Best throw-away jokes in film and TV!
Only rules are that the joke can't have anything (or very little) to do with the actual plot...and "joke" movies and shows like Family Guy and Airplane! are not eligible, as they are just, well, all about throw-away jokes.
My first choice:
The opening credit sequence of Monty Python and the Holy Grail. I was about 14 when I first saw this movie, and "mind you, moose bites kan be pretty nasti" had me on the floor.
I had never in my life seen something so funny as those credits up to then. Just pure, unadulterated joy.
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Isn't "Holy Grail" just as much about throw away jokes as "Airplane"?
I've only seen it once, and Airplane several times, but I thought Airplane had more of an actual plot.
Holy Grail has more plot, I think...but I can see you saying the same about Airplane! A lot of Holy Grail's jokes, though are about either the plot of the themes of the movie.
Chris Evans in Scott Pilgrim vs the World. "now you listen close, and you listen hard, bucko! the next click you hear is me hanging up. the one after that is me pullin the trigger!" (bro, that means you're empty!)
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In His Girl Friday, Cary Grant describes a character: "He looks like that fellow in the movies. You know, Ralph Bellamy" in response to Rosalind Russell asking what a character looks like.
The character is played by Ralph Bellamy.
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Time bandits:
Kevin: It's some kind of invisible barrier.
Fidgit: Oh, so that's what an invisible barrier looks like.
Love and Death is packed to the brim with these. One I particularly like, after a massive battle with tens of thousands, there are 12 surivivors
Priest: God was truly kind to us this day.
Boris: Can you imagine if he wasn't? It might have rained.
Love and Death is packed to the brim with these. One I particularly like, after a massive battle with tens of thousands, there are 12 surivivors
Priest: God was truly kind to us this day.
Boris: Can you imagine if he wasn't? It might have rained.
Not sure if this qualifies, but was reminded of this:
Seeing this clip makes me miss Sam Kinison. Damn. Only 38 years old when he passed. Some great stuff in this thread. The opening credits in Monty Python and the Holy Grail is way more funny than it should be. "Also Wik" ****ing kills me.
No doubt Kevin Smith lifted from that when he included a disclaimer during the opening credits of Dogma, including a takedown of the platypus.
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Ooh, this is a fun thread, but I'll have to think about it for a while. Gonna try to avoid comedies because there are just so many great jokes.
The first thing that came to mind was the scene in Magnolia where the dad is with his kid at the studio for the TV quiz show and asks another parent if they know anything about that Alan Thicke/Corey Haim thing about terrorists at a high school. And if I'm not mistaken, there's another scene where another parent or one of the other kids brags about getting an audition for it. He's talking the hit classic Demolition High. I got a kick out of that reference in a movie like Magnolia.
In Unforgiven, when the W. W. Beauchamp tells Little Bill that he's a writer, Little Bill asks "A writer? Like letters and such?" and Beauchamp tells him he writes books. Later on, after William Munny kills everyone at the saloon, Beauchamp says he's a writer, and Munny goes, "Letters and such?"
The second Peter Sellers Pink panther movie, opening credits, he's rousting the blind lookout for begging without a license as a Bank robbery goes on in the background.
Delicatessen. The guy repairing condoms with a pump and bicycle inner tube patches.
Goddard's Vacation. Opening sequence. They are trying to drive out of town through a traffic jam of wrecked vehicles with bodies hanging out of them.
The timing of that Peter Sellers delivery was beautiful... he didn't even hesitate for a second.
In His Girl Friday, Cary Grant describes a character: "He looks like that fellow in the movies. You know, Ralph Bellamy" in response to Rosalind Russell asking what a character looks like.
The character is played by Ralph Bellamy.
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Grant also says in the same movie, "The last man who said that to me was Archie Leach."
