Funny / Megas XLR

"I hate the DMV."

General

• Most all of Coop's reasons for why he's defeating the enemy (in Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking format), especially when someone points out why they're not accurate, or worse; his fault.
• Coop's controls in MEGAS get their share, too, with the "Missiles" - "More Missiles" - "All The Missiles" combo, the "You heard the man, kids - Super Destructor Mode" button, and one conveniently labeled "Five Minutes Left Until End of Episode". But few have as much humor as this:
  Coop: Well, maybe you'll like this better, then!
  (Coop hits a button labeled This Better Then.)

"Test Drive"

• The very circumstances as to how the robot got to mid-2000s New Jersey in the first place - it landed in a junkyard in the 1930s and sat under a pile of junk for around 70 years - are bad enough, but Coop found it in the "$2.00" pile.
  Coop: (picking up a piece of scrap pipe) How much for this?
  Goat: Let's see here...two bucks.
  Coop: (brandishing a larger chunk of scrap metal) How about this?
  Goat: (annoyed) Two bucks.
  Coop: (holding a 55-gallon drum of nuclear waste) Hey, how about this?
  Goat: (annoyed, strained, and not looking) Two dollars.
  Coop: (a length of cables in one hand) How about—
  Goat: Two! Bucks! Anything in that pile: two bucks. I doubt that whole pile is worth more than two bucks...
  (An elated Coop pulls on the first piece of junk he finds, causing a junk avalanche and revealing the busted up MEGAS prototype)
  Coop: Whoa~ what's that?
  Goat: No idea.
  Coop: Two bucks, huh? I'll take it!
  Goat: Oh, man...
• The first time he flew over said junkyard after finding the robot, Goat looked up and screamed "Where's my two bucks?!" Coop never paid him the two bucks.
• How Jamie's reputation as a lovable coward was cemented in the pilot episode. Coop has just finished showing off MEGAS to him for the first time, Jamie eagerly hops into the passenger's seat, only to have Kiva suddenly warp in with three heavily-armed robots, guns trained on the cockpit.
  Jamie: -throwing up arms- I'm not with him!
• It's revealed how Coop became such a great pilot: sitting on the couch playing video games his entire life.
• This little gem as Coop, Kiva and Jamie face down a whole army of glorft with only a damaged robot to assist them.
  Jamie: These odds seem kind of unfair.
  Coop: You're right, it is unfair.
  (Smashes the robot on HIS side)
  Coop: There, now it's fair.

"Battle Royale"

• The episode opens with Coop, Jamie, and Kiva watching a Battlebots / Robot Wars ripoff in MEGAS' cockpit. Not one of them is impressed.
  Announcer: This may be the most brutal displays of power ever!
  Coop: "Brutal display of power"?
  *Coop, Jamie, and Kiva laugh as the camera pans out to reveal a Glorft mech in a headlock being punched in the head by MEGAS repeatedly.*
• Even better is that the nerds controlling the bots are clearly Alex and his friends from Downtown.
• Magnanimous's introduction.
  Jamie: Eyuuh, guys, what do you call a big head with tiny arms and legs?
  Magnanimous: Nanimous. Mag-nanimous. But you probably knew that already.
  Cut to Power Trio, Beat
  Magnanimous: I'm kinda famous. Allow me to explain. I own and run the GCCF.
  Cut to Power Trio for another Beat
  Magnanimous: The Galactic Combat Championship Federation?
  Jamie: His... body... is... a head... with tiny arms and legs.
  Magnanimous: Earthers. Thicker than the Trabasian Nebula. Anyway, earth was ineligible for competition.
  Coop: Just...tiny little legs.
• During the climax fight against Magnanimous, who is stupidly controlling his mech as it's unprotected head, Coop "decapitates" him, separating Mag's from his robot.
  Magnanimous: AHHH! IT HURTS!! -oh wait, no it doesnt- GAH! (is flung into the singularity)
• The fact that the episode features Bruce Freakin' Campbell as the villain, has one of the best lines ever:
  Magnanimous: Now either you throw the fight or the redhead and the little girl get a taste of the (ominous voice) quantum singularity!
  [DUN DUN DUN!]
  [Sudden flashback to Coop not paying attention at school]
  Teacher: Mr. Cooplowski! Pay attention! One day you'll need to know what a quantum singularity is, and then you'll be sorry!
  Young Coop: Yeah, right.
  [Back to the present]
  Coop: Is that bad?
  Magnanimous: The quantum singularity? It's like a black hole but portable and with a cooler name.
  Coop: Yeah, I guess that's... bad.
• Jamie placing bets on Coop. He casually dumps the contents of his pocket on the bookie counter (a paper clip, some lint, and a couple dollar bills and change), to which the bookie throws away the cash and takes the junk.
  • later he's seen with a couple hot alien girls on his side, along with multiple bags of cash, but when Coop starts losing, he pleads for him to win.
    Jamie: Coop! You can't lose, man! I got digits from green skin girls! GREEEEEN SKIN GIIIIIIIRLS!!!
• The high point of that episode is the very end, when Coop defeats Magmanimous with a weapons-grade karaoke machine. It is so destructive that Coop has more security measures to activate it than his nukes. Jamie is horrified, saying that no one deserves this kind of punishment.

