History Funny / BioShockInfinite

** It is even funnier if you realized that he essentially invented modern filmmaking by accident - notice that all kinetoscope movie shots you have seen before are filmed from a static position and angle. (Actually moving the camera to tell a story is pioneered by [[Film/TheBirthOfANation a certain film in 1915]].)

* The [[{{REM}} "Shiny Happy People"]] ragtime cover, [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-aH4o-VblLg performed by an Al Jolson sound-alike]].

** What makes this even funnier is the voice actors: it's [[Series/MassEffect Shepard]] arguing with [[Series/SaintsRow Boss]], or alternately [[VideoGame/KnightsOfTheOldRepublic Bastila]] and [[Series/StreetFighter Chun Li]] going at it.

** HeyItsThatVoice makes this even funnier: it's [[Series/MassEffect Shepard]] arguing with [[Series/SaintsRow Boss]], or alternately [[VideoGame/KnightsOfTheOldRepublic Bastila]] and [[Series/StreetFighter Chun Li]] going at it.

** Also:
--->'''Elizabeth:''' What if they catch us here?\\
'''Booker:''' We'll tell them we got lost on our way to the bathroom.\\
'''Elizabeth:''' ... And that works?\\
'''Booker:''' Not usually.

* In the "Clash in the Clouds" DLC, one of the trophies you can earn is Rope-a-Dope. To earn it, [[spoiler:you have to use Undertow on an enemy to knock him off the city, use it again to rescue him... then knock him off again.]]
* In the Columbian Archeological Society, the [[http://i.imgur.com/b9TVNdg.jpg "Art Direction" concept art.]]
* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jp_vKoxJgyk This Video]] claims that Elizabeth is escorting YOU.

* Elizabeth can be extremely threatening [[spoiler: after she's accessed her powers and is leading Booker across the multiverse.]] Then you notice her [[MundaneUtility using her teleportation powers to get out of a five foot ladder climb]].

* Fighting a horde of giant mechanical George Washingtons... [[CoolVersusAwesome or siccing them on]] giant mechanical Abraham Lincolns.

* A little bit of SnarkToSnarkCombat between Booker and Elizabeth in the elevator up to the First Lady Airship. Really, it's the perfect voice acting that sells it:
-->'''Elizabeth:''' How do you think they knew you'd be coming here?\\
'''Booker:''' Either they've got a prophet on their side —\\
'''Elizabeth:''' Har har.\\
'''Booker:''' — or them that hired me also wrote the signs.
* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8qXDOejdids This]] video. While the moment itself is [[JumpScare quite terrifying]], the reactions to it are priceless. Though that video missed [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=8v8WorTxpHA#t=188 the best one of all]].

* When Elizabeth first sees the latest ''Dimwit & Duke'' automatic puppet show, she says [[SelfDeprecation "I hear this one was delayed three times!"]]

* Rupert Cunningham's voxophone in which he claims that the Luteces were murdered by Comstock... then, matter-of-factly saying he knows [[MindScrew because the Luteces told him.]]

* You know all of those songs you are hearing that are early 20th century renditions of songs that came along decades later? Turns out that Jeremiah Fink gets these songs through tears, then markets them as his own music, plagiarizing the artists through time travel. The example they give you of this is when you approach a tear in Fink's factory that is playing Credence Clearwater Revival's "Fortunate Son". While the idea of Jeremiah stealing songs from the future to sell in his time is amusing enough, it gets even more amusing if you know about [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fogerty_v._Fantasy the legal problems lead singer John Fogerty has had with record companies and copyright infringement claims]]. [[TheChewToy Poor John]], now he's getting screwed by a corporation that could claim copyright ''retroactively through time travel''. Sheesh!

* Elizabeth can be extremely threatening [[spoiler: after she's accessed her powers and is leading Booker across the multiverse.]] Then you notice her [[MundaneUtility using her teleportation powers to get out of a five foot ladder climb]].

* [[https://youtu.be/8wUgZLHD7Ds?t=5m47s "Cream?" "Or Sugar?"]]

* There is some humor to be found when Elizabeth is trying to have a meaningful conversation with you, and continues to speak as guns blaze all around her.

* Sometimes the game mechanics themselves cause the most fun. Elizabeth somberly regards the dozen of dead civilians left lying around in the wake of the Vox uprising, kneels by a dead man and saying, "Look at this one... do you think he wanted any of this?" You turn away as she leans over them, folds their hands and puts a rose in their hands... "Hey Booker, want some money? Catch!" She turfed the dead guy's pockets!
** This can happen during even bigger scripted events, such as Elizabeth talking to Lady Comstock's statue.
-->'''Elizabeth''': (To the statue) Rosalind Lutece is not [[spoiler:my mother]]... and neither are you. But he killed you both... because of- Wanna hold on to this? Catch!

