History Funny / HowlsMovingCastle

* There's Howl screaming down the stairway, running into everything while pulling at his hair, the green slime itself, and Sophie hauling Howl upstairs while he's covered in green goo... noticing only too late that his towel's slipped off, and he's completely nude.

* This line from the first chapter of the book: ''Sophie began to feel that Wizard Howl and the Witch of the Waste should get together. They seemed to be made for one another. Someone ought to arrange a match.'' This is funny in retrospect, as [[spoiler: Howl ''did'' court the Witch for a while, and it did not end well at all.]]

** Later in the same scene (all of which is a Crowning Moment of Funny): "I am now," he announced, "going to get ready [[spoiler: for the funeral]]. Please, both of you, refrain from doing anything whatsoever while I do. I can tell Sophie is in top form at the moment, and I want this room the usual size when I come back into it."

* Sophie gets a CaptainObvious moment when she hears that [[spoiler: Mrs. Pentstemmon]] is dead.

** Extra hilarious [[RewatchBonus the second time you read]] because Sophie thinks she's just making up a bunch of nonsense [[spoiler:but her latent magical powers mean it will ''actually work''.]]
** Even more hilarious later on when it turns out that [[spoiler:it did work! Apparently the man won by attacking while his opponent was trying to dislodge paprika from his eyes.]]

--> '''Howl:''' I give up. I see no point in living if I can't be beautiful.
** Made even funnier in that it was Creator/ChristianBale saying that. Never knew, [[Franchise/{{Batman}} Bats]], never knew...

* Let's be fair, every version of Calcifer is funny in a different way.

* In the ending, where [[spoiler: Turnip Head's curse is broken.]] It's the typical true-love's-kiss-breaks-the-spell, but...

* "She likes my SPARK!!!"

* Sophie and the Witch of the Waste trying to climb up the stairs to Madam Suliman's castle. In other words, two elderly women (one a teen trapped in an elderly woman's body, the other, a morbidly obese woman, who, until this point in the film, was the bane of the entire country, having been banished to the Wastes 50 years prior) trying slowly and desperately to outrace each other to reach Madam Suliman.

* Sophie and the Witch of the Waste trying to climb up the stairs to Madam Suliman's castle. In other words, two elderly women (one a teen trapped in an elderly woman's body, the other, a morbidly obese woman, who, until this point in the film, was the bane of the entire country, having been banished to the Wastes for 50 years) trying slowly and desperately to outrace each other to reach Madam Suliman.

* Sophie and the Witch of the Waste trying to climb up the stairs to Madam Suliman's castle. In other words, two elderly women (one a teen trapped in an elderly woman's body, the other, a morbidly obese woman, who, until this point in the film, was the bane of the entire country) trying slowly and desperately to outrace each other to reach Madam Suliman.

** The mention that Howl once reacted to getting dumped by calling up the spirits of darkness, like a wangsty teenage goth.

--> '''Calcifer:''' I don't cook! I'm a scary powerful fire demon! Leh-leh-leh-leh RAWR!

--> '''Howl:''' If I were to court a girl who lived on an iceberg in the middle of an ocean, sooner or later - probably sooner - I'd look up to see you swooping overhead on a broomstick.

--> '''Howl:''' I take back my hard words, Sophie. That thing was alarming. [...] Whatever was it - [[TakeThat all that was left of the last person you cleaned for?]]

** The mention that Howl once reacted to getting dumped by calling up the spirits of darkness, like an wangsty teenage goth.
** If you listen closely, Sophie's tone of voice almost sounds like a SeenItAll teacher - kind of fitting given what she's doing.

* In the ending, where [[spoiler: Turniphead's curse is broken.]] It's the typical true-love's-kiss-breaks-the-spell, but...

--> "You cold-hearted hag! Next time, I'll turn you senile too!"

* After Sophie confronts Suliman in the palace, the king arrives to tell Sophie that he no longer plans on using magic for the war. Suliman is quick to point out that he's acting surprisingly eloquent... because the ''real'' King isn't anything like that. Cue the actual king [[IncomingHam loudly entering the room]], laughing boisterously as he mistakens the disguised Howl for a double conjured up by Suliman.

* When Suliman's monsters pursue Howl and Sophie at the secret garden, Howl safely drops Sophie off at the portal door. He makes sure that she floats down gently, but she still has to deal with landing on the ''stone steps''.

* When Sophie introduces Turnip head to Markl.

* Calcifer: Here's another curse, [[MemeticMutation may all your bacon burn.]]

* Howl returning to the castle drunk, singing Calcifer's sauce-pan song. Later, after he's gone upstairs to bed, Sophie hears thumping, and him giggling about how the bed is "dodging" him.

** The mere fact that Calcifer has a saucepan song, which his housemates pick up too, is incongruous, hilarious, and oddly adorable.

** Even funnier when you consider that's similar to what he said in the book.

* This line from the first chapter of the book: ''Sophie began to feel that Wizard Howl and the Witch of the Waste should get together. They seemed to be made for one another. Someone ought to arrange a match'' This is funny in retrospect, as [[spoiler: Howl ''did'' court the Witch for a while, and it did not end well at all.]]

* This line from the first chapter of the book: ''Sophie began to feel that Wizard Howl and the Witch of the Waste should get together. They seemed to be made for one another.'' This is funny in retrospect, as [[spoiler: Howl ''did'' court the Witch for a while, and it did not end well.]]