"All I Wanted Was a Slushie"

• An SUV cuts off Coop, who's piloting MEGAS on the freeway. Coop responds by picking up the SUV and sticking it on the roof of a skyscraper.
• The entire confrontation with the REGIS MK-V, in which Coop counters the REGIS's Ominous Latin Chanting and robotic hamminess with one-shots out of annoyance and biting sarcasm.
  REGIS MK-V: The invincible REGIS MK-V mocks your futile attempts at destruction.
  Coop: Mock— *slams a button on his controls* —this!
  (MEGAS throws a Hadouken, blasting a hole through the middle of it.)
• REGIS faces off against the first foe who dares oppose him... a fire hydrant.
  REGIS MK-V: Stand aside or you will be struck down. [Beat] Die then. [uses Eye Beams to slice off the top] You are no match for the superior tactical abilities of the REGIS MK-V!
  (Children flock to the spouting water.)
• After being told by Kiva to try something different, which Coop does, we get the following:
  Kiva: Just to reiterate, smashing bad.
  Jamie: You know, normally I'm pro-smashing, and I hate to agree with future girl, but maybe smashing's not the way to go this time.
  Coop: We tried no smashing, and that didn't work. I'm sticking to my strengths, and smashing... is my strengths! I just need to find the right way to smash him.
  Coop: (looks at console, which has numerous buttons for various types of direct physical attacks, then fires the laser gating at REGIS, which gets riddled with holes and falls apart) See? That wasn't smashing!
• How seriously the show takes REGIS as well. Sure, he becomes a huge threat later, but at first he's just a small robot and no one even notices him when he's firing off mini lasers. What's especially hilarious is that the only reaction is a bunch of kids running over to play in the water, oblivious to the killer robot.
• Kiva not being so above it all in the third episode.
  Kiva: Now if you excuse me, I have a destructive alien robot to examine.
  Coop: You want us to pick up you something (from the store)?
  Kiva: Yeah, a new time flux unit so I can get out of this neanderthal nightmare and go back to saving humanity's future.
  Coop: *awkwardly* Uh, I don't think they got that. Beat You want some beef jerky instead?
  Kiva: *Glances back* Beat *smiles* Sure!
• Coop sinking to desperate measures to get his Mega Slush:
  Jamie: We could try Hoboken...
  Coop: Yeah... but that's Hoboken.
  • At one point he's so short on money he's forced to pay in pennies.
  • Coop STILL obsessing over the damn Mega Slush at the end, despite the destruction of the Regis-Mk 5 having caused a nuclear winter, making the whole heat issue moot.

