The Room Tommy Wiseau Funny Moments

Ah, The Room. One of the most hilariously inept movies of all time. Is it any surprise it has its share of (unintentionally) funny moments?

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• The flower shop scene is a hilarious trainwreck, for several reasons:
  • Everyone seems to be rushing through the dialogue. It might be because the flower shop lady seems to be a line behind in the script. It's most obvious when Johnny goes, "That's me!", right after she tells him, "Oh, I didn't know it was you." This without getting into the implausibility of her not recognizing Johnny.
  • The dog sitting on the counter, greeted at the end by Johnny's nonchalant "Hai doggy!" — slotted in breathlessly after he tells the flower shop lady to keep the change. The dog even looks a little like the flower shop lady. The Disaster Artist adds the subtext that the dog was just part of the scene, sitting there motionless, and totally unnerving Tommy Wiseau — which makes "Hai doggy!" even more hilarious.
  • The whole scene seems to be shilling Johnny. Especially when the lady tells Johnny, "You're my favorite customer!" And because of the synchronization issues, she says this right as Johnny leaves, and she's offscreen at the time — making it look like "Doggy" is the one saying it.
• The film's most famous line, spoken by Johnny to himself as he wanders out onto the roof:

  Johnny: I did not hit her, it's not true, it's bullshit, I did not hit her — I did ''naaaaaaht''. (tosses water bottle, notices Mark) Oh hai, Mark.

It has so much to unpack:

• Johnny's facing a serious false allegation of domestic violence. He's mad about it. So he shows it by limply throwing a water bottle to the ground. We don't know why he waited until he was on the roof to respond this way, or even how the heck he found this out to begin with.
• Johnny slurs his lines tremendously in this scene. The words start running into each other, making it sound more like "is not true is bulsh-I did naaaaaaht."
• The bizarre reading of "I did not!", in which Johnny's head swivels like he's unhinging his jaw, and "not" comes out like it came from a mildly annoyed farm animal. That one word was, for many viewers, the single funniest part of the film.
• Mark is already sitting there on the roof and nonchalantly responds to all this, "Oh hey, Johnny, what's up?" He should have heard what Johnny was saying, but doesn't register the seriousness of it (well, none of the audience did). Johnny then repeats the accusations to Mark, who still doesn't react. He's also got a football with him... for whatever reason.
• The Disaster Artist adds even more subtext. Turns out that this scene took three hours to shoot. Tommy Wiseau just could not remember what he wrote.

• "Anyway, how is your sex life?" This line is funny enough on its own because it comes completely out of the blue, but what makes it even more hilarious is the fact that Johnny says it immediately after he claims he can't talk to Mark about what's going on at work because "it's confidential".
• Mike is generally funny, but his funniest line is easily, "And she's showing everybody me underwears!" Johnny's only reaction is, "You must be kidding, underwear, I got the picture!"
• Johnny's famous "You're tearin' me apart, Lisa!" It's Tommy Wiseau Chewing the Scenery at his hardest. The RiffTrax guys just clapped when they got to this scene, and CinemaSins only said, "There's nothing wrong with this scene — this is gold." Even Wiseau himself thought it was Actually Pretty Funny.
• This barely audible exchange at the party:

  Random Guy: Lisa looks hot tonight.
  Guy's Wife: What do you mean, "hot"?
  Guy: Oh, I'm sorry. Did I say "hot"?

• The fight scene between Johnny and Mark is hilariously awful. Especially Johnny's angry dialogue:
  • "Don't touch me, motherfawker. Get out!"
  • "I'll kill you I break every bone in your body! I'll kill you you bastard."
  • When Johnny finally confronts Mark about the affair, he's met with this Lame Comeback: "You don't know shit, all right?"
• The whole breast cancer thing. Claudette says, in no uncertain terms, "I got the results of the test back. I definitely have breast cancer." Lisa's only response is, "Don't worry about it!", and no one ever mentions it again.
• Johnny locks himself in the bathroom fuming about Lisa and Mark. Lisa asks him to come out, and Johnny replies, "In a few minutes, bitch." Even though this is the closest thing Johnny has to a Moment of Awesome, he doesn't even sound angry. It comes across more like he's a little kid who's discovered swear words for the first time. Juliette Danielle, Lisa's actress, shamelessly admits that this was the only time she actually laughed out loud on set.
• This bizarre exchange:

  Lisa: Did you get your promotion?
  Johnny: ...Nah.
  (awkward Beat)
  Lisa: You didn't get it, did you?
  (The Nostalgia Critic: What part of "nah" did you not understand?)

