Get ready to laugh until it hurts! We're revisiting the most hilarious moments that had us rolling on the floor. From classic sitcoms to modern comedies, these scenes still crack us up years later. Whether it's workplace mishaps, family chaos, or pure slapstick gold, these unforgettable TV moments defined comedy.
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00:00I'm going straight home, put on a little Millie Bobby Brown. Bobby Brown.
00:05Welcome to Ms. Mojo, and today we're counting down our picks for the TV comedy moments we're
00:10still laughing at years later. To spread the love, we're only counting one scene per show.
00:23Number 20. I Want It That Way, Brooklyn Nine-Nine.
00:26I heard him. He was singing along to the music at the bar.
00:28Do you remember what he was singing?
00:29I think it was that song, I Want It That Way.
00:32Backstreet Boys, I'm familiar.
00:33Sometimes, Detective Jake Peralta abuses his power as a member of the NYPD.
00:38Fortunately, that usually just means he does things like make suspects
00:41in a lineup form an impromptu boy band.
00:43You are my fire.
00:48Number two, keep it going.
00:50The one desire.
00:54Number three.
00:55Believe when I say.
00:58Number four.
00:59I want it that way.
01:03When a witness tells him the man they're looking for was singing I Want It That Way
01:06by the Backstreet Boys, he helps her identify him the only way he knows how.
01:10He makes the suspects in the lineup sing.
01:12Now, number five.
01:14I never want to hear you say.
01:18I want it that way.
01:22But Jake gets a little carried away.
01:25He looks more like a producer making magic in the studio than a cop finding a criminal.
01:29The viral scene is still one of the show's most fondly remembered cold opens.
01:33Chills, literal chills.
01:34It was number five.
01:36Number five killed my brother.
01:37Oh my god, I forgot about that part.
01:38Number 19, The Turkey Drop, WKRP in Cincinnati.
01:43It's a helicopter and it's coming this way.
01:46Since the end of its run, this fun workplace sitcom set in an Ohio radio station
01:50has become more obscure than many of its contemporaries.
01:53But viewers never forgot the all-time great Thanksgiving episode from 1978.
01:58Bumbling station manager Arthur Carlson thinks of a great publicity stunt for the station.
02:02He drops a group of live turkeys on the city from a helicopter.
02:06W-K-R-P.
02:14What a sight, ladies and gentlemen, what a sight.
02:16The helicopter seems to be circling the parking area now.
02:19I guess it's looking for a place to land.
02:21No, something just came out of the back of the helicopter.
02:23Unfortunately, as he tells them at the end, he didn't realize domesticated turkeys can't fly.
02:29There's no parachutes yet.
02:33Those can't be skydivers.
02:35Even more hilarious and disturbing is that it was based on a similar event in Atlanta.
02:40It's like the turkeys mounted a counterattack.
02:45It was almost as if they were organized.
02:54As God is my witness, I thought turkeys could fly.
02:58Number 18.
02:59Edith tells Archie to stifle.
03:01All in the family.
03:17Norman Lear's groundbreaking and controversial sitcom never shied away from the serious stuff.
03:21It just managed to make us laugh about them too.
03:23When Edith Bunker goes through menopause, it throws the entire Bunker household off balance.
03:28Normally kind-hearted and gentle, Edith becomes enraged at the slightest provocation.
03:33And it gives her the chance to finally give her irascible husband,
03:36Archie, a taste of his own medicine.
03:45The studio audience screams with laughter when she finally turns his favorite phrase back on him.
03:50Watching Archie get his comeuppance was part and parcel of why audiences tuned in.
03:54To see Edith finally be the one to do it was so satisfying.
04:20Number 17.
04:21Maxine's tattoo.
04:22Living single.
04:33Sometimes you can only watch while your friend makes a bad decision.
04:36Other times you have to step in.
04:38Regine tries to convince Maxine that she hasn't thought her latest adventure through.
04:42But Max is determined to get herself a dramatic tattoo.
04:46And she doesn't want something too feminine either.
04:51She wants something powerful.
04:53Something that lets the whole world know who she is.
04:55Full of bluster and hot air.
