Line #71 Funny/TheTick


1	* If the Tick says something, chances are it's going to be funny.
2	* "The Tick vs. The Idea Men" has this iconic quote:
3	-->'''Arthur:''' I think I'm going crazy.\
4	'''Tick:''' You're not going crazy, Arthur. [[CrazySane You're going sane in a crazy world]]!
5	* This may sum up The Tick's personality and sense of humor at the same time. In "The Tick vs. The Tick," Barry, another costumed Tick shows up to claim the rights to the name (his costume resembles more of a tick than The Tick). They have this exchange:
6	-->'''Barry:''' Where's that jerk who calls himself The Tick?\
7	'''The Tick:''' I am that jerk!...Who wants to know?
8	** Big Shot tries to end the conflict between the Ticks using therapy:
9	-->'''Big Shot:''' As everyone knows, I used to be a very violent person. I tried to resolve all of my problems with ''([[TwitchyEye twitches psychotically]])'' GUNS!
10	** This exchange:
11	-->'''Barry:''' I mean renounce your name and call me the Tick!\
12	'''Tick:''' You...are...Barry Barry Barry Barry Barry Barry Barry Barry Barry Barry...
13	** The Evil Midnight Bomber What Bombs At Midnight (''BOOM BABY!!'') fills the episode with delight. And explosives.
14	* In "The Tick vs. The Breadmaster", Stuart's store has been destroyed by the Breadmaster. The Tick advises him to rebuild starting with a box of cotton swabs.
15	* "The Tick vs. Brainchild" opens with Tick claiming to have a knack with electronics, before accidentally destroying Arthur's microwave. Later, as he tries to talk Brainchild out of his evil scheme...
16	-->'''Tick:''' I really think think I'm getting through, Arthur. I have a knack with kids.
17	-->'''Arthur:''' [[HarmfulToMinors Not like your knack with microwaves, I hope.]]
18	-->'''Tick:''' You know, you can be quite cryptic sometimes.
19	* In "The Tick vs. Pineapple Pokopo", a Pineapple Air steward asks if anyone wants some [[ComplainingAboutThingsYouHaventPaidFor complimentary tap water]].
20	* When The Deadly Bulb did a HeelFaceTurn and called himself Pig-Leg, his new goal being to ensure his pig-leg was happy.
21	* "The Tick vs. The Proto-Clown" has several.
22	** When The Tick and his Mind have approached a giant statue called Tick's Self-Image, which only allows one question. This is what he picks:
23	-->'''Tick:''' Okay okay, one question, check. [[AskaStupidQuestion How ya doing]]? ''(The statue gives a thumbs up)''
24	** The only way for the Tick to return to reality is to answer the profound question of why he is here.
25	-->'''Tick:''' Wait, I know this one. Now, don't tell me...I'm here because...[[LiteralMinded a big clown hit me]]!
26	* "The Tick Vs. Chairface Chippendale", one of the episodes that got adapted from the comic book (albeit with American Maid instead of the Dick Tracy-expy, as well as a few other changes)
27	** The scene where the eponymous villain is lowering the Tick, American Maid and Arthur into his alligator pit. As the screen is just about to cut to commercial, Arthur - still writhing to get free - yells "Jerk!"
28	** Tick tries to break free using his mighty muscles. It might have worked, had he not been tied up with the signifigantly squishier Arthur and American Maid.
29	---> '''Arthur''': Tick, you're ''crushing us!!''
30	** The Tick, Arthur and American Maid infiltrate the parties as cateters, which is based on the comic, which included the same story. The difference was that Arthur wasn't there, and Maid replaced the Dick Tracy-expy. Unlike the comic, they just don't replace the caterers, they ''are'' the caterers, American Maid made all the food herself.
31	---> '''Maid''': You like them? They're my own recipe!
32	** After The Tick and Arthur interrupt The Forehead's heist, he sics one of his goons at him; Zipperneck, who can unsip his throat and expose the inside to horrify his opponents.
33	---> '''Tick''': GAH!! UNSIGHTLY!!
34	** Arthur facing off against The Forehead.
