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  • The way Hannigan conducts the girls during the second round of "We love you, Miss Hannigan!"
  • Hannigan mocking Molly.
    Miss Hannigan: Where's Annie?
    Molly: She had to go bathroom.
    Miss Hannigan: *troll voice* She hadda go bathroom!
  • Heck, Miss Hannigan in general, since she spends much of the movie very tipsy, constantly getting her foot stomped on by the orphans (and even Lily during the song "Easy Street") and bumping into walls and such.
  • Just about any scene with Warbucks, in general, could be considered funny. Even in his first scene, where he mistook the official photographer for a Paparazzo and smashed his camera while yelling at the top of his voice!
    • Special attention should go to the scene where he no-sold a bomb crashing into his office.
    • "DID I JUST DO A COMMERCIAL?!"
    • Remarking that a million dollars was "a lot of money" when he was a boy. In the 1930s. It just gets funnier the more time passes.
    • Shouting, "Turn the kitchen light off!" in the "Let's Go to the Movies" song.
  • The "Little Girls" song has nonsensical lyrics like "Someday I'll step on their freckles". Also, there's "Someday I'll straighten their curls", which won't exactly get rid of them and besides most of them have straight hair!
  • Miss Hannigan sings, "I guess I'll never know the feeling/Of running fingers through your hair" to Daddy Warbucks—who's famously bald.
  • When Warbucks tells Miss Hannigan at the front door of the orphanage that he wants to adopt Annie, Miss Hannigan calmly asks "Would you excuse me for a moment?" and withdraws inside. What follows is a scream that sounds like she's being disembowelled and a priceless 'WTF' look on Warbucks's face.
  • Both funny and awesome is when Miss Hannigan pushes her way through a tight ring of police and firemen simply to belt Rooster in the head with her handbag, complete with a growl of "Rooster, you rrrrrrrrrrrrreprobate!". Judging by the way he slumped bonelessly to the floor, it was a knockout hit as well.
  • At the very end of the Camille sequence, we're shown the final Tear Jerker scene of the classic film, with Marguerite dying in Armand's arms. As the music swells into its grand final chords, the camera pans to show the audience's reactions. Grace is crying, Warbucks is shaken and biting his nails... and Annie and Sandy are both fast asleep. Also, the sheer dark humor of everyone singing "Only happy endings..." in the song "Let's Go to the Movies," only for the movie in question to be Camille.
  • The cook Mrs. Pugh's description of Warbucks's favorite meal: Texas grapefruit, Virginia ham, Idaho potatoes, Wisconsin cheese, Washington apples, and Baked Alaska. Then, when Warbucks reveals he'll be too busy for a sit-down dinner, he requests just an American cheese sandwich: even when he's absorbed in work, his taste in food is still patriotic!
  • When Warbucks announces his donation of fifty-thousand dollars cash to Annie's parents, Miss Hannigan who is listening to him on the radio drops off-screen in a dead faint.


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