History Funny / Stalker

* After the team you form in ''Call of Pripyat'' all makes it to Pripyat and finds out Degtyarev works for the military (which prompts Zulu to leave,) all Strider has to say is "I don't give a rat's ass about who anyone works for." -- in the same CreepyMonotone he says ''everything else'' in.

* When you check out the first Stingray in ''Call of Pripyat'' it [[TeleportingKeycardSquad causes a bunch of monsters to spawn and run at you]]. But since there's a minefield between you and them, most of the monsters get blown up when they run at you. This may have been deliberate, considering how much of a pain it was to get through the minefield to the chopper in the first place.

!![[Film/{{Stalker}} Film]]
* Early on, the Writer idly sets his hat on top of a car, and tries to convince the Stalker to let him bring an attractive woman he's clearly trying to impress. After the Stalker chases her off, the car drives off with his hat, which clearly distresses him.
* Professor decides to go back for his rucksack. Stalker and Writer are worried he will get lost and die, but decide to press forward through the tunnel. They exit the tunnel and find Professor sitting on a rock, enjoying coffee and sandwiches.
* The dry tunnel is not actually a dry tunnel.
* When they enter a room with a phone inside, and Writer begins another one of his rants at Stalker, the phone begins to ring. After ignoring it for a while, the Writer finally picks it up, and after a moment of short silence, he replies "No, this isn't a clinic.", before hanging up. When he resumes his rant, he [[DoubleTake suddenly stops and looks with Stalker and Professor at the phone again]], realizing that the phone he just used is functional. Professor then decides to use it himself.
* Before entering a dark creepy tunnel, and after losing to Stalker when deciding who should go first, the Writer asks Stalker to throw a bolt inside. The Stalker agrees, but, instead of a bolt, he throws a big rock in there.

!![[VideoGame/{{Stalker}} Video Game]]

* Much of the conversations around campfires will consist entirely of Stalkers taking turns telling jokes to each other, [[BilingualBonus many of which are hilarious]].

-->'''Ashot:''' ''You're a real jerk, you know that? [[LazyBum You're just sitting there, doing nothing all day]]!''

* The PA announcements at the Freedom base in ''Clear Sky'' will occasionally be interrupted by arguments between the camp trader, Ashot, and the technician, Yar. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N3yzVdCC5PA Listen for yourselves]].

* ''Music/CrazyFrog'' is in the game's files. Why? Well, why the hell not?

* [[Music/CrazyFrog]] is in the game's files. Why? Well, why the hell not?

* Much of the conversations around campfires will consist entirely of Stalkers taking turns telling jokes to each other, many of which are hilarious.

* The commander of the Military Outpost in the Cordon '''hates''' his job. How do you know? Because he'll often take over the PA system and use it to complain how shitty his day is or how hangover he is.

* The A-Life system, asides from creating random and memorable encounters between entities of the zone, can also result in some rather ''strange'' and hilarious circumstances. Surviving stalkers will drag the bodies of the dead off to the side or into the brush, but on occasion the player can come across said bodies piled in the campfires scattered about the zone. ArtificialStupidity? [[ImAHumanitarian Desperate measures for desperate times]]? Viking funeral? One guess is as good as any [[note]]Sadly, the real reason is human error; stalkers are made to spawn near specific areas of the maps, not precise points. And if said area includes a fire, there's a good chance said stalker spawns in the fire[[/note]] , though there's something to be said for arriving at a camp to find [[BlackComedy a favorite NPC being roasted like a pig by his surviving friends]]. Sometimes the result appears to be [[http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v453/GMCMA/Other%20stuff/13.jpg a fatal attempt to re-enact a certain scene from Blazing Saddles]].

** Borov's base in ''Shadow of Chernobyl'' can be a real pain to deal with as the area is wide, with a basement full of anomalies, radiation pockets and over 20 bandits, the majority of them carrying [=AKs=], submachine guns and grenades. Except sometimes they can't be arsed to swarm you and just hide behind something, not reacting even if you come from behind them and pump them full of lead. Either Borov hired the only deaf people in the Zone, they ''really'' hate eachother or they're suicidal, but feel free to chuckle when one bandit doesn't react at all when his three buddies on the other side of the room are getting ventiled.

