Funny / Moon Knight (2022)

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Just because this is the most serious and the darkest of the Marvel Disney+ shows, it doesn’t mean there aren’t some humorous moments to be found.

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In General

• Basically, when the show isn't being genuinely disturbing psychological horror, it's half Deadpool and half Venom, what with the mild-mannered Steven sharing his body with an irascible and violent person that sometimes controls the body without his permission and gets into some over-the-top Heroic Comedic Sociopath Black Comedy.
• Throughout advertising for the show, Khonshu is, understandably, presented as a terrifying figure. When the premiere finally drops, his first lines reveal him to be a Deadpan Snarker Jerkass God who regards Steven as a moron and a "parasite" and acts like he's stuck with two of the biggest idiots in the galaxy.

Episode 1: The Goldfish Problem

• Steven and his potential date are apparently going out for steak, with his manager asking him what a vegan would eat at a steak restaurant.
  Steven: I don't know... Bread? Salad?
  • Also the fact that Steve has no clue that he even asked her out.
• Steven has a date, but foresees potential problems:
  Steven: If I am going to have a girlfriend... at some point... I can't really have ankle restraints on the bed, can I? Definition of a red flag...
  • In a meta sense, some have joked that something like that isn't a total turn off for some people.
  • Steven is so socially awkward, his best friend and confidant is a living statue performer, who may only be putting up with Steven yammering at him because he doesn't want to break character (or because Steven is a conscientious tipper, even reminding others interacting with the living statue to do so).
• Steven wakes up in a village in the Alps with no idea how he got there. He sees a man looking out of a window and waves at him. The confused man waves back... before a second man asks what he's doing, and both open fire on a still-clueless Steven.
• When Arthur realizes Steven is hiding in the crowd, he commands everyone to bow down to him in Ancient Egyptian. Steven realizes what's happening too late and mutters "Oh, bollocks" before bowing down himself to blend in. It, naturally, doesn't work.
  • When Arthur identifies him as a mercenary, a confused Steven meekly replies that he's a "gift shop-ist". Arthur proceeds to address him as "Steven Grant of the gift shop" for the rest of the episode.
• When confronted by Harrow, Steven is willing to return the stolen scarab. Khonshu is not, and hijacks Steven's body, resulting in some hilarious facial expressions from Steven and a confused Harrow as his arms and legs completely refuse to obey him. Just as Steven is on the cusp of giving the scarab, Khonshu or Marc forcibly hijacks his body, causing him to march away in a ridiculous pose. Then, when that doesn't work and the scarab is taken away, Steven blacks out, then wakes up to see he had just committed murder. Cue Steven awkwardly trying to clear the air before running off.
• Khonshu muttering, "No. The idiot's back." whenever Steven takes control. He later threatens to kill both him and Marc if Arthur gets the scarab.
• Steven flees in a cupcake delivery truck, with the hilarity enhanced by the Soundtrack Dissonance of Wham!'s "Wake Me Up Before You Go-Go". It's probably the only MCU show where you'll see the hero shove a cupcake into a person's face as a weapon. Steven immediately apologizes to the person when it fails to work.
  • Steven overtakes a woman driving a truck full of chickens while trying to escape the assassins. Steven apologises for honking at them. She responds by giving him the finger.
  Steven: Charming.
  • One of his pursuers manages to jump into the cupcake van through the back door, but the tense moment is somewhat interrupted when Steven's erratic driving causes the man to stumble and end up temporarily buried under a pile of fallen cupcake boxes.
  • Khonshu warns Steven of a logging truck heading towards him. Steven’s resulting scream sounds like that of a dying elk.
  • The way Khonshu, an Ancient Egyptian god with F. Murray Abraham's voice, yells at Steven "Truck, stupid!"
  • While it's also a scary moment, Steven's reaction to waking up and discovering that he's driving the cupcake truck backwards and somehow has a gun in his hand is worth a laugh.
  • When Steven then throws the gun at the pursuing car as a panicked reflex, Khonshu's incredulous reaction is:

    Khonshu: Did he just throw the gun?!

