History Funny / MemphisBelle

-->'''Luke''': That's just what we need; you ordering us around for the rest of our lives. (''sarcastically') Let's do the pre-flight check!

* One moment reaches toward HeartWarming when Jack is apparently shot and fellow waist gunner Eugene starts laughing. When Jack angrily asks what he's laughing about, Eugene tells him it's just a scratch and Jack is "screaming like a stuck pig." Jack's favorite harmonica had saved his life. After Eugene says that Jack's injury had terrified him, Jack reveals that he hadn't dropped Eugene's precious St. Antony's medal out of the plane as he had apparently done earlier in the film.

** Made even funnier when you [[RetroactiveRecognition realize]] that it's [[Film/TheLordOfTheRings Samwise Gamgee]] saying that.

-->'''Rascal''': There's a hole as [[GagPenis big as my dick]] in the left wing!

* One moment reaches toward HeartWarming when Jack is apparently shot and fellow waist gunner Eugene starts laughing. When Jack angrily asks what he's laughing about, Eugene tells him it's just a scratch and Jack is "screaming like a stuck pig." Jack's favorite harmonica had saved his life. After Eugene says that Jack's injury had terrified him, Jack reveals that he hadn't dropped Eugene's precious St. Antony's medal out of the plane as he had apparently done earlier in the film.

** Then the whole crew pitches in mocking Dennis's by-the-book, uptight reminders.

* It's a very odd moment of comedy, but before the flight, when they're all waiting around, Danny is teased into reading a poem he's written about being an airman: 'Those that I fight I do not hate,/Those that I guard I do not love', etc. The crew, initially sarcastic, ends up being deeply moved by the poem. Later on, when Danny has been seriously injured, the thing that makes him come out of unconsciousness is the sudden realization that it's not by him at all, but by WilliamButlerYeats. This is especially funny if you knew all along that the poem was by Yeats and thought that the film was gambling that the audience wouldn't notice.

* It's a very odd moment of comedy, but before the flight, when they're all waiting around, Danny is teased into reading a poem he's written about being an airman: 'Those that I fight I do not hate,/Those that I guard I do not love', etc. The crew, initially sarcastic, ends up being deeply moved by the poem. Later on, when Danny has been seriously injured, the thing that makes him come out of unconsciousness is the sudden realisation that it's not by him at all, but by WilliamButlerYeats. This is especially funny if you knew all along that the poem was by Yeats and thought that the film was gambling that the audience wouldn't notice.

** Then the whole crew pitches in mocking Dennis's by-the-book, uptight reminders.

Then the whole crew pitches in on mocking Dennis's by the book, uptight reminders.

* It's dark to be sure, but when Dennis thermos of tomato soup explodes after a flak hit, the ensuing freak out between Dennis and Luke, with each of them saying the other's hit, and in shock is morbidly funny.

-->'''Luke''': That's just what we need; you ordering us around for the rest of our lives.

* Denis suggests everyone come work for him at his family's furniture business. The silence on the intercom is deafening.
-->'''Dennis''': (''bitterly'') Like I said, don't give it a thought.

** Made even funnier when you [[RetroactiveRecognition realize]] that it's [[Film/TheLordOfTheRings Samwise Gamgee]] saying that.

-->'''Rascal''': [[OhCrap There's a hole in the wing]] the [[GagPenis size of my dick!]]

-->'''Rascal''': [[OhCrap There's a hole in the wing]] the [[BiggusDickus size of my dick!]]
** Made even funnier when you [[RetroactiveRecognition realize]] that it's [[LordOfTheRings Samwise Gamgee]] saying that.

-->'''Busby''' (''surrounded by Messerschmitts''): Oh, just peachy, Lieutenant.