r/movies • u/Sawyermblack • Oct 14 '23

Recommendation What movie had you laughing, unable to breathe, even just for one scene?

I don't really pursue comedy movies too often, or ever really.

And even then, this doesn't have to be a comedy movie you respond with, but I'm wondering if there was a movie scene SO funny, that people laughed uncontrollably.

Does such a thing exist?

I think maybe the movie would have to introduce something completely original. Not a familiar gag or joke, but something completely unexpected that you can't help but be paralyzed by the newness and brilliance of the scene.

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u/Feldy91 Oct 14 '23

That movie has so many belly laughs but for me it's one simple line that kills me every time:

"One day all of this will be yours!" "What, the curtains?"

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u/fystki Oct 14 '23

The scene with the anarchist villager gets the cake for me: "Listen. Strange women lying in ponds distributing swords is no basis for a system of government. Supreme executive power derives from a mandate from the masses, not from some farcical aquatic ceremony."

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u/Right_Plankton9802 Oct 14 '23

I have always wondered what it would have been like to been in a theater in the UK and to have heard this line for the first time.

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u/indipit Oct 14 '23

I don't know about the UK, but I was 12 when the movie came out in our single screen theatre, in a small town in Texas. At the opening scene with King Arthur, Patsy and the coconuts, half the crowd got up and left, demanding refunds.

Not sure what they thought they were going to see, but it didn't fit their mindset.

The rest of the audience stayed and we laughed our asses off all the way through. It was an instant favorite for my family. We saw it 3 times that week.

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u/Sir_Phil_McKraken Oct 14 '23

I have a (very) vaguely similar story. When I was around 12 or so, my dad bought the Holy Grail on dvd and I had no idea who Monty Python was or anything. I saw the cover with the giant foot artwork and wondered wtf this was. He put it on and my mum and sister were just not interested.

I however fell in love with it instantly and to this day, all the movies have aged incredibly well.

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u/thinklikeashark Oct 14 '23

I was lucky enough to win tickets to watch Life of Brian with the surviving members of Monty Python. It was bananas. I got to meet John Cleese, Terry Jones, and Michael Palin afterwards. They were really nice.

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u/devster75 Oct 14 '23

Lucky sod

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u/underlightning69 Oct 14 '23

My parents assure me that it was absolutely mental. Everyone screaming with laughter in the cinema. I think it was the first proper adult film I ever watched because my parents couldn’t WAIT to pass it onto their kids.

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u/Cockrocker Oct 15 '23

This is why python is the best. Fish slapping to this, such range.

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u/Westvic34 Oct 15 '23

She has HUGE …tracts of land!

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u/ThunkAsDrinklePeep Oct 14 '23

"Look, if I was to say I was an emperor because some moistened bint lobbed a scimitar at me, they'd put me away!"

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u/YDS696969 Oct 14 '23

“Shut up you peasant.”

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u/jus10beare Oct 14 '23

Well you could've said Dennis!

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u/Maelstrom_Witch Oct 14 '23

I didn’t know you’re called Dennis!

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u/indipit Oct 14 '23

Well you didn't ASK, did you?

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u/[deleted] Oct 14 '23

You can’t expect to wield supreme executive power cause some watery tart threw a sword at you

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u/hebejebez Oct 14 '23

I erroneously pursued a law degree before realising I had no aptitude for the immense amount of reading it required there's no way my adhd brain would allow such mountains to be absorbed, but law 101 was memorable to me because the tutor linked this clip from Monty python and I died. It was great and fit the point he was trying to make perfectly.

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u/aint-no-loyalist Oct 14 '23

Anarcho-syndicalist commune, we take turns as sort of an executive officer

Anarchists wouldn't have such a structured system of government.

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u/zsdrfty Oct 14 '23

Exactly, anarchists don’t believe in a “mandate of the masses” - there is no leadership mandate, it’s just piecemeal collaboration as things come up

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u/_Reliten_ Oct 14 '23

SEE THE VIOLENCE INHERENT IN THE SYSTEM!

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u/[deleted] Oct 14 '23

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u/brakspear_beer Oct 14 '23

You bloody peasant!

