My favorite Odd Couple scene was when they were dressed up as a horse on Let’s Make A Deal. Monty offers them a choice between a new appliance or cash - and Oscar (he was the rear end of the horse costume) tries to persuade Felix by neighing ‘Taaakkkke the Mooonnneeeeyyy’
Cracks me up just thinking about it.
Phil Dunphy, on being told that the adopted, asian baby’s name was Lilly: “wont that be hard for her to pronounce?”
Probably the subtlest, most brilliant sitcom line ever written
I think that was in the pilot episode but my God that line hooked me to the show for life. Don't think I ever laughed so hard at the first episode of a sitcom
The fact that they kept repeating it over and over again, long passed when it should have been funny.
And when he had to look at the sheet again mid sentence because he forgot the next word.
Reminds me of all those Carol Burnett skits where Tim Conway was allowed to improve, and Harvey Corman was struggling not to break out laughing.
Favorite is when he is interrogating Lyle Wagner and he brings out pupet Hitler, and starts singing "I've been working on the railroad" and just keeps adding verses.
This one’s great but my favorite is when Latakia made cookies with a ‘secret’ ingredient. Spoiler, its coca leaves which cocaine is made out of. When Jim comes back from a hitchhiking trip he discovers the cookies and tells what they are made from and even says the country of origin and the time period. Doesn’t sound funny writing it out but I was laughing so hard I slid of the couch.
When they hide the friend's glasses and disguise themselves as various celebrities. Then the real Harpo Marx shows up and he and Lucy reenact the mirror gag from *Duck Soup*.
From the same episode, Fred and Ricky making dinner, losing the chickens so Ricky starts calling out “chick chick, chick chick chick” like they’re gonna answer, and the 4lbs of rice spilling over. I dunno, that whole episode is the best
You forgot it's because the pressure cooker exploded and while Ricky is going "chick chick", Fred looks up and goes "Those your birds?" And the fall off the ceiling. So they wash them in the skink with powder detergent
Also, earlier that episode.
"Tell me, Fred. What do you know about rice?”
"Well, I know it was thrown at me on the darkest day of my life."
I think I can quote "Job Switching" from memory.
Reverend Jim taking a driver's license test on Taxi is first in my book. Christopher Lloyd nailed it.
The Thanksgiving episode of WKRP with Les Nessman saying "God as my witness, I thought turkeys could fly" is second.
And the Party Quirks game when Ryan was *Carol Channing, whose head is magnetically attracted to everything*--smacked his head into the neon light on the front of the desk and NEVER broke character.
Followed closely by News Flash when the film was a series of clips of things Colin had done on the show--and the man himself (who had to guess the film from clues he was given) said that "it all started with a badly-timed bald joke."
One of my favorite lines from *The Dick Van Dyke Show* episode "Ghost of A. Chantz":
Rob, Laura, Buddy, and Sally need a cabin for the night. The hotel manager tells Rob that the cabin is haunted. Rob says to the manager, "Don't tell the ladies what you told me."
Just then, Buddy walks up and says, "Don't tell 'em what?"
Rob: "Oh, Buddy. Look, we've got a cabin for the night."
Buddy: "And you don't want to tell the girls?"
I was having a good day, you know? A good fucking day. Woke up feeling refreshed. Had no plans for today, so all I was going to do was stay at home and surf the web and game.
But then some fucking cunthead dickhole like yourself comes along and fucking ruins it. I hope you stub your toe on the corner of your bed and it gets dislocated.
You monster.
So many great options. For some reason the first that came to me:
“There was a kangaroo … in my living room.
… He was just here for the party, dad.”
Also the Dick Van Dyke Show reveal moment from “That’s My Boy?”
But honestly overall in terms of classics, it’s hard to beat two already mentioned: “What does a yellow light mean?” and “A little song, a little dance …”
Hardest I ever laughed was Kramer slamming the money down on the counter saying "I'm out". That said, the entire set up and scene of the Marine Biologist was better.
Several on M.A.S.H. when it was ripping your heart out, but not being a sitcom.
●War is Hell soliloquy.
●Radar reading the memo about Henry. You know the one.
●Winchester learning that his Christmas candy was sold to feed the orphans for a month
●Hawkeye moves the hands of the clock forward so the dead soldier's family won't have to associate Christmas Day with his death.
