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  • Godzilla walks by the news station's office window. Caiman's secretary notices the mutated lizard and tells her boss "Your story just walked by the window." Caiman looks, only for Godzilla to have disappeared, and goes back to talking on the phone. Then Godzilla's tail appears briefly before leaving.
  • Animal's victorious and relieved laughter after he gets Godzilla on camera and survives being Trampled Underfoot.note 
    • Even before that, after managing to keep up with Godzilla, he was desperately trying to load his tape until he calms down, insert the tape into its slot, then load it in.
  • As Audrey and Lucy are evacuating:
    Audrey: Can't we get a cab?!
    Lucy: Audrey, what are you thinking?!
  • Phillipe's side-quest to find a cup of coffee to his liking gets funnier and funnier, thanks to Jean Reno's deadpan delivery.
    Phillipe: Ugh! You call this coffee?!
    Underling: No, I call this America.
    [later]
    Phillipe: [grimaces at another coffee] You said this was "French Roast"!
    Underling: It says right there: "French Roast."
    Phillipe: [Beat] More cream.
    [by the end]
    Animal: How you doing? You all right?
    Phillipe: [sighs] I could use a coffee.
  • O'Neal enters the military command center where Hicks and Mayor Ebert are talking, and salutes. Problem is, Hicks is too busy arguing with Mayor Ebert to notice, so O'Neal steps forward, much closer and salutes again, finally grabbing the colonel's attention. The best part is, he visibly rolls his eyes and takes a step forward to get Hicks' attention.
  • Another ridiculous moment from the chopper battle comes from when it was set off. The Army are all given the order to fire... and after getting tapped by just a few bullets, 'Zilla casually ducks, allowing the incoming heavy artillery to wizz over his head and hit the Chrysler Building behind him. The military looks so laughably incompetent by the error that 'Zilla doesn't even charge them in anger, but rather casually walks forward as if mildly amused.
  • When Hicks angrily berates the Apache pilots that they told him they had a lock-on on Godzilla but instead missed and destroyed the Chrysler Building, his radioman responds in the same tone of voice.
    • Moments before that, when the Apache pilot watches his missile destroy one of New York's most iconic skyscrapers:
      Pilot: Ah, damn! Uh... that is a negative impact. I repeat, that is a negative impact.
      Radioman: [to Hicks] Negative impact, sir.
      Mayor Ebert: "Negative impact?" That's the goddamn Chrysler Building we're talking about!
    • The pilot’s “I am SO fired” look makes it extra funny.
  • During the chase, two robbers were jacking an electronics store, the first guy Jimmy tells his accomplice Freddy to hurry up before they get caught. Freddy tells him about a bad feeling was happening. Cue a few seconds later, Godzilla arrives, roars at them, and destroys their getaway truck.
  • The climax of Godzilla's pursuit of the Apaches. The relieved pilot expresses "I think I lost him." Cue Godzilla rising up from beneath and chomping the copter to bits.
    • A YouTube comment made this better:
      Pilot: I think I lost him.
      Godzilla: THINK AGAIN, MOTHERFUCKER!
  • After Godzilla manages to evade the first trap set for him.
    O'Neal: I can't believe it, uh... he did all of this, and... we did nothing to him.
    Nick: Ah, that's not true. We fed him.
    • The pair is, of course, standing in what used to be the largest pile of fish ever put in one place.
  • At the drug store when Nick buys four pregnancy tests:
    Audrey: "Well, you have quite some harem."
  • Audrey's reaction when Nick comes to the conclusion that Godzilla produces asexually:
    Audrey: Where's the fun in that?
  • Yes, you can tell Philippe thinks very highly of his job.
    Philippe: I am Philippe Roaché, DGSE—Direction Générale de la Sécurité Extérieure, Blah, Blah, Blah...
    Nick: Sounds big.
  • When Animal is about to sneak out of his own apartment.
    Audrey: [looks at him weird] What are you doing?
    Animal: Can't let Lucy know. She'll hurt me.
    • Later, we find out that's exactly what she plans to do to him.
      Lucy: [cheers along with the others, then sees Animal on the TV] That's my husband! That's my husband! Oh, my... I'm gonna kill him! [goes back to whooping and cheering]
  • Phillipe and his crew are able to pass themselves off as American at a checkpoint by doing an Elvis impression and emphatically chewing gum.
    Phillipe: Elvis Presley movies. He was the king.
  • While running through Madison Square Garden, Animal shouts "Whoa!", freaking Audrey out as it sounds like they've run into more baby Zillas. It's actually because "This is where the Knicks, like, get showered and everything."
  • The Baby Godzilla's, and the popcorn!
    Nick: ...wrong floor.
  • Nick's Oh, Crap! moment (delivered beautifully by Matthew Broderick) when Godzilla finds his babies dead, and realizes he and his friends are responsible.
    Nick: [in obvious Bring My Brown Pants mode] He looks angry...
  • Also, Animal and Philippe are great deadpan snarkers.
    Animal: Ah...What do we do now?
    Philippe: Running would be a good idea.
  • During the cab chase, Audrey and Animal arguing over directions for Philippe to take, completely ignoring the fact he's in the middle of some extreme driving to evade a pissed-off Godzilla's efforts to crush, incinerate, or devour them.
    Audrey: Broadway?
    Animal: No, no—
    Philippe: [indicating Godzilla directly in front with jaws agape] MAKE UP YOUR MINDS!
    Audrey and Animal: Broadway!
  • Nick, Philippe, Audrey, and Animal are trapped in a tunnel. They get informed by O'Neal over the radio they have to get Godzilla out into the open so the military can get a clear shot at him. Nick and Philippe look at each other, both of their faces saying "You Have GOT to Be Kidding Me!." Animal, meanwhile, has this to say:
    Animal: Yeah, no problem there! You want us to wash him up for ya, too?!
  • When Godzilla has scooped up the cab Philippe has been driving into his mouth, with the car rolling backward into his throat, threatening to go down his gullet.
    Animal: You're going the wrong way, man! You're going the wrong way!
    Philippe: Will you shut up, man!?
  • Hicks' immortal line:
    Hicks: That's affirmative! Let me spell it out for you! I want you to blow up Madison Square Garden!
  • After 'Zilla is destroyed, Elsie kisses Craven, who was next to her. And then reacts, "On my, oh God, oh no".
  • Meta example: the maligned Zilla design, despite the studio's best efforts to keep secret, was ultimately leaked to the public on, of all things, some licensed Fruit of the Loom underwear.
  • The irony that before he passed away in 1998, Tomoyuki Tanaka, the producer of the Godzilla movies since 1954, loved the design of the monster. G-Fans definitely didn't.

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