Line #140 Funny/MonstersUniversity


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2	[[caption-width-right:350: "Very funny, Sullivan!"]]
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6	[[AC:The Trailers]]
7	* The college prank Sulley plays on Mike in one of the teaser trailers: sticking foil all over him, then turning out the lights and hanging him up as a disco ball.
8	* Mike's mumbling in his sleep, which is mostly followed by giggles. And we see Sulley looming up on him with a bottle of Monster glue named "GLEWW" with a mischievous smile on his face.
9	** "Class President? Ha...Ha..."
10	** "I can't go to school, I am not wearing any clothes..."
11	** "My pony made the Dean's list..." (this one was apparently a fan favorite, and Pixar artists actually drew the literal pony with Mike in Monsters University for Mike's dream!)
12	** "My homework ate my dog..."
13	*** And then followed by the other monsters partying outside Mike's room until he comes out, and they use him as a makeshift disco ball.
14	*** AND then we see Mike being strung up as a disco ball for a slow dance, with Sulley eating chips and saying, "I love college." and snapping a photo of Mike.
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16	[[AC:The Movie/Film]]
17	* Little Mike calling his teacher, Ms. Graves, by her first name and her response:
18	-->'''Karen:''' Please don't call me Karen.
19	* In the prologue, "Frightening" Frank [=McCay=] the Scarer's reaction to the Monster Inc staff all crowding around him with fire extinguishers, first aid boxes, walkie-talkies, frozen with anxiety and fear plastered on their faces, was a rather flat and deadpan, "what?"
20	* The big ear-to-ear (or perhaps, horn-to-horn) smile that Little Mike has when he walks out of the child's room on his field trip to MI.
21	* The RA's. For anyone who went to college and stayed in the dorms, it's both hilarious and irksome that they are just as {{Keet}} and as [[GenkiGirl genki]] as in real life.
22	** The RA's (also known as the smile squad) are named Jay, Kay, Trey, and Fay. Additionally, there's a fifth member who assigns new students their room who (according to the Monsters University Fearbook) is named Ray.
23	* [[RunningGag Mike can barely be seen on his college I.D. card.]]
24	-->'''Mike:''' I don't believe this... [[ComicallyMissingThePoint I'm officially a college student!]]
25	* The lunchroom scene, which is also in [[http://youtu.be/_Fb1IzsOAHs?t=52s the trailers]]:
26	-->'''Initiation tour guide''': The MU cafeteria has some of the best chefs in the world!
27	-->''A large purple gelatinous lunch lady monster picks up the trash can that students have been throwing away their food in and dumps it back onto the food counter. The monsters standing there begin to dig in with relish.''
28	* Many of the club members at their booths during Orientation Day are a hoot, for those alumni who remember how much they stood out. The Art Club booth member dunks his head into some paint, and sloshes it onto a canvas.
29	* Claire and Brock advertising the scare games.
30	-->'''Claire''': You could totally die.\
31	'''Brock''': '''''AND IT'S WORTH IT!'''''
32	* When Mike is about to meet his new roommate and reminds himself that he is "about to meet the bestest friend I'll ever have". Cue the menacing silhouette of Randall Boggs. Unlike his ''WesternAnimation/MonstersInc1'' self, however, Randall is awkward and polite to Mike.
33	** When “Randy” turns invisible, he thinks [[WhatKindOfLamePowerIsHeartAnyway that doing so will make him look lame in front of the others]]. Mike has to spell out that [[HeartIsAnAwesomePower he could use it to be a more effective scarer]]… if he gets rid of his glasses.
34	* A snail monster tries to race to class on his first day. You can see what that means.
35	** Course, it's even better when you see during TheStinger that he finally made it to his first class... Only to find out it's summer break.
36	* When Dean Hardscrabble is asked to give the obligatory "words of inspiration" speech, not only does she only put pressure on the Scare Program students, she gives us this when she has finished her speech:
37	--> '''Dean Hardscrabble:''' I hope you are all properly inspired.
38	* Randall [[FreezeFrameBonus holding a tray of cupcakes!]] Said cupcakes each have a letter arranged to spell "be my pal"! And if you watch Monsters University in another language, the cupcakes have icing on them, which is essentially Randall's eyes, glasses, and a smile.
39	** For more Randall fun, look at his side of the room in [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2KnND1_gR2M this clip.]] He appears to have designer sheets, a luggage set, and slippers of his own face.
40	*** Even better, if you look closely at his motivational poster, you can see that it says "The Winds of Change," and, under that, [[ContinuityNod "Shh... You hear that?"]]
41	*** At the social, Mike rides the Fear Tech mascot pig and bumps into Randall, who tosses the cupcakes into the air and land on his face to form the word "LAME".