    • One wonders if Steven was just thinking, "Random bullshit, go!" before throwing the gun away.
  • In his panic to try and restart the truck after its engine dies, Steven activates the windshield wipers. When he puts his hands up in the next scene, they're still wiping the broken windshield .
• After waking up in his flat from the cupcake truck chase, Steven notices that there's something wrong with his pet goldfish.^note The fish had one fin at the beginning, but suddenly now has two of them. He can only shout, "What the... fish!"^note Steven says the "WHAT THE-" part when noticing the sudden change in his goldfish at home, but the scene immediately cuts to him showing the fish at the pet store as he says "Fish."
  • He then takes said fish back to the pet shop in a blender pitcher.
  • For many, this conjured up the hysterical image of either Marc or Jake seeing that Steven's precious goldfish died upon returning from the Alps and frantically running around London looking for a pet shop that sold one-finned goldfish.
• Steven getting prepared for his date and checks himself in the mirror, only to be thoroughly disappointed with how he looks.
  Steven: (beat) You look like a knob.
• While Steven being chased by Khonshu into an elevator only for it to be a sweet old lady is certainly Nightmare Fuel, the conversation that follows lapses into this.
  Old Woman: [staring at Steven cowering on the ground]
  Steven: Lost a contact lens.
  Old Woman: Hope you find it.
  Steven: Thanks.
• When Harrow tells Steven that Ammit was betrayed by her avatar, Steve thinks he's talking about the movie or the "anime".
  • Throughout the conversation, you can just tell that Harrow is steadily losing his patience and really wants to drop his soft-spoken, charismatic cult leader exterior to tell Steven to shut the hell up as he nervously keeps interrupting him during his monologuing.
  • It's doubly funny when you know there are Otaku cringing when they hear the Animesque American cartoon being called an "anime."
• In an otherwise heartbreaking scene, the usually vegan Steven attempts to order a steak in a sort of meat-based version of Drowning My Sorrows, answering questions about cut and cooking level with 'the best bit of the steak' and 'good'. The poor waiter patiently transforms these into an actual order (and, no doubt to the dismay of many a viewer, this includes the steak being well-done).
  • The following scene, with Steven sadly eating the chocolates he bought for his date, is one part heartwrenching to two parts hilarious, especially when he offers fake Gus some sprinkles. In the shot where Steven finds Marc's hidden phone, he still has a single sprinkle stuck to his upper lip.
• Steven finds J.B. still watching otter videos and reports to him he feels he's being stalked. He then asks J.B. to not let anyone into the museum. J.B. responds that he can't really do that, since his job is letting people in.
• As Steven goes looking for what he thinks is a lost dog in the museum, you can see Marc is in the reflection watching him with an expression of disbelief, and his voice can be heard saying, 'What are you doing, Steven?' in the next shot.
• When Steven accidentally alerts the jackal to his presence and he screams, you can see that his mouth was forming "FUUUUUU-"
• There's an undercurrent of Black Comedy in the Curb-Stomp Battle Moon Knight delivers to the jackal-headed monster just recently pursuing Steven. From the perspective of this monster, it was pursuing a Non-Action Guy clearly scared out of his wits, and then that person turns around and utterly wrecks it with just its fists. Bullying a Dragon leading to Laser-Guided Karma has probably never happened that fast.

