I thought I would give everyone a run down of the 10 most popular posts from this past month (in case you are new to my blog, or just plain missed a post).
Showing posts with label Friends. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Friends. Show all posts
Saturday, August 31, 2013
Monday, August 5, 2013
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:
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.
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!
Friends/The One with the Prom Video
This episode is epic mainly for two things:
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| 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?
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| 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...
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"
Saturday, August 3, 2013
My Favorite Episodes of TV Shows (The Funny Ones)
I have noticed that my all time favorite episodes of TV shows basically fall into two categories: hilariously funny or bittersweet/emotional. This post just covers the ones that crack me up. I will write a follow up post for the more serious episodes later. Also, this is just a partial list that I'm sure will be added to over time.
I can't explain how much this episode brings me to tears from laughing so hard. The main gist is that Ross wants to teach his son about Hanukkah, but is too late to rent a Santa costume. He ends up taking whatever costume is left and turns it into the "Holiday Armadillo", Santa's part Jewish helper. Once Chandler and Joey show up in costumes (Santa and Superman respectively) to help out, it just gets insane. Watch:
Lines that make me lose it:
Chandler: What are you doing here...weird...turtle...man?
Chandler: My favorite part was when Superman flew all the Jews out of Egypt.
If you haven't watched any of this British show, do it immediately! It's about two nerds (Moss and Roy) in an IT department. They get a new department head (Jen) who they discover knows nothing about computers. Since she is a "people person", she decides to become their "relationship manager" instead because the guys are so socially awkward.
This episode is about Jen being invited to the theater by a guy both Moss and Roy think is gay. The boys invite themselves to the musical, which turns Jen's possible "date" to a "work outing". When they get to the theater, this is what they discover they're about to watch:
Roy: It's a gay musical called Gay. Thats quite gay. Gay musical...Aren't all musicals gay? This must be, like, the gayest musical ever made.
There is just so much here. At the intermission, Roy refuses to go back in for the second half. The guys then go to the bathroom but don't actually do anything because they have a "toilet guy" that just stares at them and makes them uncomfortable. Roy chooses to use a toilet for the disabled and instead of pulling the cord to flush, he pulls the "emergency" cord. Now he has to pretend being disabled for the rest of the episode and that someone stole his wheelchair. Moss uses a staff toilet and is caught, but plays it off like he works there so they put him to work at the bar. It all comes to a head when Jen encounters them both at the after party:
Best lines:
Jen Barber: A story of a young man trying to find his sexuality in the uncaring Thatcher years. Warning: Contains scenes of graphic homo-eroticism.
Friends/The One with the Holiday Armadillo
I can't explain how much this episode brings me to tears from laughing so hard. The main gist is that Ross wants to teach his son about Hanukkah, but is too late to rent a Santa costume. He ends up taking whatever costume is left and turns it into the "Holiday Armadillo", Santa's part Jewish helper. Once Chandler and Joey show up in costumes (Santa and Superman respectively) to help out, it just gets insane. Watch:
Lines that make me lose it:
Chandler: What are you doing here...weird...turtle...man?
Chandler: My favorite part was when Superman flew all the Jews out of Egypt.
The IT Crowd/The Work Outing
If you haven't watched any of this British show, do it immediately! It's about two nerds (Moss and Roy) in an IT department. They get a new department head (Jen) who they discover knows nothing about computers. Since she is a "people person", she decides to become their "relationship manager" instead because the guys are so socially awkward.
This episode is about Jen being invited to the theater by a guy both Moss and Roy think is gay. The boys invite themselves to the musical, which turns Jen's possible "date" to a "work outing". When they get to the theater, this is what they discover they're about to watch:
Roy: It's a gay musical called Gay. Thats quite gay. Gay musical...Aren't all musicals gay? This must be, like, the gayest musical ever made.
There is just so much here. At the intermission, Roy refuses to go back in for the second half. The guys then go to the bathroom but don't actually do anything because they have a "toilet guy" that just stares at them and makes them uncomfortable. Roy chooses to use a toilet for the disabled and instead of pulling the cord to flush, he pulls the "emergency" cord. Now he has to pretend being disabled for the rest of the episode and that someone stole his wheelchair. Moss uses a staff toilet and is caught, but plays it off like he works there so they put him to work at the bar. It all comes to a head when Jen encounters them both at the after party:
Best lines:
Jen Barber: A story of a young man trying to find his sexuality in the uncaring Thatcher years. Warning: Contains scenes of graphic homo-eroticism.