04:57Max hypes herself up for it only to pass out before the needle even touches her skin.
05:02All Regine can do is laugh right along with us.
05:09Number 16.
05:10Pants on fire.
05:11Frasier.
05:12The Crane brothers may have been known for their sophisticated sense of humor.
05:15But they could do physical comedy too.
05:20Hey, hey, hey!
05:24Actor David Hyde-Pierce's flair for slapstick is on full display in this scene from Frasier's
05:29sixth season.
05:30Left alone on Valentine's Day, Niles is readying himself for a date at home.
05:34He's got dinner on the stove and a pair of pants on the ironing board.
05:37And then things go horribly wrong.
05:51It's pure mayhem even before his nice pants catch fire.
05:54And he's bested by an out-of-control fire extinguisher.
06:08Pierce won a well-deserved Emmy for the episode.
06:14Number 15.
06:15Barbara's celebrity confusion.
06:17Abbott Elementary.
06:19It didn't take long for this workplace comedy set in a Philly elementary school to create
06:22some timeless moments.
06:25A fun, instantly memeable running joke started when Barbara's fellow teachers pointed out
06:30to us her habit of thinking certain white celebrities are actually black.
06:33There are a bunch of white celebrities who Barbara thinks are black.
06:37Like Brian O'Reilly.
06:39Like, I don't know.
06:40I don't know.
06:41I don't know.
06:41I don't know.
06:42I don't know.
06:42I don't know.
06:43I don't know.
06:44I don't know.
06:44I don't know.
06:45I don't know.
06:45I don't know.
06:46I don't know.
06:46I don't know.
06:47I don't know.
06:47I don't know.
06:48Brian Austin Green would be Brian Tyree Henry.
06:50Oh, I see you little Carrie Underwood.
06:53Good morning.
06:54Carrie Washington.
06:55But the kicker is when she praises Michelle Williams.
06:58You cannot go wrong with the splendid, the wonderful Michelle Williams.
07:06Now that is one talented diva.
07:10Is she talking about the actress or the singer?
07:11Is arguably the third best child of Destiny.
07:14And all the way to the Academy Awards from Dawson's Creek.
07:18No one's really sure.
07:20Oh, never mind.
07:20She's wrong again.
07:22So close.
07:23It's classic Barbara.
07:24The way these co-workers know each other's habits and eccentricities
07:27is one of the endless joys of Abbott Elementary.
07:30Number 14.
07:31The Jonad Files.
07:32Veep.
07:32Do you recall a document shared on the J drive titled The Jonad Files?
07:40Uh, no.
07:40No, ma'am.
07:41That doesn't ring a bell.
07:42Jonah Ryan was the resident DC punching bag.
07:44And he made it really hard to feel sorry for him.
07:47A data breach leaves President Selina Meyer's staff under investigation.
07:51The Judiciary Committee presents a shared document dedicated to insulting Jonah.
07:55Dan and Amy deny all knowledge of such a document.
07:58Of course, that's a lie.
08:00So it's not a word combining Jonah and gonad?
08:04I can confirm that that is exactly what it is.
08:07And Mr. Egan knows that.
08:08They are then forced to participate in the hardest try not to laugh challenge ever,
08:12as these respectable politicians rattle off every single obscene thing they ever called Jonah.
08:17We have some extracts.
08:18J-Rock.
08:19Jizzy Gillespie.
08:20Jack and the Giant Jack-Off.
08:21Galen.
08:22Tinkerballs.
08:23Wadzilla.
08:23One Erection.
08:24Do we have to go through all of these?
08:26Frankly, putting that list together is probably the most organized this staff has ever been.
08:31My college friends called me Tall McCartney.
08:35Number 13.
08:36The Dentist.
08:37The Carol Burnett Show.
08:38You won't find another dentist on a Sunday.
08:40Yeah, I guess you're right.
08:42You sure he knows what he's doing?
08:45Dr. Kiefer just graduated from dental school.
08:47As a matter of fact, you're his very first patient.
08:50So he may be a little nervous.
08:52He won't be the only one.
