Congratulations Slave and Catrin!!!

[Atticus Grinch]

Originally Posted by ThurgreedMarshall

Here is my list (and I'm limiting it, not to the last 25 years, but to movies that came out during my lifetime):

1. Trading Places (not just the greatest comedy, the greatest movie of all time)
2. Blazing Saddles
3. Vacation
4. Caddyshack
5. Animal House
6. Stripes
7. Office Space
8. Planes, Trains and Automobiles
9. Raising Arizona
10. Fletch
11. Airplane
12. Young Frankenstein
13. What About Bob
14. My Cousin Vinny
15. Dirty Rotten Scoundrels
16. Swingers
17. Anchorman
18. The Gods Must Be Crazy
19. Elf
20. The Jerk
21. Bachelor Party
22. Austin Powers
23. Weird Science
24. Beverly Hills Cop
25. Holy Grail (Should be higher, but I thought of it too late)

TM

I agree with most of this, except the exclusion of Lebowski is incapable of explanation, as is the inclusion of Elf, which had exactly one funny scene (the one with the dude from The Station Agent) and a series of totally phoned-in performances by Newhart, Deschanel, Caan, and yes I'll say it, Farrell. That movie was turned up to eight, and it needed a ten to be tolerable. Farrell was great in Old School and Anchorman, and really quite good in Stranger Than Fiction, but shit, he got upstaged by everybody else in Talladega Nights, and that was supposed to be a star vehicle for him. I don't know that America has that much patience left for That Character He Plays. What made Stranger Than Fiction so interesting is that he wasn't That Character He Plays.

I could quibble with one or two other movies you chose to include, but at the risk of sounding like Sebby, you pretty much nailed it.

Resolved: The following is the funniest dialog ever committed to film:

Maude: Do you like sex, Mr. Lebowski?
Dude: 'Scuse me?
Maude: Sex. The physical act of love. Coitus. Do you like it?
Dude: I was talking about my rug.
Maude: You're not interested in sex?
Dude: You mean coitus?

That made me laugh just cutting and pasting it.

[Jack Manfred]

Originally Posted by ThurgreedMarshall

Here is my list (and I'm limiting it, not to the last 25 years, but to movies that came out during my lifetime):

1. Trading Places (not just the greatest comedy, the greatest movie of all time)
2. Blazing Saddles
3. Vacation
4. Caddyshack
5. Animal House
6. Stripes
7. Office Space
8. Planes, Trains and Automobiles
9. Raising Arizona
10. Fletch
11. Airplane
12. Young Frankenstein
13. What About Bob
14. My Cousin Vinny
15. Dirty Rotten Scoundrels
16. Swingers
17. Anchorman
18. The Gods Must Be Crazy
19. Elf
20. The Jerk
21. Bachelor Party
22. Austin Powers
23. Weird Science
24. Beverly Hills Cop
25. Holy Grail (Should be higher, but I thought of it too late)

TM

The 25 Funniest Movies of My Lifetime:

1. The Big Lebowski (the most quotable & rewatchable film of my lifetime)
2. Office Space
3. Blazing Saddles (Manfred pawn in game of life)
4. Caddyshack *
5. South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut
6. Monty Python and the Holy Grail
7. Trading Spaces
8. Groundhog Day (might not be funny enough for this ranking, but it's such a good movie)
9. Airplane!
10. Rushmore
11. Monty Python's Life of Brian
12. Raising Arizona
13. Superbad
14. A Fish Called Wanda
15. National Lampoon's Vacation
16. Stripes
17. Revenge of the Nerds
18. Kicking and Screaming (the Noah Baumbach film not the Will Ferrell one)
19. Clerks
20. Old School
21. Best in Show
22. Broadcast News (people forget all the funny lines in this one)
23. Beverly Hills Cop
24. Gross Pointe Blank
25. The Woman Chaser (indie film w/Patrick Warburton at his funniest)

* the asterisk is for Dr. Strangelove, or How I Learned To Stop Worrying and Love The Bomb, which must be mentioned in any list of the funniest movies ever, even if it doesn't qualify for this list because I wasn't born in the "Boomer or Older" demographic. Strangelove supplants Caddyshack in an ageless countdown.

