What's your top sitcom moments of all time?

[pokerfan]

MTM: Chuckles the Clown Bites the Dust (A little song, a little dance; A little seltzer down your pants.)

Fawlty Towers: The Germans (You started it!)

MASH: Captain Tuttle and any episode with Col. Flagg

WKRP: The Thanksgiving Show

Taxi: Reverend Jim takes the drivers license test

Newhart: The Finale (Bob wakes up in his old sitcom)

Just Shoot Me: Slow Donnie (Donnie wants kiss like on Showtime)

Seinfeld: The Contest (That's it! I'm out of the contest!)

[Left Is Write]

1. From my favorite Frasier episode:

Marty: I'll just gay it up a little!

Marty: What if he asks me out on a date?
Frasier: I've got news for you dad. You're ON a date!

Edward: There's nothing funny going on here.
Niles: Oh....good.

[pokerfan]

8. That one was great

I think my favorite has to be 'Ham Radio' where Frasier is tasked with recreating an old-time live-radio mystery show. Frasier's over-direction so offends the professional voice actor they had hired that he storms during the broadcast. Frasier convinces Niles to stand in and then bothers Niles to the point that Niles starts killing all of the characters (by popping balloons). "Nope, sorry. He's just been shot."

Daphne, listening at home with Martin, "This is turning into a bloodbath!"

[Shakespeare]

2. From Cheers, which I mostly didn't like....

The entire "Woody Gets Married" episode, most especially Kirstie Alley, who was hysterical as a sulking never-a-bride. The malicious glee with which she pushed the ceramic cake topper bride down into the wedding cake was priceless.

And that Newhart finale may be the single greatest of all sitcom moments.

Slow Donnie: the only thing that ever made that show redeeming for the few moments he was on.

[pokerfan]

3. interesting thing about Slow Donnie

They wrote it with David Cross in mind, figuring he was the only person capable of pulling it off without being too offensive. Cross wasn't available so the script had to sit on a shelf while they waited for him to become available.

"Chicken pot, Chicken pot, Chicken pot pie!"

[Shakespeare]

4. That's all my sister or I have to say to each other to crack the other one up.

The chicken pot pie thing, that is. Also memorable: "My pants are tight!"

I can't see anybody but David Cross pulling that off, either.

[Mad_Dem_X]

24. A classic episode, for sure

Hubby and I still say, "Chicken pot, chicken pot, chicken pot pie!"

[achtung_circus]

5. I saw it in the window, and I just HAD to have it.

Carol Burnett

Went With the Wind.

[LibraLiz1973]

7. ROFLMAO!!!

good one

[pokerfan]

10. Carol Burnett Show

One nice thing about being born in 1959 is that I got to see most of these. Didn't Scarlett's dress still have the curtain rod?

As a kid, a lot of the humor went over my head, but I loved the physical stuff, especially Tim Conway. Harvey Korman could never keep a straight face and Tim Conway would just torture him, trying to crack him up.

[SeattleGirl]

12. My all time fav!

:rofl: :rofl: :rofl:

[MissMillie]

28. not a sitcom (more of a variety show), but

without a doubt the funniest moment on television.

[LibraLiz1973]

6. The Seinfeld "Summer of George" episode

George: The Yankees are giving me three months full pay for doing nothing.
Jerry: They did it for three years, what's another few months?


Still a Little Summer Left!

[blonndee]

9. Seinfeld; Elaine: "I don't like this thing! And here's what I'm doing with it!"

(The episode where George gets a toupee)--BEST SEINFELD SCENE EVAH!

[Mad_Dem_X]

25. "You want a Christmas card? HERE'S your Christmas card!!!"

I loved Elaine.

[jobycom]

11. Ellen's "coming out" episode comes to mind.

Hilarious with touches of beauty.

[Initech]

13. Seinfeld - When Kramer is trying to guess George's ATM code

"We can throw birthdays and numbers out. What kind of man are you? Well, you're weak, spineless... a man of temptations. But what tempts you? You're a portly fellow. A little long in the waistband, but is it the salty snacks you crave? No, yours is a sweet tooth. You may stray, but you always return to your dark master - the coco bean. And you'll always crave that sweet, sweet nectar. Ovaltine! Nestle's!"

[NYCGirl]

14. Lucy doing a TV commercial (and getting progressively drunk on vitameatavegimin:

[Rabrrrrrr]

15. That time on Friends when one of them was keeping a secret from another one

OMG!!! That was fucking HILARIOUS!!

[Rabrrrrrr]

16. Jimmy Carter on Home Improvement

that was pretty freakin' cool.

I'd also hoped that it was really Jimmy on the episode of King of the Hill that had Carter, but it was someone else doing his voice. I was quite sad to discover that.

