# 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:** 9
**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 14, 2012, 3:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-tv-episode-made-you-laugh-so-hard-that-you-cried-and-what-scene-was-it/634449/161 "2012-09-14T03:01:51Z")
> [@Loach](#): > > I don’t rmember if this was mentioned. The Dentist Sketch from Carol Burnett > > [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q9T8i4FkNVo](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q9T8i4FkNVo) That’s my second favorite one from that show, apart from the first one I posted earlier today. Tim Conway is a master. ---
**Author:** ![Infovore](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/infovore/32/420_2.png) [@Infovore](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Infovore)\ **Post date:** [September 14, 2012, 3:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-tv-episode-made-you-laugh-so-hard-that-you-cried-and-what-scene-was-it/634449/162 "2012-09-14T03:40:18Z")
> [@Sister\_Vigilante](#): > > That’s my second favorite one from that show, apart from the first one I posted earlier today. Tim Conway is a master. The first time I saw it, the “Went With the Wind” sketch on Carol Burnett nearly made me hurt myself laughing. I guess it didn’t hold up, though, because I watched it recently on YouTube and didn’t think it was nearly as funny. ---
**Author:** ![Rick](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/9f8e36/32.png) [@Rick](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rick)\ **Post date:** [September 14, 2012, 4:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-tv-episode-made-you-laugh-so-hard-that-you-cried-and-what-scene-was-it/634449/163 "2012-09-14T04:00:00Z")
Speaking of Turkeys in sit coms, the Murphy Brown episode where the cast of FYI goes to cook Thanksgiving dinner for some homeless people at a shelter. Murphy, of course, insists on a free range turkey, and Miles goes to get it in his BMW. He comes back with a free range turkey, which it so happens is still very much alive. No one has a clue as to what to do next, and at one point Murphy is putting a trail of bread cubes (from a stuffing mix) in a trail on the floor leading to the oven in an attempt to get the bird to climb in on its own. ---
**Author:** ![rowrrbazzle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rowrrbazzle/32/414_2.png) [@rowrrbazzle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rowrrbazzle)\ **Post date:** [September 14, 2012, 4:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-tv-episode-made-you-laugh-so-hard-that-you-cried-and-what-scene-was-it/634449/164 "2012-09-14T04:06:47Z")
This moment from “Everybody Loves Raymond” is one of the funniest moments ever. It shows the truth of the idea that it isn’t the outrageous thing that’s funny, it’s people’s reactions to it. [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9CSECwl-gaQ&feature=youtu.be](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9CSECwl-gaQ&feature=youtu.be) > [@Miss\_Mapp](#): > > When they play Charades, Laura acts out the title of a song with vicious motions that Rob interprets as “back-stabbing,” “treachery,” “traitors,” and so on until he correctly identifies the song: > > “On the Street Where You Live.” Just before that, there’s one joke that’s just as funny, but it has a loooooong setup. https://www.youtube.com/embed/L9v_dzt3wmo?feature=oembed&wmode=opaque&start=709 https://www.youtube.com/embed/csjvkzDJObU?feature=oembed&wmode=opaque > [@](#): > > Sally Rogers: Gee, what a beautiful ashtray! > Maurice B. ‘Buddy’ Sorrell: Gorgeous, gorgeous! > Laura Petrie: We gave them that ashtray. We gave them this lamp, too. > Robert ‘Rob’ Petrie: No special reason, just in friendship. > Sally Rogers:[uncomfortable pause] Boy, this is a beautiful ashtray! > \ > Jerry Helper: Hey, Rob, let’s play “Who Am I”, huh? Who am I? > Robert ‘Rob’ Petrie: We gave you that vase, too. > Jerry Helper: I know, I know, thanks. Who am I? > Robert ‘Rob’ Petrie: You’re not Eleanor Roosevelt, I’ll tell you that for sure. > Jerry Helper: Come on. Who am I? Let’s play. What do you say, Rob? > Millie Helper: Let’s play charades. > Jerry Helper: Charades! Everybody loves charades! Hey, I got it. Laura, Rob and I, we’ll be on one team, and Millie, Sally and Buddy, you’re on the other. > Millie Helper: Charades all right, Rob? Laura? > Laura Petrie: It’s your house. > Maurice B. ‘Buddy’ Sorrell: You didn’t give them the house? BWAHAHAHAAAAAAAAAAAA! ---
