You must admit, what little we see of Gordy's Home before everything goes to hell is somewhat humorous. A highlight is the father bragging about the watch he got Gordy the chimp before remembering Gordy can't tell time.
After Em steals one of Jupe's display horses, Jupe soon comes by to ask about it, seeing as the Haywoods are his only neighbors. Em quickly tries to bluff her way out of admitting she stole it from him, such as cutting off his question of where she got it by asking where he got his. Angel also tries to add to the conversation, but OJ and Em cut him off. In the end, Jupe's so confused that he just leaves.
Jupe:I-... I'M NOT REALLY SURE, MY WIFE WOULD KNOW!
Angel:OKAY! THANKS FOR STOPPING BY!
(OJ shushes Angel)
Em: Why the- You don't live here!
Angel: Sorry... I'm trying to help...
Before leaving, Jupe tries to invite them to the Star Lasso Experience and takes out a flyer, which immediately gets blown out of his hand by the wind. Considering what happens later, it's almost like if Mother Nature herself is saying "nope" to keep the trio away.
OJ later finds said flyer sticking out of a pile of horse droppings.
Right after arriving to help install the cameras, Angel compliments the Haywood sibling's ranch for its open space and then suddenly screams in frustration. Turns out he's dealing with a recent breakup with his girlfriend who left him to star in a pilot for The CW.
OJ's first encounter with the aliens is scary as hell... and then it's revealed that they're just Jupe's sons pulling a prank in retaliation for Em's theft, which we find out when OJ decks one of them in the face. When the kids turn up for the Star Lasso Experience, one of them is sporting a shiner.
OJ sees one "visitor" and continues to look on in curiosity...until another one quietly reveals itself. As he is wont to do, OJ quietly declares "Nope" to himself and turns tail.
Em tries to declare a personal feud against the Park kids for pranking them, until OJ reminds her that she did steal one of their display horses, at which point she backs down, as if to say, "Fair enough."
Em: What happened?
OJ: The Park kids. Jupe's sons... And they let Clover out, man!
Em: What?! They tryin' to prank Haywood?! It's ON!
Angel’s "pop quiz" question to the group while watching the reporter try to leave: "What happens when an electric bike going 60 miles per hour hits an anti-electric field going in the opposite direction?"note Special mention goes to Angel's delivery of the line as if he's been waiting his whole life to ask such a question. The group immediately gets their answer: the motorcycle stops dead in its tracks, and the reporter gets launched like a ragdoll.
Another very darkly funny moment comes when Jean Jacket crushes him to bits instants after sucking him up. It was willing to put up with an entire bleacher of people shrieking for help inside of it for hours on end, but just a few seconds of this guy on his own was too much.
When OJ returns to the ranch with Lucky, he notices that Jean Jacket is over the ranch house. His attempt to get Emerald and Angel quickly fails when he realizes that Jean Jacket is also over him. His response is to quietly get back in the car and once again proclaim "Nope," deciding to wait it out.
When Jean Jacket regurgitates the display horse right through his windshield, OJ decides on one more layer of security to be sure, and locks the car door — as if that's going to do anything should the colossal monstrosity decide that it's still hungry.
During Emerald's Establishing Character Moment, she flubs the speech about her family connection to Alastor Haywood, the first ever person recorded on film.
Emerald: And that man is my great-great-grandfather!
OJ: Great.
Emerald:There's another great! ...grandfather.
While she's giving her spiel, OJ stands in the background, looking into the middle distance with a combination of embarrassment and irritation.
Later in the film, Emerald puts on a VHS tape in which Otis Sr. is giving the same speech, showing that she was emulating him word-for-word but didn't take the extra generation into account.
Em bitterly notes that Otis Sr. was supposed to teach her how to train a horse, but got called for a movie shoot and never got the chance. OJ was there with him; it was for The Scorpion King, and he grouses that they used camels in the final film.
OJ and Em enthusiastically doing low-fives with each other over Antlers Holst being smart enough to bring a homemade IMAX camera that is hand-cranked instead of electrical (so it won't be disabled by Jean Jacket).
