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The Nutty Professor (1996) The Klump Family's flatulent dinner scene (five characters - including overweight Professor Sherman Klump, his father, mother, brother and grandmother - all played by Eddie Murphy); also the scenes of Sherman's two nightmares (spoofing well-known films From Here to Eternity (1953) and King Kong (1933)), and the attempts by Klump to work out, including a failed acupuncture session with thousands of needles; also the character of the obnoxious, testosterone-driven alter-ego Buddy Love (Murphy again) |
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The Odd Couple (1968) This film highlighted the continuing contrast between two divorced/separated male roommates trapped with each other: unkempt ultra-slob sports writer Oscar Madison (Walter Matthau) and compulsive, hypochondriacal, prissy, neat and tidy photographer Felix Ungar (Jack Lemmon) - with Oscar's famous response to know-it-all Felix's insistence that "it's not spaghetti, it's linguini" - Oscar throws the linguini at the kitchen wall and pronounces: "Now it's garbage!" |
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Office Space (1999) The scene of the ultimate revenge against the office copier/fax/printer machine - its demise was delivered with shoe heels and a baseball bat in the middle of a field, to the rap tune of the Geto Boys song "Still" |
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Old School (2003) The petting zoo scene at a child's birthday party in which Frank Ricard (Will Ferrell) shoots himself accidentally with a horse-tranquilizer gun ("the most powerful tranq gun on the market, I got her in Mexico") - in the jugular - while mullet-haired stable boy Peppers (Seann William Scott) tending to the animals exclaims: "Yes, that's awesome!...You just took one to the jugular, man"; Frank's voice begins to slow down and become distorted |
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One, Two, Three (1961) A satirical comedy with the blustery, over-the-top performance of James Cagney as the head of Coca Cola's West Berlin operations - C. W. MacNamara: ("Schlemmer, you're back in the SS, small salary!"); the torture of East German communist Otto Ludwig Piffl (Horst Buchholz) by East German agents - forcing him to listen to Itsy-Bitsy Teeny-Weeny Yellow Polka-Dot Bikini over and over again - to try to turn him into an instant capitalist; and the Grand Hotel Potemkin scene in which Schlemmer (Hans Lothar) is dressed in drag (a polka-dot dress) to avoid the Communists |
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The wacky character of crackpot billionaire J.D. Hackensacker III (Rudy Vallee), with pithy, funny one liners like: "Chivalry is not only dead, it's decomposed!" and "That's one of the tragedies of this life - that the men who are most in need of a beating up are always enormous!"; and the character of Hackensacker's oversexed, oddball heiress sister Princess Centimillia (known as "Maude") (Mary Astor); also the sequence on the train to Florida when scatter-brained, fortune-hunting wife Gerry Jeffers (Claudette Colbert) experiences the Ale & Quail Club - an unruly group of aging sportsmen and millionaires |
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Paper Moon (1973) The character of young and precocious, orphaned 9 year-old Addie (Oscar-winning Tatum O'Neal in her film debut) who convinces her 'father' Moses Pray (Ryan O'Neal) in a diner (while eating a Coney dog and drinking a Nehi) to let her accompany him ("We got the SAME jaw!" and "I want my $200") on the road; and all of the scenes of their conversations on the road and her manipulative swindling with fly-by-night con man Moses as they sell Bibles to recent widows; also the character of gold-digging carnival dancer Miss Trixie Delight (Madeline Kahn) |
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Pee-Wee's Big Adventure (1987) The cartoon-like toy/contraption-filled environment of child-like man-boy Pee Wee Herman's (Paul Reubens) playhouse home and the Rube-Goldberg method in which he wakes up and has breakfast made for him; the scene of Pee Wee's argument with his neighbor ("I know you are but what am I?"); Pee-Wee's normal outfit (a small gray suit, a large bowtie, and heavy makeup); Pee-Wee's worship of his ridiculously over-gadgeted bicycle (complete with plastic lion's head on the handle-bar); and his famous remark after tumbling when he attempts to perform tricks with it: "I meant to do that!"; his delighted perusal of Mario's Magic Shop (at one point putting on an oversized ear and yelling, "WHAT? WHAT?"); and Pee-Wee's startling, shocking and hysterical hitchhiking encounter with the ghost of trucker Large Marge (Alice Nunn) |
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One of the funniest opening sequences in film history, the extended, dialogue-less fight between C.K. Dexter Haven (Cary Grant) and Tracy Lord (Katharine Hepburn) when he grabs and palms her face and forcefully pushes her through the doorway; and the scene of a moonlight rendezvous between tipsy heiress/bride-to-be Tracy and tabloid reporter Mike Connor (James Stewart) - after some unexpected and melodramatic kissing, she exclaims softly: "Golly", then takes a breath and kisses him a second time - she stands in his arms, her cheek against his chest, overwhelmed and amazed at herself and starting to shake: "Golly Moses" |
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Pillow Talk (1959) The scene in which carefree philandering songwriter Brad Allen (Rock Hudson) pretends to be gay to seduce career girl Jan Marrow (Doris Day) -- with the additional subtext of Hudson's real-life homosexuality |
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The Pink Panther (1964) The opening credits with the debut of the animated feline and his various antics, the pratfall scene in which bumbling Inspector Jacques Clouseau (Peter Sellers) spins a large globe, looks away and confidently states: "We must find that woman," and then places his hand back on the globe - which immediately throws him to the floor; also, the scene in which the bumbling detective wears a suit of armor at a fantasy-dress costume party and chastises the sergeant dressed in the zebra costume: "One more outburst like that and I'll have your stripes!" |
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The Pink Panther Strikes Again (1976) The various word and sight gags, including the innkeeper scene in which foolish Inspector Clouseau (Peter Sellers) has a mangled French accent: ("Do you have a rhum?..."), and the dog scene in which Clouseau asks the Bavarian innkeeper (Graham Stark): "Does your dog bite?" - when told no, he pets the "nice doggie" dachshund that snarls and bites him - and retorts back: "I thought you said your dewg did not bite!" - with the innkeeper's reply: "Zat... is not my dog!"; the character of twitching Chief Inspector Dreyfus (Herbert Lom) - Clouseau's boss and nemesis; also the scenes in which he displays skill on the parallel bars in an English country home and dismounts by vaulting down a staircase; the scenes of numerous failed assassination attempts upon Clouseau's life, and his many desperate and inventive attempts to cross a moat into Dreyfus' gothic German castle; and the scene of Clouseau (disguised as a dentist) administering too much laughing gas to Dreyfus - and himself; and of his hunchbacked Quasimodo disguise that inflated and carried him over Paris into the Seine |
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Greatest Funniest Movie Moments and Scenes
(alphabetical order, by film title)
Introduction | Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Part 4 | Part 5 | Part 6 | Part 7 | Part 8 | Part 9 | Part 10
Part 11 | Part 12 | Part 13 | Part 14 | Part 15 | Part 16 | Part 17 | Part 18 | Part 19 | Part 20