**Author:** ![Spectre\_of\_Pithecanthropus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spectre_of_pithecanthropus/32/12343_2.png) [@Spectre\_of\_Pithecanthropus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spectre_of_Pithecanthropus)\ **Post date:** [September 14, 2012, 4:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-tv-episode-made-you-laugh-so-hard-that-you-cried-and-what-scene-was-it/634449/165 "2012-09-14T04:31:56Z")
> [@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. A lot of people, apparently, thought the _Seinfeld_ series finale was awful, but Part I is among my favorite episodes, particularly Newman’s speech castigating Jerry followed by his exit, laughing diabolically. ---
**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:** [September 14, 2012, 4:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-tv-episode-made-you-laugh-so-hard-that-you-cried-and-what-scene-was-it/634449/166 "2012-09-14T04:42:01Z")
The episode where she finally came out of the closet (was it the last in the series?) The whole episode was funny as hell, but most especially the whole ‘getting a toaster for converting the straights’ thing had me absolutely _dying_… ---
**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:** [September 14, 2012, 5:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-tv-episode-made-you-laugh-so-hard-that-you-cried-and-what-scene-was-it/634449/167 "2012-09-14T05:12:24Z")
The Mary Hartman chicken soup event: [mary hartman-chicken soup - YouTube](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6jpfconAdU0). The clip is 8 1/2 minutes long, I promise it’s worth it. ---
**Author:** ![Gyrate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gyrate/32/3588_2.png) [@Gyrate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gyrate)\ **Post date:** [September 14, 2012, 10:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-tv-episode-made-you-laugh-so-hard-that-you-cried-and-what-scene-was-it/634449/168 "2012-09-14T10:50:01Z")
Josh “You Lift Me Up” Groban hosts an episode of music-themed BBC comedy panel show [Never Mind the Buzzcocks](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s3pABgbjF24). If you like Groban’s music you’ll find this amusing. If you hate Groban’s music, you’ll find it hysterical. Seriously, people, watch this, even if you don’t know who any of the people on the show are. For more Grobanesque humor, here’s a short segment from Jimmy Kimmel Live: [Josh Groban Sings Kanye West Tweets](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Axzxe1a78E). Two and a half of the funniest minutes on the internet. ---
**Author:** ![Miss\_Mapp](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/miss_mapp/32/369_2.png) [@Miss\_Mapp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miss_Mapp)\ **Post date:** [September 14, 2012, 11:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-tv-episode-made-you-laugh-so-hard-that-you-cried-and-what-scene-was-it/634449/169 "2012-09-14T11:17:03Z")
> [@Saltire](#): > > From _Soap_: > > Bert is at his secretary’s place, drunk. Somehow, he’s ended up standing on the coffee table. His unsteady attempts to step down were hilarious. > > Chuck and Bob try out their mindreading act on the family. Remember, Bob is Chuck’s ventriloquist dummy, which he thinks is real and he insists everyone else treat Bob that way. Bob is blindfolded, doing mindreader tricks. Danny is amazed. Jody tries to explain to his brother why this isn’t amazing, but gets nowhere. This reminds me of another Chuck & Bob scene. Jody has hidden Bob in the fridge and Chuck, fretfully going through dummy withdrawal, starts to use various items around the kitchen, including fruit and vegetables, as ventriloqual figures. While this is going on, Burt comes into the kitchen and opens the fridge door… (Bob: “Hey, you know that little light stays on?”) ---
**Author:** ![Son\_of\_a\_Rich](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/son_of_a_rich/32/5439_2.png) [@Son\_of\_a\_Rich](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Son_of_a_Rich)\ **Post date:** [September 14, 2012, 11:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-tv-episode-made-you-laugh-so-hard-that-you-cried-and-what-scene-was-it/634449/170 "2012-09-14T11:44:31Z")
[Pretty much the entire episode of\* Everybody loves Raymond\* where Cousin Gerard (Fred Stoller) makes his first appearance.](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QgIKnNHoSqc&feature=relmfu) ---
