''The Holy Mountain'' is weird, scary, shocking, trippy and disturbing...and funny.

* The piece of propaganda that Sel uses to demonize Peruvians is a reskin of the first issue of Main/CaptainMarvel from 1968 titled "CAPTAIN CAPTAIN Fights the Peruvian Monster!" Complete with dramatic music.
* When the heroes are burning their money to symbolize the sacrifice of worldly attachments, the Thief notices a couple bills that were left unburned and tries to fish them back. After he's called out by the Alchemist, he sheepishly pulls out a couple bills he secretly hid away in his sleeves as everyone laughs.
-->'''The Alchemist:''' '''RRAGGH!!''' THIEF! If you do not want to die, then kill your money!
* The Pantheon Bar, where the main characters are tempted by worldly desires, fake spirituality and cheap entertainment, is full of this.
** The "bar" itself is just a massive dance party in the middle of a Mexican cemetery.
** A phony poet says that the real holy mountain is in his words, saying that his poems attract bees as if they were honey. He accidentally has a hand swarming with ''flies.''
-->'''Isla:''' Our bees make honey, but your flies make shit.
** The Pantheon Bar also hosts a man clearly stoned out of his gourd, preaching how [[FauxSymbolism all of religion is based on drugs.]] He happily forces a bunch of his pills down the throat of his female assistant - whom he thinks is a young man.
-->'''The Drug Master:''' The cross...was a mushroom. And the mushroom was also...the tree of good and evil. The philosophical stone of the alchemists...was...LSD! The Book of the Dead...is a trip! And the apocalypse describes...mescaline experience! ''(Swallows his pills and looks absolutely blasted)''
** The [[HuskyRusskie strong]] [[LargeHam man]] who claims that he can teleport through solid matter. Which he does. With cartoony sound-effects. He brags about being able to cross the Holy Mountain in less than a minute. When he's asked about [[ArmorPiercingQuestion how long it will take]] for him to reach the summit, he says that he can only go side-to-side instead of bottom-to-top. It ''still'' doesn't defeat his ego. This is enough to make the protagonists [[ScrewThisImOuttaHere give up on the Pantheon Bar.]]
-->'''Strong Man''': I have conquered the Holy Mountain horizontally! Horizontally! I am a champion! I am a champion!
* The protagonists finally ascend the Holy Mountain and confront the wise men that live atop it, only to find out that they are all dummies and that one of them is the Alchemist himself. Instead of being distraught or enraged, everyone treats it like a prank and have a great laugh about it - including the Alchemist himself.
* The Alchemist's final speech, where he declares that the entire experience was nothing more than a [[NoFourthWall film,]] shouting "ZOOM BACK, CAMERA!" The camera zooms back, revealing the entire sound and stage crew before the Alchemist flips over the table.
-->'''The Alchemist''': Goodbye to the Holy Mountain. Real life awaits us.