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At least his bounty’s not fifty like Chopper.

Here is a list of many moments from when our hilarious crew of nut jobs were first starting out.

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Super Rookies Era

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East Blue Saga

Romance Dawn Arc

• In the first chapter of the manga, the Red Hair Pirates are trying to convince Shanks to let little kid Luffy along on one of their voyages. Shanks' response?
  Shanks: Okay, but one of you will have to stay behind...
  Pirates: (Walking off laughing) Sorry, laddy, you've just been beached! Let's drink!
  Luffy: Hey! I thought you guys were on my side!
• Shanks' reaction to Luffy eating the Gum-Gum Fruit:
  Shanks: Luffy, you just ate the Gum-Gum Fruit, part of a group called the Devil Fruits: Eating any of them takes away your ability to swim for the rest of your life, but the one you ate also turns your body to rubber!
  Young!Luffy: No way! It can't!
  Shanks: YOU DUMBASS!!
• The first introduction of Luffy against an enemy was Alvida of the Iron Mace, who demanded to be called the most beautiful woman of the sea despite her, ahem, large appearance. Luffy's first comment towards her? "Who's the tough-looking old biddy?"
  • It gets better in the Funimation dub, where Luffy says "Who's the fat lady?" Alvida's crew's reaction is freaking priceless.
    • Even better in Finnish manga translation:
      "Who's that ass-faced tart?"
  • "In all the seas, Alvida is... the Rudest. Damned. Bitch."
  • Koby has a nervous breakdown about not being able to join the Marines because of being Alvida's cabin boy. Luffy responds by bonking him on the head.
• At the beginning of Chapter 2, the monologue says it all:
  Luffy: Too bad I can't swim, too. Ha! What was I thinking? In a giant whirlpool, it doesn't really make a difference if you can swim or not! I'd drown even if I could swim! YIKES! AAAA!
• When Luffy decides to slingshot up Capt. Morgan's base, Morgan is having his men erect a statue of himself at the top balcony. Luffy nearly overshoots, and grabs onto the statue to keep from flying over the base. This ends up knocking the entire thing over, smashing the statue to pieces. Cue the Mass "Oh, Crap!" as all of the sailors watch in horror.
  Luffy: Um... Sorry.

Orange Town/Buggy Arc

• The beginning of Episode 4 when Nami cons three of Buggy's men out of their boat and their treasure, after which they get sunk by a coldfront.
  • Near the end, there's Luffy attempting to catch a bird in the air only for him to get caught in its beak.
• In the manga, after Luffy beats Mohji with one punch, the lion tamer manages to get back to Buggy, but passes out before he can finish warning Buggy about Luffy's Devil Fruit power. He only manages to say "watch out for the rub-", and Buggy takes this to mean that Luffy is a masseuse and defeated Mohji with "some sort of diabolical rubbing technique".
• Luffy delivers a bone-crushing (literally — sound effects included) Groin Attack on Buggy. Even the ladies were feeling that one!
  • Even funnier, there's a brief panel in the manga where Luffy briefly notices Buggy's lower half just standing by, with one or two panels between this and the aforementioned Groin Attack, heavily implying that he was planning said nut shot the whole time!
    • In the English dub, Buggy complains that it was a cheap shot.
  • "This is Buggy." Very random, adds an extra gasped laugh to the package.
  • The anime refines this as only an expertly directed animated adaptation can. First, we see the top half of Buggy fly off chasing Nami. Luffy turns and takes a Beat to notice the lower half just standing there. Then, just as Buggy catches up and the picture shows him zooming towards the foreground, GONG! Stopped cold just inches from Nami. Next cuts, we see a dead-serious Luffy and then the groin shot, complete with the sound of crushing glass. Then Luffy turns and kindly reminds him I Am Your Opponent.
    Sarged117: Without question, and I truly mean this, the best, most perfectly timed, setup, drawn, executed, voice acted and sound engineered nut shot in history. Any joke doesn't have to new, exciting, original or particularly classy BUT when flawlessly performed, THAT'S when it becomes funny. Case in point, we have One Piece taking the crudest of the crude slapstick jokes and raising it to an art form. Bravo.
  • The next two parts of the fight are funny as well. Buggy decides to chop into smaller pieces, but then Luffy notices Buggy's feet. He grabs one of them and distracts him from chasing Nami by torturing it. Then, in a moment that's both funny and awesome (and a hint of Nami's potential), Buggy in a rage decides to reassemble himself...only to learn Nami's tied up most of his parts, leaving him just a tiny little thing helpless for Luffy's final Twinkle in the Sky attack.
• After Buggy's defeat, Luffy proves that he has virtually no concept of when telling the truth may not be a good idea when he admits to being a pirate and that he punched out the mayor (not mentioning that the latter was to prevent the man from getting killed trying to fight Buggy).^note Then again, as they're getting the hell out of town, Luffy remarks that the circumstances would probably have resulted in everyone chasing them regardless.

Syrup Village/Usopp Arc

• The Power Trio meet Usopp
  Usopp: I have eighty million men poised to stop you.
  Nami: Liar!
  Usopp: Darn! She saw through me!
  Nami: (Sweatdrop) See? I knew it.
  Usopp: (Squirming about) Darn! I admitted I lied! She's a master of interrogation!
  Luffy: Ha ha ha ha! You're funny!
  Usopp: Hey! Are you laughing at me!?
• This exchange within the Usopp arc, as Nami put a fright in the Usopp Pirates:
  Ninjin: Hey, you pirates!
  Piiman: What did you do to our Captain Usopp?!
  Tamanegi: Give us back our Captain!!
  Luffy: Yum Yum! What a delicious meat!
  Piiman, Tamanegi, and Ninjin: Huh...Meat...?! He...He ate the Captain?!
  (Nami giggles)
  Zoro: Your Captain...
  Piiman, Tamanegi, and Ninjin: Wh...What!? What did you do...?!
  Zoro: We just... (evil face) ...ate him.
  Piiman, Tamanegi, and Ninjin (looking at Nami): GYAAAAAAAHHHHHH!!!! OGRESS!!
  Nami (understandably pissed off): WHY ARE YOU LOOKING AT ME!?
  (Zoro laughs contentedly as Piiman, Tamanegi, and Ninjin pass out on the restaurant floor)
  Nami: Why did you tell them those weird things?!?'
• Usopp and Luffy are spying on Kuro and Jango, only to learn that they plan to assassinate Kaya. Instead of keeping out of sight with Usopp, Luffy stands up and screams "HEY YOU GUYS! DON'T KILL KAYA!"
• The Running Gag of Jango hypnotizing himself
• When deciding to defend Syrup Village from Kuro and his Black Cat Pirates, the heroes sum up their abilities.
  Zoro: I cut.
  Luffy: I stretch!
  Nami: I steal.
  Usopp: I hide...
  Luffy/Zoro/Nami: WELL, THIS TIME, YOU BETTER FIGHT!
  Usopp: (while Luffy headlocks him) Just making a funny! Come on, calm down!
• Usopp faces the Black Cat crew alone at the beach, warning them that he has 100 million crewmen waiting to kill them all. Jango is the only one who believes him.
• Butchie and Siam's Dirty Coward act, especially Siam's half-hearted charge towards Zoro and everyone's baffled reactions to it.
  Siam: (crying and screaming) Hey you! Get ready! I'm gonna scratch you good with these claws!
  Zoro: What am I supposed to do?!
• At the end of Luffy's fight with Kuro, as he's preparing to finish Kuro off with Gum Gum Bell, some of the Black Cat Pirates, relieved that Kuro won't kill them, start cheering Luffy on. Luffy, while winding back for the attack, demands that they not cheer him on, since they're still his enemies.
• Episode 18, a one-shot between Usopp's and Sanji's arcs, we meet a man who managed to get his little body permanently jammed in a treasure chest. Due to Lost in Translation issues, each language makes a different joke about his predicament (which gets twice the fun when he acknowledges the joke before basically going, "You idiot!"; also, the joke's done twice):
  • The original Japanese calls him a hakoirimusuko or "boxed son"^note As in one with a sheltered upbringing. It's a joke baked on hakoirimusume or "boxed daughter" which has more history behind it and is a lot more serious.
  • The English makes it a play on the Jack-in-the-Box.

Baratie Arc

• Luffy's first day as a chore boy. He first just sits around while the chefs are working, so they yell at him. When he tries to wash dishes, he touches a hot pan and ends up making a mess. When the Krieg Pirates attack, Zeff makes fighting them off Luffy's job for the day because the Baratie wouldn't last after a year of Luffy's "help."
• Sanji's first interaction with the Straw Hats. After being introduced as this suave ladies' man, he becomes a total simp for Nami, while intermittently bickering with the guys.
  Nami: (Melodramatic) Oh, please don't fight over me!
  Sanji: As you wish.♥
  Usopp: WHO'S FIGHTING OVER YOU?!
• Luffy asks Sanji to join the crew.
  Sanji: I'll have to refuse that offer. I've got my own reason to keep working here.
  Luffy: No! I refuse!
  Sanji: Wha... What?
  Luffy: I refuse your refusal!
• During the Baratie Arc, Gin has just taken out Pearl. When Don Krieg questions this, Gin merely brushes it aside and vows to kill Sanji, despite taking out the person currently in charge of doing that: Pearl. Krieg's response?
  Don Krieg: Oh great. My chief commander has just lost his marbles.
• Patty and Carne fret over the poisoned Gin, who struggles to breathe, and try to think of any way they can help... with limited success. The situation eventually devolves into an argument over their respective cooking skills.
  Patty: Do you wanna eat my special pudding?! It's good!
  Carne: Idiot! You wanna feed poison to a poisoned man?!
  Patty: Hey, what do you mean by poison?! You're one to talk!
  Carne: What'd you say?! People say my meat dishes are the best in the world! They're considered so delicious that people think they're in heaven.
  Gin: (gasps and stops breathing)
  Carne: AAAAH! You can't die on us!
  Patty: (pulling Gin up) Hey, c'mon! Don't die, underling!
  Carne: A-are you dead? Are you really dead? Hey! Really? Are you dead?
  Patty: SHUT UP!!
  Gin: (gasps and resumes breathing)
  Patty & Carne: Phew, he's still alive...
  

