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When actors can't keep it together, we all win! Join us as we count down the most hilarious lines from TV shows that made even the cast break character and laugh. From Ross's desperate "Pivot!" to Captain Holt's unexpected "Hot damn!", these memorable moments show that sometimes the funniest parts happen when the script goes out the window.
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00:00The only problem is you can't get someone pregnant on an old ass sperm and shit when it's in powdered milk form.
00:07Welcome to WatchMojo, and today we're counting down our picks for the most memorably hilarious TV quotes to even drive the cast to laughter, whether in outtakes or in the final cut.
00:18We all know that the moon is not made of green cheese.
00:23Yes, that's true, Harry.
00:25But what if it were made of barbecue spare ribs? Would you eat it then?
00:30What?
00:32Number 20. It's your grandma, Stranger Things.
00:35She needs you home right away.
00:37Is everything okay?
00:39No, I don't think so. It's your grandma.
00:44For all the charm in the middle of the drama, Stranger Things isn't usually a laughing matter.
00:49A sick relative certainly isn't, unless that's a fib, apparently.
00:53The season 3 premiere, Suzy, Do You Copy?, features Jim Hopper desperate to limit Eleven's contact beyond his cabin,
00:58sending Mike home with fake bad news.
01:01The seemingly insignificant line,
01:02it's your grandma, somehow took up most of the shooting day because David Harbour couldn't stop laughing.
01:07It's your grandma.
01:10Yeah!
01:11The viral bloopers showed that Millie Bobby Brown and Finn Wolfhard were having just as hard a time.
01:17You would hope that the guardian of a kid with top secret powers could bluff better.
01:21It's your grandma.
01:24The word is so funny!
01:27Number 19. Hot Damn, Brooklyn Nine-Nine.
01:30At least fans of Brooklyn Nine-Nine had plenty of laughs about Captain Holt's extreme deadpan.
01:42Andre Brouwer anchored the professionalism on set until he stepped out of line in the cold open of Season 2's Jake and Sophia.
01:49As the Nine-Nine gets why Amy Santiago is late for work,
01:52the even more buttoned-up hope that she was held up at the bank.
01:55When she arrives to confirm this, he victoriously exclaims,
01:58Hot Damn!
02:01It turns out that Brouwer improvised this jarring shift in Holt's demeanor.
02:05We then cut to the opening credits just as the whole cast is said to have erupted in laughter.
02:09Even when Brouwer himself broke character, he knew how to make it count.
02:13But never tell anyone about this powwow.
02:18You called it a powwow.
02:19Number 18. My Hot and Foamy Must Have Exploded.
02:23Frazier.
02:23It's well documented that John Mahoney had trouble playing it cool through a memorable sight gag in the Season 4 Frasier episode,
02:41Are You Being Served?
02:42Niles is in the bathroom when Martin's can of shaving cream blows up all over him.
02:46There's a simple charm to Martin's mundane response.
02:49You know what must have happened?
02:50My Hot and Foamy Must Have Exploded.
02:53But a blooper special that marked the sitcom's 200th episode showed that this mundanity triggered a different explosion.
03:00The rest of the cast was able to keep it together until Mahoney's amusement blew his line.
03:05An over-the-top sight gag is one thing, but a perfectly delivered response can be everything.
03:10My Hot and Foamy Must Have Exploded.
03:12Number 17. I'm glad she wasn't selling doorknobs.
03:21Here's Lucy.
03:23Donna!
03:25Well, Donna, it's you!
03:28Gail Gordon and Lucille Ball's off-screen relationship was surely more amiable than their various on-screen ones.
03:36Harry Carter did gradually come around to his sister-in-law on Here's Lucy,
03:40enough to laugh through a memorable ordeal in the Season 3 episode Lucy and Harry's Italian Bombshell.
03:46After a saleswoman thrashes Harry with cosmetic products for mistaking her for an ex-girlfriend,
03:51he looks at the bright side as Lucy and Kim help him.
03:53Oh, I'm glad she wasn't selling doorknobs.
03:56Oh, my.
03:58Oh, I thought it was...
04:01Gordon actually ad-libbed the line,
04:06I'm glad she wasn't selling doorknobs,
04:08as evidenced by Ball and Lucy Arnaz's clearly unscripted reaction.
04:13The hilarious blooper was left in the show as a late,
04:15great testament to Ball and Gordon's legendary comedic chemistry.
04:18You're going to stay at the office day and night?
04:21No, but you're warm.
04:22You're going to stay at the office.
04:24Oh, Harry!
04:25Yes, you are!
04:26Oh!
04:26Number 16.
04:28Son of a Supernatural.
04:30Okay, you're a thief.
04:31Fine.
04:31But you're not.
04:35Son of a...
04:35Back off, tiger.
