Jim from Taxi sells vacuum cleaners

[subzerowarrior1]

The most funny thing out of this is that there probably is some dumbass salesman out there who WOULD do such a thing!

[subzerowarrior1]

ROFLMAO More than something else hahaha!

[calixa]

im your name here. you can call me nickname.

genius.

[vccstudents]

"Where do I plug this in?" I fell out of my chair the first time I saw this!

[TheHarv691]

this takes me back they don't make great t.v. like this anymore

[pantsdontdance]

Watching this for my Marketing exam

[1pake]

one day people will not know what an encyclopedia is or that it was sold door to door. but it will still be funny.

[joshgearey]

is that doc brown

[keeblergraham21]

@joshgearey It sure is. It's also the Klingon that killed Kirk's son.

[MyMoppet52]

I watched Taxi weekly, but somehow missed this episode. This is hilarious! I miss this much fun in a show! No one can beat Jim for laughs. Thank you!

[Tralman1965]

One of the funniest scenes in T.V. history!

[jradetzky]

"I'm selling encyclopedias"

XD

[quirpco]

Was that a joint that landed on the floor when Jim spilled the dirt??

[hankaaron1961]

Any number of actors could have done a great job with this bit. But Christopher Lloyd takes it to a completely higher level. Notice his look of befuddlement at 3:#6, as Jim is still clueless to what he's selling. Brillance!

[cbsteffen]

If Jim Ignatowski wasn't selling vacuum cleaners, how could they have found an easy way to clean up that mess he made?

[SUPERMEDIABROTHERS6]

this is actualy a variation on an old vaudville routine, only in that after dumping the dirt on the ground the comedian would take out his vacuum cleaner and ask where to plug it in and the housewife would respond, "we don't have electricity" of course that doesn't work anymore because pretty much everybody has electricity nowadays.

[SteveJ2008]

@SUPERMEDIABROTHERS6 It also doesn't make much sense as to why the woman would even invite the salesman to go through a sales pitch for a vacuum in the first place if she doesn't have any electricity.

[SUPERMEDIABROTHERS6]

@SteveJ2008 well in the original skit the salesman wasvery loud and pushy, not letting the woman talk until that point during the entire thing she would interject with things like "but I" "you don't" "but you see" until the punch line.

[WastedPo]

I love how apprehensive the woman is initially and how Jim's behavior only confirms her fears.

[ErnieandBert1]

Another classic "Taxi" moment.

[sithsideus]

Christopher Lloyd possibly the best TV actor of all time. i watched every episode of this show just to see what Jim Ignatowski would get up to next

[ALittleBitOfGreen]

lol lol lol...

[sirfrancisalbert]

along with jims driving test segment this is some of the funniest television ever created.

[realurban]

@sirfrancisalbert totally agree 10 million thumbs up

[BigRed22557]

HAHAHA

This is gold!

[12192058]

One of my all-time favorite scenes. Thanks for posting.

[TheShipin]

so many actors from this show went onto big things

[wilcojoe13]

"..but you can call me nickname..."

Lloyd was brilliant !

[bigcheezhed]

still is..

[vccstudents]

Can you all believe ABC canceled this show before NBC picked it up! ABC canceled it to put "Police Squad!" on!

[justice008a]

Police Squad was also fantastic; they should have run them back-to-back

[vccstudents]

I agree. This was about the time ABC was ending "Crappy Days." They should have canceled "Crappy Days" and had this and "Police Squad" back to back!

[vccstudents]

Oops! A little dirt! ROFL!

[cutecherryangel13]

This guy kinda reminds me of Kramer on Seinfeld

[Jediana]

ROTFLMAO!!!!!!!!!!!

They just don't make shows like Taxi anymore.

[jmsdnstn]

fuckin Jim! Oops! A little dirt! lol!

[cllort]

I love this scene. It's just so funny, with little nuances like Jim brushing off the little bit of sugar after he's made such a huge mess, the look and tone of the woman, the build upof the mess (the dance), etc.. I feel like they probably had so much fun filming this and it pays off in spades.

[selfhelpguy]

That is quite possibly the funniest clip on YouTube. Brilliant!!!

[dktaplik]

Hysterical. Just when you thought it couldn't get funnier, Iggy tries to clean the stain with the "Magic Carpet Wizard". Thanks for the post!

[zetetic0void]

Hahahah...

too funny ... Jim was such a great character

[busheytube]

How do you do, Mr or Mrs Fill in name of couple?  Im your name here, but you can call me nickname.

