OK, let’s make this quick.  This topic was between this and another one, (which you will almost certainly see very soon), and I wasn’t sure if this one would work.  Then I remembered that I don’t get paid for this, that we do this rather than work on a Monday, and that frankly this topic should probably be great for that.  So here it is.

This week we are drafting iconic scenes from sit-coms.  Not characters, not shows, not theme songs:  Scenes.  This came to me a couple of days ago when the open thread lacked all organization and for whatever reason I just had to post what I think is the funniest scene in the history of sit-coms.

I’d post it here but I need it for the first pick.

The rules are, as usual, (and much like your author), simple:  If it is a scene, from a sit-com, that you think is very funny, it is eligible for the draft.  Multiple scene from the same show may be used.  Only the drafted scene is eliminated.  There could be some overlap, I supposed but the chances seem pretty slim, and also I don’t care.

Your commissioner is the late, lamented Norman Lear.

Ain’t nobody done sit-coms like Norman did.

With the first pick I will take the iconic “slow down” scene from Taxi.

The rest of you are on the clock.