Episode 2: Summon the Suit

• As Steven tries to find evidence to prove he's not going crazy, his friend pulls up footage of Steven running from nothing. He's especially dismayed when he sees Steven running towards the bathroom.
  J.B.: What are you doing, you donut?
• Steven has another one-sided conversation with his "friend" the Living Statue performer. This time, we actually see the statue react with an uncomfortable side-eye during a Revealing Hug.
• Layla (Marc's wife) appears, and spends an extended period of the episode absolutely convinced that Steven is just Marc getting really into a cover story.
• Steven and Marc confront each other properly for the first time. Steven starts breaking down and saying he won't believe what Marc tells him, which gets funny when he says he doesn't care how "bloody handsome" Marc is, when he looks exactly like Steven.
  • Earlier, Steven chalks up their talk as a hallucination.
    Steven: I eat one piece of steak and then bam, I go bonkers.
• Steven tries to escape the warehouse and runs into Khonshu. Cue him letting out the girliest scream ever (complete with freeze frame).
• When Layla suddenly brakes as she and Steven are on the road, Steven has a particularly amusing expression as he gets to wrap his arms around what is probably the first woman he's embraced in his life.
• When the police come knocking at Steven's door, Layla asks why. His response is "I vandalized the toilet".
• Harrow greets Steven by once again addressing him as "Steven Grant of the gift shop". He then proceeds to show him around the place he and his followers have set up, which includes a random goat that Steven points out, much to Arthur's pride.
• Shortly before this, Harrow realizes that Steven can see Khonshu, who he sees as standing right behind Harrow. Khonshu then orders Steven to kill Harrow and break his windpipe. The way he says it brings to mind Palpatine telling Anakin to “Dew it” and makes the scene unintentionally funny.
  • Harrow spending part of his conversation with Steven mocking Khonshu, calling him a child throwing a tantrum (by throwing gusts of air all over the place and knocking objects down) knowing full well he can't do anything to him. Also, Harrow's ability to guess exactly what Khonshu is saying despite being unable to see or hear him, apparently from experience.
    Harrow: What's he saying now? "I am real justice!"
• Shortly after, Harrow speaks to one of his cultists in some impressively bad Mandarin Chinese, which he tries to justify to Steven by claiming that he has his followers aspire to learn at least three different languages.
  Simu Liu: Alright, Arthur Harrow needs to fire his Mandarin teacher.
• When Harrow threatens Steven with the cane of Ammit and he claims that he doesn’t want to use it, Steven shrugs and responds “Then don’t” in the most petulant way possible.
• After Layla and Steven barricade themselves in a room to get away from Harrow's followers, Steven bemoans how he's "going to die in an evil magician's man cave".
• How does the kickass Mr. Knight persona come into the fray? Steven hits his head on a pipe while falling from a building and misinterprets the "suit" as meaning an actual fancy suit. As in, one from a tailor. Marc is appropriately annoyed.
  Marc: Oy, Steven, what the hell are we wearing?
  Steven: I don't know, she said I needed a suit.
  Marc: Yeah, the ceremonial armor from Khonshu's temple, not psycho Colonel Sanders.
  • The Mr. Knight suit forms as Steven is falling out of a window, allowing him to make a Three-Point Landing when he hits the ground. Steven's clearly not used to this sort of thing, as he immediately topples onto his side in pain.
  • As Steven tries to make sense of the whole suit thing, he can't help but admire how handsome he looks in the reflection.
  • When we see Steven get pounced on by the jackal shortly after, the reflection of Marc gets startled by it.
  • Steven says that he can fight toe-to-toe with the jackal monster via boxing and rolls up his sleeves to do so. He also uses a lot of gratuitous British slang in his excitement to land a punch.
    Steven: [singsong] Float like a butterfly, sting like a bee! My name’s Steven, with a "V"!
    Steven: [after he slugs the beast] WAGWAN! I DID IT! YOU GOT PLANTED! HAHA! Layla, did you see that?!
  • Steven is fighting as Mr. Knight against a beast out of Egyptian mythology. To everyone else, who can't see the monster, he's just some fancy drunk, punching and getting his ass kicked by nothing.
    • Even though Layla knows for a fact that some invisible monster is trying to kill them, even she has a "WTF" look on her face watching all this.
  • The advertising presented Mr. Knight as an intimidating figure with some swagger. His debut episode shows he is just the same adorkable Steven in a fancy magic suit.
  • Steven’s wagwan brings to mind Kingo's dishoom.

