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3* The Precops send iris tracker robots to search around the apartment Anderton was hiding, they came upon a couple fighting each other, they stop so the robots could check them, then they continue fighting after it's finished checking them.
4** When Anderton is in the freezing bathtub to hide his body heat signature, the eye-dent spyder looks around for a minute and then decides to leave the room thinking there's nothing there. However, a small bubble from air Anderton let out while submerged reaches the surface and pops...causing the eye-dent spyder to come back. Apparently those things can pick up near-silent sound frequencies.
5** The revelation that ''Series/{{Cops}}'' is still on in 2054.
6** When the Precops enter the apartment building, there's a guy dancing in the lobby. As soon as the Precops pass, he gleefully gives them two middle fingers.
7* When Anderton makes his escape on the freeway, he ends up crashing into a yoga studio. All the patrons are currently in a very silly looking pose where their whole upper body is bent forward and tucked between their legs. One woman, still posed in such a way, ''walks'' toward Anderton asking if he's ok, and Anderton can only stare in bewilderment.
8* Anderton's new eyes are revealed to have originally belonged to a Japanese man.
9-->''Hello Mr. Yakamoto, welcome back to the Gap. How did those assorted new tank tops work out for you?''
10** Then follows up with Anderton trying to find clothes to fit Agatha, and uses a woman with her back turned as a way to check if the clothes he has are the right size for her.
11* A good bit of the scenes involving Rufus falls under this. Two in particular are his telling a client that the requested killing-my-boss hologram is very popular and the part where Anderson asks him to slow down the memories being streamed from Agatha's mind. Rufus gives him a confused look and asks "How do I slow this down, I should hit her on the head?"
12** Just the realization that in a world where murder becomes impossible that killing your hated boss becomes more in-demand than good clean porn.
13** "Those thoughts about my cousin Elaina, they were JUST thoughts!"
14** One guy's virtual fantasy has him being applauded for something: "You're the man", "No you're the man".
15* "I like you, Wally, so I don't want to have to hurt you or hit you with anything hard..."
16* When Witwer compares the Precogs and society to deities and priests, Anderton turns to his nodding peers and retorts:
17-->'''Anderton''': You guys are nodding your heads like you know what the hell he's talking about.
18* The mall sequence with Anderton and Agatha as she has him do seemingly random things like taking an umbrella and waiting behind a large balloon vendor to avoid being seen by the precops in just that spot. Later, John and Agatha leave the mall to find that it's raining outside...and Anderton then realizes why she had him take the umbrella. Also doubles as Awesome coming from Agatha.
19** Agatha stops a random woman: "He knows...don't go home"... and she stays there mortified.
20** On the other hand, setting up the hobo to be an unwitting booby trap to the pursuing cop. Anderton and Agatha are fleeing from a cop in hot pursuit, down a narrow hallway. Just past a door, they encounter a hobo that begs for money. Agatha instructs Anderton to drop some money-literally, DROP IT, and close the door. Anderton does, and they continue fleeing. The hobo takes a moment to complain (and lampshade) the fact that Anderton could have put the money right in his hand, but instead he has to sprawl across the hallway to collect this loose change...cue the cop barging through the door and plowing straight into the hobo, who serves as a very effective tripping hazard.
21* The singing Pine & Oats cereal package annoys Anderton so much that he angrily throws it away.
22* When he gets his eyes he has to endure temporary blindness. At the apartment set up for him in recovery he was told a fresh sandwich and drink were in the fridge for him. What makes it funny is that while there are fresh food, he accidentally finds rotten food and eats it instead... or was it purely accidental after all, given the biography of the person who prepared that food?
23* Some people the spiders scan in the famous [[TheOner oner]]. Even though it's a quite tense scene, the spiders interrupt a couple having sex to analyze their eyes and an arguing couple that resume their argument as soon as the spiders scan their eyes.
24* Some great DeadpanSnarker exchanges with Dr. Iris Hineman:
25-->'''John Anderton''': That's all, huh? Just walk right into Precrime, go in the Temple, somehow tap into these Precogs, and then download this Minority Report.\
26'''Dr. Iris Hineman''': If you have one.\
27'''John Anderton''': And then walk out.\
28'''Dr. Iris Hineman''': Actually, I think you'll have to ''run'' out, but yes, that is what you have to do.
29** And:
30--->'''Dr. Iris Hineman''': Find the minority report.\
31'''John Anderton''': How do I even know which one has it?\
32'''Dr. Iris Hineman''': It's always in the more gifted of the three.\
33'''John Anderton''': Which one is it?\
34'''Dr. Iris Hineman''': ''(beat, followed by a "duh" delivery of the following line)'' [[WomenAreWiser The female.]]
35* When Anderton pulls a gun on Witwer in the middle of Pre-Crime, Witwer says, "Put the gun down, John. I don't hear a red ball." Then the alarms go off. The OhCrap look on Witwer's face is ''priceless''.
36* The scenes with Anderton and Dr. Solomon are blackly humorous as well:
37--> '''Anderton:''' You set your patients on fire.
38--> '''Dr. Solomon''' (''defensively'')''':''' [[CrossesTheLineTwice I put 'em out.]]
39--> '''Anderton:''' I'd like to keep the old [eyes].
40--> '''Dr. Solomon:''' Why?
41--> '''Anderton:''' Because my mother gave them to me.
42* The JetPack chase sequence once Anderton and the cop crash into an apartment complex, crashing ''upward'' into a family dinner (the family slowly backs away at the first bump), and finally into a kid's room while he's practicing sax. Not to mention the rather [[UnfazedEveryman unimpressed]] elderly man when there is an ongoing chaos in his home.
43** When Anderton, Fletcher, and the other cop are fist-fighting in mid-air in the first apartment, you can hear the portly housewife cooking dinner [[FunnyBackgroundEvent slapping at them and yelling at them to get out of her kitchen and stop ruining their dinner]] ''the entire time.''
44** Blink and you'll miss it, but one of the officers' jetpacks gives the hamburgers on the grille a beautiful and professional sear as they drift over the cooktop.
45* Anderton running after his eyeballs. That scene became [[MemeticMutation meme-worthy]] on Website/{{YTMND}}.
46* Witwer's introduction scene.
47--> '''John Anderton:''' Fletch, just get him some coffee and stories of how I save your ass every day.
48--> '''Danny Witwer:''' I've got coffee, thank you [extends hand towards Anderton] Danny Witwer. The "twink from the Fed."
49* The reveal that the mystery person witnessing Crow's murder through the window was actually a billboard being installed across the street.
50* When Anderton comes back to [=PreCrime=] with his new eyes, he hears the hypocrisy of a tour guide to a group of kids telling them BlatantLies about the Precogs like how wonderful their life is and they get eight million letters a year.

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