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clarkyboy100

28-09-2006, 13:14

What's your favourite single episode of a comedy series?

I'd have to say that the Bottom episode 'Gas' was fantastic. I've seen it a thousand times but still find it funny. I watched it the other week and was in tears. The scenes with the gas man in particular are superb. Trying to stall him, telling him stories, making him drink cold tea and then trying to kill him because he found out they were nicking next door neighbour's (Mr Rottweiler played by Brian Glover) gas supply.

Richie: Eddie! You've killed him!
Eddie: I never touched him.
Richie: Yeah, but the frying pan did, didn't it, and you were touching that at the time!
Eddie: ********, you killed him. He was dead before he hit the ground.
Richie: Well then why did you keep hitting him with the frying pan?
Eddie: For fun.

So what's yours?

new

28-09-2006, 13:24

Fawlty Towers - Communication Problems

Its just perfection:notworthy

Johnkg

28-09-2006, 13:28

Difficult one this...

I'd probably have to plump for Father Ted with 'Song for Europe'

'My lovely Horse' best eurovision song never!!!

Scuttler

28-09-2006, 14:01

The nightclubbing episode from Spaced.

Mike in a pink spandex top with glow sticks. :D

Royle

28-09-2006, 14:03

One that I always enjoy watching is another Bottom ep called 'S Out. It's the one where they go camping in the local park and hunt fish with a vest and hedgehogs with chocolate Hobnobs :D

Interesting trivia on it from imdb:

The original transmission date for this episode was delayed for two and a half years due to a real life murder on Wimbledon Common. Despite being the last episode of series two, it was shown after all of series three for the first time.

Johnkg

28-09-2006, 15:33

The nightclubbing episode from Spaced.

Mike in a pink spandex top with glow sticks. :D

Oi Oi! :D

sparkyrob

28-09-2006, 15:44

If we exclude pretty much everything from Whose Line... then the one I've watched most recently that springs to mind is "Ham Radio" from Frasier (Series 4?). Some fantastic laugh out loud moments.

Frasier: Mel, your German accent sounds a tad Austrian.

Mel: I've performed that accent on Broadway and the London stage.

Frasier: Yes, but perhaps they have different standards than I do.

ohood

28-09-2006, 15:47

Probably:

Father Ted - 'Flight into Terror'
It just seems to work so well, especially concidering most of the episode is set away from the normal surroundings of Craggy Island.

Special mentions:
- All Police Squad! episodes, especially the one with the bank hold-up.
- Spaced episode 'Gone' (the one with the 'Raptor Boys' in it...)
- All episodes of 'How do you want me?' due to it being brilliant.
- Black Books - 'Elephants & Hens' (it is just brilliant.)

neur0mancer

28-09-2006, 15:54

The Mighty Boosh - Old Gregg

"you know me, you seen my downstairs mixup"

Steve Jackson

28-09-2006, 16:08

Seinfeld - The Contest is certainly worthy of a mention.

Mr Blobby

28-09-2006, 16:08

Only Fools and Horses; where Del Boy falls through the bar and the episod where the blow up dolls start inflating in the back of his three wheeler van.

Fawlty Towers-The Builders, Gourmet Night("Ducks Off, Sorry"), Basil The Rat("Is Sibrian Hampster") and of course The Germans.

Morcambe and Wise, where they are making breakfast to the tune of the stripper.

Alan b

28-09-2006, 16:22

Friends - the one where they swap apartments.

Only Fools & Horses - The Peckham Spring

LouBarlow

28-09-2006, 16:26

Frasier - The Matchmaker

I think that's the title - the episode with Frasier's ghey station boss, who thinks Frasier is trying to lure him into bed, where he is really trying to set him up with Daphne - classic :lol:

Every episode of Fawlty Towers

South Park - Scott Tennerman Must Die - Cartman trying to get in for a movie using pubes instead of money cracks me up every single time :lol: Evil and hilarious in equal measures

'Ned stop Jackin it!'
'I can't!'

:lol:

Blackadder II - the executioner episode - might be called 'Head'

Harsin

28-09-2006, 16:50

Curb Your Enthusiasm - The Doll

"Mommy, mommy! The bald man's in the bathroom and there's something hard in his pants!"

Larry's look of pure terror makes me :lol: just thinking about it.

welshmatt

28-09-2006, 16:51

Ive always liked the Bottom Christmas Special with Gold, Frankenstein and Gerr.

joconnor

28-09-2006, 17:49

Have to agree with "Scott Tenorman Must Die - South Park"

And I'll add The Sopranos - Pine Barrens

mr starface

29-09-2006, 00:19

Filthy, Rich and Catflap - The one where he kills the milkmen. Filthy "One milkman you can get away with, misunderstanding, faults on both sides..."

