9xWYApbd6Y) Golden Girls - The Great Herring War - cast breaks character [The Golden Girls -- Blanche & Dorothy Break Character [J5] - YouTube](http://youtu.be/CuBwrq9Bz7Y) Carol Burnett Show - Tim Conway destroys the cast with an elephant story [Carol Burnett Show outtakes - Tim Conway's Elephant Story - YouTube](http://youtu.be/3qqE_WmagjY) (you’ll want to stay to the end of this one) ---
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> [@Rick](#): > > Pretty much any Night Court clip, but particularly one with **Brent Spiner** as Bob Wheeler. > [One taste](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t0NmaBtpnBE&feature=related) Really an under-rated actor. Have you been watching his web series Fresh Hell? What a great thread-I need to re-watch Night court and START watching Fawlty Towers! [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-tv-episode-made-you-laugh-so-hard-that-you-cried-and-what-scene-was-it/634449.md?page=6) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-tv-episode-made-you-laugh-so-hard-that-you-cried-and-what-scene-was-it/634449.md?page=8)