Best TV sitcom comedy sketches

OK, we're all (or at least a lot of us) snow-bound, house-bound, bound-bound, etc.  While we could go off and cook a fantastic meal for tonight, it might be more fun to reminisce. We have the threads on best TV sitcom and teen shows, but what is the most memorable scene that syill makes you chuckle if not outright guffaw when you see it again.  It could be an old Mel Brooks routine, a Sid Caesar sketch, something from The Simpsons, etc.
 
To get you started, some of the ones that still make me laugh:
 
The time Jim from "Taxi" has to get a license: "What does a yellow light mean?"
 
Tim Conway on "The Carol Burnett Show" going on and on about the elephant in an otherwise unrelated sketch.
 
The "Celibacy" episode of "Seinfeld" when Kramer runs out of the room.
 
Les Nessman, of "WKRP" doing the traffic update while beating his chest to simulate a helicopter (and of course the famous "free turkeys" Thanksgiving special)
 
Ernie Kovachs talking away as the TV screen fills up with water.
 
Ok, that's my five.  I'm sure others will trigger memories that may not make these my top 5, but they are ones that come to mind.
 
BTW..many of the above are on You-tube and elsewhere.
 
(For now, I am forgoeing any comedy sketches on things like "The Tonight Show", "Ed Sullivan", etc. and the outrageously, always funny, "Whose Line is it anyway?" since they weren't sitcoms per se (although I did include Carol Burnett - oh well, my thread, guess I can<G>)

Mary Richards, in the new green dress in her apartment, with all the revealing cutouts, realizing just how naughty it is, from the MTM show also.  Either Lou or Ted was in the room with her I believe, or maybe Rhoda?

Since we seem to be on a MTM kick, how about the funeral for Chuckles the Clown? "A little song, a little dance, a little seltzer down my pants" Cracks me up! 

The "chuckles" episode was great.  forgot about the "naughty dress" episode

The Carol Burnett Show Gone with the Wind sketch.
 
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4aRMZ4ePmMM 
Andy Griffith show where he expains to Opie 1 1/2 boys is a ratio. 
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4eI689Qxaao
Andrea Martin playing the foreign lady on SCTV.  I think Miss Swan on Mad TV is a rip off of this character.
 
joe

Any Lily Tomlin sketch on any show is a favorite of mine.

Sid Caesar's "This Is Your Life" sketch is hilarious - specifically Howard Morris as Uncle Goopy.
SCTV is a mother lode of great sketches - G. Gordon Liddy on Mrs. Falbo's kiddie show, the inspiring 'Gangway For Miracles', and 'The Fella who Couldn't Wait for Christmas' are just the tip of the iceberg.
Monty Python has too many to list, but their documentary on the Piranha Brothers' reign of gangland terror is an inspired bit of sustained lunacy. Dinsdale!!!

Okay, how about the extended 'Buckwheat is dead' interruptions that ran through that whole episode of SNL?

Jumping around the calandar a bit--

  Tim Conway doing the Dental work on Harvey Korman and stabbing himself with the Novacaine Needle. (Carol Burnett)

 John Belushi as "Samurai Delicatessen"! (SNL)

I believe it was Dan Akroyd who did the wonderful "Julia Childs" sketch. (SNL)

Eddy Murphy as "Mr Rogers" (SNL)

The Ruth Buzzy/ Arte Johnson "Dirty Old Man" twosome on "Laff-In"

Goldie Hawn in Her Laff-In character.

The Original "WHO'S ON FIRST?" with Abbot and Costello.
 
Tim Allen as Tim, the Tool Man always looking for "MORE POWER"

I used to love the blooper bits at the end on "Home Improvement" as the credits rolled.  I think they were the first on TV to do that.  I also loved the ending credits of "Grumpy Old Men"

Wanna buy a Walnetto?

The time Jim from "Taxi" has to get a license: "What does a yellow light mean?" 
 
i like the part when he was doing the application and when it came to the eye part he wrote  two.

Starfire,
  It's sorta hard to visualize "Jim" from TAXI as "Doc" in the Back to the Future Movies, isn't it??!!

I think it is called acting, eh?

Fernwood2night and the Butterfly deli owner
 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S9oM6VmWc4k

bill voss


Fernwood2night and the Butterfly deli owner
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S9oM6VmWc4k

That was hilarious!  And very Roadfood appropriate!

starfire62


The time Jim from "Taxi" has to get a license: "What does a yellow light mean?" 
 
i like the part when he was doing the application and when it came to the eye part he wrote  two.

"Mental disease or drug addiction?" "That's a tough choice!"