35	---> '''Arthur''': I'm Arthur! The, uh, sidekick!\
36	'''Forehead''': Hm. Alright, Boils, kick him to the side!
37	* '''''[[NoIndoorVoice SPOOOOOOOON!]]'''''
38	** [[LovableCoward Not in the face!]] ''[[LovableCoward Not in the face!]]''
39	* "We are a [[ForGreatJustice justice sandwich]], no toppings necessary!"
40	* Chairface Chippendale's plan to write his name on the moon fails, resulting in the surface of the moon only reading "CHA" (bonus points for the "A" being only about 75-80% complete). In "Alone Together", the Tick is hand-picked to help repair the moon, but he only gets around to erasing the 'C'. Now the moon reads "HA", eternally mocking all life on the planet.
41	** Even better, in the comics it was blamed on Charo just to tweak Chairface's ego.
42	* When the villains brought together by the Terror face certain defeat, Tuun-La and Stalingrad make a daring jetpack escape (and, inexplicably and hilariously, [[InterspeciesRomance confess their love to each other]]):
43	--> '''Tuun-La:''' Josef Stalin, grab onto my armored muumuu, and together we will leave this foul Earth behind!
44	* The Tick must defuse a big old bomb with a big traditional digital countdown. On the basis 'how hard could it be?' he rams his hand through the casing and starts feeling around. Aaaand his hand gets stuck.
45	-->'''The Tick:''' I'M A WALKING TIME-BOMB!
46	* From the episode "Ants in Pants":
47	-->'''TV Announcer:''' This is not a test. Authorities have issued a city-wide alert. Please stay tuned to this station for emergency evacuation instructions.\
48	'''TV Reporter:''' '''''GET OUT OF THE CITY!!!'''''
49	** [[OhCrap Mayor Blank's reaction]] to the national guard general's plan to destroy The City to eradicate the ants is really hilarious to look at.
50	** There's also this exchange:
51	--->'''American Maid:''' You know, I get the feeling we're trapped in a...Er.\
52	'''Die Fledermaus:''' Don't say it.\
53	'''Fish Boy:''' Say what?\
54	'''American Maid:''' We're trapped in a...Um.\
55	'''Arthur:''' A people farm?\
56	''(It is shown the heroes are trapped in a life-sized ant farm)''\
57	'''Everyone (and Sewer Urchin):''' [[MassOhCrap PEOPLE FARM! AHHHH!!!]]
58	** Arthur getting tired of Sewer Urchin's VerbalTic:
59	---> '''Sewer Urchin:''' 'Course we're definitely done for! Yeah, definitely!\
60	'''Arthur:''' ''Why'' do you always have to keep saying that word?! (''imitating Sewer Urchin'') "Definitely! Definitely!" YOU'RE DRIVING EVERYONE CRAZY!\
61	'''American Maid:''' Arthur, take it easy!\
62	'''Sewer Urchin:''' Ahh, definitely very loud!\
63	'''Arthur:''' Not every things definite, you know!
64	* From "The Tick vs. The Big Nothing", what's the fastest thing in the universe? Lint. The explanation:
65	-->'''Alien Interpretor:''' Right after you do your laundry, what's the first thing you find in your pockets?\
66	'''The Tick:''' Uh...crayons, change, lip balm.\
67	'''Alien Interpretor:''' Lint! And how does it get there?\
68	'''The Tick:''' Uh, I don't know?\
69	'''Alien Interpretor:''' IT'S THAT FAST! Prepare to enter lint-warp!
70	** When entering lint-speed:
71	--->'''The Tick:''' ''[Beholding vast streams of lint in hyperspace]'' I've never seen so much lint in my life.
72	** The ridiculously underwhelming performance of The Heys' much-hyped ultimate weapon, the Infinity Ball, a floating 8-ball from a pool table that can fly at incredible speed and has undefined cosmic powers. When it finally corners The Tick at the Hey's base, he tells it to do it's worst... and it just smacks ineffectively against his forehead and drops to the ground. What really sells it is Tick's incredulous reaction as he picks it up and casually throws it away, and the Hey's awed worship of him like he just performed some legendary feat.