Arlong Park Arc

• While Arlong and some of his men are out terrorizing Cocoyashi, Zoro takes down some other fishmen. When Arlong gets back, he demands to know why Hatchan didn't do anything. Hatchi replies that he was out taking some swordsman away from Arlong Park...
  Hatchan: THAT WAS HIM!!
  Fishmen: HATCHI, YOU IDIOT!!
• Bellemere's secret to stay young and beautiful while never having to eat too much food.
  Bellemere: Tangerines replenish my skin with the power of liquid sunlight. And they're the only reason I'm such a ravishing beauty even though I'm in my extremely late twenties.
  Young Nami: *Blankly staring* Their hands are all yellow.
  Bellemere: WOULD YOU JUST SHUT UP AND EAT YOUR FOOD ALREADY?!
  • In another flashback, just right after Bellemere is shot by Arlong:
    Bellemere: You made a boy cry?
    Young Nojiko: He made me mad!
    Boy's Mother: Oh, it's okay. Kids will be kids.
    Young Nami: He said your tangerines suck!
    Bellemere: He WHAT?! (Smacks the boy herself)
• Luffy's arrival at Cocoyashi; After beating Momoo, Luffy, Sanji, and Yosuku had the sea beast tow their boat, but Momoo didn't slow down when he got to the island and crashed. This caused the ship to fly into the air...and crash right onto Zoro.
  "Wow! We're flying!!"
  "We've been sent flying, fool!!"
  "WE'RE FALLING...!!!"
• Some wordplay before the big Nami flashback in the Arlong storyline. After Nami faked killing Usopp, Zoro told Sanji that Nami probably couldn't handle killing him in cold blood. The word he used to insult her, "komono", was intended to mean "small fry", but Sanji interpreted it as "small breasts". When he went to kick Zoro, and Zoro blocked, they ended up in a Double-KO of Usopp. Cue Pietà Plagiarism with Luffy.
  Sanji: He is alive.
  Zoro: Nah, I think he's dead now.
  [Later...]
  Luffy: USOPP!!! DID NAMI DO THIS TO YOU?!
  Sanji: (Points at Zoro with a sheepish smile) Well, actually, it was Zoro and me.
  Zoro: (Annoyed frown) It was you.
  • The FUNimation dub's version of that scene is just as funny, though the joke is changed due to it being Lost in Translation. The exchange when they KO Usopp?
    Sanji: He's alive?!
    Zoro: Well he was... I hope he still is...
• At the beginning of the Arlong/Straw Hat crew fight, we get this brief yet hilarious exchange:
  Arlong (while still holding Luffy mid-attack): Idiot!
  Luffy (even more enraged): WHY YOUUUUU.....! (proceeds to viciously chomp on Arlong's trapezius— where his gills are— causing Arlong tremendous pain that forces him to release his grip on Luffy)
• In the Arlong arc, Usopp's thoughts on the merman who spent two episodes chasing him (even though it was Usopp's plan to use himself as a red herring against said merman):
  Usopp (in tears): HE'S SO STUBBORRRNNN!!!
• Usopp's This Is Gonna Suck face when he's about to be punched in the face by Choo.
• When Usopp beats down Choo with the Usopp Hammer. Seriously.
  Usopp: USOPP HAMMER! USOPP HAMMER! USOPP HAMMER! USOPP HAMMER! Rubber Band of Doom! USOPP HAMMER! USOPP HAMMER! USOPP HAMMER! USOPP HAMMER! USOPP HAMMER! USOPP HAMMER! USOPP HAMMER!
  • Now in your preferred flavors of Japanese or English!
• During the otherwise tense moment when Zoro is facing down Arlong while Sanji is getting Luffy out of the water, Usopp decides to help...with his patented Usopp Rubberband.
  Usopp: (Pointlessly flicking the rubberband) Now! Go, Zoro!
  Nami: WHAT ARE YOU TRYING TO DO!!?
  • Several minutes later we see Hachi with all of his arms raised defensively, only lowering them in relief when he realizes the rubberband isn't going to hit him.
• Hatchan's reaction to Zoro falling over when he got his six swords out is quite funny, especially in the dub.
  Hachi: Hey, you can't die yet! I haven't killed you yet!
• Luffy's Badass Boast to Arlong starts with him listing things he can't do that he relies on his crewmates for. Usopp's talent? Not his sharpshooting but telling lies. Usopp is understandably annoyed.
• In a bit of comic relief between Arlong and Loguetown, Iron Fist Fullbody (first met at Baratie) learns of Luffy's new bounty and decides to get revenge on him. Trouble is, he's even more of a Butt-Monkey than before. He's half-drunk (in more than one sense of the word) commanding an Alleged Ship Surrounded by Idiots. He tries shooting them...his cracked cannon explodes, so he decides to board them. After getting his bell rung by Luffy, he stares up at Sanji, the man who so casually humiliated him before. His crew abandons ship. Fullbody quickly follows. And all this while Nami is reading the newspaper, completely oblivious to the fight.
  Luffy: Huh? He's done already?
• When the Straw Hats get a copy of Luffy's first bounty, Usopp proudly declares that now he's famous too, since he's featured on Luffy's bounty picture (in fact, it's a shot of the back of his head way in the background). Nonetheless, Sanji's displeased that Usopp's gotten a measure of infamy before he could, to the point of sitting off to one side and SULKING about it.
  Sanji: (pouting) It's just the back of your head. It doesn't count.
  • Then cut to Syrup Village and Kaya seeing the wanted poster for the first time...she recognizes the back of Usopp's head immediately.
  • Hawk-Eye tracks down Shanks to show him the wanted poster. Their meeting is tense, with Shanks sitting with his face shrouded in shadow and ominously warning he's not feeling too good today. Even after Mihawk shows Shanks Luffy's poster which causes Shanks to grin, he then says that they can't let Mihawk leave...without partying to celebrate Luffy's bounty. His poor mood from before is revealed as just a hungover.

Logue Town Arc

• When Zoro meets Tashigi, he's shocked to see how much she resembles Kuina. In the anime, he's so shocked he breaks her glasses.
• When Zoro is forced into manual labor as recompense for a debt owed to Tashigi, a marine officer, and made to clean the local base (vigorously and with three brooms):
  Marine A: It's the pirate hunter Zoro!
  Marine B: He's cleaning our floors, that fiend!
• When Dracule Mihawk came to Shanks and reveals Luffy's bounty, Shanks, who was hungover at the time, gets Mihawk a drink and calls on his crew to get drunk again!
  Shanks: Don't be stupid! I can't not drink on a joyous day like today!
  • And then Mihawk chugs the drink in one go without changing expression.
• When confronting Luffy in Logue Town, Buggy starts going on a spiel about everything he went through since his last defeat at Luffy's hands, only to cut himself off.
  Buggy: Monkey D. Luffy, ever since the day you sent me flying, I've been obsessed with exacting my revenge on you! That alone lead me to finally finding my crew! My travels are an ending saga. I went through hell, found friendship, I even lost parts of my body! I call this tale, Tiny Buggy's Great Adventure. The first thing that happened was- WHY THE HELL AM I TELLING YOU A STORY?!
• Might cross over into Black Comedy but Luffy not realising he was about to be executed until sometime AFTER Buggy explained everything was hilarious, especially Buggy's reaction and Luffy only getting it then.
• When Alvida arrives in Logue Town, almost everyone in the area falls in love with her at first sight, males and females. Quite a transformation from when people first saw Alvida as "the fat lady".
  • Of course, Alvida is so delusional and narcissistic that she thinks the only change she experienced after eating the Slip-Slip Fruit is losing her freckles.

Laboon Arc

• How about when they first encounter Laboon? Luffy has a moment of surprising intelligence: the Going Merry is about to crash right into Laboon, and as the other Straw Hats desperately try in vain to steer Merry in time to avoid their impending doom, Luffy comes up with the idea that saves them: firing the cannons to slow the Merry down. A moment of intelligence that he manages to fuck up immediately afterwards: The Straw Hats bump into Laboon harmlessly, but Luffy's favorite seat is broken in the process, causing a pissed-off Luffy to punch Laboon in the eye, leading him to notice them. See for yourself.
• Crocus' entire introduction is one big Crowning Moment of Funny, especially the rampant abuse of his "running gag" in the anime version.
  Usopp: Hey, you wanna fight, we'll fight! We got cannons back here, you bastard!
  *Crocus gives the crew the dangerous crazy eye, followed by a series of different camera shots punctuated by drum beats, ending in a close-up of his eye*
  Crocus: You try it and someone's going to die.
  Sanji: *while Nami and Usopp freak out in the background* Yeah? And who's that?
  Crocus: Me, of course.
  Sanji: EXCUSE ME?!?
• And later...
  Zoro, Nami, Usopp & Sanji: STOP DOING THAT!!!
  Crocus: What's wrong? Haven't you ever heard of a running gag?
  Zoro, Nami, Usopp & Sanji: THAT WAS A GAG?!?
• There's also Luffy's whole misadventure inside of Laboon's body, being bounced around all over while Miss Wednesday and Mr. Nine are scheming. This leads to Luffy running into them...and causing them to free fall into the stomach acid below. While the Straw Hats just watch baffled.

Whisky Peak Arc

• The great fight between Luffy and Zoro on Whisky Peak. First, when the other crew mates are asleep, Zoro protect them from the Baroque Works agents. Then Luffy woke up and got angry at Zoro for cutting down all those nice people who fed them (and he was dead serious). Even better is the Death Glare and following Curb Stomping Battle they give to Mr. 5 and Miss Valentine when they try to interfere. Last but not least, the fight is eventually ended... by Nami who knocks them both unconscious.
• Vivi accidentally revealing Crocodile's identity as both one of the Seven Warlords and secret leader of Baroque Works to the Straw Hats while explaining her mission. Appropriately, this elicits an Oh, Crap! reaction from everyone else except for Zoro, including Vivi who realizes she might have put a target on the Straw Hats listening. Cue instant appearance of "The Unluckies", the enforcers of Baroque Works who heard the whole thing.
  • Nami then decides that she's getting the hell off the island before Baroque Works can learn their identities, only to see that Mr. 13 has already drawn sketches of her, Luffy and Zoro. Her response?
  Nami: (claps cheerfully) Wow, you're good! (walks back to group enraged) Now there's nowhere left to run!
• The fight between Zoro and Baroque Works is equal parts this and awesome, as Zoro has such an easy time fighting them that he takes every opportunity to Troll them as he knocks them out.
  (As they try to figure out where he is, a sword is suddenly held against Mr. 8.)
  Zoro: Ask yourself. Will one gravestone really be enough?^note As in, who's getting buried tonight: him..or them?
  (Miss Monday throws a wine barrel at Zoro. He slices it into four pieces, each of which takes out an enemy.)
  Zoro: Aww! And that wine must've cost a fortune. What a waste, huh?
  (Slices a circle onto a rooftop and walks away. Several enemies jump on it.)
  Zoro: I wouldn't be standing there if I were you. (Circle-shaped hole appears and enemies fall through.)
• As Zoro and Nami have an argument over the latter's latest money-making scheme, Luffy wakes up from his long nap and casually announces that he needs to take a piss, paying no mind to his friends' argument.
• Several of the conversations between the Straw Hats as they're leaving Whiskey Peak:
  • Luffy retrieves Usopp and Sanji and brings them to the Merry...by dragging Usopp by his nose and Sanji by his leg. Once he gets to the ship, we get this:
    Luffy: What? They're still asleep?! (cue Sanji and Usopp both passed out on the ground, covered in bruises, while Zoro clearly knows what actually happened)
  • Nami and Vivi arguing when the latter doesn't want to leave Carue behind:
    Zoro: Hey, what's the problem?
    Nami: Apparently her duck's gone missing, and now she's refusing to leave without him!
    Zoro: (Beat) This duck? *Points to Carue next to him on the deck*
    Nami and Vivi: He's here?!
    Zoro: Made it here before I did.
  • Usopp and Sanji, who haven't been filled in yet on what's going on, are complaining about having to leave so soon.
    Zoro: We shoulda just left 'em behind, geez.
    (sounds of Nami hitting both of them on the head)
    Zoro: Nami, will you explain it to them?
    Nami: I just did.
    Zoro: Okay, that was fast.
    (cut to Usopp and Sanji with large bruises on their heads)
    Nami: I left out the complicated parts.
  • Miss All-Sunday, who has snuck aboard the Going Merry without anyone noticing, states that it's great that they got away from the people who were chasing them, and then warns them to be careful not to run the ship into the rocks because of the fog. Nami happily answers both times...and it takes her and the other crew members several more seconds to realize that that wasn't any of them speaking.

Little Garden Arc

• Nami and Zoro discuss strategies.
  Nami: By the way, your idea of cutting your legs off and escaping was so stupid.
  Zoro: I cut off my legs so I could fight them, not escape them.
  Nami: That's even stupider.
• Usopp deduces that they can save their friends from Mr. 3's death trap by using fire to melt the wax.
  Luffy: Is that true!?
  Miss Golden Week: Yes, it's true.
  Mr. 3: Don't give away all of our secrets!
• Karoo's reaction to Vivi bringing him along on her trek into the jungle with Luffy.
• Before going to Little Garden, the Mr. 3 pair are relaxing on an island resort. Mr. 3 wonders why Miss Golden Week has been staring at a piece of paper for the past three days. What is it?
  Miss Golden Week: It's an order from boss.
  Mr. 3: WHY DIDN'T YOU TELL ME SOONER?!
  • Mr. 3 is intent on keeping his rank hidden, despite his massive topknot shaped like a 3.
• Pretty much the entire snail conversation between Sanji and Crocodile.
  Sanji: Hello, you've called the Shitty Restaurant (or "...you've reached the Crap Cafe," depending on the translation).
• Zoro's pose before he gets turned into a statue and the resulting conversations.
• The rest of the crew's reaction when Sanji nonchalantly reveals that they can leave whenever, because he intercepted an Eternal Pose to Alabasta from the Unluckies.
  Sanji: Oh, we can't leave? Do we still have stuff to do here? And I went through all the trouble to get this, too. *Takes out Eternal Post*
  *Beat*
  *Giant Jaw Drop from EVERYONE (Carue, Usopp, Luffy, Vivi, Nami, Zoro); Sweat Drop from Sanji*

