hilarious scene


Aunt Bea getting everybody to dance around in a conga line, while the father chases the kid and starts belting him.

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When the boys are on the roof, looking for German subs with their binoculars...then they see the naked woman dancing to "Babba Lu" across the street...
The next day, this same woman is their substitute teacher!


The teacher conducting a Show & Tell in class one day...she asks a little boy what he brought to class...he holds up a used condom and says he found it on his parents' night stand..she's horrified!

Bill Kern, the sports caster, telling the story of Kirby Kyle, the pitcher who lost his arm, then his leg, and finally his eye..but he kept right on pitching...the next year, he died in another accident..and now he's pitching in that 'great game in the sky'!

The two robbers, at the beginning of the film, who are robbing a house...the phone rings...they debate whether or not to answer..finally, one of them answers..it's the "Guess that Tune" program...he names all three songs and wins a load of prizes...he's jumping up and down, saying he was rich!! Well, how can he claim the prizes without giving himself away..the next day, Mr. & Mrs. Marty Needleman have a truckload of prizes delivered and they're very puzzled!

Aunt Bea's trip to the skating rink with Mr. Manulis, then oysters and beer afterward...driving home, he says they've run out of gas, right out there at Breezy Point!! Just then, on the radio, comes the news that the Martians had landed! Mr. Manulis was so panicked, he left Bea to walk the 6 miles home..when he called the next week, she told her sister to tell him that she had been abducted by aliens from Mars!

And so many more...



"If you can make a girl laugh, you can make her do anything!"....


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I liked the scene of the neighbor woman being carried into an ambulance still holding the teacup and saucer as a result from a stroke when witnessed the neighbor girl kissing a black man.

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Funniest scene was when the kid got caught stealing and was belted by his parents and the rabbi.

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I thought the scene with the rabbi and the parents was hilarious as well.

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Yeah, the radio story of the baseball player is brilliant...and the opening scene is great too.

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My favourite scene is the totally harmless axe-murderer psycho rampage.

But you ARE Blanche ... and I AM.

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I loved the opening sequence. It was funny how the couple discovered the morning after the robbery that not only had they had been robbed, but then a truck came in and it was like, "How did we win free stuff all of a sudden?"

I also liked the scene between Bea and Fred, the man said to have had a "dead fiance." A part of me sort of sensed that Fred, one of the men Bea dated, was gay. When he said the song reminded him of Leonard, his dead lover, I felt that it was very much a funny coincidence, just how that penned out and how Bea reacted.

I loved the part where Sally was at the mobster's house with his elderly mother. Sally said she could dance as one of her talents and the mother of the mobster said, “You can’t dance on the radio.” That part just cracked me up. That is probably one of my favorite scenes right there from the whole movie.

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"Who is Pearl Harbor?"


"Hark, I hear the cannons roar, is it the king approaching?"


"He`s a ventriloquist on the radio..."












Dorothy stop that, Mr. Ha Ha`s lookin at you!!

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"That was quick ... having the hiccups probably helped... "
(after the roof top shagging)

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""He`s a ventriloquist on the radio..." "

Actually, one of the funniest radio shows at the time was a ventriloquist act: Edgar Bergan and Charlie McCarthy. My father told me he missed The War of the Worlds because he was listening to the Bergan program.

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The guys joining in the lip-synching to "South American Way". Fractures me every time!

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Yes, and also in the kidnapping scene, "Here have some peppers, I made em today" and then in the same breath, "So where are you gonna bury her body...JERSEY? You can't bury her in Jersey, bury her in [somewhere else]!" all with the intended victim sitting right there being fed.

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My favourite scene is the crooks winning the radio contest. And Mia Farrow saying "who is Pearl Harbour anyway?"

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