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Funniest scenes.

posted 17 years ago by C-Cat
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This film has so many great scenes it's hard to choose. Mine were when Canoe gets stuck in the garage door, and when the old man next door calls the cops on his snoopy wife. Great stuff.

[–] 63x927is58401 10 years ago

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I ADORE IT FROM BEGINNING TO END!
MY TOP FAVORITE CLIPS & EVENTS ARE:
1st: OVER-CURIOUS Kipp MacDougall BEING APPREHENDED, (after 100% dis-agreeing husband, Wilbur, called the Police on her! (Wilbur then fled the house as she was brought back to the home and hearing her threatening remark, to the Police, that she has plan(s) on murdering him!)
2nd: D. C. "led the 4 FBI AGENTS", (Spires, Graham, Kelly & Cahill) back TO ITS HOME & FBI "boss" Zeke Kelso! & Zeke nearly shot one of FBI his co-workers!
3rd: (the previous evening) D. C. "snatched" Gregory Benson's DUCK! & his shouting for "his duck back", (to bathe with), later that evening?!
4th: D. C. got into the kidnappers' apartment, so Margaret Miller was able to send out an "S-O-S" note by putting her wristwatch around D. C.'s neck (& she was successfully rescued 3 evenings later!)
5th: Patty's remark to Supervisor Newton (less than an hour after Zeke Kelso & the 4 other FBI AGENTS, Kelly, Cahill, Spires & Graham solved the FBI mystery)!
6th: Canoe's "popping his pipe" over Richard Deacon's head. That clip reminds me that he was also working (1961 - 1966) on "The Dick Van Dyke Show" as "Mel Cooley" & the almost non-stop insults by Jewish comedian, Morey Amsterdam, aka "Buddie Sorrell" on CBS TV stations! {My favorite Dick Van Dyke episode is titled "The Impractical Joke", when Buddy & Phil Franklin were doing prank telephone calls! & "Sally Rogers" (Rose Marie) said "Don't you know that WIRETAPPING is illegal?"} PS: That episode originally televised on Wednesday evening, January 13th, 1965. (323 DAYS = 46 WEEKS & 1 DAY) before Thursday, December 2nd, 1965! {The Date of Release of THIS MOVIE 1965's "THAT DARN CAT!".
7th: Patty's fake accent as "Daphne Hofstedder", at the jewelry store, to keep FBI Supervisor Newton from changing "the current style" of the kidnapping case!
8th: Jeweler Hofstedder's 2 fears: First was Patty saying his name would be in the newspapers & imaginary headline "MR. HOFSTEDDER: HE COULD HAVE SAVED HER!" Second was when the FBI called his office back & he admitted to be "Daphne's Uncle" then FBI Agent Zeke Kelso said "We won't forget You.", leading to FEAR!
9th: Canoe first saw Margaret Miller's wristwatch & read that it was 11:15 PM, that first evening, (as it still was around D. C.'s neck).
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[–] robble-1 10 years ago

Everybody's mentioned my favorite funny scenes, so I thought I'd add the exchanges between Ingrid and the snooty neighbor Gregory, played by Roddy McDowall, who's always going on about what his mother does and doesn't approve of. Ingrid gets so fed up with it and then she gets catty. Love it. LOL

And Gregory's feud with D.C. over the ducks was pretty funny as well.

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[–] MsELLERYqueen2 9 years ago

Any of the ones with Elsa Lanchester, most likely. She was one heck of an actress! Good voice, too!

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[–] dconley7 9 years ago

YES! Neighbor scenes were hilarious!! Called the cops .. "Watch out.. He's DANGEROUS"!!! Folks they don't make them like that anymore...

[–] dabukaba 9 years ago

So many hilarious scenes throughout, but some that come to mind: When Gregory comes to the door and says "Alright, where's the duck?" Then Patti at the door has a perplexed look in her eyes and says "I beg your pardon?" to which Gregory shouts at the top of his lungs "I WANT MY DUCK!!!" giving Patti a very alarmed facial expression. Another one: At the FBI station she's telling agent Kelso about the cat: "Then last night he came home wearing a wrist watch," then Kelso looks very surprised and confused and says "Wearing -- a wrist watch?" Then she says "Yes, instead of his collar he had on a wrist watch." Then Kelso puts his hand to his neck and says "Oh, you mean around his neck!" And she says "Yes."

[–] leybell 8 years ago

I just saw it tonight Sept 2016. I am one of those ImDB members who is almost more interested in the reasons, back story, decisions that made the movie. So I want to know who exactly is responsible for the humor? Was the book Undercover CAt? Kitty? funny? I'd do a spit take, if someone told me he/she read it. Did the Gordons whoever they are (Did I just show my ignorance?) crack jokes them selves or inhibit the joke making? I learn that so many authors get p--ssed off when they learn the movie version is going to differ in mood.