Did not appreciate how truly great it was to have "Taxi", "Night Court" and "Cheers" all on TV. Today we have a lot of channels, but there is nothing that comes close to the writing on those shows.
I watched this when it first aired and I was recovering from pneumonia. I nearly had to call an ambulance. To this day has to be the funniest skit I've ever seen.
Loved this show!, had to get out of bed every night to see it , midnight every weekday back then, still one of my favorites tunes there intro, takes me back!
I remember sitting in the living room watching with my mom, dad and younger brother when this first aired and we absolutely laughed our asses off! This comes back to me every now and then, will always remember their faces! Good times!😂
As a young man, my accounting class teacher couldn’t stop talking about it the following day. I seldom would socialize in school, but we talked and laughed half way through the class hour. This sitcom had 3 all time great characters, hence it burns brightly in my mind.
I have always felt that also. I was watching a rerun a few years back with my sister. She laughed so hard, she slid off a loveseat. I watched her more the the skit as I already knew it. I laughed almost as hard as her.
Totally agree. Maybe funniest ever. Saw a thing on this once. It was one take. They kept going until the actors couldn't hold it together any longer. You can see Danza looking away and covering his mouth.
The anticipation of laughter heightened whenever Jim entered any scene in the series. More than anybody else's. Though they are all excellent actors. Priceless.
Years later I caught Jeff Conaway doing a Babylon 5 panel at DragonCon and he described how they had to film a scene with him and Patricia Tallman in a station elevator several times to get multiple angles for the edit, having to reposition the cameras and take out one wall of the elevator car and such. In the scene Tallman's character is in some kind of fugue state so he has to carry all the dialogue as they reshoot four, five, six times. He described the filming of that one scene feeling just like the What Does The Yellow Light Mean scene and then proceeded to act it out through four iterations and doing a spot-on impression of Christopher Lloyd. Everybody in the room remembered that scene and Conaway had the whole place roaring with laughter.
The backstory is on another video. Jeff Conaway and Christopher Lloyd actually did this "back-and-forth" seven times before the scene ended, and CL wanted the interaction to still go on. But, the guys behind the camera realized such serious audience laughing would've just gone on forever and ever. So, the scene was ended.
"What does a yellow light mean?" -Slow Down "Whhhhhhhaaaaat dooooooes aaaaaa Yellllllllllowww liiiiiiiight meeeeeeeeean?" I don't think I ever cried while laughing for a full minute since.
I used the same line as Jim before my GRE test. Sitting next to what looked like a very nerdy, smart woman I decided to have some fun. After filling out our name, address, etc on the form...when they announced to hand in the documents before we started the test I groaned out loud and said "I thought that was the test!" The lady next to me dropped her jaw and looked stunned. After each section I would mumble to myself..."This is a disaster." One year later I saw that woman in a store I worked at. I walked up to her and asked her if she remembered me. She looked at me for about 10 seconds and then with a strange look on her face said "GRE test!" Seems I made a good impression on her.
Watched this show when it first aired. I was around jr, high at the time. I loved this show already then when Lloyd came in as Rev. Jim it went up a notch from there. This show was the first I saw of Danny DeVito, Marilu Henner, Andy Kaufman (Loved him as Latka even if he annoyed my otherwise), Judd Hirsch, Carol Kane, and Christopher Lloyd. Truly an all star cast for a sitcom. Most of whom got their "big break" with this series. Looking back, no wonder it was such a great show!! (in spite of Tony Danza - sorry)
Christopher' Lloyd's victory scream when 'The Chief' broke out of the Cuckoo's Nest asylum was one of the single best, and most overlooked, bit of acting I've ever seen...
Me and my Dad watched this back in the day, when we saw this we both about pissed our pants laughing so hard 😂😂😂, Taxi was a must each and every week back then 🎉
When Taxi had "Ignatowski" plot episodes, just get ready too pee your pants in laughter!!! " I THOUGHT THIS WAS THE TEST??!!" "AW MAAAAANNNN"!!!!, in a shaky voice. Still crack up at that reaction of his!!! Great to watch this video for people with depression like me, a temporary fix! Thank you Christopher Lloyd!!! You're gold in my book!!!!