"The Fat and the Furious"

• After finally cornering Coop after trying to acquire the McGuffin from a game of "Catch" on automobiles: Gorrath: I must admit that your strategies are strange and cunning... but mostly strange.
• Coop and his friend Tiny have a performance competition between Megas and Tiny's Cool Car. It gets funny because Tiny actually manages to TIE with Coop, because his car has finesse for some events that Megas doesn't, such as the Tractor Pull (Megas is too clumsy and just tears off the front bumper), and Stereo System (Tiny has more bass).
  • The Frankenstenian monstrosity Goat enters in the car show, claiming it's a sure winner. He's clearly built it out of at least four different cars.
  • After the show, not to mention the fight against the Glorft who crashed the party is over, who ends up winning? Kiva! Everyone was impressed by the way she fixed the CPU core that Coop had ruined (first by filling it with spray cheese and then by spiking it like a football because he got carried away after a chase with the Glorft).
  • Goat is flirting with a woman outside the show when Megas smashes through the wall, making her scream and run off. Goat, having his back turned, has no idea what her problem was and checks his breath.
  Goat: Sour cream and onion? Who doesnt love that?
• Manual mode, where Coop controls it using Power Glove-like things and a DDR pad. Obviously such a mode would be useful, right? Except for the fact Coop is so out of shape he can't even use it for a minute without getting exhausted.

"Buggin' the System"

TV Dinner

• When the TV goes out due to the villain, a horrified Coop leaps onto the table, splattering Jamie with food.
  • When Kiva says it's just TV, Coop imagines a world without TV - cue an Imagine Spot where children dance and frolick happily over a grassy field with broken TV's used as flower pots as the sun shines... and Coop, who for some reason is an old homeless guy in this scenario.
  Old Coop: No! Can't... let that happen!!
• Jamie's total fear at Coop's largest enemy—a living planet that eats everything. He's not impressed with Coop's bravado.
  Coop: So what, I've smashed bigger things before!
  Jamie: NO YOU HAVEN'T! THAT THING IS A FLIPPIN' PLANET!
• One of Coop's few displays of actual logic:
  Jamie: So, what about this "planet killer" guy?
  Coop: What are you worried about, then? You're not a planet!
• After dealing with a giant planet with a monstrous maw along with countless tentacles, we have this sparkling gem from Gorrath, whom we see from the beginning of the episode, has modified his ship to carry a gigantic beam weapon on the underside of his ship begin the charging sequence as he is pissed off at being defeated by Coop so many times over by now that he's resorted to just destroying the whole planet instead of recovering their 'Prototype' as his Second-in-Command states what will happen if they do so, with Gorrath replying "Your penchant for stating the obvious is getting old commander. OF COURSE IT WILL!". Just as it's about to fire, the remains of the aforementioned planet-sized creature, coupled with the classic "Pop Rocks & Soda" method that Coop used earlier to kill it, does tremendous damage to the ship, but also completely destroys their "Ultimate Planet Destroyer", deeply infuriating Gorrath yet again.
  (Gorrath's UPD device fully deploys, complete with a "chink" sound after a tiny antenna finishes the device's deployment)
  Gorrath: "Fire!"
  (as the Ultimate Planet Destroyer is about to fire...)
  Gorrath's Mook: "Uhhhhhh... Sir...?"
  Gorrath: "Wha?!"
  ( The remains of the planet-sized creature rain down upon the ship, and also detaches the Ultimate Planet Destroyer from Gorrath's Command Ship, which ends up utterly destroyed afterward, along with extensive damage to his ship)
  Gorrath: "Uggh... What was that...?"
  Gorrath's Second-in-Command: "Sir! All systems malfunctioning! And the Ultimate Planet Destroyer has been, umm... destroyed."
  Gorrath: "I lead the most feared armada in the universe, and one pathetic monkey-man continues to thwart me... HOW?! HOW DOES HE DO IT?!?!"
• Despite all his efforts, including destroying the Planet Eater and restoring the TV satellite, the cable is still out at Coop's place. Then Coop's mom calls from upstairs, asking if he remembered to pay the cable bill. Coop checks his pocket, and finds the very-much unpaid bill, which he'd used to spit out a piece of gum, then forgotten all about. Jamie and Kiva are not amused.