* Due to Elizabeth's programming, she'll inspect her surroundings. Sometimes she'll stick her head in a urinal.[[note]]Though this is somewhat understandable, as they'd be as much a novelty as pretty much everything else in the real world. Doesn't make it any less funny.[[/note]]
** Or an inch or two in front of a burning building.
** Or over that [[http://cloud-4.steamusercontent.com/ugc/44250457805200143/90F47BBA604CA86E7862D19E34568544BEB3851E/ poster of "Sally"]]
** [[http://mel-the-shadow-lover.deviantart.com/art/Companionship-bioshock-infinite-367013188 This comic]] talks about it.

* There's something hilarious about Booker, ex-Pinkerton, brutish cynic and all-round gruff hardass, stuffing his face full of cotton candy in the midst of a fight.
** Many players find the idea of Booker scavenging and eating anything he can find equally hilarious. Just how long has that hot dog been in the trash can?
--->'''[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=uorle4X4bfM#t=90 Banzaii:]]''' You literally eat everything. There's never like, "Uagh I'm a little full now I'ma keep this for later", it's like, FOOD, EAT.\\
'''Biggi:''' Booker see food, Booker eat.
*** From that same video, the pair get distracted by a hummingbird [[spoiler:and accidentally ''[[BottomlessPit leap off Columbia]]'' whilst trying to look at it]]... Oh hell, just watch the whole video, pretty much all of it is hilarious.
** In Downtown Emporia, there is a candy store, where boxes of chocolate contain hot dogs (which shouldn't even be able to fit in said boxes), and a box of candied almonds actually has a can of beans inside. Yeah. It made this troper snicker.
*** [[http://aphius.deviantart.com/art/Bioshock-Infinite-A-Pineapple-a-Day-367540057 What.]]
* Something is just amusing about the fact that despite being so [[PoliticallyIncorrectVillain utterly backwards]] in so many social standards, even for 1912, the people of Columbia have such progressive attitudes about women and women's rights. You even come across a few guards discussing just how much they hate sexism, while enforcing the law in a culture whose casual racism could give North Korea a run for its money.
** Though Columbia does have its moments. For instance, the documentary on Lutece posits that the city floats due to "woman's intution."

* When your first heard the anachronistic songs all around, from 'God Only Knows' to 'Girls Just Wanna Have Fun', you might expect a weird and otherworld explanation to whatever causes these, with some gamers theorizing that the musicians were out of their time and so on. Turns out, [[spoiler:composer Albert Fink, Jeremiah Fink's brother, is nothing more than a plagiarizing bastard, using the space time ruptures to look at other times and copy the songs lyrics, and modifying their tunes so they could be played by barbershop quartets and other musicians]].
* When you reach the boardwalk area, you find a one of the black menial workers taking a smoke break behind the carousal. He nervously claims his friend gave him the cigarette and he's never smoked before a day in his life. Booker calms him down saying it was fine by him. "Hey, smoke 'em if you got 'em."

* After the "heads or tails?" game, if you stay around, Rosalind will warn you that if you don't leave, [[WelcometoCorneria she will keep repeating the same three sentences that she just said.]] And she does.
** Try shooting either [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=dbum3sgdtOc#t=30s Lutece]].
*** [[spoiler:They are, of course, immune to bullets, and Rosalind just keeps repeating "Missed". The HUD suggests aiming down sights for greater accuracy.]]

* Robert's annoyance that he has once again won the coin-toss. Judging by the results on his sandwich board, he's been hoping for some variation for quite a while.

* When Lady Comstock showed up in Lutece lab acting like most women who just discovered their husband fathered an illegitimate child, Rosalind gave us this [[SpockSpeak gem]] in an almost cheerful tone. It's arguably made funnier by Lady Comstock's freakout.
-->'''Lady Comstock''': You... you ''whore!''\\
'''Rosalind:''' I assure you, madam, my sexual interest in your dear Prophet is ''non-existent''. Furthermore, [[TooMuchInformation the man is quite sterile.]]\\
'''Lady Comstock:''' [[LargeHam THAT'S A LIE!]]
** HeyItsThatVoice makes this even funnier: it's [[Series/MassEffect Shepard]] arguing with [[Series/SaintsRow Boss]], or alternately [[VideoGame/KnightsOfTheOldRepublic1 Bastila]] and [[Series/StreetFighter Chun Li]] going at it.

