Oh, Pacey! You blind idiot. Can't you see she doesn't love you?

Spike ,'Help'


Buffista Movies 4: Straight to Video  

A place to talk about movies--old and new, good and bad, high art and high cheese. It's the place to place your kittens on the award winners, gossip about upcoming fims and discuss DVD releases and extras. Spoiler policy: White font all plot-related discussion until a movie's been in wide release two weeks, and keep the major HSQ in white font until two weeks after the video/DVD release.


Kathy A - Aug 25, 2005 10:41:11 am PDT #6819 of 10002
We're very stretchy. - Connie Neil

TV moments that made me fall out of the chair, laughing: the finale of Newhart, when Dick/Bob wakes up next to Emily; the power walk in "Smile Time"; the GWTW Carol Burnett skit.

Movies that did the same: Airplane! (just about any scene, but on my first viewing at the age of 14, the one that sent me into hysterics was the automatic pilot getting a blow job from Elaine); Blazing Saddles (especially "I'm Tired"); and Who Framed Roger Rabbit ("My Uncle Thumper had trouble with his probate, and he had to take these biiiig pills..." "Not prostate, you idiot--probate!").


Steph L. - Aug 25, 2005 10:42:36 am PDT #6820 of 10002
I look more rad than Lutheranism

hat dialogue between Woody Allen and Diane Keaton in Love and Death that manages to reference every major work of Russian fiction in about 20 seconds

"Excuse me, will you hold my bosoms while I adjust my belt?"

"Uncle Fucka" during the South Park movie.

My brother and I should never have been allowed to see that movie together. We laughed so hard through the whole thing that I think we made people get up and move away from us. Particularly the "Les Miserables" montage in the middle-end.


§ ita § - Aug 25, 2005 10:45:44 am PDT #6821 of 10002
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

In terms of recency, the scene in Wedding Crashers where Vince Vaughn's character is getting the hand job at the dinner table had me so distracted with laughter that I was glad the filmmakers didn't expect us to pay attention to anything else. At least, I'm hoping they didn't.


Maysa - Aug 25, 2005 10:46:42 am PDT #6822 of 10002

Nick's song "Lady L"

That was hysterical.

His Girl Friday and The Awful Truth are the classic movies that I find funniest. That scene in The Awful Truth when Cary Grant and the music instructor are beating each other up off-screen and Irene Dunne is trying to pretend that nothing is going on -- comedy gold.

And I think the episode of The Office (UK version) where they have the training seminar is about as funny as 30 minutes can be. I often think about the "postage stamps as legal tender" bit.


Jessica - Aug 25, 2005 10:49:34 am PDT #6823 of 10002
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset

And I think the episode of The Office (UK version) where they have the training seminar is about as funny as 30 minutes can be

"You know, because...dogs."

I even have the song on my iPod. But I think the funniest Office bit is still the midget/dwarf/elf conversation.


Hayden - Aug 25, 2005 10:50:28 am PDT #6824 of 10002
aka "The artist formerly known as Corwood Industries."

"Uncle Fucka" was freakin' awesome.

His Girl Friday and The Awful Truth

Oh yeah. I love those movies.

I often think about the "postage stamps as legal tender" bit.

I can be brought to a helpless state by a good use of (ring ring) "Cock."


Steph L. - Aug 25, 2005 10:52:27 am PDT #6825 of 10002
I look more rad than Lutheranism

Oh! Pretty much any part (or ALL) of Dirty Rotten Scoundrels will reduce me to helpless, howling laughter.


§ ita § - Aug 25, 2005 10:54:45 am PDT #6826 of 10002
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

Much of the first few seasons of Coupling, but especially Lesbian Spank Inferno, and the one with the Israeli chick. I know one day at krav the word shadayim is going to slip from my lips unwarranted.


Maysa - Aug 25, 2005 10:55:59 am PDT #6827 of 10002

But I think the funniest Office bit is still the midget/dwarf/elf conversation.

Just David Brent's hand gestures alone in that scene crack me up.


Atropa - Aug 25, 2005 10:56:07 am PDT #6828 of 10002
The artist formerly associated with cupcakes.

I know I'm in the minority on this one, but Christian Bale's little speech in American Psycho about the deep meaning behind Huey Lewis & the News' music, and the little quick dance he does to "Hip to Be Square" leaves me cackling every single time.