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Thought maybe we could get a discussion going on everyones funniest/favorite moments in different TV Shows.. We just update as we go along i guess, if anyones interested that is.

First up, It's Always Sunny In Philadelphia (because i learned of it on these forums)..

My favorite would have to be when Charlie and Dennis form Electric Dream Machine and come up with the genius "Dayman"...

COME ON EVERYONE!

Dayman, AHAAA
Fighter of the Nightman, AHAAA
Champion of the sun
You're a master of karate and friendship, for everyone
AHAAA

I have to agree that its one of the funniest moments for sure, of all the entire series.

I have to say the stapler in Jello in both The Office UK and US is one of the funniest tv moments. But basically all the moments with Dwight and Jim are funny.

I have a story that makes that moment even funnier barca. My friends and I, the following day after that episode aired, couldn't stop singing it. We walked out of my dorm building, singing the song, and as we walked, we hear from 2 floors up people chiming in, doing the AHAAA part. We all lost it. It was awesome.

That could quite possibly be my favorite as well. Dumpster Baby was a great one as well. That commercial was what got me to watch the show.

Mac's delivery of the line "Just to get a base" is just amazing.

Also love Frank on Acid in "The Gang Gets Invincible."

Oh where to start...

Wife of GOB: I'm in love with your brother-in-law.
GOB Bluth: You're in love with your own brother? The one in the army?
Wife of GOB: No. Your sister's husband.
GOB Bluth: Michael? Michael!
Wife of GOB: No. That's your sister's brother.
GOB Bluth: No, I'm my sister's brother.You're in love with me? Me.
Wife of GOB: I'm in love with Tobias.
GOB Bluth: My brother-in-law?
Wife of GOB: I know it can never be, so I'm leaving. I'm enlisting in the army.
GOB Bluth: To be with your brother?
Wife of GOB: No!

Tobias Fünke: Okay, Lindsay, are you forgetting that I was a professional twice over - an analyst and a therapist. The world's first analrapist.

Lucille: How's my son?
Literal Doctor: He's going to be all right.
Lindsay Funke: Finally some good news from this guy.
George Michael Bluth: There's no other way to take that.
Literal Doctor: That's a great attitude. I got to tell you, if I was getting this news, I don't know that I'd take it this well.
Lucille: But you said he was all right.
Literal Doctor: Yes, he's lost his left hand. So he's going to be "all right."
Lucille: [Jumping on the doctor] You son of a bitch. I hate this doctor.
Lindsay Funke: How do we keep getting this guy?
Michael: Mom, he's a very literal man.
Literal Doctor: Yes, that's more the way I would take the news.

Michael: Lindsay, I can tell that it's real. It's like that feeling that you read about twins having.
Lindsay: We're twins. You didn't give me access to the banking.
Michael: No, you'd just ... you'd go out, and you'd just whore it up Lindsay, you know? Now, she's different. She's a little bit more like me. It's like we finish each other's --
Lindsay: Sandwiches.
Michael: ... Sentences. Why would I say --
Lindsay: Sandwiches.
Michael: (nods) That time, I was going to say sandwiches.

George Michael: Hello, Bluth Company.
George Sr.: Talk me off, honey. Talk me off.
George Michael: Talk you off what, PopPop?
George Sr.: Oh, George Michael. I thought you were - when's that voice gonna drop? Put Kitty on the phone.

God, there's so many more where that came from. And that's not the end of it, most of the time these jokes lead onto ones later on in the episode or ones in other episodes. It's just so beautifully complex and intricate comedy - which we sadly will never see again...