"Breakout"

• Earlier in the episode, Coop and Georgie are trying to outcompete the other about who is the better gamer, with Coops impressive resume making Georgie look rather pale. Georgie finally "wins" by stating he's beaten the latest "Love Those Lurps" (nr 7!!) game. Jamie's disgusted reaction at Georgie playing games meant for toddlers is just hilarious.
• Grrkek brags that he has the strength to destroy a thousand planets, and rhetorically asks Coop where he's going to start.
  Coop: Uh, I don't know.... Your mom's house?
  MEGAS gets punted
  • One fan analyzes this joke and realizes it has far more depth than one would initially expect from a Your Mom joke.
  Commentator: (Implying that his mom’s house is as big as a planet which indirectly calls her fat as well) + (Saying he should start with his mom’s house). This double yo momma joke is one of the best ever concieved.
• This bit:
  Coop: First, he smashes my car, which I was going to fix by the way! Then he breaks my video game-
  Jamie: Coop, you broke that.
  Coop: I'm on a roll here, man! And NOW he wants to break my planet?
• Grrkek's Fate Worse than Death. "I lerp you."
  Grrkek (after discovering that the Lerps just keep coming): "I demand you return me to my inter-dimensional prison!"

"Dude, Where's My Head?"

• Jamie asks Coop "Wasn't I always there for you?" and we then see a montage of Coop in situations where Jamie failed to show up. What sells it is how the montage ends with Coop somehow being stood up at Jamie's birthday party.
• After Jamie unknowingly takes control of Megas, the mech begins going crazy, jamming itself into the ground, flying about like crazy, and pounding itself on the head with a giant steel beam. Throughout the whole thing, there are multiple cuts to Gorrath watching silently in what almost looks like outright ''concern'' for the mech suddenly going insane◊. Then a little old lady in a car pulls up to an intersection as the light turns red. Megas takes a hit and plows across the intersection, leaving a massive trench in the street. The light turns green, and the little old lady drives right over the edge, complete with requisite scream.
• Goat and Tiny see Mecha-Megas and think that Coop gave Megas a new paint job. Gorrath is not amused by their apparent lack of intelligence.

"Bad Guy"

• The hot dog eating contest in the opening, where Coop predictably outclasses the competition, including a very professional japanese speed eater. Coop even keeps eating after winning, and he's still hungry afterwards!
  • A horrified Kiva claims the contest is the most horrific thing she's ever seen, both in this and her own time. Keep in mind that she originates from a Bad Future where humanity is fighting a losing war against an alien invasion!
• Ender gave us this:
  Ender: "Now I am free to conquer and destroy! Or destroy and conquer! Or just destroy!"
  • There's also Coop's reaction to being accused of being in league with Ender:
  Coop: "The only "league" i'm in is the Jersey City bowling league, and we ain't no threat to the Universe."
  Jamie: "Or even to the other bowlers."
  (Kiva face palms)
  Coop: (dejected) "Although the shirts are nice."
• It's got to be Coop emulating the Power Rangers Science Ninja Team Gatchaman S-force's Combining Mecha ability... by shoving Megas's arms and legs up the rear ends of their mecha as they sob from the violation. Then having it work.
• The ending where the S-Force become slackers and slobs just like Coop.

"Junk in the Trunk"

"DMV: Department of Megas Violations"

• Coop's Imagine Spot of using Megas to destroy the DMV while laughing like a madman. Said spot lasts nearly 30 seconds, which may not seem like much, but that's a half minute dedicated purely to destroying a single one-story building.
  • Even funnier is the small detail of the background. When Coop starts shooting, the buildings in the background look a certain way. When the dust clears before Coop starts blasting again, the background looks significantly different with bigger newer buildings set up. In Coop's fantasy, he spent literal YEARS shooting the DMV.
• Coop tries to get out of the written test by saying he needs to go save his friend from a giant monster. One of the other people taking the test tries the same excuse.
• This bit:
  Coop: This alien chick thinks she can get my ride towed, make me go to the DMV and take a road-test!? I DON'T NEED NO STINKING ROAD TEST!
  Jamie: Eh, dude, none of that stuff is her fault.
  Coop: Yeah...Well she's still trying to kidnap Kiva, that ain't cool neither.
• While doing the driving test, Coop ends up doing his usual Drives Like Crazy routine trying to keep up with Davros and Kiva, terrifying the supervisor. We then get this scene near the end:
  Coop: *annoyed by a high-pitched screaming* Jamie, stop screaming like a girl!
  Jamie: It's not me, it's him! *camera pans out to the supervisor shrieking and cowering in his seat*
  Coop: Hey, you, stop screaming like Jamie!
• When Coop is upset to learn that Darklos was after Kiva rather than him, Kiva decides to cheer him up by lying that Darklos was after him all along.
• During the credits the camera pulls back to show that Darklos is doing petty community service by picking up litter, and the Megas crew tormenting her by crumpling up bits of paper to throw on the ground for her to pick up. Another Call-Back to Downtown, which had the exact same credits gag, except with Alex and Jen doing the same to Chaka.