[KitchenWitch]

17. Definitely Chuckles!

:rofl:

[mitchum]

18. The home invasion episode of "Everybody Loves Raymond" where...

the walls were running with blood...or did I just dream that?

[zanne]

35. That's a show I'd like to see. nt

[idgiehkt]

19. WKRP- Johnny Fever's acid flashbacks

I really hate the turkey one, it used to break my heart.

I also like the episode where Les Nessman has the inmaginary office door you have to knock on.

[Kat45]

20. Taxi: Louie DiPalma's high school reunion.

Bobby goes to the reunion pretending to be Louie. :rofl:

[grasswire]

21. the episode where Phoebe tries to seduce Chandler

...to prove that he's involved with Monica. Lisa Kudrow is superb in that exchange.

"I'm very bendy!"

And the Frasier episode where they are playing a drinking game called "Veneer" -- I use that line all the time when someone wants to play a drinking game. Veneer!

[Omphaloskepsis]

22. The Marine Biologist

Crowd: Come on! Save the whale! Hurry up it's gonna die!

Diane: Save the whale George... for me.



(He turns and throws his hat down. He walks into the ocean)



(At the coffee shop Jerry and Kramer are awaiting the story)



George: So I started to walk into the water. I won't lie to you boys, I

was terrified! But I pressed on and as I made my way passed the

breakers a strange calm came over me. I don't know if it was divine

intervention or the kinship of all living things but I tell you Jerry

at that moment I was a marine biologist!



(Elaine enters and sits down)



Elaine: George I was just reading this thing in the papers, it's amazing!

George: I know I was just telling them the story.

Kramer: Come on George, finish the story.

George: The sea was angry that day my friends, like an old man trying to

return soup at a deli!



(Jerry gives Kramer a "what the h-" glance)



George: I got about fifty-feet out and then suddenly the great beast

appeared before me. I tell ya he was ten stories high if he was a

foot. As if sensing my presence he gave out a big bellow. I said,

"Easy big fella!" And then as I watched him struggling I realized

something was obstructing his breathing. From where I was standing

I could see directly into the eye of the great fish!

Jerry: Mammal.

George: Whatever.

Kramer: Well, what did you do next?

George: Then from out of nowhere a huge title wave lifted, tossed like a

quark and I found myself on top of him face to face with the

blow-hole. I could barely see from all of the waves crashing down on

top of me but I knew something was there so I reached my hand and

pulled out the obstruction!



(George pulls out of the inside pocket a golf ball)



(Jerry and George just stare at Kramer)



Kramer: What is that a Titleist? A hole in one eh.

[Mendocino]

23. Barney Miller-hash brownies

Classic

[1gobluedem]

26. That's mine too

Especially when Nick rises up from his desk singing then says to Barney: "Barney, Barney, Barney...Is your mother from Killarney."

I have it on tape and I laugh until I cry every time I watch it.

[MissMillie]

29. Mushy... mushy mushy

Good stuff

[Nye Bevan]

27. The Chandeliers scene in Only Fools and Horses

(This will be very familiar to UK DUers but I don't think this show has been broadcast in the US).

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rr95k_7jqcA

[MissMillie]

30. Bob Newhart has never NOT been funny

My all-time favorite.

[speedoo]

31. When Seinfeld learns that the girl he's dating was dumped by Newman.

That girl has a big role in a movie I watched last night and I find her very attractive.

[Little Wing]

32. Cartman calling himself, Kyle, and Butters using the 'back in time prank caller' phone

*only to be used for prank calls, so you don't change history* to warn himself not to freeze himself for 2 weeks so he doesn't have to suffer through waiting for the Nintendo Wii to come out.

Seinfeld - Costanza has to get the frogger machine across the street before the battery keeping his hi-score runs out

[AwakeAtLast]

33. That 70's show pilot

when Eric is trying to pretend he isn't stoned while talking to his parents and the wallpaper behind them is moving. I laughed my ass off over that one. Still do in reruns.

Close second, same show: Wee wee. Pee pee. :rofl:

[deucemagnet]

34. Homer jumps Springfield Gorge

Also, this isn't from a sitcom, but did anybody see the scene in Nash Bridges where Cheech's character is working as a motorcycle cop? I never really liked that show, but I busted my sides laughing at that scene!

[LynneSin]

36. As God as my witness, I thought Turkeys could fly!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZByndN_ffyw

#2 - would be when Kramer loses the bet for 'The Contest'

#3 - Sex and the City: Samatha and the 'Funky Spunk'

[PRETZEL]

37. The one that immediately jumped out at me was

the dinner with the Jefferson's from All in the Family.

It's amazing how something so socially relevant could be so histerically funny at the same time.

[mondo joe]

38. IN addition to others mentioned: Niles gets an Italian Greyhound on Frasier