I can't believe this, when Taxi first appeared I was so busy living actively away from television it had already been gone off the air for years before stumbling upon it like here and now. Now that I have discovered it I laugh like heck it brings back memories because during the missing that show of then I realized this show was like the many of people I was around playing working and meeting by circumstances making it such I hadn't missed a dam thing it was the real Taxi life lived. People like in Taxi were much more chilled then even with crazy hustle of those times. Tic Toc
I read that the director like that scene so much in rehearsal that he told the actors in the taping to milk it as much as they can So afters the second time , they were just ad-libbing it .
@@Barb5001 I believe it. Still one of the funniest bits in TV along with Tim Conway's elephant story and Vicky Lawrence's dead on response on the "Carol Burnett Show" and the flying turkey disaster on "WKRP in Cincinnati , and Vita-Meat=a-Vegimen on "'I Love Lucy."
This is a prime example of what a LIVE STUDIO audience can do for you. You would not get any of this with a “One camera” sitcom or canned laughter. Very few shows knew how to take advantage of the studio audience this way. Taxi was one ! cheers did a good job. Laverne and Shirley. Carol Burnnette Show. It’s like the difference between Saturday Night Live and Mad Tv. Mad TV had canned laughter. But SNL HAD to be funny, or you knew they were bombing.
Christopher Lloyd in this is still as funny 40 years later. A masterpiece of a charecter role.
Did not appreciate how truly great it was to have "Taxi", "Night Court" and "Cheers" all on TV. Today we have a lot of channels, but there is nothing that comes close to the writing on those shows.
plus soap and barney miller...hill street blues...we had awesome tv then 👍
The TAXI theme always brings melancholy feelings. Oh! Those were the days. 🎶😢
Barney Miller, Sanford and Son Goodtimes the Cosby Show Benson and a Different World.
The scene at the DMV is hilarious.😂
Taxi Reverend Jim's driving test. 13.5.24. very funny, then.................... still amusing, now!!!!! I really don't wanna join, though.....
This may be THE funniest sketch in sit-com history.
"Mental illness or narcotic addiction?"
"Oh, wow - that's a tough choice."
Yeah, But today you can't joke about that stuff, without someone getting offended.
Nah, everywhere outside the North East & West Coast, you be fine. Out there, they take it personal - with reason !
Mildly amusing in parts but not in the same league as Fawlty Towers.
Why bring Fawlty Towers into it, get over the American's cannot do comedy myth
Lol...Ugh NO
I swear on my life this is one of the best scenes in TV history and will go down in infamy forever
You are not using "infamy" correctly
It's a tie with his vacuum salesman/encyclopedia salesman LOL
👋😂👌and the laughter in the background made it even better!!😂lmfao!
This, and the courtroom scene in, "Louie bumps into an old Lady".
Timeless, hands down the funniest ever.
I come back to this clip whenever I need a good laugh. Timeless comedy. They don't make shows like this anymore.
Jim was the funniest character of any show and this episode was a classic.
Any show? Lol...Ugh NO
I remember when this originally aired; my aunt almost died laughing during the "slow down" scene.
I watched this with my mom in 1980 we laughed so hard we were in the ground
Maybe that's why they cut it off there, to save lives.
@@JacobPatrick1
🤣😂🤣
Same here. Fell on the floor. I think it happened to everyone who saw it that night.
@@clifftanton8385 I think you're right.
Forty Years later I'm STILL laughing my ass off at this!!!😂😅
Timeless. Christopher Lloyd is brilliant. They're all hilarious. "Taxi" is still entertaining as hell.
I loved how each character was truly individual and no matter how minor, added to each show. Bravo
Especially when you're looking at Marilu Henner and her nice body.
@@Jdwify Yeah, she was and IS a hottie.
HELL IS ENTERTAINING???UHHH... NO!!! TAXI IS ENTERTAINING. YES.
They guy with the leather jacket where is he now
This is probably in the top five funniest scenes, EVER on any sitcom! Comedy at its finest right here folks!
I agree. It's right there at the top with "Turkeys Away" from "WKRP in Cincinnati".
@@johnhunter2294 "Oh the humanity!"
@@Marshallgill "As God is my witness, I thought turkeys could fly!"
One of the best sitcom scenes in television history
By far the the most memorable and funniest skit ever on Taxi!
