there are so many, but for me it has to be when the flecks are getting ready to drive to the show, and gerry's friend is advising him on great places to stop on the way to philly...
"you can get a ham sandwich at Lee's Comeuppance"...
as in, Gen. Robt. E. Lee, of course...
it's a little hard to pick out, but i was on the floor when i heard that one...
yeah,.. i still dont get it....
*TrUeScOrPiO*
F.R.I.E.N.D.S
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maikanowven,
http://www.appomattox.com/html/history.html
it's just funny that a restaurant was named lee's comeuppance...i'm sure it was in appomattox, where general lee surrendered to general grant to end the civil war...
come·up·pance [ kum úppəns ]
noun
deserved fate: something unpleasant, regarded as a just punishment for somebody ( informal )
He got his comeuppance in the end.
It's in reference to Gen. Lee losing battle at Gettysburg (in Pennsylvania)
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I think some of the funniest things in the movie are sight gags. I cracked up at the strange poker-faced kid with the terrier on the roof with the toy parachute, after his dad had just been talking about his job in crisis intervention.
shareI agree, ahabt. That scene actually has my favorite line in the movie. When Larry Miller (criminally under-used) saying he can handle the situation because he is talks people down for a living, and he turns to his son and shouts "Get down off that roof or I will gouge your eye out with my thumb, I sh*t you not!"
Also..."Oh, they all jump"
In the Larry Miller scene, when he's trying to talk the kid off the roof...
Fay: Don't look him in the eye! It challenges him! He doesn't like that!
The last three "lines" of the scene where Harlan Pepper (Christopher Guest) first tries out ventriloquism make up the funniest capping off of a scene in the history of film:
Dummy with enormous smile: "Yeah...(partially closing eyes)...yeah..."
Harlan Pepper: "You sleepy?"
Dummy with enormous smile: (shakes head)
Keep in mind, a hand is up this dummy's ass.
My current favorite, from the scene where Harlan Pepper is leaving the Fishing Hole...
"If you get tired, pull over. If you get hungry, eat something."
The 'eat something' line is reeeeally funny.
But still... nothing makes me laugh harder than the part when Harlan Pepper says "Macadamia nut"!!!! Why the hell is that so funny? I have no idea, but my wife and I laugh and laugh over it. I later watched the film with my Dad and he laughed at the "Macadamia nut" bit and he isn't that fond of comedies.
haha..yep I loved the nuts speech too. Especially the way he says.."all white pistacio nut.."
shareI love the film and think most of the lines are hysterical. Parker Posey in the pet shop as the clerk points out that the one she chose is the least like the bee I find very funny.
But I also love the nut speech and the macademia nut in particular but would add that he tops it off with his comment that the macadamia nut is the one that drove his mother over the edge. Hysterical!
for some reason i think it is so funny when the parker posey character is in the pet store trying to replace her dog's bumble bee toy. she is so unhinged. she actually finds a toy that looks almost exactly like the dog's bumble bee but it is in the shape of a fish. she grabs a different toy and says she will buy that. then the shopkeeper says "of all the ones we have, that one looks the least like a bumble bee". that just cracks me up. but there are so many, many funny moments. also i like when ed begley jr. talks about the rock group that came to their hotel and didn't know there was a toilet in the room and they roasted a goat.
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"If you get tired, pull over. If you get hungry, eat something." "
That has always been my favorite line in this movie.
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Aagh; you're a HEDGE!
Good one troy, never noticed that before.
My favorite is when Gerry & Cookie are put into the utility closet, and when discussing room service Gerry asks if he should tell room service "So, should I just say 'utility closet'?" Ed Begley even laughs at that line.
Sherri has a killer: We could just not talk or talk forever, and still find things to not talk about.
i'm usually not into running gags, but i just love the fact that EVERYWHERE they go (cross-america as well), sherri (or was it cookie?) has slept with some guy. it is just hilarious. and the way they beam at her, and she beams back, and shows her wedding ring... just hilarious. up to the end in the recording studio. wait no her name is cookie i think. well catherine o'hara is a comedy genius.
shareThere was even a throw away line when she is showing her dog and Willard's character says, "..she looks kind of familiar!". It seems she had slept with him at some point as well.
shareGod there are so many, but I loved Harland's monologue with his dog talking about the telepathy between the dog and the judges
shareI love the busy bee stuff with the Swans (including the pet store stuff like, "I didn't come here for your opinion, I came here for a toy you don't have!"
Hamilton Swan: "Don't look at the fat ass losers or freaks, look at me!"
From a deleted scene.
Stefan: Oh, so you're both named Jack. A pair of Jacks.
Scott: And we're a pair of queens. We win!
Anything from Buck, such as "that handler looks familiar (Cookie Fleck)" and "is it me or...something's wrong with his feet."
Trevor (to Buck): "Yeah, I remember, you said that last year."
Harlan's "Nut" bit
Scott: Talk to Daddy! (when the hotel manager asks how Stefan and Scott will be paying):
And finally, Graham Chissolm's lines about not liking to call some of the dogs losers and his line "come on, really shake it. It's been in a box for a year."
"Yeah, I remember, you said that last year."
Great line - I was about to write this thinking no-one else would but thanks Patmratm2 - nice to know I'm not the only one who thinks this is one of the funniest lines ever. And I'm still not sure why...
I love John Michael Higgins's Scott:
"So basically, you know, meat."
That two second line makes me laugh the longest out of the entire movie! Also the whole bit with him writing "Mary" on his nametag. Priceless!