I just shot ginger ale out of my nose, but it was so totally worth it. This had to have been THE funniest scene Lloyd ever did as Jim on Taxi.

[AntietamCollect]

@busheytube Have you ever seen the episode where he asks, "What does a yellow light mean"? It's absolutely hysterical!

[prosteelheader]

"where can i plug this in"? awesome!!!

[bigcheezhed]

who would let that goofy lookin guy in their house!?! Not me!

[mdumas43073]

It's the way he brushes the lint from his jacket, after dumping all that crap on her carpet, that makes me lose it every time.

[cburga]

Agreed! I noticed the same thing. And that is just a small demonstration of Lloyds immense talent.  He really inhabited the role.

Compare him to the yutz who plays "an actor" in the same show (what was his name?). He was never convincing to me as a character, he was just a guy saying lines like "I'm an actor" all the time. I guess that's why he's not in the last season.

Lloyd's a genius. I was sorry to hear his house burned down last month...

[happypranksgiving]

Do you know the name of the woman in this scene? I've tried searching on Google but can't find it. I can't even find an episode called "Working."

[cburga]

You are so right! I guess you are not supposed to work from memory when creating title cards on video clips...

The episode is called "On the Job:Part One"

The actress' name is Alice Hirson.

It looks like she was a semi regular cast member of "Dallas", "Ellen", "Murphy Brown", and "7th Heaven", plus a lot of one shot roles in other series. (I got this from IMDB.)

[happypranksgiving]

Ah okay thanks! I checked IMDB but couldn't find the episode. My girlfriend kept saying the woman here was familiar and she really wanted to know who it was. I guess she could have seen her on any of those shows. She has never watched Taxi but I was showing her some clips of Jim since they're such classics. I don't like very many TV shows but Taxi was good.

Thanks again!

[AEWHistory]

@cburga Jeff Conaway's character? That's your opinion but you're missing the point of the character. If her were such a great 'actor' then why the hell is he working as a cabbie? IOW, he's supposed to be a 'bad' actor, or even someone who says, "I'm an actor" despite the fact that they've got no talent, no acting jobs, and work full-time as a cabbie (for ex.). In reality there are thousands of REAL people like this.... and most will remind you that they are actors just like Conaway's char.

[cburga]

@AEWHistory Yeah, maybe, but it would have been funnier if he could have convincingly plaid a guy who was a bad actor, like Matt LeBlanc's Joey Tribbiani. This was a funny guy playing a bad actor, not a bad actor playing a bad actor.

Just my opinion.  I could also be the staginess of the show, like so many shows of this time period, makes it hard to emote convincingly while shouting loud enough for the back row to hear you.

[AEWHistory]

@cburga I definitely agree that the character wasn't terribly funny, I'm with you there. I'm just not sure that Conaway's at fault. I don't mean to imply that he's Olivier, but he's a decent actor and it always seemed as though the writers/directors wanted that character played that way. It might be why his character was gone after something like two seasons--I don't know...

[AEWHistory]

@cburga Oh, and you made a really good point about the staging issues as well. Actually, are any shows shot with live audiences any longer? I'm totally ignorant on the subject.

[cburga]

@AEWHistory Apparently, some still are. I was surprised to discover that "Two and a Half Men" is done live, and I assume "The Big Bang Theory" must be as well. I'm sure improvements in sound and cameras have made the look of sit-coms less stagey. Some of the better ones, like "The Office" or "Malcolm in the Middle" do not use an audience, or a laugh track. I appreciate the producers letting me decide when to laugh for myself.

[justin7560]

he wasn't brushing off lint, he was brushing off the salt or sugar that he threw over his shoulder. Still hilarious though.

[ramzahnY]

Wow, I'm breathless, and in tears, and my stomach muscles hurt now.

Extremely well done.

[5ftfury]

Jim Ignitowski Rules

[tsarking18]

Did not c that comin Wow :)Lloyd is great.

[Letsallunite]

Christopher Lloyd is undoubtely one of the most underated actors of our times...versatile, comic, drama...television...funny...

[Trekkie69]

Man! I haven't seen that in a long long time. That was great.Paramount needs to get on the stick and get the rest of the seasons out. They only have two more seasons to go. And I've been waiting for over 2 years for it. Thank you sooo very much for posting that clip. That was great. Your awesome!

[galveston07]

Absolutely Classic! Thanks for posting!