I watched this when it first aired and I was recovering from pneumonia. I nearly had to call an ambulance. To this day has to be the funniest skit I've ever seen.
Still watching in 2023, still funny as hell. Taxi was one of the best sitcoms ever on tv in my opinion.
I miss this time in life so much.
Omg, one of the funniest scenes in comedy history! I can't stop laughing, Jim is hysterical. 😂🚦
"I thought this WAS THE TEST!"
The one with the leather coat that his name
@@randymillhouse791 Lol! Great line!
Lloyd was a laugh a minute in his role as reverend Jim, certainly one of the funniest characters on Taxi.
brilliant writing and acting...one of the best "sitcoms" ever produced
Loved this show!, had to get out of bed every night to see it , midnight every weekday back then, still one of my favorites tunes there intro, takes me back!
I went to a high school with a guy just like Jim. He was always fun to be around. He graduated, finally, in his early 20’s.
I remember sitting in the living room watching with my mom, dad and younger brother when this first aired and we absolutely laughed our asses off!
This comes back to me every now and then, will always remember their faces! Good times!😂
I watched this as well as a kid, when I had kids, I showed them this clip and they loved it.
As a young man, my accounting class teacher couldn’t stop talking about it the following day. I seldom would socialize in school, but we talked and laughed half way through the class hour. This sitcom had 3 all time great characters, hence it burns brightly in my mind.
NEVER GETS OLD. SO VERY FUNNY HE DESERVES AN EMMY FOR THIS ONE.
Can't tell if you're being sarcastic or serious.
@@RobertJ-vo4bk I am serious my friend. I think he is a great actor.
One of THE funniest scenes on TV EVER!! I'm amazed at all the extras on set were able to keep it together...I wonder how many takes it took LOL
Latkas Cookies is the best
I have always felt that also. I was watching a rerun a few years back with my sister. She laughed so hard, she slid off a loveseat. I watched her more the the skit as I already knew it. I laughed almost as hard as her.
Totally agree. Maybe funniest ever. Saw a thing on this once. It was one take. They kept going until the actors couldn't hold it together any longer. You can see Danza looking away and covering his mouth.
No extras unless script called for them. Crew, lots of crew.
The anticipation of laughter heightened whenever Jim entered any scene in the series. More than anybody else's. Though they are all excellent actors. Priceless.
Painful realization here: in real life, Jeff Conway was a hardcore opioid addict! No joke, and a damn shame. "What does a yellow..meean
@@dennisfreeland-bm9fs I heard that Jeff Conaway was also an addict! 🙂
I remember seeing this episode when it first aired. I fell out of the chair I was laughing so hard ! 🤣 😂
It's hard to believe that guy invented time travel and built a time machine ... out of a DeLorean.
Great scott!
And killed Kirk's son
he cleaned himself up a bit in the 80's LOL
@@jblonar See, you too can have an eventful life even after drugs!
Heck, he was even piloting a Klingon Bird of Prey in the 80's .... he really turned himself around :D
This NEVER gets old.
Quality never does.
Brilliant actor and whoever wrote his lines - master piece. Remember my dad almost passing out from the laughter with this guy.
It was a great show to grow up to and with. Great series,writing and acting.
One of the best skits I have ever seen. Jim is just fabulous.
Christopher Lloyd is amazing!!
Great Scot
@@marioiacolucci
@@roberthorvatich5965 thanks Robert
Amazing
Agreed!
“That’s a tough choice”😂😂😂😂😂
what a character...so damn funny and well acted..miss these kind of TV shows
Noticing the woman behind Jim trying her best not to break character with all the hilarity going on in front of her. Kudos to her!!!!
I never noticed that til you mentioned, now it's super hilarious!!!
Thank you for sharing that comment.
If you dont laugh at this you don't know real comedy. I cried hysterically when I first saw this.
Years later I caught Jeff Conaway doing a Babylon 5 panel at DragonCon and he described how they had to film a scene with him and Patricia Tallman in a station elevator several times to get multiple angles for the edit, having to reposition the cameras and take out one wall of the elevator car and such. In the scene Tallman's character is in some kind of fugue state so he has to carry all the dialogue as they reshoot four, five, six times. He described the filming of that one scene feeling just like the What Does The Yellow Light Mean scene and then proceeded to act it out through four iterations and doing a spot-on impression of Christopher Lloyd. Everybody in the room remembered that scene and Conaway had the whole place roaring with laughter.