How about when Eugene Levy and his wife show up at her old boyfriend's house for dinner?? That entire scene is gold... "melon breasts..." "I'll gauge you're eye out with my thumb..." et all... good stuff.
Ha ha, I was just going to write how funny I thought Larry Miller was when he's threatening his poor kid:
"...I *beep* you not you little freak..."
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-I forgot to um, mention your luscious melon breasts!
-Thank you. Thank you Jerry.
LOL! :D It's so funny, that she sincerely takes the compliment too!
man i need to see this movie again! i like, "WHERE IS THE BUSY BEE?!"
Oh and also, signatures that look like part of the post are so freakin annoying! I mean seriously!!
I like it when Buck Laughlin (Fred Willard) comments on Scott's new suit the second time he shows his dog in the show and says, "If you wear a suit like that in my neighborhood, you'd better be a hotel doorman!"
A real gut buster everytime! It never gets old!
"Yeah, I remember, you said that last year."
To realize that this isn't some guy they accidentally hired. This is a tradition - he has to endure that same running commentary every year... :D
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It cracks me up when Harlan is talking with the dummy.
Harlan: I understand you went to the circus.
Dummy: I did. I saw the hat lady.
Harlan: Fat.
Dummy: Hat lady. Hat lady.
Harlan: Fat. How do you say 'F'. That isn't in here.
How 'bout the chubby lady? That's easier to say.
Dummy: I saw the chucky lady.
Harlan: No.
Dummy: Chuggy. Chuggy lady.
I was rolling when Parker is at the pet store, trying to find the bee toy for her dog, and she tells the salesman:
"That's not it... that's a bear in a bee costume."
The ways she delivers it and the expression on her face are priceless. Cracks me up every time.
*munch munch*
This isn't really a line, but at the party when Harlan is talking to Parker, well the expression on her face is just classic. And then Hamilton asks if Harlan is wearing LL Bean!!
Also when Hamilton and Parker are talking about how they met. She was at one Starbucks and I would be at the other, so I would go to that one the next time, but then she would be at the other. . .
"I couldn't get used to being probed and prodded.
I told my proctologist once,
'Hey, why don't you take me out to dinner and a movie sometime?'"
"Yes, I remember you said that last year......"
To think that Fred Willard was [supposed to be] commentating
at the Mayflower show for at LEAST two years in a row,
that had to be the part that cracked me up the most!
If Fred Willard did sole commentary on this movie [like on dvd]
that would be just dandy!
"He went after her like she was made out of meat"
The whole busy bee thing cracks me up
"We can not talk for hours and still find things to not talk about"
I just love this whole movie!
"Ventriloquism is an ancient art"....then the picture of the egyptian holding the egyptian puppet....cracked me up :)
shareSherri: "Right now, my inner self is telling me not to go - I don't need to be out there. So I'm backstage here, waiting for another message from myself."
Ed Begley is a genius in this movie:
"This is a pretty powerful cleanser we had to use when a famous rock band came through here and stayed at the hotel. Apparently they weren't aware that there were restrooms INSIDE each room..."
HILARIOUS. this movie is, literally, a laugh a minute. I wish Harlan Pepper's hound had won, though!
put on a little sherlok holmes hat....put a little pipe in his mouth....
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LOL all these posts are crackin me up, again!
Fred willard was the best!... One of my fav, after looking at cookie: "did i mention my idea of a book?...women bathing their dogs...get the mayflower kennel club behind you, make a few bucks...bathing your dog with trevor beckwith!"
LOL@clownsncookies, I loved that line too and parkers reaction!! Now when i watch that clip, i am already laughing before the dialogue begins because of that ridiculous bear hanging up on the wall with that bee costume on. its so funny to me!!
i also cracked up at cookie and gerry's "the captain and cookie BEG FOR IT!" CD and that music was so damn corny i just die everytime. it was like accordian music or something!
I liked the line where the gay characters are in the butcher shop buying food for their dogs and when the worker there explains to them all the different kinds the overly gay one blurts out "SO BASICALLY ITS JUST MEAT!!"
shareParker Posey: You OBVIOUSLY don't know my dog!
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Basically everything Parker did...especially "Why didn't you tell me that before, you stupid hotel manager!"
Merlot sweater
R U provoking my dog
Shits Zu
"There's a pet store downstairs? What are you a wizard or genius or something?"
She does so great with that part. Some people are scary when they freak out but other's are hilarious and both she and the Hamilton husband were just too funny at it.
I love when they are talking about what coffee's they used to drink. Who spends five minutes reviewing their coffee choice history?
I wish that Hubert had won too, as I have a Bloodhound, Nash. (Nash Bridges, Private Eye). Oh, BTW--he is named Hubert, because the Bloodhound was originally called the St. Hubert Hound, since it was invented by the monks in the St. Hubert Monastery, in Belgium, c. 1000 AD.
Allen Roth
"I look up, I look down..."
Sherri: "Right now, my inner self is telling me not to go - I don't need to be out there. So I'm backstage here, waiting for another message from myself."
oh yes... that is so hilarious. jennifer coolidge's character is a riot from beginning to end. well jane lynch is as well (she trains her dog). the bit about her mom committing suicide... lovely.
I agree with you. He was absoultely hilarious!
"Excuse me stewardess, can I take a shih tzu..."
when parker is talking about busy bee and shes arguing with the hotel manager about finding the toy and he says they have a gift store in the hotel and she says "what are you? like a WIZARD or a genius or something?!"
i love that line. wizard. ha.
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