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  • First off, every single Tex Avery-influenced animated motion!
    • The same goes - probably even doubly so - for all the magnificently exaggerated facial expressions throughout the film.
      • There's one scene during one of Drac's breakdowns in trying to understand Jonathan where he has tiny, off-model, wiggley fingers! Cue laughter!
  • Augustus and Porridge Head assembling Frank wrong.
    Dracula: Augustus, Porridge Head, come on! Does that look like Frankenstein's head?!
  • When Jonathan attempts to escape the hotel, he wakes up Glen and runs out of where the unseen monster sleeps.
  • This Funny Background Event: As Mavis and Drac are talking, Jonathan can be seen fighting the ghost armor. He succeeds and is seen wearing the helmet.
  • The look on Murray's face when Frank's legs fart behind him.
  • Drac's reaction to a music player.
    Dracula: Ohh! It's taking my soul! AHHHHH!
  • Jonathan questioning Dracula on standard vampire weaknesses.
    Jonathan: So, can I ask you a question? Is it true? About the garlic thing?
    Dracula: Yes, I cannot have it. My throat swells.
    Jonathan: Huh, wooden stake through the heart?
    Dracula: Yeah, well, who wouldn't that kill?
  • At the Monster Festival:
    Patron: Why doesn't he fly?
    A Dracula: The sun, you idiot, he's a vampire.
    Frankenstein: That's right, thank you, monster nerd!
    • Similarly, a guy asks Dracula to prove he's actually Dracula. Dracula hypnotizes the skeptic and makes him break a mug over his own head.
      • Followed by the guy's nonchalant response:
        Guy: Alright, continue.
  • Jonathan asking Dracula "If I put my hand in the Invisible Man's mouth, would it disappear?"
    • And then later on, when the monsters were angrily issuing complaints to the hotel:
      Griffin: He put his hand in my mouth to see if it would disappear!
    • All of the complaints, actually.
      Murray: He touched my guitar!
      Elderly Gremlin: He let me eat his SCOOTER!
  • The Your Vampires Suck moment towards Twilight.
    Dracula: This is how we are represented? Unbelievable.
  • When Jonathan first comes to the hotel and Dracula is trying to think of what to do with him:
    Dracula: I can't kill him. It would set monsters back hundreds of years.
    • Then, after realizing the monsters are real, Jonathan asks Dracula if they'll kill him:
      Dracula: Not as long as they think you're a monster.
      Jonathan: That's kinda racist.
  • There're actually A LOT of jokes lampshading how people react to racism in this film. Drac digs himself deeper while trying to explain to his friends in the sauna why Jonathan "left", only to insult Frank, then Griffin. A scene or two later, Wayne and Murray are mad, though we never find out why.
    • Another example in that scene is how Dracula offends Griff by saying Mavis would never be interested in someone with such red curly hair, despite being invisible and NO one knowing what he looks like.
      Griffin: I have red, curly hair!
      Dracula: WELL, HOW WAS I SUPPOSED TO KNOW THAT?!
    • And there's the Funny Background Event in the sauna. The green blob is sitting behind Dracula when they start the whole racist argument, and once it gets going, the blob's eyes widen and he sinks down like he's really scared and uncomfortable sitting in on this conversation.
  • Griffin the Invisible Man trying to play charades.
    Hydra: Um.... nothing? ..... Emptiness! Erm, glasses? Looking glass? Through The Looking Glass!
    Griffin: (depressed) Ugh, I stink at this...
  • The scream cheese.
    • Likewise, the "skelephone" that does nothing but scream repeatedly and offer snarky comebacks.
  • Dracula, the undead king of the night, the scariest of monsters, completely freaks out when he sees Jonathan's attempts at removing his contact lenses.
  • A ghost armor going down from a Groin Attack, despite not actually having privates.
  • The werewolf pups' complete disrespect of their father, to the point where Dracula has to outright ask if any of Wayne's children respect him. And it actually takes Wayne several moments of thinking about it to actually come up with one of them that does: The youngest pup, Winnie.
    • And then we get that child learning all kinds of impossible details just from smelling a shirt.
  • Johnny and Mavis' reactions to Dracula's rap near the end of the movie - priceless!
  • The Invisible Man getting pantsed and claiming shrinkage.
    • Another great moment when Dracula says that if Jonathan were to reveal that he's a human, the monsters would "go batpoop!"
  • The gargoyle waiter getting back at Quasimodo by making him pick his own nose after Dracula traps him in suspended animation.
    • He's still there at the end of the movie.
  • The entire Flying Tables scene.
  • After Jonathan and Dracula have some bonding time, Jonathan playfully mimics Drac and "hypnotizes" him to pretend to be Wayne the Werewolf. Dracula howls, grumps about all his kids, and complains of fleas.
  • Frank's mile-high belly flop into the pool.
  • Wayne "getting the sheep out of the road" during the chase. It's the facial expressions of his friends which really makes the moment.
    Wayne: What? Now there's no sheep in the road! Let's go!
    Murray: That was pretty sick, man.
    Wayne: You eat lamb chop, it's the same thing!
  • Dracula's total frustration over how he's never said "blah bluh blah".
    Dracula: I have never said that in my whole life. "Blah bluh blah." I do not even know who came up with that!
    • And later at the Monster Convention
  • Jonathan finding out that Dracula REALLY IS Dracula.
    Jonathan: Dad?!
    Mavis: Yeah, I know, Dracula's daughter. Everyone freaks out at first.
    Jonathan: DRACULA?!
  • Jonathan offhandedly mentioning that the last time someone tried to eat him was at a Slipknot concert.
  • Jonathan, fearing for his life, mentioning that he has tickets to six Dave Matthews Band concerts.
  • Wayne lying wide awake in the middle of the day with all his children sleeping on him, some chewing on his ears. Just as he begins to nod off, the skull phone beside the bed goes off because Dracula organised a wake-up call for everybody for Mavis's party.
  • Dracula saying "Evil villain, you will never win!" while a slide of a little boy eating an ice cream cone is shown.
  • Anytime the gremlin lady eats something. First, Eunice's bingo card, then, Jonathan's scooter and finally the credits. And each time, she says "I didn't do that." even though she eats something right in front of their faces.


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