"Judge Judy" was always a courtroom comedy. Welcome to MsMojo, and today we’re counting down our picks for the times when “Judge Judy” looked more like a sitcom than a court show.
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00:00 "This is damage to the front end of your car, which hit his car in the rear."
00:07 Welcome to Miss Mojo, and today we're counting down our picks for the times when Judge Judy
00:11 looked more like a sitcom than a court show.
00:13 "She's leaning her whole body into me."
00:17 10.
00:18 Watch Your Mouth
00:19 Sometimes it's a wonder how litigants on court shows can stop themselves from blurting out
00:24 obscenities.
00:25 Well, this plaintiff didn't even bother trying.
00:27 "Miss Miyamoto, the defendant was a friend of yours.
00:30 You moved into an apartment together.
00:32 It is your claim that Miss Williams owes you for a loan and also for breaking your phone."
00:38 Raven Miyamoto's case against Daisha Williams resulted in some petty murmurings between
00:43 the two that played out right in the courtroom.
00:46 "We had been having issues beforehand, and there's already tension in the house due to
00:50 Daisha's attitude towards me."
00:52 "Or because you were jealous."
00:53 We might have forgiven Miyamoto for the slip the first time around, but when she proudly
00:58 repeated herself a second time, "You were jealous."
01:00 "Whatever it was, you weren't getting along, and…"
01:02 "Bulls---."
01:03 "And, um…"
01:04 "No, no, just a second.
01:05 What did you say?"
01:07 "I said bulls---."
01:08 All bets were off for Judge Judy.
01:10 Both of their cases were thrown out.
01:13 Legend has it that the defendant is still asking about her countersuit.
01:16 "If I was excused, I'd step out."
01:19 9.
01:20 Neighborly Protest
01:21 Neighbor disputes are common on Judge Judy.
01:24 However, when your neighbor starts an actual protest against you, you know things have
01:28 gone a little too far.
01:29 "I was exercising my First Amendment right."
01:32 This entry is about a different neighbor protest, and it's actually from the very first episode.
01:37 "All night long she blasts her radio."
01:40 "That's correct.
01:41 And what sounds like a car alarm, not just a radio."
01:47 It featured a really charming, if a little daffy, woman named Mia Lord, who was dissatisfied
01:53 with a third-party neighbor's noises that may or may not have just been a result of
01:59 the way the houses were built.
02:00 "The only way you think you can get Mr. V-Bot to be quiet is to make everybody else in the
02:08 neighborhood suffer a little bit so that they'll all get on his back."
02:11 "Right."
02:13 Lord's response was to play music and alarms loudly so that the entire neighborhood would
02:20 join her in protest against the offending neighbor.
02:23 Instead, this landed her in the courtroom with the plaintiffs who were seeking a good
02:28 night's sleep.
02:29 "I have not finished my presentation."
02:30 "No, listen to me.
02:32 Now you have to be quiet."
02:33 8.
02:34 Go Like This
02:35 Co-defendants Patrick Valdivia-Mindzel and Rachel Buchakis were accused of squatting
02:41 in a room they rented for several months.
02:43 "When did you move out?"
02:45 "February."
02:46 "Of 2016."
02:47 "When did she first tell you that she wanted you to move out?
02:50 What month?"
02:51 "September."
02:52 The judge already seemed unimpressed with their sense of entitlement.
02:55 Their defense, that they didn't pay because the apartment was illegal, and then they didn't
03:00 have the money to move, doesn't wash with Judge Judy.
03:03 "I want to tell you something.
03:04 You both sound ridiculous.
03:06 Ridiculous."
03:07 The best part is when she asked Valdivia-Mindzel to flex his muscles.
03:13 Stupidly, he did.
03:14 And proudly, too.
03:15 "Go like this."
03:16 "Yeah."
03:17 Then came the smackdown.
03:19 She told him to get a job.
03:20 "Get a job and move."
03:22 He had no idea it was coming, which just makes it that much more priceless.
03:27 7.
