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Top "LOL" Moments in Classic TV Shows?
- Thread starter Stanislav
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This is going to take some explaining, but I'll try to keep it to a minimum, bear with me. :
There was a comedy special on NBC that aired circa 1973 or '74. Unfortunately, I don't remember who starred in it, and who else appeared.
This program aired during the Arab Oil Embargo, when gas prices started a very rapid uphill climb, and there were long lines at gas stations everywhere. People were mad and frustrated at both the oil companies and at Arabs in general.
Somewhere in the middle of the show, three actors dressed like sheiks are musically pacing towards the camera, singing "Roll out the barrel, we'll have a barrel of fun", and while they're singing "The Beer Barrel Polka", suddenly a giant metal barrel labeled "oil" comes from above the camera, and barrels right into the trio for a perfect bowling strike!
I don't know if the audience reaction was canned or not, but they were laughing hysterically, and so was I. I laughed uncontrollably for a good half hour. I wish I could remember other details of this show.
The only thing that made me laugh longer was the restaurant scene in "Monty Python's Meaning of Life". If you've seen it, you know what I mean. If you haven't, don't ask, just see it, and you won't have to ever ask!
There was a comedy special on NBC that aired circa 1973 or '74. Unfortunately, I don't remember who starred in it, and who else appeared.
This program aired during the Arab Oil Embargo, when gas prices started a very rapid uphill climb, and there were long lines at gas stations everywhere. People were mad and frustrated at both the oil companies and at Arabs in general.
Somewhere in the middle of the show, three actors dressed like sheiks are musically pacing towards the camera, singing "Roll out the barrel, we'll have a barrel of fun", and while they're singing "The Beer Barrel Polka", suddenly a giant metal barrel labeled "oil" comes from above the camera, and barrels right into the trio for a perfect bowling strike!
I don't know if the audience reaction was canned or not, but they were laughing hysterically, and so was I. I laughed uncontrollably for a good half hour. I wish I could remember other details of this show.
The only thing that made me laugh longer was the restaurant scene in "Monty Python's Meaning of Life". If you've seen it, you know what I mean. If you haven't, don't ask, just see it, and you won't have to ever ask!
My favorite "LOL" moment would have to be the episode "Lucy Does A Commercial" on I Love Lucy. You know.... "Vitameatavegamin"! I've seen this episode a million times. I still laugh my a** off every time.
Coming in second...... "Chuckles The Clown Dies". Probably the best episode on "The Mary Tyler Moore Show". Betcha, it's on YouTube!
Coming in second...... "Chuckles The Clown Dies". Probably the best episode on "The Mary Tyler Moore Show". Betcha, it's on YouTube!
Got to be this one, "Johnny Carson - Ed Ames Tomahawk Incident"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gD0DV2vPNEQ
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gD0DV2vPNEQ
I agree with the Honeymooners golf episode and the Vitametavegamin episode from I Love Lucy (Also the episode where Lucy and Ethel are working in a candy factory), but here are some more of my favorites:
Abbott and Costello - Who's on First - I know it's an old routine, but they did do it on The Colgate Comedy Hour and probably other shows as well.
MASH - The Yankee Doodle Doctor episode, where Hawkeye and Trapper take over making a documentary about the 4077th
The WKRP Turkey Drop
The Last Newhart, when Bob realizes that everything was a dream
Taxi - Jim's first episode, when he keeps asking "What does a yellow light mean?" during his driver's exam
The Carol Burnett Show - Tim Conway's Dentist Sketch and his Siamese Elephants bit (Actually a blooper that wasn't aired until years later on bloopers shows and their reunion show)
The Cosby Show - The episode where the family is celebrating Cliff's parents' wedding anniversary and they do a lipsync to Ray Charles' The Night Time is the Right Time with Rudy doing the female vocal screaming "BABY!!! BABY!!!"
The Tonight Show - Johnny Carson doing Ronald Reagan in a Who's on First type routine about Watt is the name of the Secretary of the Interior, and when he did Willie Nelson and sang To All the Girls I've Loved Before with Julio Eglasias
;D
Abbott and Costello - Who's on First - I know it's an old routine, but they did do it on The Colgate Comedy Hour and probably other shows as well.
MASH - The Yankee Doodle Doctor episode, where Hawkeye and Trapper take over making a documentary about the 4077th
The WKRP Turkey Drop
The Last Newhart, when Bob realizes that everything was a dream
Taxi - Jim's first episode, when he keeps asking "What does a yellow light mean?" during his driver's exam
The Carol Burnett Show - Tim Conway's Dentist Sketch and his Siamese Elephants bit (Actually a blooper that wasn't aired until years later on bloopers shows and their reunion show)
The Cosby Show - The episode where the family is celebrating Cliff's parents' wedding anniversary and they do a lipsync to Ray Charles' The Night Time is the Right Time with Rudy doing the female vocal screaming "BABY!!! BABY!!!"
The Tonight Show - Johnny Carson doing Ronald Reagan in a Who's on First type routine about Watt is the name of the Secretary of the Interior, and when he did Willie Nelson and sang To All the Girls I've Loved Before with Julio Eglasias
;D
bpatrick said:
Art Carney was a genius.
That reminds me of one of my other favorite Honeymooners LOL moments: Ralph has been chosen to be on a Name That Tune type TV game show. To practice his song knowledge, they get a piano, and Norton plays various songs to quiz Ralph. Every time Norton begins a song, he starts it with the first 2 bars of Swanee River. Ralph gets mad and yells at Norton to cut-it-out.
