Meme the Second: Teh Funny

Alright, I guess it falls to me to nominate some scenes that inevitably provoke peals of laughter from me after repeated viewings. This is even more top-of-my-head than most of my movie lists, so I’ll be leaving even more stuff than usual to our fine commenters:

• The highway scene in Planes, Trains, and Automobiles. (“How does he know which way we’re going?”)
• The entire baseball sequence in The Naked Gun. (“It’s Enrico Pollazzo!”)
• Dr. Strangelove has too many to count, but I may be most partial to the sequence where the American soldier interrogates Mandrake (“You must be some kind of deviated pre-vert!”)
• I’m not sure which Woody Allen moment I’d pick. Well, here’s two relatively less-cited ones: 1)the screening of the first cut of the documentary in Crimes and Misdemeanors. (“I’m not perfect, but I do not promote values that–let me get your quote exactly–deaden the values of a great democracy.”…”You’d think nobody was ever compared to Mussolini before.” ) 2)Fielding Mellish going magazine shopping in Bananas (“Hey Ralph! How much is a copy of Orgasm?”) There should be something from Love and Death here, but there are about thirty possibilities…
• The contract-ripping bit in A Night at the Opera. (“It’s all right, that’s in every contract. That’s what they call a sanity clause.” “You can’t fool me! There ain’t no Sanity Clause.”)
• Buck Swope pitching a top-end 8-track system in Boogie Nights. (“See this system here? This is Hi-Fi… high fidelity. What that means is that it’s the highest quality fidelity.”) Also, the Alfred Molina busted drug deal sequence should be the starting point of some other meme…
• The scene in Lost In America where Albert Brooks tries to convince the casino manager that they’re the right kind of degenerate gambler (“You’re right, it was stupid to use an entertainer as a dividing point.”)
• “Stonehenge” is the obvious choice from Spinal Tap, so instead I’ll cite the free-form jazz exploration (“This is our bass player! He wrote this!”)
• The interview with the Canadian Ambassador in South Park: Bigger, Longer, & Uncut (“Our government has apologized for Bryan Adams on several occasions!”)

All right–I’ve already exceeded my quota. Your turn!