Favorite scenes in comedy movies ...

It seems that most of you that responded to the thread about movies that you’d re-watch, mentioned comedy films. So, that being the case, what particular scenes in those movies do you recall as being especially funny …

Some of mine...

Take The Money And Run – I really like the scene where a bumbling Woody Allen plays a cello in a marching band; complete with his seat. As the band marches down the street, he sprints up through the players struggling with the instrument and seat, then quickly plonks himself down in the line and plays a couple of notes before the band marches over the top of him; only to have to repeat the process over and over …

Airplane – A nice subtle little twist whenever the scene switches to the outside shot of the jet flying. I didn’t notice it at first, but it cracked me up when I caught on – the sound is the drone of old propeller engines …

The Blues Brothers – there’s a lot of scenes to like in this movie, but the one where Jake and Elwood revisit their childhood school/orphanage is an absolute classic. On their “mission from God” they once again meet an old nun (“the penguin”) who proceeds to physically chastise the boys for bad language, only to elicit more of the same from them in the process. It spirals into an outright brawl with non-stop expletives.

 

"Planes, Trains, & Automobiles"
When the the characters (Candy and Martin) are pulled over while driving the burned-out remains of a car, the trooper just does a slow inspection walk around the car without one word.
"Stir Crazy"
When two uncooperative imates (Wilder and Pryor) get a new cellmate, Grossberger.

 

You're not wrong!

They then proceed to explain that "funnily enough" they think the car is safe

 

There's this line in the wonderful movie "Beautiful Girls" where Timothy Hutton's girlfriend tells him that his brother and father are "nice" and he replies that they are the farthest thing from nice and that "They haven't liked anyone since Steve McQueen died". I always loved that line. I have seen this movie maybe twenty times and I just love it.

There's also a great line in "Major League" where the guy tells Tom Berenger not to see this woman any more. I can't tell you his response but it's a good one...

Peace-
Norm

 

Animal House - "Over?! Did you say 'over'?!! Nothing is over until WE decide it is! Was it over when the Germans bombed Pearl Harbor? Hell No!"
"Germans?"
"Forget it. He's rolling."

 

"You can't fight here! This is the War Room!"

 

The Big Lebowski - the scene in which The Dude and Walter show up to interrogate the kid whose school paper they found in The Dude's car. When Walter goes outside and starts smashing up the Corvette, i thought to myself, "This is not going to end well".

The Big Lebowski - the scene in which The Dude is riding in the cab and he complains about hearing Hotel California. The indignance of the cab driver was priceless.

 

Laurel and Hardy in Way Out West when they're trying to break in through the second story of Jimmy Finlayson's house.
Monty Python & The Holy Grail - "She turned me into a newt" "I got better"
Revenge Of The Pink Panther - The inflateable parrot.

 

Isn't that why this place has the P.M.?

 

The campfire scene in Blazing Saddles: "Can we have some more beans?" "I think you boys have had enough!"

The sword fight in Monty Python & The Holy Grail: "Come back here, you bastard! I'll bite your legs off!"

The scene in Annie Hall where Woody Allen sneezes into a big bag of cocaine.

Evan

 

The scenes that go along with these lines:

Duck Soup- "Will you marry me, did he leave you any money? Answer the second question first."

Monty Python & The Holy Grail- "It's only a flesh wound!"

A Hard Day's Night- "She's a drag...a well known drag! We turn the sound down and say rude things!"

The Rutles: All You Need Is Cash- "Nasty, talking to a slightly deaf journalist, had said only that 'The Rutles were bigger than Rod.' Rod Stewart would not be big for another eight years."

Young Frankenstein- "Putttin' On The Ritz!"

Clerks- Dante: "You hate people!" Randal: "But I love gatherings, isn't that ironic?"

Head- "Okay, you guys think they call us plastic now, boy, but you wait'll I finish telling 'em how we do it!"

Blues Brothers- "...without your dry white toast, without your four fried chickens, and without Matt "Guitar" Murphy!"

This Is Spinal Tap- "There's a fine line between stupid and clever."

Dr. Strangelove- "Now Dimitri, you know how we've always talked about the possibility of something going wrong with the bomb...The bomb, Dimitri...The hydrogen bomb."

 

A Day At The Races - "Get-a you tootsie frootsie ice-a cream..."

 

I really get off on just about every scene with the character Monsieur Hulot played by Jacques Tati in the movie 'Playtime'.

 

Another great line from Repo Man:

Harry Dean Stanton: "Ordinary f**kin' people; I hate 'em!"

Evan

 

Clerks - Dante Hicks, "I'm not even suppose to be here."
Cat Ballou - Lee Marvin singing Happy Birthday.

 

Well, the Young Frankenstein "Put zee-candle back" scene comes to mind.

I would also go for the Big Lebowski scene where Dude is driving his car and drops the roach.

Then there is Life of Brian the "Bickus Dickus" scene.

 

Duck Soup - the lemonade stand scene

Love & Death - the scene with Napoleon

Airplane - the scene in the sleazy bar that suddenly breaks into Saturday Night Fever.

Lots more I can't think of right now.

Jeff

 

Too many scenes/lines from Love and Death, my favorite comedy of all time.

"If Jesus was a carpenter, I wondered what he charged for book shelves..."

"Of course there's a God! We're made in his image!"
"Oh yeah? You think God wears glasses?"
"Not with those frames..."

"You're the greatest lover I've ever had."
"I practice a lot when I'm alone."

"Ivan saved string."
"I know. That's one of the reasons why I loved him."

"Shall we say pistols at dawn?"
"We can say it...I don't know what it means, but we can say it."

"There are some things worse than death. If you've ever spent an evening with an insurance salesman, you know exactly what I'm talking about."

"You must be Don Francisco's sister."
"No no, you must be Don Francisco's sister!"

 

I think it would have been zapped off the PM board too!

Peace-
Norm

 

"How about a nice big bowl of sleet?"

 

Just about every sequence in DUCK SOUP!

 

Bob and Bing in the Klondike bar, in Road to Utopia.

"I'll take a lemonade...in a dirty glass!"