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Funniest TV episode Of All Time

Re Green Acres....my favorite also had Johnny Whitaker as Dinky Watson, but I think this was a different episode. It was called "The Beeping Rock." By far my fave ep of GA, and one which has to be seen to be believed.

GA got much more bizarre/surreal/funny as it got older, and it was great.

Why only the first 3 of the six GA seasons are on DVD is beyond me.

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'Are You Being Served?'-virtually every episode, but particularly 'German Week', 'The Hold-Up', and 'The Pop Star'.
'Cheers'-Cliff is a contestant on 'Jeopardy!'(also, during the last season, there was a St. Patrick's Day-themed episode, where Sam auditions an 'Irish band', expecting the usual 'upbeat' classics, and instead they play the darkest, most melancholy, dirgelike music..'Everywhere we looked, was death, death, DEATH!' ;D
'Night Court'-any episode guest-starring Mel Torme and/or John Astin, focused on Dan Fielding, or involving the gang having to hear a large backlog of cases in one night...sometimes, one episode met all three criteria! :)
'Cosby Show'...most episodes before season 4, and all before season 7.
'Gilligan's Island'-Phil Silvers as Harold Hecuba
'All in the Family'-anything prior to the Jeffersons 'movin' on up' to their own show, and Mike and Gloria 'movin' on out' of the Bunkers' house to live next door.
'The Dick Van Dyke Show'-the 'It May Look Like a Walnut' episode, with the alien Danny Thomas impersonator from the 'Twilo Zone'. ;D
'Happy Days'-'My Favorite Orkan', introducing Robin Williams as Mork(and, although most episodes after '79 or '80 aren't that good, the show still had its moments-another Phil Silvers guest shot here, around 1980, and a good turn by Tom Hanks during season 10, as a geek who vows 'vengeance' on Fonzie over a childhood incident)
'I Love Lucy'- 'Job Switching'.
 
Dittos on the VanDyke "Walnut"!

Other episodes of that show that stand out for me were "That's My Boy?"---not your typical 1963 episode....Also the one where Rob went skiing despite Laura's pleas not to go, for fear he'd injure himself. Don't know the title of the ep (wasn't listed at the start, like most eps), but how does one get a sprained body?

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I Love Lucy---Ethel returns to her hometown of Albuquerque and presents a recital at the Little Theatre while Ricky, Lucy and Fred do vaudeville skits behind her.

The Lucy Show---Lucy and Viv install a shower

M*A*S*H---Frank tries to show off that he can drive a tank.
 
onairb said:
'Gilligan's Island'-Phil Silvers as Harold Hecuba
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I'm happy someone else remembers this episode. I thought it was the best of GI too. Definitely a tour de force for Silvers.
 
MASH - Movie Tonight, For Want of a Boot, The Long John Flap, None Like It Hot
Three's Company - The Older Woman, Chrissy's Hospitality, The Bake Off
Mary Tyler Moore - The Dinner Party, What Do You Do When You Want to Produce, Sue Ann's Sister
My 3 Sons - There's a What in the Attic? (lion)
WKRP - Real Families
All in the Family - Archie Eats and Runs, Mike and Gloria Split, Archie in the Cellar, Hot Watch
Jeffersons - Now You See It Now You Dont (killer rabbit)
Day by Day - Brady Bunch spoof
8 Simple Rules - the teenage son's unwanted "friend" keeps showing up
 
I'm convinced there is an "All In The Family" espisode that will make this thread. However, I can't decide which one quite yet. Thanks for bearing with me on this. (My early thoughts include the female impersonator, and the Maude episodes on AITF.)
 
The Office- "The Injury"

Arrested Development- "Afternoon Delight"

MTM- "Chuckles Bites the Dust"
 
Two others from "The Honeymooners": Ralph on "The $99,000 Answer,"
where he thinks Norton wrote "Swanee River," and the one where they're
rehearsing a play, Norton keeps pronouncing "polo ponies" to rhyme with
"monopolies," then Ralph says the line the same way; he slams the script
down on the kitchen table: "Now he's got ME doing it!".

How about the Bilko episode where, in order to beat a speed record, the
powers-that-be induct a chimpanzee who bites the mess sergeant and is
court-martialed, with Bilko as his attorney. The chimp begins playing with
a telephone on the set and Phil Silvers ad-libs: "I request an adjournment.
My client is calling for a new attorney."
 