Angel’s rants about aliens and extraterrestrial life are quite humorous as well.
Meeting Jupe for the first time in the film, OJ attempts to negotiate with him over the ranch, only for Emerald to constantly interrupt him over the fact that Jupe was a star on a show she used to watch as a kid. Then Jupe himself interrupts the conversation to show Emerald his collection of items he received from the show, which just causes OJ to give up on the negotiation altogether.
During one of their encounters with Jean Jacket, Emerald is told by Angel that they’re in the clouds. Emerald yells at OJ that JJ is in the clouds. OJ—who is looking directly at the clouds and sees Jean Jacket—just mutedly responds “Mmm, hmm.”
When the Haywood siblings are calling Antlers Holst to help them get the "impossible shot," they end up having a brief argument—forgetting that Holst is on the other line and they’re still on speaker phone.
While it's super grim and horrifying when Jean Jacket lets the blood and guts of its prey drip all over the Haywood home, it's a little funny when you realize that this Kaiju essentially pooped on the main characters' house.
And then it very deliberately spits the plastic horse they fed it earlier at OJ. There’s just something funny that a surreal, alien predator can be so petty. Especially with OJ very slowly driving the truck with a bloodstained model horse still lodged in the windshield.
Amusingly, even Jean Jacket had its own "Nope" moment: When it was chasing OJ, the latter deliberately released a rainbow pennant right at the last moment, banking on the predator's capability to learn from its negative past experience with the pennants. Indeed, the alien's immediate reaction was to swerve away from OJ, allowing the other protagonists to get good photos of it. Unfortunately, that angered Jean Jacket enough to attack everything else.
OJ, Em, and Angel go to get fast food after escaping being eaten by Jean Jacket. While they're discussing returning to the house, members of two local football teams get into a fight in the parking lot. Our main characters ignore them, and this is never brought up again for the rest of the film.
How the alien is finally killed. It mistakes the Jupiter’s Claim balloon of the park mascot for a rival, and gets blown to shreds when it eats and pops the balloon.
In a way, its reaction when it first sees the balloon, which mirrors perfectly the huge "What the hell are you!?"-response that Jean Jacket has invoked in everyone else looking at it so far.
It's blink and you'll miss it, but Angel openly apologizes to the Star Lasso victims as he steals their abandoned cars' batteries to power the inflatable tube men for the final scheme.
Earlier, when Angel is getting supplies for the plan (including several materials that weren't completely legally obtained), he immediately drops a box he's loading into the Fry's Electronics van when he hears a police siren pass.
The fact that the official soundtrack not only includes Antlers Holst’s dramatic reading of "Flying Purple People Eater", but also the version of "Sunglasses at Night" that was distorted by Jean Jacket, which is called "Sunglasses at Night (Jean Jacket Mix)".
After the Haywoods get fired from the film shoot, you can see the stagehands wheeling in a ridiculous-looking fake green-screen horse as a replacement in the background.
Could be counted as a Crosses the Line Twice case but Emerald yelling "Run, OJ, run!'' can induce this reaction. Bonus points for serving as a possibly-unintentional Brick Joke to the actress from the film set in OJ's first scene becoming slightly unnerved upon hearing him called that.
Em and Angel arguing after he activates the sky dancers.
Emerald: Where is the feed for Holst's camera? Over.
Angel: Couldn't figure it out. Over.
Emerald: What you mean, you couldn't figure it out? Over.
Angel: Um, Holst is shooting on a film camera, and all of our cameras are digital, so it's a whole thing. Over.
Emerald: Basically, you forgot about it. Over.
Angel: Yeah, well, I had my hands full rigging 50 fucking sky dancers to dead people's car batteries all connected to one control panel. So, yeah, fucking over. Sorry. I'm scared.
" question to the group while watching the reporter try to leave: "What happens when an electric bike going 60 miles per hour hits an anti-electric field going in the opposite direction?"note The group immediately gets their answer: the motorcycle stops dead in its tracks, and the reporter gets launched like a ragdoll.