73	** While Arthur blends in among the Hey's perfectly, since by some cosmic quirk of fate they all look exactly like him, aside from variations in skin tone, The Tick is stuck with a PaperThinDisguise, since it's just him colored white, so he still absolutely towers over the Hey's... none of which notice how much he stands out.
74	** Apparently, the Hey's are really obsessed with ceremony and procedure, so despite their doomsday weapon having been ready to fire for ''years'', their leader has spent all that time making a farewell speech to the universe, with the episode taking place because he seems to be wrapping it up, having gotten to the dedications.
75	* At one point the Tick is showing off the 'crime-mobile' (Arthur's sister's old Bobcat station wagon) to a camera crew. Arthur doesn't mind the Tick showing off the ceiling light or the sunshade, but he refuses to honk the horn.
76	-->'''Tick''' ''(insistently):'' ARTHUR! ''HONK IF YOU LOVE JUSTICE!!''
77	** Apparently, [[NotAMorningPerson Evil likes to sleep in]], according to the Tick.
78	---> '''Tick''': You get the occasional evil morning person, but rarely before 7 AM. I don't know why that is. By 8, Evil is wide awake, but we're ready, we've been up since ''6:30!!''
79	* Blow-Hole the giant whale man... perhaps the most bizarre example of a ChekhovsGunman in recorded history.
80	* When The Tick tries to give a Tick Signal to Mayor Blank.
81	-->'''Mayor Blank''': You guys keep trying to give me these things and they just don't work. Every time we flash the Die Fledermaus Signal he unplugs his phone and skips town for a week.
82	* The Tick ends up going on a vision quest. Unfortunately, his spirit guide is his own mind, which isn't a lot of help.
83	--> '''Tick's Mind:''' Sorry I haven't been around much. I get easily distracted by shiny objects.
84	** At one point, The Tick has to ascend a down escalator. His spirit guide tells him to pick up the pace, which leads to The Tick griping, "I don't have little wings on my head like ''some'' people!"
85	* During his time in Antwerp as part of the Superhero Exchange Program, The Tick is scolded by city officials for his style of patrolling, jumping from roof to roof, damaging their architecture. That may fly in the US where every building is just a block of concrete, but they don't tolerate that crap in Europe.
86	** Tick takes very well to the continental european style of superheroics; coffee and pastry for breakfast, patroling til lunch, a siesta, then dancing all night at the town hotspots.
87	** Tick's rematch with Eastern-Bloc Robot Cowboy, the foremost robotics export of the former USSR, who transplanted his brain into a walking, talking vending machine (that speaks like a bad cowboy movie), equipped with laser guns. This time, Tick hits him with a quarter right in his coin slot, causing his brain to be ejected from the machine.
88	--->'''Tick''': Alright! I bought his brain!
89	** Octo-Paganini and Robot Cowboy's ultimate plan; replacing the King of Belgium with a robot duplicate. While the robot looks okay, it has very obvious hinges on its jaw and speaks in a ridiculously unconvincing robot voice.
90	* Tick and his relationship with his "talking dog" Speak (actually a capybara Tick found in the Amazon and hallucinated as speaking after hitting his head). Speak has no AmplifiedAnimalAptitude, barely moves and generally seems to be either terrified or slightly concussed. But the Tick is so convinced that Speak is ''awesome'' that it's heartwarming in a demented kind of way.
91	-->'''Vet:''' Tick, about Speak.\
92	'''Tick:''' Yes?\
93	'''Vet:''' I've got some good news and some bad news.\
94	'''Tick:''' [[BigNO Nooo!]] I'll do anything, Doc! Money is no object! Does he need my kidneys?!\
95	'''Vet:''' No, no. Speak's fine. Except for a little eczema, some worms, and the mange.\
96	'''Tick:''' Then what is the bad news?! What's wrong with my dog?!\
97	'''Vet:''' Tick, that's just it, you don't have a dog.\
98	'''Tick:''' I don't?\
99	'''Vet:''' You've got a ''Hydrochoerus hydrochaeris''.\
100	'''Tick:''' Huh?\
101	'''Vet:''' Capybara, Tick. Speak is a rodent, but he's one of the world's largest.\
102	'''Tick:''' All right! ''Go, Speak!''
