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Funniest lines from a sitcom

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Kingsleadhat · 03/09/2023 14:44

Could do with a laugh at the moment, so I'm wondering what are people's favourite funny lines from a sitcom or film? Mine is from Victoria Wood's Dinnerladies : "Tony Blair. Stick two poems up in a bus shelter and call it a university! ". Cracks me up every time

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GrandTheftWalrus · 06/09/2023 23:01

Love the IT Crowd

Needhelp101 · 06/09/2023 23:02

More IT Crowd.

Roy: We don't need no education.
Moss: Yes you do, you've just used a double negative.

And not a line, but when Jen walks into the kitchen after Richmond, doesn't see him and leaves in perplexity, only for the camera to pan up to the ceiling where he's posed like a vampire on ceiling 😂

BellaTheDarkOverlord · 07/09/2023 06:29

Schitts Creek when Moira forgets Alexis’ middle name.

”I think it’s Elspeth.”

And:

Alexis: Okay, my turn, my turn, my turn. Um, okay. My eyes are brown, I am basically sample-sized, and one time I escaped from a Thai drug lord's car trunk by bribing him with sex.
Johnny: Right idea, honey, but you know what? It's gotta be more challenging for everybody-
Moira: Her eyes are aqua.
Johnny: You did what?
Alexis: I'm kidding! I clearly would never bribe anybody with sex.
Johnny: When were you in Thailand?!
Alexis: I told you that I was on spring break. Everyone can just calm down because Aroon was a lovely gentleman until he ran out of money.

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notprincehamlet · 07/09/2023 08:52

Vicar of Dibley, Geraldine to Johnny Depp 'I've just come to invite you for drinks at the knickerage.. the knockerage..the vicarage'.
Just ran past a church and this popped into my head causing a proper fit of the giggles. Had to stop to compose myself.

BlueThursday · 07/09/2023 12:52

0118 999 881 999 119 725… 3.

HollyFern1110 · 07/09/2023 13:00

The scene in Dinnerladies where Brenda says that what she does for excitement is take all the labels off her tins so she doesn't know what she's having for tea.

toadasoda · 07/09/2023 13:12

Friends - Monica - 'you were my midnight mystery kisser!' Ross describes his first kiss with Rachel when she was asleep on a bed at a party but realises it was actually Monica. All a bit gross and incestuous but it was a hilarious scene.

SDTGisAnEvilWolefGenius · 07/09/2023 13:19

One from Cabin Pressure (BBC R4 comedy). Arthur, the dim cabin steward is being trained by his mum, who owns and runs the airline MJN Air (My Jet Now - because she got the plane from her ex-husband, in her divorce). She is pretending to be a demanding passenger.

Carolyn - I am gluten intolerant.
Arthur - I’ll try not to be too gluten-annoying.

Or when Carolyn (I think) says that, as it has only one plane, MJN Air doesn’t really count as an airline because it only has one plane and you can’t put one plane in a line, so it is more of an air-dot.

Or when the Martin and Douglas, the pilots, and Arthur discuss how you would load 100 otters into the plane.

DOUGLAS: Could you, for instance, get a hundred otters on board Gerti?
MARTIN: Yes, I reckon you could.
DOUGLAS: And is it a jam-packed RSPCA-nightmare of a plane, or are the otters lounging in relative comfort?
MARTIN: Well, OK, there’s, er, there’s sixteen seats, so, say, two to a seat.
DOUGLAS: They’re good friends, these otters?
MARTIN: Let’s hope so. Then one in each overhead compartment ...
DOUGLAS: Always remembering to open them with care because otters may have shifted during the flight.
ARTHUR: And, er, one under each seat?
DOUGLAS: Yes! Good thinking.
MARTIN: But that’s where the lifejackets are.
DOUGLAS: That’s all right – otters can swim. Now, how many in the galley?
MARTIN: Er, four on the floor, two on the worktops? Well, it depends – are we carrying Carolyn and Arthur?
DOUGLAS: To wait on the otters? I think that would be an indulgence, frankly. I think we’d be better off replacing them with more otters.
MARTIN: Might be better off replacing Arthur with an otter anyway!
ARTHUR (indignantly): Hey!
DOUGLAS: So, thirty-two in the seats, sixteen in the overhead lockers, sixteen under the seats, six in the galley ...
MARTIN: ... fifteen in the hold?
DOUGLAS: Oh, twenty easily; and six or seven in the aisle.
MARTIN: Call it seven.
DOUGLAS: That’s, what, ninety-seven; and three in the flight deck. A hundred!
ARTHUR: Brilliant!
MARTIN: No. Not in the flight deck.
DOUGLAS: Hypothetically, though ...
MARTIN: I don’t care how hypothetical it is, I’m not flying with a live otter in the flight deck.
DOUGLAS: I don’t see why not. Historically, very few hijackings have been carried out by otters.
MARTIN: Well, I’m sorry, but I don’t think the Civil Aviation Authority would be too keen on the idea.
DOUGLAS: To be quite honest with you, Captain, I don’t think there’s a whole lot about this plane full of unsupervised otters the CAA is going to love.

