Funny / Dream SMP: Season Four

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The Freefall Arc

• While the moment was very stressful, it's a little funny that Phil's book of advice that he told Tommy to open only in the most dire of circumstances consisted entirely of a quote that sounds like it was lifted right off a motivational poster.
• Perhaps the only comedic moment during Dream's first lore video of 2022 is him referring to Phil as "pretty old" and saying that he doesn't have much time left anyway.
• "The Wilbur Van"^* Wilbur's short story dating back to presumably the Las Nevadas Era of Season 3 has quite a few goofy incidences:
  • A Fridge Funny Moment happens the first Act of the story, 'The view from the bottom of the ladder', where it's noted that a king cobra "almost brought a sour end to the efforts" Wilbur was making towards handling his burger van. Other than a king cobra being blatantly out of place where the story is set, its behaviour is also unusual in that they are typically a very placid and non-aggressive (albeit still venomous) species and tend to avoid humans in general. This begs the question: what did Wilbur do to make the king cobra mad at him?
  • In Act Two, 'Horseplay', Wilbur gets snarky about Quackity's skeleton horse while trying to kidnap him to, in Tumblr terms, put him in the plinko machine:
    Quackity’s horse ‘Boner’ obliviously chewed old carpet across the room from them, completely unaware he was about to be detonated because he is a horse that cannot speak English.
  • Act 3, Hitting on 16', involves Wilbur and Quackity pinning each other to the floor in a fistfight. That's not funny.^* That's fruity. What is funny is when you keep in mind the two's height difference — if the characters have the same height as their content creator counterparts, that would be a ten-inch height difference. See here for yourself.
• Tubbo's Father's Quest to rescue his son Michael alongside Technoblade (and later Eret) features several laughs.
  • Tubbo questioning Eret about Michael:
    Tubbo: (calmly) Hey, I'm currently going through the Five Stages of Grief, so please be mindful. On that note, where the fuck is my child?
  • Sam's "attempt" to justify his kidnapping of Michael_Beloved (which is probably only a partial truth, admittedly) is met with this response:
    Technoblade: Okay, listen, shut up + you kidnapped a baby + ratio. Tubbo, what are we doing with him?
  • During their interrogation, Sam casually kills a horse because it was making noise, much to the chagrin of everyone involved. This includes Tubbo, who at the time was working with two people who had killed him in the past.
    Techno: This guy's a supervillain!
    Eret: He's insane!
    Tubbo: (to Techno) I thought you were the bad guy! Fuck me!
    Techno: I know, right!?
  • Techno, Tubbo, and Eret's attempt to trap Sam in Pandora's Vault is constantly opposed by the fact that they need Sam to explain how the prison's systems work. When they finally do manage it, he points out that the key cards they were using are now expired, meaning that they're stuck there too (or they would be, had they not brought some TNT along).
    • The timing for the key-cards' expiration was at least planned on Sam's part in an attempt for passive resistance (or a non-lethal version of Taking You with Me), as revealed in his follow-up livestream, but hey, it's the thought that counts.
• Later from Sam's perspective while being stuck in prison, Dream ends up being his first visitor, whose first response is laughing at how the tables had turned and declaring it the best day of his life... and making the prison his base of operations while promising to fix the security holes in the prison from when Sam was the Warden and to rename the jail "Idiotville". Bad as it may be to be siding with the guy who shamelessly abused a child and cannonballed past the MEH on this, but the Dramatic Irony in retrospect makes it pretty funny.
  • Meanwhile, during that time, almost all of Sam's chat (which is canonized, by the way) was mocking about how Dream was homeless due to his "need" to use Pandora's Vault as his base.
  • When Dream leaves, he promises to get Sam some food the next day... before saying that he'd be delivering fish or dog kibble in a package. One can't help but get the feeling that he's paying Sam back for almost a year of eating nothing but raw potatoes... only with a nasty heaping of classic Dream-style dehumanization, so let's call that Black Comedy for now.