08:54Tim Conway had a habit of breaking Harvey Korman up in the middle of sketches.
08:57But not even Conway could keep it together in the Dentist sketch.
09:00Originally aired in 1969,
09:02the scene sees Conway as a rookie dentist fumbling through a visit with his first patient.
09:07I'm a little shy here.
09:16Unfortunately, he accidentally jabs himself with Novocaine.
09:20Actually, he does it several times,
09:21rendering several of his limbs immobilized while he tries in vain to carry on with the appointment.
09:26The audience collectively loses its mind
09:29until neither Korman nor Conway can actually hold back their own laughter anymore.
09:33Better look at it a little closer with the light.
09:42Sorry, I didn't, uh, just...
09:45Oh, well, now that'll be $20.
09:47Number 12, Chuckle's Funeral, the Mary Tyler Moore Show.
09:51Recurring character Chuckles the Clown was never funnier than after he passed away.
09:56Therefore, ask not for whom the bell tolls, it tolls for thee.
10:01It tolls for thee.
10:04Hey, Louis stole your poem.
10:05When her colleagues at Minneapolis's WJM news station keep cracking jokes about his demise,
10:10Mary Richards chastises them for being so unfeeling.
10:13But once the funeral actually starts, it's Mary who can't keep it together.
10:17Mr. Fee-Five-Four would always pick himself up...
10:21...dust himself off, and say, I hurt my foot.
10:27The details of Chuckle's life are just too funny,
10:30and the discomfort of it all just makes her laugh harder.
10:32A little seltzer, darling.
10:36It's only after the minister tells her how much her joy would have meant to the dead clown
10:39that she starts bawling.
10:41Excuse me, young lady.
10:44Yes, you.
10:47Uh, would you stand up, please?
10:49Uh...
10:51Beloved since it first aired,
10:52the moment is such a perfect distillation of how absurd death can be.
10:56Laugh for Chuckles.
11:02Chuckles the Clown.
11:04Chuckles the Clown.
11:06Chuckles the Clown.
11:08Chuckles the Clown.
11:10Chuckles the Clown.
11:12Chuckles the Clown.
11:14Chuckles the Clown.
11:16Chuckles the Clown.
11:18Chuckles the Clown.
11:30On the eve of his wedding, Will Smith's fictional counterpart gets the shock of his life.
11:35He walks in on his mother and his soon-to-be father-in-law in bed together.
11:39He lets out a dramatic wail of utter anguish.
11:42Woo!
11:46But he doesn't just do that.
11:48He cycles through an entire performance piece to show just how shocked,
11:52horrified and devastated he is to have seen his mother in this compromising position.
11:56Mama, no!
12:00Will!
12:02Mama!
12:04Will!
12:06Will!
12:08Mama!
12:10I knew him here.
12:12I need a moment.
12:14And just when he thinks he's over it, he's devastated once again.
12:20There is not a frame of this that isn't crying out to be made into a gif.
12:24I'm not ready to talk to you yet, young man.
12:28What happened? I heard screaming.
12:34What's this, a pajama party?
12:36What's a pajama party?
12:40Something awful has happened.
12:42What?
12:44I can't breathe.
12:46Where are you? Do you need to come?
12:48No, no, I just fucked it up. I fucked everything up.
12:50CB Waller-Bridge's British dramedy touched on some incredibly powerful stuff.
12:54This moment in season two, for instance,
12:56highlights what can happen when two sisters come together for a good cause.
13:00Tell the truth. It's horrendous.
13:02It's horrendous. It's modern.
13:04I'm not.
13:06I look like a pencil.
13:08You don't look like a-
13:10Don't laugh!
13:12It's okay!
13:14It's not okay, I'm gonna lose my job!
13:16You won't lose your job, it's cool!
13:18It's not cool!
13:20It's edgy!
13:22It's unsalvageable!
13:24It's French!
13:26It's also about the utter devastation of a horrendous haircut.
13:28Fleabag tries and fails to talk her sister up after she gets an asymmetrical bob.
13:30Her insistence that it's chic and French is a particularly unhinged highlight.