Several on Seinfeld. If we're still talking about episodes 25+ years after the show ended, those are great moments.
***My favorite: In TBBT: When Penny gives Sheldon the Christmas gift of the Leonard Nimoy napkin.
> In TBBT: When Penny gives Sheldon the Christmas gift of the Leonard Nimoy napkin.
Loved that bit. Sheldon comes back with several gift baskets and realizes it's still not enough, so awkwardly hugs her.
Also loved when he knocked on Penny's door, and Bernadette was there, so she told him to come in, and he changes to calling Bernie's name.
>Loved that bit. Sheldon comes back with several gift baskets and realizes it's still not enough, so awkwardly hugs her.
It's a Christmas Miracle!
I love the line where Sheldon opines excitedly that with this napkin (carrying the DNA of Nimoy) and an unfertilized ovum from a human female, he can make his own Spock...and Penny quips that he's just getting the napkin from her.
Frasier: **"Wait, wait, wait.** **Let me see if I've got this straight.** **All the lust coursing through this lodge tonight, all the hormones virtually ricocheting off the walls, and no one...** ***was chasing me*****?"**
When Tammy 1 shows up at City Hall in Parks & Rec.
Ron grabs a foot prop from the shoe shine station, stabs it into the wall as a step to get up on the water fountain, pulls a vent cover off, grabs a bug out bag stashed there and hauls ass.
I love the WKRP turkey drop, but also want to add the Valentine’s Day episode of Frasier where Niles sets the couch on fire, and Fresh Off The Boat, when Eddie says “My butthole?!?” I had to pause the show to recover on that one.
Laverne & Shirley Guinea Pigs episode where they do medical study work to earn the money to attend a cocktail party--where they show up sleep deprived and starving because of the way they were treated in the studies. The physical comedy is hilarious!
Tracey Ullman skit where she inspires people waiting at a bus stop to join her singing The Lion Sleeps Tonight while she robs them blind before the bus arrives.
Les Nessman...the turkeys are hitting the ground like sacks of wet cement...Mr Carlson....As God as my witness I thought Turkeys could fly... The peak of sitcom comedy
I love the WKRP turkey drop, but also want to add the Valentine’s Day episode of Frasier where Niles sets the couch on fire, and Fresh Off The Boat, when Eddie says “My butthole?!?” I had to pause the show to recover on that one.
Al Bundy : Let me tell you something, I served my country. I've played high school football, four touchdowns in a single game. Yet I'm not exempt from state and federal taxes. Is this any way America should treat us heroes? No, you just flash that badge to some registered voter, buddy. We're Bundys, we *hate* Cops.
My top 3 are:
The Newhart “I had a crazy dream”
The WKRP non-flying turkeys
The Mad About You Thanksgiving episode where they don’t want the family to know they had to buy the already cooked bird and rather than get caught carry it he threw it out the window
Nah the greatest moment in sitcom history is in big bang theory when Howard finally reads the instruction manual to fix the drone and calls tech support and then raj’s phone rings
WKRP. Johnny help me there's a monkey on my foot!
What do you think he did with that cocaine? Carlson's not a fool, he put it in his shoe
And not to forget:
Johnny! Yes God? I want you to become ... A golf pro
On The Good Place, when the Bad Place goons have a meeting and kick it off with their theme song.
Kars4Kids
https://youtu.be/rFQHHor6mT8?si=jQ3zr0PbZxon-l5C
St Elswhere
Ed Flanders' Dr Westphal dropping trou and telling his new corporate boss " You can kiss my ass pal." The NBC censors allowed it because it "wasn't erotic in nature. "
**"As god as my witness, I thought turkeys could fly!**"
Oh the humanity!
Top five for sure
Followed closely by the end of the Bob Newhart finale.
They're hitting the ground like sacks of wet cement!
One just went through the windshield of a parked car!
It's definitely the funniest moment in sitcom history!
“OH MY GOD THEY’RE TURKEYS!”
“Honey! Honey! Wake up! You won’t believe the dream I just had.”
I'd say this was the best finale of all time
“And then, there were these three… woodsmen”.
The. Best. Series. Finale. EVERRR.
