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.
Harold and Kumar Go to White Castle
That just came from Netflix yesterday!! ::bounce::
In
Anchorman,
when Ferrell is in the phone booth and he can't finish the sentence, he just bellows his pain...OMG. Couldn't. Stop. Laughing.
Harold and Kumar Go to White Castle
Oh my God, the bag o' weed montage. I nearly killed myself laughing.
Harold and Kumar Go to White Castle, when they start singing Hold On.
OMG, I think I broke something laughing during that scene.
Anchorman - "Yeah, there were horses, and a man on fire, and I killed a guy with a trident!"
That was a perfect scene.
One of my lifetime faves is the scene in
Raiders of the Lost Ark,
when Indy shoots the swordsman.
I know there are others - I just can't think of them....
For me, there's "Springtime for Hitler," and then there's everything else.
Though the two stateroom seduction scenes in
The Lady Eve
(first with the shoes, then with Gene* describing her dream man to Hopsy) and the train confession scene near the end, and the sequence in
Unfaithfully Yours
in which Rex Harrison abominably fails to carry out his revenge fantasy are awfully close.
*I've seen it spelled "Jean," but since she makes a point of stating that her full name is Eugenia, I can't see how it could be anything but Gene.