Another **Friends **moment, when they figure out who the father of Rachel’s baby is. Monica, Joey and Phoebe know that whoever he is left a red sweater in the apartment when he spent the night. The sweater is draped over a chair in Monica’s apartment. Ross stops in for a moment, starts to walk out, and says, “Hey, my sweater! I’ve been looking for this for like a month!” He grabs it and leaves. Rachel and Phoebe immediately say, “Oh my God!”. Cut to Joey, just sitting there, blank, and then it hits him and he too says, “Oh, my God!”
Longish clip…it’s at the end.
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Jim Halpert: [Jim sits at his desk, dressed like Dwight] Question, what kind of bear is best?
Dwight Schrute: That’s a ridiculous question.
Jim Halpert: False. Black bear.
Dwight Schrute: Well, that’s debatable. There are basically two schools of thought.
Jim Halpert: Fact, bears eat beets. Bears, beets, “Battlestar Galactica.”
Dwight Schrute: Bears do not… What is going on? What are you doing?
Spaced was hilarious all the way through, I rank it with Arrested Development as the greatest sitcoms ever.
A particular scene was the mimed slow-motion gunfight, I was in tears on the floor.
Friends wasn’t that funny to me usually, except for the episode where Ross is rushing everyone to get ready for an award conference.
“Could I BE wearing any more of Chandler’s clothes?”
My favorite Spaced scene, had me laughing so hard it hurt:
Tim: “What’s the deal with you and Marsha?”
Brian: “You Know about the deal?!”
For those who haven’t seen it - the context is that there is heavy innuendo that Brian, a poor artist, is screwing Marsha the landlady in lieu of rent. This is of course not what Tim was asking about!
Cheers: Diane performs “Ode to a Cornish Game Hen” on live TV. The set up is that she thinks the gang has played a practical joke on her so she does the most ridiculous thing she can think of. Great scene.
“Amos ‘n’ Andy” episode “The Antique Shop:” Calhoun pretends to be the Kingfish to Kingfish’s Cousin Leo, to disastrous results.
Way too damn funny.
“Maybe if I wasn’t going commando”, said before he starts doing lunges.
Too many! And some great ones already mentioned.
Simpsons, where Homer wrote a nasty letter to Mr. Burns, then tried to get it back from the post office.
Homer: “Hello, my name is Mr. Burns. I believe you have a letter for me.”
Postal worker: “OK, what’s your first name?”
Homer: (Thinks for a second) “I don’t know.”
Family Guy, when the house gets flooded.
Peter: “Hey Chris, did the water suddenly just get warmer?”
Chris: “No.”
Peter: “Oh yeah, that only works with pee.”
Arrested Development, where Michael hires what he thinks is a consultant, but who in reality is a prostitute. He’s on the phone with one of his employees, to convince Lindsay that he made the right decision.
Michael: (into the phone) Really? And all the guys like her, huh? That is - that is - that is great. Uh, you mean “away,” though, right? Because, otherwise, it sounds a little different, but, uh, that’s, uh, that’s outstanding. You forgot to say “away” again. But listen, let me call you back in a bit, ok? Bye. (to Lindsay) Nellie has blown them all away.
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A particular scene was the mimed slow-motion gunfight, I was in tears on the floor.
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Follow up #1 when the “Red Hand Gang” catch up with and surround Dwayne Benzie…
“Clever boys…”
Follow up #2, the red hand gang sample what they nicked from Daisy (they think it’s weed)
Gang kid: This ain’t grass! This is oregano!
Gang-leader kid: Oregano? How do you know?
Gang kid: I’m a catering student.
Another that would require far too much setup but follows any number of sub-gags and pop-culture* references…
Mike: I say we lose the axe.
Tim: I like the axe.
Mike: (heavily bandaged) I like my face…
Maybe you had to be there?
- IIRC mostly Robocop in this instance.