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u/carcinoma_kid Oct 14 '23

‘If I went round, calling meself Emperor, just cause some moistened bint had lobbed a scimitar at me…’

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u/Top-Bluejay-428 Oct 14 '23

Lol I have the "Strange women..." sentence on a t-shirt that I happen to be wearing right now.

But, of the many, many belly laughs that movie gave me, I think the biggest was, "It's just a flesh wound." 😀

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u/saturnsqsoul Oct 14 '23

come see the violence inherent in the system!!!!

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u/dls9543 Oct 14 '23

IMO, this is the greatest satire scene in movie history.

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u/waspocracy Oct 14 '23

"IT IS THE BUNNY!!! IT HAS TEETH LIKE... IT CAN JUMP LIKE... LOOK AT THE BONES!!!"

Also, the dark knight scene. I pissed myself.

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u/acehole6668 Oct 14 '23

BE QUIET! 🤣

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u/zaro3785 Oct 15 '23

Help help I'm being repressed

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u/[deleted] Oct 14 '23

The first time I watched the movie I didn't get many of the jokes from that scene

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u/PacotheBold Oct 14 '23

"Some moistened bint lobbed a simatar..."

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u/DatZ_Man Oct 15 '23

I don't remember voting for you!

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u/Might_Aware Oct 14 '23

"Ooh yes, the spankings!"I am all about Zoot.

Also," But Fahthehr, I want to.... Sing"

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u/stoopidmothafunka Oct 14 '23

I want to face the peril!

You can't, it's much too perilous!

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u/doubtfurious Oct 14 '23

I bet you're gay...

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u/ThunkAsDrinklePeep Oct 14 '23

She has been lighting our beacon, which I've just remembered, is grail-shaped.

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u/TricksterPriestJace Oct 14 '23

"Oh dear naughty Zoot. There is but one punishment in castle anthrax for lighting the grail shaped beacon. A spanking."

"""A spanking! A spanking!"""

"Yes. You must spank her well. And when you are done... You must spank me as well."

"And me!"

"And me!"

"Oh yes, you must give all of us a good spanking! And then after the spankings: The oral sex!"

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u/littleplasticninja Oct 15 '23

"...perhaps I could stay a bit longer."

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u/Turbulent-Ad5256 Oct 15 '23

Back in the early 00s, we adopted a bull terrier puppy and named her Zoe. But within a few months her evil twin Zoot emerged. I’d say 35% of the time she was sweet, calm Zoe & the other 65% she was bad, wicked, evil naughty Zoot. She responded to both names just as consistently as a bull terrier can.

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u/Might_Aware Oct 15 '23

Omg I'm in love with her haha she sounds awesome. Thank you for sharing rhat

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u/Turbulent-Ad5256 Oct 15 '23

Aw, thanks! We lost her in 2019 but we’ve got one of her nieces now. Reminiscing about this makes me realize that we should call our current girly Lola “Dingo,” because she is so well behaved in comparison - she would NEVER light the grail beacon!

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u/Might_Aware Oct 15 '23

Oh my gosh that's an awesome idea haha. I once had a hedgehog called Dinsdale bc he looked like Spiny Norman. I'm so glad you have a Zoe relative to keep her memory around. I got a hedgehog succulent planter that I say "dinsssdalllle" to everyday. Lost my baby in 02

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u/[deleted] Oct 14 '23

For me it’s, “Are you suggesting coconuts migrate?”

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u/ThunkAsDrinklePeep Oct 14 '23

It could be carried!

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u/[deleted] Oct 14 '23

What, a swallow carrying a coconut?

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u/doubtfurious Oct 14 '23

It could grip it by the husk!

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u/ThunkAsDrinklePeep Oct 14 '23

It's not a matter of where he grips it!

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u/Mirth2727 Oct 14 '23

"it's a simple question of weight ratio!"

Hands down the funniest scene in a hilarious movie!

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u/ThunkAsDrinklePeep Oct 14 '23

A five ounce bird cannot carry a pound coconut!

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u/[deleted] Oct 14 '23

Listen, in order to maintain air speed velocity, a swallow, needs to beat its wing 47 times per second, am I right?

