Funny / Hawkeye (2021)

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Episodes:

Episode 1: Never Meet Your Heroes

• There is a Broadway musical about Captain America, simply titled "Rogers." The jokes write themselves from there. The one shot of it in the trailer is a thing of beauty, and it's revealed in the show that the scene is scored by the song "Save the City".
  • The simple fact that the reason Clint's even in New York in the first place is because he was taking his children to said musical.
  • This musical's entire existence goes to show that even after it didn't take off in the forties, people still want to find ways to put Captain America on a stage.
  • It seems that Loki wasn't the only one who had the bright idea of staging a fictionalized version of their life's events.
  • Clint's simple but effective reaction to it: a look that just screams "what in the actual hell..." He's even refusing to listen, having turned his hearing aid off so he doesn't have to hear the songs. When Lila calls him out, he replies that he already knows what happens because he lived through it. He is slightly confused about why Ant-Man is present at the Battle of New York, though.
    • Technically, he was, but in a completely different way...
  • The rest of Clint's kids reaction to the musical is a goldmine too. Cooper is seemingly staring into the distance, Nathaniel is having his head on his hand looking rather unimpressed by the whole thing and Lila is biting her lip and visibly cringing at the display on show.
    Lila: You look pretty cool, though. That's a plus.
    Clint: *Thousand-Yard Stare*
  • A quick look at the promotional signs for "Rogers" shows a lot of puns shoved into each testimonial. "A SMASH in every way", indeed.
  • Clint sneaks out to use the bathroom, only to be accosted at the urinals by a man asking for a selfie with him. Clint says now isn't the best time and goes to wash his hands, when the same man from before holds up his phone and asks if now would be the best time.
  • The fact that the entire musical happened because Rhys jokingly suggested that Clint was taking his family to this musical and Feige loved it so much that he approved!
  • The lyrics themselves can be this, complementing Thor and Cap’s good looks ("And lord knows they're easy on the eyes!"), struggling to say something nice about Hawkeye ("While Hawkeye seems cool, like a really nice guy"), and foreshadowing the Sokovia Accords ("If the city is trashed when you take your bow / We'll blame you then, but you're good for now").
    • The fact that almost every Avenger gets something awesome said about them, while Clint just gets "[he] seems cool, like a really nice guy." One wonders how much of his exasperation is at the campiness, and how much at the fact that he's repeatedly risked his life and fought armies to save the world, and the best he gets is "seems cool, like a really nice guy" (though to be fair, it does later mention that "there's no better shot than you").
• Someone has scrawled "Thanos was right" onto a urinal in the men's bathroom. Clint just stares at it as he does his business.
  Clint: Huh.
• Kate decides to take a bet and shoot a targeted arrow at a bell. It first gets damaged ("all the best bells have a crack in them!"), and she says it isn't that bad when the bell's supports start coming undone, but then it collapses part of the tower. And when the guard finds her, the bell flies out of the wreck.
• The old family friend Armand III complains to Kate about how she wears a suit better than he does, complains how there is now an Armand VII, and complains about her own mother. It's hard to tell if they're friends or if he just hates everyone.
• Kate sneaks into a shady underground auction by posing as a waiter. She claims that "Gary", a name she briefly overheard, sent her... to the actual Gary. What follows qualifies as Awesome as well, as Kate layers on the bluff extra-thick:
  Gary: Who are you?
  Kate: [faking distress] You see, that's the problem, Gary. You don't even know my name. Y'know what, this not gonna work out, I quit... [buggers off]
• Kate finds that Armand III has individually wrapped butterscotch candies monogrammed with his name. The "what the hell?" expression on her face is wonderful.
• Kate Bishop's introduction to Hawkeye gets a bit awkward.
  Clint: Come on!
  Kate: You're... You're Hawkeye!
  Clint: And who the hell are you?