Episode 3: The Friendly Type

• Marc being just completely annoyed by the thugs at the beginning of the episode, first just blandly bummed they already killed the guy Marc needed to talk to, and then, as they perform flashy knife tricks in preparation for attacking him, Marc sarcastically asks if they're fighting or dancing.
• While Marc is fighting against three thugs in Egypt, one of them has the guts to lick their own blade in a smug matter, right in front of Marc... and is immediately punched in the face (by the ever-so-savvy Marc) in the midst of showing off.
• When Marc realizes that one of the thugs is just a teenager, he opens his fist and just gives him a slap, like he is disciplining a misbehaving child rather than one trying to kill him.
  • You can almost hear Yelena exclaim "What was that?!"
• Marc attempts to threaten the last of the three thugs by dangling him over a cliff, but the kid deliberately throws himself to his death. Not funny. Khonshu looking down and apparently being genuinely baffled? Blackly hilarious.
  Khonshu: [casually] Huh. I thought he'd talk.
• Steven calls Khonshu a "stupid pigeon".
  • Funnily enough, if you look up a pigeon's skull online, it actually does have a startling resemblance to Khonshu's head.
• When Khonshu starts talking through him, Marc's eyes are glancing around, clearly not able to believe what's being spoken through his mouth.
• The shoe is on the other foot this time, with Marc blacking out, Steven taking control, and Marc coming back in a strange situation with no idea how he got there. The first one? He's in a cab heading for the airport. Oh, Steven...
• Marc is trying to piece together a map, turns around when he hears a noise, and finds a man pointing a gun at his head. Marc instinctively grabs the gun from and turns it around in one movement. Then Layla calls attention to the fact they have her at gunpoint, and Marc just... hands the gun back.
• Hathor's avatar being oddly flirty with Marc, and by extension Khonshu, until one of the others calls her away in a tone that's pure "Can we wrap this up? We've got shit to do."
• When Layla and Marc are trying to piece together the clues from Senfu’s sarcophagus, Marc is agitated by Layla's insistence to let Steven handle this. He finally gives in, tears off the side mirror of the car so he'll be able to talk to Steven, gathers the scrapings, drops them in the sand, and then lets Steven take over. From the way he is acting, Marc actually appears to be jealous over Steven getting his wife's attention and is being petty to get back at him.
• Khonshu Chewing the Scenery through Marc during Harrow's trial is rather amusing in contrast to the other gods' comparatively sedate attitudes.
• Steven, horrified by Marc killing people during the fight over the sarcophagus, forcibly takes back control during the fight to try and call a timeout. When he immediately gets stabbed by two spears, he quickly gives Marc control back.
  Steven: (gets stabbed) Marc! Take! The body! (gets stabbed again) Take the body, take the body Marc!!

