Funny / Euphoria

Despite Euphoria being known for being a dramatic series, it also has its fair share of funny moments as well.

Season 1

Pilot

• Some pitch-black humor in a flashback when Leslie attempts to comfort a young Rue who has recently been diagnosed with a variety of mental illnesses, depression being among them. She says that several successful famous people had/have depression like Vincent van Gogh, Sylvia Plath, and Britney Spears, all accompanied with brief cuts to the former two's suicides and the latter's infamous publicized breakdown.
• When Jules learns of Kat's virginity, her surprised reaction is:
  Jules: "Bitch, this isn't the 80's, you need to catch a dick!"
• While most of the partygoers' are in utter shock when Jules defends herself from Nate with a knife, Rue simply stares at her with intrigue and excitedly goes off to introduce herself.

Stuntin' Like My Daddy

• Right after getting out of Rehab, Rue asks if Jules wanna get high with her. After that, they get high, and we see a hallucination scene. What's happening during the hallucination scene is their faces being close to one another.
• One person at school confusedly asks Rue about how she's still alive after her overdose over the summer, much to her annoyance.
• Rue coerces a staff member of NA to backdate her slip despite skipping some meetings. When he first says no, she asks if she could suck his dick. He almost agrees to, only for her to say she's a minor. He feels embarrassed, to say the least, and immediately agrees to backdate it.
  Rue: I'm 17 you fucking creep, sign the slip.

Made You Look

• In a flashback, Kat fantasizes about her fanfic audience attacking the school on her behalf, with her being dressed like Daenerys Targaryen and her fans being a Dothraki horde.
• Rue's profanity-filled Imagine Spot where she gives a helpful seminar on the finer points of solicited dick pics, complete with a slide show organized by Jules.
  "Some people say that eyes are the windows to the soul. I disagree. I think it's your dick. and how you fucking photograph it."
  • The Freeze-Frame Bonus just before the cut-away has Rue giving a hilarious "Well, actually..." expression.
  • Throughout the slide show, Jules does a spot-on impersonation of a bored teaching assistant.
  • As Rue goes through what the difference between "terrifying" and "horrifying" is.
  Rue: Uncapped deodorant touching the floor, horrifying. Jug of lotion, terrifying. Dirty fingernails... (disgusted swallowing) horrifying. A medieval sword? Run for your fucking life, terrifying.
• Cassie saying how she FaceTimes with McKay every night and then being teased about the two of them falling in love by her friends, whom she tells to shut-up. Gilligan Cut to her and McKay being Sickeningly Sweethearts during FaceTime telling each other how they liked the other more.
  Lexi: ... Ew.
• Kat manages to blunder into the lucrative world of online domming after a pervert shows her his absurdly small penis and mistakes her nervous laughter for an attempt at humiliation... which he gets off on.
• Rue and Jules set out to create topless photos of Jules that "tasteful" and "classy" but still look like selfies.
  "I want, like, good, professional nudes. Like, classy, but not too arty, like, I put very little thought or effort into them, but they could also be in fucking MOMA."

Shook Ones: Pt II

• Maddy picks a fight with the Jacobs family in front of a crowd of people at the carnival after being slut-shamed by Nate earlier in the night. Completely unprovoked otherwise, she knocks over a tub of chili at their tent and calls Marsha, Nate's mother, a cunt before being quickly dragged away from the scene by Nate.

'03 Bonnie and Clyde

• As Rue privately fantasizes about Jules, her mom comes through the door to tell her dinner was ready, causing Rue to quickly pull the covers up.
  Leslie: Are you coming?
  Rue: Yeah. No. (Beat) Yeah. For... Yeah, for dinner. Just give me a second.
  Leslie: (gives her daughter a skeptical look) Okay.
• Rue getting a lip tattoo from Ashtray, and then he turns to Jules, asking if she was ready. Jules' reaction literally reads, "You've got to be fucking kidding me, is this really happening?" Ashtray assures Jules that it was all good and that he's been "doing this for years".
  Jules: I love you, Rue, but there's no fucking way I'm doing that. (cut to a close up of Jules' face as Ashtray does the inside of her lip and Rue holds her for support)
• One moment from Rue’s flashback of sexual experiences is funny:
  Boy : I’m literally going to tell the whole school you sucked my dick, so you might as well suck my dick.

The Next Episode

• Lexi dressed as Bob Ross at the Halloween party in the sixth episode.
• The interrogation scene between Rue, Lexi, and one of the McKay twins at the Halloween party. Especially since it's a send-up of The Wire with several shout-outs to characters from the show. Lexi interrogating him while dressed like Bob Ross just adds to the hilarity.
• Jules displays some Hidden Depths when she manages to toss out a few lines of Shakespeare while utterly shitfaced.

The Trials and Tribulations of Trying to Pee While Depressed

• While going through a manic episode, Rue imagines that she's in a Police Procedural where she and Lexi are trying to determine what Nate did to Jules. Somehow, they actually manage to figure out exactly what happened.
  • Later, Rue goes to try to explain her theory to Fezco and ends up rambling incoherently about how she's like the Morgan Freeman character in every thriller. Fezco just stares at her before finally just saying, "Word."