• The exchange in which Lisa tries to tell her mother that Johnny hit her (even though he did naaaaaaht):

  Lisa: He didn't get his promotion. And he got drunk last night. (eyes shift downward) And he hit me.
  Claudette: Johnny doesn't drink!

This exchange is so bizarre that the viewers are split. One school of thought is that Claudette is such a conniving bitch that she doesn't care about domestic violence. The other is that Claudette is teaching Lisa how to be a conniving bitch and telling her that her lie doesn't hold water. Either way, both Claudette and Lisa seem totally disengaged from the film's plot.

• When Lisa tries the story on Michelle, it's almost as funny:

  Lisa: He got drunk last night, and he hit me.
  Michelle: He hit you?!
  Lisa: He didn't know what he was doing.
  Michelle: Are you okay?
  Lisa: Well, I don't want to marry him anymore.
  Michelle: What?!

• Lisa gets Johnny drunk on a combination of scotch and vodka and flips Johnny to "drunk" mode, which is less convincing than the average ten-year-old pretending to be drunk.

  Johnny: I'm tie-erred, eye'm waysted, I luhrff you durrhling.
  Lisa: Make love to me, Johnny.
  Johnny: (groans)

Johnny also manages to accidentally capture the audience's reaction to a third sex scene in a half hour.

• The whole Chris-R scene:
  • "I don't have five fucking minutes, Denny!" (pulls a gun on Denny) "Where's my fucking money, Denny?!"
  • Claudette tells Denny off for taking drugs. Denny screams at her, "You're not my fucking mother!"
  • "I owe him some money." "What kind of money?!" "I owe him some money!" "What kind of money?!"
  • Claudette and Lisa both freak out about Denny's predicament. Denny suddenly whines, "Stop ganging up on me!"
  • "Calm down, he's going to jail!"
• Johnny's impression of a chicken, which he does twice — once to Peter, the second time to Mark during the fight scene. "CHEEEEEEP-cheep-cheep-cheep-cheep. CheeeEEEeeeEEEeeeEEEuuuaaa." All while imitating a chicken's movements, very stiffly.
• Peter's last line in the film is, "That's it, I'm done." It's Hilarious in Hindsight when you realize that Peter's actor left the project midway through for another commitment, and he tried to get Tommy Wiseau to film the party scenes first before he had to leave, only for Tommy to insist instead on the infamous "football in tuxes" scene. Peter is perfectly voicing his actor's frustration with Tommy Wiseau, then leaves the movie to be replaced by Steven.
• "Hahaha. What a story, Mark." Hilarious for two reasons: first, the terrible dubbing, and second, because the hilarious story is Mark's account of a woman he knew who was brutally beaten to the point of hospitalization by one of her lovers, which brings it right back over the line.
• Mark getting a shave is treated like an Important Haircut, complete with an extreme closeup of his face and dramatic music. Johnny tells him, "Wow, you look great! You look... a babyface..." Greg Sestero called this one of the most embarrassing things he had ever done.
• Johnny's plaintive, "Everybody betray me! I'm fed up with this warruld!" Tommy Wiseau's ability to pronounce "world" with two syllables is impeccable.
• "Let's goh eat, haaauuu!"
• The swooning romanticism of Mark and Lisa's interactions:

  Lisa: I miss you.
  Mark: I just saw you, what are you talking about?

• Mark is mad at Johnny:

  Mark: Leave your stupid comments in your pocket!
  (RiffTrax: With your keys, and your stupid change!)

• Denny asks Johnny what movie they're going to see. Johnny responds with a nonsensical, "Denny, don't plan too much, it may not come out right."
• Although Johnny's suicide and its aftermath is supposed to be the saddest scene in the film, it has plenty of funny moments:
  • Johnny executes the most hilarious Anger Montages in cinematic history. He can't help but looking totally bored. Many of his lines are completely unintelligible ("Bluddaholewurld!"). He nonchalantly pulls out the drawers, feebly knocks the plastic fruits off the dish, and casually tosses a CRT TV out the window without even disguising that it's clearly a hollowed-out prop. The scene's best bit is the serendipitous cinematography, when Johnny knocks down a picture and it falls over on the camera.