Episode 2: Hide and Seek

• Kate trying to up her credentials.
  Kate: Some people have actually called me the world's greatest archer.
  Clint: Are you one of those people?
  Kate: Well, one of them is, yes.
• Kate tells Clint she trained in martial arts ever since she was five.
  Clint: Wow, like a year ago?
  • "Are you 18?" "22!" "Same thing!"
• After entering Kate's apartment, Clint visibly has a Head Desk against the door with a expression that screams "How did I ever get into this mess?" written all over it.
• Kate babbles a bit over the strangeness that happened over the night.
  Kate: Wait! Do you think this has anything to do with the murder of my mom's fiance's uncle?
  Clint: ...your mom's fiance's uncle?
  Kate: Yeah. Armand the third of at least seven.
• Kate's disbelief at the name "Tracksuit Mafia" ("That's a bit on the nose, isn't it?")
• Kate's and Clint's dialogue gets crossed over to produce an unintentional result:
  Kate: You're kind of my favorite Avenger.
  Clint: Are you okay?
• Clint confirms with Kate that she can't be traced as the person who stole the Ronin suit, with Kate stating that she kept her mask on the entire time and was disguised. Cue the Tracksuit Mafia yelling her name from outside the building, causing her to realize that they followed her back to her apartment, and that her name is on the buzzer outside.
• After two Molotov cocktails are thrown into Kate's apartment, Clint manages to pre-emptively break a window, catch one, and throw it back.
• Kate tries to put out the fire by shooting an arrow at a fire extinguisher. It instead starts flying like a torpedo, eventually landing outside (scaring the bad guys, but who then ask "Is that all you got?").
• After Clint and Kate flee the apartment, it immediately cuts to the Tracksuit Mafia goons (who just a few minutes ago were setting Kate's apartment on fire) standing outside on the street and conversing casually about being set on fire by their own Molotov cocktails, like it was a normal occurrence at the office for them.
  Tomas: What?
  Ivan: It's a little...
  Tomas: [mockingly] I can't hear you.
  Ivan: [annoyed] It's a lot, it's a lot. Everything.
  Enrique: [smirking] You were on fire.
  Tomas: I'm okay!
  Enrique: You were on fire, like a little shish kebab, you know?
• When Clint mentions supplies, Kate asks "Avengers supplies?". Cut to them in the drugstore picking up things like rubbing alcohol, with Kate being disappointed that they're doing something so mundane.
• "No, you're not a bag of money. A bag of money would be useful!"
• Kate lampshades that Clint is acting an awful lot like the Grinch for someone looking to celebrate the holidays, asking him what made his heart grow three times too small.
• "Pizza Dog is a title of nobility! Like Earl of Sandwich!"
• Kate's crude sketches and descriptions of her attackers, which include "Doughy faces" and "VERY white".
  Clint: I'm guessing you aren't an art major.
• When Clint and Kate are walking through Times Square and come across a group of people dressed as the Avengers, Kate points out a woman among them that appears to be dressed as Hawkeye.
  Clint: No, that's Katniss Everdeen.
  • There's no little irony in the fact that Kate is pointing out (what she thinks is) a female Hawkeye.
  • A little kid seems to recognize them, and runs up...only to run right past them so they can greet the dressed-up superheroes.
• Kate lectures Clint on his problem with branding, a Take That! to Darker and Edgier superheroes.
• Kate asks how Clint went partially deaf. Cue a Smash Cut montage of all the crashes and explosions he's been in, all perfectly synced to "Little Drummer Boy".
  Clint: ...uh, too hard to tell.
• Bidding Kate farewell, Clint gives her his number for emergencies only, swearing to block and delete her if she calls for anything else. Almost immediately as they part ways, Kate promises to call him. And in a likely unintentionally funny moment, when Kate reminds him that she has his number, he breaks into a jog as if really wanting to get away from her.
• In order to get the Ronin suit back Clint has to track Grills down while he's at a LARP session. The staff won't let him on to the field to talk to Grills unless he signs in and wears a costume. Clint, who just wants to get the suit and leave, can barely hide how frustrated he is by their insistence that he play along.
  • Grills eventually agrees to hand over the suit...but only if Clint agrees to let Grills "kill" him first. Clint grudgingly agrees but then Grills insists that they do it in proper ritual combat.
    Clint: [exasperated] I fought Thanos.
  • The exchange is preceded by Clint fighting his way through a group of LARP-ers with a fake sword. The fighting is all in slow-motion while dramatic music plays, and Clint's expression just screams "I can't believe I have to do this". If you have the captions on, you can see that Clint at one point exclaims (of all things) "Goodness!"
  • At one point, Clint unfortunately gets in the path of a LARPer dramatically dying, causing him to stumble and make a face not unlike the face he made when Pietro zipped past him while picking up Wanda back in Novi Grad.
  • For the duel, the LARP-ers give Clint a "magic potion". Except they couldn't even be bothered to just put something in an old-timey flask, so someone tries to mime handing Clint a drink. Clint refuses to "drink".
    LARP-er: He didn't drink the potion...
  • And when the duel happens, someone starts going "Cling!" whenever the swords "clash" with an "echo" when they go into a Blade Lock.
  • Grills gets ready to deliver the death stroke:
    Grills: You ready?
    Clint: I'm begging you. Kill me.
  • "AND NOW! WE BURN THE COOORPSE!!"
    LARPers: BURN THE COOOOORPSE!
    Clint: [giving a "wait, what the hell?" look hearing this while pretending to have been killed by Grills]
    • There's also a deleted scene with the actual burning, where the LARPers do flame motions with their hands while Clint has the most reproving face possible.
  • And finally he begs Grills to return the armor for him, so it won't show up on his credit card history.
    Grills: [dead serious] Nah, they'll charge you.
• When Clint calls his wife to update her on the situation, he mentions the Tracksuit Mafia. She just says "ugh, those idiots."
• When the Tracksuit Mafia kidnap Clint they throw a bag over his head. As they're shoving him into the van Clint can be heard telling them he can see through the bag.
• The Tracksuit Mafia are absolutely hilarious in and of themselves. They take the Husky Russkie stereotype and completely turn it on its head by "Bro"'ing to hell and back and generally bumbling around like idiots.
• When Clint sees the Tracksuit Mafia's hideout (which is later revealed to be an abandoned K-B Toys outlet store in Episode 3), he's clearly not impressed. This leads to Tomas going on a rant about how many of the empty warehouses that villains and gangsters used to use have been turned into loft apartments.
  Clint: It's a nice place you got here. Not creepy at all.
  Tomas: Hey, hey, hey, hey. You kid. I know you kid, so don't kid, okay?
  [Clint has a confused look on his face.]
  Tomas: Because it was getting very hard to find place. Old warehouses are being converted into lofts, so how can I get something better?
  [The Tracksuit Bros try to calm Tomas down.]
  Enrique: Come on, bro.
  Tomas: He's... he's criticising!
  • The conversation that happens afterwards, especially Tomas's reactions:
    Clint: Look, guys, I am not who you think I am, okay?
    [Tomas has a look that says "Wait, you're not...?"]
    Ivan: So you are not... Hawkeye?
    [Tomas has a new look that says "Wait, so ARE you...?"]
    Clint: Well, I... I guess I am who you think I am.
  • Ivan and Clint discussing Kate's brief tenure as Ronin in broken English, ends up accidentally implying that she's a male crossdresser:
    Ivan: Kate Bishop is guy, bro
    Clint: Kate Bishop is not guy
    Ivan: Kate Bishop is guy in costume
    Clint: *Visibly corpsing*
• Kate tries to pull a Big Damn Heroes by sneaking into the warehouse that the bad guys have Clint tied up by breaking through the rooftop, only to painfully fall flat on her face. Seems there's a good reason the Three-Point Landing is so popular.
  • Beforehand, the Tracksuit Mafia interrogates Clint demanding to know about Kate's whereabouts; after Kate makes her crash landing, Ivan says "Bro, I found her."
  • The timing is also perfect. The Tracksuit Mafia is asking Clint about Kate and Clint replies he knows nothing. Cue noise and Clint looks up, realising what is about to happen. His expression screams "Oh, I’m so done right now!" Then Kate face plants right at Clint’s feet.
  • Even better, Clint continues staring at the ceiling after Kate falls as if continuing to look at it will undo the stupidity he just witnessed.
  • Kate's comment after her Face Plant is also gold.
    Kate: Oh, wow. Didn't realise we were supposed to bring guns...
• The episode closes with the very funny sight of both Hawkeyes taped up to coin-op toys.
  • Also funny is why they taped them up in the first place: earlier they had Clint's hands tied behind his back on a chair, only for him to casually reveal that he had already gotten the ties off while they were "interrogating" him.

