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Just because it's a courtroom doesn't mean we can't get a laugh.
- Anytime Judge Judy herself laughs. More often than not it's a fake laugh to signify that she finds something one of the litigants said or did ridiculous.
- Watching Judge Judy deal with frivolous lawsuits can be quite amusing. One early case involved a man who hit his head on a table while stumbling around drunk at a birthday party and then sued the homeowner for his injuries. The judge pointed out that if he'd stubbed and broken his toe on the table, he wouldn't sue the table manufacturer, and then added that it was him, and not the table, that was stumbling around drunk after consuming three beers.
- Litigants who inadvertently incriminate themselves. One of the most famous examples is the case that went viral as "her shortest" (though it wasn't). The defendants were two teenage boys who denied stealing the plaintiff's backpack, but then, when the plaintiff started listing off the items that were in the backpack, including a calculator, piped up, "There was no calculator in there, Ma'am." Judge Judy cracked up, proclaimed the defendants "Dumb and Dumber," and awarded the plaintiff a $200 judgment for the stolen possessions.
- An early case that may actually have been Judge Judy's shortest. The plaintiff entered the courtroom wearing a hat, and refused to remove it when Judge Judy asked her to. Without missing a beat, the judge dismissed the plaintiff's case without prejudice without hearing a word of it and sent her packing. The whole thing took less than two minutes.
- Judge Judy's side banter with her bailiff, especially when she tells Byrd not to get comfortable because the case will be over quickly.
- The case of the literal-minded defendant who damaged the trunk of the plaintiff's car by climbing on top of it when the plaintiff offered him a ride and told him to "hop on." Judge Judy told the defendant he was foolish for offering such a defense and making himself look like an idiot in front of a global television audience. When she learned he was a customer service rep for a bank, she added that if he were working for her bank, she'd withdraw all her money from that bank immediately.
- "Waddell's an idiot." While a cold-stricken Judge Judy went to chambers to take a cough suppressant, the titular plaintiff took the opportunity to harass and badger the defendant for not having watched the show before. When Her Honor returned to the bench, she immediately called Waddell an idiot, telling him she had watched his shenanigans on the video screen in her office. Waddell ended up winning his case, but losing his dignity.
- Speaking of Too Dumb to Live defendants, there was the defendant who openly contradicted his own defense and admitted that the money given to him by the plaintiff was a loan he had promised to repay. The kicker? When the defendant made this admission, Judge Judy was in the process of dismissing the plaintiff's case due to lack of proof on the plaintiff's part! Judge Judy called the defendant demented before reversing course and ruling in the plaintiff's favor.
- Then there was the defendant who torpedoed his own counterclaim when he tried to give back as good as he got from Her Honor.
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Judge Judy: Let's do it, and talk fast. |
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- Judge Judy didn't believe one litigant's testimony that a vet had advised them not to have their dog neutered until the dog was three or four years old.
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Judge Judy: That's like saying, "Wait until the boy is about 26, and then we'll circumcise him." |
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