Episode 4: The Tomb

• The opening scene of this episode is pure tension, with some of Harrow’s goons catching up to Layla and Steven’s location. Steven is unconscious from losing Khonshu, and Layla has no weapons to fight against the machine gun-armed vehicle. So she improvises and uses a flare to set off their ammo and blow them up. As she stares at the destruction and death, the camera pans to reveal… Steven just standing there gobsmacked off to the side. She then turns to him and asks “What?”, to which he has no response.
• Marc and Steven arguing briefly in the tent. It eventually diverts into them arguing about Layla, and ends with Marc threatening to “throw [them both] off a cliff!”.
  • Steven’s response to Marc’s threats is to sarcastically tell him that he’ll call him if he needs advice on how to make a protein shake.
• Steven tells Layla that it's just "you, me, and the open road" the exact moment that they run out of road and have to disembark to pass through a gorge.
• Marc briefly takes over Steven to punch him in the nose for kissing Layla.
  • For that matter, the kiss itself. Steven is clearly... not experienced, with Layla’s face during it expressing this perfectly.
• After the awkward kiss, Layla tells Steven she’s gonna go down... the cliff first before she belays. Steven’s wide-eyed look and reaction before he realizes what she actually meant sells the scene.
• Layla descends into the tomb with rope just fine. Steven follows… not so gracefully.
  • Though it could just be Steven being clumsy, given Marc’s earlier threat of throwing themselves off a cliff if Steven made a move on Layla, it’s not hard to believe he briefly took control to make Steven fall.
  • Upon landing, Steven first declares a soft "I wish you hadn't seen that." Then he says, in an extremely awed voice, "Look at you!" Layla smiles awkwardly, clearly thinking that he's flirting with her, before realizing that Steven is actually staring at the guardian sphinx statues behind her. She agrees, sounding only slightly disappointed, that they're magnificent.
  • "If they just sprang to life right now and asked me a riddle for passage, I'd be thrilled. I'd shit myself, but I'd be thrilled!"
    • A bit of fridge funny — riddles are associated with the Greek sphinx, not the Egyptian kind. However, the tomb turns out to be that of Alexander the Great, who was Macedonian/Greek, which means Steven was accidentally correct!
• Steven digs into Alexander the Great's mummified mouth to get the ushabti. That's pretty unnerving. Marc gleefully cheering him on as Steven has his hand in Alexander's mouth? Priceless.
  Steven: Sorry. Oh, God. So sorry. Sorry, Mr. Great.
• The fact that Steven Grant is a fictive alter based on a trashy Indiana Jones knock-off called Tomb Busters.
• As Marc and Steven (in separate bodies) move through the asylum, Marc sees another sarcophagus with someone trying to get out. Deducing that this is the more violent third alter, Marc concludes it's better to leave him locked up and moves on. When Steven see it, he hesitates before looking at Marc like he's thinking "Are we just leaving him there? Okay, guess we are." and continues following Marc.
• The episode ends with the goddess Taweret being introduced by opening the doors, which terrifies both Marc and Steven. Sounds tense... except Taweret is a talking hippo goddess, and the resulting screams of terrified shock are hilarious.
  (Beat as everyone stares)
  Taweret: [sweet girly voice] Hi!
  Marc and Steven: [simultaneous screaming]
  • Even better is that Steven still has the higher-pitched scream. And if you pay attention, it's Marc who screams first.
  • Take a look at their body language: Steven is stepping backwards while waving back at Taweret, and Marc has his hands curled into fists.
  • Even more hilarity comes from the fact that out of everything Marc has been through, a talking hippo goddess is the thing making him scream in panic.
  • Even funnier is that in the following episode, Taweret herself is screaming alongside them.
  • Just before Tawaret greets them and they start screaming, Steven and Marc are both sporting wonderful 'What the actual hell is going on?!' facial expressions.

Episode 5: Asylum

• The sheer dissonance of Taweret. She is a towering, immortal god, yet she speaks in a girly voice and needs cheat sheets to help her remember her lines and the rules of the afterlife! Steven is overjoyed at getting to experience the Duat for real, while Marc is facepalming at how much trouble she's having.
  Marc: (running his hand over his face) Oh wow, these drugs are amazing...
  • Said cheat sheets are, of course, papyrus scrolls.
  • At first, Marc and Steven are happy that they aren't dead. Taweret cheerfully explains that they're definitely dead.
  • However, the more she explains, the more Marc is convinced that he's hallucinating this, to the point that he's shocked and then relieved when he opens a door and sees the Duat instead of a room full of mental patients.
    Marc: We go through here, there's gonna be a bunch of patients, and there's Crawley, probably about to yell Bing- OHHHH OH MY GOD!
  • She pulls out Marc and Steven's hearts and is glad that she did it right, or else she would've made their chests explode.
    Steven: What?
  • Steven wonders why, if the Duat is supposed to appear as something more comprehensible to the deceased, why it's a psych ward for them. Marc bluntly declares that it's because they are insane.
  • As Steven is explaining how souls are weighed on the scale to determine their fate, Taweret interjects with a hilarious bit of Mood Whiplash:
    Marc: What if it won't balance?
    Taweret: [cheerfully] You get thrown overboard! [makes an arcing gesture with her hand] Wheeee-boom!
• Marc "wakes up" to find himself in an interview with Dr. Harrow, who says he is pretty sure he's real, unlike the rhinoceros Marc was talking about. Marc immediately points out he actually said hippopotamus.
  Dr Harrow: [completely sincerely] Oh yes, sorry. That's right, it was a hippopotamus.
• Taweret tells Marc and Steven that, should their souls prove to be unbalanced, they will be thrown off the boat and made to dwell in the Lily Lake, where they will become stone. Marc's solution? "Kill the hippo, steal the boat." When Steven points out how ridiculous that suggestion is, Marc offers that they don't have to kill her and suggests they find some rope.
• When Steven emerges during Dr. Harrow's session, the first thing he instinctively does is splash the cup of water Marc was holding into Harrow's face. He quickly apologizes for that.
• As understandable as Steven's anger is when he socks Marc in the jaw for keeping the truth of his past hidden from him, the fact that it ends up hurting his own hand more adds a bit of levity to the moment.
• Steven describing Dr. Harrow's appearance as "very Ned Flanders".
• In the climax, Steven grabs a baseball bat, attacks one of Marc’s attackers and yells “SIX!” as he hits them. Then he explains “I prefer Cricket!”

