More Favorite Funny Episodes of TV Shows

I have a few more episodes that didn't make the first post, including what may be the funniest episode of any show at any time...yeah, big build up there. But first, I'll start off with:

Friends/The One with the Prom Video

This episode is epic mainly for two things:

It's the first time we ever see fat Monica

Joey: Some girl ate Monica!

Monica: Shut up! The camera adds ten pounds

Chandler: Ah, so how many cameras are actually on you?

80's afro/mustache Ross trying to be cool

Joey: Looking good Mr. Kotter...

The IT Crowd/Are We Not Men?

Once again, if you have not familiarized yourself with this show, do it ASAP. The plot of this episode is that Roy and Moss use a website to learn football lingo so they can hang out with other guys and prove they are "proper men". This leads to many "fish out of water" moments for the two computer geeks. They meet a group of guys in a bar and end up playing poker and drinking with them all night. They both end up at a soccer match with them the next day. Moss's comments during the whole thing are just pure gold:

The next day, one of the guys calls and asks if Roy can do them a favor by doing some driving. Roy has unwittingly become the get away driver for a robbery. More gold.

Moss shows up at the hideout and they escape while an argument breaks out. As the cops close in, they avoid capture by some quick thinking by Moss. Platinum.

Epic Lines:

Roy: Did you see that ludicrous display last night?

Moss: I wanna go back to being weird. I like being weird. Weird's all I got. That and my sweet style.

WKRP in Cincinnati/Turkeys Away!

This one I was reminded about by a friend (thanks, Scott). I was thinking of mostly recent sitcoms, so this older one escaped my thoughts. Most of my younger friends have probably never heard of this show, but this one episode is legen - wait for it - dary!

WKRP in Cincinnati was a show in the late 70's/early 80's about a messed up radio station, with a lot of fantastic characters. The premise of the show is that a new director comes in to "fix" the station, leaving the bumbling manager, Mr. Carlson, feeling unneeded and out of the loop. Carlson, then decides to do a secret Thanksgiving Day promotion and won't tell anyone the details. All he needs is a helicopter and 20 live turkeys. What happens next is comedy history.

The lines:

Les Nessman's entire on air report: What a sight, ladies and gentlemen. What a sight. The 'copter seems to circling the parking area now. I guess it's looking for a place to land. No! Something just came out of the back of a helicopter. It's a dark object, perhaps a skydiver plummeting to the earth from only two thousand feet in the air... There's a third... No parachutes yet... Those can't be skydivers. I can't tell just yet what they are but... Oh my God! They're turkeys! Oh no! Johnny can you get this? Oh, they're crashing to the earth right in front of our eyes! One just went through the windshield of a parked car! This is terrible! Everyone's running around pushing each other. Oh my goodness! Oh, the humanity! People are running about. The turkeys are hitting the ground like sacks of wet cement! Folks, I don't know how much longer... The crowd is running for their lives. I think I'm going to step inside. I can't stand here and watch this anymore. No, I can't go in there. Children are searching for their mothers and oh, not since the Hindenberg tragedy has there been anything like this. I don't know how much longer I can hold my position here, Johnny. The crowd...

Dr. Johnny Fever: Thanks for that on-the-spot report, Les. For those of you who've just tuned in, the Pinedale Shopping Mall has just been bombed with live turkeys. Film at eleven.

[Les walks in, looking dazed]
Venus Flytrap: Les! Are you okay?
Les Nessman: I don't know. A man and his two children tried to kill me. After the turkeys hit the pavement, the crowd kind of scattered but, some of them tried to attack me! I had to jam myself into a phone booth! Then Mr. Carlson had the helicopter land in the middle of the parking lot. I guess he thought he could save the day by turning the rest of the turkeys loose. It gets pretty strange after that.
Venus Flytrap: [to Andy] How is it strange?
Andy Travis: Yeah, right. Les, c'mon now, tell us the rest.
Les Nessman: [freaked out] I really don't know how to describe it. It was like the turkeys mounted a counter-attack! It was almost as if they were... organized!

And the immortal line:

"As God as my witness, I thought turkeys could fly"