03:28 You Sound Like a Fool
03:30 The defendant's witness in this case is clearly the star of her own show.
03:34 "As soon as the dog ran out, you ran out after her."
03:37 "I ran after her."
03:38 Talking back to the judge is never a great idea.
03:41 But when you're this wrong and this far in denial, it's really just entertaining for
03:45 the rest of us.
03:46 With witnesses like Carla Sanchez-Lopez, who needs enemies?
03:50 "You sound like a fool."
03:52 "That's your opinion, not mine."
03:53 "No, my opinion's the only one that counts."
03:55 If anything, her smugness and disrespect only made the defendant look sketchier than she
04:00 already did.
04:01 She has a lot to say.
04:03 But once the judge lays into her, it's doubly hilarious to watch her actively try not to
04:08 respond.
04:09 It's a losing battle.
04:10 "And if you were the one responsible for taking care of the dog that day, you didn't do a
04:15 good job."
04:16 "I did do a good job."
04:17 "Now we're done.
04:18 Now you can sit."
04:19 The layers of arrogance on display here are awe-inspiring.
04:22 6.
04:23 Truth and Lies
04:27 Another one from the very first episode, audiences got to see the judge's characteristic toughness,
04:32 as well as her sense of humor and gentleness with children.
04:35 "Mrs. Wilk, Norris is your neighbor's.
04:39 That's your little boy Adam."
04:40 This case had Judge Judy questioning a young boy who was bit by a dog.
04:45 It's a sad case as the boy is clearly traumatized, but when she first calls him to the stand,
04:50 it's not so serious quite yet.
04:52 "How old are you?
04:53 I think you're about 8."
04:54 She asks Adam if he knows the difference between the truth and a lie.
04:58 To test him, she goes through a series of questions with obvious correct answers.
05:03 "If I were to hold up this object and tell you that this was an elephant, would that
05:10 be the truth or a lie?"
05:12 "A lie."
05:13 Our favorite is the last question, and Adam passes with flying colors.
05:17 "Now if I were to tell you that the judge in this case is a young, beautiful woman,
05:25 would that be the truth or a lie?"
05:27 "The truth."
05:28 "Yes!"
05:29 Even Officer Bird smiles, and longtime watchers will know just how rare that is.
05:35 5.
05:36 Parental Advisory Suggested
05:38 Judge Judy is classic daytime TV, but this case started to resemble something that you
05:43 could only air after hours.
05:45 "I run an adult novelty in-home party business."
05:49 "What is adult novelty?"
05:51 The plaintiff's adult novelty business took a hit when the defendant failed to return
05:56 some items.
05:57 Even Judge Judy seemed shocked that these were all about to be read aloud.
06:01 "Making love oil, um, flavors strawberry and champagne."
06:04 Not only that, but some of the items that were returned had been, in the plaintiff's
06:10 words, "used."
06:11 Listing these novelty items out for the court, the plaintiff kept a straight face, even if
06:16 nobody else could.
06:17 Frankly, the second-hand embarrassment is almost too much.
06:21 "Um, so that may have been used, but we would have appreciated that to have been cleaned
06:25 up before she returned it to us."
06:26 4.
06:27 Rigor Mortis Stew
06:29 The next time you wrong somebody, why not send them home with a nice pot of stew?
06:34 Just make sure it's not stew made with meat from the animal you hit with their car.
06:38 Sisters Eve and Carol Dettenheim are in court because Carol hit a deer with Eve's car, which
06:43 she had taken without permission.
06:45 "Are you angry with your sister?"
06:47 "A little bit.
06:48 I feel like she needs to own up to the responsibility that she did damage my car and make what is
06:54 wrong right."
06:55 Carol clearly knows how to make the best of a bad situation.
06:58 "I can't stay with her.
06:59 She'll do stuff like rev up her engine in the morning trying to wake up my son and stuff."
07:02 Instead of letting all that good meat go to waste, she ate the deer.
07:06 Carol even made her sister a peace offering.