Episode 6: Gods and Monsters

• Taweret steering her boat to stop the sands from enveloping Marc and Steven as she tells them to keep going.
  Steven: WOOHOO!! HIPPO!!!
• The Mood Whiplash of Taweret speaking to Layla through dead soldiers Harrow has just "judged" with Ammit's power. The corpses struggle to turn towards Layla and keep going limp again like Taweret is having trouble holding on. This combined with the Vocal Dissonance of them all speaking in Taweret's plummy British female voice makes the scene darkly hilarious. The corpses even repeat her tendency to gesture wildly with her hands while speaking. Given that is the first time Taweret is meeting Layla, and she's borderline squeeing about how Steven and Marc has said great things about her — and bear in mind, Layla thinks they are dead! — it's delightfully absurd.
  • Later, after Osiris's avatar dies and Layla finally asks for Taweret's help, Taweret takes over the avatar's corpse and, well...
    Tawaret: LAYLAAAAAAAAAAAA!
• Taweret is brimming with excitement over Layla becoming her avatar, while Layla is clearly uncomfortable with the situation and has to remind Taweret that it's temporary. All the while, the ceiling is collapsing on top of them.
  • Said ceiling, as it collapses onto them, cuts into Taweret giddily talking about a fabulous outfit she has prepared for Layla as her new avatar.
    • Given Taweret's characterization, it's easy to imagine her spending some of her spare time sketching up costume ideas, thinking "If I ever get to have an avatar of my own..." like a kid dreaming of getting a puppy or kitten for Christmas.
  • Throughout the conversation, as Taweret takes over Layla to speak, she gesticulates profusely, and when Layla comes back she sounds like she's gasping for air.
• Khonshu's annoyance over Steven making a new deal with him because he was talking to Marc and the timing is bad. Steven tells the god he's going to have to put up with it, because he and Marc are a package deal now.
• When Steven questions how they'll be able to get to the pyramids in time to stop Harrow, Khonshu boastfully reminds him that he's the god of the night sky. This is then followed by a "Hurry up, idiots!" when Steven switches with Marc.
• Steven has to momentarily adjust his suit when he's in a fight.
• How does the season (initially) end? With Marc waking up in Steven's apartment and eating the floor as he falls due to the ankle leash he has on his bed.
• The Stinger has Khonshu show up in the limo wearing Steven's Mr. Knight suit, which is hilarious considering how much he despises Steven, or even more funny if you consider he stole the idea from him.
• While the scene that follows it is a mix of Awesome and Nightmare Fuel, Jake spitefully kicking Harrow's wheelchair out of the way after he gets him in the limo is just flat-out hilarious.
  • On that note, there's something dissonantly and darkly hilarious about someone like Jake driving a limo with Marc's name on the vanity plate.
• Also right before the horrifying scene, while Khonshu is doing his usual speech, Harrow is sitting there wordlessly mocking him by doing a "blah blah blah" gesture with his hand, continuing the line of people that really do not respect Khonshu whatsoever.
  • Also, considering how serious Arthur had been up to this point, him stooping to such childish mockery is amusing in of itself.
  • Considering he's still holding Ammit within him, it's just as funny to imagine that the gesture is actually from her.

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