History Funny / TheHudsuckerProxy

* Buzz's over-the-top reaction to getting fired. It's hard not to feel bad for the poor guy, but actor Creator/JimTrueFrost is ChewingTheScenery ''so'' hard that you can't help laughing, either.

* TheDreaded Blue Letter. Achieves BrickJoke status when late in the film [[spoiler:Angelic Hudsucker]] bemusedly tells Norville failure to deliver a Blue Letter is cause for dismissal -- this while Norville is about to get himself "squished."

'''Bennie:''' Oh, that gag's got whiskers on it!

-->''[[ArmorPiercingSlap *smack!*]]''

* TheDreaded Blue Letter. Achieves BrickJoke status when late in the film [[spoiler:Angelic Hudsucker]] bemusedly tells Norville failure to deliver a Blue Letter is cause for dismissal -- this while Norville is about to get himself "squished."

--> '''Norville:''' "Say, Amy, how about we do dinner and a show after work? I was thinking maybe ''Theatre/TheKingAndI''."

--> '''Norville:'''"...Uh, [[ComicallyMissingThePoint How about]] ''Theatre/{{Oklahoma}}''?"

--> '''Norville:''' "What do you say we do dinner and a show? We can go see ''Theatre/TheKingAndI!''"

--> '''Norville:'''"...[[ComicallyMissingThePoint How about]] ''Theatre/{{Oklahoma}}''?"

--> '''Norville:'''"...[[ComicallyMissingThePoint How about]] ''Theater/{{Oklahoma}}''?"

--> '''Norville:''' "What do you say we do dinner and a show? We can go see ''Theater/TheKingAndI!''"

* Never has the invention of the hulahoop been so [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uLOAXDb6fps hilarious.]]

--> '''Norville:''' "What do you say we do dinner and a show? We can go see ''Theater/TheKingAndI!''" ''[[ArmorPiercingSlap *smack!*]]'' "...[[ComicallyMissingThePoint How about]] ''Theater/{{Oklahoma}}!''?"

-->'''Norville:''' "See, I don't expect to be working in this mail room for very long!"

* In a bit of GallowsHumor, the fat lady screaming at the [[GoryDiscretionShot splattered body of Hudsucker]], then Mussberger calmly grabbing Hudsucker's lit cigar and not wanting to waste "a good Montecristo".

* In a bit of GallowsHumor, the fat lady screaming at the [[GoreDiscretionShot splattered body of Hudsucker]], then Mussberger calmly grabbing Hudsucker's lit cigar and not wanting to waste "a good Montecristo".

* An executive [[DrivenToSuicide who decides to follow Hudsucker's example]] mid-way through the movie learns that the high-rise office building's SoftGlass has been replaced with a new type of safety-glass... when he smacks face-first into it at a full sprint and gets stopped cold.