Drum Island Arc

• Luffy's attempts at cheering Nami up when she falls ill before the Drum Island arc. Luffy's doodled-on face and Zoro's reaction to it are hilarious.
• In the anime, Usopp, Sanji, and Luffy's reaction when they learn just how sick Nami is is hilarious. At first, they don't realize how painful being sick must be, since they've never been sick themselves, much to Vivi's surprise (Her Wild Takes are just hilarious). Then, when she fills them in, they freak out : Usopp runs around the room in panic mode (Even running backwards at one point), Luffy has a "No Way" face, and Sanji starts crying.
• At one point, Sanji, Luffy and Vivi are at Nami's bedside. After failing to cheer her up by making faces, Luffy suggests chucking a barrel full of cold water on her to make her fever drop, and gets Punched Across the Room by Vivi and Sanji for that. As they casually resume their conversation, you can see Luffy slide down the wall he landed on, then a frame drops on his face.
• As the crew searches the horizon desperately for a place to find a doctor, Zoro casually asks Usopp if people can stand on the ocean. When Usopp reacts exactly as you'd expect, Zoro just as casually points to Chess standing on the water and goes "Then, what's that?" Luffy's own reaction (in the Funimation dub) perfectly caps it off.
  Luffy: ...You think he's a doctor?
• A little later, the crew sees Drum Island in the distance. When Luffy and Zoro, who are by Nami's bedside, hear this, Luffy tries to cheer Nami up again by excitedly telling her there's an island like a parent announces good news to their child, going on until Zoro tells him to just go outside and look. It's simultaneously funny, adorable and heartwarming.
• Any time Dalton adds random, unnecessary information.
• The first time Tony Tony Chopper proves his inability to hide behind corners because he does it inversely, with his body fully exposed and only one eye covered by the corner.
• It takes Luffy 3 hours after the crew arrived at Drum Island to realize that it's cold out.
• So Chopper is working on Luffy and Sanji, thinking back to his first memory of them: treating them and Nami, and Luffy telling Dr. Kureha that the others are his friends. The moment Luffy wakes up, he mumbles he's hungry. When he turns his head and sees Chopper, he doesn't see the doctor who saved his life. He sees MEAT. Chopper backs away and bumps into Sanji's bed. He stirs awake, and starts muttering recipes for venison. One Piece quickly becomes a horror film for the poor reindeer as his second memory of the two is running for his life from their hungry appetites.
• Luffy has one of his overly-excited Idiot Hero freakouts when Chopper shows off all his Rumble Ball transformations: "SEVEN-FORM TRANSFORMING INTERESTING REINDEER!" He repeats that word-for-word but utterly deadpan when Nami asked him why he invited Chopper on the crew when she found out nobody but her knew he was a doctor!
  • Sanji thought Chopper was emergency rations. When Chopper hears that, he spins around to give the audience a completely-understandable Eye Take.
• In Chapter 150, anything that involves Wapol utterly failing to get his (former) castle's weapons. First, he makes a grand speech about how he's going to eat all the weapons in his armory and transform into a one-man arsenal... only to find that the key's been stolen. Then he unveils the "Drum Crown Seven Shot Tin Tyrant Cannon", aims at Luffy and pulls the trigger... and nothing happens. The next panel is Wapol's completely stunned face^note Bug-eyes and his formerly Evil Grin just kind of frozen on his face by the shock of it all, followed by a panel of him trying the lever again, followed by another panel of stunned silence.
  • The best part is what did happen. Wapol pulls the lever. Panel of silence. He pulls it again. Another panel of silence. A cute baby bird hops out of the nest its mama made in the cannon.
• "SHUT UP! LET'S GOOOOO!!!!!!"
  Zoro (in the Funimation dub): Most people don't make friends by telling someone to "shut up".
• Luffy and Sanji notice the inside of Drum Castle is filled with snow, and stare in wonder. But then Kureha suddenly appears and ruins the moment. Cue Luffy and Sanji running away screaming as Kureha is chucking tons of weapons (and a random chicken) at them.
• It's a very brief moment, but when Luffy realizes that Chopper can talk, Sanji is walking past him. But then suddenly he appears behind Luffy three seconds later, causing Luffy to freak out.
• Vivi and Usopp get caught in an avalanche. Vivi is lucky enough to avoid getting hurt by it, but Usopp almost dies from it. A worried Vivi ends up slapping the ever-living crap out of him to wake him up, to the point that his face ends up extremely swollen as a result. When they run into Zoro, it even takes him a Beat to recognize Usopp.
  • And even better, likely the only way he knew it was Usopp was because of his nose.
  • Later on, the three of them get back to Bighorn where Wapol's soldiers are keeping the citizens from trying to rescue the buried Dalton. Zoro, after taking a few minutes to confirm that, yes, the soldiers are enemies, attacks the soldier talking...because he was cold and wanted his coat.
• As they were heading out, Vivi is holding a bundled-up Karoo. This has several follow-on moments. First, Karoo's bundled up because in an Idiot Ball moment, he wondered why Zoro disappeared after going for a swim in the ice-cold river (he regularly undergoes Self-Training from Hell if you're wondering) and jumped in after him; end result, one Supersonic Duck Popsicle. Next, it reveals another of Chopper's talents (he Speaks Fluent Animal) which Nami compliments on, causing Chopper to show another of his funny quirks: he tries to deny the compliment while doing a Happy Dance (which Luffy and Usopp lampshade).
• A cold, shirtless Zoro tries to get Usopp to hand over his coat, but is shot down.

Alabasta Arc

• Before arriving to Alabasta, a sea cat shows up with the clear intention to eat them. Cue to Luffy and Zoro (followed seconds later by Sanji) trying to capture it for food (as they are starving for four days by that point), and the sea cat immediately regreting showing up.
• Before entering Alabasta, Luffy and the gang come up with a countermeasure against one of the Baroque Works agents.
  Luffy: Okay, whatever happens from now on, this left arm is proof of our friendship. Now, let's get onto dry land. TO A RESTAURANT!!! Then Alabasta.
  Everyone: SHUT UP, YOU IDIOT!!!
• When Luffy eats some cactus that makes him hallucinate, he starts yelling insane things and flailing about like mad. In the next panel, he collapses with a big thud, and Chopper's just sort of standing next to him with a huge syringe.
  Chopper: Sedative.
• Ace's official introduction. It starts with everyone in a restaurant thinking that he died, while Ace has his face planted in the food that he was eating. He suddenly sits up and everyone freaks out. Ace looks back and forth at the shocked staff and when a woman asks if he's okay, he promptly uses her skirt to wipe the food off his face. He tells the chef that he was sleeping and moments later he passes out again.
  • Becomes Harsher in Hindsight when he really does die in the Paramount War.
• And right after that, Luffy ramming into both Smoker and Ace, sending them flying through some buildings and several walls. The look on both Smoker and Ace's faces at that split-second before they're knocked away seals it. And then it takes several minutes of eating for Luffy to recognize Smoker...
  • Even better? Ace and Smoker were so surprised by Luffy that they couldn't even use their Logia powers to evade him.
• During the crew's travel through the desert, they end up facing a with several monstrous creatures, who get their "fifteen seconds of fame" before getting curb-stomped by Luffy, Zoro, and Sanji. A particularly hilarious instance (a giant lizard big enough to swallow people whole) gets triple-teamed by all three of them and leads to the following:
  Usopp: (teary-eyed) You didn't have to go that far.
  Nami: Whenever those guys fight, it almost makes me feel sorry for the monsters.
  • Then a follow-up; another of the same giant creature suddenly appears and tries to eat Ace. Ace proves he's Too Spicy for Yog-Sothoth...literally...by cooking him from the inside. Now there's two beasts to pity.
  • A giant scorpion ambushes the group. Rather than taking it as a serious threat, the boys start arguing and it devolves into a Big Ball of Violence with the scorpion in the middle.
  • The Running Gag of Vivi not remembering about the deadly desert dangers until they're right on top of the gang, along with the gang's increasingly pained variations of, "NOW you tell us?!"
• The group rescues Lashes the perverted camel. He refuses to carry any of the guys; cue Big Ball of Violence as Sanji, Usopp, and Luffy start kicking at him. Cut back to a slightly scuffed up Lashes declaring he'll only let pretty girls ride him; cue another dust cloud.
  • This repeats later when Lashes reveals he knew all along the rebel army they were looking for was on the other side of the country. This time the mid-beating interlude is Lashes responding to their ire with a bored "Whatever".
• During their travel, the crew finds a village that is being controlled by rebels, which turn out to be a lie, and said rebels are abusing their power. Once their lie is exposed, the leader says that they are not the only rebels and that there are 100,000,000 on the village. Everyone clearly don´t believe. Usopp even says that they should have come up with a better lie, and Sanji says that Usopp is not one to talk. And then suddenly:
  Luffy: What?! 100,000,000?!"
  • Usopp and Sanji quickly tell Luffy that it was a lie, and Chopper is relieved to know this.
• A blink and you'll miss it one, but when they're on the sand ship, Zoro runs and takes the swords off two of the crew members to slice up the giant dung ball aimed towards the ship, leaving his own in their scabbards. Probably remembering the time in Whiskey Peak he sliced one of Mr. 5's booger bombs ("Eaagh! I just cut someone's snot!").
• Zoro just wants to be included, apparently:
  Sanji: You girls can call me "prince!"
  Zoro: Okay, prince.
  Sanji: Not YOU!
• Later on, just as the Straw Hats and Vivi reach Rainbase, Luffy and Usopp run to a nearby restaurant. After drinking some well-needed water, they realize that Smoker and Tashigi happened to be in that exact same restaurant, sitting right next to them. Cue huge and hilarious Spit Take.
• While Vivi having to fend for her life against Bananagators while searching for the key to free the Straw Hats amidst a flooding basement, was terrible, and Sanji's Big Damn Hero moment was awesome, once the crew are free and Luffy and Zoro join in the fray, it's this: To elaborate, Vivi barely come close to defeating one Bananagator. Luffy, Zoro and Sanji make a pile of knocked out Banagators in the time of a scene cut! Then Luffy loudly complains he wasn't at full strength because of the inrushing water! It takes a Beat then Vivi starts crying on Usopp's shoulder, who consoles her by saying that those three aren't normal like they are.
  • Sanji's Big Damn Hero moment also includes a Brick Joke. When did Crocodile finally realize that his supposed previous conversation with Mr. 3 was with someone else...and that there was someone else in the Straw Hats he didn't know about? When Sanji gave him the same "Damn Restaurant"/"Crap Cafe" greeting as before.
• Luffy's impersonation of Sanji.
• Luffy's first fight with Crocodile is a very serious affair, with Luffy unable to land a solid blow on his opponent when he keeps turning into sand, while he openly mocks him all the while. And then Luffy suddenly opens wide and bites Crocodile in half at the waist, a move so ridiculous and made of so much Mood Whiplash that Crocodile loses his cool and basically goes "Enough of this crap!"
  • At another point during that fight, Crocodile starts again mocking Luffy about his inability to hurt him and Luffy cuts him off by punching him in the face, resulting in one of his rare Deadpan Snarker moments.
    Luffy: Sorry, my fist interrupted you.
• Nami's first battle with her Climatact. Her endless frustration with its useless tricks (like releasing flowers and pigeons) coupled with Miss Doublefinger's deadpan reactions made it prime comedy fare!
  • Miss Doublefinger even starts feeling sorry for Nami as the latter gets frustrated over how useless her weapon is.
• Usopp pulling out his "5-ton" hammer and engaging in a game of whack-a-mole with Miss Merry Christmas. With a Rubber Band of Doom added in for good measure.
• After he and Chopper won their battle with the Mr. 4 group, Usopp was apparently dying of his injuries. But came to when Chopper admitted to stealing his manjuu, a pastry filled with sweet bean paste.
  • Hell, he does more than come to - he decks Chopper in the jaw, sending him flying.
    Usopp *In a deep, growly voice*: MAAANNJUUU...
    Dub Usopp *In a Gollum-esque voice:* MY BUN... MY PRECIOUS...
  • When Usopp's unconscious on the ground prior to this, Chopper's frantically trying to get him to wake up and rambling about Usopp's condition while he does so.
    Chopper: You only lost a little bit more blood than should be fatal!
• Mr. 2's Copy-Copy Montage, where he attempts to make Sanji "laugh helplessly until he collapses" by changing every part of his face into the most ridiculous-looking version out of all the people he's copied... resulting in Mr. 2's regular face, with Usopp's nose.
  • When Mr. 2 realizes his Shapeshifter Guilt Trip won't work on Sanji, he takes Nami's form and remarks that even that wouldn't have any effect... Cue a lovestruck Sanji gawking at "Nami" all slack-jawed and heart-eyed.
    Mr. 2: ... It can't really be that easy, can it?
• Crocodile is impressed that Luffy managed to discover his weakness while close to death but he says that he, as a Shichibukai, is still on a different level than him. Luffy's answer is hilarious.
  Luffy: So what if you are Shichibukai? Then I must be... The Hachibukai! (Shichi means seven in japanese, Hachi means eight)
• Luffy, in order to take advantage of Crocodile's weakness against water, drinks an entire barrel of the stuff. It's Water Luffy!
  • "Crap! A leak!"
  • And then there's Crocodile's reaction to Luffy's "transformation":
    Crocodile: Does he not comprehend the situation he's in?
  • Note that this makes Robin laugh out loud. And this is back when they were still enemies!
  • The best part is that Crocodile actually calls him Water Luffy during their fight!
• While Vivi is starting to find out where the Cannoneer is, Usopp, who is starting a fight with a nearby soldier who almost accidentally shot him. He also somehow got separated from Zoro....
  • ....Then we find out why. Usopp shot a smoke signal for the crew to regroup. We get panning shots of each of the Straw Hats, one of which is Zoro at a small nearby jungle outside of Alubarna.
    Zoro: That's Usopp's signal. But why is the palace that far?
• After Crocodile is handled and the fight is more or less over, Vivi goes to take off and asks the Straw Hats if they're coming. All of them informer her that they'll just meet her at the palace in a little bit. Vivi then leaves and then all of the Straw Hats immediately fall asleep wherever they are.
  • The shot of them asleep in the medical ward in the palace, panning over all of them while they're asleep. Usopp's sleeping on his face with the rest of his body propped in the air, Zoro's half on his bed and half on Sanji's and just stretched across the gap, while Sanji is just straight-up passed out on the floor with his feet propped on the end of the bed.
• Chaka declares that the palace is not hiding the Straw Hat Pirates to a squad of Marines, turns to say hello to a returning Sanji and Usopp, then turns back to the Marines to ask if they have any proof that there are pirates in the palace.
• Luffy being told that he slept for 3 days, and he calculates that he missed 15 meals. Also Igaram's wife, Terracotta, comes in with a trolley full of fruit.
  Terracotta: I've heard you can eat a lot. Do you think you could snack on this fruit until dinnertime?
  Luffy: Okay. (Swallows all the fruit at the same second that he finishes answering)
  Sanji & Zoro: Was that some trick!?
  • It gets even funnier in the Funimation dub when Zoro and Sanji called him a "greedy pig".
    Terracotta: I heard the captain eats a lot, so I had my staff put together a little snack to tide you and your friends over.
    Luffy: Thank you. (Swallows all the fruit at the same second that he finishes answering)
    Sanji & Zoro: GREEDY PIG!!
  • Not to mention that Terracotta looks so much like Igaram that the Straw Hats at first think it's him in drag. Considering he did that at Whiskey Peak, it's not a stretch.
  • Of course, when Luffy does his disappearing act with the tray of fruit, Terracotta's reaction is very simple: CHALLENGE ACCEPTED!!!
• HAPPINESS PUNCH!
  • Bonus points for the king actually condoning the male Straw Hats (or at least just Sanji) wanting to peep at his daughter, much to Igaram's exasperation.
  • Also Vivi's horrified reaction. "NAMI-SAN!"
  • Even MORE funny that Luffy faints despite Word of God confirming he's asexual and aromantic, so that shouldn't even happen to HIM of all people.
    • Word of God also says that Luffy only acts like that because Usopp is around.
  • Directly after that is Cobra thanking the Straw Hats...and they label him as a pervert while they were all having nosebleeds. Cobra had to pedal back that that wasn't what he was actually thanking them for.
• USOPP NOISE!
• The Straw Hats are leaving Alabasta through the desert when they notice Nami is feeling down.
  Chopper: Nami, are you feeling sick?
  Luffy: Nami, want a piece of meat? But only one.
  Sanji: Nami-san, it's about Vivi-chan, isn't it? I understand how you feel, but, if you keep thinking so much, you'll never get over it. You two were good friends for so long, but c'mon, cheer up.
  Nami: I'm... giving it up. For Vivi. My 1 billion Berries.
  Chopper, Luffy & Usopp: OF COURSE YOU ARE!
  Sanji: YOU WERE TALKING ABOUT MONEY?!
  Chopper: USOPP FELL OFF!
  Zoro: Nami, quit being so damn misleading!
  Nami: Huh? What's your problem? There's no point worrying about Vivi!
  Chopper: Oi! Usopp has FALLEN OFF!
  Nami: That's his problem!
  Everyone: IT'S YOUR FAULT!
• Near the end of the arc, the crew (sans Zoro) is depressed about leaving Vivi. Then Zoro tells them that they should have forcefully taken her with them:
  Chopper: Ah, you savage!
  Nami: Scumbag!
  Sanji: Mosshead...
  Luffy: Three swords...
  Usopp: No, Luffy, calling him "three swords" isn't insulting.
  Luffy: (Beat) Four swords...
  Usopp: That's not an insult either! Listen, why not call him nattou (fermented soybeans)? That would be like telling him he stinks.
• This is followed by Nico Robin insisting she join the crew:
  • How did she pull it off? By saying Luffy "did something" to her. While she explains that it had to do with how he saved her against her will after beating Crocodile, Sanji immediately assumes she meant something else and starts berating Luffy.
  • After the exposition, Usopp interrogates her:
    Usopp: You're full of confidence. What's your specialty?
    Robin: (Beat, smiles) Killing.
    Usopp: LUFFY!! My investigation has concluded that she is far too dangerous!!
  • Also when Nami tells Robin she'll be watching her... then Robin pulls out a bag of jewels she stole, and Nami starts calling her "sister". Cue Usopp and Zoro reacting with a deadpan "Oh, boy, here we go". The BGM slowing down to a halt adds to the comedy.
    • Not to mention the cash-register noise as Nami zooms down the stairs.
  • Usopp accepting her was a lot easier. She just threw a couple extra arms on Luffy's head so he could imitate Chopper for some laughs.
    • And amusingly, when all three fall over laughing, Robin's arms are flailing along with them.
• In the episode where they accidentally catch Rice Rice, a mail-order salesman, he offers to sell Nami some special paper for a few million berries. Whether or not the paper's really worth that much, the punchline is when Sanji says they'll take it...and says they can turn in Luffy to cover the cost. It's funny enough that Luffy seems to have a mild Freak Out at this seeming mutiny, but a moment later, Rice Rice suddenly realizes he ended up on a pirate ship and immediately goes Screw This, I'm Outta Here, leaving behind all the merchandise he'd been demonstrating earlier...including the paper. Was Sanji really willing to turn in Luffy for Nami's sake or was he just intimidating Rice Rice? In any event, the icing on the joke is Robin, calm as ever, not even looking up from her book, noting perhaps their pirate reputation precedes them.
  • Later on, while Nami is working on her maps, the rest of the crew set about cleaning the ship...except Zoro, who finds it stupid he's accepting Robin, who he doesn't even trust that much. Suddenly, Sanji's foot on his face.
    Sanji: Why don't you just shut up and help us, you moss-haired monster?
    Zoro: Ooh, such a witty insult from a pathetic excuse for a love machine!
    The insults pile up until they start a fight, which is enough to upset Nami and come out and stop them with her punches.