Only Fools and Horses - Got to be the one with Tony the singing Dustman. Has me in stitches each time when I see him and Racquel singing.

Comic Strip - Bad News always gets me laughing.

Dear John - The one where Ralph is DJ'ing and only has 1 record (Shakin Stevens - Green Door). Wheres the damn DVD release BBC?!

Erm ok thats 4 but so many to choose from!

T4V

29-09-2006, 00:25

Friends - the one where they swap apartments.
"..and your time starts... stop it!" :nuts:

CrackD0wn

29-09-2006, 08:29

If we exclude pretty much everything from Whose Line... then the one I've watched most recently that springs to mind is "Ham Radio" from Frasier (Series 4?). Some fantastic laugh out loud moments.

I'll second that, along with Ski Lodge and The Inn Keepers

Friends, the one where no one's ready and the one with 2 birthday parties.

Blackadder Goes Fourth (all of them) but particularly Private Plane

sparkyrob

29-09-2006, 09:16

Friends, the one where no one's ready.

How could I forget that! Possibly my favourite Friends episode, along with the one with Chandler in a box.

Citysmith

29-09-2006, 10:17

Am gonna have to go with 'Mr Jolly Lives Next Door'

'Not Fatties Game?

No, not Fatties Game, you're alright with us Nicholas'

Watched it more times than I care to remember!!!

Rollo_Tomassi

29-09-2006, 12:55

I'll second that, along with Ski Lodge and The Inn Keepers
And I'll third it, along with 'The Seal Who Came to Dinner' and 'Out With Dad'.

Hernster

29-09-2006, 13:08

Sledgehammer; Magnum Farce.

:)

Raigmore

29-09-2006, 15:48

Fawlty Towers - Communication Problems

Its just perfection:notworthy

Absolutely! Joan Sanderson was memorable as the batty (and deaf) Mrs Richards. I could not stop laughing when she searches for her 'lost' spectacles.

Andy

29-09-2006, 15:53

I'm Alan Partridge - the one with his biggest fan... "you're a mentalist!!"

Fawlty Towers - Communication Problems

Blackadder Goes Fourth - last episode for obvious reasons.

AdamBrunt

30-09-2006, 22:19

Blackadder Goes Fourth - last episode for obvious reasons.

Absolutely ... "Goodbyeee" (maybe 1 too many e's there !!!) is an all time classic episode.

KRW

01-10-2006, 00:05

Can't remember the episode of Friends, but I love the one where Ross is trying to chat up the pizza girl - 'I happen to like 8 year old boys'.

And Father Ted - Tentacles Of Doom - too many bits to mention, but 'Aliens is on after the news tonight' still cracks me up just thinking about it.

Questor

01-10-2006, 06:42

Not my fave ever, but my favourite Father Ted episode has to be "A Christmassey Ted" - Dougal's "Scary Film" bit gets me EVERY time :)

"A Volkswagen with a mind of it's own..." :D:D:D:D

Kryten

01-10-2006, 07:12

So many good ones, can't pick a top choice, but some contenders would be (most already mentioned):

Father Ted - Speed 2000
Friends - The one where they swap apartments (the quiz is so funny)
Bottom - Gas
Police Squad - All of them!
Blackadder - Last episode and the one where Blackadder goes on the ship in S2 (He's got a womans ...)

Raigmore

01-10-2006, 08:00

Blackadder Goes Fourth - last episode for obvious reasons.

"Goodbyeee" is one of my favourite TV episodes of all time and the finale is certainly the best of all.. But because of it, there is that element of poignancy added in the end to indicate the futility of war. This makes it difficult to classify "Goodbyeee" as an out & out comedy episode.

wayne42

01-10-2006, 08:24

Dear John - The one where Ralph is DJ'ing and only has 1 record (Shakin Stevens - Green Door). Wheres the damn DVD release BBC?!

Classic :thumbs: Why isn't this out on dvd...

