Funniest TV episode Of All Time

[Corky Marlowe]

Gotta put a vote in for the hash brownies episode of "Barney Miller", especially Yemana..."Barney, Barney, Barney, was your mother from Killarney?" And of course, Fish..."This is the best I've felt in 20 years and it's ILLEGAL!"

 

[Markxxx]

The second episode of the Mary Tyler Moore Show where Rhoda and Mary call people up at the spur of the moment and invite them for drinks, only the guests think it's dinner. Meanwhile Rhoda finds out she invited not a man but a man and his wife.

The site of Valarie Harper saying, sitting on the couch and as Mary lets in her "date" and Rhoda finds it's a newlywed couple, then Rhoda, dumps the whole pile of bacon curls in her lap and just gorges herself on it. That set the whole tone for the Rhoda dynamic for years.

Also the "man hands' episode of "Seinfeld" was also so funny. Just saying "man hands" still cracks me up.

 

[FreddyE1977]

The Honeymooners "Chef of the Future" episode.

Everybody Loves Raymond where Peter Boyle (in a Frankenstein costume!)
hands out condoms instead of candies to the neighborhood children.

WKRP in Cincinnati when Arthur Carlson tries to ban the practice of having
three martini lunches (YOU try selling time on this station to a sober client!)

 

[LKellerIII]

The Honeymooners "Chef of the Future" episode.

Everybody Loves Raymond where Peter Boyle (in a Frankenstein costume!)
hands out condoms instead of candies to the neighborhood children.

I missed that episode. Was there any reference or homage to Young Frankenstein, the Mel Brooks film? Boyle played Frankenstein's monster in that movie.

 

[buster2]

"I missed that episode. Was there any reference or homage to Young Frankenstein, the Mel Brooks film? Boyle played Frankenstein's monster in that movie.


Yes. There's a moment in which Frank (Peter Boyle) shows up at Ray and Deb's house in F'stein costume looking very much like the monster from Young F'stein. You can tell by the audience laughs that they get the reference.

 

[FreddyE1977]

Something similar was done on Patricia Heaton's "The Middle" the other night.
Ray Romano was the guest star, playing a high school buddy of Mike
who showed up uninvited at Mike and Frankie's camping honeymoon.

Romano kept looking at her saying things like "Do I know you?" and
"I could have made you very happy in an alternate universe". Funny.

 

[cd637299]

Something similar was done on Patricia Heaton's "The Middle" the other night.
Ray Romano was the guest star, playing a high school buddy of Mike
who showed up uninvited at Mike and Frankie's camping honeymoon.

Romano kept looking at her saying things like "Do I know you?" and
"I could have made you very happy in an alternate universe". Funny.

Wasn't that similar also during an ep of The Lucy Show, when William Frawley made his last TV appearance? I thought the Lucy character said, "That man sure looks familiar.""

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[Braves2005]

The Lucy Show: Lucy wins a disc jockey for a day award after her and Mr. Mooney are in the same contest where each one says a tongue twister so many times and if they couldn't do it in so many turns they lost and Lucy won by saying "Rubber baby buggy bumpers".

At the radio station, Lucy begins with a bang by upsetting a whole bunch of records ("I hope I break a whole bunch of records today"), turning on a huge fan and blowing her instructions to the mixing board over the place, the tape recording garbles up (Spangle soda pop tastes great), a request for "You're The One For Me" which includes a bunch of women's names, a baseball game where Lucy gets the signals on the board mixed up, Bing Crosby singing Stephen Foster (ba ba da da da bum bum bum Stephen Foster). The final and hilarious ending was where the mixing board started smoking up and then Lucy tries to extinguish it with a fire extinguisher with all of the foam all over the place.

Lucy: I would like to make a request. (starts singing) I'm dreaming of a white Christmas. (foam shooting up in the air and Lucy crying)

 

[landtuna]

I'll make one more nomination.....the "CSI" episode of "Two and a Half Men".

Charlie and Alan's mom is marrying (Robert Wagner) but finds her new husband expired on Charlie's bed with lipstick on his hoo-hoo. Hilarity ensues when the cops interview the cast ala CSI.

 

[bpatrick]

The Lucy Show: Lucy wins a disc jockey for a day award after her and Mr. Mooney are in the same contest where each one says a tongue twister so many times and if they couldn't do it in so many turns they lost and Lucy won by saying "Rubber baby buggy bumpers".

At the radio station, Lucy begins with a bang by upsetting a whole bunch of records ("I hope I break a whole bunch of records today"), turning on a huge fan and blowing her instructions to the mixing board over the place, the tape recording garbles up (Spangle soda pop tastes great), a request for "You're The One For Me" which includes a bunch of women's names, a baseball game where Lucy gets the signals on the board mixed up, Bing Crosby singing Stephen Foster (ba ba da da da bum bum bum Stephen Foster). The final and hilarious ending was where the mixing board started smoking up and then Lucy tries to extinguish it with a fire extinguisher with all of the foam all over the place.

Lucy: I would like to make a request. (starts singing) I'm dreaming of a white Christmas. (foam shooting up in the air and Lucy crying)

I wonder if Lucy's writers ever heard "The Mel Blanc Show," which aired on CBS radio in the 1946-47 season. Mel played the owner of a fix-it shop where everything seemed to go out in worse shape than when they were brought in. In one episode, Mel busted a radio, and when the owner came to pick it up, Mel tried to stall him by hiding under the counter and imitating the voices of various radio personalities (he even did an imitation of a soap-opera organ). The two episodes seem somewhat similar. (BTW, I know this is a TV board but if you can find any cassettes of "The Mel Blanc Show," and they're out there, pick up one or two; despite the fact that the show was short-lived, Blanc's reputation from cartoons and Jack Benny's show made his own show a collector's item.)

 

[trusty]

I wonder if Lucy's writers ever heard "The Mel Blanc Show," which aired on CBS radio in the 1946-47 season. Mel played the owner of a fix-it shop where everything seemed to go out in worse shape than when they were brought in. In one episode, Mel busted a radio, and when the owner came to pick it up, Mel tried to stall him by hiding under the counter and imitating the voices of various radio personalities (he even did an imitation of a soap-opera organ). The two episodes seem somewhat similar. (BTW, I know this is a TV board but if you can find any cassettes of "The Mel Blanc Show," and they're out there, pick up one or two; despite the fact that the show was short-lived, Blanc's reputation from cartoons and Jack Benny's show made his own show a collector's item.)

Maybe THIS, THIS and THIS will hold you down until you find some cassettes.

 

[rjoc]

Last night ME TV aired an episode of Nat Hiken's "Car 54, Where Are You?" that is, to me, the funniest half hour of TV ever produced. "Boom! Boom! Boom!' was originally broadcast on January 14, 1962. All the various departments of the city government of New York participate in a Barbershop Quartet contest. The catch is that they are all required to sing the same song. One of the celebrity judges is Jan Murray, playing himself, who is driven insane in hilarious fashion on hearing the same song over and over again by hundreds of quartets all using the same arrangement of a solo voice accompanied by the rest of each group intoning "Boom! Boom! Boom! Boom! What makes this episode especially surreal is that the 53rd Precinct's soloist is lanky Patrolman Francis Muldoon(the great Fred Gwynne) whose speaking voice is in the bass register but singing voice is an obviously dubbed Irish tenor sound. The plot unfurls from this point in crazy ways and wraps up in a sentimental finish.

What do you think is the funniest episode of a TV show ever produced?

"The Death of Cousin Oscar" All in the Family 1972, I believe

And agreed with previous post Bob Newhart Show Thanksgiving Episode.