103	** Gets even better when Carmalita comes across him giving Speak a fleabath later in the episode.
104	--->'''Tick''': Hey Carmalita, guess what? Speak's not a dog at all! He's the world's biggest rat!
105	** "I will name you Speak! Because that is what you do!"
106	** Tick's species confusion is even funnier in that Speak actually does look more like a dog than a capybara.
107	* Tick has quite a history with head injuries. In the episode "Evil Sits Down For a Moment", the group fights a supervillain with telekinetic control over furniture, and Tick ends up falling off a flying dining room set, falls 10.000 feet, through the ground and into the subway where he's run over by a subway train. It then cuts back to Arthur's apartment, where Tick is now speaking with a British accent.
108	-->'''Tick''': Fresh horses for all my men!
109	** From the same episode, Die Fledermaus has been caught up in a DatingCatwoman situation with the villain, The Ottoman, and finds himself having to choose between her and helping American Maid on top of the flying carpet.
110	--->'''Maus''': looks at American Maid hanging from the carpet We have a history, she's a force for good, wouldn't let me fall... looks to the Ottoman Wants to tie me down, force for evil - looks to the left where an airplane is heading towards them ''AIRPLANE!!!''
111	** How Fledermaus first realized his new lover was a bad guy during the heist at the warehouse.
112	--->'''Maus''': So, you're evil huh?\
113	'''Ottoman''': smiles and shrugs Yeah.\
114	'''Maus''': Well, it's always something.
115	* The Tick asking one of The Idea Men about their evil scheme.
116	-->'''Idea Man''': Uh, well, we thought we'd steal a lot of money, and then we'd be rich! And we wouldn't have to work anymore!\
117	'''Tick''': You ''CADS!''
118	** From the same episode, no one has any goddamn idea what the Idea Men's demands are, because their masks muffle their speech so badly that all you hear is gibberish. Eventually, they resort to holding up a sign with the words "Give Money Or We Blow Dam"
119	* From the season 2 premiere "Little Wooden Boy and the Belly of Love":
120	-->'''Arthur''': It's only hobby night! You can't fight evil with a macaroni duck!\
121	'''Tick''': ''I'll'' be the judge of that! (storms out, and his head smashes through the top of the door frame)
122	** "The Swiss are invading!"
123	* In the first episode, an off-screen interviewer asks The Tick if he has any supernatural powers. The Tick admits "no" to all of them. When the interviewer asks if he could destroy the Earth:
124	-->'''Tick''': Egad, I hope not! That's where I keep all my stuff!
125	* Handy's combat strategy: "DON'T JUST STAND THERE; EAT HIS HEAD!"
126	* Baby Boomerangatuang's BattleCry: "It's okay to play with dolls!"
127	** His ultimate weapon; The Middle Child! It's a doll with red diapers that's loaded with explosives.
128	** Hell, pretty much ALL of the rookie superheroes (with the exception of Sarcastro, whose gimmick is that he looks like Fidel Castro and uses sarcasm as a weapon).
129	--->'''Flying Squirrel''': I like squirrels!\
130	'''Mr. Excited''': IT'S GREAT TO BE ALLLIIIIIVE!!!
131	** Mr. Excited playing with Speak and ''licking'' his fur!
132	---> '''Tick''': Heh, Mr Excited... you're playing with fire...
133	* In "Coach Fussel's Lament", Charles kidnaps The Tick, uses a giant ray gun to turn him [[ItMakesSenseInContext into a two-headed Bluebird that can only speak French]], and holds an auction to sell him to the highest bidder, inviting all of the major villains of The City. Naturally, Arthur rallies his superhero friends to mount a rescue, which leads to Charles' house getting wrecked. That's when he sees his parents coming home and when Charles says "Oh great, my parents...", all the villains panic and drive off. The sight several adult villains running away as if they're kids afraid of getting busted is ''hilarious''.