42	** Continuing with Randall, early on his new roommate Mike suggests that he lose his glasses because they mess up his invisibility routine. He does so and [[ContinuityNod immediately acquires his trademark squint from the first movie]].
43	* There's just something funny about Sulley explaining who ROR is and then throwing Mike under the bed to fetch Archie.
44	-->'''Sulley''' "They only accept the highly elite. Okay, I'll lift the bed and you grab the pig."
45	** "''Your'' room? This is my... [[FailedASpotCheck this is not my room.]]"
46	** Note that Mike's scream is the same as the one he has in the first film.
47	* Sulley [[MomentKiller bowling over]] [[Film/AnimalHouse the guy with the guitar]] when chasing Fear Tech's mascot.
48	* In a football game, the monster carrying the ball gets tackled by a bigger monster...[[SerialEscalation only to be tackled by an even bigger monster.]]
49	** Who then literally bulldozes through to the end of the field, dragging a whole bunch of other players behind him, and knocks over the goalpost for good measure.
50	** The bland look on the biggest monster's face is hilarious, since he completely gets how he trivializes the game for his team.
51	* When ROR look over Sulley's test results, the professor's marks to the question:
52	-->''All Scarer techniques are based on the various {{Primal Fear}}s of humans. What is the basis of the Zombie Slouch?''\
53	[ ] Fear of the living dead\
54	[ ] Lion attacks\
55	[x] Sharks\
56	'''[[FlatWhat Really?]] [[YouHaveGotToBeKiddingMe Zombie sharks?!]]'''
57	** Not to mention, [[FreezeFrameBonus everything else written in Sulley's test results.]]
58	* In Mike's "Up to the Final" montage, he is cleaning the floor with a drivable cleaner while studying. Without noticing, he sucks up a furry monster, and it comes out looking like a puffball. Can be seen just after the 30-second mark [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xBzPioph8CI here.]] And many other students were either diving out of the way or getting knocked over by him. One even lets out the famous [[StockScream Wilhelm scream]].
59	* Scream Canister Design class is hilariously boring, especially with Professor Brandywine's design that captures a boring professor. He even takes a huge boring breath.
60	** At the start of the class, Brandywine holds a [[GoYeHeroesGoAndDie traditional speech]] about how "some consider a career in scream can design boring; unchallenging; a waste of a monster's potential" - only to then fail to pay it off, and just tell the students to open their books. It makes it clear that ''he's'' one of those people too.
61	** A subtle one, but just to highlight how boring and unchallenging the class is, while the rest of the movie's technology like the scare simulators are more underdeveloped than in ''Inc.'', the scream canisters look exactly the same over decades.
62	* After Mike and Sulley are kicked out of the scaring program, Sulley follows Mike around glaring at him at uncomfortably close distances. The best, however, is when Mike goes into his room; Sulley, rather than following, just stands outside the door and glares at it, waiting until Mike emerges so he can continue glaring at him. How long, exactly, was Sulley planning on standing out there?
63	* Terri and Terry.
64	--> '''Terri:''' "I'm a dance major!"
65	--> '''Terry:''' "And ''I'm'' not."
66	** And then Terri tries to do an impromptu dance, which Terry refuses to go along with.
67	-->'''Terri''': "Why didn't you turn?"
68	-->'''Terry''': "'Cause we never agreed to do this!"
69	-->'''Terri''': "You said this was gonna be cool!"
70	-->'''Terry''': "''No one'' said this was gonna be cool."
71	-->'''Terri''': "Now I'm embarrassed."
72	-->'''Terry''': "NOW you're embarrassed?"
73	-->'''Terri''': "Yes, because it's in front of people!"
74	-->'''Terry''': "You should wake up embarrassed."
75	* Anything said by [[CloudCuckooLander Art]].
76	-->[[NoodleIncident "I CAN'T GO BACK TO JAIL!"]]
77	-->"I wanna touch it.", "Yeah, I wanna touch them." and "[[TooDumbToLive I'm gonna touch them!]]"
78	-->"I have an extra toe. [[HavingAHeart Not with me, of course]]."
79	* Squishy's mom Sherri interrupting the initiation.
80	* Mike using Sulley's hand as a pillow, and was about to kiss it when he woke up. And when Sulley falls out of his top-bunk bed and wakes up in a panic.
81	-->'''Sulley:''' [[WakingNonSequitur ''MOM?!'']][[note]]Even better, that line was [[ThrowItIn improvised]][[/note]].
82	-->'''Sulley:''' "''What are you doing?!''"
83	-->'''Mike:''' "Your grubby paw was in my bed!"
84	-->'''Sulley:''' "Were you kissing my hand?!"