* If you pay attention, seeing the difference in strength — not to mention hand size — between Elizabeth and Booker is quite amusing:
** After Booker unceremoniously falls into Elizabeth's library and scares the crap out of her, while trying to calm her down he puts a hand on her shoulder. She shrugs it off and tries to strike him with her book. She's using both hands and mustering a fair bit of strength, but Booker stops both swings in their tracks with ''one'' hand and almost no effort. Here is one of the few instances that you get to compare hand sizes, too. Booker's are frigging ''[[https://emenzee.files.wordpress.com/2013/04/bioshock-infinite-elizabeth-tears.jpg enormous]]''.
** Another good hand comparison scene is when Elizabeth takes Booker's hand and then puts it around her throat when begging him not to let Songbird take her back.
** He takes her hand in his when helping her out of the [[spoiler:torture device]] in [[spoiler:Comstock House]], giving you another chance to see that Booker's hands are at ''least'' twice the size of Elizabeth's. ''They're literally the size of her '''entire''' face.''
** More strength comparison: Elizabeth finds the door to the outside of her tower, but can't make the handwheel budge an inch, even putting her whole upper body into it and bracing against the floor. Booker gets it open instantly.

* The sentient gate at the Comstock House mistakes Elizabeth for [[spoiler: her mother]] in an excessively cheerful manner.
-->'''Gate''': [[spoiler: Lady Comstock]], how lovely to see you! Wonderful of you to make the journey, considering your painful death nineteen years ago!
** Also:
--->'''Gate''': Your fingerprints aren't your own today, [[spoiler: Lady Comstock]]. Are you feeling unwell?
** Similarly, earlier in the game, a Possessed automaton ticket taker admits you into the fairgrounds with this comment:
--->'''Ticket Taker:''' Well, if it isn't Assemblyman Buford! Your spot at the raffle awaits! Don't know why I didn't recognize you before. Odd.
*** The fact that it even has this phrase programmed into it is also snicker-worthy.

* In Finkton, a radio plays a made-up news story about a man in Texas being burned by a mob for praying to the Founding Fathers. The newscaster says this is typical in "the United States of ''un-America''". It's just such a childish insult for a grown man to be using.

* At Finkton Manufacturing, you'll see a sort of auction for job positions (hauling coal, crimping wires, etc.) listed on a huge board. But when you [[spoiler:travel to another world in order to get weapons for the Vox]], you return to that same place, only to find that every entry on the board has the same job: [[spoiler:KILL THE FALSE SHEPHERD.]]

-->'''Booker:''' Hey, Miss! ''Miss! '''Elizabeth!'''''"\\

* When Fink calls Booker in an elevator and says he's the top candidate, Elizabeth makes a goofy, "Get a load of this guy" hand/face gesture.

* In Fink Manufacturing, Elizabeth has agreed to work together with you again, but is obviously still mad at you for the stunt you pulled back on the airship. This is probably not meant to be funny, but there's something about Elizabeth's defiant attitude towards you (crossed arms, pouty face, trying very hard to not meet your eyes) that's downright adorable, if not funny.

* The Lutece twins jointly won a "Best Character of the Year" award. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LzvVEslbGP0 Their nomination and acceptance speeches ably demonstrate why.]]

* Fink's oblivious certainty that Booker will work for him is amusing. The Good Time Club marquee even reads BOOKER DEWITT AUDITION TODAY!
** The sign is equally funny once you emerge from the Club in an alternate reality -- it instead reads, "SANSMARK RETIREMENT GALA". You know, Fink's head of security, whom you probably just "dismissed" via exploding his head with a shotgun on the way out of the club.
* After Luteces explain the significant connection between music, instrument and the Songbird, they disappear (again). To which Booker comments dryly, "At least they left us the piano..." which he has to ''push out of his way''. If ever there was anything the Luteces did specifically to annoy Booker, that was it.
** Incidentally, in your next playthrough, don't take Robert's letter right away. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Xh4EsSjowA Perhaps a waltz?]]

* Booker's reactions to a lot of things are hilarious, but notable is his sheepish stammering when Elizabeth tells him it's okay to ask about her pinky. He actually sounds pretty mortified.
-->'''Elizabeth:''' If you wanna ask me, ask me.\\
'''Booker:''' About what?\\
'''Elizabeth:''' My finger.\\
'''Booker:''' I-I, uh-uuuh... I'm sorry, I didn't –\\
'''Elizabeth:''' ''[chuckles]'' It's alright. It's as much a mystery to me as anyone else. Maybe Songbird knows, but he's not talking.\\
'''Booker:''' ''[chuckling nervously]'' Aheh... I, I'm sorry.
** It's kind of adorable hearing Booker, Mr. Gruff Hardass, get so embarrassed that he just chuckles awkwardly. And the image it conjures up is pretty hilarious, too: It's hard to imagine Booker getting embarrassed about much of anything, but if one could ever picture his face turning red, it would be during that exchange. Hell, you can practically see him do a HandBehindHead!

