History Funny / ElleryQueen

* In "The Mad Tea Party", actress Emmy Reinhart talking about a role she just turned down and thought poorly off which in real life ended up winning the performer a Best Actress Oscar.

* In "The Mad Tea Party", actress Emmy Reinhart talking about a role she just turned down and thought poorly off which in real life ended up winning the performer a Best Actress Oscar.

** Simon reading a self-aggrandizing poem about himself in the climax of one episode.

*** Earlier in that episode, Simon declaring [[HypocriticalHumor No ones capitalizing on this case but me!]]

* Ellery's efforts to make it to the crime scene in the second episode while also trying to make it up to his girlfriend his girlfriend due to missing their date.

* In "Caesar's Last Sleep" the police claim that the eponymous mob witness died in a bombing of his house to try and keep him under wraps, only for him to be killed anyway. They visit his mistress, who comments about how first he was supposed to be dead then he was alive and if he is still alive this time she doesn't want any part of it. When they assure her that Caesar really is dead, she relies "That's what they said last time."

* Actually, any of Ellery's DrivesLikeCrazy scenes qualify.

** From the same episode, Ellery's reaction whenever his assistant Margie points out a mistake in the manuscript, especially since Margie doesn't initially realize they're mistakes and is cheerfully discussing the text thinking they're clues.
** Also in "Pharoh's Curse" - while Ellery and Maggie are at the kitchen table discussing the manuscript, Inspector Queen comes in, pours some coffee, and takes one sip before dumping it down the sink. After a beat, he picks up the coffee pot and empties ''that'' down the sink too. To keep the joke going, Ellery, still deep in conversation with Maggie, gets up, refills his cup without noticing the pot is now empty, sits back down again, and then takes a sip - only then realizing his cup is still empty.

* The local obituary writer revealing that he was updating the obituary of the President (due to always keeping obituaries on standby for celebrity figures) causing [[ScatterBrainedSenior his grandmother]] to [[ComicallyMissingThePoint think the president is actually dead]] and say she hand't heard before going on about his poor wife.
* Ellery's poor attempts at the plumbing and how his dad tries to keep him off the case until it's fixed.

* Ellerys DrivesLikeCrazy scenes in ''The Pharoahs Curse'' dictating while drive ng (inspector queen wisely decides not to ride with him). At one point he ask so hs assistant Margie where a car behind them came from and is skeptical that it was a street and not a driveway until Margie informs him it was a big enough street for a stoplight, which he apparently ran.

** Also in "Pharoh's Curse" - while Ellery and Maggie are at the kitchen table discussing the manuscript, Inspector Queen comes in, pours some coffee, and takes one sip before dumping it down the sink. After a beat, he picks up the coffee pot and empties ''that'' down the sink too. To keep the joke going, Ellery, still deep in conversation with Maggie, gets up, refills his cup without noticing the pot is now empty, sits back down again, and then takes a sip - only then realizing his cup is still empty.

** From the same episode, Ellery's reaction whenever his assistant Margie points out a mistake in her manuscript, especially since Margie doesn't initially realize their mistakes and is cheerfully discussing the text.

* Ellerys DrivesLikeCrazy scenes in ''The Pharoahs Curse'' dictating while drive ng (inspector queen wisely decides not to ride with him). At one point he ask so hs assistant Margie where a car behind them came from and is skeptical that it was a street and not a driveway until Margie informs him it was a big enough street for a stoplight, which he apparently ran.

* The mob boss from ''Caesar's Last Sleep'' pretending to be buddies with the District Attorney in order to embarrass him in front of the reporters.

** The time in ''The Adventure of Miss Aggie's Farewell Performance'' where his boss at the radio station tires to hire Ellery to replace Simon after he fails.

** The scene from ''The Black Falcon'' where he talks about how often he's seen the police aware of how they're being LockedOutOfTheLoop about something and unaware of what's login on, even as a body has been discovered nearby and Simon is visibly experiencing those exact same feelings he's describing as he helplessly watches the frenzied whispering and movements from his mike.

** Simon calling Ellery in ''The Adventure of the Pharaohs Curse'' to say that he's solved the case but will mention his name (in passing) only to find out how Ellery had solved the case and fingered a different culprit. The scene then turns into a NewhartPhonecall as Simon repeats the developments of the case Ellery is telling him (such as that Ellery's suspect has confessed), and [[BlatantLies claims that he had been considering that man as an alternate culprit but just hadn't gotten as far as describing that yet]]. Then [[FromBadToWorse Simon finds out that the reporters who he'd summoned to reveal ''his'' solution to have just arrived]].

* Frank Flanigan blowing his new TV show by smoking a cigar on a program advertising cigarettes.

* During ''Th e Adventure of the Sinister Scenario'', the episode with the movie about Ellery, Inspector Queen's outrage at finding out how many of his characters lines have been cut.

** The time where his boss at the radio station tires to hire Ellery to replace Simon after he fails.

** The scene from ''The Black Falcon'' where he talks about how often he's seen the police aware of how they're being LockedOutOfTheLoop about something and unaware of what's login on, even as a body has been discovered nearby and Simon is visibly experiencing those exact same feelings he's deycribgin as he helplessly watches the frenzied whispering and movements from his mike.
** Simon calling Ellery to say that he's solved the case but will mention his name (in passing) only to find out how Ellery had solved the case. The scene then turns into a NewhartPhonecall as Simon repeats the developments of the case Ellery is telling him (such as that Ellery's suspect has confessed), and [[BlatantLies claims that he had been considering that man as an alternate culprit but just hadn't gotten as far as describing that yet]]. Then [[FromBadToWorse Simon finds out that the reporters who he'd summoned to reveal ''his'' solution to have just arrived]].

** His efforts to claim that he'd spotted a forged painting only for it to turn out the actual flaw which the art appraiser had spotted was something Simon had missed and [[AchievementsInIgnorance Inspector Queen had commented on]].
** Simon being stuck on the radio with a bunch of dead air after a case has been solved and none of the other suspects are interested in bailing him out, causing him to desperately fall back on recounting his childhood to the radio listeners (having to reveal he had a teddy bear name Muffy).

* Ellery's efforts to make it to the crime scene in the second episode while also avoiding pissing off his girlfriend.

* The vice squad's interest in the burlesque show and how the dancer has to keep being reminded not to take it all off in order to keep them form being shut down.
* During the episode with the movie about Ellery, Inspector Queen's outrage at finding out how many of his characters lines have been cut.