Skypiea Saga

Jaya Arc

• When the St. Briss falls down from the sky, Usopp is in disbelief and tries to convince himself that he's having a nightmare. He closes his eyes and then slowly opens them up, only to get greeted by a skeleton dropping right in front of him.
• Masira. He's barely introduced in the story and Nami already knows he's gonna be another colorful personality to deal with.
  Nami: Why'd we have to meet those guys now?
  • Masira is somehow not able to figure out that the Straw Hats are in the middle of a salvaging mission, which is supposed to be his thing, despite the clear presence of salvaging equipment on the Going Merry's deck. And in fact even warns the ones that stayed on the surface that there's some "bad people" down in the sea floor.
    Nami & Usopp: Lucky for us, he's an idiot.
  • Nami's blatant disregard for the lives of Luffy, Zoro and Sanji after a sea monster supposedly eats them.
    Usopp: It's time like these that test our solidarity as a crew.
    Nami: Usopp!!
    Usopp: Gotcha!!
    Nami: Cut their hoses! Save the ship!
    Chopper: SHE'S EVIL!
  • The moment when the Straw Hats and Masira see giant black "monsters" really shadows casted by the Skypieans, they paddle faster than lightning itself. They then mutter at how terrifying it was, before realizing that Masira was still on their ship. The Monster Trio immediately sent him packing.
• When Luffy meets Blackbeard, the two are eating at a bar. Blackbeard loves the bar's pies, but Luffy hates them, and vice-versa for the drinks. This is the beginning of a weird grudge match between the two, and when they start ordering different foods for take-out, they start trying to one-up each other on the amounts. It ends with...
  Luffy & Blackbeard: (to each other) I'M GONNA BEAT THE LIVING CRAP OF YOU
  Zoro: DO YOU TWO EVEN HAVE THE SLIGHTEST IDEA WHAT YOU'RE FIGHTING FOR?!
• "BITE MEEEE!!!"
• After the Bellamy Pirates laughed at them regarding the existence of Skypiea, Chopper asked Nami if she got any information back on the ship. She gets so angry, Usopp uses a Ketchup Star and Chopper eats a Rumble Ball and goes to Guard Point. When Robin gets back and mentions it, Nami goes off on her as well. Chopper goes to Jumping Point, and ends up overboard! All the while Nami is still yelling!
  Chopper: JUMPING POINT!!! (jumps overboard... offscreen) DAMN IT! *splash*
  Zoro: Man overboard! *jumps over to save Chopper*
• What about just prior to the gang actually going to Skypiea, where Mock Town's town drunk got copies of Luffy and Zoro's increased bounties? That had to be the fastest any drunk guy could turn sober.
• The gang's attempts to catch a bird to find the way to the current leading to Skypeia. It controls bugs to annoy them all, especially Nami. During one moment of hysteria, however...
  Usopp: Fireflies!
  Nami: Pretty... AHH, ROACHES!
  Usopp: Pigs!
  • Later on, in a role reversal, Nami and Sanji both freak out at spiders, while Usopp handles a tarantula without fear.
• In regards to the Going Merry flying edition...
  Nami: Something about it doesn't seem right to me...
  Zoro: Well, for once, I agree with you. Chickens don't even know how to fly. They should have made it a pigeon.
  Nami: WHAT'S THAT SUPPOSED DO WITH ANYTHING, YOU DOPE?!

Skypiea

• Luffy's reaction to tasting Conache is wonderfully goofy in both the manga and anime.
• The entire confrontation with the White Berets. The crew is charged with entering Skypiea illegally, an eleventh-degree crime, and through a series of seemingly innocuous acts, end up being bumped up to sixth-degree. Then Nami comes back and, after learning about the hefty fine they'll have to pay to clear themselves, runs down the captain with her waver.
  • Which is apparently only one degree above "noise pollution".
• While trying to rescue the rest of their crew taken to Godland, two of the monster trio plus Usopp are given a crow themed Dial boat to get there, after the initial selfishness of Luffy wanting a different bull themed one (and collective badass quotient of being willing to go in the first place) Sanji's comment that "a crow ain't a waterfowl.."
• Luffy's impersonation of Zoro.
• The scene with the waterfall in Episode 160 is priceless. It's especially funny when its shown that Sanji, Luffy, and Usopp all have a Oh, Crap! look on their faces.
  • Bonus points: Usopp was wearing brown overalls. It could be possible that he wore those just in case...
• Luffy and Usopp trying to cheer up Sanji with his "song." Their voices turning raspy at the end is what sells it.
  Usopp & Luffy: Take my haaaaand, HONEY.
  Sanji: Those aren't the words!
  Usopp: Oh.
• Zoro clearing his throat to do a Tarzan shout while swinging.
  • Followed by Zoro telling Nami that her vine swing went badly because "she didn't do the call".
    • Here's a dubbed clip.
      Zoro: (repeats Tarzan yell) — is what you should've done.
      Nami: THAT HAD NOTHING TO DO WITH IT!!!
• Robin tells the others to put out the fire so as not to reveal their position to the enemy. Luffy disagrees and says lighting a campfire is obvious for camping. Nami tries to remind them that they are in a dangerous forest. Sanji and Zoro prepare a large woodpile. Sanji says that animals are afraid of fire, while angry eyes and growls can be seen behind him. Next page, well, see for yourself.
• When Gan Fall tries to tell the Straw Hats Skypiea's history, Usopp asks him if he's hit his head or something. Cue Pierre taking a bite out of his head. Later, he recounts how the Shandians were driven off their land by the Skypieans which Usopp and Sanji blame him for. And once again...
• Luffy's Island Song. Comes in two flavors.
  • Right in the middle he's interrupted by what he thinks is a goat, but is really one of Eneru's priests trying to ambush him. He knocks the priest out in one punch, comments how he really wanted to see a goat, and walks off humming like he's pissed off.
    • Later on, Wyper confronts him, but Luffy almost immediately ignores him and tries to go back to singing before being goaded further.
  • Even better, if you aren't familiar with what's going on in that particular arc, Luffy's line about the island belonging to God is ten times funnier.
• Luffy, Usopp, and Sanji vs Satori. It becomes one hilarious moment after another. Highlights include Usopp getting scared by a dud surprise cloud and four regular ones. The first has a flower pop out while the other four have these random birds pop out singing like a chorus. Usopp deduces the birds are challenging him to a singing contest so he clears his throat. They ring the bell, much to his annoyance and start beating the snot out of him.
• In the opening to Episode 170 of the anime, the narrator describes how Luffy's exploration team is going South, only to sound dismayed and royally confused when only ONE of them is heading due South. The map from the manga depicting this is the image for No Sense of Direction.
• Related to the previous, Zoro's Idiot Ball moment when he wanders around in the forest lost for a while with a giant South Bird, whose head always points south. When he's trying to get to Eneru's shrine. Which is to the south.
  • Gets better in the dubbed anime where, upon the group getting separated, he says he has memorized the map, knows that the shrine is to the right, and proceeds to turn left. Zoro's lack of direction is several layers deep.
• Upon meeting Gedatsu, Chopper is so scared that his hat pops up from his head, with his antlers still attached to it.
• Chopper's reaction as he observes Gedatsu's idiocy:
  "What a dimwit!!"
• Zoro defeats Ohm, and then has to contend with his giant pet dog... only to find out that he obeys anyone's orders, at which point he just orders him to knock himself unconscious and moves on.
• Eneru's reaction◊ to Luffy's being invulnerable to his attacks.
  • Even more epic in the anime.
• Also from the Skypiea Arc: Usopp/Nami versus Eneru. It's just a string of hilarious gags, particularly of note, the poses they make while dodging, and Usopp's flip.
• On the verge of leaving Skypiea, Conis tells them that they'll start falling soon. The look on Zoro, Luffy, Usopp, Chopper, Sanji and even the Going Merry's faces are priceless.
  Conis: Good luck!
• The Straw Hats fleeing Skypeia. After stealing all the treasure they can find, they run into a mob of Skypeians approaching them with a colossal cylinder wrapped up. Usopp figures that it's a gigantic cannon and, thinking that the mob is angry at them for stealing their treasure, the Straw Hats run like hell. What was the cylinder? A giant column made of solid gold, which broke off the Golden Bell, that the mob was trying to give to them as thanks.
  • The oddest part about this? The Skypieans giving them the pillar was Robin's idea. Skypiea and Shandora don't value gold the way Humans do. So why didn't Robin just say that?
  • Another great moment as they're getting close to the ship...
    Sanji: (heart-eyed) NAMI! CONIS! (runs smack into a tree branch)
    *beat*
    Robin: Are you all right?
    Sanji: (back up and running like nothing happened) UH-HUH!
• Not in the series outside of the DVD commentary, but J. Michael Tatum doing Eneru's voice at a drive-thru. Can be seen here.
• The Funimation dub has this moment of Usopp having another panic attack:
  Usopp: We've got zero, and I mean Zoro... no I mean Zolo chances...no I mean zero chances...wonder how Zoro's doing.
• Usopp trolls Zoro with a tone dial.
• At one point, Luffy is eaten by a snake, inside whose stomach he later finds Nami, Gan Fall and Aisa. The second Luffy realizes their predicament, he says they should look for its ass, so they can be pooped out. Needless to say, Nami doesn't take it well.
  • Later, after the snake moves some more, Luffy looks for Nami, and mistakes a nearby skeleton for her, because they happened to be wearing similar clothes. His reaction is funny on its own, but Luffy actually tries to wake "her" up.

