Funny / Fantastic Four: The Animated Series

• In "The Silver Surfer and the Coming of Galactus", Reed gives off a bit of technobabble, resulting in this exchange:
  Ben: Can you give me that again in Swahili?
  Reed: You don't speak Swahili.
  Ben: And I don't understand what you just said, neither!
  • The Frankenstein spoof Johnny and Ben are watching in the beginning of part one of episode doesn't have much to do with the plot, but it's funny.
  Ben: That guy sounds just like Stretcho!
• An episode in the second season has a Running Gag that hangs a lampshade on Johnny and Crystal's Strangled by the Red String status. Crystal sends out Lockjaw to guide Johnny to a secret meeting spot. They never reach it. Even at the end.
• There's an episode in which Sue not only is Brainwashed and Crazy, but given a sexy Evil Costume Switch. By the end, when she's released and her "controller" is defeated, she's still dressed up in it, and Reed is VERY pleased...
• Doom has some surprisingly funny Sophisticated as Hell moments:
  • In "A Blind Man Shall Lead Them," when he has the Four and Daredevil dead to rights
  Doom: I've made an interesting improvement in your ventilation system. I shall now suck all the air out of the room, and like the martyrs of Masada, you may watch each other die. [Beat] Have a nice day. [Evil Laugh]
  • There's only one problem: there were no martyrs at Masada. It's a myth.
  • Later, when he sets the Reed's reactor in the Baxter Building to blow up half the city he exits with "Pity, really. I never did get to see Cats."
  • DD himself gets in a good one after Doom fires a missile at him:
  Daredevil: Funny... a lot of people react that way towards lawyers...
  • Earlier from the episode we had Sue, being held prisoner by Doom, ridicule him for his "uninspired" plan of holding her prisoner to lure the rest of the Fantastic Four into a trap. Doom's response:
  Doom: "Yes, I'm so sorry to involve you in the timeworn Damsel in Distress cliche, Mrs. Richards. I fear the only thing missing is the onrushing train. However sometimes expediency outweighs originality. Now with your permission."
  • When the Hulk has (seemingly) beaten Ben to death and Doom congratulates him, Hulk laments making Alicia cry. Doom replies with an utterly disinterested "She'll get over it."
• "When Calls Galactus":
  • Galactus has been weakened, but both the FF and Thor are faring poorly against him. All of a sudden, Ghost Rider shows up totally out of the blue. A confused Thing then asks "Is everyone here on fire but me?" (as both Johhny and Nova (Frankie, not Richard) are present) and "When did this become a superhero convention?"
  • Then, after Ghost Rider makes Galactus collapse via the Penance Stare, he leaves, making a confused Ben mutter "I gotta stop drinking Aunt Petunia's pink lemonade."

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