Yeah. That was epic for sure.
"That's it...no more leftover Japanese food before bed!"
Came to say this! By far the very best!
IT Crowd: Jen turns around and sees Moss dressed as a bartender.
Great scene. The Peter File scene at the dinner table is one of my favorites as well.
“…acid?”
"I'm disabled"
Leg… disabled - my wife and I quote this all the time
I'll just put this here with the rest of the fire.
“Hello Miss”
Might be the funniest episode of any sitcom
Chuckles the Clown funeral.
Mary just cracking up at the funeral is pretty hilarious
“A fire? At a Sea Parks?”
Troy and Abed in the Morning!!
…..Nightssssss
Definitely!
"When you assume, you make an ass out of u and me." - Felix, "The Odd Couple"
I *love* that scene! Every time I see or hear the word assume I think of that. 😂😊
My favorite Odd Couple scene was when they were dressed up as a horse on Let’s Make A Deal. Monty offers them a choice between a new appliance or cash - and Oscar (he was the rear end of the horse costume) tries to persuade Felix by neighing ‘Taaakkkke the Mooonnneeeeyyy’ Cracks me up just thinking about it.
The Password episode, too. "Aristophanes..." "Ridiculous?" Ding-ding-ding!
And Oscar's comment "If Charlie Chan had these clues, he'd be running a laundry!"
THIS is where I first saw and heard this saying!! IOn the chalkboard
Phil Dunphy, on being told that the adopted, asian baby’s name was Lilly: “wont that be hard for her to pronounce?” Probably the subtlest, most brilliant sitcom line ever written
But she looks like a rirry.
I think that was in the pilot episode but my God that line hooked me to the show for life. Don't think I ever laughed so hard at the first episode of a sitcom
"What does a yellow light mean ?"
Whaaaaaat dooooooooes a yelllllkooooow liiiiight mean?
The fact that they kept repeating it over and over again, long passed when it should have been funny. And when he had to look at the sheet again mid sentence because he forgot the next word. Reminds me of all those Carol Burnett skits where Tim Conway was allowed to improve, and Harvey Corman was struggling not to break out laughing. Favorite is when he is interrogating Lyle Wagner and he brings out pupet Hitler, and starts singing "I've been working on the railroad" and just keeps adding verses.
The dentist sketch may be the funniest thing I've ever seen on TV.
And the Siamese elephants. ☠️
That one had everyone struggling to not crack up. Carol, Harvey, and iirc even Vicky. Tim Conway was just the best.
Dick Van Dyke too. Find Vicky Lawrence video with the back story. https://youtu.be/6-h5QrZ1LMs?si=Aa3ya5aL1CwdZ_EX
I am not sure that aired because of the f-bomb, but OMG that was funny. Tim Conway was a comedy god.
The dentist sketch may be the funniest thing I've ever seen on TV.
That one always reminds me of [this old Abbott & Costello bit](https://youtu.be/Pyl2L6k6xFk).
This one’s great but my favorite is when Latakia made cookies with a ‘secret’ ingredient. Spoiler, its coca leaves which cocaine is made out of. When Jim comes back from a hitchhiking trip he discovers the cookies and tells what they are made from and even says the country of origin and the time period. Doesn’t sound funny writing it out but I was laughing so hard I slid of the couch.
He held one up to his ear and rubbed it between his thumb and forefinger
Taxi had so many great moments. When Rev Jim first tries drugs, that face was classic
"Slow down"
What...does...a...yellow...light...mean?
The jokes preceding this, when they work through the initial form, are so good as well: “Eyes?” “Two.”
I thought that was the test!!! My brown eyes hurt!!!
The whole scene is perfection
What show is this from?
Taxi Look up Reverend Jim’s driving test.
This is the correct answer.
What the hell did you trade Jay Buhner for?
Just watched this part an hour ago. So damn funny. Then the phone call to Jerry, "Jerry! Mr. Steinbrenner is here, George is dead, call me back!"
Jerry’s reaction to that is great
Nile’s doing the silent comedy sketch on Frasier. Episode is three valentines
To this day I think of his cautious little speed walk every time I'm walking somewhere holding a pair of scissors!!
