History Funny / TheWizardOfOz

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[[caption-width-right:350:Talk about putting the "coward" in Cowardly Lion.]]

* The Munchkins tell Dorothy that, for killing the Wicked Witch of the East, she's "history"; she gives a brief look of horror, before they clarify "[[CelebratingTheHeroes she'll go down in history]]".

* Despite being an almost indestructible man of metal, ''carrying a weapon, no less'', and an easily re-constructible man, both Tin Man and the Scarecrow are too wimpy to stand up to the Cowardly Lion.

---> ''(mending a fence, Hunk accidentally mashes Zeke's thumb with a hammer)''
---> '''Zeke:''' Ow! You got my finger!
---> '''Hunk:''' Well why don't get your finger out of the way!?
*** Later, Hunk says, "You were lucky it was your finger and it wasn't your head!".

---> '''Hunk:''' Well why don't get your finger out of the way!
* Aunt Em's speech to Miss Almira Gulch, of course that particular scene borders onto SugarWiki/MomentOfAwesome territory.

* The little "Oh!" that Dorothy gives when the house lands, considering she was just ''in the middle of a freaking tornado.''
** Dorothy kills witches without even trying and slaps rampaging lions in the face. Of course she no-sells Mother Nature.
** Most of the tornado scene is this (well, when it hits the house; everything before that is serious), considering that Dorothy passes two guys in a rowboat and an old lady knitting, neither of them appearing to care about the disaster occurring around them.

--> "I don't know why I can talk without a brain. But some people without brains do an awful lot of talking, don't they?"

** One of his best moments is the one where he says nothing at all. "Ehhhhh... and YOU, Lion!" Lion is of course too frightened to speak. "WELL?!" The Lion promptly faints.

** "I do believe in spooks. I do believe in spooks. I do, I do, I do. I do believe in spooks. I do believe in spooks. I do, I do, I do, I ''do''!"

** '''I AM THE GREAT AND POWERFUL''' ... ''(meekly)'' Wizard of Oz.
** The Wizard turning out to be every bit the con artist that Professor Marvel is. He couldn't even stop the balloon because he didn't know how it worked (though he may have been referring to the "magic" rather than the balloon itself). (Sounds like Dorothy dodged a bullet by disembarking early).

---> '''Zeke:''' ow! You hit my finger!
---> '''Hunk:''' Next time get your finger out of the way!

** The Wizard turning out to be every bit the con artist that Professor Marvel is. He couldn't even stop the balloon because he didn't know how it worked. (Sounds like Dorothy dodged a bullet by disembarking early).

---> ''[mending a fence, Hunk accdentally mashes Zeke's thumb with a hammer]''

--->['''Hunk:''' Next time get your finger out of the way!

** They're bordering on ThreeStooges territory:

* Pretty much any scene with the farmhands.
--> '''Hickory''': (''[[{{Foreshadowing}} raising his hand in a fixed position]]'') One day they're going to erect a statue to me in this town!
--> '''Aunt Em''': ...And don't start posing for it now.
--> '''Hunk''': (''laughs unashamedly'')

-->'''Uncle Henry:''' [[ObfuscatingStupidity You mean she bit ya?]]
-->'''Miss Gulch:''' No, her dog.
-->'''Uncle Henry:''' Ohh...[[LiteralMinded she bit her dog]], eh? ([[ContrivedClumsiness ''accidentally'']] lets the fence door hit Miss Gulch on the butt)
-->'''Miss Gulch:''' ''No!''

-->'''Dorothy:''' Professor Marvel, why can't we go with you and see all the crowned heads of Europe?
-->'''Professor Marvel:''' Do you know any?! .... Oh, you mean the things [[note]]Referring to the stuff written on the outside of his wagon, like him supposedly meeting "All The Crowned Heads of Europe"[[/note]]...

--> '''Tin Man''': Yes, get up and teach him a lesson.
--> '''Scarecrow''': What's wrong with you teaching him?
--> '''Tin Man''': Well I hardly know him.