Moss: Oh no! It's set in the 80's!
Roy: Graphic homo-eroticism? Does that mean they're going to get them out?
Jen: You're not comfortable with your sexuality?
Roy: Oh, I'm very comfortable with my sexuality, I just don't want to be slapped in the face with their sexuality.
Can you believe this is a show I didn't even start watching until last year? There are many great episodes, but this one just sticks out. There are two story lines going on in the episode: 1) Leonard, Raj and Howard are camping out for a meteor shower when they get hold of some "special" cookies. Here is an edit of all those scenes:
And 2) Penny falls in the shower and needs Sheldon's help. First she needs him to help dress her:
Oh those lines!
Leonard: I hate my name. It has 'nerd' in it. 'Len. Nerd.'
Penny: You know people think you are this weird robot man who's so annoying all the time and you totally are. But then it's like that movie Wall-E at the end. You're so full of love and you can save a plant and get fat people out of their floaty chairs.
Penny: You gotta help me get my arm into my sleeve.
Sheldon: (Eyes closed) Okay!
Penny: Is that my arm?
Sheldon: It doesn't feel like an arm.
Penny: Then maybe you should let it go.
Sheldon: We have to fill these out. "Describe illness or injury."
Penny: I dislocated my shoulder.
Sheldon: All right. And how did the accident occur?
Penny: You already know that.
Sheldon: Cause of accident: Lack of adhesive ducks. Okay, medical history. Have you ever been diagnosed with diabetes?
Penny: No.
Sheldon: Kidney disease?
Penny: No.
Sheldon: Migraines?
Penny: Getting one.
Sheldon: Are you currently pregnant?
Penny: No!
Sheldon: Are you sure? You look a bit puffy.
Penny: Change migraine to "yes."
Sheldon: When was your last menstrual period?
Penny: [in a disgusted tone] Oh, next question.
Sheldon: I'll put "in progress." Okay, turning to psychiatric disorders, list all major behavioral diagnoses, e.g. depression, anxiety etc.
Penny: Oh my God! What the hell does this have to do with my stupid shoulder?
Sheldon: Episodes of sub-psychotic rage.
Penny: Ass!
Sheldon: Possible Tourette's. All right, "moles, lesions, or other skin conditions." Soup tattoo on right buttock.
Big Bang Theory/The Adhesive Duck Deficiency
Can you believe this is a show I didn't even start watching until last year? There are many great episodes, but this one just sticks out. There are two story lines going on in the episode: 1) Leonard, Raj and Howard are camping out for a meteor shower when they get hold of some "special" cookies. Here is an edit of all those scenes:
And 2) Penny falls in the shower and needs Sheldon's help. First she needs him to help dress her:
And then he drives her to and from the hospital. I love the ending where she compares him to Wall-E and makes him sing.
Oh those lines!
Leonard: I hate my name. It has 'nerd' in it. 'Len. Nerd.'
Penny: You know people think you are this weird robot man who's so annoying all the time and you totally are. But then it's like that movie Wall-E at the end. You're so full of love and you can save a plant and get fat people out of their floaty chairs.
Penny: You gotta help me get my arm into my sleeve.
Sheldon: (Eyes closed) Okay!
Penny: Is that my arm?
Sheldon: It doesn't feel like an arm.
Penny: Then maybe you should let it go.
Sheldon: We have to fill these out. "Describe illness or injury."
Penny: I dislocated my shoulder.
Sheldon: All right. And how did the accident occur?
Penny: You already know that.
Sheldon: Cause of accident: Lack of adhesive ducks. Okay, medical history. Have you ever been diagnosed with diabetes?
Penny: No.
Sheldon: Kidney disease?
Penny: No.
Sheldon: Migraines?
Penny: Getting one.
Sheldon: Are you currently pregnant?
Penny: No!
Sheldon: Are you sure? You look a bit puffy.
Penny: Change migraine to "yes."
Sheldon: When was your last menstrual period?
Penny: [in a disgusted tone] Oh, next question.
Sheldon: I'll put "in progress." Okay, turning to psychiatric disorders, list all major behavioral diagnoses, e.g. depression, anxiety etc.
Penny: Oh my God! What the hell does this have to do with my stupid shoulder?
Sheldon: Episodes of sub-psychotic rage.
Penny: Ass!
Sheldon: Possible Tourette's. All right, "moles, lesions, or other skin conditions." Soup tattoo on right buttock.
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