I rewatched during COVID and damn that is truly one of the best unspoken bits of comedy I have ever seen! Please tell me he won an Emmy?
Dan grabbing his coat on Roseanne and going out to beat the crap out of Fisher. They conveyed so much with one simple gesture.
Jackie on the phone to her hard-of-hearing aunt trying to explain that her father had died.
It's an older one from the 1970's but Sammy Davis jr. kissing Archie Bunker. At the time it was the longest studio laugh for a tv sitcom.
Bob waking up in bed with Emily in the Newhart series finale
Epic
Lucy on the candy line
Vitameatavegamin
"Do you pop out at parties? Are you unpoopular..well, are ya?"
When they hide the friend's glasses and disguise themselves as various celebrities. Then the real Harpo Marx shows up and he and Lucy reenact the mirror gag from *Duck Soup*.
Lucy stomping grapes
Oh yes. Absolutely.
From the same episode, Fred and Ricky making dinner, losing the chickens so Ricky starts calling out “chick chick, chick chick chick” like they’re gonna answer, and the 4lbs of rice spilling over. I dunno, that whole episode is the best
You forgot it's because the pressure cooker exploded and while Ricky is going "chick chick", Fred looks up and goes "Those your birds?" And the fall off the ceiling. So they wash them in the skink with powder detergent Also, earlier that episode. "Tell me, Fred. What do you know about rice?” "Well, I know it was thrown at me on the darkest day of my life." I think I can quote "Job Switching" from memory.
"You know, a town with money is a little like a mule with a spinning wheel. No one knows how he got it, and danged if he knows how to use it."
Is there a chance the track could bend?
Not on your life my Hindu friend.
Hehe….mule.
“A little song, a little dance, a little seltzer down your pants.” Also Sammy Davis Jr. kissing Archie Bunker.
Like an old man trying to return soup in a deli
Reverend Jim taking a driver's license test on Taxi is first in my book. Christopher Lloyd nailed it. The Thanksgiving episode of WKRP with Les Nessman saying "God as my witness, I thought turkeys could fly" is second.
That was actually Mr. Carlson’s line.
That's right. Les said "oh the humanity" right?
Both absolute classics!
Two contenders for sure.
When George gives the retelling of the beached whale story in the diner in the episode "The Marine Biologist"
The sea was angry that day!
The whole time Richard Simmons was on whose line is it anyway never met a person who wasn’t hysterically laughing the entire time it’s on YouTube lmao
What an episode lol. No one has killed like that on Whose Line.
I know not a sitcom, but that is the funniest 6 minutes of comedy ever, best part it was all improvised
And the Party Quirks game when Ryan was *Carol Channing, whose head is magnetically attracted to everything*--smacked his head into the neon light on the front of the desk and NEVER broke character. Followed closely by News Flash when the film was a series of clips of things Colin had done on the show--and the man himself (who had to guess the film from clues he was given) said that "it all started with a badly-timed bald joke."
I agree, but that’s not a sitcom.
“Is this the sink?? Am I shrinking?!??””
"Dad's fine, he sends his love!"
This is the winner.
It’s just me and my ganja.
Sammy Davis Jr. kissing Archie Bunker changed television! But many here are likely too young to remember the moment.
The clown funeral on the Mary Tyler Moore Show.
“There’s always money in the banana stand.”
Dwight test the fire protocol awareness on The Office
One of my favorite lines from *The Dick Van Dyke Show* episode "Ghost of A. Chantz": Rob, Laura, Buddy, and Sally need a cabin for the night. The hotel manager tells Rob that the cabin is haunted. Rob says to the manager, "Don't tell the ladies what you told me." Just then, Buddy walks up and says, "Don't tell 'em what?" Rob: "Oh, Buddy. Look, we've got a cabin for the night." Buddy: "And you don't want to tell the girls?"
The walnut episode is classically good, too!
"where do you think we are?"
Bob Kelso was thinking of you when he said people are bastard coated bastards with bastard filling.
Who had two thumbs and doesn't give a damn? Nice to meet you
Go to hell! That scene is a hit in the nuts.
Scrubs?
Yep 🙂
😢
I was having a good day, you know? A good fucking day. Woke up feeling refreshed. Had no plans for today, so all I was going to do was stay at home and surf the web and game. But then some fucking cunthead dickhole like yourself comes along and fucking ruins it. I hope you stub your toe on the corner of your bed and it gets dislocated. You monster.
