Funny / Anne with an E

Season 1

Episode 1 - Your Will Shall Decide Your Destiny

• Marilla teaching Anne to say her nightly prayers. Anne truly wants to learn how in order to please Marilla, but also can't help but express how she would do it.
• Anne's second morning at the Cuthbert's, Marilla discovers Anne is not in her bed. She immediately jumps to the conclusion Anne has stolen something and checks the silverware. In reality, Anne has been awake well before dawn performing farm work, and was at that moment collecting eggs.
• Anne's apology to Rachel Lynde. Anne is purposefully overdramatic, which adds to her charm. Anne also inserts some direct insults and sarcasm again. In the end, even Marilla appears amused.
• Anne's way of thanking Marilla for making the dress is declaring it isn't as tight fitting as her other one. Marilla considers this an acceptable commendation.
• When Anne asks if the two of them could swear to be friends forever. Diana misinterprets what Anne means by "swear".
• Anne telling Marilla about her and Diana's time together. Anne blows a dandelion in the house, before Marilla can finish telling her not to.
  Anne: And then we sent our oath into the world. (brings dandelion to her mouth)
  Marilla: Not in the—
  Anne: (blows)

Episode 3 - But What is so Headstrong as Youth

• After Marilla returns from the sewing circle for "Progressive Mothers" Rachel has some choice things to say about the women's progressive opinions, to which Marilla replies with a zinger.
  Rachel: I suppose you all burnt your corsets and danced naked in the street!
  Marilla: We ran out of time.
  

Episode 4 - An Inward Treasure is Born

• Marilla, Matthew, and Jerry watching Anne singing and balancing on top of the chicken coup.
  Marilla: If she doesn't go back to school soon, you'll have to send us both to the looney bin.
• As Marilla leaves to visit Rachel, she reminds Anne about the pie in the oven, and gives Anne instructions to make sure it doesn't burn. Anne, however, is playing with a ladybug, and barely listening.
  Marilla: And you'll need to test the pie's doneness with a small knife.
  Anne: I will.
  Marilla: Watch the clock carefully, Anne. So as not to burn it.
  Anne: I will.
  Marilla: I don't want to return from Rachel's to find Green Gables a smouldering ruin.
  Anne: I will.
  Marilla: (annoyed) What?
  Anne: I mean I won't…I mean IT won't.
• When Anne and Jerry are talking in the barn, Anne is saying all sorts of Negative things about herself. Instead of insisting otherwise, Jerry outright agrees with her.
  Anne: I don't see how I'm going to make a good wife, quite frankly.
  Jerry: Probably not.
  Anne: I have such a bad temper.
  Jerry: True.
  Anne: And I'm dreadfully wicked, and impatient, and skinny, and homely. Don't say anything, Jerry!
  Jerry: (bits lower lip and continues working)
  • Anne presses Jerry to reveal what he wants to do, saying he could be a cartographer, aviator, or lead a safari. Jerry says he doesn't know what she means, and when Anne pushes Jerry to use his imagination, Jerry corrects her saying he doesn't know the words she is referring to (Jerry is French-Canadian).
• Anne's confrontation with Billy is both funny and Awesome.
• Ruby's infatuation with Gilbert, contrasted by Anne's disdain of him.

Episode 5 - Tightly Knotted to a Similar String

• Anne experiencing her first menstrual cycle. She frantically works to clean her bed sheets when Marilla finds her. Anne believes she is gravely ill, and goes into a melodramatic lament. Marilla has to assure the hysterical Anne she is not dying, and that this is a completely normal occurrence for women.
  • When Matthew rushes in, still half-asleep, but worried, is shooed away by Marilla. Upon seeing the bloody wash basin, he quickly takes his leave to the barn. Marilla's comments on this later are also in this category.
    Marilla: But poor Matthew had fled the house well before then.
    Rachel: You may not see him for a week.
    Marilla: If you see a suspicious character foraging in your garden, please feed him some supper.
• While Marilla and Rachel are preparing various jams and pickled foods, Marilla recollects that morning's drama, likening Anne's lamenting to Shakespeare. Also, Marilla jokes about why Rachel has 10 children.
  Rachel: I don't miss it. I'll say it out loud, I'd rather be pregnant than menstruating.
  Marilla: …That explains all the children.
  Both: (laughter)
• The girls at school discussing when they first began menstruating. Ruby begins to cry, admitting she hasn't started and that she isn't a woman. Anne quickly offers to give hers to Ruby.
  Ruby: (sobbing) I'm not a woman. Why don't I have it?
  Anne: Trust me If I could give you mine, I would. This is so inconvenient!
• The girls confusion as they watch the boys senselessly striking the trees.
• Anne's moodiness when she comes home from school. The look on Marilla's face portrays a "here we go" feeling.
• Matthew's initial attempt to inquire about a puff-sleeved dress for Anne. His shyness gets the better of him and he leaves the shop in a haste. Outside, he is greeted by the owners of the shoe shop next door and taken inside. Later, he exits with several pairs of shoes, either having been convinced to buy them, or too shy to decline.
  • Later that night, Marilla confronts him regarding the shoes.
• Anne mistaking currant wine for raspberry cordial, which she and Diana consume until gone, and drunkenly sing, dance, and play dress-up with Marilla's clothes.
• Anne requesting if they can arrive at church late, so everyone can see her wearing the dress Matthew bought her.