134	** The PaperThinDisguise used by Der Fledermaus and Sea Urchin to get inside, which is just stuff they took from Charles's parents garden shed. Fledermaus "disguise" is literally just a rake he attached to the neck part of his cape. And it ''works!''
135	* In "The Tick vs. Science", almost all the characters have their minds switched. Arthur ends up in the body of Dr. Mung Mung's tongue monster Tung-Tung he met earlier.
136	-->'''Arthur-in-Tung-Tung:''' I can taste the floor! I can taste everything!
137	** Early in the episode, Carmelita, frustrated with Arthurs shyness, is talking to her father Dr Vatos about how long he waited before he kissed her mother.
138	--->'''Vatos''': Why, I asked her to marry me 15 minutes after I met her! Of course, those were the old days. Everyone was worried about polio!
139	** As they march to Chairface Chippendale's home:
140	--->'''Tick-in-Zebra:''' How are you doing up there, Arthur?\
141	'''Arthur-in-Tung-Tung:''' I can taste your back.\
142	''[Tick-in-Zebra screams]''
143	** Professor Chromesome ends up in Tick's body, and eventually returns to Chairface Chippendale with the bodychanging device, who orders Chromedome to switch bodies with him after being impressed with Ticks strength and stamina.
144	--->'''Chromedome''': But Mr Chippendale, now I got ''your'' body!\
145	'''Chairface''': And whats wrong with that? I'm a fit man of half your age!\
146	'''Chromedome''': Yeah, but... you got a CHAIR for a head! I mean, you were really a ''freak''! HOW AM I EVEN TALKING?!
147	** After everyone have (seemingly) finally gotten their own bodies back and the villains have been tied up, Arthur gathers up the courage to give Carmelita a victory kiss:
148	--->'''"Carmelita"''': in The Ticks voice EGAD MAN, what are you doing?!\
149	'''Arthur''': sighs I hate today...
150	* In "The Tick vs. Dinosaur Neil", a scientist (who's a parody of Film/DrStrangelove) creates a gigantic pair of pants to trap the rampaging Dinosaur Neil in.
151	-->'''Scientist:''' ''(lightning struck the gigantic pants, setting them on fire)'' LIAR, LIAR! ''PANTS ON FIRE!''
152	** The whole reason for why Neil mutated into a dinosaur in the first place; he absentmindedly ate a chunk of regrown dinosaur tissue he was growing in his lab because he was giving Tick and Arthur a tour while eating a pasta salad and forgot he was holding the petri dish and not the bowl. Even funnier that there's a sign that clearly states not to eat in the lab.
153	*** The exact words on the sign are "DO NOT: 1. Eat in lab, 2. Set lab on fire, 3. [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking Innovate Unnecessarily]] (which Neil was already doing with the whole "regrowing dinosaur tissue" thing")
154	** Arthur's sister Dot, one of the few holdovers from the original comic book, who is extremely unimpressed by Arthur's "new lifestyle", though at least in this version she doesn't want him to commit himself to an asylum.
155	** As his transformation is reaching its peak, Dinosaur Neil struggles to open a container of aspirin that would counteract the mutation, but his body has grown too big while [[DumbDinos his brain did not grow along]], so he promptly [[RageQuit stomps out of his tent roaring]].
156	--->'''Dinosaur Neil:''' Hands...BIGGER! Mind...SMALLER! Child-proof cap...IMPOSSIBLE!
157	* "The Tick Vs Arthur's Bank Account"
158	** The Tick telling Arthur they need to come up with battle cries.
159	--->'''Tick''': You know, the things we say as we rush into battle!\
160	'''Arthur''': Oh, you mean like "Not in the face, not in the face"?\
161	'''Tick''': Hmm, lacks force, chum.
162	** After Tick and Arthur have a falling out over Tick ruining Arthur's credit rating, leading to him kicking Tick out, Tick sulks in his rickety "crime tower" like a child in a treehouse.
163	** Handy saying that Tick is "[[AchillesInHisTent sulking in his tent like Achilles]]" and the rest of the Terror's LegionOfDoom just stare blankly at him. This is especially funny with Stalingrad, who's a graduate student and should at least recognize the reference.
