Funny / Kill Bill

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Looks like somebody's in for a spanking...

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• Buck could not have made his car easier to locate in a parking lot. The Bride is speeding in her wheelchair past ordinary looking cars, when she practically does a double take and slams on the brakes at the sight of a gaudily customized yellow pickup truck with the name "PUSSY WAGON" emblazoned in huge letters on the back. She takes out the matching keychain, looks back at the Pussy Wagon, and gives a little smile of triumph.
• Boss Tanaka's decapitation. It's so over the top that it becomes hilarious, with many of the yakuzas all but freaking out and Gogo Yubari (the most psychotic of O-Ren's posse) having a barely-restrained grin on her face.
  • Same with Sofie Fatale (O-ren's lawyer), who laughs a little and then calmly translates into Japanese what O-Ren is telling the yakuza in English.
    Sofie Fatale: このファック野郎と同じようにね。^note "Kono fuck yarou to onaji you ni ne," or as O-ren put it just beforehand, "Just like this fucker right here."
  • Tanaka's ten-foot fountain of blood looks like something right out of Monty Python, and this being Tarantino, that's definitely the point.
• "Funny. You like samurai swords. I like baseball."
• Just about everything Pai Mei says and does in spite of his cruel training. In a hilarious subversion of common Old Master tropes (at peace with the world, relaxed, grandfatherly), Pai Mei's very first words to the Bride are: "Your Mandarin is lousy. It causes my ears discomfort. You bray like an ass!"
  • In general, his style of Cantonese doesn't match the clothes that he wears and the Wuxia genre he represents. Usually, you expect someone in Pai Mei's clothes to sound like a poet, not like your beer-drinking uncle showing off.
  • "From here, you can get an excellent view of my foot." [kicks the Bride in the face]
    • HAHAHAHA! [strokes beard]
• The Bride stomps her way out of the cemetery in the middle of the night after being Buried Alive, covered in dirt, wanders to a Greasy Spoon diner across the road, and then calmly sits down at the counter and asks for a glass of water.
• During the fight between Beatrix and the Crazy 88s, one of the Mooks lets out a Wilhelm scream.
• The Bride is about to kill the last Crazy 88 standing when the lights turn on and she sees it's a terrified teenage boy. Undaunted, she promptly uses her katana to cut the kid's sword into pieces. The kid throws away what's left of the sword and surrenders. The Bride bends him over her knee, spanks him with the flat of her blade while chastising him with Punctuated Pounding, and sends him running away with his tail between his legs. This also double counts as a Moment of Awesome.
  The Bride: This! Is what! You get! For fucking! Around! With yakuzas! Go home to your mother!
  • It's even funnier in the uncut Japanese version, because this is the Bride's second encounter with him in the fight. The first time, she cuts off his mask, and after seeing that he is a whimpering teenager, tosses him into a group of mooks.
  • Also, blink and you'll miss it, but extra points to Uma Thurman for the hilarious You Have GOT to Be Kidding Me! look on her face when the lights are turned on.
  • And the kid's name in the credits? "Spanked Boy."
• It's definitely Black Comedy, but Elle looking completely nonplussed and nonchalantly swirling her drink as the black mamba hidden in Budd's suitcase bites him repeatedly, causing him to thrash madly in response to the poison, is weirdly funny.
• Elle's speech to Budd, whom she has just poisoned with a black mamba snake, has some choice lines. Her speech is also a Moment of Awesome.
  • "Oh, I'm sorry. That was rude of me. Budd, meet my good friend, the black mamba. Black mamba, this is Budd." (And then she goes on to read verbatim the encyclopedia entry she copied like nothing has changed.)
  • "Now, you should pay attention, because this concerns you."
  • "The amount of venom that can be delivered from a single bite can be gargantuan. You know, I've always liked that word, 'gargantuan'. I so rarely have a chance to use it in a sentence."
• The Bride meeting Vernita Green. First, a Narm Charm-tastic sequence of zooming in on each face as the Ironside (1967) theme plays. The Bride then punches Vernita in the face.