Episode 6 - Remorse Is the Poison of Life

• Marilla returning home to find Matthew asleep in a chair next to the fire.
• When Anne asks Marilla what the premier looked like, Marilla remarks he didn't become premier on the account of his looks.
• After Marilla tells Anne Mrs. Barry is allowing her and Diana to be friends again, Anne rushes out the door into the snow. Marilla calls for Anne to take a coat, so she quickly ducks back inside to grab it and her hat.
• Throughout the second half of the episode, Anne attempts to convince herself and those around her she is uninterested in romance.
  • This is evident Anne is speaking to herself in the clubhouse, attempting to stop thinking about Gilbert. When interrupted by Josephine, Anne attempts to assure her the issue has nothing to do with love. Josephine's grin suggests she is unconvinced.
  • When Diana, Ruby and Anne deliver the Shepherd's Pie to Gilbert, the former two compliment how good a cook Anne is. In response, Anne quickly states she'd be a terrible wife. Mortified, Anne flees, leaving the others confused.
• While Anne, Diana and Ruby make Gilbert a shepherd's pie, Anne begins to cry at the thought of losing a close friend, as Diana's aunt has. While this can be counted as a Tearjerker, it is made humorous when Diana's sister, Minnie May, says Anne is crying into the potatoes.

Season 2

Episode 5 - The Determining Acts of Her Life

• While wondering aloud about kissing, Anne quotes romantic phrases from Tennyson, then ruins the mood by saying, "Kissing reminds me more of a mother bird feeding its baby," in a disgusted tone.
  • When she asks Marilla and Matthew if they have ever kissed anyone, Matthew stutters, "I...I should, uh, barn."
• Anne, frustrated with her hair yet again, thinks to herself how nice it would be for hair to change like trees, having blossoms and bright leaves throughout Spring, Summer and Autumn. Then she looks up at the bare Winter trees.
  Anne: (Wide-eyed with horror) Never mind.

Episode 10 - The Growing Good of the World

• Matthew arrives back at the house with firewood and logs only to hear Marilla unleashing the seven bells of hell onto Rachel Lynde. Matthew, probably quite wisely, decides that he is most definitely not going inside, not while Marilla is on the warpath; he'll just sit outside on the porch. With the logs. He's almost knocked out by the door as Rachel storms off in a rage. As Rachel storms away, he just looks between her retreating form and the door that Marilla is behind and seems to be wondering which is the less dangerous of the two woman to deal with.
• Gilbert spies Anne and her friends hopping a freight. The expression on his face screams "I have to deal with this... but do I really want to know?"

Season 3

Episode 1 - A Secret Which I Desired to Divine

• Anne observing Marilla and Matthew eating their breakfast, and noticing for the first time how they have the exact same mannerisms: they butter their toast the same way, they hold up the toast and chew it in the same manner, they exchange brief sentences about the day's errands and "hmm-hmm" over them just like each other. The silly, lighthearted music that goes with this just makes the entire scene. Siblings indeed!
• Diana aggressively practising the piano when her parents shut down her complaints about finishing school. The song is best described as "Musical Angrish".
• Jerry's idea of helping Diana surprise Anne is to tell the latter that the former's parents are dead.
• Our first meeting of Winifred is her chattering cheerfully to one Mr. Bones...who turns out to be the skeleton model she is dusting. She has "Mr. Bones" put a hand on her scandalously at one point, to which she reacts with faux-outrage and then proceed to "flirt" back, until she gets interrupted by Gilbert.

Episode 2 - There is Something at Work in My Soul Which I Do Not Understand

• Matthew gives Miss Stacey a ride on the cart when she needs to get home. She, naturally, spends the entire journey chatting wildly away, and this happens several times during the episodes, and, each time, Matthew's expression is "Oh god, there's two Annes! I can only handle one! HELP ME!"
• Throughout all three seasons so far, the question from many people has been "how do you handle Rachel Lynde?" Miss Stacey provides the answer - cackle uncontrollably in her face when she's lecturing you until she storms off in a huff.