13:32She tries her best to fix the situation,
13:34but as usual with this show,
13:36there's something much deeper going on here.
13:38Show her the reference.
13:40Claudia!
13:42Bring me the bin.
13:44But most importantly,
13:46it's just so ridiculously funny.
13:52If you want to change your life,
13:54change your life.
13:56It's not gonna happen in here.
13:58Sorry, Antonia.
14:00Sorry, Antonia.
14:02See you next week.
14:04Number 9. Get On Your Feet.
14:06Parks and Recreation.
14:14Lesley Knope and the ragtag team of nerds
14:16and eccentrics that make up her staff
14:18are running a scrappy campaign to put her on the city council.
14:20Her stop at a local ice rink proves
14:22that there are still a lot of details to iron out.
14:24For example,
14:26they realized too late that they didn't have enough money
14:28to get a red carpet long enough
14:30to get to the center of the rink.
14:32I couldn't afford enough premium carpet
14:34to get us to the stage.
14:36I mean, it was a short walk,
14:38but it was pretty luxurious, right?
14:40Okay.
14:42There are so many little touches
14:44that make this moment amazing.
14:46There's the awkward silence of the crowd.
14:48There's the pathetic little shuffle
14:50they have to do once they hit the ice.
14:52The song of choice,
14:54Get On Your Feet,
14:56I'm bleeding on my arm, Andy.
15:02I'm holding the dog.
15:04He is peeing.
15:06He is now peeing.
15:08I'm putting him down.
15:16The Great Herring War.
15:18Rose Nyland's stories didn't always thrill
15:20her roommates Dorothy and Blanche,
15:22but a flashback episode in the first season
15:24is actually one of her infamous stories
15:26about her Scandinavian relatives that made them decide
15:28to live together.
15:30Oh, girls, let's face facts.
15:32The three of us just can't agree on anything.
15:34I mean, it is obvious we were not meant to live together.
15:36I hate to agree with you,
15:38but I think you're right.
15:40I think so, too.
15:42In fact, I know so.
15:44This is exactly what happened
15:46during the Great Herring War.
15:48Rose tells the tale between two feuding families,
15:50one of whom wanted to train herring for the circus.
15:52The Johanssons wanted to pickle the herring,
15:54and the Lindstroms wanted to train him
15:56for the circus.
15:58Each new detail is more insane than the last.
16:00Watching Bea Arthur and Ru McClanahan
16:02try to keep it together while Betty White tells the story
16:04with a completely straight face
16:06seems to blur the line between acting and reality.
16:12Did they ever shoot a herring out of a cannon?
16:22Only once.
16:30Save the whale, George.
16:32For me.
16:34George Costanza's ploy to impress an old flame
16:36goes south in this classic episode.
16:38For reasons that could only occur on Seinfeld,
16:40his date is led to believe
16:42that he is a marine biologist.
16:44In their booth at Monk's Cafe,
16:46he tells them how he lived up to his fake career
16:48and saved a beached whale.
16:50I tell you, Jerry, at that moment,
16:52I was a marine biologist.
16:54Actor Jason Alexander gives an acting tour
16:56to force as he delivers a hammy monologue
16:58worthy of Masterpiece Theater.
17:00The sea was angry that day, my friends.
17:06Like an old man trying to send back soup in a deli.
17:08According to Jerry Seinfeld,
17:10the whale story was a last-minute addition
17:12to the script.
17:14Alexander learned his new lines in mere hours
17:16and performed it all in one take.
17:18From out of nowhere,
17:20a huge tidal wave lifted me,
17:22tossed me like a cork,
17:24and I found myself right on top of him,
17:26face to face with the blowhole.
17:28I could barely see from the waves
17:30crashing down upon me,
17:32but I knew something was there.
17:34So I reached my hand in,
17:36felt around, and pulled out the obstruction.
17:42There's a lot you can say about Homer Simpson.
17:44Everyone is stupid except me.
17:46For example, he's clumsy,
17:48he's selfish, and he's dim.
17:50And this scene is a great example
17:52of all those things.
17:56After a fire starts in the Simpson house,
17:58Ned Flanders is the only one
18:00who can rescue an unconscious Homer.
