What's the most explosive laughter you've ever heard in a movie theater?

[Rowdy Roddy McDowall]

For me, it was 1980.....THE EMPIRE STRIKES BACK, when R2D2 made Admiral Piett look like a dead duck
at the conclusion. It was definitely explosive, even though it was only one guy laughing!

The runner-up was in 1981. SUPERMAN 2......the exact second we returned to the bully in the bar. Maybe not as explosive, but universal in comparison. Instantly telling us without words we were about to get exactly what we wanted to see, big-time.

Now your picks....

 

[Mr. Laser Beam]

Airplane!. 'Nuff said.

 

[auntiehill]

In the theater? "A Fish Called Wanda."

I remember the whole theater just howling with laughter.

 

[Mr. Laser Beam]

^ Best scene in that film:

Jamie Lee Curtis just LOSING it when John Cleese speaks foreign languages.

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[Rowdy Roddy McDowall]

Airplane!. 'Nuff said.

Had I seen that in the theater, I would have laughed the loudest at the prisitine fish skeleton, then the turbulence moment.
My father loved the ''instruments'' bit the most.

As for the second AIRPLANE, which I semi-enjoyed inside a theater.....perhaps the danger vacuum.

 

[Mr. Laser Beam]

Had I seen that in the theater, I would have laughed the loudest at the prisitine fish skeleton, then the turbulence moment.
My father loved the ''instruments'' bit the most.

You have got to try Zero Hour!. Most of the dialogue in Airplane! is taken WORD FOR WORD from it. Most surreal experience of my life.

As for the second AIRPLANE, which I semi-enjoyed inside a theater.....perhaps the danger vacuum.

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"So you see, both Dunn and I were under Oveur. Even though I was under Dunn."

 

[Rowdy Roddy McDowall]

You have got to try Zero Hour!. Most of the dialogue in Airplane! is taken WORD FOR WORD from it. Most surreal experience of my life.

I did! Sure is! Me, too!

And the co-pilot or navigator in ZERO went on to get slapped in THE APPLE on STAR TREK years later....

 

[Rowdy Roddy McDowall]

And this bit:

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"So you see, both Dunn and I were under Oveur. Even though I was under Dunn."

Quite good for a disguised redo, though I've got to acknowledge the clearly-clearance-Clarence-roger-Roger-vector-Victor was the clearly-clear inspiration for it all....

 

[DonIago]

A few years back a friend took me to see The Disaster Artist for my birthday, and while other people were clearly amused by it, she and I were definitely having more fun than anyone else.

 

[flandry84]

Completely inappropriate.”Backdraft”...when kid Kurt Russell is watching grown up Kurt Russell get blown sky-high and his smoking helmet(not a euphemism) lands spinning at the kids feet...cliche overload!!

 

[Rowdy Roddy McDowall]

Completely inappropriate.”Backdraft”...when kid Kurt Russell is watching grown up Kurt Russell get blown sky-high and his smoking helmet(not a euphemism) lands spinning at the kids feet...cliche overload!!

I've suffered chuckleheads laughing during innocents' deaths in CLIFFHANGER and civilians dying in PLATOON. Don't feel guilty.

 

[the G-man]

I am thinking it was Matt Dillon performing CPR on the dog in "There's Something about Mary."

 

[Forbin]

We saw Message From Space in a theater. Once the audience realized how utterly awful it was, everybody started MST3K-ing it. That was a hell of a laugh fest. The standout laugh I remember is when the evil villain said something like "If I cannot conquer Earth, I will shatter it!" A half dozen guys in the back answered with the refrain from the Stones' "Shaa-ter, shaa-ter." That killed everybody.

 

[Mr. Adventure]

I know there's others but the one that immediately comes to mind was that scene in Deep Blue Sea. First, a collective gasp, and then explosive laughter.

 

[DonIago]

Not explosive laughter, but I briefly broke my friends during Return of the King. When Gandalf and Pippin arrived at Minas Tirith and Gandalf solemnly intoned, "Minas Tirith...", I leaned over to them and whispered, "It's only a model."

 

[Mr. Laser Beam]

^ SSSHH!

 

[Snaploud]

It was the sneak preview for Groundhog Day. I'm surprised that wikipedia says the movie came out in February 1993. That means I saw it with my father a few months before my ninth birthday.

 

[Rowdy Roddy McDowall]

We saw Message From Space in a theater. Once the audience realized how utterly awful it was, everybody started MST3K-ing it.

When I was at a friend's house re-watching THE BIRDS, another friend of his was brilliantly nailing the hidden-in-plain-sight ridiculousness of the gas station and phone booth scenes. Don't ask me why, but I always thought the man attacked in his car could have been cameoed by Charlton Heston.

I know there's others but the one that immediately comes to mind was that scene in Deep Blue Sea. First, a collective gasp, and then explosive laughter.

On opening night, I can't say for sure there was laughter, but there was one distraught 20-year-old screaming ''SAMUEL!!!!!'' three minutes after that scene occurred.

You might say that film broke protocol in an even larger way near the end when they disposed of the female lead. That was a last-minute decision when her character got lower test audience scores than LL Cool J.

 

[Aragorn]

I wasn't there for this, but apparently Flight of the Intruder test audiences couldn't hold back their laughter at seeing "Al Bundy" in a military movie, so Ed O'Neill's role had to be recast.

 

[Snaploud]

I know there's others but the one that immediately comes to mind was that scene in Deep Blue Sea. First, a collective gasp, and then explosive laughter.

I always wondered why I was the only one who thought that line 'We made the sharks' brains bigger and, as a side effect, the sharks got smarter' (as if it was an unexpected result that never would have occured to anybody involved) was one of the most ridiculously bonkers things in all of fiction.