HB1974 · 07/09/2023 14:09

Also Cabin Pressure

The lemon is in play.

BellaTheDarkOverlord · 07/09/2023 14:18

@BlueThursday …3 😂

WWGDD · 07/09/2023 21:20

It was very close and entirely non-binding

NumberFortyNorhamGardens · 07/09/2023 21:50

Often a catchphrase in our house…

’I can do that myself at home for nothing…and a small aubergine.’ Goodness Gracious Me. (We have an allotment and this year’s aubergines are far from small. 😂)

The last line of the Galaxy Song from Monty Python’s The Meaning of Life: ‘And pray that there’s intelligent life somewhere out in space, ‘cos there’s bugger all down here on earth.’ Also from The Meaning of Life, ‘A waffer thin mint?’

TheMarzipanDildo · 07/09/2023 22:09

Obviously I like the line about being as useless as a marzipan dildo from The Thick of It.

I’ve been rewatching The League of Gentlemen (stretching the definition of sitcom slightly here) and the Legz Akimbo issues plays are hilarious. Doesn’t work out of context because it’s all in the unexpectedness and peppy-ness of the delivery, but the line “dykes, on the other hand, are evil” before the play about homophobia killed me.

TheMarzipanDildo · 07/09/2023 22:10

Also I clearly need to watch Frasier all the way through for the fiftieth time.

bendmeoverbackwards · 08/09/2023 00:18

dinnerladies again - Jane - ‘Bren, can you spread ‘em for Tony’ 😂

CallieQ · 08/09/2023 00:51

Another vat of wine dear? Basil to Sybil Fawlty

FatherJackHackettsUnderpantsHamper · 08/09/2023 02:02

In Black Books, the way that Manny takes over from bumbling, clueless Bernard on the phone:

"Hello, who am I speaking to? Katy, Hi! Uh, we'll have the full Austen, complete Trollope... not you!!"

Also, the way he frantically plays the piano, from inside... with spoons!!

FatherJackHackettsUnderpantsHamper · 08/09/2023 03:18

“White for hands, brown for feet, green for torso, thighs and seat.
And in the cupboard beneath the stair…you'll find the red for pubic hair.”

WinterFireJanuaryEmbers · 08/09/2023 08:51

Am grateful for this thread pushing me to start rewatching Frasier all the way through.

Frasier: "I would shave my head for you."
Niles: "A gesture which becomes less significant with every passing year."

Grin

Also glad to see LoG getting some love here!

TheGirlFromTomorrow · 08/09/2023 09:21

TheMarzipanDildo · 07/09/2023 22:09

Obviously I like the line about being as useless as a marzipan dildo from The Thick of It.

I’ve been rewatching The League of Gentlemen (stretching the definition of sitcom slightly here) and the Legz Akimbo issues plays are hilarious. Doesn’t work out of context because it’s all in the unexpectedness and peppy-ness of the delivery, but the line “dykes, on the other hand, are evil” before the play about homophobia killed me.

That was brilliant!

"Hands up - who's gay? I'm NOT!"

Kingsleadhat · 08/09/2023 09:32

WinterFireJanuaryEmbers · 08/09/2023 08:51

Am grateful for this thread pushing me to start rewatching Frasier all the way through.

Frasier: "I would shave my head for you."
Niles: "A gesture which becomes less significant with every passing year."

Grin

Also glad to see LoG getting some love here!

Frasier is just full of gems.
Frasier: I do not have a fat face
Niles: Oh please, I've been wondering how long you've been storing those nuts for winter! ,🤣

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70isaLimitNotaTarget · 08/09/2023 09:42

DD and I pepper our conversations with quotes from dinnerladies , League of Gents, the odd Monty Python, Still Game .

DH rolls his eyes .Grin

TheMarzipanDildo · 08/09/2023 09:54

FatherJackHackettsUnderpantsHamper · 08/09/2023 03:18

“White for hands, brown for feet, green for torso, thighs and seat.
And in the cupboard beneath the stair…you'll find the red for pubic hair.”

Semen is such a persistent stain.

FatherJackHackettsUnderpantsHamper · 08/09/2023 12:18

"He who hingeth aboot getteth hee-haw!"

AllAnusMorisette · 08/09/2023 13:27

Ploppers

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