85	-->'''Mike:''' "[[HAHAHANo Hahaha...no]]. What about you and all your shedding?!"
86	-->'''Sulley:''' "[[BlatantLies I don't shed.]]"
87	-->'''Mike:''' "Oh, really?" (''hits his bedframe and [[IResembleThatRemark a shower of Sulley's fur comes raining down]]'')
88	* This moment:
89	-->'''Mike:''' We have everything to win right here. ''(points at his chest'')
90	-->'''Squishy''': ''(smiles)'' Heart.
91	-->'''Mike:''' [[BaitAndSwitchSentiment No! Me! I'm gonna win this race for us!]]
92	* Mike to Sulley: "It's an obstacle course, what are you gonna do? Roar at it?"
93	* And this gem:
94	-->'''Mike:''' I am going to beat you over the finish line.
95	-->'''Sulley:''' Get ready to eat my dust.
96	-->'''Squishy:''' Hey guys, should we huddle up?
97	* Prior to the first Scare Games challenge:
98	-->'''Terry:''' Uh, good luck, ladies!
99	-->'''PNK girl:''' Thanks! We're gonna rip you to pieces! ''cue RedEyesTakeWarning stare and snarl''
100	* [[CloudCuckooLander Art]] jumping into a bunch of poison needle balls and hugging them, screaming, "I want to touch them!". [[TooDumbToLive You can pretty much guess what happens next.]]
101	* Don's [[GoshDangItToHeck wonderful cursing]] when he accidentally stepped on the poison needle balls. Cue Squishy covering his ears.
102	-->"Cheese and Crackers!"
103	-->"Son of a Mustache!"
104	* Terri and Terry also got hit by the poison needle balls too. Terri's reaction to Terry's swelling head was priceless.
105	** Becomes FridgeBrilliance when you remember they're ConjoinedTwins. ''He probably felt that too!''
106	* Squishy being hit by enough poison balls [[InflatingBodyGag him puff up like a ball]] (Big time!). He accidentally swallowed one (because a jerk spectator ''threw'' one in his mouth while he was screaming), and the rest of the OK gang has to roll him out of the obstacle course.
107	-->'''Squishy:''' I can't feel my anything. (Cue Don collapsing from his own wounds.)
108	* And later...when Mike and Sulley crossed the finish line:
109	-->'''Sulley:''' (slurred) Take that, Wazowski!
110	-->'''Mike:''' (slurred) Are you delirious? I beat you!
111	-->'''Sulley:''' Get your eyes checked!
112	** Note that Mike is pointing a finger upwards at Sulley, and because his finger is puffed up, it looks like he's flipping Sulley the bird.
113	* George Sanderson's ButtMonkey status is retained in this movie. His fraternity was disqualified from the first event because they used anti-poison gel, which a referee proves by using a poison needle to puff up Sanderson's leg. As evidenced by his reaction, he did not enjoy the feeling.
114	* When Sulley suggests finding replacements for their teammates, Mike's refusal initially sounds like a refusal to abandon the people who joined him when nobody else would... before revealing that he already thought about getting replacements but can't because it's against the rules.
115	* Squishy's [[ChekhovsSkill ability to move silently and almost instantly]] gets on Mike's nerves
116	-->'''Mike''': Boy, we gotta get you a bell...
117	* The Librarian who [[AttackOfThe50FootWhatever turns into a giant tentacle monster if she hears any noise in her library]], and demonstrating what she does to noisemakers by throwing Thaddeus Bile through the skylight and into a nearby river.
118	** For that matter, Mike, Art, Squishy, Terry, Terri, and Carl sneaking through the library while Sulley follows them with a frown. At one point, Sulley looks close to [[https://45.media.tumblr.com/f889ab3f9611d1724ac089707aa20202/tumblr_ns3pzdmVCm1u27r3ro1_250.gif flipping his lid.]] [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k2Ho5oWBjJg And then figuring out how to use the Librarian's rule against her]].
119	* Oozma Kappa getting covered in paint, glitter and stuffed animals, with the photo being posted all over campus. Bonus points for the picture being on Chet's coffee mug. Better bonus for all of the Oozma Kappas looking surprised and mortified, except for Art, who is smiling.
120	* Mike trying to stop Johnny from selling the "Cute-ma Kappa" picture.
121	-->'''Mike:''' Hey! What do you think you're doing?
122	-->'''Johnny:''' Raising a little money for charity.
123	-->'''Mike:''' Yeah well, stop it!
124	-->'''Johnny:''' [[ComicallyMissingThePoint "You want us to stop raising money for charity? That's not cool."]]
125	-->'''Chet:''' THIS GUY HATES CHARITY!
126	* The scene where Oozma Kappa is trying to avoid being caught by Monsters Inc. security.
