27 TV Scenes That Are So Freaking Funny, They Might Be The Best Ever
From Parks and Rec to Fleabag to Abbott Elementary, these TV scenes will 100% make you laugh.
1. In Abbott Elementary, when Barbara kept mixing up the names of her favorite Black actors with famous white actors.
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2. In Modern Family, when Claire tried turning her living room into a haunted house, but no one in the family wanted to match her energy or love of Halloween.
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“The Halloween and Disneyland episodes are hysterical!”
3. In Fleabag, when Claire got a haircut and absolutely hated it…even though it was exactly what she asked for.
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4. In Parks and Rec, when Leslie needed to give a speech at the hockey rink, but the red carpet wasn’t long enough, so everyone kept slipping on the ice.
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“The hilarity of everyone trying to walk across the ice, slipping and falling, while the song ‘Get on Your Feet’ repeats in the background…it’s comedic gold.”
5. In Derry Girls, when the new teacher read everyone’s poems out loud and absolutely obliterated each student by individually making fun of them.
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6. In Schitt’s Creek, when Moira tried to show David how to make her mother’s enchiladas, but they couldn’t figure out how to “fold in the cheese.”
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“I remember crying from laughter the first time I watched this.”
7. In Living Single, when Max wanted to get a tattoo, and Regine desperatelyyyy tried to talk her out of it.
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8. In Roseanne, when Jackie had to call her hard-of-hearing aunt to say her dad died, and all hell broke loose.
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9. In The Office, when Michael wanted to show off his new flat-screen TV during his dinner party.
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“As a whole, this episode is peak comedy. But this particular scene, when Michael gloats about his new flat-screen and demonstrates how much more room there is after he collapses it two centimeters closer to the wall, absolutely sends me. I laugh every single time. Nothing compares.”
10. In Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt, when Titus thought his boyfriend was cheating on him, so he reenacted his own version of Beyoncé’s “Hold Up” music video.
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11. In The Carol Burnett Show, when they parodied Gone with the Wind and had “Starlet O’Hara” show off her new outfit.
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“Comedic genius, thanks to her costume designer!”
12. In The Golden Girls, when Rose told everyone about the Great Herring War, and no one could keep it together.
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13. In Community, when Annie chloroformed the janitor so Troy and Abed could escape, but everything backfired.
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“The whole scene is perfect, everything from Troy’s sudden panic (and jumping over the guy’s body), to Abed’s backup plan completely failing.”
14. In Bob’s Burgers, when Bob let Tina practice driving, and she slowly crashed into the only other car in the parking lot.
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15. In I Love Lucy, when Lucy and Ethel weren’t fast enough at wrapping candy at the chocolate factory.
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16. In The Cosby Show, when Sondra told her parents that she was dropping out of law school so she could help Elvin open a wilderness store.
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17. In The Office, when everyone had to go through CPR training, but it was completely chaotic.
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“Everything from Michael singing the wrong song, to Kelly getting up and dancing, to Dwight cutting the face off the CPR dummy and quoting The Silence of the Lambs…I crack up every time!”
18. In Seinfeld, when George pretended to be a marine biologist and removed a golf ball from a whale’s blowhole, which was accidentally shot in there by Kramer.
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19. In Psych, when Gus tried to extract the note from his boss’s dead body without leaving any evidence behind, but he failed miserably.
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20. In 30 Rock, when Liz tried to get out of jury duty by dressing up as Princess Leia and using a fake voice.
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21. In Brooklyn Nine-Nine, when Jake got a little too carried away while making all the suspects sing the Backstreet Boys.
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22. In Friends, when they couldn’t fit Ross’s new couch up the stairs.
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23. In The Mary Tyler Moore Show, when Mary couldn’t stop giggling during the funeral for Chuckles the Clown.
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24. In Martin, when Martin tried to find out who stole his CD player, so he used a stuffed animal to intimidate his suspects.
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25. In The Fresh Prince, when Will walked in on his mom and Lisa’s dad in bed together.
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26. In Frasier, when Niles tried to iron his pants but kept fainting at the sight of blood, and the apartment caught on fire.
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“It is absolutely one of the funniest moments in TV history. If you haven’t seen it yet, watch it and you won’t be sorry.”
27. And, of course, in Saturday Night Live, when the entire cast kept breaking character during the “Debbie Downer” sketch at Disneyland.
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