Favorite scenes in comedy movies ...

So that's where that line comes from! I've been saying it for years and i never knew where it was from.

 

Harold & Maude-Ever scene that Harold commits another mock suicide. Particularly the opening scene where he pretends to hang himself. His mother walks in and out of the room ignoring him for the most part. Then she turns to him and says "Dinner at 8, Harold...And try to be a little more vivacious." The other scene that really sticks out in my mind is when another of his blind dates comes over and he fakes setting himself on fire in the backyard!!!

Private Benjamin-Another one of my all time favorites with lots of hilarious scenes. I love the scene when she's(Goldie Hawn) up in the plane and refuses to jump out of the plane with the other paratroopers and Col. Thornbush(Robert Webber) tells her she doesn't have to jump and he starts coming on to her and jumps out of the plane to get away from him!! She's screaming on the way down and says "Oh God please open!!" and the chute finally opens and she let's out that big sigh. Hysterical!!!

Airplane-I know everyone has mentioned this one, but the scene that always puts me on the floor is the one with the two jive talking brothers, and Barbara Billingsley goes over to translate what they're saying!!

9 To 5-When Dolly Parton tells Dabney Coleman that she's gonna "change him from a rooster to a hen with one shot" if he doesn't stop spreading innuendo about them having an affair.

Money Talks- This is another movie that is just non stop laughs as far as I'm concerned. I love the scene where Chris Tucker phones in a bomb threat to a night club when Charlie Sheen fails to gain entrance to that establishment.

 

Blues Brothers - "How much for the women"?

Three Amigos - Singing bushes

Blazing Saddles - "I Get a Kick Out of You"

Up in Smoke - Rocking Van

Rutles - "Musta been the trousers"

Airplane - Inflate the AutoPilot"

 

"Wheat! I'm dead, they're talking about wheat!"

 

I forgot about Love And Death! Classic Woodster movie!

Evan

 

Lebowski -- “You said, it man. Nobody &%$@ with the Jesus!"

In-Laws -- "Serpentine, Shel, serpentine!"

one of the Panther movies -- "Special delivery, a bomb. Were you expecting one?"

 

The "stateroom" scene in A Night At The Opera.

"Come right in!"

Another great line: "Either there are cops in the Il Travatore, or the jig is up!"

Evan

 

John Cusack is one of my favorites, here's a couple faves from "Say Anything":

"She gave me a pen. I gave her my heart and she gave me a pen."--Lloyd

"I met her in a mall. I should have known our relationship was doomed."--Lloyd

"I don't want to sell anything, buy anything or process anything as a career. I don't want to sell anything bought or processed, buy anything sold or processed, or process anything sold, bought or processed, or repair anything sold, bought or processed--you know--as a career. I don't want to do that. My father's in the Army. He wants me to join, but I can't work for that corporation. Um...so what I've been doing lately is kickboxing, which is a new sport, but I think it's got a good future."--Lloyd

 

I was just talking about this film with the writer of "Bruce Almighty" and we both agreed that it was the "Gub" scene that was the classic! But he did love that scene, too, as do I...

"Midnight Run" - "Put the cigarette out" in the bus.

"Grumpy Old Men" - When they forget what they're fighting about on the frozen lake.

"Annie Hall" - Waiting on line re: The Fellini Film

"The Jerk" - "I don't need anything... except for this..." scene as he's leaving.

"Arthur" - He takes a hooker out to dinner.

"Flirting with Disaster" - The end sequence including armpit licking.

"Bananas" - Sleeping with his ex-girlfriend as The Dictator and revealing it's really him - Fielding Melish ("I knew there was something missing").

"National Lampoon's Vacation" - Getting caught in the pool with Christie Brinkley.

"Lost In America" - Explaining the "nest egg" to Gary Marshall and how to change the image of Vegas.

"A Night At The Opera" - Groucho going over the contract with Chico - "You can't fool me..."

"Airplane" - "You can tell me, I'm a doctor."

JEFF!

 

Played aptly by... Randy Newman!

JEFF!

 

"Mongo Likes Candy"..........................................................................BOOM!

(I guess you could insert the entire Blazing Saddles script into this thread!

 

Who's that?

So many good scenes in Blazing Saddles: "We offer you this laurel--and hardy handshake!"

But we've had a thread on that before.....

Evan Johnson

 

Ah, yes, but the best line?

RE: Death:

"What's it like?"

"What's it like, er, uh... You know the chicken at Tresky's restaurant? It's worse."

JEFF!

 

The whole blind hermit sequence with Gene Hackman in Young Frankenstein.

"Don't inhale until the tip glows."

 

"What fabulous knockers" "Why thank you Herr Doctor!"

Evan

 

The scene in The President's Analyst where James Coburn goes to William Daniels's house.

"The neighbors are real right-wingers...damn Nazis...oughta be gassed!"

 

"Oh sweet mystery of life at last I've found you!!!"-Madeline Kahn in "Young Frankenstein"

 

"My grandfather's work is doo-doo!"-Young Frankenstein


Evan

 

The restaurant scene in "The Odd Couple" where the air conditioning messes w/ Felix's sinuses and he makes "the noise" to clear them out. I love watching Oscar's discomfort w/ all the attention it brings them.

The scene in "Bringing Up Baby" where David & Susan start wading across a pond she tells him is shallow and when they get to the middle they sink in over their heads. They come back up and head back to the shore they started from and Susan asks, "Are we across yet?". The dinner sequence at her aunt's house where "Baby" starts misbehaving.

 

Aurthur- When he is looking for Linda and he knocks on what he thinks is her door. Perry's wife answers and scares the #$%@% out of him.

 

Blazing Saddles, "Someone go back and get a whole *****load of dimes."

Yet a scene that kills me everytime is in Pet Detective II when Jim Carey is stuck in the mechanical Rhino.

 

Lots of great comedy moments already mentioned here.

I will add the Alien spoof scene from Mel Brooks' Spaceballs, where the beast bursts out of somebody's chest only to do a cabaret tune

 

Something about Mary: Bathroom zipper scene
Son is it the pork or beans that's stuck
or something like that.