Funniest Moment, But Wait....

[Spock's Barber]

What character or event that appeared in any episode made you laugh, even though the writer or director was dead serious about their creation?

Here's mine...those ridiculous looking aliens at the finale of 'Catspaw'.

 

[Neopeius]

What character or event that appeared in any episode made you laugh, even though the writer or director was dead serious about their creation?

Here's mine...those ridiculous looking aliens at the finale of 'Catspaw'.

I didn't find them funny when I first saw them, age 8. When the Enterprise is going through time in Tomorrow is Yesterday, and it's just a wiggling of the model...that looked kinda dumb.

 

[Drone]

What character or event that appeared in any episode made you laugh, even though the writer or director was dead serious about their creation?

Here's mine...those ridiculous looking aliens at the finale of 'Catspaw'.

Actually, I find that representation of a truly alien species, from another galaxy yet, to be actually quite fascinating and a serious outlier to what we've seen, taking into account the amount of TNG and DS9 I never saw or don't remember, throughout the franchise. Ridiculous? Not by a long shot, but YMMV, etc......

 

[Captain Rob]

You gotta love the flying pizza monsters on Deneva.

 

[Push The Button]

He's criminally insane, but I've always found (most of) Garth's antics and characterization in Whom Gods Destroy to be hilarious.

 

[Amaris]

The entire "E Plebnista..." scene from The Omega Glory.

 

[telerites]

If this counts - Shatner's over-acting as Kirk as Janice Lester (or is it Lester as Kirk, hmm...) in "Turnabout Intruder." Absolutely hilarious. Some had to been written as humor like Kirk filing his nails but it is quintessential Shatner's hamming that makes me laugh.

 

[Terok Nor]

^ I'm also a fan of that scene

 

[telerites]

^ I'm also a fan of that scene

Janice, is that you?

 

[JimZipCode]

One that makes me feel a little self-conscious, is Nimoy's falsetto moaning when he's mind-melding with the Horta.

 

[Vandervecken]

McCoy saying "he's dead, Jim" over the horned doggy thing in The Enemy Within. For that matter, the horned doggy thing.

McCoy suddenly needing to get back to the Enterprise as soon as he's cured in For the World is Hollow and I have Touched the Sky. Natira, I love you, but I've got to go now, I have so much noble stuff to do, yeah, that's it...

The chain on the tiger in Shore Leave. Oh the danger is dangerous! Oh fear!

The Samurai making those cartoon oriental fighter sounds in Shore Leave. Kirk and Spock making such short work of him. Looks so funny. Wa-ta! Yah!





This didn't strike me as funny until I started chewing it over, but say this in your head a few times, from This Side of Paradise:

Spock: I am what I am, Leila, and if there are self-made purgatories, then we all have to live in them. Mine can be no worse than someone else's.

What the hell does that mean, exactly? Sounds dramatic and highfalutin' as all get-out, but, er, it means...? We have to all live in any self-made purgatories we have constructed? This is common, is it? And why can't Spock's be worse than anyone else's?

Now when I hear this, I crack up. You go writers!

 

[Gary Mitchell]

Kirk just now remembered that science lab Christmas party with Helen Noel.

 

[Amaris]

McCoy saying "he's dead, Jim" over the horned doggy thing in The Enemy Within. For that matter, the horned doggy thing.

McCoy suddenly needing to get back to the Enterprise as soon as he's cured in For tthe World is Hollow and I have Touched the Sky. Natira, I love you, but I've got to go now, I have so much noble stuff to do, yeah, that's it...



This didn't strike me as funny until I started chewing it over, but say this in your head a few times, from This Side of Paradise:

Spock: I am what I am, Leila, and if there are self-made purgatories, then we all have to live in them. Mine can be no worse than someone else's.

What the hell does that mean, exactly? Sounds dramatic and highfalutin' as all get-out, but, er, it means...? We have to all live in any self-made purgatories we have constructed? This is common, is it? And why can't Spock's be worse than anyone else's?

Now when I hear this, I crack up. You go writers!

Just spitballing, but I think what he's saying is that everyone's own purgatory is tailor made to their own personal sin that needs to be cleansed, so no one person's own purgatory is better or worse than another's. Since he is half human living as a full Vulcan, Spock's purgatory is the suppression of his emotions, no matter what joy or sorrow they might bring.

 

[Vandervecken]

Just spitballing, but I think what he's saying is that everyone's own purgatory is tailor made to their own personal sin that needs to be cleansed, so no one person's own purgatory is better or worse than another's. Since he is half human living as a full Vulcan, Spock's purgatory is the suppression of his emotions, no matter what joy or sorrow they might bring.

You are right on the face of it, it's just that the way he says it makes it sound like this is some common pastime of humanity (or people, anyway), as opposed to more the purview of tragic noble sufferers. And why must we live in our self-made purgatories? What if we want out and decide to self-destroy some? It just sounds so...overblown to me now.


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Oh oh oh! More mind-meld hijinks! Spock talking with the sorta Nomad/cartoonish robot-computer voice in the Changeling. It is to cringe (but funny). Those wacky Vulcans! I'm thinking there's some sort of advanced mind-meld class back on Vulcan, now disciples of no fun ever, when mind melding, remember, a dramatic voice covers up a lot of obvious, and repeat, repeat, repeat...now Snoopek what have I told you about using your own voice? How are we supposed to maintain the proper alien respect for Vulcan mystery and awe and solemnity etc and ad nauseam... now I want you all to go home and practice your Another Mind Is Temporarily in Control postures 2 to 7.

 

[Kor]

"Brace yourselves, the area of penetration will no doubt be sensitive."
- Spock, The Immunity Syndrome

Kor

 

[Amaris]

The way he says it makes it sound like this is some common pastime of humanity, as opposed to more the purview of tragic noble sufferers. It just sounds so...overblown, to me now.

Eh, I think a lot of classic Trek has overblown moments like that. This was the 1960s, and the stage had more power on the small screen at the time, because most actors then were theater trained, so there was an over-emotiveness at times that borders on in-your-face and embellished today.

 

[Spock's Barber]

Well, the sight of the Gorgan dressed in a jumbo, super size, gigantic skirt made me chuckle.

 

[Pauln6]

Kirk having a cupboard full of make-up for his manscaping in the Enemy Within.

 

[Spock's Barber]

Kirk having a cupboard full of make-up for his manscaping in the Enemy Within.

Memo
To : Kirk
From : Kirk
Cancel back scratching appointment with Yeoman Rand.

 

[Chronos]

In Friday's Child, I just can't get enough of the Capellans' costumes and the sound effects of them throwing their weapons. They look like they're colorful ninjas wearing feather boas who throw weapons designed to make silly whistling noises.