Davy Back Fight

• Almost any scene with Foxy. Courtesy of Jonathon Brooks’ combination of extra large hamminess and exaggerated accent.
• After Skypiea, the Straw Hats are now planning to divide the gold.
  Nami: Alright. Thank you for waiting. We will now officially start distributing the loots. Each of these is worth a lot of money!!!
  Usopp: YAY!
  Luffy: HURRAY! LET'S BUY A STATUE! I WANT A STATUE!
  Chopper: CAN I BUY BOOKS?
  Sanji: New pots, new pans, new silverware... and a few mousetraps.
  Zoro: Time for some rum!
  Nami: First things first. My share is 80% of these.
  U, L, C, S & Z: HOLD ON A SECOND...!
• Before the start of Chapter 304, We have this little setting. The crew are trying to catch food... by playing music. Then a phenomenal thing happens in the next page. After witnessing that glorious sight, They vow never to let them get away again.
  • Luffy's face on the following page.
• Tonjit invites Luffy, Usopp, and Chopper to his house after they get him down from his stilts. Since his village isn't around, he takes some stored milk and finds that after 10 years, it's spoiled into rotten cheese. This doesn't stop him from eating it, as he insists he has a strong stomach. Next panel, he's on the floor, sick with food poisoning. That whole scene has got to have some of the best comedic timing in the manga.
• After Foxy wins the first round of the Davy Back Fight and takes Chopper onto his crew, the Straw Hats ponder why he chose him. Robin adds this little gem.
  Nami: Maybe he likes cute things?
  Robin: You know, I wouldn't rule out a Fur fetish.
• After winning the second round, before Luffy can decide to get Chopper back, Nami advises to choose the enemy's captain to get an automatic win in the last round. Robin voices her complaint on this one.
  Robin: Actually, Nami, if we do as you said, we would certainly get an easy win. However, I don't want that split-head (Foxy) traveling with me.
  Nami: *gasp* So true!!
  Luffy, Zoro, Usopp & Sanji: Yeah. We don't need that kind of trash.
  • Foxy then proceeds to go into his Corner of Woe for being so brutally rejected.
  • Hey, if Luffy, who's an excellent judge of character, says that, he has to be right.
  • Before that, the Foxy pirates are outraged by this suggestion, and voice it out loud, causing Nami to cry in frustration. Zoro tells her not to cry if she's the one at fault, and she promptly beats him up for it, while threatening to do the same to the Foxy pirates. And they stop yelling. A 500-strong pirate crew is scared of a single teenage girl.
• In the anime, one of the games play is a roller race which Foxy uses his slow-slow beam to slow down the straw hats. Noticing this, Nami and Usopp cook up a plot to keep him from doing such a thing on Robin's turn. Their plan? Pushing Foxy's pride and Misery Trigger repeatedly.
• The Foxy bombs. Luffy's reaction is priceless.
  • The animation on Foxy floating down along with them. Good luck figuring out how he’s floating down.
• As Luffy chases Foxy through the Foxy Pirates ship, he runs into Foxy in a bizarre Paper-Thin Disguise with an over sized head as the crew's maid. Luffy buys it completely, until he starts connecting dots and concludes, that must be his sister! But it's at its best later on when Foxy tries it again with a cook disguise and actually unmasks himself when Luffy fails to figure it out again.
• Luffy and the Funny Afro. Made all the better by Usopp, Sanji and Luffy's Jive Turkey in the Funimation Dub^note depicted in caps here
  Foxy Pirate: Hey, Straw Hat! I'm really digging the new look! (oops) I mean, you suck!
  Usopp: FORM A QUICK FLANK WIT YOU' LEFT! THEN SLAP DAT CHIN WIT A GOLDEN UPPERCUT!
  Luffy: YEA-AH!
  Sanji: SO FUNK-AY! I CAN FEEL DAT JIVE LIGHTIN' A FIRE IN MAH SOUL!
  Zoro: You see? This is what happens when you leave Luffy alone with Usopp.
  Nami: Couldn't he try to show some dignity for once?
  • Nami wonders if she and Robin are the only sane members of the crew...
  Chopper: Is Luffy gonna win?
  Robin: Of course. He's wearing an afro.
  • This gem by Manager!Usopp:
    "DOES THE AFRO MAKE THE CHAMPION, OR DOES THE CHAMPION MAKE THE AFRO?" IT'S A QUESTION THAT CAN'T BE ANSWERED BY MODERN SCIENCE!
• Jive talk. Proof that this dub is amazing. Sanji?
  Sanji: So funky! I can feel that jive like the fire in mah soul!
• During Luffy's Fight with Foxy, Foxy hides in a room filled with Spikes of Doom and tries to bait Luffy into running in. Luckily for Luffy, the room before the Trap Room is the Gun Deck where they keep the cannons. And so instead of charging in, he instead opts to blow the entire room to smithereens, causing Foxy to be impaled on the spikes instead.
• At the end of the Davy Back Fight Luffy comes off victorious from the combat. He chooses to take Foxy's Jolly Roger for it. He then draws them a new one so that they can keep their sail. Remember when Luffy first tried (abysmally) to draw his crew's jolly roger 200-plus episodes ago? Brick Joke time; he still doesn't know how to paint. The Foxy crew's reaction sells it.
• Gotta love Zoro and Sanji arguing before the Groggy Ring match.
  Zoro: (referring to the "Ballman Hat") Hey, that looks good on you.
  Sanji: YOU THINK I'M GOING TO FALL FOR THAT, STUPID?!
  (later)
  Nami: Sanji! That hat looks great on you!
  Sanji: Alright, let's rock! Ballman's here to kick some ass!
  • Just after that...
    Zoro: Yeah it does look good on you. You look like a prince... (Sanji striking a pose) of Dumb-ass Kingdom. (Cuts to them fighting)
  • And it gets even better later, especially in the English Dub
    Sanji: A swordsman without his swords is just... well...
    Zoro: What?
    Sanji: ...a normal guy. Only lamer.
    (Cuts to them fighting)
    Usopp: THAT WASN'T EVEN A GOOD BURN!! GET OVER IT!!
    Zoro: Hey cook, hope you get trampled out there!
    Sanji: Up yours.
• The Straw Hats meeting Aokiji is initially presented as a very serious affair, with Robin terrified of him and the Straw Hats freaking out about his rank. Then he turns to Nami and promptly starts hitting on her, and it just goes downhill from there. He's so lazy that he couldn't even bother to perform simple math when adding up their bounties:
  Aokiji: Now that you've added another crew member whose got a price on her head, your overall bounty has gone up. 100 million, plus 60 million, plus 79 million equals... (begins counting on his fingers) Aw screw it, some big-ass number.
  Zoro: Just do the damn math.
• In the anime, how does Luffy lose the Hit and Dead Ball match? By eating the ball. Yes, the last rule in the massive rule book is against eating the ball. They're ready for everything in that game.
• Before the Roller race, the team prepares but Nami catches Luffy eating yet again:
  Nami: What are you eating?
  Luffy: Zucchini Corn.
  *Beat*
  Luffy: You can't have any.
  Nami: I DON'T WANT ANY!
• In the anime, Foxy attempts to trick Nami several times throughout the Barrel Race. However, his tricks are so lame that Nami falls for none of them. It's funny on its own, but what makes it even better is that Foxy looks utterly devastated as Nami sees through his tricks.
  • In one particularly egregious case (a false finish line), Foxy's team falls for it.
  • Also amusing is the commentator who interprets Nami's actions in the worst light possible, criticizing her as being overly cynical for not "believing" in the fake goal and being heartless for not helping the "sickly grandmother". Each time, Nami shouts at him to shut up and he comments she's got a foul mouth, too.
• At the climax of the final match, when Luffy finally lands the finishing blow on Foxy, he calmly walks away. Nothing's happening right away because Foxy managed to get Hoist by His Own Petard and is under the influence of his own Slow-Slow Beam. As his face slowly contorts, the Straw Hats happily start counting down until the effect wears off knowing that Foxy goes flying at zero. Eventually, Usopp manages to get Foxy's own crew to join in finishing the countdown!
• After a well fought match, Foxy offers a handshake as a show of Good Sportsmanship... only for him to quickly turn it into a judo throw. But since Luffy's Limbs stretch, all that results is Foxy landing on his head.