**Author:** ![ioioio](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ioioio/32/316_2.png) [@ioioio](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ioioio)\ **Post date:** [September 14, 2012, 1:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-tv-episode-made-you-laugh-so-hard-that-you-cried-and-what-scene-was-it/634449/171 "2012-09-14T13:56:21Z")
Dave Chappelle’s [The Racial Draft](http://www.comedycentral.com/video-clips/b224ei/chappelle-s-show-the-racial-draft). Political incorrectness at its funniest. ---
**Author:** ![Mauvaise](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mauvaise/32/11084_2.png) [@Mauvaise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mauvaise)\ **Post date:** [September 14, 2012, 2:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-tv-episode-made-you-laugh-so-hard-that-you-cried-and-what-scene-was-it/634449/172 "2012-09-14T14:23:08Z")
> [@Bass\_Chick](#): > > Stains - the dog that wanted the cupcakes on “It’s Me or the Dog” - _still_ makes me laugh. 😃 > > AWAY! > > AWAY! > > [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tlDW9nr7yiY](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tlDW9nr7yiY) Frame :30 Bless you for posting this. Bookmarked and must be watched frequently. ---
**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 14, 2012, 2:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-tv-episode-made-you-laugh-so-hard-that-you-cried-and-what-scene-was-it/634449/173 "2012-09-14T14:36:27Z")
> [@Mauvaise](#): > > Bless you for posting this. Bookmarked and must be watched frequently. Oh God–the look on that dog’s face! Priceless! ---
**Author:** ![simster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/simster/32/1047_2.png) [@simster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/simster)\ **Post date:** [September 14, 2012, 3:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-tv-episode-made-you-laugh-so-hard-that-you-cried-and-what-scene-was-it/634449/174 "2012-09-14T15:08:28Z")
> [@ThelmaLou](#): > > Oh God–the look on that dog’s face! Priceless! ‘i just wanna cupcake, puhlease can I have a cupcake, imagoodboy, honest’ ---
**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 14, 2012, 3:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-tv-episode-made-you-laugh-so-hard-that-you-cried-and-what-scene-was-it/634449/175 "2012-09-14T15:33:31Z")
Another favorite episode of mine from The Vicar of Dibley was Radio Dibley. The Vicar arranged it so the village would have it’s own radio station for a week, of course broadcasting from the vicarage. Finally pedantic Frank Pickle gets his own show and everyone else, except the Vicar, leaves. Geraldine settles in with a book and Frank starts his show: Reverend Geraldine Granger: You’re on in fifteen seconds, Frank, and I need to hear a little bit for level, so tell us what you had for breakfast. Frank Pickle: Toast. Reverend Geraldine Granger: Yeah… I need a little bit more than that, so just make something up, you know, let your imagination run wild. Frank Pickle: Wild! Great. Two pieces of toast. Frank Pickle: Hello. I’m Frank Pickle. And I’ll be here for the next hour. Or maybe a little longer, in fact, because I have to put my coat on afterwards and say good-bye to the vicar, which should take a few minutes. Anyway, I’ll be with you for quite some time. So I’ll start by telling you something I think you’ll find very interesting. I first discovered I was gay when I was 18, and I fell in love with a young farmhand called Justin. He was beautiful. I’ve been trying to tell you, dear friends, for 20 years. But it’s tricky. That’s the lovely thing about radio. Speaking into this microphone here, alone tonight, I can say things I could never say to you face to face. Two things made be laugh out loud: The Vicar’s reaction in the background, and the rest of the cast’s reaction the next day: no one had listened. ---
