History Funny / TheKingsSpeech

** From the same scene: "Defecation flows ''trippingly'' from the tongue."

-->This devilish device will change everything if you don't. In the past, all a king had to do was look respectable in uniform and not fall off his horse. Now we must invade people's homes and ingratiate ourselves with them. This family's been reduced to those lowest, basest of all creatures. We've become '''actors'''.

-->'''Bertie:''' I threw a couple in there, so they'd know it was me.

* The whole bedtime story, especially:
-->'''Albert:''' And do you know what he turned into?
-->'''Daughters:''' A handsome prince!
-->'''Albert:''' A short-tailed albatross.

* When Lionel tells Bertie to try singing, since he doesn't stutter when he sings to Camptown Races' tune:

** From the same scene: "Defecation flows trippingly from the tongue."

* "''That is St. Edward's chair!''"
** "People have carved their names in it."
** "It's held in place with a large rock!"
** [[{{Pun}} "I don't care how many royal arseholes have sat in this chair."]]
* One of the first sessions:
-->'''Lionel:''' Do you know any jokes?
-->'''Bertie:''' [''stammers for a good 3 seconds''] ......timing isn't my strong suit.

* "Honey, I don't believe you've met... King George VI?"
** Elizabeth's casual attitude through the whole scene, exemplified by her saying to Mrs. Logue that it's "ma'am, as in ham, not ma'am, as in palm."
** While their wives are making introductions, Bertie and Lionel are in the neighboring room, hiding like a couple of school boys.
--->'''Bertie:''' "Logue, we can't stay here all day."
--->'''Lionel:''' "Yes, we can!"
*** Also, the meta-humour: Bertie is played by Colin Firth, and Mrs Logue by Jennifer Erle -- who, of course, famously played Darcy and Elizabeth in ''Series/PrideAndPrejudice1995''.

--->'''Lionel:''' Oh, a public school prim could do better than that.

* Or this:
-->'''Lionel:''' Surely a Prince's brain knows what his mouth is doing.
-->'''Bertie:''' You're not acquainted with any royal princes, are you.

-->'''Bertie:''' I threw a couple in there, so they'd know it was me.
* Lionel asking Bertie to swear more crudely.
-->'''Lionel:''' Do you know the F-word?
-->'''Bertie:''' F... f... fornication?
-->'''Lionel:''' Oh, ''Bertie.''
* Both scenes in the elevator.
* Bertie doing breathing exercises... lying on the floor, with his wife sitting on top of him.
-->'''Lionel:''' And up goes Her Royal Highness... And down goes Her Royal Highness...
* Elizabeth's reaction to the various exercises - [[TheComicallySerious she is entirely unruffled by the whole affair.]]
* When Lionel tells Bertie to try singing, since he doesn't stutter when he sings to Camptown Races' tune:
-->'''Bertie:''' ''You're bark-ing up the wrong tree now, Doc-tor, Doc-tor!''
* Logue and Bertie's first meeting:
-->'''Lionel:''' When speaking with a prince, one waits for the prince to choose the topic.
-->'''Bertie:''' Waiting for me to... commence a conversation, one can wait a rather long wait.
* If Logue is talking and it's not heartwarming, it's usually one of these.
* The whole bedtime story, especially:
-->'''Albert:''' And do you know what he turned into?
-->'''Daughters:''' A handsome prince!
-->'''Albert:''' A short-tailed albatross.
* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zPmdCmQMDxk The final rehearsal]], in which Bertie brings out almost every technique he's learned to get his speech across.
-->In this... grave hour, fuck fuck fuck, perhaps the fateful in our history, bugger shit shit, (singing) ''I send to every household of my...'' (normal) a peoples, both at home and overseas... this message, (to the tune of Camptown races) ''dooh-dah, spoken with the same depth of feeling, dooh-dah-day'' (normal) to each one of you, as if I were able to shit ''FUCK'' BUGGER cross your threshold and speak to you... bloody well heard, bloody well heard, bloody well heard, ''myself!'' (Moving around the room, singing to the tune of the Sleeping Beauty Waltz) '' Foooor theeeee second time in the lives of'' most of us, we are...
* Just before the final speech, King George mutters one of his tongue-twisters into the microphone. [[IsThisThingOn Elizabeth hastily reminds him to make sure that it's switched off]] (it is.)

** Triply funny given the end credits, which indicates that Lionel was made a Commander of the Royal Victorian Order, which, though a high honor, does NOT entitle its holder to be called "Sir," i.e. Lionel was explicitly NOT knighted.

** [[{{Pun}} "I don't care how many royal assholes have sat in this chair."]]

* Just before the final speech, King George mutters one of his tongue-twisters into the microphone. [[IsThisThingOn Elizabeth hastily reminds him to make sure that it's switched off]] (it is).
* The final speech: if for no other reason than it's ''Beethoven'' playing over the speech. The very German Beethoven, whose music Hitler co-opted for the Reich, playing over the very British milieu. Doubles as a very low-key, very epic TakeThat.
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-->'''Bertie:''' Waiting for me to … commence a conversation, one can wait a rather long wait.

** "People have carved their names in it..."

-->'''Lionel:''' Oh, Bertie.

-->'''Bertie:''' Ffffffornication?

-->'''Lionel:''' You still stammered a little on the 'W's

--->'''Bertie:''' ''(having been asked to demonstrate some of the swears he knows)'' Well...bugger to you, you...beastly bastard.

** Elizabeth's casual attitude through the whole scene, exemplified by her saying to Mrs. Logue, "that's ma'am, as in ham, not ma'am, as in palm."

*** "It's held in place with a large rock!"
** [[{{Pun}} I don't care how many royal assholes have sat in this chair.]]
* After Lionel calls Albert's past physicians idiots:
-->'''Albert''': They've all been [[UsefulNotes/KnightFever knighted]].
-->'''Lionel''': Makes it official then.

--> '''Albert''': How can I thank you?\\

*** Triply funny given the end credits, which indicates that Lionel was made a Commander of the Royal Victorian Order, which, though a high honor, does NOT entitle its holder to be called "Sir," i.e. Lionel was explicitly NOT knighted.
* Or alternately: "Honey, I don't believe you've met... King George VI?"
** Elizabeth's casual attitude through the whole scene.
*** This troper really wanted to be a fly on the wall to see what Lionel's wife was like after the royal couple left! You could just see that he was going to hear about it!
*** Elizabeth saying to Mrs. Logue, "that's ma'am, as in ham, not mum, as in palm." Of course, for decades, she came to be known as the Queen Mum.
*** It's ".. not Ma'am, as in Palm". Ma'am can be pronounced "Mam", correctly, or "Marm", incorrectly.
** While Lionel and Bertie are hiding in the other room like a couple of trapped schoolboys:
-->'''Bertie:''' "Logue, we can't stay here all day."
-->'''Lionel:''' "Yes, we can!"

*** From the same scene: "Defecation flows trippingly from the tongue."
*** Lionel's son, who's just heard his father's patient cursing up a blue streak from all the way upstairs, calling down to him in a concerned voice if everything's okay down there.
*** The exchange right before Bertie launches into his rant:
-->'''Bertie:''' ''(having been asked to demonstrate some of the swears he knows)'' Well...bugger to you, you...beastly bastard.
-->'''Lionel:''' Oh, a public school prim could do better than that.
-->'''Bertie:''' ''(completely deadpan)'' Shit.

** Elizabeth's reaction to the whole situation is chuckle-worthy too - she is entirely unruffled.