Water 7/Enies Lobby

Water 7 Arc

• When Chopper rides with a gang of Galley-La shipwrights and calls out to the other Straw Hats to get them to regroup (along with a little whispered aside that Usopp can come too,) he calls out to the other shipwrights to do it too. They do just that, including one shipwright doing the whispered aside.
• When Luffy, Usopp and Nami bring their gold to an expert advisor to have it changed to money, he tries to scam them by giving them a false estimation, but Nami doesn't fall for it, and slams her foot on the table to make her point while telling him Luffy himself is worth more than what he's offering. Seeing her looking so serious is actually more awesome than it is funny, but the real funny moment comes right afterwards, when Luffy is so excited to have this much money that he swings his suitcase a little too much, accidentally throwing it away. Nami and Usopp jump after it to catch it before it falls into the river, but Luffy stretches his arm catches it before them, and they fall in the water for nothing. You get three guesses as to what happens next. A: Nami hits him; B: Usopp hits him; C: Nami and Usopp beat the crap out of him. Answer? D: All of the above.
• When Luffy, Nami, and Usopp first meet Kaku, they are stunned at his appearance, with Luffy confusing him for Usopp. Later on, the Galley-La shipworkers make the same mistake. But the best part is when Kaku is inspecting the Going Merry with Zoro keeping watch;
  Zoro: Oh, it's just Usopp. (comparison shots of Usopp and Kaku) Wait a minute! Who are you?!
  • The Funimation Dub takes Kaku's tendency to use old-fashioned words up to eleven. Highlights include "gumption" and "two shakes of a lamb's tail."
• After hearing about the Aqua Laguna, Chopper and Sanji stop by where the Going Merry is docked and loudly talk about the Aqua Laguna coming in order to warn Usopp without talking to him directly.
• During the drama at the Galley-La HQ, the Franky Family grabbed Usopp to use as bait for Luffy. While the rest of the family are running around shouting for Luffy's attention (Or trying to- a few of them can't seem to remember what Franky told them to say), Zambai figures Usopp is being tortured by Franky, complete with an thought balloon of the longnose crying out in pain. Cut to Franky's secret hideout, and it's Franky and the Square Sisters Inelegant Blubbering over the Usopp's breakup with the Straw Hats, much to Usopp's annoyance and confusion.
• Except for the obvious stuff, Spandam's entire existence in Franky's flashbacks consists mostly of getting hit in the face. Again and again.
• Usopp is paralyzed with fear as Lucci's team arrests Franky, but then tries to do something as Franky is taken away- emphasis on tries.
  Usopp: LET HIM GO! Come back here, you bastards!
  (Lucci gives Usopp a Death Glare)
  Usopp: (lowers his slingshot, then bows meekly) Uh. I'm sorry.
  Franky: HEY! If you're not gonna help, then don't get my hopes up!
• The two nameless train employees start thinking that there's a Love Triangle between Paulie and Sanji (as well as Usopp and Franky) over Nami, and afterwards they're convinced that Paulie's determined to help Nami out of Unrequited Love.
• Luffy apparently tried to pull a cool maneuver in order get into the Galley-La building undetected. He ended up getting stuck in between two buildings instead.
  • After he gets himself out, he immediately gets his head stuck in the wall of a room where two Cipher Pol agents are in the middle curb stomping Paulie. The second Luffy gets out to avoid their attack, they pin him into the ground along with Paulie.
  • Right after Lucci kicks his and Zoro's asses and threw them out of the building, Zoro ends up stuck head first in a chimney and Luffy is once again sandwiched between two buildings.
  • This conversation:
    Luffy: Hey Zoro, what were you doing down there when the wave hit? Couldn't you get away?
    Zoro: Oh, um... yeah... you know...
    Chopper: Zoro got stuck in a chimney.
    Zoro: (Immediately starts strangling Chopper)
    Luffy: You got stuck in a chimney? Ha ha ha ha ha ha! Zoro, you dope! I couldn't be that lame if I tried!
    Nami: DON'T FORGET, YOU DID THE SAME THING TWICE! YOU'RE BOTH DOPES, OKAY!?
  • It becomes a Chekhov's Gag later on during the ride to Enies Lobby aboard the sea train Rocketman.
    Zoro: Hey, I don't see Luffy. Where did he go?
    Chopper: Maybe he got stuck in the chimney of the Rocketman?
    Zoro: CHOPPER WILL YOU SHUT UP?
  • The English dub adds another layer of Call-Back by having Zoro throttle Chopper again after he already did it once for clinging to Zoro in a death grip during Aqua Laguna.
• When Chopper searches the city for the other male Straw Hats, he yells Luffy, Zoro and Sanji's names, then faintly says that Usopp can come too, before asking the Galley-La members to help him. They then proceed to copy what he does, down to faintly saying, "Usopp, you can come, too."
• Sanji's leaving a huge, idiotic over-the-top message on the wall that was very obviously left for Nami in Blue Station just so she could find a letter he hid there before departing on the train holding Robin and Usopp. For context, the wall message says that the note is for Nami-san only and that everyone else is an idiot.
  • The contents of the note as well, for that matter. Nami then goes on to (correctly) deduce that most of Sanji's message is a silly love letter just rambling of love and other such mush, so she skips ahead to the part that will have relevant information: the P.S.
  • Another layer of hilarity is added when you realize that Sanji was in a rush to board the Sea Train at the time and yet still found it necessary to do all that.
• Sanji manages to find Robin when Corgi and his men escort her to the Sea Train, and wonders why she's not trying to escape them. Conclusion: she's obviously waiting for Sanji to rescue her! This is followed by a rose-tinted Imagine Spot with Sanji as a Prince Charming and Robin as a princess. That scene served as a well needed Mood Whiplash after the last few episodes' seriousness.
• Just before the Straw Hats leave to go to Enies Lobby, Nami brings Luffy a huge sack of food and drink, and Luffy starts scarfing it up. That's not the funny part. That's usual for him. The funny part is Zoro off in the corner, snatching up all the bottles of booze he can find, with a sparkly gleam in his eyes and a huge grin.
  • Luffy was yelling at Nami for taking so long to get there... then he asked what was in the bag.
    Nami: Meat and sake.
    Luffy: (mid-chowing down) Sorry I complained!
• Robin gets taken away on the Sea Train and Nami and Paulie can't stop her in time. Nami collapses to the floor and appears to be on the verge of tears. Paulie is about to comfort her when Nami bellows in anger.
  Paulie: SHE'S PISSED!!!
• Paulie giving Nami the humiliating nickname "Harlot Girl"/"Immoral Girl" (Funimation dub).

Enies Lobby Arc

• This was mentioned earlier, but Chopper bringing Franky various drinks to help Franky refuel, but it has some odd effects. Vegetable Juice barely makes him any stronger, and tea makes him act like a calm farmer. Franky isn't too pleased.
  Franky: HEY! Stop looking at me with that 'I-wonder-what-else-might-happen-if-I-give-him-other-drinks' face, you little bastard! (Goes to show Chopper with Wingding Eyes)
• Episode 264 of the English Dub. Kumadori speaks, and his voice is as expected. Jyabura speaks, and his voice is as expected. Fukurou speaks... and it's a teenage girl's voice.
  • Well, he does like to gossip, cha-pa-pa.
• Kalifa finding Spandam's existence as sexual harassment.
• When a chained but pissed-off Franky bites Spandam's head, the latter screams for help from the CP9, who are also in the room. However, they couldn't give less of a crap about it, and just stand there. Only when Spandam actually orders Kumadori to help him does the latter do so, and even then, he accidentally sends Spandam flying and crashing into the ceiling in the process.
• During Blueno's fight against Luffy, he uses his Door-Door powers to turn part of Luffy's face into a revolving door and spins it around. It's just as ridiculous as it sounds.
• Once again, Zoro is going to get lost missing completely the giant stairs he's suppossed to take, even if they're in front of him. Chopper said he's going to create a medicine for his lack of directional sense, to which Nami orders him to create one for Sanji's perverted tendencies. Chopper's tone implies that he thinks Sanji is already a lost cause.
• Due to an extreme case of Poor Communication Kills, Spandam spends a good part of the arc thinking that the invading pirates have only beaten five guards and were long since taken care of. His utter Freak Out when he learns the truth is priceless.
  Spandam: WHAT THE HELL IS GOING ON?!
• A moment in the Franky vs. Fukurou fight. The two trade punches to the face, and say to each other that their punches are weak and pathetic. At one point, Fukuro has a tongue slip and says "panties" instead of "punch". ^note In Japanese he says "Pantsu" which literally translates into "Panties" Franky seems mildly annoyed by this, and they resume their fistfight yelling at each other articles of underwear.
• While the Monster Point form wast funny at all at the time, it's hilarious how Chopper just casually launch Kumadori to the other side of the island as if he was a piece of trash.
• During Sanji's fight with Jabra, the latter tries to bluff Sanji by telling him that Robin is his sister, who was kidnapped by pirates when she was a child. This lie is already unbelievable enough to be funny, especially considering we've already seen her backstory at this point, but the anime goes the extra mile and even includes a ridiculously cheesy fake flashback, complete with Art Shift. Of course, Sanji doesn't buy it.
• At one point, Usopp manages to reach Robin on board the Puffing Tom, and they have a talk. However, it is soon interrupted by the sound of someone coming their way, so Usopp hides under Robin's cloak. Then Corgi comes in, and notices something rather... odd about Robin. His reaction is priceless.
• When Sanji sneaks onto the sea train, he hangs out on the back of the last car, wondering how's he's going to be able to sneak his way up the train. As soon as he finishes that sentence, a Cipher Pol Mook walks through the door and spots him.
• During the fight between Franky and Nero, Nero figures out that Franky's weakpoint is his back. Franky then proclaims that he has a super secret move to erase his weak point. The secret move? Lying down.
  Franky: Franky... INVINCIBLE! Hahahaha! Ready to give up Weasel!?
  Nero: Beat ....That's so stupid I don't even have a comeback.
  • Next time the scene cuts back, Franky's still on his back and Nero is petulantly stamping his feet and whining at him to get up. Apparently it wasn't that stupid of an idea after all.
  • And after that, Franky transforms into a centaur (a backwards centaur, with his upper body in the back.) This also introduces his gag of mixing up "Hentai" and "Henshin".
• Lulu's stray hair, which keeps popping up elsewhere when he tries to push it down, going from the other side of his head, to his arm, to Chopper. And then gets weaponized at Enies Lobby.
• Jerry's so tall that he has to bend over with his back against the ceiling of the train car, resulting in Sanji's cigarette smoke rising into his face. He then tries to punch Sanji with Rapid-Fire Fisticuffs, only to end up taking out his men instead. He bends over to see Sanji, resulting in him looking between his legs, and tries to punch him, only to be unable to reach Sanji. As a last resort, he ignores all rules of boxing and tries to kick Sanji, only for Sanji to dodge easily and take him out with one kick.
  Jerry: Kid, just because I'm tall, don't think this little carriage is any problem for me.
  Sanji: I've never had somebody threaten me from between their legs before.
• In episode 256, when Lulu and Tilestone board the Rocketman, Lulu asks Paulie for the whole story about what happened to Iceburg, noting that they have already figured out most of it and stoically listen as Paulie explains that Lucci, Kaku, Kalifa, and Blueno are CP9 agents. All of which makes their Freak Out even better.
  Paulie: You didn't know!? Who did you think they were!?!
  Tilestone: Michael and Hoichael from the old town?
  Lulu: Right! Right!
  Paulie: Who the hell are they!!?
  • It become a Brick Joke after Enies Lobby, where the two are revealed to be a couple of kids. Said kids end up getting beaten by Zoro after they tried to rough him up and show him where Luffy and the others are located.
• Sanji's fight with Wanze is full of hilarity.
  • When Wanze introduces his Ramen Kenpo fighting style hitting a dramatic pose, Usopp reacts in confusion "Ra... Ramen Kenpo!!?"; cue Wanze copying and exaggerating his line while pouting and squinting his eyes.
  • Wanze is also able to annoy Sanji every time he tries: Looking away while Sanji is talking mid-sentence, commenting Sanji's eyebrow makes him dizzy, and when Sanji says kitchen knives aren't a weapon to kill someone, Wanze throws them at him.
  • Near the climax of the fight, Sanji kicks Wanze in the face so hard that it temporarily transforms him into a Bishōnen, and his face remains that way for the rest of the battle. Wanze spends most of that time yelling at Sanji to give him back his gonk face.
• Nami changing clothes on the train... Paulie mildly freaks out while most of the other guys drop to their knees with nosebleeds.
  Guys (giving thumbs-up): Shame is overrated... *all collapse*
  • Then, Kokoro mentions that maybe she can change her clothes too, and we have this:
    Kokoro: Maybe I should change too.
    Guys: Please, save us the agony.
    Kokoro: What a rude bunch.
• Everybody's expression when Zoro uses Rashomon on the train.
  "Whaaaaaaaatttt!?"
  • Immediately after:
    Lulu (to Luffy): Listen, warn us before you do something like that, all right?!
    Luffy: You heard me. I said "cut it."
    Lulu: And we didn't think he could actually do it!!
• Don't you wanna know where Sharpshooter Island is?
  • ... It's in your heart...
    • Cue Nami's dubious response after learning where this Island is located, only to hear the song's verse stating he was born there.
• That Sogeking's theme song seems to be a Jet Jaguar homage. Listen to them side by side.
  • Then take it to the dub.
  • When Sogeking first appears and his theme starts playing, we get a brief shot of Franky and Sanji staring. Turns out the theme was Usopp's imagine spot and he was singing along out loud while the others stared at him.
• Absolutely everyone sees right through Usopp's paper-thin Sogeking guise... except Luffy and Chopper.
  Franky: What the Hell is he doing over there?
  Sanji: C'mon, just humor the poor guy. He has too much pride to show his face to the crew, but he still wants to rescue his friend.
  • Meanwhile, Usopp goes out of his way to drop all kinds of Suspiciously Specific Denial.
    "We've never met before, but I have a feeling you have great insight."
• Nami tries out her upgraded Clima Tact and ends up zapping everyone in the area (allies included) with lightning. Nami goes flying into the air screaming. In response, she lands right next to Usopp/Sogeking/Sniper King and whacks him.
  Chopper (oblivious to the masked man's identity): Why'd you hit Sniper King?!?
  Nami: Because I felt like it.
• The Marines spot Zoro and Sanji and recognize Zoro as Luffy's "henchman". When Sanji mocks him for this, he dryly remarks that it's still better than being "Pirate A."
  Zoro:... Or is that B?
• In the anime, when Sanji arrives to the Tower of Justice's roof, he sees Zoro with his hair shaped as an algae. One had to wonder if this is how Sanji always sees Zoro.
• As much as Sogeking sniping Spandam is a Moment of Awesome, it also has two hilarious aspects.
  • Spandam's reaction, best typed as: "HADE PARA BOGYA PUUUUU!"
  • And the fact he's singing his theme song while he does it.
• After Franky burns the blueprints of Pluton and declares he will ally with the Straw Hats, Luffy accepts but says he will never forgive him for making Usopp leave. Franky's reaction is priceless.
  Franky: Eh... he is right next to you...
  • For some dark comedy, a very pissed off Spandam is right next to him as Franky says it, and if Luffy had said the same thing to Franky, maybe the latter would not be thrown off the balcony of the Tower of Justice and have to be saved through the Rocketman.
• The Straw Hats and friends make a pretty damn rough landing at the Tower of Justice thanks to the Rocket Man. Luffy, Franky and Kokoro and Chimney are all OK, but the rest of the crew is pretty much buried under a pile of rubble. After Luffy tells them to get up, saying it was nothing, Sanji replies that unlike Luffy's whose body is rubber, they are made of flesh and blood, so they obviously can't be OK after making an entrance like that. They then all pop out of the rubble, screaming and perfectly fine, while Franky comments on how strange they are.
• When Zoro and Sogeking are handcuffed together, Zoro has a rather twisted solution: cut one of their hands off. He reasons they can run to Chopper real quick to re-attach it. Recall, this is a man who considered cutting off his own feet to escape Mr. 3's trap back in Little Garden.
• Zoro using Sogeking as a sword
  Zoro: Alright, Sogeking. Don't break your stance. You're a katana!
  Sogeking: SOMEBODY CALL MY ATTORNEY! I'M DEFINITELY GONNA SUE YOU!
  • It's also funny in the manga. Where he shouts in the anime, in the manga he speaks the exact same thing in a calm voice, like he's resigned to the whole thing.
  • See the dub version here.
• Zoro's "plan" to fight Kaku and Jabra while using Ussop as a sword? To give the sword an awesome name: Nosestorm!
  Zoro: Feel the wrath of the mighty Nosestorm!
  • He then creates a special move with Nosestorm, "Alure", which inspires Usopp due to the cool name. The move consists of holding "Nosestorm" in plain sight and wiggling it to bait in an attack. Turns out the name is actually "A Lure".
• Back in Enies Lobby, the scene where we found out what Kaku's Devil Fruit power is. And it only gets more hilarious from there. Jyabura agrees.
  Zoro: Man, that's lame!
  Kaku: Gabeen! Did... did you just, like...
  • In the anime, Jabra tries to stop laughing. But he loses his shit again when Kaku's ears twitch.
  • Made all the more hilarious by Zoro's reaction and inner monologue of "No, I can't laugh! But it's... too... ridiculous!"
  • During his fight, he proclaims to Zoro that he'll show him the power of a giraffe... and starts retracting his neck into his body to prepare an attack.
    Zoro: Real giraffes don't do that.
  • The second time Kaku does this, he pulls his neck in too far and his legs suddenly extend unexpectedly.
    Zoro: How the heck does your body work?!
    Kaku: Um, it's like a pasta machine. You put the dough in and the noodles come out the other end... Pasta Machine!
    Zoro: THIS IS NO TIME TO BE NAMING YOUR TECHNIQUES! (Japanese dub) / DON'T ACT LIKE YOU DID THAT ON PURPOSE! (English Dub)
  • Then Kaku boasts about how useful his Pasta Machine state can be, and claims to have a brand-new long-neck technique to use... and then just uses the super nose-gun he'd already used once before.
• Before all that, Sogeking tries to get a key away from a sleeping Jabra. After being stung by a bee and having his heart stop (but still not waking him up), the last thing that stops him is a rooster that appears out of freaking nowhere.