04:38A 2020 survey by Entertainment Weekly confirmed the phrase that Dean Winchester says the most on Supernatural.
04:43So, why did it apparently hit so hard in the Season 3 episode Bad Day at Black Rock?
04:48The script didn't actually have Dean shout son of a bitch after Bella Talbott stole his lottery winnings.
04:54Son of a bitch!
04:56Actor Jensen Ackles improvised the line with enough gusto for scene partner Jared Padalecki
05:00to crack a smile too quickly to edit around.
05:03But the take was kept as both comedic punctuation and a highlight of Dean's catchphrase.
05:07It's for that reason and Padalecki's reaction that the scene has become a favorite among Supernatural fans.
05:13Son of a bitch!
05:18Number 15.
05:19You've Changed.
05:20Man, The Good Place.
05:22What the hell?
05:24I'm in.
05:25Really?
05:26No!
05:27You actually believe me?
05:29It must be an honor for an actor to nail a line so well that the episode gets named after it.
05:34That's about right for Manny Jacinto's lovable portrayal of clueless slacker Jason Mendoza on The Good Place.
05:40Even the demon Sean explaining an evil scheme in this season 4 episode is livened up by the offhand remark.
05:46Sean, you used to be cool, but you've changed, man.
05:51That remark was actually not so offhand behind the scenes.
05:54Jacinto told TV line that the whole cast was in stitches every time he said it.
05:59Sean may have never been cool, but man, Jason makes it hard to keep your cool.
06:03You used to be cool, but you've changed.
06:06Number 14.
06:10You Will Call Her.
06:11It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia.
06:13Go.
06:14Do it.
06:15Feel it.
06:16Let it out.
06:17Let's just get out.
06:18Let's just get out of here.
06:20Don't flush.
06:22Not just a serious actor in drama, Jimmy Simpson has become a Philly favorite for how dedicatedly he hams up Liam McPoyle.
06:29Bloopers reveal how thoroughly he experiments with the creep's jarring outburst.
06:33If not to find the perfect delivery, then to find one that his castmates can get through.
06:38Brian's dead to me.
06:39Do you hear me?
06:39He's dead!
06:41But Simpson was merciless in season 6's Who Got D?
06:45Pregnant, and the McPoyle brothers revealed that Mac slept with their sister Margaret.
06:49Liam punctuates the scene by shouting,
06:51He will call her!
06:52It apparently took many takes for everyone to be more disturbed and delighted.
06:58And Simpson actually had the nerve to get more intense each time.
07:02And maybe raising your voice can be a sign of professionalism sometimes.
07:06You will call her!
07:11Number 13.
07:13You're playing D&D.
07:14The Big Bang Theory.
07:15These words are home to the bones of many a fallen hero!
07:23The main cast difference in comedic sensibilities is what made the Big Bang Theory so fun.
07:29But everyone got a kick out of Howard's impressions when he's appointed Dungeons & Dragons dungeon master in the season 6 episode The Love Spell Potential.
07:38And we do mean everyone.
07:40The whole lead ensemble is delighted when Howard plays the St. Tannic Fungus with the voice of Al Pacino, repeatedly declaring,
07:47You're playing D&D.
07:49This whole apartment is playing D&D.
07:58Jim Parson couldn't even contain his amusement as the typically deadpan Sheldon.
08:03This makes it pretty obvious that the laughs were genuine.
08:06But that just makes the preserved blooper a particularly warm representation of the group dynamic.
08:12Mother!
08:13Is that you?
08:16Your little boy is coming home.
08:21Number 12.
08:22If one of y'all laugh, you ain't gonna graduate.
08:25The Jamie Foxx Show.
08:27I did not ask you to stay in the Big Bang Theory.
08:31I did not ask you to speak, boy.
08:33You damn right he was clam.
08:35Even if you love Mark Curry on Hanging with Mr. Cooper, you wouldn't want to be in Sergeant Easy's class.
08:40It was no easy task for the cast to look scared in the Jamie Foxx Show's season 2 episode Traffic School Days.
08:46Curry was so hysterically intense in his line delivery and improvisation that few could handle his pratfalls without chuckling.
08:53This routine culminated in Easy bursting into class, falling over, and exclaiming,
08:58One of y'all laugh, you ain't gonna graduate.
09:02Unfortunately, you could see the extras cracking up from behind.
09:06Easy was thankfully all talk with his students, but Curry didn't mess around with the Big.
09:10Now take your good times ass and sit down.
09:14Don't eyeball me, boy.
09:16Don't eyeball me.
09:18Number 11.
09:20Wait till you see what I floss with.
09:21Better call Saul.
09:22We take for granted how funny Better Call Saul could be amid all the top-notch drama.
09:35Comedian Bob Odenkirk literally sank his teeth into a humble but iconic scene in the season 2 premiere Switch.
