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1* The song "I'm Only Thinking Of Him", which consists of Alonso Quijano's niece and housekeeper talking to the priest about how worried they are for him, when it's [[BlatantLies blatantly obvious]] that they're primarily acting on selfish reasons. The priest responds with ''delightful'' [[SarcasmMode sarcasm via exaggeration.]] Creator/IanRichardson gives some hilarious facial expressions in the film.
2* The entire play is performed by a cell full of criminals. Watching grubby scraggly miscreants acting like ogres, gypsies, and priests is hysterical.
3* Within the show itself, "Knight of the Woeful Countenance" and "I Like Him" are hysterical.
4* De la Mancha decides he can see a mighty ogre (in fact, a windmill) represented to the audience by a silhouette on the wall. He charges offstage at it and Sancho can only watch, bemused,as we hear crashing and yelling, before the knight returns, looking distinctly worse for wear.

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