127	--> '''Sherri:''' Seatbelts!\
128	''Everyone fastens their seatbelts.''\
129	'''Squishy:''' Okay, go!\
130	'''Sherri:''' [[ComicallyMissingThePoint Does anyone want gum?]]\
131	'''Squishy:''' JUST DRIVE!!
132	** When she drives the Oozma Kappas on their "field trip" to the Monsters Inc. factory, she waits in the van "listening to her tunes." Said "tunes" are [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6_pvBmrujFk "Island"]] by Music/{{Mastodon}}.
133	* This gem is mentioned in the Junior Novelization of Monsters University: This line is actually vaguely heard in the movie.
134	-->'''Art:''' [[OnlyOneFindsItFun Yeah! Let's go break in somewhere else!]]
135	* and one more, also from the same book:
136	-->'''Mike:''' Ok, pop quiz time! What's more scary than a human child?
137	-->'''Art:''' (raises his hand) Two human children?
138	* The swinging-out boards painted with human teenagers on them in one of the monsters' Scare Games competitions, "Don't Scare the Teen".
139	--> ''"[[ShoutOut But, Daddy!]] [[WesternAnimation/TheLittleMermaid1989 I love him!]]"''
140	-->''"[[EmoTeen No one understands me!]]"''
141	** Even better is the fact that Carrie breathes fire at the latter board in anger at PNK's disqualification by instinctively [[ShootEverythingthatMoves scaring every teen board]], as if she's thinking "SHUT UP!"
142	* Training for the 'hide-and-seek' competition (Mike calls out their methods of hiding):
143	--> "Kiosk! Pile of leaves! Standing out in the open!"
144	** Art was the one standing out in the open, staring at a butterfly, not moving at all.
145	** Don: "Thanks! I cannot get down."
146	* Chet's response at the end of this exchange.
147	-->'''Worthington''': After you lose, no one will remember you.\
148	'''Mike''': Maybe, but when ''you'' lose, no one will let you forget it.\
149	'''Chet''': Oh… boy. [[{{Touche}} That is a good point]]. ''(Worthington then [[DopeSlap dope slaps]] him)''
150	* What's Sully's simulator scared of? [[ThisLooksLikeAJobForAquaman Thunder and lions]].
151	* Randall's humiliation after his scare got sabatoged, resulting in him getting hearts around his body, is one big EpicFail.
152	-->'''Worthington:''' (''disbelief'') Hearts?! \
153	(''Randall looks over himself, and finds that he has hearts all over his body'') \
154	'''Chet''': [[SarcasmMode Way to go, Boggs!]]
155	* Claire (the three-eyed goth Scare Games host) cheering and going wild at the end of the final challenge after spending most of the movie looking bored.
156	-->'''Claire''': THEY DID IT! AAAA''AAGGGHHHHH!''
157	** This doesn't do it justice. She spends the entire movie looking incredibly annoyed at her ''extremely'' energetic partner, saying almost everything in total deadpan. When Oozma Kappa wins, leaving him for once [[StunnedSilence completely dumbstruck]], she tackles him out of the frame and jumps up and down like an over-excited sports fan.
158	* The practice kid's scream when Mike snaps his fingers. It was supposed to be a [[WhamLine wham moment when he realizes he's been betrayed,]] but it was too funny considering how unexpected and loud the scream was.
159	* Don Carlton trying to distract Dean Hardscrabble and the police. [[NoSell It doesn't end well.]]
160	-->'''Don Carlton''': How many times have you asked yourself the following question...?\
161	'''Dean Hardscrabble''': Arrest him.\
162	'''Don Carlton''': Pardon? (gets tackled by the police)
163	* Don Carlton getting engaged to Sherri, and his awkward and increasingly uncomfortable way of describing his new relationship to Squishy as a result.
164	--->"Think of us as brothers who share the same mother/wife. No, wait, that's even worse.
165	* Roz's cameo as the head of the CDA, telling the school that she's [[CallForward always watching.]]
166	* The Abominable Snowman's cameo in the Monsters Inc. mailroom, in which he reveals that tampering with the mail [[CallForward is a banishable offense.]] This qualifies as FridgeHorror as well.
167	* Waternoose's cameo at the end of the film, in which he has an afro and facial hair.
168	* The contrast between our main duo and Randall between this film and its predecessor/successor is pretty amusing, and makes the first film kinda [[HilariousInHindsight funny in hindsight]]. For starters, the humorously awkward feeling of knowing Randall and Mike used to be roommates. There's also the fact that [[GentleGiant Sulley]] used to be a cocky jock and [[TheSociopath Randall]] was an awkward (if slimy) nerd. There's also the realization of why Mike is so bad with his paperwork - he spent all his time in school working on scaring techniques.
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