* The A-Life system, asides from creating random and memorable encounters between entities of the zone, can also result in some rather ''strange'' and hilarious circumstances. Surviving stalkers will drag the bodies of the dead off to the side or into the brush, but on occasion the player can come across said bodies piled in the campfires scattered about the zone. ArtificialStupidity? [[ImAHumanitarian Desperate measures for desperate times]]? Viking funeral? One guess is as good as any, though there's something to be said for arriving at a camp to find [[BlackComedy a favorite NPC being roasted like a pig by his surviving friends]]. Sometimes the result appears to be [[http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v453/GMCMA/Other%20stuff/13.jpg a fatal attempt to re-enact a certain scene from Blazing Saddles]].

* When they enter a room with a phone inside, and Writer begins another one of his rants at Stalker, the phone begins to ring. After ignoring it for a while, the Writer finally picks it up, and after a moment of short silence, he replies "No, this isn't a clinic.", before hanging up. When he resumes his rant, he suddenly stops, and looks with Stalker and Professor at the phone again, realizing that the phone he just used is functional. Professor then decides to use it himself.

* While Bandits are among the most hated human enemies you'll face in the series, it's hard not to chuckle at their combat taunts, including the infamous "cheeki breeki iv damke" line.

* CrowningMomentOfFunny: Plenty, [[BilingualBonus if you speak Russian]].
** Much of the conversations around campfires will consist entirely of Stalkers taking turns telling jokes to each other, many of which are hilarious.
** The A-Life system, asides from creating random and memorable encounters between entities of the zone, can also result in some rather ''strange'' and hilarious circumstances. Surviving stalkers will drag the bodies of the dead off to the side or into the brush, but on occasion the player can come across said bodies piled in the campfires scattered about the zone. ArtificialStupidity? [[ImAHumanitarian Desperate measures for desperate times]]? Viking funeral? One guess is as good as any, though there's something to be said for arriving at a camp to find [[BlackComedy a favorite NPC being roasted like a pig by his surviving friends]]. Sometimes the result appears to be [[http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v453/GMCMA/Other%20stuff/13.jpg a fatal attempt to re-enact a certain scene from Blazing Saddles]].
*** On the other hand, this can be very convenient if the NPC in the fire is someone who carries a unique weapon. Oh, you want Bes's silenced AK but don't want to cap him yourself? Come back in half an hour, he'll be medium rare over the fire pit in the scrapyard. You don't have to kill him...[[BlackComedy you just have to wait for]] [[ImAHumanitarian his friends to get hungry enough]].
*** From a meta point of view, it gets even funnier. The aforementioned friends in fires is the result of a bug in the coding for the spawning system every time an area is loaded. Most of the time, {{Non Player Character}}s will simply spawn around a campfire. Sometimes, they'll spawn directly IN the fire, and take so much immediate damage from it that they die right then and there. If the developers caught it in playtesting, it was either too difficult or time-consuming to fix, or they simply felt it would be even more grim (and hilarious) to keep it in. Given that the same game engine and coding is used in the next two games, but bereft of this bug, it's likely the latter.

* Professor is a constant source of hilarious situation. But his most hilarious moment is when he's ranting at the Stalker when they approach The Room... A phone near them starts ringing, professor denies the call and continues shouting at his now-totally-shocked companions. Only several seconds later he also realizes this phone ''is in the abandoned building several kilometers into the zone, with everything completely wiped out''. Followed by his CrowningMomentOfAwesome, when he decides ''to make a call''.

* The [[TechnicallyLivingZombies Zombie Stalkers]] utter inability to aim their weapons effectively can be funny at times, such as when one unloads an entire magazine at you from a few meters away and manages to miss you entirely, leaving the player as confused as they presumably are.