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Funniest scene in movie history. (Original Post) Eliot Rosewater Sep 2017 OP
I used to watch Three Amigos once a week TlalocW Sep 2017 #1
LOVE Three Amigos. My favorite scene is the camping scene (Blue Shadows on the Trail) Gidney N Cloyd Sep 2017 #16
The scene I couldn't find on YouTube that I wanted TlalocW Sep 2017 #20
Not you, Dusty. yardwork Sep 2017 #49
I have never seen that movie, but now I will be sure to do so. That scene reminds me of parts of tblue37 Sep 2017 #54
Makes me laugh so hard.... ghostsinthemachine Sep 2017 #2
Used to get high, go to local theatre would show the same 3 MB movies over and over Eliot Rosewater Sep 2017 #13
The whole of BLAZING SADDLES....has made me laugh since 1974 irisblue Sep 2017 #3
I was only thinking of the campfire scene in the Egg thread... OnDoutside Sep 2017 #7
well. irisblue Sep 2017 #11
I can see where you are going with that... OnDoutside Sep 2017 #48
This campfire scene? sakabatou Sep 2017 #55
Especially the Gabby Johnson scenes. n/t FSogol Sep 2017 #35
Hi irisble! When i saw the title of this thread a minute ago, montana_hazeleyes Sep 2017 #64
Surely we must include some Spinal Tap. Dr. Strange Sep 2017 #4
Funniest scene from one of the funniest movies ever... ghostsinthemachine Sep 2017 #5
I agree the jerk but for me it was "And I only need this one thing". OregonBlue Sep 2017 #12
See video, the funniest part is when he says Eliot Rosewater Sep 2017 #18
I laughed through the entire scene so hard I almost peed and I still laugh every time I see it. OregonBlue Sep 2017 #66
and Eliot Rosewater Sep 2017 #14
I immediately think of this scene. Ohiya Sep 2017 #22
One of my all time favorites! smirkymonkey Sep 2017 #26
The "Stonehenge" scene in This Is Spinal Tap. The Velveteen Ocelot Sep 2017 #6
More than half of the scenes in Spinal Tap JenniferJuniper Sep 2017 #8
Funniest short: The Music Box, by Laurel and Hardy mahatmakanejeeves Sep 2017 #9
Please, Please.Watch the entire movie..Music Box..one of the funniest short films ever..(28 minutes) Stuart G Sep 2017 #59
i can't watch the remake of inlaws. i saw they took out the car chase out for a plane. pansypoo53219 Sep 2017 #10
I love Mr. Brooks and Mr. Douglas and all their work, but this was bad, really bad. Eliot Rosewater Sep 2017 #15
Pretty Much Every Scene In Airplane Leith Sep 2017 #17
Mr. Bridges scenes and Eliot Rosewater Sep 2017 #19
Another one of my favorites! smirkymonkey Sep 2017 #27
Here It Is! Leith Sep 2017 #33
The "Stayin' Alive" scene from Airplane! frogmarch Sep 2017 #21
That's the One I Meant! Leith Sep 2017 #31
So much going on you pick up on new things after multiple viewings. Gidney N Cloyd Sep 2017 #47
Birdie Num Num OilemFirchen Sep 2017 #23
... Eliot Rosewater Sep 2017 #24
"a mute...an incredibly big mute." sarge43 Sep 2017 #25
Cigars! Iggo Sep 2017 #32
Espresso sarge43 Sep 2017 #42
The one I always think of is Chef Inspector Clouseau pretending to be a German dentist Glorfindel Sep 2017 #28
Classic, thanks Eliot Rosewater Sep 2017 #29
The Commitments (the whole movie), but the audition scene was really japple Sep 2017 #30
How about the "going the wrong way" scene from Planes Trains and Automobiles? FSogol Sep 2017 #34
Yes indeed Eliot Rosewater Sep 2017 #37
"Those aren't pillows!" TexasBushwhacker Sep 2017 #57
All the best............ Historic NY Sep 2017 #36
Mel, how could I forget thee! Eliot Rosewater Sep 2017 #38
bigus Eliot Rosewater Sep 2017 #39
Plenty of funny scenes from "The Man with 2 Brains" FSogol Sep 2017 #40
I used to have the drunk test scene memorized and I would do it at parties Eliot Rosewater Sep 2017 #41
From The Ref gratuitous Sep 2017 #43
Few are better Eliot Rosewater Sep 2017 #44
This is the first scene I thought of. Great movie. n/t ms liberty Sep 2017 #52
I cant do links MFM008 Sep 2017 #45
here Eliot Rosewater Sep 2017 #46
thank you MFM008 Sep 2017 #62
Nathan Lane: Birdcage, whole film. lindysalsagal Sep 2017 #50
All of Raising Arizona. spooky3 Sep 2017 #51
Don't know to post videos Iliyah Sep 2017 #53
Having to answer to big business, even in a national emergency... SeattleVet Sep 2017 #56
I know pressbox69 Sep 2017 #58
Lots of funny scenes in "I'm Gonna Git you Sucka" FSogol Sep 2017 #60
"Love Power"..The Producers.Dick Shawn.(he is trying out to become the lead)..4 minutes.. Stuart G Sep 2017 #61
It's right here, man jmowreader Sep 2017 #63
Tunnel Vision (1976): lastlib Sep 2017 #65
"Nobody's Perfect" malthaussen Sep 2017 #67
Gene Hackman and Peter Boyle in "Young Frankenstein" DFW Sep 2017 #68
Classic movie moment. Eliot Rosewater Sep 2017 #69