And as for funniest dialogue, here's a dialogue where you only hear the half of it:

President Merkin Muffley: [to Soviet Premiere Kissoff] Hello?... Uh... Hello D- uh hello Dmitri? Listen uh uh I can't hear too well. Do you suppose you could turn the music down just a little?... Oh-ho, that's much better... yeah... huh... yes... Fine, I can hear you now, Dmitri... Clear and plain and coming through fine... I'm coming through fine, too, eh?... Good, then... well, then, as you say, we're both coming through fine... Good... Well, it's good that you're fine and... and I'm fine... I agree with you, it's great to be fine... a-ha-ha-ha-ha... Now then, Dmitri, you know how we've always talked about the possibility of something going wrong with the Bomb... The *Bomb*, Dmitri... The *hydrogen* bomb!... Well now, what happened is... ahm... one of our base commanders, he had a sort of... well, he went a little funny in the head... you know... just a little... funny. And, ah... he went and did a silly thing... Well, I'll tell you what he did. He ordered his planes... to attack your country... Ah... Well, let me finish, Dmitri... Let me finish, Dmitri... Well listen, how do you think I feel about it?... Can you *imagine* how I feel about it, Dmitri?... Why do you think I'm calling you? Just to say hello?... *Of course* I like to speak to you!... *Of course* I like to say hello!... Not now, but anytime, Dmitri. I'm just calling up to tell you something terrible has happened... It's a *friendly* call. Of course it's a friendly call... Listen, if it wasn't friendly... you probably wouldn't have even got it... They will *not* reach their targets for at least another hour... I am... I am positive, Dmitri... Listen, I've been all over this with your ambassador. It is not a trick... Well, I'll tell you. We'd like to give your air staff a complete run-down on the targets, the flight plans, and the defensive systems of the planes... Yes! I mean i-i-i-if we're unable to recall the planes, then... I'd say that, ah... well, ah... we're just gonna have to help you destroy them, Dmitri... I know they're our boys... All right, well listen now. Who should we call?... *Who* should we call, Dmitri? The... wha-whe, the People... you, sorry, you faded away there... The People's Central Air Defense Headquarters... Where is that, Dmitri?... In Omsk... Right... Yes... Oh, you'll call them first, will you?... Uh-huh... Listen, do you happen to have the phone number on you, Dmitri?... Whe-ah, what? I see, just ask for Omsk information... Ah-ah-eh-uhm-hm... I'm sorry, too, Dmitri... I'm very sorry... *All right*, you're sorrier than I am, but I am as sorry as well... I am as sorry as you are, Dmitri! Don't say that you're more sorry than I am, because I'm capable of being just as sorry as you are... So we're both sorry, all right?... All right.

[Fugee]

Originally Posted by Adder

Perhaps more likely, but I fear the Vikings would still pick him up if he wants to play.

I hope not. After all the years of being the enemy, I don't think he'd do well in Minnesota.

[dtb]

Originally Posted by Jack Manfred

The 25 Funniest Movies of My Lifetime:

7. Trading Spaces
8. Groundhog Day (might not be funny enough for this ranking, but it's such a good movie)

Agree with 8 (not sure if it's laugh-out-loud funny in more than a few places, but it is an outstanding movie)

I assume you mean Trading Places (the Eddie Murphy/Dan Akroyd vehicle) and not the Lifetime home-decorating show.

[dtb]

I seem to recall that the maximum gift amount has been raised (perhaps several times) from $10,000. What is it now? Please don't make me wade through the Code for it.

Just gimme de ansa.

OK, just looked it up. Where do I find the consumer price index?

ETA: Thanks for all your help! I get $13,000. I love the Code!!! And I love calculating percentages from arcane tables of otherwise unintelligible information!!

[Hank Chinaski]

Originally Posted by dtb

I assume you mean Trading Places (the Eddie Murphy/Dan Akroyd vehicle) and not the Lifetime home-decorating show.

My friend, you have seen this incident based on sworn testimony. Can you prove that it didn’t happen? Perhaps on your way home, you will pass someone in the dark, and you will never know it, for they will be from outer space. Many scientists believe that another world is watching us this moment. We once laughed at the horseless carriage, the aeroplane, the telephone, the electric light, vitamins, radio, and even television! And now some of us laugh at outer space. God help us... in the future.

— Criswell, Plan 9 from Outer Space

Trading Spaces was really funny. Especially after the back story of what's her name's stripper tape came out.

[Diane_Keaton]

Something really important seems to be missing here though I have difficulty placing my finger on it. (not entirely sfw)

[ThurgreedMarshall]

Originally Posted by taxwonk

1. Blues Brothers
2. Trading Places
3. Dr. Strangelove
4. Life of Brian
5. Take the Money and Run
6. Raising Arizona
7. Ruthless People
8. Stripes
9. Animal House
10. Happy, Texas
11. Fargo
12. To Wong Foo, Thanks for Everything, Julie Newmar
13. Shaun of the Dead
14. The Pink Panther
15. Harold and Maude
16. Young Frankenstein
17. After Hours
18. What About Bob
19. Intolerable Cruelty
20. Lock, Stock, and Two Smoking Barrels
21. Dirty Rotten Scoundrels
22. Amelie
23. Gross Pointe Blank
23. Full Moon in Blue Water
24. La Cage aux Folles
25. Nobody's Fool

Any list that includes To Wong Foo cannot be taken seriously.

TM

[Hank Chinaski]

Originally Posted by ThurgreedMarshall

Any list that includes To Wong Foo cannot be taken seriously.

