Funny / My Big Fat Greek Wedding

• "I'm a snow beast."
  • Also, Toula's zit being Serious Business amongst her bridesmaids.
• The first reveal of the house Toula's parents live in. Modeled after the Parthenon. Very obvious Greek influence. There's no possible way anyone could mistake where this family is proud that they hail from. "How much more obvious could it be that they're Greek?" you may ask. Well, not obvious enough, as the camera then pans to the garage door, which has the Greek flag painted on it.
• Ian getting beaten up by an old lady after bumping into her.
• Almost every scene with Gus's mom, a tough old biddy who survived the war with Turkey and has long since run out of damns to give.
  • She punches Gus in the stomach less than thirty seconds into her introductory scene, believing he's a Turk, then makes a run for it.
    Toula: We told Grandma the war was over, but she still slept with a knife under her pillow.
  • When the family is chewing Toula out for her secret relationship with Ian, Grandma is sitting in the background chugging a beer.
  • She apparently likes to sneak into their neighbor Mrs. White's house, and Mrs. White is over it.
    Mrs. White: Keep your mother off my lawn, out of my basement, and away from my ROOF!
• "Put some Windex on it." Becomes a Brick Joke when Ian and Toula are in the car on the way to their reception.
  • "Last night, my toe was as big as my face."
• Since the Church isn't used to adults converting, Ian is baptised in a kiddie-pool.
• "He don't eat no meat? What do you mean he don't eat no meat?!" [Stunned Silence] "Oh, that's okay. I make lamb."
• Nick decides to troll Ian by pretending to be a violently protective little brother. Angelo joins in without hesitation. "Hey, Ian! We're gonna kill ya!"
  • "OPAAAAAAAHHH!!!"
• "Rodney and Harry?!"
  • Becomes a Brick Joke at the wedding reception, when the two are invited to dance, and by now have gotten a bit plastered on ouzo, so Rodney gets Harriet up to dance with a drunken "Let's go, Harry!"
• "Why you want to leave meeeee?!"
• "Toula, the man may be the head of the house, but the woman is the neck, and she can turn the head any way she likes!" (Cut to the mother getting angry with the father until he agrees with her)
• "So, we have apples and oranges. We're all different, but... in the end we're all fruit!" It Makes Sense in Context, but is no less funny.
• The slapstick moment involving a telephone cord when Ian first enters the travel agency.
  • "I thought you fainted!"
• "Hey, everybody! I have three testicles!" Long silence, and then Ian runs after the brothers who gave him the wrong translation.
  • A blink-and-you-miss moment, but out of all the relatives laughing at Ian, one relative just gives a long, incredulous stare at Ian's lower half.
  • In a similar moment, Ian inadvertently tells Maria she has nice boobs. She stares at him for a moment, then smacks her son.
• Ian's parents think they're going to get a quiet get together for their first time meeting Toula's parents. Instead, they arrive to a large party with the entire family, complete with a lamb being spit-roasted in the front yard and free-flowing ouzo. The stunned looks on their faces as Ian pulls up are priceless.
  • Gus introduces Ian and his parents to his own family and the introductions end with Gus pointing out a very long series of Nicks.
    Gus: Nick, Nick, Nick, Nick, Nick, eh, Nikki...
  • Then Aunt Voula sits down with Ian's parents and tells them the story of the lump on the back of her neck.
  • Harriet brought a bundt cake. Maria has no idea what to make of such a thing.
    Maria: There's a hole in this cake.
  • Later, Maria triumphantly produces the bundt cake, now with a flower pot in the center! One of the aunts can be heard shouting that she fixed it.
• Ian's parents are confused at the Greek Orthodox wedding ceremony. When his mother mentions that she has no idea what's going on, his father gently quips, "It's all Greek to me!" leading to her elbowing him and quiet giggling between the two of them.
• In the sequel, when Maria and Gus' wedding planner quits on them, the family hastily discusses how they're even going to fund the wedding in the first place. When someone mentions that traditionally the parents of the bride and groom pay for it, everyone looks expectantly at Yaiyia. She gets a bit of an Oh, Crap! face...before closing her eyes and slumping over as if she's asleep.

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