@@LordZontar fabulous story, thanks!👍
I would love to see the outtakes of this scene!😂🤣😂
The backstory is on another video. Jeff Conaway and Christopher Lloyd actually did this "back-and-forth" seven times before the scene ended, and CL wanted the interaction to still go on. But, the guys behind the camera realized such serious audience laughing would've just gone on forever and ever. So, the scene was ended.
In terms of hilarity, this scene runs a close second to the one where Jim discovers the secret ingredient in Latka's cookies.
His first taste of a pot brownie is also classic. He takes one bite and his face immediately changes to that of Reverend Jim, and then back again!
The episode with guest star famous Amos! Wonderful!
Every time I see a scene with Jim I have this overwhelming desire to hear him scream, "Great Scott" !!!!
😂😂😂
This episode right up there with the turkey drop on WKRP your jaws are aching from laughing
My favorite TV show in that era
Tony Danza looks like he is ready to bust out laughing
Hilarious one of the funniest episodes of any show Ever
This episode is so hilarious 🤣
One of the greatest shows ever ! still can't stop laughing !! could watch them all day !!
Tony Danza appears to just be watching Lloyd with great amusement. Great old show!
Yes, he was just enjoying it and laughing along!
I was on the floor crying laughing when i first saw this years ago!😂😂😂
Dad and I rolling on the living room floor watching this in tears laffing so hard😂
First time I remember my dad laughing at something on TV. Classic.
This scene is like Abbott and Costello's "Who's on First" routine. I could watch it two dozen times, and it would still make me laugh.
"What does a yellow light mean?"
-Slow Down
"Whhhhhhhaaaaat dooooooes aaaaaa Yellllllllllowww liiiiiiiight meeeeeeeeean?"
I don't think I ever cried while laughing for a full minute since.
"I thought this was the Test!" 😂😂😂
This was the funniest moment EVER in t.v. history back then.
100% agree!!! I still remember just how I was rolling in a fit uncontrollable laughter.
nina bates You got that right
Best episode of Taxi.ever..l still
Laugh when l think about it and it
Is now May 19th..2021!!
@@khermann63 9
Mmmmm nina walters 😍😍😍😍
If I didn't know better I'd think Jim (from taxi) is Kramer's dad (from Seinfeld).
Jim is what happens when you time travel one too many times
@louc1:That is what I've always said!
I literally just thought of Kramer lol
Funny!
Extremely Funny, even after all these years !!!
The world needs to laugh !!
This scene and the Sanford and Son court room scenes are 2 of my favorites of all time.
And the George Costanza holistic healing scene on Seinfeld.
Between this and the turkey drop scene from wkrp are the best moments in TV comedy history
Latka choosing between sex or death was my fav.
One of the funniest scenes in TV history! 🤣🤣🤣
I used the same line as Jim before my GRE test. Sitting next to what looked like a very nerdy, smart woman I decided to have some fun. After filling out our name, address, etc on the form...when they announced to hand in the documents before we started the test I groaned out loud and said "I thought that was the test!" The lady next to me dropped her jaw and looked stunned. After each section I would mumble to myself..."This is a disaster." One year later I saw that woman in a store I worked at. I walked up to her and asked her if she remembered me. She looked at me for about 10 seconds and then with a strange look on her face said "GRE test!" Seems I made a good impression on her.
Performance and writing , PURE comedic genious !
Watched this show when it first aired. I was around jr, high at the time.
I loved this show already then when Lloyd came in as Rev. Jim it went up a notch from there.
This show was the first I saw of Danny DeVito, Marilu Henner, Andy Kaufman (Loved him as Latka even if he annoyed my otherwise), Judd Hirsch, Carol Kane, and Christopher Lloyd.
Truly an all star cast for a sitcom. Most of whom got their "big break" with this series.
Looking back, no wonder it was such a great show!! (in spite of Tony Danza - sorry)
Being a space cadet myself I always thought Jim was way funnier than Latka.
It wasn't even close. Jim was way funnier -
Christopher' Lloyd's victory scream when 'The Chief' broke out of the Cuckoo's Nest asylum was one of the single best, and most overlooked, bit of acting I've ever seen...