TM

I blew through Dirty Rotton Scoundrels. Sounds like it's worth a second look?

[ThurgreedMarshall]

Originally Posted by Atticus Grinch

I agree with most of this, except the exclusion of Lebowski is incapable of explanation, as is the inclusion of Elf, which had exactly one funny scene (the one with the dude from The Station Agent) and a series of totally phoned-in performances by Newhart, Deschanel, Caan, and yes I'll say it, Farrell.

I have no good excuse for the exclusion of Lebowski. It's either one of those movies that speaks to you or it's not. Don't get me wrong, I think it's very funny. But I'm not one of its cult-like followers.

As for Elf, I have no good reason for its inclusion. The movie basically sucks, but there are so many funny moments that I can't turn it off whenever it comes on. I am not a big Farrell fan, but in some things, he just works. I hated Old School, but loved Anchorman. His wide-eyed, naive overgrown elf character in search of his father after finally finding out he's not an elf is just funny. There are too many "Oooooh! It's like a Christmas Tree," (after pressing all the elevator buttons, "Buddy the Elf! What's your favorite color?" (when he picks up Caan's phone), "I just like to smile, smiling's my favorite!" "Watch out, the yellow ones don't stop!" "I thought maybe we could make ginger bread houses, and eat cookie dough, and go ice skating, and maybe even hold hands," (when discussing his plans for the day with Caan) and "He's an angry elf!" moments--and there are like a hundred of them. As an aside, including all the horror movies I've seen (and I've seen a few), I have never cringed as much as when watching Buddy pull all that used gum off the underside of the subway station entrance structure and stuff it in his mouth.

TM

eta: I probably should have included Midnight Run, but the fact that it slipped my mind even though I just watched it like 4 days ago, means it doesn't belong, I guess.

[ThurgreedMarshall]

Originally Posted by Hank Chinaski

I blew through Dirty Rotton Scoundrels. Sounds like it's worth a second look?

Yes. It is a fantastic movie. Just take a look at my avatar, for Christsakes.

TM

[Penske_Account]

Originally Posted by Replaced_Texan

Pretty much everyone in my extended family is avoiding that movie like the plague. Either too recent memories or a (hopefully distant) future no one wants to look too closely at.

Give the boy a scratch for me and tell him to feel better soon.

He said thanks. He was actually able to make it up the stairs this mornign with a lot of assist. a long nap ensued. Glucose levels are down, urine tests pending......i.e. no answers yet.

[Penske_Account]

Originally Posted by ThurgreedMarshall

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eta: I probably should have included Midnight Run, but the fact that it slipped my mind even though I just watched it like 4 days ago, means it doesn't belong, I guess.

Meet the Parents was on showtime or HBO or soemthing last nite. Not saying it should be on the list, but it is always lol fucking funny.

[Gattigap]

Originally Posted by Atticus Grinch

I agree with most of this, except the exclusion of Lebowski is incapable of explanation, as is the inclusion of Elf, which had exactly one funny scene (the one with the dude from The Station Agent) and a series of totally phoned-in performances by Newhart, Deschanel, Caan, and yes I'll say it, Farrell. That movie was turned up to eight, and it needed a ten to be tolerable.

I don't know if Elf is one of the top 25 funny movies or not, but I am putting it on the fucking list if, for no other reason, this one.

For God's sake, Zooey is singing in the shower, and you wish to denigrate this piece of art? Hand in your Fan Club Card immediately.

[dtb]

Originally Posted by ThurgreedMarshall

I have no good excuse for the exclusion of Lebowski. It's either one of those movies that speaks to you or it's not. Don't get me wrong, I think it's very funny. But I'm not one of its cult-like followers.

As for Elf, I have no good reason for its inclusion. The movie basically sucks, but there are so many funny moments that I can't turn it off whenever it comes on. I am not a big Farrell fan, but in some things, he just works. I hated Old School, but loved Anchorman. His wide-eyed, naive overgrown elf character in search of his father after finally finding out he's not an elf is just funny. There are too many "Oooooh! It's like a Christmas Tree," (after pressing all the elevator buttons, "Buddy the Elf! What's your favorite color?" (when he picks up Caan's phone), "I just like to smile, smiling's my favorite!" "Watch out, the yellow ones don't stop!" "I thought maybe we could make ginger bread houses, and eat cookie dough, and go ice skating, and maybe even hold hands," (when discussing his plans for the day with Caan) and "He's an angry elf!" moments--and there are like a hundred of them. As an aside, including all the horror movies I've seen (and I've seen a few), I have never cringed as much as when watching Buddy pull all that used gum off the underside of the subway station entrance structure and stuff it in his mouth.

TM

eta: I probably should have included Midnight Run, but the fact that it slipped my mind even though I just watched it like 4 days ago, means it doesn't belong, I guess.

You don't smell like Santa. You smell like beef and cheese. You sit on a throne of lies.