History Funny / ItsAMadMadMadMadWorld

* As the money chasers tear along the desert highways, they run a migrant couple's truck off the road, causing it to shed most of its load as it bounces down a hillside. The husband (a cameo by Nick Stewart, best known as Lightnin' on ''The Amos 'n' Andy Show'') turns to his wife:

** A fire engine pulls up, extending its ladder up to the collapsing fire escape - but no sooner has the fireman at the top of the ladder yelled "One at a time! Did you hear me? ONE AT A TIME!" than another bolt between the fire escape and the wall breaks off, causing the eleven men to scramble toward the ladder all at once, ignoring the fireman snarling "You'll see!" before he climbs down again. Sure enough, they soon find they've traded a bad situation for an even worse one, as the ladder starts swinging out of control until the passengers are thrown to various fates...

--->'''Russell:''' All right, we all agree on that...

--->'''Russell''' (''smiles wistfully''): Yeah.

* A behind-the-scenes example: Legendary Hollywood stuntman Carey Loftin, who was also the stunt supervisor for the movie, ended up scaring himself into not slacking off early in production. According to Loftin, he hadn't read the call sheet for an upcoming day of filming and was subsequently out late drinking when he was informed by a co-worker that he needed to be on set extremely early. Loftin then said he went home and made himself vomit to clear his stomach of any remaining booze before chugging buttermilk and getting to bed. He then he showed up on set, monstrously hungover and terrified of what he might be expected to do stunt-wise, only to then be given the exceedingly menial task of being the one to kick Smiler Grogan's bucket and nothing else. Loftin said he made a point of reading the call sheet every single day of production from that point on.

* Creator/DonKnotts's cameo as an (of course) nervous driver, especially since he's paired with con-man Phil Silvers, who covers by pretending to be a secret agent ("Can you handle a gun?").

** "We'll get no place if we continue listening to this old bag!" Ironically, she was offering the most sensible deal at the moment.

'''Benjy:''' That's good, that's cement.\\

** At another point as they're careening wildly.
'''Benjy:''' [[DissonantSerenity Dingy, don't let this worry you: we're gonna get killed.]]

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'''Benjy:''' Dingy, don't let this worry you: we're gonna get killed.

* This bit early on when the police arrive on the scene after Smiler Grogan kicks the bucket (literally):
--> '''Police Officer''': I said, did he say anything before he died?
--> '''Pike''': What about?
--> '''Police Officer''': What do you mean, what about?! Did he say anything or didn't he say anything?!

-->'''Russell:''' All right, we all agree on that...

* The Crumps' attempts to break out of the locked store room. First the alarm fails to ring:
-->'''Melville''': The stupidest burglar in the world could come in and walk away with everything, [[{{Irony}} and we can't even get out]].
** Culminating with Melville making one final attempt, destroying the staircase while he's standing on it:
--->'''Melville:''' (''after Monica digs him out of the rubble'') "Monica...now let's forget about the door, huh?"
** And then:

* The scene earlier on when everyone tries to figure out what the big W is. Especially Benjy.
* Pike finally discovering the big W.

* Every frame where Jimmy Durante is on screen. Especially when he [[LiteralMetaphor kicks the bucket]]. Made funnier by Benjy's reaction.

* "I said it before and I'll say it again...''I'' didn't wanna move to California."

--> '''Dingy''': (''on seeing snoring Fitzgerald'') I think he's got a cold.
--> '''Benjy''': (''on seeing grunting Fitzgerald'') That's a head cold.
--> '''Fitzgerald''': (''not being able to open his eyes due to hangover'') Just a minute! I can't see! Something's happened to my eyes. I can't see!
--> '''Benjy''': Must be an eye cold.

---> '''Dingy''': Our grandmother is dying and she's sent for us. She's in Rosita Beach. She's dying and we're up here. She'd like us with her when she goes.
---> '''Benjy''': Otherwise she won't go. ''[DopeSlap]'' Oh, uh, she'll go!
** Fitzgerald's elaborate mechanism for drinking on board. "Just press the button back there marked "booze". [[ActorAllusion It's the only way to fly!]]"