Episode 3 - What Can Stop the Determined Heart

• With Marilla and Anne tending to an ill Mary, Gilbert going to fetch Dr. Ward in Charlottetown, and Bash preparing for Easter, who has to sit baby Delphine? Matthew and Jerry.
  • To wit: the entire sequence begins with Matthew awkwardly and ever so carefully ascending the stairs with baby Delphine in his arms, so he could inform Marilla and Anne about the situation. And by carefully, I mean snail-paced and with two feet on one step before the next one, avoiding any jostling whatsoever.
  • As Marilla and Anne get ready to leave, they briskly explain to he needs to look after Delphine, both of them demonstrating an instinctive knowledge of Delphine's needs and essentials, while Matthew has a wide-eyed, near-panic expression on his face at this humongous responsibility.
  • Marilla and Anne go off to tend to Mary, and when Bash asks who's taking care of his baby, Marilla informs him that Matthew is doing so - and we cut to Matthew going about the farm with baby Delphine, pointing out various things and repeating their names to her. It's adorable and funny at the same time!
  • Jerry hears Matthew going about and goes to see him, cooing over the baby for a bit until he sniffs the air - Delphine needs a nappy change! They both panic momentarily before Jerry hops over the fence, saying that he'll show Matthew how to change Delphine's diaper. It's only a pity we don't get to see that adventure.
• Upon seeing Delphine in her fancy dress and flower crown, Minnie May remarks that she looks like a chocolate candy. The whole scene freezes, complete with Musicalis Interruptus, before everyone laughs it off.

Episode 5 - I Am Fearless and Therefore Powerful

• Miss Stacy takes the students out into the woods for a little field trip. It's interrupted when Moody screams and collapses, with a wound in his leg. A native boy behind the shrubbery pops up and screams in shock, with the rest of the students screaming back in their own shock. It's a tense scene because of Moody's injury, but the reactive yelling and the look on each side's faces is hilarious.
• Anne returns with Mi'kmaq medicine woman and their chief. Ruby faints again, and the Mi'kmaq chief asks Miss Stacy rather bluntly, "Who has died? My boy says someone has died." Miss Stacy looks confused for a moment.
  Miss Stacy: Uhh...no one's dead.
• Gilbert rambles to Bash about the Mi'kmaq's medicine woman's healing with the use of nature, something that is not taught in his medicinal textbooks. Bash watches on in amusement as Gilbert holds up a wooden spoon from the pot and continues to talk obliviously, getting stew everywhere.
  Gilbert: Makes you wonder, doesn't it, what else there is that we don't know.
  Bash: (smiling) I...don't know.
  Gilbert: Well neither do I, but I want to know.
  Bash: (still smiling) I can tell you one thing...you're dripping stew.
  Gilbert: (looks down to see stew from the spoon dropping onto his shoe)
• Ruby's mother makes the poor choice of telling her daughter that literally touching a boy will result in her simply becoming pregnant. Given that the class is spending their time dancing and touching each other, she panics and runs off crying as the girls follow after her. She tells them she fears may be pregnant now and they all could be as well. Cue Miss Stacy coming in to talk to them just the girl begin full-fledge panicking. Tillie looks at her hands and exclaims "Who's the father?!" and all the girls freaking out about their apparent motherhood and how such a thing could happen.
  • Cue an awkward Miss Stacy trying to discreetly explain how it takes a lot more than dancing for a female to become pregnant by a male.

Episode 6 - The Summit of My Desires

• Minnie May absolutely dominating the magnetic fishing game at the county fair. And by dominating, I mean holding up the line because she won't stop playing it. What absolutely tops the scene are Mr and Mrs Barry's reactions, with Mrs Barry growing a little bit exasperated while Mr Barry is totally ecstatic at all her wins, lining up the toys she's won on the side and cheering her on like he's watching a football game.
  Mrs Barry: Well done, sweetheart.
  Mr Barry: Utter domination!
• Muriel Stacy asks Matthew to dance, specifically because she knows that it will make Rachel "mad" after Muriel displayed no interest in her son. And, of course, because Muriel and Matthew are friends.
  • And Matthew demurs the invitation... until she points out that it will drive Rachel crazy.

Episode 8 - Great and Sudden Change

• The schoolchildren having mass panic attacks as they wait to take their exam. Highlights include Moody rambling and breathing in a paper bag, then one of the Pauls stealing said bag so he can Stress Vomit in it. Twice.
• Rachel and Marilla endeavour to get the Minister away from the rest of the town board so that Rachel can confront them about their recent actions. Marilla does so by asking him a very urgent theological question...why is it that bad things happen to good people?
  Minister: Ooh, I have a lengthy answer to that. (stands up) You've come to the right place you have! (gestures that they should go to another room) Volumes, Miss Cuthbert!

Episode 9 - A Dense and Frightful Darkness

• Josephine Barry sips from a cup of tea with an "Yeah, I fixed all the shit and I did it fabulously" expression on her face. It is as hilarious as it sounds.