  Usopp: (thinking) Gah! A ROOSTER? ARE YOU KIDDING ME?! I'm right there, and the noisiest bird in the whole stinking world shows up?! If he crows, I'm finished! That assassin guy will wake up and wipe the floor with me! (rooster glares at him) What's that look? Are you gonna crow? You're gonna crow, aren't you? No, please! Please! Shh! Shhhh! Rooster? Mr. Rooster! MR. ROOSTER, SIR! I'm begging you, don't crow! Don't say a word—just... take some time and think it over, please?!
  Beat
  Rooster: Chirp.
  Usopp: (Out-loud) ROOSTERS DON'T CHIRP! COME ON!
  Jabra: (Wakes up) Oh. Hey, pirate.
  Usopp: (thinking) Curse you, rooster...!
  Jabra: (picks up his key) Guess it's time to kick your ass, then.
  Usopp: (still thinking) CURSE YOU...!

• Sanji explains he was freed from Kalifa's Golden Bubbles due to a bathtub landing nearby and splashing him in water before he begins his standard cute girl freakout at being with Nami again. Nami flatly states she wishes the tub had landed on Sanji.
• When he's not kicking ass, Kumadori is a living source of laughs. Especially when he tries to commit seppuku (only to use Tekkai to null it) or when he escapes from a fridge by devouring everything inside.
  • Even better, Chopper keeps opening the fridge for a few seconds to grab some cola bottles for Franky (and repeatedly grabbing the wrong thing,) and instead of escaping, Kumadori keeps wasting his chances by giving an overdrawn Large Ham speech about the fridge door opening.
  • During one of Kumadori's failed seppukus, Jabra gets angry and tells him he wishes he could die already. Then Kumadori gets overly dramatic again and, complete with traditional Japanese music, spotlight shining on him and falling confetti, mentions his mother in heaven.^note Keep in mind, Kumadori's mother is noted to be alive. Jyabura does a complete 180, and sympathizes with him, as he knows the pain of losing a loved one (His girlfriend dumped him). They hug and scream their loved ones' names, as Spandam has an excellent "I'm Surrounded by Idiots..." face.
• "Franky's butt... ...is expanding!!!" And followed by Coup de Boo.
  • The English translation is sublime.
    Spandam: I don't know what's going on in your pants, but please make it stop!
  • There's also a rather amusing pun beforehand
    Spandam: Come with me to the Gates of Justice! Bring the prisoners!
    Marine: Bu-But, Chief!
    Spandam: No buts, just do it!
    Marine: Well... uh... there's one giant butt that's a big problem!
    (shows Franky with his butt larger than the rest of his body)
  • Usopp's later reaction to seeing it in action, in the following filler arc:
    Usopp: FART POWER!
• When Spandam realizes that Luffy has found out about the secret passageway to the Gate of Justice, Lucci mentions that he noticed that "a girl and her cat" (Chimney and Gonbe) followed them, and hypothesizes that they were the ones who told Luffy about the passageway. When an aghast Spandam (who didn't notice the two) asks Lucci why he didn't deal with the two, or even told him, Lucci whips out the creepiest smile so far and simply states that Spandam didn't give him the order. Also counts as Creepy Awesome, since Lucci almost certainly did so in order to get a fight with Luffy.
  • Also, Chimney refers to Spandam as Lucci's servant.
    • Later becomes a Brick Joke at the end of the Dressrosa Arc, when it’s revealed that Lucci and Spandam are part of CP0, with Spandam as Lucci's underling.
• Luffy's chibi form. The first time is after obliterating the door to the secret passageway with the first use of 3rd Gear. Pint-sized Luffy's seriousness and Chimney's reaction are hilarious.
• After episodes/chapters worth of tension due to Spandam having access to the Buster Call, the devastating power and horror of which we witness in Robin's Flashback to when her home island of Ohara was utterly destroyed with not a single citizen spared, how does it ultimately get activated? Because Spandam pulled out the wrong transponder snail trying to contact his underlings.
  • And after comprehending what he just did, he rationalises that it was ultimately the right move since it'll wipe out the Straw Hats while giving him a chance to escape with Robin, with him engaging in Evil Gloating when Robin tries calling him out on his callousness... before Robin notices and points out that he accidentally turned on the transponder snail he meant to grab, which broadcast his admittance of his blunder and subsequent gloating to all the personnel on the island.
  Spandam: ... S-So... my name is Straw Hat Luffy.
  Marines: YEAH, RIGHT!
• Having been liberated from her seastone shackles, Robin dishes out an epic beatdown on Spandam.
  Robin: Seis Fleurs ... SLAP!
  • Now in English and just as satisfying.
• The entire scene when Kokoro reveals herself to be a mermaid. Everyone she is carrying, who are underwater and holding their breath, all have face faults that make them breathe in surprise. Everything afterwards just makes Sanji a Butt-Monkey. From that point on, whenever he tries to think of the mermaids of legend, he thinks back to Kokoro, and starts to cry.
  Zoro: "If you think you saw a mermaid, it was really a dugong." It looks like that's really true.
  Sanji: Idiot, she hasn't said yet if she's a mermaid! Don't give up the dream!
  Kokoro: I'm an icefish mermaid.
  (Sanji holds out a hand in protest)
  Sanji: STOP IT!!!
• Even though they are in a tough situation, they can still make you laugh.
• Remember the time Paulie managed to avoid a Nosebleed while Nami changed clothes? He can't avoid it this time when Mozu and Kiwi both cuddle up to him and refuse to leave. In fact, his nosebleeds come out like firehoses.
  Paulie: Hey-hey! Stay off! Get away from me!
  Kiwi: We never would've made it without your ropes! I didn't know you were such a hero, Paulie!
  Mozu: If there is anything we can do to repay you, just say the word, okay?
  Paulie: Yeah!? You can start by getting your hands off of me!
  Kiwi: He's so innocent, isn't it the cutest thing~?
  Mozu: It just makes you want to cuddle him~
  Paulie: (Blushing madly) That's enough...! You perverts...! (Rockets out nosebleeds)
  Kiwi: Awwww, are you having a hard time?
  Mozu: You poor thing, we'll take care of you.
  Paulie: I'm begging you, please have mercy...!

