Lunch Break Video: The classic “Went With the Wind” sketch from “The Carol Burnett Show”

It really doesn’t get any funnier than this.

I don’t care how many times I watch the Gone With the Wind spoof from The Carol Burnett Show, I still end up laughing just as hard when she walks down the stairs in the curtain rod dress and says: “I saw it in the window … ”

Carol Burnett is at her best as Scarlett and Harvey Korman terrific as Rhett Butler. Another funny moment is when Vicki Lawrence, as Prissy, loses it when she has to answer the door: “What’d I say?! What’d I say!?” then gets slapped across the face by Burnett. She instantly regains her composure and says: “I’ll think of somnethin’.”

The great Bob Mackie designed the famous dress Burnett wears but when I talked to him about it last year, he seemed to have mixed feelings: “The curtain rod dress is the one everybody talks about,” he said. “Either that or a crazy get-up Cher wears. But, you know, I’ve done a lot of other things too.”

These days, Bob is keeping busy with his clothing line sold on QVC which offers affordable designer duds to viewers. He operates at a much less frenetic pace than he did in the 70s when he not only designed for Cher’s variety shows with and without Sonny, and also for The Carol Burnett Show.

“I used to run through the men’s room to get from one studio to the other,” he remembered. “It was really fun at the time. When I think about it now, I wonder how we ever did it, the amount of shows we would do in one week.”