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* [[http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Funny/ptitlegvx5tm34k7kq The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy]]

* From ''[=~The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy~=]'': The entire "whale and petunia falling to the planet" sequence.
** Arthur and Ford imprisoned in the Vogon ship.
---> '''Arthur''': It's at times like this I wish I'd listened to what my mother told me.\\
'''Ford''': Why, what did she tell you?\\
'''Arthur''': I don't know, I didn't listen.
** And of course the scene with Zaphod and the Total Perspective Vortex. "Hey, is that a piece of fairy cake?"
** Just the name 'Dr. Dan Streetmentioner'.
** Oolon Coluphid's Trilogy of Philosophical Blockbusters: ''Where God Went Wrong'', ''Some More of God's Greatest Mistakes'' and ''Who is this God person anyway?''
** "They found only an old man who claimed that nothing was true, although he was later found to be lying".
** "The ships hung in the sky in much the same way that bricks don't".
** "There is an art, it says, or rather, a knack to flying. The knack lies in learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss."
** "Ford, you're turning into a penguin. Stop it."
* This troper found the whole "Eddies in the space-time continuum." confusing to be hilarious, for some reason.
** Can we just go out and say that the entire Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy Series is one big Crowning Moment of Funny?
*** Not before we specify Ford trying to retain his intellectuality and explain the universe while hammered!
**** ''BELGIUM!''
* Whatever else you may have to say about [[http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/H2G2/AndAnotherThing And Another Thing]], most of the business with the cows desperate to be eaten were pretty funny, especially the "I'll track down your entire family and not eat them!" bit.
** On the subject of [[DouglasAdams Adams]]:

** This troper busted a gut ''twice'' in the Frogstar Scout Robot scene. First time:
--> * scout robot whizzes past*
--> '''Zaphod:''' What was that?
--> '''Hitchiker:''' Frogstar scout robot class A looking for you.
--> * larger scout robot whizzes past*
--> '''Zaphod:''' And that was...
--> '''Hitchiker:''' Frogstar scout robot class B looking for you.
--> '''Zaphod:''' And that?
--> '''Hitchiker:''' Frogstar scout robot class C looking for you.
--> '''Zaphod:''' [[TemptingFate Hey, pretty stupid robots eh?]]
--> * gigantic tank-shaped robot rumbles into view and demolishes nearby building with its tracks*
--> '''Zaphod:''' Holy photon, what's that?
--> '''Hitchiker:''' A tank. Frogstar scout robot class D come to get you.
** Second time: Marvin has been left alone with no weapons to deal with this tank-robot. After a long guessing game in which the tank tries to discover what they've armed Marvin with to stop him, he finds out they didn't give him anything.
--> '''Marvin:''' I'll tell you what they gave me to protect myself with shall I?
--> '''tank:''' Yes, alright.
--> '''Marvin:''' Nothing.
--> '''tank (angrily):''' ''Nothing?''
--> '''Marvin:''' Nothing at all, not an electronic sausage.
*** The tank, after ranting some more, decides to take out his anger:
--> '''tank:''' I think I'll smash the wall down! * does so* I think I'll shoot down their bloody ceiling as well! * does so*
--> '''Marvin:''' That's very impressive.
--> '''tank:''' You ain't seen nothing yet, I'll take out this floor too, no trouble! * does so and [[TooDumbToLive falls down* ]]
--> '''tank:''' Hell's bells! * smashes itself to bits on the ground fifteen stories below*
--> '''Marvin:''' [[CrowningMomentOfFunny What a depressingly stupid machine.]]

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** Upon reaching the ninth circle of Hell, [[apoiler: Abigor]] confirms to the humans that it is the place reserved for traitorous souls. When queried about the occupant of one last, unfilled hole, he replies, “A countryman of yours I think. One called [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_McNamara Robert Macnamara]].”

** The sequel ''Yes Man'' is pretty much a Crowning Book Of Funny, but possibly the best bit is Danny repeatedly [[spoiler:poking a monk in the ribs]]. The fact that the books are actually ''autobiographical'' is probably what makes parts like that, which would only be mildly amusing otherwise, into pure hilarity.

'''Thing:''' You do not comprehend?
'''Masklin:''' I don't know what "comprehend" means.
'''Thing:''' Evidently language has changed in ways I do not understand. I will endeavor to clarify my statement.
'''Masklin:''' Jolly good.

* Rabadash's HumiliationConga in ''[[TheChroniclesOfNarnia The Horse and his Boy]]''.

* ''TheChroniclesOfNarnia: The Horse And His Boy''. "The bolt of Tash falls from above!" [[spoiler:And gets caught on a hook halfway.]]
* ''[[CircleOfMagic The Circle Opens]]'': The scene where the Bancanor household discovers Frostpine meditating naked ''in'' the kitchen fire.

** The true story of the reason Jesus was crucified: [[spoiler:The Romans didn't care at all about his preaching, but his disciples were selling moonshine tax-free everywhere they went, and Judas was skimming on paying off the authorities, having collected 30 pieces of silver by the time he was caught.]]