Episode 3: Echoes

• In a flashback, a young Maya and her dad discuss dragons and she asks him if they're real. He says that they "live in another world", clearly using a metaphor for his young daughter. Except, anyone who's watched Shang-Chi, Thor: Ragnarok and/or Iron Fist would know that he's accidentally 100% right!
• The Tracksuits turn on the coin-operated riding toys Clint and Kate are taped to and laugh as they watch them bounce. Which happens after the scene of Maya seeing her father die in her arms.
  • The look on Clint's face makes it clear that he's less annoyed at the fact the Tracksuits did this and more at the fact they think something so mundane is a hysterical and humiliating experience for him and Kate.
• While holding Kate and Clint prisoner, Tomas tells Kate about his relationship troubles (a disagreement with his girlfriend over going to an Imagine Dragons concert). She proceeds to sincerely give him advice, and he's last seen heading offscreen to get something to write down her suggestions for how they should make up.
  • What makes it funnier is Clint laying his head on his coin-op toy, clearly annoyed by this.
  • It's also doubly amusing when one considers that she says "Look on the bright side. You don't have to go see Imagine Dragons" when Hailee Steinfield voices Vi in Arcane, which not only heavily features the music of Imagine Dragons, has Vi straight up walk past them as they're performing.
• Whilst they’re both tied up, Kate starts insisting that Clint needed her, only for Clint to respond - completely deadpan - that he’d just cleared Kate of being involved with Clint or Ronin before she fell through the skylight.
• The extent of Clint’s ASL is "Hard of hearing, not deaf" and "More cookie, please" (at least until "Ronin", where it seems he knows a bit more). He spends a few seconds wondering how he can explain to Maya that he just started learning ASL and thus has a child's vocabulary and speed, and comes up with "More cookie, please."
• Echo (via Kazi) tells Clint he relies too much on technology and would do better without a hearing aid.
  Clint: [looks at Kate] I've been thinking the same thing.
• Clint again breaks free. Kate makes sure to note it would be nice if he told her how to do it!
• Clint stuns a Tracksuit by throwing a stuffed bear, of all things.
  • And then Maya later retaliates by tossing a unicorn plushie at him.
• When Kate is free, she ends up fighting off one attacker by using a shopping trolley (of all things). Said Mafioso ends up stuffed inside the trolley and given a hefty shove.
• Clint rejects the choice of car Kate wants to hijack because it's too nice a car to smash a window and hot wire. And then the car gets totalled anyways in the ensuing chase, which Clint lampshades in those exact words.
  Clint: I'm not smashing a '72 Challenger!
• During the car chase (which for hilarious Soundtrack Dissonance is scored by Trans-Siberian Orchestra's "A Mad Russian's Christmas"), Clint dismisses several arrows as being too dangerous for Kate to fire at their pursuers. So when one of them turns out to blow up the whole van...
  Kate: Holy Sh*BOOM* There are four arrows more dangerous than that one?
  • The very first arrow is a "Play-Doh Arrow" that covers a windshield. Clint advises her to aim for the tires with those. Kate retorts, "Great idea. I'll do those as soon as you label these damn things!"
  • Kate tells Clint "this will work better" if the car was turned around. Because his hearing aid is lost, Clint doesn't hear her but makes the same suggestion word-for-word.
  Kate: Hey, we're communicating!
  • The "net arrow" that starts dragging nearby Christmas trees. And even as Kate asks, "what the hell is that one called?", we never hear it, as Clint is saying "Sorry, Santa!" and backs up over an inflatable Santa doll, which springs back up afterward and the Santa's swaying arms are as if he were angrily shaking his fists at them in response.
  • Clint later gives Kate a USB arrow, which she bluffs the Tracksuits with by claiming that it's highly dangerous, only for it to bounce harmlessly off Ivan's chest. The moment becomes especially funny considering that in a way, the arrow is a highly dangerous weapon—Clint used a (slightly different) USB arrow to nearly cause a Helicarrier to crash back in 2012.
    • One of the Tracksuit goons beside Ivan was clearly expecting a dangerous arrow to go off when Kate shot the USB arrow, panicking and shouting "oh my god" before the arrow bounces harmlessly off Ivan's chest.
  • Kate wonders why Clint just gave him a regular arrow and asked her to aim high. So, we see Clint firing a Pym Particle Arrow and turning Kate's arrow into a humongous arrow striking the Tracksuits' car. Also, the arrowhead is helpfully emblazoned with the Pym Industries logo—it seems that even Hank Pym has a better understanding of branding than Hawkeye does.
  • During the chase, Kate fires a plunger arrow at the Tracksuits which doesn't do anything, and she asks Clint why he even has that arrow in his arsenal. Then when they flee the group by hopping on top of a passing subway train, Kate concedes the plunger arrow would actually be pretty useful for this.
  • The Tracksuits' front business is named the "Trust A Bro" moving company.
  • Before all that is Kate's utter glee at using trick arrows.
• After they've escaped and are safely on the subway, Kate suddenly realizes that they should probably take Lucky for a walk when they get back because he's been cooped up inside for a day which can't be good for him. A few seconds later Clint, who can't hear her as his hearing aid is broken, says they need to walk Lucky because he's been inside for a day.
  • Behind their seats on the subway is a help-service advertisement which reads, Are You Feeling Like There No Options? which is summing up their mood at the moment. (In addition, the ad makers misspelled, as There should be printed There's or There're.)
• As Clint is without a hearing aid when having to answer his cellphone, he starts talking as if it was Laura. It takes Kate showing a writing of "Little Boy" to realize it's Nathaniel calling.
  • Once he realizes it's Nate on the phone, he starts to worry that something has happened to Laura, Cooper, and Lila. Turns out that they're all still sleeping. Nate had just woken up early and was bored.
• Soon after, Kate snarks by text, "It's good they called you HawkEYE instead of HawkEAR." Needless to say, Clint is not amused and immediately blocks and deletes her number, just like he said he would in Episode 2.
• Kate suggests that Clint change his costume to make it more memorable, offering a very crude sketch of her design, a version of his original comics outfit. Clint is at once annoyed by her suggestion that he wear a different costume, and confused by her sketch, wondering why he needs a mask and the letter "H" on the forehead.
  • His reasoning for not wearing a flashy costume? First of all, he needs to be a ghost in his line of work, and second? Laura would divorce him.
• Clint remembers that Lucky still needs a name. Kate starts rattling out various pizza inspired choices, such as Little Ol' Caesar, Dogfather, and Sir Dog of Pizza but the only one that gets some reaction out of him is still "Pizza Dog", which causes him to flash a goofy smile.
• Kate voicing her suspicion of Jack Duquesne after giving her a butterscotch candy and deflecting her surprise attack like a pro during their fencing duel the day before. Clint's just confused as to why she tried to stab her mom's fiancé.
  Kate: He was at the auction that night, and yesterday he offered me a butterscotch.
  Clint: Not exactly a crime.
  Kate: And when I tried to stab his face to prove he was lying, he parried like a pro!
  Clint: You tried to stab your mom's fiancé in the face?
  • Also, Kate doesn't give Clint the reason the butterscotch candies are suspicious (because Armand had ones exactly the same), making it sound as if she legitimately suspects her stepfather of being a criminal based on his choice of candy.
• On seeing Kate's family's ancestral penthouse, Clint comments:
  "Yeah, I'm in the wrong business."
• There's a certain irony in Clint being held at swordpoint with what used to be his own sword.

Episode 4: Partners, Am I Right?