The Counteraction Era

• In trying to appeal to Eret to get them to teach him about the history of the SMP, Eryn bribes them with the Warden's Access key card — as in it was actually signed by Sam, as opposed to a copy he made. While this in itself as an Offscreen Moment of Awesome, given that the former owner of the key card should have been Dream of all people, it's Eret's reaction that sells it as a Funny Moment.
  Eret: I mean, I'm not gonna question where it came from. [...] I'm going to assume that this was gotten through unscrupulous means, but... as a museum curator, I don't care. Alright, let's go for the tour!
• Tommy, after being off the server for a while, logs on when he finds out BadBoyHalo had wronged him by messing up the Prime Path. The stream is filled with several notable moments:
  • Upon returning to the server, Tommy finds himself without any items or equipment, and immediately starts trying to recall when he last was on the SMP. It doesn't take long before he spouts this gem over his predicament:
    Tommy: Naked, afraid, poggers.
  • Tommy sees that the only other person online at the time is Captain Puffy, leading to this exchange in the chat:
    TommyInnit: Pussy Hole
    TommyInnit: I might need you soon
    TommyInnit: Stay on eyes watching
    CaptainPuffy: damn the UK schooling system really failed you huh
    CaptainPuffy: alrighty!
    • Tommy then gets annoyed at Puffy's response... only to immediately get distracted by a sign in the sky that says "WOMENx3"
      Tommy: Hello, hello...
  • Later on, while rebuilding the Prime Path, the two of them find Technoblade randomly going down the path... riding a pig. Tommy immediately drops what he's doing to put on some epic music and spends the next few minutes taking cinematic shots of Techno until the path runs out at Skeppy's house.
    Philza: Is he just fucking trolling you?
    Puffy: Yeah, he's just slowly riding a pig down the path.
    • Yes, everyone stopped what they were doing to watch Technoblade majestically riding a pig into someone's house.
      Tommy: Techno, have you seen the Prime Path?
      Technoblade: Uh... no, I must have missed it.