TlalocW

(15,381 posts)
1. I used to watch Three Amigos once a week
Fri Sep 15, 2017, 03:11 PM
Sep 2017

The premise is that 3 out of work Hollywood actors in the early 1900s are lured to Mexico to save a village from constant attacks by banditos while they think they're just going down there to perform. Just before entering the bar of the town, a German (who is a fan of the Amigos and carries a gun similar to theirs and is running guns to the bandits), enters the bar and shoots it up after being disrespected for his, "Sissy gun." He warns the patrons to treat his friends - arriving later - with more respect. The Amigos enter moments later.



TlalocW

TlalocW

(15,381 posts)
20. The scene I couldn't find on YouTube that I wanted
Fri Sep 15, 2017, 04:33 PM
Sep 2017

Was Lucky's "3 Demands."

I have 3 demands! First, that you quit harassing the innocent people of Santa Poco. Second that all the lands of Mexico be redistributed equally among the people and a proportional system of government be established consisting of three separate but equal branches - the executive, the legislative, and the judicial, and three (gets choked by El Guapo) that the girl Carmen be returned to me unharmed.

Also their first night in Mexico eating with some villagers in their home, and Dusty asks if they have anything other than Mexican food.

TlalocW

tblue37

(65,336 posts)
54. I have never seen that movie, but now I will be sure to do so. That scene reminds me of parts of
Fri Sep 15, 2017, 09:09 PM
Sep 2017
Ishtar, which I found hilarious even though it was critically panned.

irisblue

(32,968 posts)
11. well.
Fri Sep 15, 2017, 03:55 PM
Sep 2017

it was the 70s. I was in college inWest Michigan. I lived in Kistler Dorm. It was the 70s...nuff said there. 😀the whole movie+a whole dorm+the 70s.😀

montana_hazeleyes

(3,424 posts)
64. Hi irisble! When i saw the title of this thread a minute ago,
Sat Sep 16, 2017, 01:18 AM
Sep 2017

I was going to say, everything in Blazing Saddles! LOL

Eliot Rosewater

(31,109 posts)
18. See video, the funniest part is when he says
Fri Sep 15, 2017, 04:30 PM
Sep 2017

"i dont need anything, I NEED this!" and he reaches down to get the chair

I remember sitting in the theater laughing at that one part so hard I cried

OregonBlue

(7,754 posts)
66. I laughed through the entire scene so hard I almost peed and I still laugh every time I see it.
Sun Sep 17, 2017, 02:29 PM
Sep 2017

Funny that whenever anyone says I only need this one thing, someone else says and this thing and maybe this thing and that's all I need. It's become a true classic.

