History Funny / TheMagiciansNephew

* The way it's described that Polly's punishment for disappearing with Digory for hours is to be "given dinner with all the nice parts left out" before getting sent to bed.

* The newly named Fledge is made a winged horse and asked if he could carry Digory and Polly on their mission to get the apple. He agrees that he could after all the weight he carried during his time as a cab horse...but hopes the elephant doesn't want to come too.

** Jadis is halted in her attempts to go out and conquer London by Digory's aunt, Lettie. Yes, a [[StatuesqueStunner giant]] [[GodSaveUsFromTheQueen queen]] who [[OmnicidalManiac single-handedly killed everyone in her world]] is being stood up to by an [[DeadpanSnarker unimpressed]] [[GrandeDame battleax of an Englishwoman]], who thinks Jadis is some kind of a circus performer and doesn't approve of the [[SleevesAreForWimps revealing outfit]] she wears. Jadis eventually resorts to bodily throwing Lettie across the room, and Lettie ''still'' just gets up and goes off to call the police.

--->'''Policeman''': [[StockPhrases Now then, what's all this?]]\\
'''Andrew''': ''Womfle-pomfy-shomf!''\\
'''Policeman''': None of that, now! You'll find this is no laughing matter.

* Any time it's brought up that Andrew goes to visit the bottle of brandy (AKA the "nasty grown-up drink") he keeps hidden in his closet. After having several glasses, in one case, he becomes convinced that Jadis might actually fall for him. [[RealityEnsues She doesn't.]]

** Jadis is halted in her attempts to go out and conquer London by Digory's aunt, Lettie. Yes, a [[StatuesqueStunner giant]] [[GodSaveUsFromTheQueen queen]] who [[Omnicidalmaniac single-handedly killed everyone in her world]] is being stood up to by an [[DeadpanSnarker unimpressed]] [[GrandeDame battleax of an Englishwoman]], who thinks Jadis is some kind of a circus performer and doesn't approve of the [[SleevesAreForWimps revealing outfit]] she wears. Jadis eventually resorts to bodily throwing Lettie across the room, and Lettie ''still'' just gets up and goes off to call the police.

** Jadis is halted in her attempts to go out and conquer London by Digory's aunt, Lettie. Yes, a giant queen who single-handedly killed everyone in her world is being stood up to by an unimpressed battleax of an Englishwoman, who thinks Jadis is some kind of a circus performer and doesn't approve of the revealing outfit she wears. Jadis eventually resorts to bodily throwing Lettie across the room, and Lettie ''still'' just gets up and goes off to call the police.

* For that matter, everyone's reaction to Jadis's arrival in London: "Long live the Hempress of Colney 'Atch!" [[note]]Colney Hatch was a lunatic asylum.[[/note]] For a moment she's flattered by their sarcastic praise, until she sees they're all laughing at her. Then she tries to cast a curse on them, only to find her magic doesn't work on Earth. Everyone else who hears her failed spell assumes she's drunk.

* Any time the She-Elephant accidentally insulted short noses, causing the Bulldog to say "I object to that remark!"

** Regarding the latter, six words: "Not all the bees were dead."

** The fact that the animals adopted Uncle Andrew as a sort of pet and name him "Brandy", [[INeedAFreakingDrink as that's the word he most often said around them]].

* For that matter, everyone's reaction to Jadis's arrival in London: "Long live the Hempress of Colney 'Atch!" [[note]]Colney Hatch was a lunatic asylum.[[/note]] For a moment she's flattered by their sarcastic praise, until she sees they're all laughing at her. Then she tries to cast a curse on the, only to find her magic doesn't work on Earth. Everyone else who hears her failed spell assumes she's drunk.

* For that matter, everyone's reaction to Jadis's arrival in London: "Long live the Hempress of Colney 'Atch!" [[note]]Colney Hatch was a luntic asylum.[[/note]] For a moment she's flattered by their sarcastic praise, until she sees they're all laughing at her. Then she tries to cast a curse on the, only to find her magic doesn't work on Earth. Everyone else who hears her failed spell assumes she's drunk.

* For that matter, everyone's reaction to Jadis's arrival in London: "Long live the Hempress of Colney 'Atch!" For a moment she's flattered by their sarcastic praise, until she sees they're all laughing at her. Then she tries to cast a curse on the, only to find her magic doesn't work on Earth. Everyone else who hears her failed spell assumes she's drunk.

* Any time the She-Elephant accidentally insulted short noses, causing the Bulldog to say "I object to that remark!"
* Aunt Letty calling Jadis a drunk since she has no magical powers in the human world, but still retains her physical strength as she tosses Aunt Letty around before causing havoc in London.

* Any time the She-Elephant accidentally insulted short noses, causing the Bulldog to say "I object to that remark!"

* The last two lines of the book.

* For that matter, everyone's reaction to Jadis's arrival in London: "Long live the Hempress of Colney 'Atch!"
** Then she tries to cast a curse on the, only to find her magic doesn't work on Earth. Everyone else who hears her failed spell assumes she's drunk.

* Any time it's brought up that Andrew goes to visit the bottle of brandy he keeps hidden in his closet. After having several glasses, in one case, he becomes convinced that Jadis might actually fall for him. [[RealityEnsues She doesn't.]]

* The last two lines of the book.

* Andrew's housekeeper during the entire sequence of Jadis stomping around London, having the best day of her life.