09:41When Kim takes Jimmy's toothbrush while spending the night, he spitefully uses toothpaste on her finger.
09:46He then riffs.
09:48Good.
09:49I'm fine with this.
09:49Yeah, me too.
09:51Wait till you see what I floss with.
09:55Actress Rhea Sehorne later confirmed on Twitter that her laugh was genuine, as she couldn't get through a single take without it.
10:02Besides adding a poignant development in the show's messy central romance, this one-liner epitomizes Odenkirk's comedic flair, even in a tragic role.
10:11Number 10.
10:12Look, it wasn't my worst Wednesday night, Saturday Night Live.
10:16Gently batting my knockers here.
10:19Did y'all get the knocker stuff?
10:22Uh, no.
10:23No knocker stuff.
10:24Sorry.
10:24With five decades of uncut comedic genius, Saturday Night Live has broken a lot of cast.
10:30Usually, it's the sight gags and sheer anticipation that do them in.
10:34Kate McKinnon's gift of gab was enough of a challenge for her peers, particularly in a 2024 episode hosted by Ryan Gosling.
10:41The opening sketch features McKinnon reprising the role of Colleen Rafferty, who gets pretty colorful in an interview with three people who survived an alien abduction.
10:49Gosling must feign his character's emotional breakdown to cover up his laughter.
10:54But not even McKinnon's regular colleagues can handle the line.
10:57Look, it wasn't my worst Wednesday night.
11:02We're not here to kink shame, but these actors are only human.
11:07With my damn cuckoo and prune shooting, till the place open up.
11:16Number 9.
11:17You could have network connectivity problems.
11:21Parks and Recreation
11:22I have hot snakes, you guys.
11:24What's hot snakes?
11:26It's when the diarrhea comes out like a hot snake.
11:28Andy!
11:31Affable Oath Andy Dwyer was a highlight of Parks and Recreation, partly for Chris Pratt's improv skills.
11:37Lude jokes aside, many of his funniest ad-libs were left to bloopers because his castmates couldn't keep it together.
11:42One of the show's best lines barely made the cut during the season 3 episode flu season, when a sickly Leslie Knope reluctantly visits the hospital.
11:50Andy researches her condition with bad Wi-Fi and announces...
11:54Leslie, I typed your symptoms into the thing up here and it says you could have network connectivity problems.
12:00Everyone reportedly busted out laughing, but the scene cut just in time.
12:04They probably would have been drowned out by the audience's laughter anyway.
12:08In the video, she gets come on her back, I think.
12:12Number 8.
12:17When an opportunity comes, I don't question it.
12:20Will and Grace.
12:21Why?
12:22What have I done?
12:23My only crime is being irresistible.
12:26The folly of a live, commercial-free sitcom episode is why Will and Grace fans find the season 8 premiere so endearing.
12:33It's not long until alive and schtickting before Deborah Messing breaks under the pressure of Grace considering sleeping with a married man.
12:40As Jack recounts his own homewrecking, he boasts.
12:43When an opportunity comes, I don't question it.
12:46I grab it, drop its ring on the nightstand, and swing on it till dawn.
12:53Messing's commemorable effort to make it look like Grace is heating up can't hide that she's cracking up.
12:58She and Sean Hayes barely kept it together the rest of the hilarious episode.
13:01It's still charming to know that not even they can handle the show's outrageous banter.
13:06Necessary, even.
13:08Um, yeah.
13:11Number 7.
13:12Have you set a day aside?
13:14Curb your enthusiasm.
13:15Listen, I don't like to sound like a pig, but she has magnificent breasts.
13:20What's she like?
13:21She's dumb.
13:22The improvisational style of Curb Your Enthusiasm naturally yielded constant bloopers.
13:30Larry David left in many of the laughs to make the dialogue more natural, especially when his fictional self hangs out with the guys.
13:37Season 8's The Safe House arguably epitomizes that dynamic when Larry, Jeff, and Marty tease Richard Lewis for his burlesque dancer girlfriend over lunch.
13:44Marty's actor Bob Einstein stole the scene with the ad-lib.
13:48You set a day aside when you're going to finally look at her face?
13:56The result was one of the biggest group guffaws Curb ever had.
14:00For all the show's ingenious absurdity, moments like that remind us how the sharpest exchanges are usually unplanned.
14:07What are you going to wear?
14:08I'm going to dress like a little Dutch girl.
14:12What am I wearing?
14:13Number 6.
14:14Who was that?
14:15MASH.
14:17Checking.
14:17Supplies.
14:19A tireless worker.
14:21A beautiful soul.
14:22You're the woman my mother always hoped I'd be.
14:24Give us a shot, Margaret.
14:26Comedy wasn't the only way to cut the wartime tension on MASH.