• When Clint and Kate are discovered by Jack and Eleanor, a funny exchange occurs about Clint's alias.
  Eleanor: What the hell is going on?
  [Beat]
  And why is there an Avenger in my dining room?
  Jack: (To Clint) Oh, my god. You're... You're Archer.
  Kate: Hawkeye.
  Clint: Clint.
  Kate: It's the branding issue, I'm telling you.
  Clint: Yeah, sure.
• Kate tries to show she's close to Clint by calling him "CB-1", and he angrily replies no one calls him that.
  • She goes on to claim that Clint likes her because she's not overawed and fangirling about him
• Jack unintentionally butchering the famous box of chocolates quote from Forrest Gump. They also have a giggle over how he butchered the saying "Absence makes the heart grow fonder" in the past.
  Eleanor: [laughing with delight] Aww, honey, come here; you're making my heart grow older.
• Clint tapes multiple frozen margarita packs to himself to ease the pain of his injuries.
• Clint drinking out of a "Thanos Was Right" mug, presumably out of sheer spite.
  • Also the fact that the mug is owned by Kate's aunt.
• When Kate uses one of her aunt's picture frames as a whiteboard, Clint asks if the marker is dry-erase. It's not.
• As they celebrate Christmas together, Kate pitches the idea of a boomerang arrow to Clint, so that the extremely rare Trick Arrows will always come back to them. Clint has to spell out for her that having a deadly projectile fly back at you is not a desirable outcome. It's a Mythology Gag to the Fraction run, where who is endorsing and putting down boomerang arrows is reversed.
  Kate: You'd... You'd have to... To dodge.
  • Funnily enough, if you were someone who previously watched Altered Carbon, a series which featured another Avenger, this idea of 'returning ammunition' was explicitly sold before, only with guns.
  • Even more funny is the fact that Clint seems to subtly mocking Thor and his "returning ammunition", aka Mjolnir.
  • The funny thing is, there was a character in the MCU with a returning arrow of sorts, Yondu.
• When Kate asks Clint to demonstrate how he can knock someone unconscious with a coin, he does so by tossing one at the TV's power button and turns it off. As soon as the TV goes off, Lucky suddenly looks up at Clint and starts whining as if to say "Hey, I was watching that!".
• As he's teaching her how to do his coin trick, Clint partially hides behind a door frame, anticipating Kate to flick the coin in the wrong direction.
• When Clint meets with Kazi, Kazi starts grabbing for weapons in his car, only to find that Clint has already removed them. When Clint leaves, Kazi asks if he can have his gun back. Clint, naturally, refuses and as Kazi sits reflecting on what happened Clint can be seen through the rear window throwing the gun away.
• Kate geeking out when she gets invited to the LARPer's apartment and gets to try out their costumes.
• The cop who retrieved Clint's arrows is reluctant to give them to Clint because they are in her embroidered bag, which was a gift from her wife, and questions why Clint doesn't have his own bag to put them in. Keep in mind that this is a police officer who just committed evidence tampering.
• During the mission to get the Rolex watch, Clint proposes an elaborate plan to infiltrate Maya's apartment and retrieve the watch. Kate, ignoring his plan, just walks in the front door, helps an old man with his groceries, and even tells him she's working with an Avenger. And then it turns out Clint's idea was actually the smarter one when Kate gets ambushed by Maya.
  • While Kate and the old man are in the elevator, she keeps talking to Clint, but as the old man can't see her communicator he thinks she's talking to herself (the fact that she excitedly tells him she's talking with an Avenger doesn't help). He grabs his bags back from Kate and gets out of there as quickly as possible.
• Kate escapes Maya's apartment on a zipline, only to get stuck halfway across above the street.
• During the mission to retrieve the watch, Clint finds himself under attack by a masked female and immediately warns Kate that Maya is back... Except Kate knows already, as a very unmasked Maya just attacked her.
  Clint: [genuinely confused] Then who the hell am I fighting?!
• When Kate tries to sucker punch Yelena with a kick while ziplining when the zipline bends enough for Kate to keep ziplining, Yelena anticipates it and grabs Kate midway and slams her into the ground, which elicits a surprised but mild “Ow, that hurt!” from Kate.