  • The No-Holds-Barred Beatdown that goes from Copperhead's living room to the kitchen and back again. When the front door is about to open and Copperhead's daughter comes back in, she very calmly dismisses the mess the fight has made, while she and the Bride very casually hide their knives behind their backs.
  • "I should've been the motherfuckin' Black Mamba!"
  • Vernita keeps a gun hidden in a box of "KABOOM" cereal.
• When fighting the Crazy 88s, the Bride snatches out one guy's eye and throws it down the throat of another guy. We get a Reaction Shot from Sofie (who's lying on the floor with her arm cut off) where she goes, "Eurgh." It's hilarious.
• "And... that hat. That fucking hat... How many times have I told you, don't wear that fucking hat here." [...] "I'm not the boss of the customers, I'm the boss of you. And I'm telling you, that I want you to keep that shit-kicker hat at home!"
  • Even funnier is when Budd's boss rants about a car wash before saying, "And I own a fucking car wash."
    • His hooker/girlfriend then saying "Do you want me to leave?", feeling the awkwardness, is ten times better.
  • Budd's boss justifying putting him on suspension by telling him "It's the only way you kids will learn!" when Budd is played by a 45-year old man.
• Elle's reaction to being covered in Budd's tobacco spit:
  Elle: Gross.
• When Elle Driver's remaining eye has just been ripped out:
  "I'll kill you, you fucking bitch! You fucking bitch! I'll kill you! ... Oh shit."
  "Give it back!"
  • The leadup to this moment. Firstly, the Bride and Elle are staring each other down with swords in hand. Dramatic music plays as they do this, which continues as the two have a Blade Lock. The music appears to be building up to a climax as our hero could potentially turn the tides in a dramatic way... but this doesn't happen. The Bride merely rips out Elle's other eye, causing the music to stop. Talk about an Undignified Death.
  • Followed by a bit of physical comedy as Elle does a faceplant over the knocked-out wall in the bathroom.
• A good deal of what Gogo does is funny, in part because she looks like a typical Japanese schoolgirl but is hyper-deadly.
• Bill telling Elle to abort the mission at the hospital. Elle's Big "WHAT?!" can be heard through Bill's end, as she got the call from Bill right as she's about to poison the Bride:
  Bill: We owe her better than that.
  Elle: [screaming] OH, YOU DON'T OWE HER SHIT!
  Bill: [quietly] Will you keep your voice down?
  Elle: [lower voice, but still enraged] You don't owe her shit.
• Pai Mei scoffs that American women are only good at ordering at restaurants. What is the first thing she does after surviving the Texas Funeral? Go into a restaurant and order a glass of water.
• The Crazy 88s calling their server Charlie Brown.
• The entire scene in the hotel when the Bride learns she is pregnant right before being attacked by Karen Kim. Karen tries to simultaneously keep a shotgun leveled at the Bride while reading the instructions on a pregnancy test. Then she leaves, but not before congratulating the Bride through the hole she blew through the door earlier.
  • The fact that Karen's first reaction when trying to read the instructions is to say, "I don't know what this fucking shit means!" seems to be Lampshade Hanging the inscrutable nature of feminine products in general.
• "I would have been much nicer. I would have just cut your face."
• After the Bride finally meets Bill and their child in the flesh, she finds them both playing Wild West, the Bride trying to keep it together at the sight of her own child. After her kid "shoots" her, she plays along after a few minutes of shock and silence.
  • Hilariously, Bill starts narrating as the Bride's just standing there, stunned.
• Bill casually cutting the crusts off of his daughter's sandwich with a ridiculously oversized knife.
• The Bride's reaction to Bill's explanation of the wedding massacre: "You overreacted?! THAT'S your explanation?!"
• Hattori Hanzo and his assistant bickering Like an Old Married Couple when the Bride walks into his sushi bar. Hanzo even has to verbally drag the assistant out of the breakroom where he was watching his stories. Please note the Bride nonchalantly ducking under their joined arms while Hanzo is twisting his assistant's finger. The Ultimate Blacksmith is too engrossed in kvetching to realize that the allegedly-Dumb Blonde is just taking all this in like a floor show. Bonus points for Uma Thurman visibly trying to keep from Corpsing while this is going on.
