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"Everybody's got a laughing place. Maybe this one is yours!"
A vulture seen just before the climb to the big drop on Splash Mountain
Sweet memories, thrilling rides, amazing shows, memorable meetings; you name it, the Disney theme parks got it. Of course, they also have their knack for gathering some laughs, too.

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Multiple Parks

  • Splash Mountain has its fair share of funny moments, such as the "How Do Ya' Do?" sequence with the geese trying to fish, but catching hats and boots instead.
  • Pirates of the Caribbean at both Disneyland and Walt Disney World features some pirates who are, quite frankly, drunk off their asses. You can even hear them butchering the theme song in places.
  • The real fun on the Jungle Cruise comes not from the animatronics or the scenery, but from all the bad puns and corny jokes your skipper dishes out.
  • The adventures of Push, the talking trash can.
  • Honey, I Shrunk the Audience highlights:
    • While waiting in a pre-show room, a series of slogans play on monitors along with the logos. Unfortunately, due to the Cue Card Pauses, they make the Imagination Institute appear incompetent and insane.
    Monitor: WE SHOULD ALL BE COMMITTED / TO BETTER LIVING THROUGH IMAGINATION
    Monitor: WE CAN'T THINK OF ANYTHING / MORE FUN THAN IMAGINATION
    Monitor: OUT OF OUR MINDS / AND INTO YOUR WORLD
    Monitor: WE DON'T KNOW ANYTHING / THAT CAN'T BE IMAGINED
    • Alternatively, Tokyo Disneyland had a straight-up preshow film in which the attendants do indeed seem to be quite inept, while Dr. Nigel Channing is interviewed by a reporter who questions if the Imagination Institute is Tempting Fate by honoring Wayne, given that his inventions previously miniaturized several children and turned a baby into a giant who "almost destroyed Las Vegas!"
    • When the ceremony begins, an illuminated sign reading "INVENTOR OF THE YEAR AWARD" drops from the ceiling. Wayne crashes into the sign with his Hoverpod and knocks out most of the letters in such a way that only "NERD" can be lit.
    Channing: The professor certainly knows how to make an entrance! Not to mention an exit. (To aide) Get that man back here immediately!
    • After Nick (miniaturized along with the audience) calls up to Diane that his pet python is now slithering loose, she passes out with a thud. Dr. Nigel Channing bends down into view to ask: "She didn't land on anyone, did she?"
    • Nick's aside to the audience: "You'd think I'd be used to this by now..."
    • Pretty much all of Adam's hijinks, culminating in him picking up the auditorium to "show the little people to my mom!" And since like any toddler he's rather possessive, the grown-ups have to talk him into and through the very delicate process of putting it back exactly where it was before ("Otherwise the exits won't line up!").
    • The punchline: Wayne gets the audience back to size, but in the process... "Honey, I did— I blew up the dog!" The curtain closes on the chaos, but then Quark pokes through it and sneezes on the audience! (And as they leave the theater, there's audible commotion going on behind the curtain as everybody else tries to get him in hand.)
  • In It's Tough to Be a Bug!, Flik having to apologize for the termite's act going awry: "I hope none of you guys are allergic to acid..."
  • In Star Tours: The Adventures Continue:
    • During the "Vader" opening:
    Darth Vader: We know you have a Rebel spy on board!
    C-3PO: Why, that's preposterous! I've never seen that man/woman before in my... (turns around and realizes that the spy is one of the riders) ...oh dear.
    • At the end of the "Naboo" ending, C-3PO tries to land the Starspeeder into a hangar but has no idea where the brakes are, in a Call-Back to Captain Rex from the original attraction. He ends up making the ship smash directly into a Naboo ship, with the tip smashing through the window and into the audience. The pit droid on the ship is not happy about this. Made even better by his comment when the pit droid falls off. "No, I did not give you permission to come aboard."
    • The other Naboo ending, as well. Riders who've been on this ride before assume it'll end like the above... only for the tip of the Naboo ship to not break through the windshield, and instead fall off. The pit droid then angrily tosses a bucket of yellow paint on to your ship's windfield before storming off, with C-3PO being offended by the droid's rudeness.
    • Chewbacca gets stuck to the windshield at one point in the "Kashyyyk" segment.
  • Any video featuring the Mad Hatter and Alice or any character from Alice in Wonderland around the park.
  • Stitch in the non-American attraction Stitch Encounter;note  the cute and mischievous alien can now interact with you (and make fun of you) in this marvelous attraction.
  • Muppet*Vision 3D, being based on a classic franchise with no shortage of such moments, is naturally full of them:
    • First off is Statler and Waldorf's heckling, as expected. Made even better since they're live animatronics in this show!
    Statler: Hey, hey look! Look at the guy in the Goofy mask!
    Waldorf: That's not a mask.
    Statler: Oh...sorry lady!