* The Lutece twins jointly won a "Best Character of the Year" award. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LzvVEslbGP0 Their nomination and acceptance speeches ably demonstrate why.]]

* Doing the optional objective to rescue "Sally" will leave Elizabeth a little miffed upon realizing that she and Booker just risked their lives backtracking all the way back to the Salty Oyster to find "some light titillation" — a pin-up poster. Not helped by Booker (''possibly''[[labelnote:*]]almost assuredly[[/labelnote]] jokingly) [[TooMuchInformation saying he thinks he knew the woman in the poster]].

* Due to Elizabeth's programming, she'll inspect her surroundings. Sometimes she'll stick her head in a urinal.[[note]]Though this is somewhat understandable, as they'd be as much a novelty as pretty much everything else in the real world. Doesn't make it any less funny.[[/note]]
** Or an inch or two in front of a burning building.
** Or over that [[http://cloud-4.steamusercontent.com/ugc/44250457805200143/90F47BBA604CA86E7862D19E34568544BEB3851E/ poster of "Sally"]]
** [[http://mel-the-shadow-lover.deviantart.com/art/Companionship-bioshock-infinite-367013188 This comic]] talks about it.

* When Booker chases Elizabeth (who's still pissed he lied about taking her to Paris) through Fink Manufacturing, she uses tears to conjure up a number of ludicrous things to impede his progress, like a bunch of party balloons, a passing freight train, and even ''a marching band''. Made even funnier when he starts ''yelling'' at the marching band and they stay in perfect formation despite it.
** A little later, Booker tells her that he can get their airship back, but that there are... conditions. He tells her what those conditions are in an extremely matter-of-fact way, but also awkward and talking quickly, as he was dangling from a rope on a balloon at the time--a balloon that appeared through a rift and could just as easily disappear if the still angry Elizabeth wishes so, which Booker seems to realize.
--->'''Elizabeth:'''''(Incredulous)'' You can get us out of here?\\
'''Booker:''' Yes! I just... ''(starts mumbling quickly)'' need to supply enough weapons to arm an entire uprising.

* At one point, [[ThoseTwoGuys the Luteces]] are engaging in some painting: Rosalind is posing, and Robert is painting. Except if you look at the canvas, Robert is painting himself.
** Then moments later you see them dancing while [[LampshadeHanging lampshading]] the fact they finish each other's sentences, while still finishing each other's sentences during the conversation.

* When Booker and Elizabeth enter the tear into the world where the Vox Populi were successfully armed, Elizabeth happily declares that they'll start a revolution that will improve everyone's lives, "just like in ''Literature/LesMiserables''." Clearly, she only skimmed the book. On top of that, a bit of ironic BlackComedy is added in that after this comment, you can hear panicked shouts and the sounds of a firefight outside.

* Elizabeth [[spoiler:ganking Booker with a wrench]] is actually pretty funny. As is a Vox man [[spoiler:punching him in the face just when he starts to come to. And then hanging him out of the airship to rouse him. And then throwing him out of the airship from a pretty fair height.]]

* Speaking of Booker being awkward, he is adorably (and amusingly) so when Elizabeth starts crying upon learning he isn't actually taking her to Paris. [[{{Understatement}} Comforting people isn't really his forte.]]
-->'''Booker:''' ... Come on, it –... ''[long, uncomfortable silence]'' ... Hey, uh, Elizabeth... it... It's gonna be okay. ''[silence]'' ... Come on, it – ''[sighs]'' Everything's gonna be okay. Will you just turn around and talk to me, and we can – [[spoiler:*THWACK*]]
* Due to Elizabeth's programming, she'll inspect her surroundings. Sometimes she'll stick her head in a urinal.[[note]]Though this is somewhat understandable, as they'd be as much a novelty as pretty much everything else in the real world. Doesn't make it any less funny.[[/note]]
** Or an inch or two in front of a burning building.
** Or over that [[http://cloud-4.steamusercontent.com/ugc/44250457805200143/90F47BBA604CA86E7862D19E34568544BEB3851E/ poster of "Sally"]]
** [[http://mel-the-shadow-lover.deviantart.com/art/Companionship-bioshock-infinite-367013188 This comic]] talks about it.