History Funny / FinalFantasyVIII

* When Irvine joins your party for the first time, he arranges party members that would go to Deling City; he chooses Selphie and Rinoa for himself, while Squall gets left with Quistis and Zell. If you chose to agree with his selection, then Selphie and Rinoa would get angry at you then they try flirting with Irvine as payback. All the while Squall has absolutely no idea why the girls snapped at him.

** Then the meeting gets [[IncrediblyLamePun derailed]] when Zell and Selphie notice just how shoddy the train models look...

''[[CatchPhrase ...Whatever]]'' (Pick this one)

* After spending the entire game trying to get some hot dogs, Zell finally gets his hands on some during the ending movie. He eats them so quickly that he begins choking. Quistis and Selphie help him recover, afterwards he pauses and realizes that he had been filmed hile he had his choking episode. Zell gets pissed off that Quistis and Selphie had to run, then he throws a hot dog at the camera.

* During the battle with Tonberry King (to gain Tonberry as a summon), he can use attack called Junk. Said attack makes him to bounce, which causes [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin junk]] fall on you, including TV, footballs, and finally pots that fall on heads of your party a do the damage.

** Speaking of which, Squall has several standard move patterns for his LimitBreak (with varying numbers of trigger-for-bonus-damage spots) amongst which the game chooses randomly, with some important bosses getting unique ones. The Jumbo Cactuar [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5rK_AF2E65M has this]].

* The old fisher in FH who's intensely annoyed by your presence but then gets tangled in someone else's net, prompting Squall to save him. His reaction is priceless.

'''Rinoa:''' Oh, shut up! I made it look like that on purpose. It represents my hatred toward Deling.
'''Zell:''' Hatred, eh...? Yeah...right.

** Something similar can be done all the way back at the beginning of the game by renaming Shiva. Summoning her against Ifrit prompts him to comment, "They have ''<Shiva>''?!" The potential for [[CrossesTheLineTwice crossing the line twice]] here is immeasurable.

* It's somewhat elusive, but when X-ATM092 is chasing you, you can actually go inside the hotel that you see a group of Balamb students exit as you're running away from the temporarily-absent machine and once you get inside you hear the poor students yell in fear of being chased by the machine. The kicker here? They '''actually''' manage to [[OffscreenMomentOfAwesome deactivate it fully]] as shown when you enter the beachhead area where the Assault Ship is, turning a normally-climatic moment [[AntiClimax completely reversed.]] [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fg3DvHjCyWw#t=55m26s This is not a joke.]]

* After spending the entire game trying to get some hot dogs, Zell finally gets his hands on some during the ending movie. He eats them so quickly that he begins choking.

* Some of the LimitBreak specials for the cast. From Quistis' FrickinLaserBeams from her ''eyes'', to Zell [[UseYourHead headbutting]] and [[BoringButPractical clobbering]] monsters and robots to death, to Rinoa's infamous ''dog missile.'' Not to mention Selphie's "Rapture," where she just.. attaches wings to an enemy and causes them to fly away, ending [[ContractualBossImmunity normal fights]] instantly.

* The sheer fact that when Rinoa forces the normally distant Squall to dance with her the first time they met. It's very clear he doesn't want to dance, complete with him trying to run away from it (at first). Squall's excuse for not wanting to dance? "ICantDance". Note that the brief cutscene before this implies Squall really did feel attracted to her at the time, and the joke "hypnosis" Rinoa did to convince him to like her (to convince him to dance with her) wasn't really needed, meaning he may as well just had been nervous.

--> '''Selphie:''' By the way...this model's nice but the president's car looks kinda shabby....Why is that?
--> '''Watts:''' Yeah, Rinoa made it. That's why. We bought everything else at the gift store.
--> '''Zell:''' Oh...I thought some kid made it. The paint job sucks, too.
--> '''Squall:''' (....? Yeah...It kind of does.)
--> '''Selphie:''' It's one of the...ugliest things I've seen in my life. You must really hate him.
--> '''Rinoa:''' Are you guys finished?! Enough about the model! Can we get on with it now?

--> '''Guard''': This isn't some kinda club you can sweet talk your way into. Besides, you're just a kid. I prefer someone more mature.

* During the battle which erupts at Balamb Garden between supporters of NORG and Headmaster Cid, a staff member and two trained Balamb students corner a [=SeeD=] defending two children in the training facility. One of the children declares he will help fight, and one of the students approaches him menacingly...only to reel over after the boy kicks him in the shin.

* During the raid on Balamb, one of the orders you can give is to PROTECT THE HOTDOGS!
-->'''Squall:''' Cafeteria team, collect all the hotdogs and store everything in the secret shelter. Don't leave anything for the enemy.
* During the raid, if you give the order for your comrades to come to you, He'll ask for Quistis, Zell and Selphie to come to him. After all the orders are given, a short exchange between Irvine and Squall happens.
-->'''Irvine:''' "Hey, hey hey, what's up? I'm not invited? I thought I was part of the gang."

* The old fisher in FH who's intensely annoyed by your presence but then gets tangled in someone else's net prompting Squall to save him. His reaction is priceless.

* Before the now mobile Garden departs to Balamb, Nida makes an announcement over the intercom before handing the mic to Squall so that he could make a speech. Naturally, he refuses to make one and demands for the (still live) mic to be cut (to the amusement of Rinoa who happened to be within the library at the time).

** If you bring Selphie, she sits on his bed and tells him he should be honoured that a cute girl wants to be on his bed. What's even funnier is that you have the option to make Squall agree with her. If you do then she replies "Squall, you are so getting it." If you don't, she'll [[DisproportionateRetribution deduct a SeeD rank from you for disagreeing]] (complete with comical sound effect).

* When Rinoa makes you take her on a tour of the Garden, if you go into the cafeteria you see Zell throwing a tantrum when he hears they're out of hotdogs (which he'll be hugely embarrassed at when he sees Rinoa there). And if you bring her to the infirmary, Dr. Kadowaki will ask if she's Squall's girlfriend. If you reply Yes then...

--> '''Laguna:''' [[ShipSinking So what! Who cares!?]] [[IWantMyBelovedToBeHappy As long as she's happy, right?]] That's all that matters! Ain't that right, Elle?

* Anytime there's dialogue selection in the Laguna flashbacks, there's always an extra option that's shaded in to indicate Squall's reaction to the scene. If you select that, Laguna will react with confusion to "hearing" Squall, which he later associates with hearing "faeries". Made even funnier with the first mind-travel, in which you can select this option repeatedly in a row. Laguna starts talking to himself, baffling everyone around him, until he finally shouts "stop it!".
* Use the Devour command, prompting a [[RelaxOVision "Censored - please stand by"]] screen to appear with flowers or something else, then comical noises play.

* The first time you visit Galbadia Garden, there are four guys [[PhysicalFitnessPunishment doing push-ups as punishment]] in a hallway. If you pester one of them long enough, he will lose count and complain about it. Another will tell Squall that there's one saving grace about the whole thing -- as in cue a female student will pass by and the guy will stare at her legs from his vantage point without her noticing. The programmers even coded the movement of the perv's head to match her steps. Finally, sometimes [[HotBlooded Zell]] will be seen doing push-ups with them just for the heck of it.

* Before Headmaster Martine will arrive to rely his and Cid's orders to the team, Rinoa tells the others to pretend she's another [=SeeD=] from Balamb Garden to avoid having to explain why she's there [[spoiler:(actually, she just didn't want to give her name because her father is very high up in the Galbadian government)]]. Then she completely fails to live up to her own plan because she can't even do their version of a MilitarySalute properly.