Episode 5: Ronin

• The episode opens with Yelena continuing her campaign to deprogram all Black Widows except, as it turns out, Ana — her latest target — isn't Brainwashed and Crazy and pissed that the antidote sprayed in her face ruined her expensive rug.
  Ana: Look what you did to my rug! Twenty thousand dollars down the drain. Thanks.
  Yelena: ...Excuse me?
  Sonya: I don't think she was brainwashed.
  Ana: What, you thought I was some rich pervert's prisoner?
  Yelena: Well, yeah, kind of.
• The way Ana casually treats the other two Widows as old friends and continually tries to push them into contract killing for money as the best way to get rich and thrive is pretty funny dark comedy.
• While patching Maya up, Kazi says that Maya can open up to him and tell him if the wound hurts. Maya sarcastically signs that it obviously hurts and asks him if he’s happy that she opened up emotionally.
• So, Yelena walks into Kate's apartment. Or rather sneaks in. But that's not all…
  • Starting with their proper introduction:
    Yelena: Kate Bishop. [Kate instinctively throws a bottle of Sriracha sauce at Yelena, which she easily catches] Hiii! I made macaroni if you want some.
    Kate: I'm sorry - what?!
  • Yelena keeps referring to Kate by her full name to annoy her.
    Kate: Do you say my whole name to point out that you know it?
  • The way Yelena casually makes herself at home is truly something to behold. She even makes some mac and cheese, and while eating drowns it with the same bottle of sriracha sauce Kate threw at her, while talking about how much she loves hot sauce!
    • Florence Pugh came up with the hot sauce idea (eating it for take after take with no complaint) after learning that Hailee Steinfeld dislikes it.
    • Yelena's open-mouthed offense at being accused of trying to kill Kate, as though she's genuinely upset at the accusation, is also a sight to behold.
  • Apparently, Kate only owns one fork, which she says is because "[She's] one person". Yelena finds this pitiable, and then she discovers Kate's collection of plastic cutlery:
    Yelena: [holding a plastic fork] Kate. This is not cutlery!
    • Bonus points: This is the only time Yelena breaks from her Full-Name Basis with Kate. It's bad enough that Yelena gives up her intimidation tactics to deliver a sincere personal admonishment.
    • More bonus points: the entire fork conversation was improvised by Florence Pugh on the spot and Hailee Steinfeld just rolled with it.
  • And then Yelena goes on to talk about how she plans on enjoying herself in New York since it's the first time she's ever been to the Big Apple, almost forgetting that she's there to kill Clint.
    Kate: So what do you want?
    Yelena: Well, it's my first time in New York. It's a business trip, so time is limited. But I do want to see some things. I want to see, uh, the Empire State Building, the new and improved Statue of Liberty, and the Rockefeller Center.
    Kate: [chuckles softly] Very funny.
    Yelena: What, it's not good?
    Kate: Oh. No, they're-they're great. Yeah, you...I mean, you've gotta see the tree.
    Yelena: Exactly. See? I love American Christmases. The tree, the presents, the super-powered reindeer, Rudolph. Have you ever eaten reindeer?
    Kate: No, can't say I had the pleasure.
    Yelena: It's no pleasure. Too chewy!
    • Kate does has some sightseeing recommendations of her own for Yelena.
      Yelena: But, hey, Kate Bishop, you grew up here, right? You must have some recommendations for me.
      Kate: Yeah... Um...yeah, I-I have. Let's see. The High Line. High Line is great. Um...there's a Christmas market in Union Square. I'm not quite sure those are the right fit for the bloodthirsty vigilante type.
      Yelena: [laughs] "Bloodthirsty vigilante." Sometimes you're funny, Kate Bishop.
  • Before it gets pretty tense and sombre, Yelena guffawing at Kate's statement that she spared her during their rooftop fight.
    Kate: Thank God I didn't kill you up there.
    Yelena: [laughs boisterously] You kill me?! Again, oh, Kate Bishop, you are so funny. That's hilarious. That one's the funniest.
  • Yelena trying to assure Kate that she means her no harm:
    Yelena: I don't have any weapons on me. [beat]...okay, I take that back. I have no weapons currently in my hands. [Kate looks down at Yelena's Widow's Bite.] ...okay, that was also a lie.
  • Yelena mentions wanting to see the “new and improved” Statue of Liberty. This becomes Hilarious in Hindsight as the climactic showdown in Spider-Man: No Way Home has the improved Statue destroyed to some extent.
  • Yelena calmly leaves by the window she came in, as though it was a perfectly normal way to exit.
• Jacques Duquesne's defense when charged with criminal activities through a company he's listed as the CEO of.
  Jacques Duquesne: I've never worked a day in my life.
• Kate decides to try calling Clint to tell him about Yelena and Jacques' arrest, and naturally he doesn't answer. This leads to Kate calling him repeatedly, leaving so many voicemails that Clint's mailbox becomes full.
  • During one of these calls, she's venting about her inexperience while simultaneously practicing Clint's coin trick. Not paying attention, she angrily flicks the coin offscreen, which is followed by the sound of something shattering.
    Kate: Oh, shit.
• Watching Ivan and Tomas argue over if their tracksuits make them out to be more The Sopranos or The Royal Tenenbaums, all the while listening to Run–D.M.C.'s "Christmas In Hollis." For mooks, they're just so lovable.
  • Tomas shrieking as Clint's message arrow goes through the windshield and nearly through his head. And then they read the message to Maya.
    Tomas: ...but we are not Maya.
    Ivan: [gives him a "dude, seriously?" look]
• Clint's "wait, what?" reaction to seeing that Kate's escape plan from the aftermath of his confrontation with Maya was for Kate to call an Uber under an assumed name.
• The Mood Whiplash in the Creative Closing Credits is downright hilarious. To elaborate — we finally get confirmation that Daredevil (2015) is now an official part of the MCU thanks to the shocking reveal of The Kingpin in all his glory at the episode's end. And then we get hit with Thurl Ravenscroft's "You're A Mean One, Mr. Grinch", which honestly couldn't be a more appropriate song choice considering who we're dealing with here.