When Ralph appears on the game show, he's frozen with stage fright...the first song is played, but he blanks, and can't remember the title. Naturally, it was Swanee River.
So many Carol Burnett show moments would qualify, but how bout Tim Conway in one of the Mama's Family sketches when he's describing the Siamese elephants joined at the trunk! He had them right where he wanted them. Sheer Comic Genius!sack said:
Starting at 2:00 mark... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3qqE_WmagjY
I also loved the Tudball-Wiggins or Ha-Wiggins sketches too!
...Five elements:
1) Johnny Carson
2) Dom DeLuise
3) a plate full of raw eggs
4) Burt Reynolds
5) a can of whipped cream topping...
1) Johnny Carson
2) Dom DeLuise
3) a plate full of raw eggs
4) Burt Reynolds
5) a can of whipped cream topping...
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The Wheelchair Race on Benny Hill
When Gallagher rode out onto the stage on a tricycle with a car door attached to it & had to roll down the window so everyone could hear him on "Make Me Laugh"
When Lenny & Squiggy sang "Night After Night" on the Schott's Beer Variety Show on Laverne & Shirley.(been looking for a copy of this!)
Another episode of Laverne & Shirley( I believe it ended up a serious episode where Laverne was gonna marry the fireman & he died in a fire), but before it got serious, Lenny & Squiggy bust in with fire gear on & chant:"Fire, fire, someone get the net...here come the firemen to get the fire wet".
Any number of Fred Sanford & Aunt Esther battles..."You old fish eyed feww!!!"
Jack Tripper crossing his legs & getting stuck that way.
Mr. Roper waking up in bed next to Jack.
(one of the few times they showed something technical on WKRP)- where Les is listening to Johnny in cue on Marti back at the station with headphones on & Herb comes in the studio & unknowingly cranks them up as Les lets out a wail.
When Gallagher rode out onto the stage on a tricycle with a car door attached to it & had to roll down the window so everyone could hear him on "Make Me Laugh"
When Lenny & Squiggy sang "Night After Night" on the Schott's Beer Variety Show on Laverne & Shirley.(been looking for a copy of this!)
Another episode of Laverne & Shirley( I believe it ended up a serious episode where Laverne was gonna marry the fireman & he died in a fire), but before it got serious, Lenny & Squiggy bust in with fire gear on & chant:"Fire, fire, someone get the net...here come the firemen to get the fire wet".
Any number of Fred Sanford & Aunt Esther battles..."You old fish eyed feww!!!"
Jack Tripper crossing his legs & getting stuck that way.
Mr. Roper waking up in bed next to Jack.
(one of the few times they showed something technical on WKRP)- where Les is listening to Johnny in cue on Marti back at the station with headphones on & Herb comes in the studio & unknowingly cranks them up as Les lets out a wail.
IIRC, Ralph had to name the composer of the song, and after a couple "Hamina-hamina-hamina"s, he blurted out "Ed Norton?"
The Jack Benny Christmas show in 1960 comes to mind when Jack and Rochester go Christmas shopping at the department store and the hilarity begins when Jack wants to get Don Wilson a $40 wallet and then he decides to go to the clerk played by Mel Blanc to gift wrap the gift and Jack's note to Don and then Jack changes his mind about the note he wants to put in the wallet and then Mel Blanc gets all flustered at Jack and then when Jack decides on the $1.98 wallet and that's when Mel has had it and shoots himself.
Also in between when Jack wants to give Mary a watch and the lady salesman gives Jack a hammer to test out its nonbreakableness and then the watch turns out to be breakable and then Jack wants his money back.
Also in between when Jack wants to give Mary a watch and the lady salesman gives Jack a hammer to test out its nonbreakableness and then the watch turns out to be breakable and then Jack wants his money back.
For me, I always lose it when I see the rerun of the Friends episode in which Ross has a "leather pants" dilemma in his new girlfriend's bathroom.
My LOL moments include:
Lucy and Ethel as the candy comes down the conveyor belt and they try as hard as they can to wrap it.
Mr. Carlson on the classic Thanksgiving episode when he says "As God is my witness, I thought turkeys could fly.
Carol Burnett as Scarlett O'Hara coming down the stairs in that dress made out of the curtains.
Lucy and Ethel as the candy comes down the conveyor belt and they try as hard as they can to wrap it.
Mr. Carlson on the classic Thanksgiving episode when he says "As God is my witness, I thought turkeys could fly.
Carol Burnett as Scarlett O'Hara coming down the stairs in that dress made out of the curtains.
Braves2005 said:
I've seen that show (wish I had a copy) -- it's a real tour de force for Mel! Jack changes his mind back and forth several times, and each time the gift box has made it a little further away in the process, making the retrieval of it more difficult. Mel's frustration grows with each bit 'til by the end his hair is messed, his tie askew, with a wild look in his eyes and his voice rising in pitch and emotion. Very much "chewing the scenery," but it works, and towards the end, you can see Jack trying hard not to break up. (Mel always had a way of doing that to Jack -- as many times as they did the "Si-Sy-Sue" routine, Benny always found it hard to keep his composure while starting at Blanc's deadpan, hangdog face.) <g>
Another good moment in that show is Rochester looking for a gift for Jack. The salesclerk tries to help him decide, trying to ascertain what sort of man Rochester's boss is. ("Is he...the athletic type?" "No, no..." "Is he...the intellectual type?" "No, no...") When the clerk gets to "Well...is he the romantic type?" Rochester's response becomes an exaggerated, half-laughed, head shaking "NOOOOOOOOOOO!!!"
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