History Funny / ASeriesOfUnfortunateEvents2017

* Mr Poe repeatedly calling Kit 'Jacqueline and insisting that she is his assistant.

* While it is also horrifying and tragic, the Man with a Beard but No Hair and the Woman with Hair but No Beard murdering the circus freaks to see if Olaf will even notice has a particular moment of black comedy to it.

'''Woman with Hair but No Beard:''' You’re here with little Olaf?\\

'''Woman with Hair but No Beard:''' That’s a charming theory.\\
'''Man with a Beard but No Hair:''' Let’s put it to the test.\\

* Olaf puts the captive Sunny in a fort made of ice blocks...with a sign nearby that says "[[MemeticMutation BABY JAIL]]".

'''Klaus''': [[TheCynic It is impossible to think about anything else]]!

-->'''Violet:''' No we've never been to Prufrock Prep.\\

'''Kevin:''' Yeah: us. We’re dangerous criminals in Count Olaf’s troupe.\\

'''Klaus:''' Like...''literally anything''.

[[AC:E2x09 - The Carnivorous Carnival Part 2]]

[[AC: 2x08 - The Carnivorous Carnival Part 1]]

* Meanwhile, Klaus is trying to stall the operation. When asked why he can’t preform the procedure, he says "Paperwork!" [[{{Gasp}} Gasping ensues.]]

* The auction for the VFD box. The Person of Indeterminate Gender can't count, Jacquelyn and Larry enter the bet to stop Olaf, Jacques and Olivia storm in and join the auction, Count Olaf's henchmen start throwing numbers, Jerome shows up in his PJs to help the Baudelaires bid on the box, and the winner ends up being Sunny.

* Esmé's reaction is priceless:
--->'''Esmé:''' Vodka in a martini?\\
'''Hook-Handed Man:''' (nods)\\
'''Esmé:''' Are we living in ''garbage?'' (she leaves in disgust, followed by Jerome and the Baudelaires. Olaf looks at the troupe with annoyance for their inability to win over the Squalors)'\\
'''Both Powdered-Face Women:''' (in unison) [[PrecisionFStrike Isn't this a fine kettle of fish?]]

** Esmé's reaction is priceless:

(the Hook-Handed Man nods)\\

** After Esmé takes the group out of Herring Houdini, she storms back to the car and asks to go somewhere that's actually "in". The cast gets in, the car doesn't move, and the characters emerge from the other side and walk out to Café Salmonella...which is on the ''other side of the street and equidistant from the apartment.''

'''Esmé:''' Are we living in ''garbage''?\\
(she leaves in disgust, followed by Jerome and the Baudelaires. Olaf looks at the troupe with annoyance for their inability to win over the Squalors)'\\

-->'''Person of Indeterminate Gender:''' ''[monotonous]'' Welcome to Herring Houdini, home of pickled fish.\\

'''Powdered Face Woman 2:''' ...but not because we got a phone call five minutes ago.\\

'''Person of Indeterminate Gender:''' [[SuspiciouslySpecificDenial Where they'll probably NOT be thrown into]] [[BagOfKidnapping a burlap sack]].\\

--->'''Esmé:''' Vodka in a martini? ''[Hook-Handed Man nods]'' Are we living in ''garbage''? ''[leaves in disgust, followed by Jerome and the Baudelaires. Olaf looks at the troupe with annoyance for their inability to win over the Squalors]''\\
'''Both Powdered-Face Women:''' ''[in unison]'' [[PrecisionFStrike Isn't this a fine kettle of fish?]]

'''Nero:''' Wait, what.\\

* We finally get a visual glimpse of Nero's violin performance (if you could even ''call'' it that), and it is '''horrible''' to the point where it just cannot be taken seriously. Just how can it be this bad? THERE'S NO MUSIC. JUST HIM RANDOMLY GOING THROUGH OUT OF TUNE STRINGS!!!

* The school mascot being a dead horse, and their rally cry of "you can't beat a dead horse."

* When Nero states that "Memento Mori" is Greek, Violet and Klaus say "Latin" in unison.
* As Lemony describes the phrase "making a mountain out of a molehill", he explains what a molehill is, and what someone might use it for. Behind him, a Prufrock student is minding his own business, when Carmelita runs up behind him, shoves him over a molehill and screams "I HATE YOUR FACE!" before running off again.

'''Count Olaf:''' Don't say that in front of the children.

'''Olivia:''' Why are any of us here? "Life is thickly sown with thorns, and I know no other remedy than to pass quickly through them". Voltaire said that.\\

* Poe has a FreakOut when he realizes the Baudelaires are gone and starts ranting to a nearby man (played by series author Daniel Handler) about how it's crazy and "off book." He seems pretty distraught... until he smells some nearby chowder samples and goes to try them.

* Sir says it's "a terrible thing, lighting a fire" as he throws wood into his fireplace.

'''Olaf:''' Are you sure that was you?

* Olaf just cannot get it through his head that Lake Lachrymose isn't the sea, but a large lake.

'''Olaf:''' Crazy because I did the exact same thing myself!\\

'''Sunny:''' <...you're nuts.>

-->'''Olaf:''' I've been so lonely since I lost my...uh...\\

-->'''Mr.Poe:''' It's quite urgent! First name: Montgomery, last name: Montgomery. [[MistakenForPrankCall No this isn't a prank ca-!]] *operator hangs up* Hello?

* Klaus reads from Doctor Montgomery's journal about the Incredibly Deadly Viper. As noted, it "wouldn't hurt a fly". How does Montgomery know this at first meeting? ''Because he actually tried to feed it flies and it didn't eat them!''

-->'''Count Olaf''' (''annoyed'') Yes, a movie. theatre. Where they show movies. Yes, of course it’s more convenient to watch from the comfort of your own home but I didn’t ask for your opinion!

'''Count Olaf''': My name is not...aaaaaaaaaaanything but Stephano.

* After getting caught trying to rescue Sunny from the tower, Count Olaf locks the Baudelaires in a room with an hourglass saying that their fortune will be his when the sand runs out...only to pop back up through the trapdoor moments later to see that the hourglass is already empty.

-->'''Count Olaf:''' Where did she get a ''grappling hook''?!

'''Count Olaf:''' I said day. ''[exits]''

'''Hook-Handed Man:''' (''Yells angrily'')\\
'''Violet:''' (''Quickly sits down'')

* Pasta Puttenesca "I wonder what that means in Latin." The ''literal'' translation is "whore's sauce" as prostitutes used to cook it for sailors they were about to... ahem... with as it took a very short time to cook and would be ready for said... aheming.

* Just the sheer fact that Count Olaf's disguises and backstories get more and more obviously fake as time goes on. One of the things he's asked about as Gunther is, apparently, his "good looks and brains and accent"... two of which he doesn't have and one that's passable at best!
* The fact that Olaf and the Baudelaires are aware that ''everyone else left alive on the planet that they have to interact are idiots.''

** When Esmé finds them she says, "Dewey Denouement. ...Like the unicorn? How exquisite.

** Lemony defines the word 'theatrical for Olaf.

* During the trial of the Baudelaires VS Count Olaf, everyone begins to cough and panic. The Baudelaires think it's because Esmé used the Medusoid Mycelium to poison everyone...until she points out she and Carmelita used sausages mixed with crow and fed it to them. As {{Squick}}y as that is, it's made disgustingly hilarious when Olaf points out to her that she should have taken the opportunity to poison everyone with Medusoid Mycelium.

-->'''Sunny: ''' Burn down hotel.\\
'''Olaf: ''' What did the little brat say?\\
'''Klaus: ''' She said "Burn down hotel."\\