Black Adder - Series 2 with Sir Walter "what a big ship I've got" Raleigh.
Fawlty Towers - Not a particular episode (all were good) but always quote the "Manwell, there's too much butter on those trays!" "No, no Mr Fawlty, uno, dos , tres" When ever i carry trays in.
Father Ted - Hard to pick one but probably where there on holiday in the caravan "These are small cows and they are far away cows"

Robby

01-10-2006, 09:42

LouBarlow

01-10-2006, 10:19

Paul Bennison

01-10-2006, 16:26

Blackadder the Second - 'Beer'. "Wicked child!"
Father Ted (Season 3) - 'Speed 3'
Black Books (Season 3) - 'Elephants & Hens'
Fawlty Towers - 'The Germans'
Family Guy (Season 2) - 'Emission Impossible'

andybhoy

01-10-2006, 16:32

If we can have comedy/action/drama/space-pirate shows too, one that sticks out in my mind would have to be the 'Our Mrs Reynolds' episode of Firefly.

Just some killer lines in that show:

'I couldn't help myself - she was all naked and articulate' :lol:

Firefly at times is one of the funniest shows I've seen.

"Jayne, the man they call Jayne...".

Jayne offering to swap Vera for Mrs Reynolds was also :lol: funny.

LouBarlow

01-10-2006, 17:07

Firefly at times is one of the funniest shows I've seen.

"Jayne, the man they call Jayne...".

Jayne offering to swap Vera for Mrs Reynolds was also :lol: funny.

Mal: Are you offering me a trade?
Jayne: Trade?! Hell it's theft, this is the best damn gun made by man! It's miles more worthy than what you got!
Mal: What I got? She has a name.
Jayne: (holds up his gun) So does this. I call it Vera

:lol:

smartiepants

01-10-2006, 17:23

Father Ted, Speed 3

Bottom, don't now the title it's the one where there on the ferris wheel

Black Books, Grapes of wrath

padayachy3000

01-10-2006, 17:39

Bottom, don't now the title it's the one where there on the ferris wheel

Hole. It's my fave episode too :)

Red Dwarf - Quarantine

Also, almost every episode of Curb Your Enthusiasm

68monkey

01-10-2006, 22:51

Black Books - The Grapes of Wrath

Coupling - The Man With Two Legs

T4V

02-10-2006, 00:13

Coupling - The Man With Two Legs
OHHH YES!! :notworthy

Most of the Geoff based episodes could go on here but that's the one you'd take to a desert island!

"I've got the key to the gates of paradise but I have too many legs!" :lol: :clap:

68monkey

02-10-2006, 01:02

OHHH YES!! :notworthy

Most of the Geoff based episodes could go on here but that's the one you'd take to a desert island!
Don't forget to take Inferno, too. :lol: That would be my 2nd favorite Coupling episode.

pompeyfan

02-10-2006, 01:05

Red Dwarf VIII - Cassandra

Cat to Rimmer: "I hope you don't die"
Rimmer: "Really?"
Cat: "Hell yeah, I'd probably have to help dig the hole"

Black Adder the Third - Sense and Senility
Fawlty Towers - The Builders
OFAH - Day Trip to Margate
KYTV - Lauanch Ep, WWII Ep
Chelmsford 123 - Saturnalia

playaslaya

02-10-2006, 09:28

Seinfeld - The Contest...

Jerry: What's the matter?
George: My mother caught me.
Jerry: Caught you? Doing what?
George: You know. (All three give him blank stares) I was alone...
Elaine: You mean..?!
George: Uh-huh.
Kramer: She caught you?

or maybe The Soup Nazi...

Confronting some camp hoodlums:
Kramer: Excuse me...
Camp "street tough" 1: Are you talking to me? I said are you talking to me?
Camp "street tough" 2: Or maybe he was talking to me! Where you talking to me? Because it was obvious you were talking to one of us!
Kramer: Err we were talking to each other (runs off)

:notworthy

stapp

02-10-2006, 18:19

I cannot believe nobody has said Arrested Development. Best US comedy ever.

Liggur

05-10-2006, 00:14

I like the episode of Friends when Joey is trying to keep the secret about Monica & Chandler from the rest of the gang and Rachel & Phoebe find out and poor Joey is cought in the middle as both sides try and out wit each other. Then Pheobe comes out with the line: "They don't know we know they know we know!" and Joey's face is just a priceless look of bewilderment and confusion. lol

I love the episode where Joey suddenly realizes and is about to blurt out the truth when Chandler and monica drag him off "gagged" into the bedroom. Might be the same episode.

Sledge Hammer! - Witless
Black Books - The Piano episode "The Entertainer"
Green Wing - remote control "Homo" Blimp
Dads Army - Deadly Attachment
Black Adder 3 - Dictionary episode
Red Dwarf II - "Queeg"

Angel - First Episode with Spike, the bit when Spike is doing all the dialogue between Angel and the girl who he rescued.