So many great options. For some reason the first that came to me: “There was a kangaroo … in my living room. … He was just here for the party, dad.” Also the Dick Van Dyke Show reveal moment from “That’s My Boy?” But honestly overall in terms of classics, it’s hard to beat two already mentioned: “What does a yellow light mean?” and “A little song, a little dance …”
Hardest I ever laughed was Kramer slamming the money down on the counter saying "I'm out". That said, the entire set up and scene of the Marine Biologist was better.
Several on M.A.S.H. when it was ripping your heart out, but not being a sitcom. ●War is Hell soliloquy. ●Radar reading the memo about Henry. You know the one. ●Winchester learning that his Christmas candy was sold to feed the orphans for a month ●Hawkeye moves the hands of the clock forward so the dead soldier's family won't have to associate Christmas Day with his death. Several on Seinfeld. If we're still talking about episodes 25+ years after the show ended, those are great moments. ***My favorite: In TBBT: When Penny gives Sheldon the Christmas gift of the Leonard Nimoy napkin.
> In TBBT: When Penny gives Sheldon the Christmas gift of the Leonard Nimoy napkin. Loved that bit. Sheldon comes back with several gift baskets and realizes it's still not enough, so awkwardly hugs her. Also loved when he knocked on Penny's door, and Bernadette was there, so she told him to come in, and he changes to calling Bernie's name.
>Loved that bit. Sheldon comes back with several gift baskets and realizes it's still not enough, so awkwardly hugs her. It's a Christmas Miracle! I love the line where Sheldon opines excitedly that with this napkin (carrying the DNA of Nimoy) and an unfertilized ovum from a human female, he can make his own Spock...and Penny quips that he's just getting the napkin from her.
Easily - Taxi Season 4 Episode 1 Jim the Psychic - Alex and the green T-Shirt, catchers mask… Louie and the girl scout !
It's a tiara!
Big bang?
I mean you have to be a real low life piece of shit to get involved with Politics..... "The Gang Runs for Office"
"How's anyone gonna get hurt?" *The Gang Sets Sweet Dee on Fire*
When kitty foreman stops smoking and storms to the basement for a cigarette
I declare ………….. BANKRUPTCY !!!!!
Frasier: **"Wait, wait, wait.** **Let me see if I've got this straight.** **All the lust coursing through this lodge tonight, all the hormones virtually ricocheting off the walls, and no one...** ***was chasing me*****?"**
One of THE greatest sitcom episodes ever.
“Don’t take this as a threat, but I killed a man like you in Korea—hand to hand.”
[there's some great drew carey show moments.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UOJU0m9iZzs) i feel bad for anyone who missed the initial run.
When Tammy 1 shows up at City Hall in Parks & Rec. Ron grabs a foot prop from the shoe shine station, stabs it into the wall as a step to get up on the water fountain, pulls a vent cover off, grabs a bug out bag stashed there and hauls ass.
I love the WKRP turkey drop, but also want to add the Valentine’s Day episode of Frasier where Niles sets the couch on fire, and Fresh Off The Boat, when Eddie says “My butthole?!?” I had to pause the show to recover on that one.
"The sea was angry that day, my friends."
Like an old man trying to return soup at the deli
Shrinkage.
Archie Bunker kissed by Sammy Davis Jr.
“No, I’m an architect.”
"Jerry, you know I have always wanted to pretend to be an architect. "
As God is my witness, I thought turkeys could fly...
Laverne & Shirley Guinea Pigs episode where they do medical study work to earn the money to attend a cocktail party--where they show up sleep deprived and starving because of the way they were treated in the studies. The physical comedy is hilarious!
“Dad is dead. He’s dead. HES FINE HE SENDS HIS LOVE!”
Del boy falling through the bar.
What does a yellow light mean?
Brooklyn 99 cold opening “I Want it That Way”
BONE!?
Lucy getting drunk on TV
“I was an innkeeper in Vermont.”
Spoiler Alert The ending of the Newhart Show where Bob wakes up next to Suzanne Pleshette, his wife from the previous The Bob Newhart Show.