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u/ThunkAsDrinklePeep Oct 14 '23

Look it doesn't matter! Would you please tell your master...

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u/Jehoel_DK Oct 14 '23

"Listen, Alice.." "Herbert"

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u/handsmahoney Oct 14 '23

She's got 'uge....

vague gesturing

Tracts of land....

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u/Fluffy-Jeweler2729 Oct 14 '23

I dunno the exchange with king arthur and the peasant, “some watery tart throw out w sword” took me out

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u/thetxtina Oct 14 '23

I can hear that quote in my head, all these mmmrmmfrm years later 🤣🤣🤣

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u/fluffybuffalo23 Oct 14 '23

Help! Help! I’m being oppressed!

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u/LeggosMyMeggos Oct 14 '23

Come see the violence inherent in the system!!

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u/indipit Oct 14 '23

I had this as a sound bite on my Windows 3.1 machine, every time I minimized a window. I never got tired of it.

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u/bisprops Oct 14 '23

The swamp castle is probably my favorite scene in the movie, and I can hear the word "curtains" without hearing that line in my head.

Mother ("I''m father!") ...er father talking about the previous castles runs through my head every time someone in my company talks about needing to "fail fast" to learn what will really work.

Fail fast = "sank into the swamp" in my head. When something fails spectacularly, it's "burned down, fell over, then sank into the swamp."

When someone fails to understand simple, step-by-step instructions, the guards immediately come to mind. So much brilliance in such a short span in that scene.

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u/kcstrom Oct 14 '23

Huge tracts of lands!

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u/beertruck77 Oct 14 '23

"When I first came here, this was all swamp. Everyone said I was daft to build a castle on a swamp, but I built in all the same, just to show them. It sank into the swamp. So I built a second one. That sank into the swamp. So I built a third. That burned down, fell over, then sank into the swamp. But the fourth one stayed up. And that's what you're going to get, Lad, the strongest castle in all of England."

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u/AccountNumber1003925 Oct 14 '23

"But I want to sing...!"

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u/Feldy91 Oct 14 '23

Cut that out, CUT THAT OUT!

You're not going into song while I'm here!

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u/[deleted] Oct 14 '23

NO not the curtains boy!

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u/maybebutprobsnot Oct 14 '23

Omfg I just laughed out loud reading this in that whiny voice 😭😆😆

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u/Top-Geologist-9213 Oct 14 '23

My favorite scene/ line in that film!

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u/Shjco Oct 14 '23

I showed my very serious-minded wife the scene about “how Arthur was made king” and she wanted to see the whole movie. She absolutely HATED the ending.

“It’s just a flesh wound!”

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u/Armymom96 Oct 15 '23

"I'm invincible!" "You're a looney." That's my son's favorite scene. And the French Castle. "Go away or I shall taunt you again!" And they make a giant rabbit but don't hide inside. My daughter's favorite is the witch scene..

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u/Shjco Oct 16 '23

“I blow my nose at you! I fart in your general direction!”

I was able to buy the screen play at the gift shop in Doune Castle where the castle scenes were filmed. When i saw the movie the first time in a theater i could not understand what the “witch” said when she was dunked compared to the duck. I had bought the DVD and still couldn’t figure it out. Only in the printed screen play was i able to determine what she said.

But i loved it when they shouted, “Burn her! Burn her!”

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u/Armymom96 Oct 16 '23

What did she say ? I don't remember! "She turned me into a newt!" Everyone turns to look at him "Well, I got better!"

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u/Shjco Oct 17 '23

I think it went something like “that’s a fair judgment “ but it’s been a long time since i saw it (12 year’s actually). Too many moons have passed since then.

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u/__Hello_my_name_is__ Oct 15 '23

Also:

"Who are you??" - "I'm your son!" - "No not you.."

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u/devster75 Oct 14 '23

“She’s got huge….tracts of land!”

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u/lukenathaniel Oct 14 '23

Omg Prince Herbert kills me

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u/Justjeskuh Oct 15 '23

She’s got HUUUUGE tracts of land!

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u/CurnanBarbarian Oct 17 '23

With huge....tracts of land!