And Salt the Earth Behind You

• Rue’s brief fantasy of her ideal retribution against Nate, tied to a chair and on fire as she shoots him with a gun. It’s as darkly hilarious as it is satisfying.
  Jules: What a fuckin' pussy.
• Lexi yells something incoherent towards Kat and Ethan after they finally get their Big Damn Kiss. When her friends ask her what she said, she admits that she has no idea.

Season 2

Trying To Get To Heaven Before They Close The Door

• Maddy wants to use the bathroom at a party but can’t because it’s unknowingly being occupied by Nate and Cassie who are having sex in it. When Nate and Cassie find out Maddy is outside, they're both utterly terrified of her:
  Nate: (sees that Cassie’s crying) Are you fucking crying? Why the fuck are you crying? You haven’t been caught.
  Maddy: Are you taking a shit at a party? You’re so disgusting, I can smell it! I hear you taking a shit!

Ruminations: Big and Little Bullys

• We get a follow-up to Rue's imaginary seminar from the first season, this time a session on how she gets away with using drugs behind her family and friends' backs.
  Rue: (smiling deviously toward the camera) So the next time you put pop-tarts in the fridge or milk in the cupboard, you, have a motherfucking out.
  • This is followed by her enacting her plan by telling Lexi at school that she's smoking weed... and walks right into a door.
• Cassie's meltdown in the bathroom. It starts with Rue, high and on drugs, thinking that Cassie is auditioning for Lexi's play, then thinking Lexi wrote Oklahoma!, then Kat and Maddy entering and agreeing that Cassie looks like she's auditioning for Oklahoma.
• Cal confronting Fez at his home is full of this due to Fez's confusion about the whole thing and an embarrassed Cal realizing that he picked a fight with him for no reason:
  • Ash casually beating Cal up with the head of a semi-automatic.
  • Fez is shocked to learn that Cal not only had sex with Jules, who's 17 but also recorded it. Fez didn't know, let alone care about this.
  • Faye, however, takes the cake with this:
    • Her thinking about who Jules is and if she knows her:
    Faye: Do I know Jules? [...] Jules, Jules, Jules...
    • When Fez realizes that Nate has a crush on Jules, Faye believes it's cute, completely unaware of who he is.
    • And once Cal realizes that they had no knowledge of what he did with Jules:
    Cal: ... I'm extremely confused.
    Fez: You're confused, I'm fuckin' confused, bro.
    Faye: Me, too.

You Who Cannot See, Think of Those Who Can

• Nate and Cassie’s argument is hilarious considering how nonsensical and ridiculous it is. After Nate casually disrespects her, Cassie unloads on him, threatening to reveal their relationship to Maddy in hopes that the sheer thought will scare him into staying with her. And it works.
  Nate: What the fuck is wrong with you?! WHAT THE FUCK IS WRONG WITH YOU?!
  Cassie: Ok, bye.
• Kat's reaction to Maddy saying the R-word one too many times:
  Kat: Maddy, I don’t think you can say that word.
• A drunk Cassie throwing up on the group in the hot tub while Maddy is in the middle of shouting at Nate. It's embarrassing to say the least when Suze comes out and has to drag her bawling daughter away from the ordeal.

Stand Still Like the Hummingbird

• Suze's immediate greeting to Rue is to openly tell her that she looks terrible. The combination of bluntness and genuine maternal concern for Rue is hilarious.
• While most of the episode is chock full of intense drama, Rue casually exposing Cassie's affair with Nate during her impromptu intervention is hysterical due to how unprovoked it was and the Mood Whiplash that ensures:
  Rue: Hey, Cass?
  Cassie: Yeah?
  Rue: I have a quick question for you.
  Cassie: What?
  Rue: ...How long have you been fucking Nate Jacobs?
  • Her confirmation about the incident as well:
  Rue: ...Oh, I just — I, I saw her get his truck, and then, kiss him, and then drive off. That was, like, what, like, uh...like a month ago?
  • Kat's stunned reaction as well:
  Kat: Cass, that's like, really bad.
  • This results in an enraged Maddy screaming at Cassie as she breaks down, during which they completely forget about Rue’s problem; Suze and Leslie snap at everyone to stop the fighting to no avail:
  Suze: No, there is no need to get violent, okay, because we are having an intervention! Stop it!
  Leslie: I'm sorry, but I don't give a shit who’s fucking who, okay? If you’re gonna keep talking about it, get out of the room.
  • Lexi also tries to deescalate the situation by asking Cassie if she wants to go outside on a walk, only to be completely drowned out in all the noise.
    • Her opening the door also allows Rue to escape when no one's looking.
  • Cassie questions why they're all listening to Rue with an argument that isn't even acknowledged due to her already having broken down crying:
  Cassie: I don’t even know why you’re believing her. She’s a drug addict.
  • This all culminates in Maddy chasing Cassie out of the scene inside her own house (allowing Rue to run away again).
  Maddy: You dumb, fucking BITCH! I'M GONNA FUCK YOU UP!