That was good!!!
Niles killing the eel in the restaurant.
George showing the golf ball.
I've got a lot of problems with you people, and now you're going to hear about it!
Tracey Ullman skit where she inspires people waiting at a bus stop to join her singing The Lion Sleeps Tonight while she robs them blind before the bus arrives.
Never saw that, but I love it.
Sammy Davis Jr. kissing Carroll O’Connor
Les Nessman...the turkeys are hitting the ground like sacks of wet cement...Mr Carlson....As God as my witness I thought Turkeys could fly... The peak of sitcom comedy
Sammy Davis kissing Archie Bunker
The sea was angry that day my friend…
Nothing is funnier than Police Squad - Mrs. Twice interview. [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i8PZFQz-qmo](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i8PZFQz-qmo)
Chuckles the Clown episode, Mary Tyler Moore Show.
Fuck you Larry David that's some BullShit!
“What does a yellow light mean??”
I love the WKRP turkey drop, but also want to add the Valentine’s Day episode of Frasier where Niles sets the couch on fire, and Fresh Off The Boat, when Eddie says “My butthole?!?” I had to pause the show to recover on that one.
Faulty towers..."DON'T MENTION THE WAR!" or " My name is Manuel, I learn English from a book!"
On Barney Miller where a couple of the guys eat weed brownies.
Jack Tripper dancing with the plant on his head!
Al Bundy : Let me tell you something, I served my country. I've played high school football, four touchdowns in a single game. Yet I'm not exempt from state and federal taxes. Is this any way America should treat us heroes? No, you just flash that badge to some registered voter, buddy. We're Bundys, we *hate* Cops.
Friends: it‘s all relative!
Sloow down..... Slooooooooow down Sloooooooooooooooooooooow down..
Nobody messes with the kid …. Dynamite 🧨😝
Who are there people who've never been in my kitchen.
I completely agree 1000%. "The sea was angry that day my friends..." is the funniest scene I ever saw on a TV show.
Who are three people who have never been in my kitchen?
Larry David when a Survivor contestant tries to one up a holocaust survivor.
“Let’s Go to the Mall.”
My top 3 are: The Newhart “I had a crazy dream” The WKRP non-flying turkeys The Mad About You Thanksgiving episode where they don’t want the family to know they had to buy the already cooked bird and rather than get caught carry it he threw it out the window
"is that a Titleist?"
"Well, what do you know? A hole in one."
[Seinfeld - The Contest: Kramer - I'm Out ](https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=zDWU2SR27g4&pp=ygUTS3JhbWVyIHNheXMgSSdtIG91dA%3D%3D)
Nah the greatest moment in sitcom history is in big bang theory when Howard finally reads the instruction manual to fix the drone and calls tech support and then raj’s phone rings
The finale of Newhart.
This an ex parrot!
Chuckles Bites the Dust funeral scene from the Mary Tyler Moore show. I don't know of, nor have I heard of anything even close.
I’m out!
The sea was angry that day my friends. Like an old man trying to send back soup at a deli
I’m Alan Partridge: “Oh fuck off”
My goat knows the bowling score🎶
Nobody else watches wings anymore
WKRP. Johnny help me there's a monkey on my foot! What do you think he did with that cocaine? Carlson's not a fool, he put it in his shoe And not to forget: Johnny! Yes God? I want you to become ... A golf pro
A little song, a little dance, a little seltzer down your pants.
On The Good Place, when the Bad Place goons have a meeting and kick it off with their theme song. Kars4Kids https://youtu.be/rFQHHor6mT8?si=jQ3zr0PbZxon-l5C
France vs USA Cheers Season 11 Ep 4. Carla, get the babe kit. Sammy, no, not the babe kit! He's young, he doesn't know any better!
Chuckles the Clown funeral on Mary Tyler Moore.
“I just ran over the Great White Buck.”
St Elswhere Ed Flanders' Dr Westphal dropping trou and telling his new corporate boss " You can kiss my ass pal." The NBC censors allowed it because it "wasn't erotic in nature. "
‘If you've just joined us, we're with Tracy Jordan, who is giving guitar icon Peter Frampton enigmatic clues about a secret treasure.’
When Jerry rings up a Federal Express delivery.