Episode 6: So This Is Christmas

• While making their new trick arrows, Kate asks Clint what one of the heads is, only to be told it's "way too dangerous." Cut to Kate printing labels for each head, (including "freeze", "flash bomb", etc,) and printing one that literally says "too dangerous".
• One shot of the Tracksuit Mafia trucks is scored with the most ominous version of "Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairies" imaginable.
• When asked about dangerous people, Kate highlights a return for Gary the caterer, "who fired me from one of the few jobs I ever had".
• During the party Armand VII approaches Jacques and tells him he was going to get Jacques' wine collection if he'd gone to prison. Jacques shuts the kid down by loudly reminding him of the time he suffered a Potty Failure during a trip to the Hamptons.
  • Jacques brings one of his swords along to the party, which Clint and Kate note is tacky given the circumstances. However, it comes in handy later, while he has far too much fun knocking down some oncoming Tracksuits.
• After five episodes of being built up as a dangerous villain, Jacques has to nervously psyche himself up when he first draws his sword.
  Jacques: Okay, Jack. This is your moment.
  • Also, the fact that it turns out the whole reason he was bidding on the sword wasn't because he's a villain planning to use it to kill; he's just a sword nerd.
• Kate's entire confrontation with Yelena as she tries stopping her from killing Clint, and Yelena in turn resisting, since neither are actually hostile towards the other and both are holding back heavily.
  • When they meet, Kate says that Clint is already gone, having left to one of the lower floors to draw Kazi's fire and that Yelena wouldn't be able to find him. Yelena simply points out that she can see what floor his elevator went to as she takes the other elevator. Before the doors close, Kate quickly slips in with her, to Yelena's dismay.
  • Also when they meet, Yelena greets her with a bemused and amused “Kate Bishop!” She is either still using full name basis to threaten Kate, how she will greet Kate from now on or that is just how she greets people. What supports the latter is that it is a formality in Russia to refer to a stranger by their full name.
  • Kate attempts to delay Yelena by pressing all of the buttons on the elevator. The first few times she tries Yelena stops her from even reaching the panel, before they start fighting. Midway through, Kate instinctively resorts to slapping Yelena in the face, which actually elicits an utterly stunned reaction from Yelena. Even Kate is shocked when she realizes that she just bitch-slapped a Black Widow.
    Yelena: What was that?!
    Kate: [meekly] I don't know!
    • Yelena seems almost betrayed in a "How could you?! I thought we were friends..." fashion, in addition to being stunned.
    • The first time Kate tries to press the buttons, Yelena just slaps her arm telling her "No" with the tone of an exasperated mother. Yelena hits Kate's arm hard enough to make her say ow.
  • Kate's slap also gives her the opening to finally press all the buttons. Yelena reacts in annoyance and simply walks out of the elevator when the doors open, calling Kate a bitch in Russian as she leaves (much like she did to Nat in Black Widow).
    • What's even funnier is that unlike in Black Widow, the word is not translated in subtitles, unlike Echo’s sign language. That means the writers either assumed the audience will have a laugh after finding out what it means or that they will laugh because they have watched Black Widow beforehand. Kate herself looks confused, probably clueless that she just got called a bitch in Russian.
  • At one point during the elevator "fight", Yelena grabs Kate's dress suit and ends up accidentally tearing it off when Kate spins away from her, revealing her superhero suit underneath it. Yelena even lets out a bewildered "Oh my god, what is happening" as she accidentally tears off Kate's dress, assuming she was accidentally stripping Kate and not realizing that she would have a suit underneath. After a moment of the two awkwardly staring at each other, Yelena asks if Kate planned for that; Kate initially says yes, then admits she didn't.
    • When Kate's superhero suit is revealed, Kate can be seen pointing at the suit as if she's asking Yelena if she like it.
  • Kate and Yelena's ridiculous "chase", where Kate repeatedly gets in Yelena's way and Yelena has to briefly fight her off each time before progressing. Funnier still is that they eventually start complimenting each other's attacks towards the end of it.
    Kate: Stop making me like you!
    • One part has Kate proposing that they just leave and get a drink. Yelena agrees... after she kills Clint, so on with the fight it is.
    • During the fight, they crossed before a guy working in a PC. The guy doesn't even move from the chair as if seeing two girls showing up out of nowhere, fighting each other, was a perfectly normal thing to happen. There's a chance he thought they were two party girls having a Cat Fight.
    • At one point, Yelena smooshes Kate face-first against a glass door, possibly evoking the Running Gag of Thor getting his face smooshed against glass in several of his appearances.
  • At one point, Kate uses a Christmas ornament as a makeshift bola and disarms Yelena of one of her batons by striking her hand. Yelena reacts with a very pained "ow!". It was good payback for Yelena slapping Kate's arm.
• While it doubles as an awesome moment, Kate zips straight down Yelena's line as she screams her head off until she sticks the landing. Even funnier that she falls right past Clint's window as he watches her screaming.
