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2* When Florence returns to her old folks home, the first thing she does is pet Muffy, her taxidermied cat, and talk about her as if Muffy were still alive.
3* When the Martian ambassador arrives at Congress with two other Martians to supposedly apologize after misinterpreting the white dove as a declaration of war, he seems to be reaching for a raygun, causing everyone to tense up. [[HopeSpot It's than revealed that he actually was just reaching for his speech script]]. [[FauxAffablyEvil Then he actually]] ''[[FauxAffablyEvil does]]'' [[FauxAffablyEvil pull out a raygun and attack]].
4** Taffy's deadpan line after the Martians wipe out Congress in their ''second'' slaughter on our planet's soil:
5--->'''Taffy:''' Guess it wasn't the dove.
6* ''"They blew up Congress!'' Ahahahahahahaha!" ItMakesSenseInContext.
7** It makes sense out of context. It's ''Congress''.
8* "Do the Martians have two sexes, like we do?" Asked by a reporter of AmbiguousGender.
9* What the Martians play on the translator as they're vaporizing and terrorizing everyone in Las Vegas:
10-->"[[BlatantLies Don't run, we are your friends.]]"
11* "I want the people to know that they still have [[TwoOutOfThreeAintBad two out of three branches of the government working for them and that ain't bad]]."
12* "We have to strike NOW, sir! [[AxCrazy Annihilate! Kill! Kill! Kill!"]] "'''[[BigShutUp SHUT UP!]]''' [[RapidFireShutUp Shut up]], ''[[PunctuatedForEmphasis shut! Up!]]''"
13* "Whoa! He just made the international sign of the donut!"
14* "Ello, Maurice. Ça va?"
15** (listening to the Martians massacre the French government) "Mon dieu..."
16* The Martians attacking the White House as the Secret Service tries to take the First Family to safety.
17-->'''Marsha Dale:''' Shouldn't we go this way?\
18'''Agent Mitch:''' Sorry, ma'am, there's a tour going through here.
19** And then the death of the White House tour guide.
20--->'''Tour Guide:''' The Blue Room is often considered the most beautiful room in the White House. In fact, it is often used by the president to receive guests. It is furnished to represent the period of James Monroe.\
21''(Cedric, Neville, and the rest of the students then notice the trilling sound of the flying saucers)''\
22'''Cedric:''' Hey, what's that?\
23'''Tour Guide:''' ''(looks behind her)'' That...is a portrait of James Monroe.\
24''(The tour guide gets zapped by a Martian)''
25* When Ritchie's grandmother, Florence is awarded the Medal of Honor, she tells Taffy "Thank you, honey, but don't you dare let this happen again." as if somehow the invasion was her fault.
26* The Martians knocking down the Easter Island heads like bowling pins with boulder.
27* The scene where it looks like Franchise/{{Godzilla}} is attacking a major city. Turns out the Martians are just watching [[Film/GodzillaVsBiollante a Godzilla film]] on their viewing screen. Then they changed the channel to ''Series/TheDukesOfHazzard''.
28** Unless they're picking up stray TV transmissions, they're able to hijack cable that's ''still'' [[SkewedPriorities playing movies and TV shows while there's an invasion]].
29* The DVD has an optional language track... in Martian.
30* The Martian Emperor speaking in a high-pitched voice after inhaling the absorbed nuclear blast.
31* "''Rooooooollexxxxxx!''"
32* It's a blink and you'll miss it moment, but when Byron challenges the Martian Ambassador to a fight, the latter removes his cloak and reveals what looks like a ''championship belt''. Just imagining the oddly proportioned Martians boxing frequently is just.. Really odd.
33* The boxing match itself is pretty funny. Every time Byron hits the Ambassador, its head rattles against the sides of its helmet and it "acks" in annoyance.
34* One of the darkest jokes in the movie, the little dog running off with Michael J. Fox's hand, all that's left of him after being vaporized, like it was a bone.
35* In the very last scene, within the destroyed ruins of the house, one woman is nonchalantly dusting.
36* As the saucers start falling from their occupants dying, the annoying, yapping chihuahua, now having its head on its owner's body, takes the chance to strangle a random martian in the UFO, while still ''endlessly yapping''.
37* The [[BlindIdiotTranslation dodgy]] [[TranslationTrainWreck translation]] computer (the aforementioned "Don't run; we are your friends" notwithstanding):
38-->'''Translator:''' [[WordSaladHumor All green of skin, 800 centuries ago, their bodily fluids include the birth of half-breeds.]]… For the fundamental truth self-determination of the cosmos, for dark is the swathe that mows like a harvest.\
39'''General Decker:''' [[IceCreamKoan What the hell]] [[LampshadeHanging does that mean]]?!