07:08 Eve's contention that she did not want any "rigor mortis stew" is probably one of the
07:13 most unintentionally funny things ever said in Judge Judy's courtroom.
07:17 "But I'm not having a rigor mortis stew."
07:21 "He did not have rigor mortis."
07:23 "Shh, I'm at back."
07:24 3.
07:25 Vicious Tupperware Attack
07:27 Plaintiff Corrina Roy is suing Nicole Simias for assault and wrongful eviction after a
07:32 heated argument over Tupperware.
07:34 "You had an argument over Tupperware?"
07:37 "Yes."
07:38 In describing the incident, Roy can't help but launch into amateur theatrics.
07:42 But the hilarious thing is her performance just makes a benign event seem all the more
07:47 ridiculous to be in court over.
07:49 "And she said, 'Well don't you dare!' and she threw her blankets off her, which every
07:54 morning…"
07:55 "Wait a second, are you telling me you went into her bedroom?"
07:57 "Yes."
07:58 We don't know who's more relatable in this case.
08:00 Is it the audience, who keep looking at each other, clearly wondering if this can possibly
08:04 be real?
08:05 Is it the judge, who keeps having to remind Roy that this isn't community theater?
08:10 How the Tupperware-flinging defendant can even sleep at night is beyond us.
08:14 "Anybody that walks into a bedroom, somebody sleeping in their bed, to ask for two pieces
08:20 of Tupperware and start an argument with them while they're in bed over two pieces of Tupperware
08:25 isn't too stable."
08:26 "Okay."
08:27 Number two, allow him to demonstrate, Your Honor.
08:30 Judge Judy is not one for dramatic reenactments.
08:33 She'll just take the facts, please.
08:34 "What happened, Mr. Howell?
08:36 Why did she leave?"
08:37 "Well, she, Melissa had to leave for a number of reasons.
08:40 The main reason was because Melissa was incapable of doing her work."
08:45 Dr. Noel Howell presented himself fairly professionally during most of the case, but when it came
08:50 to describing the plaintiff's drunken antics, things threatened to go off the rails.
08:55 Mid-testimony, he launched into a very loud and suggestive demonstration of her behavior
09:00 while under the influence on a movie set.
09:02 "I got on the set and I was like, 'Yo, you need to go talk to Melissa.'
09:06 I'm like, 'What's going on?'
09:07 And they say, 'I don't know what's up.'
09:09 So I went over to her and she was like, 'Why?!
09:12 Why?!'"
09:14 The audience, and even Howell's witness, can't keep it together.
09:18 The judge doesn't lose her cool.
09:20 But do we see the slightest hint of a smile on her face?
09:25 Actually, probably not.
09:26 But it had us dying of laughter just the same.
09:29 "Okay, goodbye folks."
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09:46 1.
09:48 Dumb and Dumber
09:49 If you want to feel smarter, just take a look at the defendants in this case.
09:54 The plaintiff, Ginny Paradesa, accused them of stealing her purse.
09:58 "I had to replace all my IDs.
09:59 I had gift cards in there, my earpiece, and a calculator."
10:04 When the judge asks her to list off the items that were in the purse at the time that it
10:08 was stolen, one of the accused takes issue with Paradesa's claims.
10:12 "There was no earpiece in the mail."
10:13 Without missing a beat, he insists there was no earpiece in the purse, not even realizing
10:19 he just confessed to the crime.
10:22 Justice is rarely ever this swift.
10:24 The co-defendants have gone down in history as two of the dumbest litigants ever to appear
10:29 on Judge Judy.
10:30 But maybe we've been too hard on them.
10:32 What they've done for the culture can't be overstated.
10:35 "Dumb and Dumber.
10:36 Judging for the plaintiff for the amount of $500, that's what I think it's worth, madam.
10:43 Goodbye."
10:44 Which of these hilarious moments left you speechless?
10:46 Catch your breath and tell us in the comments.
10:49 "Judge Judy continues in a moment."
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