I’ll just point out that THIS THREAD IS NO GOOD WITHOUT YOUTUBE LINKS! 
[Tho yes many of these clips may not exist online-I couldn’t find the one I mention below, for example.]
My funniest Night Court moment is when Dan becomes convinced that he had sold his soul to a guy walking around in a devil suit (during Halloween, natch) whom he thinks is the real Devil. When he in his despair confides in Mac about it, Mac just slyly lets it slip that he himself knew all about Dan’s “secret” peccadilloes.
[voice cracking] “You do…?”
<beat>
“You do…”
That’s it. Thank you.
There are a couple of howlers from Third Rock.
There was one where Harry asked a crazy stranger where he was from. The stranger replied that he was from some alien planet. Harry asked “Do you know Steve?”
Or the one where the family was in a hospital, in an emergency room. They were all acting a bit frantic. The camera used to shoot the scene was a hand-held. It was very cleverly mocking ER.
The best one of all, though, was when the Big Head (William Shatner) came for a visit.
Dick: “How was your flight?”
Big Head: “Fine, except there was a man on the wing of the plane.”
Dick: :eek: “The same thing happened to me!”
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I’ll just point out that THIS THREAD IS NO GOOD WITHOUT YOUTUBE LINKS!
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OK then, and also because although I got the quote more-or-less right I got the protagonist order and context a bit wonky. Any way here you go, don’t panic it’s in the first minute of the credits(!) no need to watch the whole show.
Spaced - episode “Mettle”
Not reading thread because I don’t want to be influenced.
Laverne and Shirley: I do not remember why or how but the girls ended up hung up on hooks on the wall. They tried to run and jump off the hooks. I could barely breath.
AFHV: After they were told not to, three young boys stayed up very late watching a slasher movie. The parents found them all asleep in the same bed under blankets. Mom holds camera, dad puts on hockey mask and wakes up the boys by revving the chainsaw he’s holding. Years later I still chuckle when I remember it.
When Carol Burnet came down the stairs with her new dress in the Gone With The Wind parody.
That’s all I can think of right now. Now to read the thread and be reminded of more.
Oh, that’s clever…
I’m gonna add Black Books just because it needs to be here, and specifically the line “I ate all your bees!”. Graham Linehan has done more for the modern sitcom than any other single writer in the last two decades.
Definitely a lot of the ones mentioned up thread from WKRP, Fawlty Tours, Taxi. But I’ll go recent:
The Modern Family episode where Claire is trying to get a stop sign put in and feels her family isn’t being supportive of her.
Phil and Alex have the following exchange that made me thankful for the pause/rewind function on my DVR because it was about a full minute before I stopped laughing enough to continue:
Phil Dunphy: Okay, huddle up everybody. Your mother’s right. She’s the quarterback of this family and we need to protect her like Blind Side did.
Luke Dunphy: She just said that mom was Blind Side.
Phil Dunphy: She’s confused. Blind Side was the black kid who played Tight End.
Alex Dunphy: Offensive Line.
Phil Dunphy: Sorry, African-American kid.
“What does a yellow light mean?”
“Slow down.”
“What. Does. A. Yellow. Light. Mean?”
“Slow down.”
“Whaaaaat. Dooooooes. A. Yelloooooooow. Liiiiiiight. Meeeeeeean?”
Last year I was re-watching most of the MST3K episodes, and two scenes in particular I remember really laughing at:
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Ep 819, Invasion of the Neptune Men
For some reason, the “Hitler Building” riffjust floored me - not sure why, just the whole bizarre context of it. -
Ep 702, The Brute Man
This one, of course, was the famous grocery store owner busting on the delivery boy scene (can’t find just that scene on YouTube, sorry) - heck, even Mike in the show was cracking up at this scene
For network TV shows, Cheers, the otherwise throw-away background line “Oh, sure, and now you’re probably gonna tell me Wile E. Coyote is the antichrist” line (which had its own thead on the SMDB) was perfectly played…