--> '''Lion:''' What do they got that I ain't got?
--> '''Scarecrow, Tin Man, and Dorothy:''' [[CaptainObvious Courage!]]
--> '''Lion:''' You can say that again.
** And this:
-->'''Lion:''' All right. I'll do it for Dorothy! Wicked Witch or no Wicked Witch! Guards or no guards, I'll take them apart. I may not come out alive but I'm going in! There's just one thing I want you fellas to do!
-->'''Tin Man and Scarecrow:''' What's that?
-->'''Lion:''' Talk me out of it! ''(he starts to back up as Tin Man and Scarecrow give him glares before grabbing him)''
-->'''Tin Man and Scarecrow''': Oh, no... No, you don't...
** And then after the trio [[MuggedForDisguise acquires]] some guard uniforms and joins the troop marching back inside the witch's castle, the Lion, last in line, fights to push his tail out of sight as it waves around.

-->'''Lion:''' "I hope my strength holds out."
-->'''Tin Man:''' "I hope your tail holds out!"

-->'''Dorothy''': Weren't you frightened?
-->'''Wizard''': Frightened? Child, you're talking to a man who's laughed in the face of death, sneered at doom, and chuckled at catastrophe... I was petrified.

-->'''Tin Man''': What happened to you?
-->'''Scarecrow''': Well, they tore my legs off and they threw them over there, and then they took my chest out and they threw it over there.
-->'''Tin Man''': Well, that's you all over.
-->'''Cowardly Lion''': They sure knocked the stuffings out of you, didn't they?

** Most of the tornado scene is this (Well; when it hits the house. Everything before that is serious.), considering Dorothy passes two guys in a rowboat and an old lady knitting, neither of them appearing to care about the disaster occurring around them.

* The Munchkins tell Dorothy for killing the Wicked Witch of the East she's "history", she gives a brief look of horror, before they clarify "[[CelebratingTheHeroes she'll go down in history]]".
* The Wicked Witch establishes herself as evil by learning that her sister is dead...[[AngstWhatAngst and getting excited that now she can take her powerful magic shoes.]]
* When Glinda tells the Wicked Witch to "Begone! Before someone drops a house on you!" the Witch ''actually looks up in alarm''. Complete with MusicalSting.

* Despite being an almost indestructible man of metal ''carrying a weapon no less'', and an easily re-constructible man, both Tin Man and the Scarecrow are too wimpy to stand up to the Cowardly Lion.

** Of his best moments is the one where he says nothing at all. "Ehhhhh... and YOU, Lion!" Lion is of course too frightened to speak. "WELL?!" The Lion promptly faints.

** Let's face it; The Cowardly Lion is [=CMoF=] ''personified!''
** And what we get in the film is apparently the ''toned down'' version, as Bert Lahr did a lot of improvising that unfortunately had to be cut as he had the other actors laughing their heads off--yes, even Judy Garland, who was otherwise having a hellishly awful time on the set by all accounts, and certainly must've appreciated the levity brought on by Lahr's improvisations.

--> '''Scarecrow, Tinman and Dorothy:''' [[CaptainObvious Courage!]]

-->'''Tinman and Scarecrow:''' What's that?
-->'''Lion:''' Talk me out of it! ''(he starts to back up as Tinman and Scarecrow give him glares before grabbing him)''
-->'''Tinman and Scarecrow''': Oh, no...No, you don't...

-->'''Scarecrow''': Well they tore my legs off and they threw them over there, and then they took my chest out and they threw it over there.

* Despite being an almost indestructible man of metal ''carrying a weapon no less'', and an easily re-constructible man. Both Tin Man and the Scarecrow are too wimpy to stand up to the Cowardly Lion.

* This exchange:
-->'''Dorothy:''' Weren't you frightened?
-->'''Wizard of Oz:''' Frightened? Child, you're talking to a man who's laughed in the face of death, sneered at doom, and chuckled at catastrophe...I was petrified.

-->'''Lion:''' (after vowing to save Dorothy?) There's just one thing I want you to do!

--> '''Hickory''': One day they're going to erect a statue to me in this town!

--> "People come and go so quickly here."

** And what we get in the film is apparently the ''toned down'' version, as Bert Lahr did a lot of improvising that unfortunately had to be cut as he had the other actors laughing their heads off.