Ohiya

(2,230 posts)
22. I immediately think of this scene.
Fri Sep 15, 2017, 04:55 PM
Sep 2017

I don't think that I've ever laughed harder. I'm still wiping tears of laughter away from just watching this again!

The Velveteen Ocelot

(115,681 posts)
6. The "Stonehenge" scene in This Is Spinal Tap.
Fri Sep 15, 2017, 03:30 PM
Sep 2017

And the scene at the airport, and the "it goes to 11" scene, and "Rock and Roll Creation" where Derek gets stuck in the pod. So many...!

mahatmakanejeeves

(57,411 posts)
9. Funniest short: The Music Box, by Laurel and Hardy
Fri Sep 15, 2017, 03:45 PM
Sep 2017
The Music Box is a Laurel and Hardy short film comedy released in 1932. It was directed by James Parrott, produced by Hal Roach and distributed by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. The film, which depicts the pair attempting to move a piano up a large flight of steps, won the first Academy Award for Live Action Short Film (Comedy) in 1932. In 1997, this film was selected for preservation in the National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant".



I have from time to time tried to see if W. C. Fields's scene from "If I Had a Million" has been restored to Youtube. It has not. I last saw it there several years ago. The film has been removed due to copyright issues. I wish it could be put in the public domain so that it could be viewed again.

If I Had a Million is a 1932 American pre-Code Paramount Studios anthology film. There were seven directors: Ernst Lubitsch, Norman Taurog, Stephen Roberts, Norman Z. McLeod, James Cruze, William A. Seiter, and H. Bruce Humberstone. Lubitsch, Cruze, Seiter, and Humberstone were each responsible for a single vignette, Roberts and McLeod directed two each, and Taurog was in charge of the prologue and epilogue. The screenplays were scripted by many different writers, with Joseph L. Mankiewicz making a large contribution. If I Had a Million is based on a novel by Robert Hardy Andrews.

A wealthy dying businessman decides to leave his money to eight complete strangers. Gary Cooper, Charles Laughton, George Raft, May Robson, Charles Ruggles, and Gene Raymond play some of the lucky beneficiaries.
....

Road Hogs

Directed by Norman Z. McLeod

Ex-vaudeville performer Emily La Rue (Alison Skipworth) is very content with her life, running her tea room with the help of her partner, ex-juggler Rollo (W. C. Fields). Only one thing is lacking to make her satisfaction complete, and it is delivered that very day: a brand new car. However, when they take it out for a drive, it is wrecked when another driver ignores a stop signal. The heartbroken woman returns to her tea room, where Glidden finds her.

She comes up with an inventive way to spend part of her great windfall. She and Rollo purchase eight used cars and hire drivers. They all take to the road in a long procession. When they encounter an inconsiderate road hog, Emily and Rollo immediately set off in pursuit and crash into the offender's automobile. They then switch to one of their spare cars and repeat the process, until they run out of automobiles. At the end of the day, Emily purchases another new car, but it too is destroyed in a collision with a truck. No matter. Emily tells Rollo it has been "a glorious day".

Stuart G

(38,419 posts)
59. Please, Please.Watch the entire movie..Music Box..one of the funniest short films ever..(28 minutes)
Fri Sep 15, 2017, 10:33 PM
Sep 2017

A review from IMBD...................."Like the legendary Sisyphus, deliverymen Laurel and Hardy struggle to push a large crated piano up a seemingly insurmountable flight of stairs.".......

(if you haven't seen it, looking at those stairs,,so many,..and many and many is worth the time...and these two...Laurel and Hardy...are the best..)


http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0023251/

pansypoo53219

(20,974 posts)
10. i can't watch the remake of inlaws. i saw they took out the car chase out for a plane.
Fri Sep 15, 2017, 03:54 PM
Sep 2017

michael douglas is no peter falk. SERPENTINE SHELDON!

Leith

(7,809 posts)
17. Pretty Much Every Scene In Airplane
Fri Sep 15, 2017, 04:26 PM
Sep 2017

But I gotta go with the bar fight.

No, wait! Slapping the hysterical passenger...

Maybe when the little boy visits the cockpit and has a conversation with the pilot!


Then I'll maybe go with the screechy table in Men in Black.