Three sequences from the Honeymooners immediately come to mind:
1) When Ralph walks in and sees everybody in his apartment (including his wife) doing the Mambo.
2) When Ralph hears the opening bars of Swanee river as the first question on the way to the $99,000 Answer.
3) When Norton addreses the ball in the Golf episode.
 
And from Seinfeld:
 
When Kramer answers the phone in Jerry's apartment and has no knowledge of Mandalay Industires.
 
60 years of TV history, and those are the 4 comedy moments I think are priceless.  
 
 

Loved the golf one - I had forgotten that

Barney Miller, the marijuana laced brownies episode.

Yemana: What do you say we guys go down to the beach, and shoot some clams?

Most anything from "All in the family"

ken8038


Three sequences from the Honeymooners immediately come to mind:
1) When Ralph walks in and sees everybody in his apartment (including his wife) doing the Mambo.
2) When Ralph hears the opening bars of Swanee river as the first question on the way to the $99,000 Answer.
3) When Norton addreses the ball in the Golf episode.
 
And from Seinfeld:
 
When Kramer answers the phone in Jerry's apartment and has no knowledge of Mandalay Industires.
 
60 years of TV history, and those are the 4 comedy moments I think are priceless.  
 
 

 I'd thought about the scene where Ed is teaching Ralph to do the Hucklebuck!
And unfortunately now I 'm thinking of the scene where Kramer introduces Mr. Costanza to the 'Bro'!

I'd mentioned 'Get Smart' in another thread and there's a few scenes that I really liked, including:
In a crowded reception, Max tells Hymie to be inconspicuous and 'do everything I do', unaware he's a robot who takes things very literally.
In a late episode, Max's assignment involves dating a sexy femme fatale - a very pregnant 99 acts way-out-of-character irrational.
Carol Burnett guest stars as the girl in peril under Max's protection.
In a Ruritanian kingdom setting, Johnny Carson has a cameo as a page, flubbing a formal introduction.

I also usually enjoyed any episode of "Cheers" where Cliff Claven got more than about 10 lines

pdxyyz


Barney Miller, the marijuana laced brownies episode.

What about the episode of Roseanne where they found the joint and the adults smoked it and got all paranoid?  I crack up every time I think about it--Jackie: 'the jig is up!'

And as long as we're on drug-related humor, the following sketches from 'Chappelle's Show': basketball and pancakes with Prince, the courtroom scene where Dave was describing what kind of proof he would need to believe the charges against R. Kelly, the ESPN race trade, Wu-Tang brand feminine protection . . there are many more.

Just about any scene on The Big Bang Theory that centers upon the Sheldon character played by Jim Parsons. Parsons is a brilliant comic actor, and his Sheldon is the ultimate super-geek; a vain, neurotic, sexist, anal-compulsive, hypocondriac genius. IMO, the best comedy currently on network television. 

Anal-COMPULSIVE??? I meant anal-retentive. This is proof that italian beef sandwiches kill almost as many brain cells as alcohol does!

ha!

I loved the Ballroom dance between Steve Martin and Gildna Radner on SNL

Possibly my favorite 'Barney Miller' episode opens with Wojo and Dietrich gazing out the window, waxing poetic about the fog:
Dietrich: “Fair is foul, and foul is fair: Hover through the fog and filthy air.” - Bill Shakespeare.
Wojo: "The fog comes on little cat feet. It sits looking over harbor and city on silent haunches and then moves on." - Carl Sandburg.
Dietrich: "I got smog in my noggin." - Edd 'Kookie' Byrnes.

One of my recent personal favorites is Slapsgiving from How I Met Your Mother.

Lou: How old are you?
Mary: Thirty.
Lou: No hedging! No 'how old do I look'?
Mary: (smiles and shrugs her shoulders) Why hedge?
Lou: Yeah.
Mary: How old do I look?
Lou: (pauses) Thirty. (opens booze bottle in his desk drawer) What religion are you?
Mary: Uh, Mr. Grant, I don't quite know how to say this, but, uh, you're not allowed to ask that when someone's applying for a job. It's against the law.
Lou: Wanna call a cop?
Mary: (sweetly) No.
Lou: Good! Would you think I was violating your civil rights if I asked if you're married?
Mary: Presbyterian. (Lou stares at her.) Uh, well I, I, I decided I would answer your religion question.
Lou: Divorced?
Mary: No.
Lou: Never married!
Mary: No.
Lou: Why?
Mary: Why?
Lou: Do you type?
Mary: Mr. Grant, there's no simple answer to that question!
Lou: Yes there is! How 'bout 'no I can't type' or 'yes I can'?
Mary: There's no simple answer to why a person isn't married.
Lou: How many reasons can there be?
Mary: (nervously) 65.
Lou: (exasperated) Words per minute. My typing question!!
Mary: Yes.
Lou: Look, miss! Would you try answering the questions as I ask them?