SIMON ADEBISI

05-10-2006, 00:24

Cheers - any of the eps with contests between Cheers & Garys Tavern

Friends - Ross and the leather pants

Fools & Horses - The Driscoll Bros/dels mobile phone

South Park - Cartmans gets glasses.

clarkyboy100

05-10-2006, 09:24

My favourite episode of Red Dwarf is Marooned from series 3 I think. Some of the dialogue between Lister and Rimmer is priceless. When Rimmer is talking about losing his virginity...

RIMMER: The truth? Not much to tell, really. I've always been a bit of
a fish out of water when it comes to women. Never know what to say. I
wasn't very highly sexed, to be honest with you. I think it was all
that school cabbage I was forced to eat as a boy. Still, the first
time ... the first time was this girl I met at Cadet College. Sandra,
she was called. We did it in the back of my brother's car.
LISTER: What was it like?
RIMMER: Oh, brilliant. Incredible. (Goes glassy-eyed.) Bentley
convertible. V8 turbo. Walnut veneer panelling. Marvellous machine.

Uridium

05-10-2006, 12:21

mjb1975

05-10-2006, 12:28

Followed by the 'you didn't pay any green fees or anything?!' line. :lol:

GProject

07-10-2006, 00:28

I cannot believe nobody has said Arrested Development. Best US comedy ever.
Bang on. I'm just watching it for the first time (through a S1 DVD bargain purchase), so I was waiting to get a few episodes in before I picked out a really good one for this thread. Wonderful show though, fantasticly smart at times too.

For now, I'm gonna suggest Curb Your Enthusiasm: 'Shaq' from the 2nd season (2x08 if I remember correctly). I loved the turnaround when things start going right for Larry.

LouBarlow

07-10-2006, 06:23

Hank's Video is a great episode of the mighty 'Larry Sanders' too

andybhoy

07-10-2006, 07:40

Angel - First Episode with Spike, the bit when Spike is doing all the dialogue between Angel and the girl who he rescued.

Same episode as Oz I believe - the ring of something that lets a vamp out in the sun:

Watching from on top of a building as Angel talks to a woman he just saved, Spike guesses what is being said.]

Spike: [as Rachel] How can I thank you, you mysterious black-clad hunk of a night thing?

[as Angel] No need, little lady, your tears of gratitude are enough for me. You see, I was once a badass vampire, but love and a pesky curse defanged me. Now I'm just a big, fluffy puppy with bad teeth. [Rachel reaches for Angel's head] No, not the hair. Never the hair.

[as Rachel] But there must be some way I can show my appreciation?

[as Angel] No, helping those in need's my job, and working up a load of sexual tension and prancing away like a magnificent poof is truly thanks enough.

[as Rachel] I understand. I have a nephew who is gay, so...

[as Angel] Say no more. Evil's still afoot. And I'm almost out of that nancy-boy hair-gel I like so much. Quickly, to the Angel-mobile, away.

Liggur

07-10-2006, 10:18

Same episode as Oz I believe - the ring of something that lets a vamp out in the sun:

Watching from on top of a building as Angel talks to a woman he just saved, Spike guesses what is being said.]

Spike: [as Rachel] How can I thank you, you mysterious black-clad hunk of a night thing?

[as Angel] No need, little lady, your tears of gratitude are enough for me. You see, I was once a badass vampire, but love and a pesky curse defanged me. Now I'm just a big, fluffy puppy with bad teeth. [Rachel reaches for Angel's head] No, not the hair. Never the hair.

[as Rachel] But there must be some way I can show my appreciation?

[as Angel] No, helping those in need's my job, and working up a load of sexual tension and prancing away like a magnificent poof is truly thanks enough.

[as Rachel] I understand. I have a nephew who is gay, so...

[as Angel] Say no more. Evil's still afoot. And I'm almost out of that nancy-boy hair-gel I like so much. Quickly, to the Angel-mobile, away.

Thats the one - Priceless!! :notworthy :clap: :lol:

Robby

07-10-2006, 10:37

I was gonna put my Buffy/Angel DVD sets on eBay this w/e but feel reluctant to do so now :razz: :D

RonnyJ

07-10-2006, 11:20

Arrested Development - 'Afternoon Delight' and 'Mr. F'. It's really hard to pick a couple of episodes out though, because they're all brilliant, but these two are just sublime.

Other than that, the 'Batman' episode of Only Fools and Horses, and 'Speed 3' of Father Ted come to mind.