A Thousand Little Trees of Blood

• Lexi and Suze's utterly irritated reactions to Cassie's immature breakdowns throughout the episode.
  Suze: Oh, she needs a fucking exorcism.
• Maddy nonchalantly discussing with Kat how she wants to murder Cassie for being with Nate.
  Maddy: I think I actually wanna murder her.
  Kat: I get it.
  Maddy: No, like, actually plan a murder and carry it out.
  Kat: I get it.
  Maddy: Like a grisly murder. One that shocks the nation.
  Kat (casually) : ... I think that's more than understandable.
• Rue narrates about Samantha and Maddy’s meeting:
  Rue: Maddy didn't want to tell what happened with Nate and Cassie. But after two glasses of wine, she told her what happened with Nate and Cassie.

The Theater and Its Double

• Maddy's and Kat's horrified realizations about what Lexi's play is about:
  Maddy: Wait, is this fucking play about us?
• Suze's reactions are pretty funny, finding absolute delight with her onstage portrayal of her and clearly enjoying Ethan's portrayal.
• The flashback of Rue drawing a beard onto a high and sleepy Lexi's face. Fez notes that she looks like Bob Ross, causing them to jokingly wake her up by calling for 'Bob' and telling her there's a 'fire'.
• The homoerotic jock scene, mocking Nate, and winning over everyone in the audience due to the sheer audacity of it all.
  • Not to mention Nate’s reaction to it, as he's absolutely humiliated and enraged over it.
  • Special mention also goes to a brief cut of Lexi in the wings making the “jerk-off” motion with her hand perfectly on-beat to the drum section of “Holding Out For a Hero” (mimicking Ethan-as-Nate doing the same thing onstage in order to follow along with the choreography and make sure it’s going as intended) as she intently watches it all go down, all with a dead serious expression on her face.

All My Life, My Heart Has Yearned for a Thing I Cannot Name

• Rue is disturbed, to say the least, when she's the first to realize Cassie is mindlessly glaring into the auditorium.
  • Suze's horrified reaction as well, as she knows her daughter is about to lose her mind in front of everyone.
• Cassie's public meltdown onstage where she hijacks Lexi's play. Just, all of it:
  • The audience members' reactions are definitely a major contributor, especially considering how none of them are on Cassie's side:
    • After Cassie makes a statement about hacking women's heads off in Afghanistan, someone shouts "That's racist."
    • When Cassie calls for Lexi at one point, another says "Her name's 'Luna.'"
    • When Cassie states that she's the one who "takes risks," one audience member says "Show us your boobs!"
    • Jules is shown laughing hysterically nearly the entire time, as she's just enjoying the insanity, knowing she's the only one in the group not apart of it.
  • The actress playing Hallie (who's based on Cassie) tries to reassure her about what she's been through, to no avail.
  • Maddy calling Cassie out for her terrible behavior throughout the season, telling the audience that "Hallie" steals "Marta's" (Maddy's) boyfriend (Nate/Jake) and is a "two-faced cunt." Which leads to this exchange:
    Cassie: You're the cunt!
    Maddy: You're the fuckin' cunt, bitch!
    • Then Suze glares disapprovingly at Maddy and admonishes "Language, missy!"
  • The actress playing Kat trying to distract the audience from the fight, saying "$3.25 for a grapefruit? What is this, Venezuela?"
  • After Suze finally calms things down and gets the play to resume, "Hallie" instantly begins to reenact the public orgasm her real-life counterpart had while riding a carousel in "Shook Ones, Part. II". Cassie screams at her and immediately runs back out to attack her.
    Cassie: NOOOO!!! I'M GONNA FUCKING KILL YOU!!! GET THE FUCK OFF THE HORSE!!!
  • Maddy has enough of this ("Oh, this bitch needs to be put down") and finally gets her revenge by beating up Cassie. She first slaps her in front of the audience, chases her backstage into a hallway, and slams her head-first into a brick wall. Adding to the mayhem are Kat and BB running after them, the former shouting at Maddy to calm down and the latter encouraging her.
    BB: Beat her fuckin' ass, Maddy! She fucking deserves that shit, she fucked your boyfriend. [Beat. Vapes]
    • While Rue is visibly concerned over her childhood friends brawling in front of the school, she's certainly not worried enough to intervene, instead letting out a mildly nervous "Oh, fuck."
    • The entire scene onstage is topped off with carnival-esque music, cementing the utter insanity of it.
  • After all of this, Suze, still onstage, tries to assure the audience that it's all part of the play. Then she says this:
    Suze: Close the curtain! Close the fucking curtain!! Now!
  • As all of this is going down, when a confused stagehand asks Lexi’s right-hand woman Bobbi what act they’re in, she simply responds in an admiring tone:
    Bobbi: Don’t question it. That’s the brilliance of Lexi Howard.

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