---> '''Dingy''': But Benjy can't fly!
---> '''Fitzgerald''': Nonsense. Anybody can fly a plane. I'm making an Old Fashioned.
---> '''Benjy''': What if something happens?!
---> '''Fitzgerald''': [[ComicallyMissingThePoint What can happen to an Old Fashioned, all right?]]
---> '''Dingy''': I know you don't know what to do, so don't do nothing.
---> '''Benjy''': I won't do nothing!
---> '''Fitzgerald''': [[TemptingFate That boy's a natural-born flyer.]]
---> (''cue the plane making a swirl and Fitzgerald being knocked out'')

** And how about when the air control tower told them to stay calm? Dingy and Benjy become calm like they're told, but Dingy quickly snaps out of it in time to see Benjy with a goofy expression on his face serenely letting go of the controls.

** Also this exchange, when Dingy is trying to snap Benjy out of his frozen fear state:

** There's also when the tower tells them that the person at the controls has to be the one on the radio, and Dingy tries to force the headset onto a noncooperative Benjy:

** Colonel Wilberforce's long and slow introduction was probably meant to reassure Benjy and Dingy, but it actually made things worse:

** And then Colonel Wilberforce's attempt to speak to them in LaymansTerms also backfired:

---> '''Dingy''': We're '''both''' holding it!

--->'''Sylvester:''' "Boy, are you bugging me, man! It...I'm getting ''bugged'' here, ''woah'' man!"
--->'''Sylvester:''' "I'm coming to save you, Momma! It's why you had me!"
--->'''Sylvester:''' ''(while ramming Russell and Hawthorne)'' [[PunctuatedForEmphasis I - SAID - STOP - THAT - CAR!]]"

--> '''Cabbie''': The cops in this town are morons! Retarded! I'm dealing with moronic people! What, that fat Nazi give me a ticket?! I'll get arrested because of him?! (As The Crumps try to get his attention) CAN'T YOU SEE I'M TALKIN' ON THE PHONE, HUH?! GIVE ME TWO MINUTES! Now listen to me, Sy... (At this point he notices them covered in gunge and he immediately calms down to ask them why)

* Meyer's RageAgainstTheHeavens before driving into a river, interrupting his tirade to the kid to simply look up and shout "Why? WHY!?!?"

* As you can see, there are scads of them, but the BananaPeel example ends the film on a truly classic note. In the prison hospital, where the eleven men are all in full body casts, Culpeper has just finished grumbling that his life will be infinitely more miserable than that of the other thirteen money chasers thanks to the collapse of his marriage, the revocation of his pension, and the fact that the judge at their trial will delight in throwing the book at him and letting the others off lightly, and he can only hope that one day he finds a reason to laugh again; the others are utterly unsympathetic. Seconds later, the three women enter, and Mrs. Marcus is only a few words into yet another tirade when she slips on a banana peel thrown onto the floor by Benjy and lands flat on her back. Culpeper soon joins in the gales of laughter from the other men (Sylvester excluded).

* Even for complete strangers, it only takes a few minutes to know Mrs. Marcus: "We'll get no place if we continue listening to this old bag!" Ironically, she was offering the most sensible deal at the moment.

*** "All right, we all agree on that..."

--->'''Cop:''' Are you fellas' alright?\\

-->'''Melville:''' (''after Monica digs him out of the rubble'') "Monica...now let's forget about the door, huh?"

** Finally, when they blew a hole in the wall with explosives and entered the adjacent crowded room through the wall:

--->'''Pike''': It was under a big W. Say, what ''is'' a big W?
--->'''Ding''': If we find out, we'll send you a wire. ''(Benjy laughs)''
* Russell and Hawthorne's fight. ''None'' of their [[WimpFight punches connect]] -- they either duck, or just fail on their own (the final shot of them before the intermission has them aim punches at each other [[PunchParry only for their fists to collide halfway across]]). Fantastic.
-->'''Hawthorne''': You're not much good without that horrible mother-in-law of yours, are you? (Russell then [[EyePoke Eye Pokes]] him)

** Hawthorne's [[TheReasonYouSuckSpeech "The Reason America Sucks" Speech]], especially the part about America's "preoccupation with bosoms". [[HilariousInHindsight Hawthorne should talk after watching a few episodes of]] ''Series/TheBennyHillShow''...