The Detachment Era

• Wilbur and Tubbo's 'invasion' of Boomerville on 29 April 2022 is... comical, to say the least.
  • The first thing the two did was just grief the signs (presumably) Lazar left to make it seem like he wanted others on the server to visit the place instead of leaving it. Most particularly, Wilbur asks Tubbo to change the signs above the two residents' house door to read '"Come", "Come"' instead of '"LEAVE", "LEAVE"' like it originally did... except Tubbo edited it to read the other spelling of the word that is much less family friendly, prompting Wilbur to crack up immediately.
  • After that, their attempts at griefing would be minor inconveniences and annoyances at best, mainly with them covering up the windows and doors with cobblestone (and Wilbur breaking a window pane), and waiting to see if the residents would log back on and take the place back. Sadly, this ends up falling into Innocently Insensitive (or heck, Tear Jerker) territory as the two aforementioned members of Boomerville are dead (and have been for over a year), but it's kind of funny out of context.
  • What makes this a slight bit funnier is that BoomerNA had logged on in the background during this time.
• Wilbur's 19 May 2022 livestream "My Own Judas" caused a large division in terms of fandom reactions immediately after it, but the one indisputably funny moment was him confirming the theory that Quackity brought the scorpions into Las Nevadas deliberately.
  Wilbur: Did you know Quackity had brought scorpions into Las Nevadas? Like, who makes a desert and goes, "Oh yeah, it needs, y'know, it needs more scorpions. Needs more fucking dangerous arachnids. That's what it needs." He's a crazy man, he's a crazy man. He's– he was just crawling around in the sand looking for scorpions, just to put them in his fake desert. He's bad– it's bad. It's a bad fake desert, may I remind you. It's not even– it doesn't even serve its proper purpose.
• Three days later, Wilbur's livestream "Into Pogtopia" features him meeting Fundy again in the Pogtopia ravine. The awkwardness that comes in with the Heartwarming is very apparent... just remember that it gets better before it gets worse.
  • When Wilbur finds Fundy in Pogtopia, he was hanging out near a hole in the wall with a sign placed in front of the hole, next to a chest. While Fundy destroys the sign later and claims he was in Pogtopia to admire his prank work with the buttons, a Freeze-Frame Bonus reveals that the sign read, most likely labeling to the items in the chest, "fundy's loot from raiding this stupid place lol suckers".
  • While walking back from Pogtopia, one of the father-son bonding "activities" Wilbur suggests was teaching Fundy how to hunt... as in the pacifist, Non-Action Guy father teaching his fox son how to hunt. Something isn't adding up there...
  • Following up on that, by hunting, Wilbur meant "cow-tipping", i.e. using fishing rods and gravity to kill a pen of seemingly random cows on the way back to the Greater SMP proper. For the record, that was the cow pen Quackity previously built with his (then?) Fiancés.
  • After Fundy refers to Dream as a "Green Fuck", Wilbur said that he was "cool" since he brought him back, and they end up calling Dream a "Green".
  • While passing one of the towers next to the ruins of L'Manburg, the two come across two zombies in a boat, tucked under an alcove for some reason. Wilbur said to ignore them, as they were in a relationship together.
  • The two end up going fishing by the nearby dock (like back in early Season 2, with Wilbur in his spectral form?)... then the second fish Wilbur manages to catch... just so happens to be a salmon.
    Fundy: What was that?
    (Beat as Wilbur pointedly stares at the salmon in his inventory)
    Fundy: What was that, Wilbur?
    (Beat)
    Wilbur: (while throwing the salmon back into the sea) Hey, Fundy, I think I remember why we don't go fishing anymore. Uh... just throw it all away.
  • After the fishing fiasco, Wilbur gets Fundy to play catch... but then Wilbur's first throw falls extremely short, and during Fundy's first turn to make the throw, Wilbur ends up backing up and falling into the L'Manburg crater (thankfully on a ledge and not all the way down). And then when Fundy's first throw ends with the Ender Pearl landing in a pond, Wilbur tries to use a stick to pull the "ball" to him, even though that only works in real life and not in Minecraft. The entire scene is simply so awkward that the content creators were very clearly trying to stop themselves from corpsing on the spot.
    • Immediately following that, while talking to Fundy about playing that with his "friends" in Las Nevadas, Wilbur throws the Ender Pearl into the wall of the crater. It's made less awkward by Fundy Ender-Pearling after him, but still.
• On the same day as "Into Pogtopia", during Foolish's livestream, it's revealed that cc!Quackity had somehow got locked out of his Minecraft account and is unable to recover it for the next thirty days at the very least. This has led to him logging onto the server on an alt-account... KyleHQ, allegedly Quackity the character's son (while c!Quackity was dubiously deceased somehow), who was presently in court defending his legitimacy while high on drugs.
  • First, this raises the question altogether of when or how Kyle was conceived in the first place, and how old Kyle even was. This also carries the ambiguously canonical implication that Kyle's older sibling was a whole chunk of land (El Rapids, anyone?)... if this conversation was canonical at all.
  • This has also led to a conversation about what c!Quackity used to do. While Sam mentioned El Rapids in passing, Tina loudly declared that he "had some boyfriends". Kyle starts laughing about how his father "was a hoe", while Sam chimes in and declares that "Quackity really did leave behind an amazing legacy". Bear in mind that 1) Kyle is played by cc!Quackity, and 2) how ironic is that the Legacy Seeker's legacy was not the nation he established, but his plethora of past lovers and for being the resident manwhore of the server.
  • And when Tina starts insulting Quackity's inability to keep his fiancés around (with Foolish joining in) at some point in the livestream, cc!Quackity takes advantage of how he couldn't use his main Minecraft account to log on as his character (via the alleged "death" of cc!Quackity in a previous stream) to defend his character's lore, sputtering a bit, then ends up going into Lawyer Mode and objecting to their claims with courtroom terminology.
• Wilbur's final lore stream, "Boundless Sands", features quite a few laughs in the send-off to his character arc.
  • When Wilbur attempts to get Tommy to recite his "Las Nevadas" poem from "The Wilbur Van", Tommy responds, in classic TommyInnit fashion:
    Tommy: "I am the gilding of the gold", I sold my balls on the black market. 8.99 a testicle.
  • Wilbur and Tommy breaking into Tubburger through the windows "for old times' sake" and vandalize both the restaurant and other parts of Las Nevadas. Wilbur's justification? Quackity's a capitalist.
    Wilbur: Pretend is the bourgeoisie, because it is!
  • The Reveal of Wilbur being from Utah of all places, mainly due to how out of the blue it is. As well as the fact that he sailed to the Dream SMP from there... as in, from a landlocked state. Now add his (semi-joking) hatred for Americans...

The Denouement Arc

• The "Las Nevadas" finale has its fair share of funny moments in spite of being a mostly serious livestream:
  • Chapter 2, "Open and Closed", starts with the dramatic clip of the Las Nevadas advertisement as seen in The Stinger of the previous episode (at the end of Season 3)... then cut to Quackity making the grand speech in front of a total audience of literally three people, one of whom (Skeppy) isn't even part of the country. Then after that, cut to Quackity ranting about how embarrassing that moment was due to its small audience to Foolish... in the Among Us-themed bunker.
    • During the rant, Foolish suggests to populate the country even more, most likely implying to recruit more people. The first thing that Quackity's mind jumps to, however, is raising children from infanthood. Which begs the question — where was he thinking the babies would come from?
  • When Dream, Purpled, and Charlie all have Quackity cornered in the casino, cue a rumbling sound from after Foolish pressed an Emergencies-only button behind glass. Cut to the slime army that Quackity spent three months training swarming out of an iron door, into Las Nevadas proper, and entering the casino through the giant hole blown in its front side.
    • And following this, Quackity ender-pearls in front of the slime army and commands an attack.
      Quackity: FUCK YOU, MOTHERFUCKERS!

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