This marvelous moment, which sets the tone for the season:
Benedict: Is our dear sister still not ready?
Francesca:[excitedly] Oh, she's only been readying herself the entire night.
Eloise:[tartly] You mean her entire life.
Colin:[rolls his eyes] I shall run upstairs and hasten her along.
Benedict: No, Colin, wait — I'll do it.
Colin: She likes me much better than you, Benedict.
Benedict: Did she say that?
Colin:Everybody says that.
Eloise:[sighs in annoyance and stomps over to the bottom of the stairs] DAPHNE!YOUMUST. MAKE. HASTE![beat] Should you think she heard me?
When Penelope and Marina are discussing Marina's pregnancy, Penelope, who is too sheltered to know where babies come from, asks how it happened. Marina's first answer? "Cake." Penelope, who had been eating a piece of cake as she said it, gives her snack a horrified look, clearly afraid that it's going to get her pregnant.
Likewise, when Penelope confides in Eloise that she knows an unmarried woman who is pregnant. Eloise, much like Penelope, was unaware that such a thing was even possible. This results in a hysterical Eloise rushing home and demanding an explanation. She accuses Benedict and Colin, correctly, of knowing the truth about this.
Benedict: Do not look at me.
Colin: Have you ever visited a farm, El?
Benedict:[reaches around Eloise to smack Colin upside the head while Eloise grimaces in frustration]
Even better is Colin cheerfully declaring that, far from discussing anything "inappropriate", Benedict and he were just leaving to "go take our sticks out".
Made all the more hilarious in that Violet knows damn well he's full of it, but she can't scold them any further due to the innocent ears in the room.
The way Simon's urgent run to rescue Daphne from Lord Berbrooke changes is comical all by itself. It starts quick and dashing... and then he sort of stutters to a gentle jog as the lady saves her own damn self and knocks the creepy lech out. By the time he's come to a halt, his body language screams, "Well... I did not see that coming."
Lady Danbury allowing Benedict to disparage a work of art they're looking at - while they're standing next to the artist. The amused expression on her face and then her sweetly and sarcastically asking the artist why his painting wasn't "skyed" (while Benedict trips all over himself to apologize) is the cherry on top.
Benedict: You diabolical - How could you let me rattle on like that?!
Lady Danbury: How could I not, my dear Mr. Bridgerton? It was riotously funny, you must admit.
Daphne cannot sleep and decides that she wants some warm milk. Anthony offers to call a servant to get it for her. She declines and invites him to come with her to the kitchen where they can make it themselves. Except that it turns out that neither of them has any idea how to light the stove and they simply stand there staring at it as if it were some incomprehensible machine...
In one scene, Eloise suggests to a maid that Lady Whistledown is one of them. The maid's response is to burst into hysterical laughter, pointing out that 1) the staff is far too busy to get their workload done while running an operation like Lady Whistledown's and 2) if they made the kind of money Whistledown makes of her paper, they wouldn't be working as domestic staff, and bluntly telling Eloise to Get Out!.
Daphne's ridiculously awkward laugh-snort (or snort-laugh, it's honestly hard to tell) is funny. Her doing it in front of the Queen and Prince Friedrich? Hilarious. Then she does it again and even Simon cracks up.
"How does one manage to make such an unbecoming sound while laughing?"
When Anthony tells Benedict to go and dance with Daphne.
Benedict: Why?
Anthony: Because I told you to.[Benedict sulks over to Daphne, looking mutinous]
The three elder Bridgerton brothers greeting Lady Danbury in unison after trying unsuccessfully to escape her notice at the ball.
Season Two
The normally unflappable Lady Danbury's reaction to the sight of Newton the corgi, in her home, sitting on her furniture.
Lady Danbury: Not my chair!
After Eloise unintentionally impresses Queen Charlotte, Benedict asks Anthony (who has stated his determination to marry the season's chosen "diamond") what his plan will be if the Queen picks Eloise. AKA his sister.