I love Sunny too, but it's simply not as quotable as AD. My favourite quote from the past week as got to be this one from Devon Banks (AD connection again, booyeah!) in 30 Rock:

Devon: "It's just 'G' now Jack. I sold the 'E', to Samsung. They're Samesung now"

and this one's just classic Will Arnett:

Devon: "It's like taking candy from the guy who gives out candy at gay nightclubs"

I dunno, is stuff like AD and 30 Rock too fast-paced and high-brow for regular audiences to appreciate. I mean, I love Sunny and all, but the jokes just doesn't seem as layered, complex and quickfire compared to anything done by AD or 30 Rock... (which by no means is a bad thing... but maybe a reason as to why they're not appreciated here on FM as much)

I dunno, is stuff like AD and 30 Rock too fast-paced and high-brow for regular audiences to appreciate. I mean, I love Sunny and all, but the jokes just doesn't seem as layered, complex and quickfire compared to anything done by AD or 30 Rock... (which by no means is a bad thing... but maybe a reason as to why they're not appreciated here on FM as much)

I'd have to say yes, as I didn't find anything you posted from AD even the slightest bit funny. It would probably be better in the context of the show though, to be fair.

geezer9687 wrote:

I dunno, is stuff like AD and 30 Rock too fast-paced and high-brow for regular audiences to appreciate. I mean, I love Sunny and all, but the jokes just doesn't seem as layered, complex and quickfire compared to anything done by AD or 30 Rock... (which by no means is a bad thing... but maybe a reason as to why they're not appreciated here on FM as much)

I'd have to say yes, as I didn't find anything you posted from AD even the slightest bit funny. It would probably be better in the context of the show though, to be fair.

Definitely funnier in the context of the show... and the fact that you're a little biased too...

I have no idea how you can not be amused by the concept of an "analrapist"... *sigh*

I'm sorry that I highjacked a Sunny quotes thread into an AD/30 Rock one though... so to make it up here's a few...

Mac: Whoa, whoa, whoa, Charlie. Hang on a second. I mean the first half of that song was kind of cool, but what's with the second half?
Charlie: It's about the Night Man, like, you know, like filling me up, and I become him, I become the spirit of the Night Man.
Mac: But it sounds like a song where a man breaks into your house and rapes you.

Charlie: Oh shit. Look at that door dude. See that door right there? That door marked 'Pirate'? You think a pirate lives in there?
Dennis: I see a door marked 'Private.' Is that the door you're talking about?
Charlie: No, I was talking about . . I didn't say . . what'd you hear?
Dennis: I heard you say you saw a door marked 'Pirate'.
Charlie: No, that's not what I said. Look, are we gonna talk about pirates all day or are we gonna find out what lives in here?

Drug Dealer: What you need?
Dennis: Uh, one, please.
Drug Dealer: One what?
Dennis: Uh... one rock of crack.
Sweet Dee: One crack...
Dennis: A crack rock. Is that enough? Is one crack rock enough? I don't...
Sweet Dee: Uh... how much would you recommend for a first-time user?

To be honest, when looking at these quotes right here they don't seem as funny as when I saw it on the show either. AD's the same but on a totally different level IMO.

Geez and Tranny both of you are curious sorts IMO (not in a bad way of course) - the Sunny fan who can't stand AD. If you go on the imdb page for Sunny you would see nothing but praise for AD, as most Sunny fans are really AD fans who went to Sunny after AD got cancelled. You just need to give it a fair go and broaden your minds a little, and allow yourself to actually enjoy the show... after all, almost everyone else has! I used to be like that with South Park, but after a while I really got into it (just can't do the same with Family Guy, sorry)... you just need to do the same with AD (although I suspect I'm talking to a brick wall here)

I have no idea how you can not be amused by the concept of an "analrapist"... *sigh*

Oh now I get it.. rape... I forgot how hilarious rape was.

But seriously, I just never got into AD, and it was pulled off the air, so I'm not going to run out and get dvds to a show I never got into while it was on the air. I didn't get into Sunny until season 3, like I said, the "Just to get a base" ads completely sold me. And then I watched the show and laughed so hard my stomach hurt. Not too many tv shows can do that. Some skits on SNL, some South Park episodes, the occasional Family Guy gag (much less often), but that's about it.

annyonggob888 wrote:

Oh where to start...

