sidetracked

I'd have to vote for the fight with the Black Knight at the bridge in 'Holy Grail'. Maybe it's because I was young when I first saw it, but nothing's ever made me laugh so hard. Now, almost like a reflex, I find I have the same reaction all these years later!

egbert nosh

the scene from 'the commitments' where the trumpet player (joey the lips) i think, drives his moped in to the alleyway,parks then tries to get off when it's still in gear,heard this was'nt meant to happen but they left it in the finished film. tried posting thread earlier but did'nt seem to work, apoligies if this is a repeat.

TimR

Alistair Sim and Margaret Rutherford in physical combat over a telephone in "The Happiest Days of Your Life"

Miss Whitchurch: "Well, really.....How DARE you sir....!"
Wetherby Pond: "How dare YOU madame!"

TimR

And from the same film:

Dad: (points at the castle window) "Some day, son all THIS will be yours!"

Son: "What...the curtains...?"

Brief Encounter

Alec Guinness in The Card: 'Rrrrockafeller'

TimR

Another from "The Happiest Days of Your Life":

The head mistress of St. Swithin's leads her faculty to the Nutbourne common room, not knowing it is a boy's school. They find race horse forms, playing cards, boxing gloves, cigarettes and a billiards table.

Miss Whitchurch (Margaret Rutherford): "Cards! The RACE HORSE! Billards! Nicotine! FISTICUFFS!

We are in a descending spiral of iniquity!"

Then:

Miss Whitchurch: "Whatever else this establishment may or may not be, it is certainly not a place to bring carefully nurtured young girls!"

Miss Gossage (Joyce Grenfell): "I should jolly well say NOT!"

TimR

Any of the egg references in "The Wrong Box". Perhaps the whole "egg theme" in that very funny and under-rated film.

This one is my favorite: Peter Cook tells the doctor that he "likes eggs" and the doctor tells him yes, indeed, he also likes eggs but as pets they cause problems because it so difficult to get them to come in at night.

TimR

The "Mr Creosote" segment of Monty Python's "The Meaning of Life" (up there on the disgust-ometer, but pricelessly funny)

Maître d': Ah, good afternoon, sir; and how are we today?
Mr Creosote : Better.
Maître d': Better?
Mr Creosote: Better get a bucket - I'm gonna throw up.


John Cleese as an unctuous and oily waiter (no one does it better) tops off the gargantuan meal that the gargantuan Mr. Creosote has just put away - vomiting along the way- with "just one little mint" "just one tiny mint"

Then Cleese runs to hide behind the plastic palms and the mint does its work.

Hugo

The scene in "The Punch and Judy Man" when Tony Hancock, after having a row with his wife, walks out through her gift shop and vents his frustratation by ramming a bunch of dried flowers up the backside of a large china pig.
This sequence has unaccountably been cut from the current DVD release !!

Marky B

Like Tim R,The Happiest Days Of Your Life still sends me into chuckles. The scene where they are taking the school inspectors around the college and staff are having to change between boys and girls classes is a hoot,particularly when they hear the angelic sounds of a girl choir and then it switches suddenly to the sound of a boy's choir.
Ta Ta
Marky B

I once shot an elephant in my pyjamas - how he got in my pyjamas,I'll never know

ProfMarcus

Hello, folks! Brand new member putting his oar in.

The Moon In The Puddle Scene from Hobson's Choice

penfold

The whole of The Wrong Trousers, but particularly the reveal of Feathers McGraw, international jewel thief and master of disguise, as not being a cockerel, but a penguin with a rubber glove on his head....

Bit of a Bay Window, what??

Steve Crook

But it was when Gromit saw they were running out of track in the chase, and laid the track in front of him, that had me exploding with laughter and applauding

Steve

penfold

I know...one of the cleverest piece of animation I know....it would be one thing to draw it a la Chuck Jones, but to model it in plasticine???

Bit of a Bay Window, what??

Chris B

the best one for me is in TONS OF TROUBLE when Mr Pastry is summoned to unblock the bath in one of the flats, and the enormous sink plunger he is carrying gets stuck to just about everything in the flat before he even gets to the bathroom, and also in the same film the milk man can never work out why he is a full bottle short and there is always one more empty to collect than full bottles he has delivered. ( if that makes sense)
Regards Chris Bryan