"Coop D'Etat"

• This bit:
  Coop: Listen here, you walking water heater. YOU guys attacked me.
  Jamie: Nope, that was you.
  Coop: YOU screwed up my warp drive.
  Kiva: You did that too.
  Coop: AND you made me miss the Monster Truck combat of the century!
  Jamie: Again, all you.
  Coop: Do ya mind? I'm on a roll here. Right! [Pause] What was I saying? Ah, forget it!

"The Driver's Seat"

• The episode has Coop end up getting captured by the Glorft after one of his ill-adviced modifications teleport him onto their mothership. Gorrath has him captured and brought to the dungeons for the Jack Bauer Interrogation Technique - except, this being Coop, Gorrath uses Cool and Unusual Punishment instead, by tempting him with a Mega Slush, then smashing it when Coop refuses. Coop screams in agony like he's being disembowled.
  • Gorrath's second attempt involves bringing in a cheesesteak and eating it in front of him. What makes this especially hilarious is that Gorrath clearly finds it revolting and has to force a smile. Not to mention Coops Tranquil Fury.
  Coop: I'm going to remember this when I'm back in my bot!
• Coop leads the Glorft on a massive chase through their mothership with just his car, destroying dozens of mechs. When they're finally cornered, he summons Megas to him, because where was the fun in just doing it from the start?
• Jamie and Kiva losing control of Megas and on a collision course with a Glorft carrier. One Glorft pilot looks at the other one and goes "I've always hated you." just before the whole thing explodes.
• Kiva and Jamie have a minor bonding moment while they're kept prisoner by the Glorft, and get along much better when they're back in Megas. Coop is a bit freaked out about how nice they're being to each other.
  Coop: Man, what did the Glorft do to you?
• The episode shows that Coop for some reason put in buttons saying "Destroy The World", "Smite The World", "Destroy The World WORSE" and "Save The World" (which is, of course, broken).

"Ultra Chicks"

• Goat, of all people, rubbing Jamie's failures with women in his face.
  Goat: A real hero would have gotten some digits. (Coop holds up paper with one of the Ultra Chicks number)
  • The credits show them on a date. With her in Ultra form.
• The scene where Jamie is bragging about all his victories to the swooning Ultra Chicks, and we see a flashback... which just shows his face crudely pasted on top of Coop's body (and Coop on Jamie's) while showing clips from his fights against the Glorft and Ender.
• Nova takes so long to finish transforming, that her teammates stare in disbelief at her continuing to spin long after they already finished changing.
• The Ultra Cadets are shocked when it turns out the fat sweaty slob is Coop.
  Goat: (Whispering to Coop) I'll give you five bucks if you tell them I'm your sidekick...

"The Return"

• In his second appearance, Magnanimous has escaped the vortex, sporting a rather nasty scar over one eye, and blames Coop for his new disfigurement - a minor facial twitch. The scar is never addressed at all.
• The whole character of T-Bot. He is the daringest, the uncaringest, the belt-wearingest bot in da' known or unknown universe! He will trounce you, flounce you, and utterly denounce you! Until Coop punches him out, asking "What ya got to rhyme with that, sucka?!"
  • Particularly funny when he rhymes himself into a corner and has to try to figure out more rhymes.
  • T-Bot is betrayed by Magnanimous, who's just been using him to take down Coop, and cuts him in half. When Coop reveals that Mags is broke and lied about there being a bounty on Coops head, Mags is chased through a portal by the angry fighters... including T-Bot who's dragging his torso through, rhyming about how he wants his cash.

"Don't Tell Mom the Babysitter's Coop"

• When Skippy calls Kiva a "chick":
  Kiva: Little boys like you are used as target practice for "chicks" like me.
• Coop accidentally drops the trigger, which lands on Coop's lap. Coop sighs in relief...causing his belly to press the trigger.