The Leave It To Beaver episode in which Beaver, Wally, Eddie, Lumpy, and one other guy (whose name escapes me right now) ride a roller coaster. Eddie teases the Beav incessantly about being "afraid" to ride the roller coaster, but Eddie himself is the one who ends up scared, while Beaver is as cool as a cucumber! 8)
 
It's no contest.

Seinfeld, "The Contest."

Among great TV comedy moments, still master of its domain.
 
Two from "The Dick Van Dyke Show" come to mind. The first,
"Where Did I Come From?", ran into problems with the CBS censors,
who apparently didn't wait for the punch line. Ritchie asks his dad
where he came from. Rob says, "You came from Mommy's belly."
(censors start to panic) Ritchie: "I know that. Did I come from
New York or New Jersey?"

The other involves Laura, as a game-show contestant, revealing
that Alan Brady wears a toupee. Sooner than later she has to
face him and admit she said it on national television; Alan looks
at his collection of toupees and is none too happy that they're now
"out of business." Actually, he admits, people have been telling him
how much better he looks without a toupee. Earlier, Rob has told her
that Alan has also had a nose job and hurries her out of Alan's office
before Alan finds out that she knows.

I'd also put in a vote for "The Mary Tyler Moore Show" episode where
Walter Cronkite makes a brief appearance, and Ted tries a little shoptalk:
"So Walt, what words do you have trouble pronouncing?"
 
The Simpsons: Mr. Spritz Goes to Washington

Krusty: Are you guys any good at covering up youthful and middle-aged indiscretions?

Mr. Burns: Are these indiscretions romantic, financial or treasonous?

Krusty: Russian hooker. You tell me.
 
anotherguy said:
Mr. Bean's Christmas episode where he gets his head stuck in a turkey. ;D
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I have great memories of sitting in the bedroom with my daughter, who was then
around 3, and watching that episode on an ancient black-and-white TV set. She would
laugh and laugh at him.
 
cd637299 said:
Dittos on the VanDyke "Walnut"!

Other episodes of that show that stand out for me were "That's My Boy?"---not your typical 1963 episode....Also the one where Rob went skiing despite Laura's pleas not to go, for fear he'd injure himself. Don't know the title of the ep (wasn't listed at the start, like most eps), but how does one get a sprained body?

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Or the VanDyke episode where Buddy's uncle owns a shoe store and he convinces Rob to invest in it.
Then Laura goes to buy some shoes and Sid, the sales clerk, is rude to her. So she tells Rob who comes
back to the store and fires Sid.

Buddy's uncle goes berzerk and insists that Rob beg Sid to come back. When asked why, the uncle explains that
"We run a discount shoe store. People come in here and want to feel like they got away with a really
great bargain. With a steal. Except nobody wants to steal from a nice guy, so Sid roughs them up a
little bit and relieves that guilt so that they come back".

I always thought that episode should be required viewing for everyone in the retail industry.
 
I Love Lucy: Be A Pal, Vitametavegamin, Lucy's Schedule, Job Switching, The Operaetta, Lucy and Ethel trying to redecorate the bedroom, The Freezer, Harpo Marx, Lucy gets John Wayne's footprints from Grauman's Chinese Theater, Lucy and Ethel go with the lady to Florida in her car and they think that she's the hatchet murderer (the part where they try to fix the flat is hilarious), Lucy with her shirt full of eggs while Ricky does the tango with her and then when the eggs break and then Ethel has the eggs in the back of her pants and Fred hits the kitchen door on Ethel breaking those eggs as well, Lucy and Ethel ruining the new barbecue that Ricky and Fred built after Lucy loses her wedding ring, Lucy riding the riding lawn mower all over Connecticut, Lucy gets counterfeit bills in Paris and she is hauled in by the police and everyone has to translate everything.

The Lucy Show: Lucy and Viv install the TV antenna, Lucy and Viv build the shower with water all over them
 
There's a legend that in the episode where Lucy was hiding the eggs,
she got a laugh for a tango she found herself doing that lasted 65 seconds.

Don't forget the William Holden episode. There are two high points: in the
Brown Derby, when her gawking at Holden causes the waiter to dump a tray
of food all over him; then, the scene at the Beverly Palms where Lucy sets
fire to her putty nose when she tries to light a cigarette. (Legend has it that
Lucy ad-libbed the bit where she dunked her nose in the coffee to put out the
fire; writer Madelyn Davis always insisted the bit was scripted.)
 
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