I was thinking about hilarious movie scenes last night on my drive home, and thought I'd bring the idea up in thread today: what movie (or mass entertainment) scenes made you laugh the hardest?

For me, it's probably that moment in Ready to Rumble when goonish professional wrestlers are sneaking through Martin Landau's apartment to rough him up and mistakenly attack a decoy dummy in his kitchen. Then Landau pops out of a trap door, yells "Sal Bandini—wanna wrestle?" and proceeds to beat the bloody crap out of both of them. It took me about 10 minutes to stop laughing.

(Nothing compares to that Gone With the Wind spoof on The Carol Burnett Show though. When Carol came down that staircase in the green dress with the curtain rod still attached and said "I saw it in the window and I just couldn't resist," I was in serious danger of suffocation.)

The fantasy scene in High Fidelity where Rob is imagining what he'd like to do to Ian always has me in stitches.

Recent laughing-so-hard-oxygen-deprivation-becomes-a-problem moments - Gollum's acceptance speech at the MTV movie awards, Bender becoming human in Futurama, and the episode of Family Guy where Peter tries to breast-feed Stewie.

Nothing compares to that Gone With the Wind spoof on The Carol Burnett Show though. When Carol came down that staircase in the green dress with the curtain rod still attached and said "I saw it in the window and I just couldn't resist," I was in serious danger of suffocation.

The Carol Burnett Show would have its own wing in my comedy museum. With subwings for Harvey Korman in drag and the movie parodies generally.

The first time I saw Airplane!, practically the whole movie. If I had to single out one moment, it's probably Barbara Billingsley's "I speak jive" scene.

The Ref (which I finished for the first time last night) -- several moments, topped by, "Grandma's chewing through her gag," "I've hijacked my parents," "I just beat up Santa Claus," and the opening scene at the marriage counselor.

I feel horrendously guilty about this one, but the first episode of Absolutely Fabulous that I saw ended with hopelessly drunk Edina and Patsy falling into an open grave.

Hellzapoppin' -- "The dame with the ice."

The first time I saw Monkey Business -- Cary Grant and Ginger Rogers acting like 10YOs.

Frasier Valentine's Day episode where Niles is preparing for a dinner date at home. May be the most recent great silent comedy.

I just picked up The Ref at Target the other day. I had forgotten what a freaking fantastic movie that is. I had also forgotten that Kevin Spacey plays essentially the same character in both that movie and American Beauty.

Kate, I think the greatness of The Ref relies on several things. Mainly -- Dennis Leary and the Kevin Spacey/Judy Davis chemistry.

Recent laughing-so-hard-oxygen-deprivation-becomes-a-problem moments -

The end of 40 Year Old Virgin

"If you can dodge a wrench, you can dodge a ball!"

Any of Depp's 5 million takes during Pirates Of The Carribean

Anchorman - "Yeah, there were horses, and a man on fire, and I killed a guy with a trident!" (That one ended up requiring shutting the DVD off for a bit. It was just so perfect, because I was running through the previous scene in my head, going "they had horses and fire and a trident, WTF?", and then Carrell said it, and I lost it.

Zero Mostel in The Producers

Not hysteric-inducing, but I always giggle all the way through the swordfight in Princess Bride

Kate, I think the greatness of The Ref relies on several things. Mainly -- Dennis Leary and the Kevin Spacey/Judy Davis chemistry.

Oh, totally.

Other recent funny movies? Wet Hot American Summer continues to make me cry with laughter. "It's always so great to get away from camp. Even if only for an hour."

I was thinking about hilarious movie scenes last night on my drive home, and thought I'd bring the idea up in thread today: what movie (or mass entertainment) scenes made you laugh the hardest?

While the cumulative effect of the second viewing of Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back was to laugh so hard I lost my voice, there wasn't any one scene that did me in.

So the nod has to go to Harold and Kumar Go to White Castle, when they start singing Hold On.

Every single time I see it, I keep thinking it can't be that funny, and every single time it's funnier than I remember.

I don't often succumb to comedy, but the Anchorman news-team gangfight was pretty effing good. Double points for Tim Robbins in a white-man's fro and pipe, and for the amputation outtakes later on the DVD.

Springtime for Hitler in The Producers had me literally rolling on the floor.