* The scene where "Buster" Keeton finds the hundreds of parking tickets in his living room accusing him of [[BerserkButton embezzlement]] is initially a creepy FreakOut, but Keeton is such a [[AssholeVictim tool]] and the messages on the pink slips start getting so creatively insulting, you can't help but laugh at the '''very''' BlackComedy.
-->MAKE: SHITMOBILE\\
MODEL: OLD AND WEARY\\
LIC. #: [=OLDFUCK1=]\\
OTHER VIOLATION(S): FINANCIAL FAGGOTRY
** In the film adaptation, we have quite a few others including:
--->"FOR BEING A CANTANKEROUS ZIT"\\
"HORSEFUCKING"\\
"CORNHOLING YOUR MOTHER"\\
"FOR BEING KING SHIT"
* Alan recalls a brothel madam he once arrested: "The woman had offered him a bribe, and when he turned that down, she had tried very earnestly to knock his brains out with a birdcage. The tenant, a scrofulous parrot who sometimes said "I fucked your mamma, Frank" in a morose and thoughtful voice, had still been in the cage at the time."
* The sudden burst of slapstick nonsense around John's extremely messy desk.
* In the middle of the dark and violent climax, [[PaedoHunt Frank Jewett and George Nelson]] line up on the steps of the Municipal Building for an old-fashioned DuelToTheDeath. [[spoiler: They somehow manage to [[ShootTheBullet bounce each other's bullets out of the air]], but after standing dumbfounded for a few seconds, both [[AssholeVictim despicable men]] are abruptly vaporized anyway when the building explodes.]]
* This exchange from the movie:
-->''(Norris Ridgewick has Keaton dead to rights, who is handcuffed to the door of his own car, aims his gun and pulls the trigger... click)''\\
'''Norris Ridgewick:''' Gotcha.\\
''(Keaton suddenly knees Norris, then grabs him and knocks his head into the side of his Caddy, knocking him out cold)''\\
'''Danforth Keaton:''' ''(childish sing-song)'' Na-na-na-na-na-na! ''(laughs)''\\
''(later, after getting his wife to come into the garage, where Dan is still handcuffed to the car door)''\\
'''Danforth Keaton:''' ''(scoffs)'' I thought you died on the john!\\
''(Myrtle has a WTF look on her face)''\\
'''Myrtle Keaton:''' Danforth, what's wrong?\\
'''Danforth Keaton:''' [[SarcasmMode Oh, nothing's wrong. Things are better than they've been in years. I just, uh, need a little help, is all.]]\\
'''Myrtle Keaton:''' [[CaptainObvious Danforth, you're handcuffed to the door]].\\
'''Danforth Keaton:''' [[DeadpanSnarker Aren't you the fucking genius.]] ''(laugh)'' Get me that hacksaw, will you?
** A few minutes later...
-->'''Keeton:''' ''(on phone to Gaunt, distraught)'' I killed my wife. Is that wrong? I didn't mean to.\\
'''Gaunt:''' ''(very {{affably|Evil}})'' Hey, these things happen.

** Then at the climax:
-->''(after Pangborn proclaims that Gaunt is finished, a shot suddenly rings out, hitting the Sheriff in the arm and knocking him to the ground)''
-->'''Gaunt:''' ''(with an evil mischievous smirk)'' Oops!\\
''(A deranged Dan Keaton suddenly comes out of the shop, armed with a sniper rifle)''\\
'''Danforth Keaton:''' If anybody's finished in this town, it's ''you'' Pangborn!\\
'''Gaunt:''' Finally, a man with some ''sense''.\\
'''Danforth Keaton:''' You guys sound like a fucking AA meeting! ''(puts down his rifle)'' "Hi, my name is Dan and I'm here to blow up--" ''(opens his coat to reveal a bomb vest)'' "--your fucking town!"
*** The TNT extended version changes the swear words to childish insults, making the above exchange even funnier.
-->'''Danforth Keaton:''' "Hi, my name is Dan and I'm here to blow up your stupid town!"\\
'''Danforth Keaton:''' ... it was you all along you scuz bucket!\\
'''Gaunt:''' Sticks and stones will break my bones but names will never hurt me!