  • Heck, Sonny Chiba's entire act as a goofy sushi chef.
  • Later in the same scene, when the Bride says that she's in Okinawa to meet Hanzo. Cue the sound of Hanzo's assistant dropping a glass in the background immediately afterwards.
  • Hanzo then asks why the Bride needs "Japanese steel" from him.
    The Bride: [in Japanese] I have vermin to kill.
    Hanzo: [in English] You must have big rats, you need Hattori Hanzo's steel.
    The Bride: Huge.
• The Bride using sheer focus to get her toes moving again post-coma. It takes telling herself (obviously to the audience too) an entire, lengthy backstory of O-Ren to fuel her desire for revenge to get one of her big toes moving. "Hard part's over," she says, grinning. Then she prepares to heal the other toes. Cue a "Thirteen Hours Later" board.
• Pai Mei's chronic beard-stroking.
• The cut to the Bride's childhood classroom during roll call after her real name is revealed by Elle. Not only do the other kids in her class have truly atrocious names, but the Bride's childhood self is still portrayed by the fully-grown Uma Thurman.
• When the Bride severs part of Johnny Mo's leg, he lets out a particularly amusing scream that lasts for three Repeat Cuts.
  • Also, all of the Funny Bruce Lee Noises he makes during their fight.
• The Bride is standing right outside Budd's house. She dramatically throws the door open...only to be blown away by two 12-gauge shotgun rounds of pure rock salt to the chest.
• The school bus pulling up in front of Vernita's house is a hilarious reminder that their deadly battle is occurring in an oblivious, white-picket-fence suburb.
• Budd's call to Elle not only showcases their barely concealed contempt for each other, but is also funny as hell.
  Elle: [answering the phone] Bill?
  Budd: Wrong brother, you hateful bitch.
  Elle: [as if saying a particularly distasteful word] Budd.
  • And Budd telling Elle to get her bony ass down there.
• "Charlie Brown" and the other proprietor of the House of Blue Leaves (his wife?) falling over themselves to satisfy O-Ren and her retinue, scared that they will kill them if they don't. And the Crazy 88, knowing this, shamelessly tease and troll the pair, demanding pizzas and one of the female 88s demanding a kiss, right in front of everyone else including his possible wife/girlfriend, and him trying to refuse her as gently possible. It's so amusing even O-Ren and Gogo can be seen smiling.
• The plane scene at the end of Vol. 1 where the Bride is writing her death list is way funnier when you notice that everyone on the plane has a samurai sword in their cup holders.
• During the fight between Elle and the Bride, the running gag of the sword repeatedly failing to be unsheathed.
• The bowling sounds that come along to Gogo getting hit on the back of her head with her own weapon.
• Meta humor: the original trailer for Volume I, although featuring no actual bloodshed, raised the ire of the MPAA with the sight of the Bride's blood-stained clothes. As such, it became the first to be subjected to the MPAA's new "no blood" policy for trailers, in which all sight of the bodily fluid must be alternately colored or removed entirely. This is why the trailers for this film (and similarly for every film released in the U.S. thereafter) feature the Bride's clothes covered in blackish-brown stains where the blood would be. The thing is, the color of dried blood is blackish-brown, which means that the MPAA unknowingly made Quentin Tarantino change the color from fresh blood (red) to that of dried blood.
• Every character gets an appropriate title card in the credits, featuring a shot of them from a scene that showcases their personality...except Bill, whose title card is over the shot of his body from the ending, still face down on his back lawn. You can't even see his face.
• The Deleted Scene with Michael Jai White as the student of a man Bill killed, come back for revenge. The whole thing is shot even more like a '70s chop-socky movie than the rest of the film, complete with White doing an amazing impression of being badly dubbed.
• The closing shot of Volume II and the story as a whole is the Bride winking at the audience in sync with the last note of Shivaree's otherwise haunting "Goodnight Moon".

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