• Kazi faces off one on one with Clint, saying that "this is going to be fun." After a very, very brief scuffle Clint knocks him out with ease.
  Clint: You were right, Kazi. That was fun.
• The LARPers, undercover as valets, try to organize the fleeing partygoers. It does not work.
  Wendy: Leave in an orderly manner! Or just run and scream...
• As the party is being evacuated, Grills is seen carrying Armand VII out of the building over his shoulder while the kid yells "Do you know who I am?!"
  Grills: I'm trying to save your life, you little brat!
• The Tracksuit Mafia shows up to attack Kate, and she ends up fighting Tomas, who thanks her for her advice on his relationship issues.
  Tomas: [quickly, as Kate grabs his wrist and twists] Bro, I know it's not the best moment right now but I want to thank you, you know. For your advice, what you said, how I should speak to my girlfriend.
  Kate: [genuinely interested] Did it work?
  Tomas: [grinning widely] It worked, bro, we went to Maroon 5 instead.
  Kate: That's so great! [beat] So, what's with the gun?
  Tomas: I'm sorry, bro - [Kate kicks him in the stomach and he falls to the ground wheezing] I wanted to thank you!
  • Given the angle, it's hard to tell if she hit him in the stomach or somewhere more debilitating.
• Clint attempts to use Yelena's zipline, but it can't take his weight, so he falls several dozen feet, screaming in the most undignified way all the way, down and ends up stuck in the Rockefeller Center's Christmas tree. The Hawkeyes must not have the best luck with ziplines.
  • Then Clint comes face to face with an owl. He warmly says "Hey there."^note A likely reference to the Real Life moment where an owl was rescued from the Rockefeller Christmas Tree in 2020.
  • When Kate asks Clint where he is he tells her he's stuck in the tree. Kate then asks (while standing in Rockefeller Plaza at Christmas) which tree.
  • Kate gets Clint out of the tree... by knocking it down. Clint is desperately begging her not to do something crazy and Kate softly says "Timber!" before taking it down. (and again he screams as tree falls)
• The LARPers are having a hard time trying to evacuate the panicked crowds from the building. Thinking it's because of their valet outfits, they rush back inside and a minute later they step out wearing their fantasy LARP gear to get the crowds thinking they're heroes helping save the day.
  Clint: (looks down from the tree to see them step out) Hahaha... (mutters) We're all gonna die...
  • Bonus that the sight of the four LARPers in costume is like a parody of Sif and the Warriors Three when they turned up on Earth back in Thor.
  • The best part? The LARPers were right. The partygoers immediately obey a bunch of random weirdos in costume. Which is even funnier when you think that the Avengers were also a bunch of random weirdos in costume the first time they get together as a team.
• Again, the trick arrows are a mix of awesome and hilarious, especially the inflatable one throwing several thugs up in the air.
• When some of the Tracksuit Mafia members try to run over Kate and Clint with a "Trust a Bro" truck, she fires a Pym arrow at it, causing them to shrink.
  Tiny Bros: [tiny screams] Oh my god! What happened!?!
  Kate: [slightly freaked out] ...what happens to them now?
  Clint: [also freaked out] I don't know. I'll have to tell Scott about that one.
  [the owl from earlier swoops down and snatches up the tiny truck, the Tracksuits inside screaming "oh no"!]
  Clint: Well. There's that. [fires an explosive arrow without looking at some Tracksuits]
  • Even more funnier, is when you turn on the subtitles. The subtitle on the screen as the Tracksuits scream in terror is "CHILDREN SHOUTING".
• There is something inherently funny in seeing the Kingpin wear a Panama hat, Hawaiian shirt, and chain necklace, as though on his way to a tropical vacation for the holidays.
  • He probably was, meaning Clint wasn't the only one to get his holidays disrupted with the business over the Ronin suit.
  • One could consider this revenge from Clint for Kingpin ruining Clint's holiday.
• Once the fight is over, Wendy approaches Jacques to compliment his swordsmanship and ask if he's ever considered trying LARP.
  • The other LARPers are seen talking to some police officers responding on the scene, telling them they they're with Hawkeye, and therefore "basically Avengers."
• What's the one thing this whole season that really seems to upset Jack? It's the fact that he got blood on his tie.
• While the confrontation itself is dramatic, there's something darkly funny about the act that when Maya goes to confront Fisk, the van she's driving is playing "The 12 Days of Christmas". Given that Maya doesn't use hearing aids, it can't possibly have been for her own enjoyment-she either turned the radio on for dramatic effect, or she drove the van over while not knowing the music was playing.
• Clint gives Kate a heartfelt speech about how rare it is to find someone who genuinely makes you better... Which segues into praising the LARPer who made their costumes.
• Just the fact that Clint uses a BBQ grill, of all things, to incinerate the Ronin costume once all is said and done.
• Just the fact that the watch was Laura's from her time as a S.H.I.E.L.D. agent, which means that Tony was right when he called her an agent back in Avengers: Age of Ultron.
• The final dialogue, where Kate gives some lame ideas for her codename (cutting just as Clint offers a suggestion of his own).

