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Scrat biting off more than he can chew…… or drinking more than he can swallow.

  • Scrat getting his tongue stuck to an overhang of an ice glacier at the beginning of the movie, then the moment later where he almost explodes with ice water.
  • Just the whole "repopulating their race" thing with Manny and Ellie. It proves unfounded later, but still.
  • At one point, when Manny tells the animal kids the story of a burro.
    Fawn: Burro is a demeaning name. Typically, it's called a wild ass.
    Manny: Fine. "The wild ass boy came home to his wild ass mother." (As they all laugh) See, that's why I called it a burro!
  • Sid and Diego's conversation about his camp.
    Sid: Campo del Sid. That means 'Camp of Sid'.
    Diego: Congratulations, you're now an idiot in two languages.
  • The beaver dad's response to the shifting ice wall.
    Beaver: Dam!
    • It also counts since it's a wall of ice, which was like a giant beaver dam.
  • "Do we have to bring this crap? I'm sure there's crap where we're going."
    • "(Gasp) This was a gift from my mother!"
  • A group of young hedgehogs are trying to get their grandfather to leave their burrow so they can escape the flood, his response after resisting their attempts to physically remove him from there?: "WELL, I'M NOT LEAVING! I WAS BORN IN THIS HOLE, AND I'LL DIE IN THIS HOLE!"
    Hedgehog grandpa: THIS IS MY BOAT NOW!
  • Sid's singing about Mammoths going extinct. So wrong, it's hilarious.
    Manny: Shut up, Sid.
    Sid: If your species will continue, clap your hands! *clap* *clap* If your species...
  • "Food, Glorious Food" is pretty darkly funny with the vultures singing about wanting to eat the heroes, but what really sells it is Sid dancing to it, then humming it later after the musical number. He's even dancing during the song! Black Comedy at its peak.
  • The two vultures doing a "traffic report" as they watch the mass migration of animals towards the boat:
    Vulture 1: We've got an overturned glyptodon in the far right lane. Traffic backed up as far as the eye can see!
    Vulture 2: Ooh, and it looks as though there may be a fatality! (Beat) I CALL THE DARK MEAT!
    • Do not leave your children unattended. All unattended children will be eaten."
  • "The entire thing with the pygmy sloths and the "Fire King," even though it's a sacrificial cult.
    Sid: (as he is tied up with vines) This is either really good or reeeally bad...
  • Diego getting worked up during the other animals chanting at Sid.
    Diego: Jump! Jump! Jump! (Manny glares at him)...Sorry.
    • Manny and Diego confront Sid about to jump on the eviscerator.
      Manny: Sid! What do you think you're doing?! Get down from there!
      Sid: No way! I'll be the first to jump of the Eviscerator, and then you guys have to start showing me some respect!
      Manny: You jump off this, the only respect you're gonna get is respect for the dead.
      Diego: Come on, Manny. He's not that stupid. (Sid prepares to jump) But I've been wrong before.
  • Crash & Eddie's first scene: Sid and Diego are humiliated by Crash & Eddie—being shot with rock spitballs. It becomes a big game of whack-a-possum mixed with Twister.
    • One of the possums shoots Sid in the butt.
      Sid: Ow! Hey! I gotta sit on that!
    • Sid and Diego get tangled up in each other.
      Crash: Surrender?
      Sid and Diego: Never!
      Crash and Eddie: Cool!
      (They spit out more pebbles at Sid and Diego, who slump to the ground)
      Diego: If anyone asks, there were 50 of 'em. And they were... rattlesnakes.
    • Finally they mock them more before Diego chases them.
      Crash: Here, kitty, kitty!
      Diego: Big mistake, you miscreants!
      Eddie: "Miscreants?" (He and Crash laugh)
      Sid: Uh, Diego, they're possums.
      (Crash & Eddie mimic chicken clucks; Diego roars and chases after them)
      Crash: (jumps into Eddie's arms in terror) RETREAT!
  • In the scene where the trio is rushing to find where what sounded like other mammoths was coming from, Sid is clinging to Manny's back the entire time and acts like a race commentator — he first says "Look at him go!" in regards to how fast Manny is going, and as Diego catches up, his commentating goes into very specific detail about what's happening, including how far apart they are.
    • After that, as Manny and Diego screech to a halt, Sid gets flung off Manny's back and lands facing a flower in front of a log — and then they find out what the sound actually was when he gets blasted with the awful smell of a loud, stinky fart coming from the animal sitting on the log.
      "Sorry. My stomach hates me."
    • Sid's reaction to it all is priceless, too — "Ugh ... well, don't that put the 'stink' in 'extinction' ..." Diego is just as revolted by the smell, though the humour of the scene significantly fades when you see the contrasting expression on Manny's face, with him having realised his mistake and coming to accept that he may be the last mammoth after all.
  • Manny and Ellie's Crash-Into Hello.
  • Manny's thoughts on con artist armadillo Fast Tony.
    Manny: Come on, don't listen to him. Fast Tony would sell his own mother for a grape.
    Fast Tony: Are you making an offer? (Beat) I mean no! I would not!
  • When Ellie states that she's a possum, Manny sarcastically states "I'm a newt. This (points to Diego) is my friend the badger, and (points to Sid) my other friend, the platypus."
    Sid: "Hey, why am I the platypus? Make him the platypus!"
    • Becomes more funnier in the Polish dub when Manny instead of calling Sid "platypus" calls him "deer". In Polish slang, calling someone "deer" means that this person is easily deceived, while synonym "make a deer out of him" means mocking this person. No wonder Sid got offended!
    Sid: "I don't want to be a deer! Make a deer out of him!"
  • Near the end of the movie:
    Sid: We're gonna LIVE! (beat as they realize they're surrounded by rising water) We're gonna DIE!
  • "I think I just coughed up my spleen..."
  • After the herd sees Ellie standing on a log rolling down a hill like a unicycle:
    Manny: So, you think she's the girl for me?
    Sid: Oh, yeah! She's tons of fun, and you're no fun at all! She completes you.
  • Manny catapults Crash, sending him soaring.
    Crash: "I believe I can fly—!" (slams into a tree)
  • The movie's tie-in videogame has some funny moments too. For example, when Scrat encounters Crash and Eddie:
    Crash: Hey, what are you supposed to be?
    Eddie: He don't look like a possum, look at that hair on his tail.
    Crash: Should I get Ellie? I'm not sure about this guy.
    Eddie: Forget it Crash. He's not worth it.
    Crash: Hey buddy, stay away from my sister or you'll have to deal with me.
    (Scrat agrees)


Alternative Title(s): Ice Age 2 The Meltdown

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