As a light-hearted comedy, Kim's Convenience has plenty of wacky humour to offer.
"Gay Discount"
- Janet's explanation to her mother that there's no such thing as "cool, Christian Korean boys".Janet: If they're cool and Christian, they're not Korean. And if they're cool and Korean, they're not Christian. And if they're cool, Christian and Korean, they're girls.
- Mr. Kim assuming that one of the boys applying for work at the store is gay and offering him the discount. He waves off the boy's denial and assures him that "gay take time."
"Ddong chim & Umma's Picture"
- Mr. Kim still remembers Gerald's naked photoshoot of himself for one of his assignments, and jumps to conclusions when he's asked to have his photo taken by him for another assignment.Mr. Kim: I know what you thinking. "Oh, it's so hot, Mr. Kim, take off jacket. Oh, looking good, Mr. Kim, take off shirt. Everybody doing, Mr. Kim, take off panty."
Gerald: I would not ask you to take off—
Mr. Kim: Then you sell to naked picture magazine - for businessmen, huh?
Gerald Who?
Mr. Kim: They like naked everything. - All of Jung's efforts in explaining what ddong chim is and making it sound worse the more he tries to describe it.
- Appa gets into an argument while ordering food over the phone:Appa: ...and 12 egg. Yeah, I say like that. Look, if I only want 12 egg, I say "dozen." If I want 12-dozen egg, I say "12 egg." Easy. "Egg" means "dozen." "Dozen" means "12 egg." What's you problem? (dial tone)
"Rude Kid"
- Janet's teacher Ms. Murray assumes the Kims have a tragic immigration story and is disappointed that none of this is reflected in Janet's assignment, even though Janet keeps informing her that their move to Canada was much more mundane.Ms. Murray: Where was your family's journey to Canada? Where was the refugee experience?
Janet: My parents aren't refugees.
Ms. Murray: Well, boat people.
Janet: My parents flew here.
Ms. Murray: You mean fled.
Janet: No, flew. Air Canada probably. - Appa and Mr. Mehta complaining about how children are coddled in today's society, as compared to their obviously superior upbringing, despite how strict it was was and congratulating themselves on how well they raised their own children...followed by Mehta commenting that his daughter won't speak to him and Appa and Jung aren't on speaking terms either.
"Frank & Nayoung"
- Umma is raiding Janet's closet for clothes to give to Nayoung, because she dresses "Korean-style".Janet: What does that mean? There's a lot of Korean girls and a lot of Korean girl styles.
Umma: She dress too much like a—what's the word—slut.
Janet: Did you just call Nayoung a slut?!
Umma: No! I say she dress like slut.
"Best Before"
- Jeanie being so absorbed into her phone that her mother Mrs. Park and Mrs. Kim have to repeatedly call her name to try to get her attention (and it still doesn't work most of the time). This happens a few time in that same scene.Mrs. Kim: She have a hearing problem?
Mrs. Park: Ah, she's just texting. - Mr. Kim eating expired ravioli right out of the can cold, complete with loud slurping noises, while staring at Janet just to prove to her that it's still okay to eat it.
"Date Night"
- Janet's first attempt to convince her father to have a better date night with her mother ends with the father and daughter duo screaming over each other in annoyance while said father uses his drill.
- Mr. Chin teaching Mr. Kim how to dance by naming the movements after store products (for where they are located). He guides him while the two dance for a few moments until they notice the customer who's just walked in on them. The embarrassed Mr. Kim gives her the usual scratch'n'win card for free in exchange for her silence on the matter.
"Resting Place"
- After Mrs. Kim finds out her husband sold her grave spot years ago, Mr. Kim first suggests having her take his grave and getting Janet to throw his corpse in the lake instead. Mrs. Kim's still unhappy, not just because they won't be Together in Death (which was the point of them reserving the two grave spots in the first place) but also because his corpse will pollute the lake. Mr. Kim grumbles in response that they can have both their corpses thrown in the lake. A customer is unfortunate enough to enter the store in the middle of this conversation and quickly leaves.
- Gerald completely misunderstands the Kims' conversation about massage-kigae (which he thinks is a weird Korean euphemism for masturbation, not knowing it's a neck massager) and is disturbed by how casually Mr. and Mrs. Kim talk about needing to do it in the car.Mrs. Kim: Where you going?
Mr. Kim: I go upstairs to massage-kigae.
Mrs. Kim: No time! You take too long.
Mr. Kim: I do fast one.
Mrs. Kim: We have to go.
Mr. Kim: This is all you fault. I don't have to massage-kigae so bad if you don't kick me out of bed.
Mrs. Kim: Here, take cream and do in car. I help you.
Mr. Kim: Your hand is too cold and you squeeze it too hard.
Gerald: (visibly squicked by the entire exchange)
"Hapkido"
- Jung's entire embarrassing incident at a dinner with his ex that involves him getting drunk beforehand, then punching a tree, which was his date's uncle. He then proceeded to throw up on said date's uncle.