Anthony: Hush, you!
On arrival at Lady Danbury's ball, Anthony complains about the stock of ladies present to Violet, who then shamelessly announces (very loudly) that this is the year he finally intends to find a wife which instantly gets the attention of every lady in earshot. Anthony can only stammer in disbelief at his mother having just thrown him to the wolves before she leaves him to his fate, being swarmed by debutantes who home in on him like predators scenting blood.
After Anthony shows up with a horse as a gift for Edwina:
Anthony seeks help from his family to win over Edwina and Kate.
Daphne: Fear not, Anthony. Seeing as though you were such a help to melast season, it would only be fair of me to return the favor. Anthony: Is that a promise or a threat? Daphne: Hmmm.
All of the Bridgerton siblings, including married mother and literal duchess Daphne Basset and stick-in-the-mud titled viscount Anthony Bridgerton, are so competitive over a game of pall-mall that they quickly become hilariously childish. The highlight is the selection of mallets.
The following line from Lady Danbury during the Pall Mall Match: "Send it, send it!"
Lady Bridgerton and Lady Danbury are quite shamelessly eavesdropping at doors in Aubrey Hall as part of their conspiracy to see Anthony and Edwina matched. Eloise comes walking through and catches the two of them at it.
Eloise: Do I really wish to know? [Beat] Do not answer that.
When Daphne brings her baby, Augie, and Violet hands him to Eloise, Augie suddenly wails. When Colin immediately steps in, Augie instantly calms down.
Colin gets Benedict high on some foreign tea that doesn't wear off until evening, resulting in Benedict painting while high and expressing to Colin that established standards for art don't matter... and then he promptly gets an acceptance letter to art school, opens a window, and proclaims his talent for all the estate to hear. In response, a dog, quite possibly Newton, barks.
Benedict's very amused reaction to Kate calling Anthony out for assuming she can't hunt as he continues to Dig Himself Deeper. Benedict quickly drops his smirk when Anthony turns to him.
Anthony is going on about how Benedict and Colin get to do whatever they want, while he, as the firstborn, has his duties to fulfill. Benedict cuts him off.
Benedict: Tell me, dear brother, once you marry, will your duty finally be fulfilled so you can stop reminding everyone of it? Anthony: I believe the reminders are also my duty, so no.
In the last episode, the Queen muses that she might set Edwina up with Prince Friedrich. The camera cuts to Cressida (whom the prince had more or less rejected last season) overhearing this exchange and scowling.
In episode 5, unable to contain his jealousy, Anthony attempts to outshine Thomas Dorset in courting Kate. When he lingers his hand on Kate's after helping her getting out of the boat, she suddenly snatches her hand away and he trips over Newton the corgi, causing him and Dorset to plunge into the lake. Edwina, Penelope, Colin, including Kate herself, and some figures in the back can barely hold themselves up from chuckling.
Then Edwina and Kate see that Anthony's shirt goes transparent when wet and look on with identical expressions.
Lady Danbury and Lady Violet breaking down in hysterical laughter over how awfully the wedding is going, how terrified they are of the Queen, and the peacocks.
Queen Charlotte, exasperated with all the flattery people shower her with, wonders aloud if anyone can ever think of anything else to say. Then, upon consideration:
Queen Charlotte:[smugly] Well, it is the obvious choice.
In episode 7, upon visiting a museum, when Kate walks past Anthony, he lustfully inhales her lilies scent. Catching him up, Lady Danbury clears her throat.
This is of course not two minutes into the first interaction after he and Kate promised it wouldn't be a problem for them to keep their feelings hidden in public.
After the failed wedding, where even being seated next to each other is enough for them to make their mutual attraction painfully clear to everyone present...including Edwina.
" (while Benedict trips all over himself to apologize) is the cherry on top.Benedict: You diabolical - How could you let me rattle on like that?!Lady Danbury: How could I not, my dear Mr. Bridgerton? It was riotously funny, you must admit.