Rogers: The Musical

• After the Creative Closing Credits of "So This Is Christmas", the audience is treated to the full performance of "Save The City" from "Rogers: The Musical" in all its cheesy glory.
  • Even funnier: the clip is prefaced with a "Happy Holidays!" message from Marvel Studios itself, knowing this musical number was exactly what the fans wanted.
• The lyrics cheerfully complain about how New York is actually a lousy place to live, but people love it anyway.
• "Tony" mentioning they're going to celebrate the victory with a shawarma, meaning the Avengers' after-battle snack made it's pretty much public knowledge within the MCU.
• Hawkeye is treated as an afterthought. First, his actor gets hidden behind Captain America's shield and has to annoyedly push it out of the way. Then, the lyrics don't have much to say about him. Ant-Man, who wasn't even part of the Battle of New York, gets more respect!
  Cast: While Hawkeye seems cool—like, a really nice guy...
• The lyrics also cheerfully admit that yes, they absolutely will blame the Avengers but "you're good for now!"
• Just how cheap the outfits used by "Loki" and the "Avengers" are. Let's just say that "Natasha" is the only one that actually managed to look like the real deal. "Loki" in particular looks more like Dr. Facilier than like the real Loki, "Hulk" is just a guy in a green hoodie and some body paint, and "Hawkeye" comes off as more of a sports player than an expert marksman.
• And to top it all off, the conductor grows increasingly more enthusiastic and spirited as he orchestrates the whole number.

Trailers:

• In the trailer, the "There are arrows more dangerous than that one?" line is followed by Clint with a look on his face that screams either "Okay, maybe that wasn't a safer arrow" or "I can't answer that because it might implicate me as a crazy person if I think that arrow wasn't dangerous."
• The scene where Clint lets himself get captured by the Tracksuits goes a bit differently when he realizes that, even though he's an Avenger, he's very outmatched at the moment.
  [A couple of mooks step out of a van.]
  Clint: Probably should've brought more guys.
  [A handful of mooks follow behind them, vastly outnumbering Clint.]
  Clint: Oh, good. You did.
  [One of them immediately hits Clint in the stomach with a baseball bat.]
• One of the TV Spots plays the clip of Eleanor saying "And why is there an Avenger in my dining room?", except it's heavily edited and spliced, removing the inquisitive tone and giving us a humorously robotic-sounding "There's an Avenger in my home."

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