** The Crumps using extinguishers to try and put out the fire in the hardware store basement.

*** Preceding this, they enter a tunnel... and the front-right tire comes out ''before the car'' does.

* Film/TheThreeStooges' wordless five-second cameo [[OhCrap as the firemen]].

--> '''Colonel Wilberforce's voice on the radio''': Just one minute more, it'll be all over. (''a flabbergasted look on Benjy and Dingy's faces'') [[DiggingYourselfDeeper I mean, it'll all be over...]] I mean, courage, men!

--> '''Colonel Wilberforce''': Now--Now men, you've got to know about the brakes. I'm... I'm gonna tell you about the brakes in just one minute--Just hold on a minute--Just... Just... WHAT THE HELL'S WITH THIS WIRE, HERE?!

* Joe E. Brown doing what he does best.
--> "Hey! Hey! HEEEEEEY!"
* Sylvester's girlfriend go-go dancing in a bikini, with a [[TheStoic stone face]] that Creator/BusterKeaton would envy. They music they're dancing to pauses for a second, they both stop perfectly in sync, and continue once the song does, giving no acknowledgement to the ringing phone.
** Later, on Mrs. Marcus's [[RuleOfThree third attempt]] at calling him they're finally dancing to soft, slow music and so are able to hear the phone. Sylvester just keeps dancing to the ringer.

** Also the moment when the other treasure-seekers foil her VictoriasSecretCompartment moment with the car keys by turning her upside down and shaking her.

* Pretty much everything [[ThoseTwoGuys the two cab drivers say,]] [[DeadpanSnarker especially the one played by]] ''{{Series/Columbo}}''.
** We're introduced to him yelling into a payphone. In addition to being a DeadpanSnarker, he's also got something of a HairTriggerTemper:

* The scene earlier on when everyone tries to figure out what the big W is.
** Especially Benjy.

* Mrs. Marcus whacking anybody in the crowd who tries to grab the money.

* Culpeper asks Billie Sue what she's doing in the bus station. Cue the irritable yet obvious response: "[[AskAStupidQuestion I'm waiting for the bus!]]"
** And then Culpeper holding one phone to the other (Billie Sue is on one phone, Ginger is on the other), yelling into one for Billie Sue to listen to what Ginger has to say.
*** "BILLIE SUE, LISTEN TO YOUR MOTHER!"

* The miner 'convincing' Mr. Meyers to help him bring medicine to his wife:

-->'''Mrs. Marcus:''' [[MoodWhiplash "SYLVESTER!" (shoves Hawthorne, sending them careening off the road)]]

* The final chase, that ends in a fire truck ladder and prime cut slapstick.
* As you could see, there are scads of them, but the BananaPeel example ends the film on a truly classic note.

** Another pilot giving them a sign of the cross before taking off. The look on their faces is priceless.

** A thoroughly miserable Culpeper holds two phone receivers next to each other as his daughter cries hysterically over one phone and his wife tries to talk her down by blaming Culpepper for everything over the other phone. Leading to one of Culpepper's subordinates coming in and innocently asking if there's anything wrong. [[YouHaveGotToBeKiddingMe Then Culpepper slowly turns to look at him.]]

--->'''Benjy''': ''[Snaps out of it]'' [[LampshadeHanging You hit me!]]

''([[DudeWheresMyRespect Benjy just pouts in annoyance]])''

--->[[TheDitz Benjy]] [[DissonantSerenity gestures to himself]].
--->'''Dingy''': Who's flying the plane? '''Nobody's''' flying the plane!

** Then after the whole thing is over, the police move in:

'''Hawthorne:''' What's the matter, don't you like the English?\\

-->'''Pike''': [[SarcasmMode "Somebody will stumble over the bicycle in the dark"]], huh? When I finish with you, they'll be stumbling over YOU in the dark!

*** Preceding this, they enter a tunnel... and the front-left tire comes out ''before the car'' does.

** Russell and Hawthorne fail utterly in their attempts to beat the tar out of each other after Hawthorne's car overturns.

-->'''Melville''': The stupidest burglar in the world could come in and walk away with everything, and we can't even get out.

** And in a minute: "Good luck and may the best man win! Except you, lady. May you just-- '''''drop DEAD!'''''"