    Waldorf: (To Fozzie) Hey bear, you're not even funny in 3D!
    Fozzie: Oh, not you guys. How did you get here?
    Waldorf: We entered a contest.
    Statler: Yeah, we lost!

    Statler: He's trying to drown us! What kind of act is that?
    Waldorf: An act of mercy!
    • As Kermit introduces the labs, he describes it as a "modern, high tech facility" only for ironing board to spring down from the wall at that exact moment.
    • Kermit also claims that they will not "resort to using cheap 3D tricks". An all-too-excited Fozzie immediately walks into frame to show off all the cheap 3D tricks to the audience, which includes a noisemaker, a can of spring loaded worms, and squirting flower which even the audience suffers the effects of.
    • Beaker suffering Amusing Injuries as they work the machine to produce their new 3D effects. He gets absolutely ravaged by the machine's gears, all the while Dr. Honeydew doesn't really seem to notice.
    • After a fallout with Miss Piggy and Sam, Bean decides he's going to run away. He tells that to Gonzo, who ends up a little slow on the uptake:
    Gonzo: Hey Bean, what's up?
    Bean: I'm going away. Forever!
    Gonzo: Oh great! Could you get me a sandwich? (to audience) Would any of you people like anything? I mean since he's going out, he could- FOREVER!?
    • Then during the small...err, massive and show stopping musical number, the 3D effect that Honeydew and Beaker produced earlier known as Waldo comes in and terrorizes the show, causing everyone to have a panic attack and scream to stop the show. We then cut to the Swedish Chef trying desperately to shoot Waldo away from the back of the theater, to little success. Just as Waldo taunts him by shapeshifting into a giant target, the Chef proceeds to pull out a giant cannon and absolutely ravages the entire theater, not only causing damage to all the walls around it but even creating a hole in the screen big enough for Kermit to drive a firetruck through!

Disneyland Park

  • The inimitable Wally Boag, as the fast talking traveling salesman, from the Golden Horseshoe Review. A recording can be watched here.
  • At the Royal Theatre, a comedic duo known as Mr. Smythe and Mr. Jones performs plays of Tangled and Beauty and the Beast with help from Rapunzel, Flynn, and Belle. Hilarity ensues. For starters, Rapunzel refuses to let down her hair because it takes forever to braid, and Mr. Smythe assures Belle that Mr. Jones doesn't need any stage magic to act as dumb as Gaston.
  • Goofy Visits Disneyland in The Art of Vacationing, 2 and a half minutes of pure genius, exactly what you'd expect from the clumsy dog himself, and a mascot one no less. All written in the style of his classic "The Art of..." shorts.
  • Some captains of the Storybook Land Canal Boats will give an explanation as to why Monstro the Whale acts like a tunnel. Apparently, he sneezed so hard, his tail blew right off.
  • Darth Vader Goes to Disneyland. The updated Star Tours hadn't opened yet, though, so Lord Vader and his Stormtroopers try to find ways to kill time until then, to the accompaniment of a twinkly remix of "The Imperial Theme". When they return and the attraction STILL isn't open, Vader basically says "screw this" and opens the doors to the attraction using the Force.
  • This video of the villains celebrating Halloween.
    • Related to the above: since 2009, there have been commercials for Halloween at the Disneyland Resort in which the villains have supposedly taken over for the duration. Particularly priceless is a moment where Captain Hook rides the Ghost Galaxy version of Space Mountain.
  • Like the movie that inspired it, the Sleeping Beauty Castle Walkthrough ends with a storybook showing a picture of Aurora dancing with Philip, while wearing a dress that changes colors between pink and blue. Unlike the corresponding scene in the movie, you can actually hear the fairies argue, "Make it pink!" and, "Make it blue!" as the colors change.
  • A 1996 VHS of the Main Street Electrical Parade, sold during the "Farewell Season", contains Book Ends from Cinderella. Despite the glamor and grace usually associated with a Disney Princess, she slips a snide remark about her ugly stepsisters when she shows the viewers around the performers' makeup room:
    Everyone is putting on their best face. Some people are having a harder time than others! Oh, they try and they try, but I'm afraid they'll never get it right!

California Adventure (Disneyland Resort)

Hong Kong Disneyland

  • In the ride Big Grizzly Mountain Runaway Mine Cars you can see a bear scratching his back (which bears are known to do) against a lever which, depending on your personal and mental POV, is placed too low (down near his rear end) and looks like he's having a bit too much fun; there's also a father bear and his bear cub trying to cook salmon they caught — with dynamite.
  • Mickey and the Wondrous Book has, halfway through the show, Olaf casually walking around headless while Goofy tries to persuade Mickey that everything is fine and Olaf still has his head.

Walt Disney Studios Park (Paris)


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