164	*** The Human Ton later mangles the reference as "sulking in his tent like a guy from Chilé", which causes Arthur and Handy to gang up on correcting him.
165	** When American Maid says WeNeedADistraction, Arthur just walks up to the bad guys, introduces himself with "I'm Arthur, and this is my diversion," then recites "Itsy Bitsy Spider".
166	** When the Tick finally shows up, Stalingrand and Tuun-La, Not of This World, immediately pull a ScrewThisImOuttaHere and decide to elope together. What's extra funny is that Stalingrad tells Tuun-La he "always loved her," even though they met like a week ago.
167	** Arthur gets the closest thing he has to an arch-enemy; Handy, the Human Ton's CompanionCube. What's even sadder is that Handy is WINNING at first.
168	* Because the Tick himself is such a shameless CloudCuckoolander, those moments when even ''his'' tolerance for weirdness and silly ideas is breached are absolutely hilarious. For example, his calling a scientist's attempt to engineer "room temperature fire" outright stupid, or his obvious "seriously?" reaction to Baby Boomerangutan's battlecry ("It's okay to play with dolls!") and super-hero identity (a man in an ape costume, sans head, who wields baby dolls as boomerang-style throwing weapons).
169	* The Tick apparently doesn't think much of MediaNotes/TheDarkAgeOfComicBooks, which was at it's peak when the cartoon aired. In "And Grandpa Wore Tights", Arthur thinks the stories the Decency Squad took part in during MediaNotes/TheGoldenAgeOfComicBooks sound ridiculous, and Tick is quick to admonish him.
170	--> '''Tick''': Arthur, science in those days worked in broad strokes, nowadays it's all molecule molecule molecule, nothing ever happens ''BIG!'' an alarm sounds Oh what's that, postal fraud? (made better by how utterly bored he sounds).
171	** There's also him telling NinetiesAntiHero Bigshot to get professional help, since he's clearly mentally unbalanced, and not in a funny way like Tick. The fact that Bigshot starts ''crying'' when he runs out of ammunition is a pretty big red flag.
172	* "The Tick vs. The Uncommon Cold" has several:
173	** Thrakkorzorg's roommate being [[UnfazedEveryman completely nonplussed]] to all the super-villainy his roommate's been doing.
174	** The Tick [[MaliciousMisnaming constantly getting Thrakkorzorg's name wrong]]
175	** The Tick being completely fooled by the Arthur clone despite it having green skin, eye-stalks in its ears, and only being able to say [[PokemonSpeak "I Arthur!"]] [[TooDumbToLive Even when he's seen both it and the real Arthur.]]
176	** Clone Arthur being sent to retrieve a tissue sample....and [[LiteralMinded getting one of the tissues the Tick's been blowing his nose with.]] (Un)fortunately, this actually works out.
177	** Thrakkazorg makes a clone of the Tick out of ''mucus'', and his only comment is that it was "a little more mucusy than I hoped", but when he sees his roommate drinking milk from the carton...
178	---> '''Thrakkazorg:''' And would you PLEASE not drink milk straight from the carton?! It's DISGUSTING!!
179	* The video game may not have been able to fully emulate the show's or comic's humor, but it made do with what it ''could'' do: When the Tick [[BackToBackBadasses teams up with Die Fledermaus]], Die Fledermaus [[TheLoad doesn't do anything besides follow Tick around]].
180	** It also dialed up the {{slapstick}} to the Nth degree: Tick could defeat enemies with a forehead flick, his grab was just slapping his enemy around and flinging them away, and [[ButtMonkey Sewer Urchin and falling superheroes]] were a course hazard for both the Tick and enemies!
181	* The entire premise and execution of "Sidekicks Don't Kiss:" Tick follows ancient Aztec warriors into a movie theater where Arthur and Carmalita are on a date. The Aztecs kidnap Arthur by mistake, so Tick and Carmelita follow them back to their hideout in Mexico. Their plane is shot down by [[GrievousHarmWithABody Arthur]], who was being "sacrificed to the sun" (along with Speak). In the end, it's revealed that the Aztecs are Carmelita's ''childhood baseball team'' and they'd been living there since their original plane crash.

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