I remember my Mom laughing her ass off to this scene when it aired in the 80's!! I must have been 4 lol
One of my best memories laughing until I cried at this scene.
How I loved this show..
The funniest scene I ever saw in Taxi!!! 😂
Reverend Jim is one of my favorite tv characters.
Me and my Dad watched this back in the day, when we saw this we both about pissed our pants laughing so hard 😂😂😂, Taxi was a must each and every week back then 🎉
Tony is just too cool. I am sure he cracked up so many times during this take.
Friend introduced this show to me in HS and i watched through the whole series. Still laugh at this scene years later!
One of the funniest scenes in TV history!
One of the best moments in Television History.
One of the best things ever on television...this gag right here.
Who remembers Christopher Lloyd in the Dream Team with a huge cast of other greats ?
Me
In the Elegant Iggy episode Jim accompanies Elaine to a sophisticated dinner party. He fills in for the absent pianist. His performance is so funny.
Best episode of Taxi!
This was adult television at it's Best!
TAXI...a good show before Rev. Jim, a great show when Christopher Lloyd joined the cast.
When Taxi had "Ignatowski" plot episodes, just get ready too pee your pants in laughter!!!
" I THOUGHT THIS WAS THE TEST??!!"
"AW MAAAAANNNN"!!!!, in a shaky voice.
Still crack up at that reaction of his!!!
Great to watch this video for people with depression like me, a temporary fix!
Thank you Christopher Lloyd!!!
You're gold in my book!!!!
Judd Hirsch used the line "I...know...what...a...yellow...light...means" on a recent episode of his new show Superior Donuts.
I watched that show. I will have to look for that.
I saw this when it aired. Still funny!
I still laugh at every episode even though I have seen them all
I watched this with my Dad when it originally aired, I never saw my Dad laugh that hard.
I can't believe this, when Taxi first appeared I was so busy living actively away from television it had already been gone off the air for years before stumbling upon it like here and now. Now that I have discovered it I laugh like heck it brings back memories because during the missing that show of then I realized this show was like the many of people I was around playing working and meeting by circumstances making it such I hadn't missed a dam thing it was the real Taxi life lived. People like in Taxi were much more chilled then even with crazy hustle of those times. Tic Toc
i have no idea how they kept a straight face in this segment. this was one of the funniest in this show. i remember this and still crack up
Simply good clean humor. The best scene on taxi bar none.
I am 74 years old and this is the funniest bit I have ever seen.
God, talk about milking a line! Piece of genius! My stomach hurt for days, I laughed so hard.
I read that the director like that scene so much in rehearsal that he told the actors in the taping to milk it as much as they can So afters the second time , they were just ad-libbing it .
@@Barb5001 I believe it. Still one of the funniest bits in TV along with Tim Conway's elephant story and Vicky Lawrence's dead on response on the "Carol Burnett Show" and the flying turkey disaster on "WKRP in Cincinnati , and Vita-Meat=a-Vegimen on "'I Love Lucy."
This is a prime example of what a LIVE STUDIO audience can do for you. You would not get any of this with a “One camera” sitcom or canned laughter.
Very few shows knew how to take advantage of the studio audience this way. Taxi was one ! cheers did a good job. Laverne and Shirley. Carol Burnnette Show. It’s like the difference between Saturday Night Live and Mad Tv. Mad TV had canned laughter. But SNL HAD to be funny, or you knew they were bombing.
Christopher Lloyd is one hell of a funny guy
This is one of the best funny hilarious scenes of all time 😂😂😂
I saw this bit from when I was a kid and remember thinking it was hysterical.
this is my all time favorite Taxi scene.
When the video froze, I thought it was MY drugs kicking in 💀
This has got to be,without a doubt,one of THEE funniest scenes from any comedy T.V shows of ALLLL time😅.
This scene and the one where he eats the cocaine cookies are the best!!
"I thought this was the test"
I'm laughing so hard, I'm in tears.
This, and the "Hashish" episode from "Barney Miller" are some of the best in television...😂😂😂
Yes I agree you said it better thanks
A freaking classic scene!!
Absolutely Brilliant! Laughed my ass off!
One of the funniest comedy shows.
Great cast.
Great stories.
lol 4:33.