**Author:** ![Svejk\_1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ea666f/32.png) [@Svejk\_1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Svejk_1)\ **Post date:** [September 14, 2012, 4:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-tv-episode-made-you-laugh-so-hard-that-you-cried-and-what-scene-was-it/634449/176 "2012-09-14T16:39:57Z")
There’s only been one time in my life that I laughed so hard while watching TV in relative solitude, that people over in the kitchen came in to check on me, to make sure I was ok. I remember it vividly, but tragically, I can not for the life of me remember what it was that I was watching - not exactly, at any rate. I am pretty sure that it was the Simpsons, and may have been the time that Prof. Frink invents the [sarcasm detector](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ggXmKPMaHMo), but it may also have been Homer’s [polygraph test](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HqmHXnryakA), or yet Moe’s [polygraph test](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N-TZ8Z5S9rI&feature=related). It’s difficult to know. ---
**Author:** ![Biggirl](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/biggirl/32/3294_2.png) [@Biggirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biggirl)\ **Post date:** [September 14, 2012, 4:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-tv-episode-made-you-laugh-so-hard-that-you-cried-and-what-scene-was-it/634449/177 "2012-09-14T16:45:38Z")
> [@Son\_of\_a\_Rich](#): > > [Pretty much the entire episode of\* Everybody loves Raymond\* where Cousin Gerard (Fred Stoller) makes his first appearance.](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QgIKnNHoSqc&feature=relmfu) Oh wait! Everybody Loves Raymond has at least two other episodes that had me crying I was laughing so hard. The one where Raymond decides he’s going to do the shopping and ended up almost burning down the kitchen. And the approved snacks for soccer. ---
**Author:** ![jsc1953](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/5daacb/32.png) [@jsc1953](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jsc1953)\ **Post date:** [September 14, 2012, 5:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-tv-episode-made-you-laugh-so-hard-that-you-cried-and-what-scene-was-it/634449/178 "2012-09-14T17:25:35Z")
> [@Mean\_Mr.Mustard](#): > > \*\*Frasier \*\*- He wants to perform an aria on a PBS beg-a-thon, but is talked out of it at the last minute. Instead, he goes with his “signature piece”, Buttons and Bows. Let’s just say he should have rehearsed it a bit first. > > If I had had a full bladder when I first saw it, I woulda wet myself. > > [Buttons and Bows.](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FvAWUJCjgQE) > mmm Bless you for posting this. Even though I knew what was coming, I died. (And I’m at work, with headphones on). “let’s all go to the taco show…” ---
**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 14, 2012, 6:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-tv-episode-made-you-laugh-so-hard-that-you-cried-and-what-scene-was-it/634449/179 "2012-09-14T18:14:39Z")
And…any episode of _Frasier_ with his evil agent, Bebe. (“She doesn’t have to worship the devil. The devil worships her!”) Especiallly the one where she’s trying to quit smoking so she can marry a much older, wealthy man. She’s having a hard time. (“Sorry Puddin’. Bebe slipped.”) ---
**Author:** ![Jim\_s\_Son](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e19adc/32.png) [@Jim\_s\_Son](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jim_s_Son)\ **Post date:** [September 14, 2012, 6:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-tv-episode-made-you-laugh-so-hard-that-you-cried-and-what-scene-was-it/634449/180 "2012-09-14T18:35:55Z")
“Dick van Dyke”. the mixed up baby seen that ends when Greg Morris and his wife visit the Petrie’s The Walnut episode with Danny Thomas and Laura sliding out of the closet filled with walnuts “Mary Tyler Moore” the death of Chuckles the Clown. “Babylon 5” Londo is rewriting Vir’s report on Minbari “Do not say they have three classes: priests, workers and the military. Write they devote one-third of their economy to war.” There is an episode of “Get Smart” “The Farkas Fracas” which has Tom Bosley and Alice Ghostley as a bickering couple who are neighbors of the Smarts and want to give 99 a poisoned dessert that she will give to the Chief. Some of the examples of their bickering are Naomi complains that Emil wears socks to bed and he says his feet need protection from the dirty sheets. Anyways the Smarts are able to stop the Chief from eating the poisoned dessert and after a brief conversation between the three, they turn and see the Chief’s dense assistant lARRABEE HAPPILY EATING THE DESSERT. [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=8) [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=10)