40** Not to mention that during this, Kessler is grinning and nodding intently, like he's listening to some profound intellectual bullcrap.
41* The image of a ScaryBlackMan walking the streets with a giant boom box blasting yodeling.
42* Barbara Land is the poster girl for BourgeoisBohemian, particularly in one scene where she tries to attain enlightenment while sitting in a room with a private pool and expensive-yet-tacky furnishings.
43* The Martian laboratory looks creepy, but if you look hard enough, you'll see there's a clown in one of their specimen pods. When did they get that?
44* When the Martian Emperor makes his first appearance, he's reading a girly mag. From the look of things, the center-fold actually turned him on!
45* When the Martians attack a donut store, [[DonutMessWithACop several policemen run out]].
46* When a Martian steps into a giant mech suit, his wife throws him a lunch box and waves him off like he's going to work.
47* Art Land could provide a whole page just by himself.
48** His reaction to the Martians killing everyone at first contact. He looks up from his drink, sees what's happening on TV, and just says "Whoa!"
49** His really bad combover that's hidden under his hat.
50* When the Martians first broadcast their message, Donald tries to comfort Natalie by putting a reassuring hand on her knee. She's wearing a skirt, so Jason cries out, ''"He copped a feel!"'' That was apparently a bigger deal than what was happening next to him.
51* A dark moment, but the president's wife could have saved her own life if she didn't obsess over her antique chandelier getting zapped ''while standing right beneath it!''
52* Martin Short getting attacked by a Martian in disguise ends with a "fish finger" pun.
53* When the Martians break into the president's bunker, they toss a glowing orb into the main room. Cue everyone ducking for cover. When the Martian Emperor walks in, he grabs the orb, shakes it and reveals that it's just a snow globe.
54* The way the movie ends. You wouldn't expect a film about alien invaders to end with Music/TomJones singing while animals flock to him like Snow White.
55** Tom Jones' introduction is pretty funny by itself. He's in the middle of performing "It's Not Unusual" when the light on his backing singers goes out, plunging them into darkness. When the light comes back on the singers have been replaced by a trio of Martians who dance along until Tom and the audience notice them.
56** Look closely and you can actually see the skeletons of the singers in front of them.
57* Grandma Norris's reaction to seeing the Martians' heads explode from her music.
58** "Richie, I think these guys are very sick."
59** Even funnier when you remember earlier she burst out laughing at congress getting vaporized but acts concerned for the Martians who just tried to kill her seconds earlier.
60* During the medal giving scene in Washington, the only musicians left alive to play the U.S. national anthem are ''a mariachi band.'' And Grandma Norris has her hands over her ears throughout.
61* Near the start of the invasion, Sharona and a man are having sex in their trailer - and are being watched by two Martians, panting so much that their helmets get fogged up that a windscreen wiper comes down and clears the glass.
62** The humans are also playing music while doing it. The song of choice? Music/TheBeeGees' "Stayin' Alive".
63** The Martians' panting is in sync with "Ah ah ah ah!".
64* General Decker's death is also darkly humorous. After the Martian Imperial Entourage takes out the Secret Service agents guarding the president, Decker comes out with [[GunsAkimbo two pistols]] and starts shooting the Martians while boasting as to how the invasion will be thwarted by the United States. The Martian Emperor takes out a ShrinkRay and uses on the general, [[ResizedVocals whose voice grows higher in pitch while he gets smaller in size]]. Eventually he's about an inch tall, and when the guns run out of ammo, [[ThrowingYourGunAtTheEnemy he throws them at the Martians]], the Emperor then calmly walks towards Decker, and while he's still ranting as to how earth will never be theirs, [[KilledMidSentence the Emperor just squishes Decker like a bug]].
65* In a WriterRevolt example, executives told Tim Burton that he could not kill Jack Nicholson's character. Burton's response was to give two roles to Nicholson... ''and kill both of them''.
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68* During IDW Publishing's tenure with the license, they wrote up several {{Crossthrough}} books involving the Martians attacking other licenses they owned, with the only caveat being their violence had to match the series they were invading. One of them ended up being the world of ''Popeye'', of all places, and as a result their disintegrator rays just dissolve everything but people's underwear.
69** After the Sea Hag hypnotizes them to harass Popeye and his friends, and summarily get beaten by Popeye and his Pappy, she berates them so badly it breaks her control over them, after which they proceed to [[MistreatmentInducedBetrayal zap her clothes off]] and [[ScrewThisImOutOfHere leave without any further hostility]].

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