"Viva Las Megas"

• This exchange occurs whilst Goat and Georgie are at a video game contest, wondering when Coop is going to arrive:
  PA: AAAH!! There's a giant robot rampaging through the city!
  Goat: There he is!
  • When the 50's Robot drains the game convention center of power, all the gamers loudly complain... then immediatly whip out various portable systems and start playing those instead.
• RECR. The most patriotic robot ever that runs on a massive 56kb processor!
  RECR: "The enemy?" (Tapes rewind. Patriotic music plays.) "Everything is the enemy!"
  RECR: "But I must destroy and protect!"
  RECR: "All enemies must be destroyed because all enemies are my enemies!"
  Jamie: "Coop, this thing is more messed up than you are!"
  Coop: "Heh. Yeah."

"Thanksgiving Throwdown!"

"S-Force S.O.S."

• Jamie obsesses over Duchess to the point of being distracted from the seeming death of the entire team.

"Space Booty"

• Jamie repeatedly makes unreasonable demands to a food replicator (mostly girls), not getting that it only creates food.
  • Coop's order, which the replicator makes with no problem - deep-fried cheesesteaks wrapped in bacon. The meal is so greasy Coop ends up using it to refill Megas with oil.
• MEGAS's Fog Horn could not have gone off at a better time!

"Terminate Her"

• If the idea of shipping Jamie and Kiva wasn't bizarre enough (especially for Coop), it raises the possibility that he could have gotten together with Kiva's ancestor.
  [The two are Caught on the Jumbotron as "Caught In Love".]
  Tiny: Yo, man, that Jamie?
  Goat: Nah, that guy's with a girl.
  • Even funnier if you realize its a direct reference to a joke in the creators previous series, Downtown, with Alex and Serena in place of Jamie and Kiva.

"Ice Ice Megas"

• When Coop destroys a robot, not realizing it was the guardian:
  Jamie: Uh, he was like that when we got here.
  Kiva: Jamie, they saw us do it.

"A Clockwork Megas"

• This bit:
  Kiva: This device must only affect a robot with an artificial intelligence operating construct.
  Coop: Ha ha! Ya hear that!? You can't do nothin' to us, 'cause we don't have intelligence!
• When Klaar summons a giant satellite dish:
  Jamie: What's he gonna do? Make us watch some bad TV?
• At the climax:
  Coop: Alright, you brainwashing alien creep! You try to grind us up, you enslaved a bunch of innocent robots, and now you're making me late for spicy nuggets! I got one word for you, pal! Game over!
  Kiva and Jamie: Two words.
  Coop: Whatever!

"Universal Remote"

• Skalgar is incredibly tough, but absolutely no one takes him seriously because he's comically short. Still big compared to humans, but dwarfish compared to the usual giant aliens and robots.
• Skalgar went after Coop after picking up a transmission about his new universal remote. As in, Skalgar thought it was literally a universal remote that would allow him to rule the universe, not getting that it's just a remote control for home electronics.
• Jamie continually butchering Skalgar's name as "Schoolgirl."
• Overkill: Megas' targeting zeroes in on so many areas that Skalgar's mech is targeted in every place conceivable.

"Rearview Mirror, Mirror"

• When Coop accidentally triggers an alarm:
  Gorrath: Have I told you how much I hate you?
• Coop goes into one of his speeches before he goes into battle. The problem is he does it to Gorrath as they are working together.
  Coop: Sorry, force of habit.
• While complaining that he thought alternate universes would be cooler, Coop has an Imagine Spot about what kind of universes he'd like to visit - a planet covered with giant cheesesteaks, riding around on a giant version of his own head which he controls with a joystick like Pac-Man, and frolicking in a grassy meadow with a group of Lurps.
• This bit:
  Coop: We've still got 2 things, Megas and the element of surprise.
  (Megas springs a huge oil leak and warning sounds go off)
  Glorft Commander: At least we've still got the element of surprise.
• The final Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking of the series:
  Coop: Listen up, you jive clone wannabe! You wrecked my alternate dimension city, blew up my robot, and worst of all, made me SKINNY!
• After the final battle in "Rearview Mirror Part 2", Coop explains his experiences in the parallel world to Jamie and Kiva. But it's only when Coop mentions that the two of them were a couple in the parallel world that Jamie and Kiva question Coop's sanity. Parallel universes and evil versions of themselves, they can buy. But the two of them dating? Certainly not.

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