14:30In the season 3 episode Alcoholics Unanimous, Frank Burns is outraged to find Hawkeye, Trapper, and Hot Lips defying his booze band.
14:37The actors nail the fake drunken laughter throughout the Major's rant.
14:40But they kick it up a notch when he leaves and Hot Lips acts.
14:43It turns out actress Loretta Swift improvised this disarming punctuation to an already chaotic scene.
14:55Alan Alda and Wayne Rogers' belly laughs were genuine, to say nothing of infectious.
15:01You never know what can come out of the heat of battle or banter.
15:04Don Knotts fired up fans of The Andy Griffith Show with a certain nugget of wisdom from Deputy Barney Fife.
15:30It all goes back to the season 2 episode Guest of Honor, in which the Sheriff's Department brings in extra help for Founders Day in Mayberry.
15:37Barney's rousing speech to the volunteers culminates in the advice, nip it in the bud.
15:42We gotta nip it! Nip it in the bud!
15:46You got it? Let's hear it! Nip it in the bud!
15:51The deputy's passion and the men's callback visibly tickle Sheriff Andy, though this was apparently the most natural take in about 20.
15:59The cast knew right away that they had found an iconic comedic moment.
16:03Sure enough, nip it in the bud became a legendary crutch phrase after all that hard work in this initiation.
16:10You see, if you're not familiar with firearms, these babies can go off.
16:17Now!
16:174. You saying you want a piece of me? Seinfeld
16:25Why did the policeman have to yell at me like that?
16:28Seinfeld's talented ensemble held up under some pretty bizarre banter.
16:32Of course, the legendary Jerry Stiller posed a real challenge at the end of season 8's The Little Kicks.
16:38After George Costanza's efforts to become a bad boy in at a police station,
16:42his father Frank gets into a confrontation with Elaine when they come to bail him out.
16:46A blooper reel showed how each of Stiller's perfectly delivered escalations
16:50only escalated Julia Louis-Dreyfus' laughter.
16:53Everyone was done for when he got to
16:55You saying you want a piece of me?
16:58The blooper wound up being as iconic as the hilarious final sequence.
17:03When it comes to outrageous comedy, you really wouldn't want a piece of Jerry Stiller.
17:07You're saying you want a piece of me?
17:15Number 3. A Herring Circus
17:18The Golden Girls
17:19The Great Herring War?
17:21Yes, between the Lindstroms and the Johansons.
17:23Oh, that Great Herring War!
17:26Rose Nyland's bizarre anecdotes about her hometown of St. Olaf were a staple of the Golden Girls.
17:32So too was Betty White's castmates struggling to contain their laughter.
17:35It's understandable that Blanche and Dorothy would have a lower tolerance in the season 1 flashback
17:40episode The Way We Met. Still, Bea Arthur and Rue McClanahan were clearly struggling to keep
17:46their composure during the saga of The Great Herring War. They simply gave up when she started
17:50talking about a Herring Circus.
17:52Oh, not that kind of circus. A Herring Circus. Sort of like SeaWorld.
17:56Only smaller. Much, much smaller.
18:02That adorable image and surrealism Rose spun later synced one of the funniest moments throughout
18:08the sitcom's run. The cast apparently thought so.
18:11Did they ever shoot a herring out of a cannon?
18:13He put a little ballerina skirt on that elephant. The Carol Burnett Show
18:25It appeared to be particularly tough to play off of Tim Conway on The Carol Burnett Show.
18:35Perhaps his finest moment in embarrassing his castmates was the Password skit of The Family
18:39in season 11. It infamously took several takes for the cast to get through variations of Mickey
18:44Hart's story about a circus elephant's strange bond with his trainer. All went well when they
18:49finally went to air. Until he said...
18:52Just used to put a little ballerina skirt on that elephant.
18:59I'd go around the circus and he'd go, like that.
19:01Later versions of the episode edited out Carol Burnett briefly but obviously breaking down with
19:07laughter. Luckily, it's easy to find the outtakes as evidence of Conway's legendary comedic
19:11storytelling skills.
19:12You sure that little asshole's through?
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19:331. Pivot Friends
19:38Ross Geller's dorky antics have inspired some of the biggest surprise laugh with Friends and among
19:52his co-stars. One of the sitcom's most memorable moments looks like it was hard to film. And not
19:57just for the physical exertion and carrying a couch up the stairs of an apartment complex,
20:02David Shremer's intensity and barking orders at Chandler and Rachel is undoubtedly the highlight
20:07of the season 5 episode, the one with the cop, especially when he begins repeatedly shouting,
20:21Chandler's unhinged response was really served by Matthew Perry being bowled over by the absurdity of
20:26such a simple line. The scene was bound to become a favorite among fans when it somehow became one
20:32for those poor actors. What are some other lines that made you laugh with the cast instead of at them?
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