18:04Their exit blocked.
18:06Flanders lugs Homer upstairs
18:08and throws him out a window,
18:10using a mattress to cushion his fall.
18:12And then Homer just hits the mattress,
18:14a hilarious little groan,
18:16and bounces back inside the burning home.
18:30It's one of the few times you can see
18:32Ned Flanders almost lose a little bit of faith.
18:38Ever since they found
18:40mad cow disease in the U.S.,
18:42I'm not taking any chances.
18:44It can live in your body for years
18:46before it ravages your brain.
18:52Cast members have broken on SNL before,
18:54but never this many in one sketch
18:56and at the same time.
18:58Rachel Dratch's recurring character,
19:00Debbie Downer, is the pessimist
19:02to end all pessimists.
19:04In this sketch from 2004,
19:06she completely ruins a family trip to Disney World.
19:08But from the moment she flubs a line,
19:10it becomes a giggling mess.
19:18No one ever recovers.
19:20Horatio Sanz even starts wiping his eyes
19:22with the prop pancakes.
19:24With each new insane piece of information she drops,
19:26Dratch can't even keep a straight face
19:28in her close-ups.
19:40I can't have children.
19:50Part of It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia's charm
19:52comes from how unhinged
19:54and hilariously unredeemable
19:56its cast can be.
20:02For example, Mac and Dennis
20:04try to help Charlie's romance game by setting up
20:06a dating profile for him.
20:08Unfortunately, setting up his bio is a nightmare.
20:14His photo is unflattering
20:16and his answers to the questionnaire
20:18make him look like a psycho weirdo.
20:26Mac and Dennis spruce up his profile
20:28and actually get Charlie a blind date.
20:30But between their bad advice
20:32and Charlie's own bumbling,
20:34it quickly devolves into an uproarious train wreck.
20:38Honestly,
20:40with friends like Mac and Dennis
20:42as his wingmen,
20:44Charlie's probably
20:46better off alone.
21:02In this now classic
21:04and groundbreaking episode,
21:06Rob Petrie becomes convinced the hospital
21:08switched their baby with one from another couple.
21:10He drives himself to distraction over it.
21:12He decides to settle it by inviting
21:14the other family, the Peters, over for dinner.
21:16Immediately, it becomes clear
21:18that the babies could not have been switched.
21:20The Peters are African-American.
21:37They accepted Petrie's invitation
21:39just to see the look on his face when he found out.
21:41Not only does everyone get a good laugh
21:43at Rob's expense, but it's a surprisingly
21:45meaningful moment, given that it was
21:47the early 1960s.
22:07That's right, we both had babies.
22:17This working-class sitcom could
22:19always find the funny in the tragic.
22:21Even a death in the family suddenly becomes hilarious.
22:31When Roseanne and Jackie's father passes away
22:33unexpectedly, they're saddled with making
22:35the arrangements and letting the relatives know.
22:37Jackie, who is usually a mess,
22:39is doubly distraught. She calls an elderly
22:41aunt to give her the news, and
22:43the woman's hearing issues make it a call
22:45to remember. Pretty soon, she just starts
22:47screaming into the phone as her sister watches
22:49in shame.
23:05Jackie is all of us
23:07when we have to do more than we can handle.
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23:35The Chocolate Factory. I Love Lucy.
23:55Lucille Ball is a legend for a reason.
23:57With I Love Lucy, she and the show's writers
23:59basically invented the playbook that would
24:01inspire nearly every sitcom after it.
24:03Seeing Lucy Ricardo take on jobs
24:05she was terrible at was always a huge
24:07draw, but never was it funnier
24:09than in this season 2 episode.
24:27She and best pal Ethel
24:29take jobs in a candy factory. Their last
24:31chance to impress their new boss sees them
24:33trying and failing to keep up
24:35at wrapping chocolates as they pass on a conveyor
24:37belt.
24:41Unable to keep up,
24:43they begin to shove the chocolates in their mouths
24:45to the roaring laughter of the audience.
25:01What hilarious moment did we miss?
25:03Tell us in the comments.
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