Wife of GOB: I'm in love with your brother-in-law.
GOB Bluth: You're in love with your own brother? The one in the army?
Wife of GOB: No. Your sister's husband.
GOB Bluth: Michael? Michael!
Wife of GOB: No. That's your sister's brother.
GOB Bluth: No, I'm my sister's brother.You're in love with me? Me.
Wife of GOB: I'm in love with Tobias.
GOB Bluth: My brother-in-law?
Wife of GOB: I know it can never be, so I'm leaving. I'm enlisting in the army.
GOB Bluth: To be with your brother?
Wife of GOB: No!

Too funny, I just watched this episode last night.

Well, since more than one TV show has already been mentioned, let's turn this to an all-out-brawl..

Personally, the following TV moments had me in fits of laughter.

Arrested Development

Tobias: I just blue myself (when he joins the blue man group.. superb wording)

Scrubs

Dr. Coxs Musical Rant.. You must watch it to fully appreciate it:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ake9AX9J-_U

Entourage

Vince: "I'll listen, that's what good actors do E, they listen. Right Johnny?"
Drama: "...What?"

I love this one because it sums up Dramas character in one word..

Everyone is saying really recent shows, which are all good, but I think we tend to forget the classics.

Some of my old time favorites, off the top of my head:

I Love Lucy - the VitaMeataVegemin Commercial

Mary Tyler Moore - Chuckles Bites the Dust

The Odd Couple on Password

More Cowbell

And I couldn't find a video - but the episode of the Bob Newhart Show where they get hammered on Thanksgiving and order a ton of Chinese food and then try to cook the Turkey in the dishwasher.

Anny i get cant into AD either i tried watching it 2 weeks ago and i watched 3 or 4 episodes and didnt laugh once. I started watching Sunny during Season 2 ive been in love with it ever since. I like 30 Rock as well i dont watch it every week but its mostly pretty good.

I think you hit it on the head Anny, the show is too complex for most viewers.. in an age where onehit wonders and reality tv are the rage, people don't want continous story, thats basically what AD was. I saw one episode (the GB funeral ep where he was in the attic really) during the show's actual run and thought it sucked, It wasn't till i sat down this past year and watched the series from the beginning that I got that it was 3 seasons of a continuous story that you couldn't possibly understand the depth of without watching every episode. Its like being in on a huge inside joke.

That's so weird that you would mention that becs because its the same episode i saw and i feel the same way. And I love how you put it as being "in on a huge inside joke." Couldn't possibly think of a more snobby way to describe a show. I love it, thanks for making my point.

I haven't seen Sunny yet (although the more I hear the more I am intrigued) and Anny has the market on AD I will go old style and put up some quotes from one of the Best shows ever.

MASH

Trapper: "Frank, why don't you let that cut under your nose heal?"

Colonel Flagg: [after Frank Burns pats his shoulder] "My father touched me that way once. To this day he still has to wear orthopedic shirts."

Zale: "How come I don't feel no pain?"
B.J.: "It's swimming upstream against the bourbon."

And my favorite...

Radar: [takes a drink of Hawkeye's home-made gin, and grimaces] "I thought this stuff was supposed to make you feel better."
B.J.: "No. It's supposed to make you feel nothing."

And Seinfeld of course.

[At a health club, in the sauna, Kramer is hot and flushed]
Cosmo Kramer: "God... it's like a sauna in here."

Jerry: Ah, you're crazy.
Cosmo Kramer: Am I? Or am I so sane that you just blew your mind?
Jerry: It's impossible.
Cosmo Kramer: Is it? Or is it so possible that your head is spinning like a top?
Jerry: It can't be.
Cosmo Kramer: Can't it? Or is your entire world just crashing down all around you?
Jerry: All right, that's enough.

Frank Costanza: [yelling] "Serenity Now!"

Cosmo Kramer: Well, our rickshaw is gone. We strapped it to a homeless guy and he bolted.
Jerry: Well, you know, 80% of all homeless rickshaw businesses fail within the first six months.
Cosmo Kramer: [to Newman] We should've got some collateral from him. Like his bag of cans, or his... other bag of cans. (trivia for un-fans, the bum was Uncle Rico from Napoleon Dynamite)

And no dialogue involved, Elaine's funny dance.

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