    The Nostalgia Critic: Yah, I'm angry, I guess. Roar roar. I'm really mean and frustrated, hah. This is what angry people do, right? Hah.

  • Johnny's tantrum culminates in him humping Lisa's red dress and then sitting on the floor and sadly sticking a gun into his mouth:
  • When Lisa and Mark discover Johnny's body, which is clearly lying there lifeless with a pool of blood around his head, they're not quite sure what they've seen:

    Mark: Wake up, Johnny! Wake up!
    Lisa: Oh my God, Mark, is he dead?!

  • Lisa and Mark soon start bickering among each other, leading to some hilarious lines, like:

    Lisa: I lost him, but I still have you, right?!
    Mark: (shoves Lisa away) You don't have me! You'll never have me.
    (RiffTrax: I am unhaveable! I am Mark!)

  • Or:

    Mark: As far as I'm concerned, you can drop off the Earth! That's a promise.

  • Denny shows up, sees what happened, goes to Johnny (or rather what's left of him), and shouts at Mark and Lisa, "Leave us!"
• Steven finds out about the affair and has a bit of a dramatic response:

  Steven: I feel like I'm sitting on an atomic bomb, waiting for it to go off.
  Michelle: Me too!

• Johnny grabs an open box, which he then closes so that he can open it for drama or something.
• Johnny sprinkles rose petals all over Lisa's breasts during their sex scene. After sex, we see that Lisa still has petals stuck to her back. Johnny then gets out of bed, grabs another rose, smells it, and settles it down by a sleeping Lisa. It's practically a threesome with a plant.
• Mike and Michelle's sex scene is somehow more awkward and hilarious than any scene involving Johnny and Lisa:
  • Mike's weirdly forced undressing, where he shoots both hands straight up like he's playing "Simon Says".
  • Mike apparently orgasms as soon as Michelle puts her head in the general vicinity of his crotch.
  • Mike awkwardly describes his romantic gestures:
  • Mike's sexual turn-on face is one of the funniest things caught on film.
  • Claudette walks in on Mike and Michelle and utters a line that, intentionally or otherwise, mirrors exactly what the audience is thinking at that point:

    Claudette: What are these characters doing here?

  • Later in the movie, Mike makes a "casual announcement" to his friends:
• Johnny gets oddly emphatic:

  Johnny: It seems to me like you're the expert, Mark!
  (RiffTrax: And I'm an expert on experts!)

• Johnny tells Lisa at his surprise birthday party, "You invited all of my friends! Good thinking!" As if Lisa were going to invite his enemies, or a bunch of strangers.
• Johnny's reaction when Denny tells him he thinks he's in love with Lisa:

  Johnny: If a lot of people luv each other... the warruld would be a better place.

• Lisa and Mark have a riveting phone conversation in which Lisa says, "You just don't care," and Mark bluntly responds, "I do care." Eight seconds later, we get the exact same exchange, with the only difference being Mark being slightly more frustrated this time.
• When Lisa first calls Mark:
• Denny shows up at the door and literally asks to borrow a cup of sugar. It's very difficult to take seriously. Then Denny comes back again looking to borrow some other ingredients.

  Claudette: Doesn't your home have a kitchen?
  (CinemaSins: Don't your breasts have cancer?)

• Finally, we leave you with the film according to Rotten Tomatoes:

  A benevolent, friendly, selfless man who greets everyone with a disarming "Hi" discovers that you can't trust anyone after getting engaged to a manipulative, self-serving siren who seduces his best friend and destroys his life in The Room. Johnny (writer/director Tommy Wiseau) has everything a man could ever want: great friends, a good job, and a gorgeous fiancée named Lisa (Juliette Danielle). But Lisa's innocent act masks the fact that she's looking to bring Johnny down, and her manipulations are tearing Johnny apart. As Lisa informs her cancer-ridden mother, Claudette (Carolyn Minnott), that Johnny hit her (he did not hit her, that is bull$&*t, he did not), Johnny's best friend, Mark (Greg Sestero), finds his resistance to Lisa's seductive charms weakening. Meanwhile, local orphan Denny (Philip Haldiman) looks up to Johnny and needs the older man's help after the teen rips off a drug dealer. What kind of drugs? It doesn't matter. Then guys play football in tuxedos because you can play football anywhere.

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Source: https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Funny/TheRoom

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