Gidney N Cloyd

(19,833 posts)
47. So much going on you pick up on new things after multiple viewings.
Fri Sep 15, 2017, 07:25 PM
Sep 2017

IIRC in this scene he was talking about how he was stationed in this place with the Air Force but then he's shown in a Navy pilot uniform

Glorfindel

(9,726 posts)
28. The one I always think of is Chef Inspector Clouseau pretending to be a German dentist
Fri Sep 15, 2017, 05:49 PM
Sep 2017

Honestly, I think that's the hardest I ever laughed!

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FSogol

(45,480 posts)
40. Plenty of funny scenes from "The Man with 2 Brains"
Fri Sep 15, 2017, 06:43 PM
Sep 2017








but for some reason, they don't have the Merv Griffin scene.

Eliot Rosewater

(31,109 posts)
41. I used to have the drunk test scene memorized and I would do it at parties
Fri Sep 15, 2017, 06:44 PM
Sep 2017

Recently took a comedy class from Steve


Sure, it was online and I didnt meet him and I was one of 35,000 others, but hey

gratuitous

(82,849 posts)
43. From The Ref
Fri Sep 15, 2017, 06:57 PM
Sep 2017

There are so many good scenes, but Kevin Spacey finally having enough of his overbearing mother is one of the best ones:

MFM008

(19,805 posts)
45. I cant do links
Fri Sep 15, 2017, 07:11 PM
Sep 2017

but the scene from "Ace Venture--Call of the Wild", where Jim Carrey gets stuck in the Rhino and has to get out and exits the rear end and the tourists think the rhino is having a baby.
My God i laughed until I couldnt stand....

Eliot Rosewater

(31,109 posts)
46. here
Fri Sep 15, 2017, 07:12 PM
Sep 2017



my son and I watched the first one, Ace Ventura, over and over and over...the UPS scene, etc.

painful to watch it is so funny, hurts to laugh that hard

Iliyah

(25,111 posts)
53. Don't know to post videos
Fri Sep 15, 2017, 09:08 PM
Sep 2017

Django Unchained . . . the scene, new KKK and their white hoods. I could not stop laughing.

SeattleVet

(5,477 posts)
56. Having to answer to big business, even in a national emergency...
Fri Sep 15, 2017, 09:52 PM
Sep 2017


(Also, pretty much ANY scene from ANY of the British 'Carry On' movies! Substituting a daisy for a rectal thermometer comes to mind...)

pressbox69

(2,252 posts)
58. I know
Fri Sep 15, 2017, 10:19 PM
Sep 2017

most people love him in Dr. Strangelove, Being There and The Pink Panther movies but there are so many scenes that crack me up in this one.


Stuart G

(38,419 posts)
61. "Love Power"..The Producers.Dick Shawn.(he is trying out to become the lead)..4 minutes..
Fri Sep 15, 2017, 11:02 PM
Sep 2017

Just look at the expressions on the 5 in the audience as they watch this short performance...at the very end, Zero yells out..."That's our Hitler"....Shawn plays someone who doesn't know what the tryout is about, but sings his song anyway..(they let him tryout, even though he doesn't know where he is.. ) ..The group is producing a play..called Springtime for Hitler..and they need a lead singer for the show.(the funniest moment for me in films) Zero and Gene want to produce the worst play in all history, take a huge loss and keep all the money after the play flops terribly the very first night,,that is why they want the worst singer for the lead in the show)

lastlib

(23,216 posts)
65. Tunnel Vision (1976):
Sun Sep 17, 2017, 12:40 PM
Sep 2017

Reporter (off-screen): "Sir, can you give us your opinion of Richard Nixon?"

Henry Kissinger: "Vvelll, I dink Richuhrd Nixon is......"

Parrot (beside Kissinger): "A COLOSSAL ASSHOLE!"

Henry Kissinger: "...a colossal asshole..."


. . . . .

malthaussen

(17,187 posts)
67. "Nobody's Perfect"
Mon Sep 18, 2017, 11:22 AM
Sep 2017


While I agree that "Blazing Saddles" is a laff riot all through, "Some Like it Hot" is another comedy that everyone should watch.


-- Mal
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