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UndertheOcean Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-04-09 09:51 PM
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what is the Funniest movie scene you have ever seen ?
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begin_within Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-04-09 09:57 PM
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1. Offhand I'd say the climactic chase in "What's Up, Doc?" (1972)
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Captain Hilts Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-04-09 10:26 PM
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5. A VERY under-rated movie! Good call! nt
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begin_within Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-04-09 10:36 PM
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7. Thank you. And Madeline Kahn was a panic in it.
"I am not A Mrs. Howard Bannister, I am THE Mrs. Howard Bannister." I remember seeing that movie when it first came out, in a full theater with lots of kids and they were roaring with laughter. I forgot about it for many years until about 3 or 4 years ago, then rented it and it's still as funny now.
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Captain Hilts Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-05-09 07:20 AM
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15. I, too, saw it in a theatre. I was about 12. A riot. A true companion to its inspriation Bringing
Up Baby.
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GCP Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-05-09 08:10 AM
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16. That was my pick too
Priceless!
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Starbucks Anarchist Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-04-09 10:08 PM
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2. Chaplin's feeding-machine scene in "Modern Times."
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mcctatas Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-04-09 10:14 PM
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3. I could probably give a different answer to this every day of the year
but the first one that popped into my head was this one from Animal House

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k3_3XvDE05M
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applegrove Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-04-09 10:20 PM
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4. Much Ado About Nothing..... the garden scene with Kenneth Brannagh.
Edited on Tue Aug-04-09 10:20 PM by applegrove
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EastTennesseeDem Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-04-09 10:28 PM
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6. Dr. Strangelove: US President talks to USSR Premier
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Lindsey Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-05-09 02:15 AM
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8. I wish I knew how to post links (I'm really Computer
challenged). I have too many to pick just one but something that comes to mind is a scene (there were actually many)of Fred Willard being one of the announcers in "Best in Show." I can't see that movie enough - I'm glad I own it.
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cyberswede Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-05-09 01:30 PM
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31. Agreed!
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XemaSab Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-05-09 02:27 AM
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9. The end of Little Miss Sunshine
When she got up there I just about DIED laughing. :D
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alphafemale Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-05-09 03:19 AM
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12. I actually realized what Grandpa must have taught her just before she started.
I gasped and then started laughing then. I also love the scene in that movie with the way and reason the older brother breaks his vow of silence.
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MilesColtrane Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-05-09 02:40 AM
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10. The funny finally wore off a bit on this one for me, but only after the thousandth viewing.
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coyotespaw Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-05-09 03:00 AM
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11. NSFW, maybe it's just because it reminds me of some of my exes...
but this always makes me laugh...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=94wGndbOIPk
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Orrex Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-05-09 08:34 AM
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20. That's a good one!
Isn't there a scene soon thereafter in which she walks across the store and the video guy, off camera, yells "thirty seven?!?"

That's nowhere near my favorite movie, but it has a lot of great moments.
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laylah Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-05-09 04:38 AM
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13. A Fish Called Wanda nt
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NJmaverick Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-05-09 12:27 PM
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28. Hot Shots where Loydd Bridges Cap blows off
he is the captain of the Aircraft Carrier and his cap blows off. He wants to turn the ship around to retrieve. I couldn't stop laughing when I first saw this scene.
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armyowalgreens Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-05-09 05:56 AM
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14. The ending of Dr.Strangelove...
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Auggie Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-05-09 08:34 AM
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19. Tied: Dr. Strangelove ending and the mirror sequence in Duck Soup
Edited on Wed Aug-05-09 08:36 AM by Auggie
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YUZ1hjn_9Ds

I've never laughed harder at anything than these two sequences.


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Orrex Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-05-09 08:37 AM
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21. The killer is when Chico walks in on it, also dressed as Groucho
Of course, it's an old vaudeville routine, and the scene has been replayed so many times in so many films that there's no way to keep count, but my vote for the second best portrayal goes to this one:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N7Th2dnSsXw
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Tommy_Carcetti Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-05-09 08:14 AM
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17. "Is this your homework, Larry?"--The Big Lebowski
Edited on Wed Aug-05-09 08:14 AM by Tommy_Carcetti
Every single part of the whole scene is classic, from the beginning when Walter sees Larry's dad (a former screenwriter) in an iron lung and asks, "Does he still write?" and then proceeds to tell him what a huge fan he is, to Walter pulling out a plastic bag containing a marked up school essay belonging to Larry and asking incessently "Is this your homework, Larry?", to Larry's deadpan silent expression throughout the "interrogation", to Walter taking a tire iron to what he thinks is Larry's new Corvette only to find out it actually belongs to a neighbor who then turns the table on Walter, to the final shot of Walter, Donny and the Dude eating In and Out Burgers with a bashed in windshield in the Dude's car.

And yet Youtube has no evidence whatsoever of this quite hilarious scene. Fucking Youtube Nazis.


Even the edited basic cable version of the scene is great, with Walter's exclamation "This is what happens when you fuck a stranger in the ass!" being changed to "This is what happens when you find a stranger in the Alps!"
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WolverineDG Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-05-09 08:21 AM
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18. Meet the Parents
the scene in question had a very long set-up. Suffice to say it had something to do a cat & an urn. Laughed so hard I couldn't breathe.

dg
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Stuart G Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-05-09 08:37 AM
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22. Tied ..."The Producers" .."Blazing Saddles"
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RebelOne Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-05-09 10:04 AM
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23. There is a scene in the movie "Cat Ballou"
with Lee Marvin and Jane Fonda. I don't recall it too clearly, but I laughed like crazy. In a living room is a coffin, with candles around it. I don't remember who's coffin it was. Lee Marvin, drunk as a skunk, walks in, sees the candles and starts singing "Happy Birthday."
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Madrone Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-05-09 11:08 AM
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24. No one's said Super Troopers?
:wtf:

Best lead-in to a movie. Ever.

Unfortunately it's been removed from everywhere I just searched on the internets. :(

Here's another scene from the movie - also hilarious. Not the best quality, meow.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ujx_oO4vH8w
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Hell Hath No Fury Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-05-09 11:18 AM
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25. There is one scene --
that I still laugh at consistantly, even after seeing it a hundred times. The humor is as lowbrow as you can get, but it just tickles the shit out of me after all these years.

I bring you Bill Murray's combover from the wildly underrated "Kingpin":

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yKY4sw0hJxw&NR=1



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A HERETIC I AM Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-05-09 11:23 AM
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26. "None shall pass"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gXY9TuuwyL8

When "Monty Python and the Holy Grail" came out in 1975, most Americans were unfamiliar with them and this scene caught many off guard. By the time the Black Knights second arm gets cut off, most in the theater were howling. I went to see the movie 3 times in the theater because the laughter was so loud and continuous, you missed a lot of dialogue.
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Enthusiast Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-05-09 12:25 PM
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27. That is a good one! nt
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tigereye Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-05-09 01:19 PM
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29. Roberto Begnini as the hapless and hilarious cabbie in Night on Earth
Edited on Wed Aug-05-09 01:20 PM by tigereye
and the scene in Harold and Maude where they are protesting to the military guy - also the "dating service" scenes in the same film. I still laugh all through that film, even after having seen it multiple times.


Next one would be various Nigel comments in Spinal Tap.
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pokerfan Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-05-09 01:28 PM
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30. Young Frankenstein - Old Hermit Scene
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Ryano42 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-05-09 01:43 PM
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32. The beginning of Raising Arizona.
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