Post Enies Lobby Arc

• Zoro is rushing to warn everyone that Marines have discovered them as tense music. Said music abruptly cuts off as he manages to end up at the complete opposite end of town. He turns and runs to the left... and somehow manages to arrive back at the same spot from the right.
  • Tense music resumes as the Marines get ever closer to the Straw Hats, and then cuts off as Zoro finds himself lost at another dead end. He blames the town being a maze.
• Luffy's traumatic childhood.
  Garp: When I tossed you down that bottomless ravine, left you alone in a jungle at night, and tied you to balloons and let you float up in the sky, all of that was to turn you into a strong Marine!
  *Beat*
  Sanji: I'm beginning to understand where his incredible will to live comes from.
  • The anime version makes it doubly funny, as it uses the same footage of child Luffy being thrown into danger, just with a different backdrop.
  • Garp grabs Luffy by the shirt while scolding him and the crew panicked over what to do. Suddenly, grandfather and grandson have fallen asleep much to everyone's confusion. Garp is the first to wake up and proceeds to beat up Luffy for falling asleep.
  • Garp, the hero of the marines, casually mentions to Luffy and Co. that his father is Monkey D. Dragon, the Revolutionary. This causes everyone present to Freak Out (well, except for Robin and the ever clueless Luffy)
    Helmeppo: What the hell's wrong with this family!?!
  • And then the whole mess is ended with this kicker:
    Garp: Uh... that was a mistake, huh? I probably shouldn't have said all that stuff. HAHAHAHAHA! I take it all back. Forget it, OK?
    * Everyone except Luffy turns white for a moment of Stunned Silence, then lets out a Big "WHAT?!".*
• Sanji, on hearing the Log Pose is now set to Fishman Island, describes it as a dream kingdom where he can finally meet beautiful mermaids. Then he glances over his shoulder at Kokoro.
  Sanji: [on his hands and knees, pounding a fist on the floor] Can't I be allowed to dream!? I'm a pirate!
  Kokoro: They do have young ones there!
• When Zambai of the Franky Family shows the Straw Hats their new bounties, Luffy expresses joy, Zoro smirks, and Robin smiles. Nami, Sanji, and Chopper's reactions? Nami is shocked that she now has a bounty (she thought the photo was for a magazine), Sanji is dumbfounded and depressed by the poorly drawn sketch of himself, and poor Chopper is mortified, because he has a bounty of only 50 Berries. The World Gov't thinks he's the Straw Hats' Team Pet. Keep in mind that your average bounty in this series is always over 1 million Berries.
  • Sanji, Nami and Chopper's post-reaction to their bounties makes for a quick chuckle.
    Sanji: (thinking) My face...
    Nami: Ugh... I don't care anymore...
    Chopper: (Groans in shame)
  • To expand on Sanji's wanted poster, the marine who took a picture of Sanji thought the photo was a "mysterious phenomenon", because it came out pitch-black. His boss then asks him "Did you remember...to take off the lens cap?"
  • There are funny reactions back at some of the crew's old homes. Sanji's old coworkers at Baratie have plenty of laughs over his wanted poster and aren't ashamed to tell customers "He looks exactly like that, we swear!" Meanwhile at Cocoyasi Village, Genzo says he plans to complain to the Marines about posting such a scandalous wanted picture for Nami... while standing next to a huge blowup of the same picture posted on his wall.
  • In the dub, Zeff also pulls off a masterful Bait-and-Switch about Sanji:
    Zeff: It won't be long before everyone in the world knows the names of the Straw Hat Pirates. [Holds up Sanji's wanted poster] Their faces, on the other hand...
    [The Baratie chefs all laugh uproariously.]
    Patty: Looking good there, Sanji!
• Sanji's reaction to being told by Zoro his poster looks exactly like him.
  Luffy: How long are you gonna stay depressed?
  Sanji: Shut up! Why am I the only one with a drawn picture?!
  Luffy: That's an amazing amount for the first time.
  Sanji: Which part of this picture looks like me?! Huh?! Where am I in this?!
  Zoro: (over Sanji) It looks exactly like you...
  Sanji: △☐✕~◑※◇♨✹~✖✹!!
  Zoro: I can't understand your words...
  • In the English dub, it goes like this.
  Luffy: You've been depressed for long enough.
  Sanji: Shut up! Why is mine the only one with a drawing?!
  Luffy: Who cares about the picture? You've got a bounty!
  Sanji: Who is this, huh?! Cause it's not me! Does this look like my handsome face to you...?!
  Zoro: (over Sanji) I thought it was a photo 'til you said something...
  Sanji: *incoherent babbling*
  Zoro: Who has the handsome face again?
  • Chopper is not happy with being stereotyped by the World Government as a pet.
    Chopper: I fought like a true man back there! I'm a pirate just like all the rest of you! And what do they mean by "pet"?! I'm a doctor, darn it! *dissolves into incoherent babbling*
• The after party. Particularly, Robin saying how she might join in with Luffy and Chopper shoving chopsticks up their nose and the other end in their mouth, as per usual when they celebrate.
  • And then there's Sanji's reaction.
• How does the Franky Family get Franky to join the Straw Hats permanently? By stealing his speedo and making him run through Water 7 naked. Cue two episodes worth of Scenery Censor moments.
  Zambai: Only one of us needs to survive! We gotta make it to scrap island no matter what!
  • Franky is going on a rampage through Water 7, beating through his men and causing property damage (which includes a building getting leveled) just to get his only pair of speedos back. All of this, and the civilians are more horrified about the fact that he's naked.
  • But it's not enough. Ultimately it takes Robin getting a little rough. "Dos Fleur... GRAB!" It even gets a quintuple-take!
    Luffy: Stop it, Robin! I still want him to be a man when he joins our crew!
    Robin: As pirates fed with a treasure, why should we let go without good reason?
    • See here in the anime. Also now available in English dub form.
  • The English dub even added in a small Double Entendre from one of the people watching as it happens:
    "That scream! It almost sounds like someone is choking a chicken to death!"
  • And a wonderful little pun from Robin in the dub, given what exactly she's grabbing at the moment:
    "Everyone knows pirates won't give up on treasure once they've set their sights on it, and now that we have this one in our palms, so to speak, I won't let go without a fight."
  • Everyone else's reaction, notably the Square Sisters' various comparisons to crushed fruit and Paulie's Jaw Drop (of which his trademark cigarette actually falls out).
    • There's a swap in the two dubs. In the original anime, the Square Sisters first say they'll be crushed like tangerines, and Franky cries out "A ORANGE?!" In the English dub, they say they'll be crushed like "little oranges", and when they show the tangerine, Franky yells out, "They're called tangerines!!!"
• Usopp's apology and Luffy accepting him back in the Straw Hat Pirates. On the one hand, it's extremely heartwarming... but on the other hand, there's a reason why the picture headlines Inelegant Blubbering.
  Nami (laughing through her tears): You guys are pitiful!
• During Shanks's encounter with Whitebeard. Shanks recognises Marco, the first division commander, and then casually asks him to join his crew.
• Here's one that's easy to miss in an otherwise serious battle. In Episode 325, shortly after launching his Hiken (Japanese for "Fire Fist") attack at Blackbeard and his crew, Ace jumps off the roof of a building to the ground and begins to slowly walk towards Blackbeard. During this scene, there's a sign that supposedly says "HOTEL", but... there's no way the background artist didn't do this on purpose. Captain Obvious much◊?
• In a filler portion of the Post-Enies Lobby arc, Zoro ends up babysitting a few kids. It's already funny enough, but when Zoro has to buy groceries while carrying three babies around his neck, it gets even more hilarious: He sees Sanji coming his way, and runs away before he can see him... only to run into Kokoro. He runs away some more before she can see him, but notices the Franky Family nearby. Ditto, but he runs into Luffy. Then Chopper. Then Usopp. Then Chimney. Then Paulie. After a while, he's so tired he doesn't even attempt to run, and is soon busted by Robin, who playfully teases him about it.
• At the end of the arc, while they're waiting for Franky to finish building their new ship, Nami goes to check their safe, and is not happy to find only a small stack of bills in it. Luffy non-chalantly informs her that the 100 million they had were already spent in meat and sake in their victory party the day before. As he says this, Zoro is slowly walking away in the background to leave the premises, because he knows what's gonna happen.
  Nami (smiling): Where did the 100 million Berries go?
  Luffy: It was spent during the party, buying meat and sake.
  (long pause, Nami's cheeks turn red)
  Nami: Spent...? OUR MONEY?!?! (goes back to smiling)
  Luffy: Wasn't it for our party?
  Nami: (bangs her head on the safe) Almost nothing remains!
  Luffy: Of course! Almost everyone in town stayed at that party to the very end. It sure was fun!
  (Luffy laughs, but then Nami beats him up)
  Luffy (face swollen): Well, since we'll get our ship, it doesn't matter anymore.
  Nami (crying): And I thought of getting some wonderful furniture for the ship...
  Robin: Let's go to the canal to look for some.
  Luffy: Hey, Nami, since I'm going out to play, can you lend me some money?
  Nami: #%^&!! YOU'RE GETTING NOTHING! (hits Luffy again)
  Luffy: UNDERSTOOD!
  • The dub version is hilarious as well thanks to Luci Christian's way of switching between moods on the fly.
  Nami (smiling): What happened to all our 100 million Berries?
  Luffy: Oh, that? We already spent it all. We needed to buy lots of meat and booze for the party.
  (long pause, Nami's cheeks turn red)
  Nami: "Spent it"? YOU SPENT ALL OF MY MONEY?! (goes back to smiling)
  Luffy: Well, everyone was really hungry...
  Nami: (screams in agony and bangs her head on the safe) How could you spend so much on food?! There's hardly anything left!
  Luffy: Of course there isn't! The whole town was partying with us and they didn't go home until morning, remember? Sure was fun, huh?
  (Luffy laughs, but then Nami beats him up)
  Luffy (face swollen): Um... since the ship is free, we'll be fine. So, no worries, right?
  Nami (crying): I just wanted nice furniture for the ship, is that so wrong...?
  Robin: We can still check out the resell shops.
  Luffy: Hey, can I have some of that money to go play with?
  Nami: I'D SOONER TAKE IT TO THE GRAVE! YOUR ALLOWANCE IS REVOKED! (hits Luffy again)
  Luffy: Yes, ma'am...!

Thriller Bark

• Let's try to count the number of face faults we get from Nami alone.
• When they first encounter Brook's ship, Zoro suggests they draw lots to see who's going to go with Luffy onto the ghost ship. Usopp, Nami, and Chopper are against the idea, but then Zoro points out that the alternative is for everyone who wants to go to go: and everyone else wants to go, meaning the three will be left alone on the Sunny. So they agree to it...and to her bad luck, Nami gets chosen to go. "Why did it have to be me?"
• Luffy's first meeting with Brook.
  Luffy: Hey, wait! Do skeletons poop?
  Sanji: We've got, like, a million questions to ask before that one!
  Brook: (walks away, grabs a cup of tea and returns) Oh yes, I poop.
  Sanji: Haven't you ever heard of "TMI"?! We don't need to hear that!
  • The debut of Brook's Panty Shot-related Catch Phrases:
    Brook: Could you, perhaps, show me, your panties?
    Nami: YEAH RIGHT! (roundhouse kicks him, leaving a hilarious bump on his skull)
  • And of course, what's the next thing Luffy asks (after the poop question) a walking, talking, tea-drinking, panties-obsessed, afro-wearing skeleton? If he'll join their crew.
    Zoro: (to Sanji and Nami) This is exactly why I wanted you two to go with [Luffy]! What the hell happened!? Were you just picking your noses while he brought a skeleton back to the ship!?
    Sanji and Nami: I know. We messed up...
• Brook's first meeting with the crew. Asking Nami and Robin for their panties. Saying he will patiently wait for dinner, only to start banging on the table and singing about dinner. Burping and farting in-between talking. And then his origin story...
  Brook: I'll tell you everything now... It has been a long time since I began drifting on this sea... But let me say, my being a skeleton and not having a shadow are completely different things. To be continued in the next chapter.
  Sanji: TELL US EVERYTHING NOW!
• This scene. While the he, Nami, and Chopper are running away from a zombie horde, Usopp expresses confidence that they'll escape easily since Zombies can only shamble forward slowly. He's right at first, but his last statement only to pisses the zombies off.
  Usopp: We're alright. They just came up from the ground They can't dash after us. Zombies just move slow and groan. Even walking should be hard for them.
  Zombies: (sprinting towards them) HOLD IT!
  Usopp: THEY'RE FAST!
  • And then they tire out soon after and have to stop to catch their breaths. In other words, this is why they were moving slowly.
    Usopp: "Damn, no stamina?!"
• The introduction of Cindry, and her hatred of plates.
• Nami was attacked by an invisible assailant while bathing and screamed, causing Usopp and Chopper (standing guard outside) to barge in. Usopp gets quite an eyeful of Nami and reacts accordingly. (And surprisingly enough, not that way.)
  Usopp: (bowing, obviously flustered) Thank you very much!
  Chopper: YOU'RE THANKING HER?!?
  • Not to mention how she took out said assailant.
  • Afterwards, Usopp claims he didn't see any sign of an invisible man because he thinks Nami is just trying to con him into admitting he got an eyeful so she can extort him. Nami tells him to stop being stupid and that she's charging him a fee anyway.
• Anything involving Zombie Cerberus, which was briefly Luffy's pet (until Gecko Moria recalled all the zombie spirits and rendered it dead again).
  • The first time we see Cerberus, he chases Nami, Usopp, and Chopper as expected. Then Chopper notes one of the barks isn't right and realizes one head is a fox head. Cerberus mopes for a bit... then gets mad and runs even faster. Then, when the others run across him, the reaction is the opposite: Sanji, Franky, and Zoro pity the beast, Robin thinks he's cute, and Luffy... he goes, "Think he's yummy?" It took a moment for the beast to get up the courage to act tough again.
  • When Luffy initially beat Cerberus, Robin asked if it was okay as Luffy was riding it. Zoro said, "Don't show the loser pity. You're hurting his pride."
• When they first encountered the Negative Hollows, Zoro showed apathy at Luffy and Franky being affected by them.
  Franky: That was an epic fail. I'm such a loser this week. Nothing I do works out. I don't think I can live like this! I can hear the whole world booing me!
  Luffy: If I could be reborn, I'd like to become a clam. I suck. I wish there was a hole I could crawl into.
  Zoro: Hmph! You guys are pitiful. Because you guys never pull yourselves together, you let some ghost or something break your spirit.
  (A Hollow passes through Zoro; seemingly to test him)
  Zoro: I'm sorry I was ever born.
  • Cue Sanji AND Cerberus laughing at Zoro after.
    Sanji: You put on quite the show!
    Zoro: SHUT UP!!!
    Sanji: Man, I'm sorry. "Sorry I was ever born!" AIYIYIYIYIYI!
  • Funimation nailed this moment.
• Luffy spots a moaning zombie slowly rising from his grave... and pushes him back down. After a moment of hesitation, the rotting zombie (covered in bandages) bursts out and calls him a moron. Luffy stares blankly at him before putting on a concerned look and noting that he's badly injured old man.

  Zoro, Sanji, and Franky: ARE YOU KIDDING!? IT'S A ZOMBIE!

  • Later, Luffy spots an actually critically wounded old man this time and calls out to him as such. Everyone else (but Robin) in his group yell "IT'S A ZOMBIE, IDIOT!", before being corrected by the old man himself. Cue funny reactions from all involved.
    • The English version has the zombie give off an even funnier punchline:
      "DON'T PUT ME BACK IN THE GROUND, JACKASS!!!"
  • The zombies, apparently fired up after Usopp's jabs, literally jump out of their graves and start striking poses or doing midair tricks to show off.
  • After the Straw Hats leave, all the zombies have been buried again... face down up to their waist, with their legs sticking up in the air.
• Nami is chased by Lola who wants to kill her to prevent her from stealing Absalom from her. How does she calm her down?
  Nami: "I- I'm ACTUALLY A MAN!"
  • Especially funny is that Nami mimics Bon Clay's speech mannerisms ("Gimme a BREAAAAAK~!")
  • Chopper actually falls for it, despite the fact that he saw her naked earlier.
  • Turns out Lola realized she said it only to get away from Absalom, and played along till Nami beat him. She then pounced him almost the moment he hit the floor.
• Absalom rallies the zombie soldiers who begin chanting by calling him their leader. Then one of them calls out he likes to peek on bathing girls, and soon the entire horde is chanting an insulting nickname.
• Absolom's molesting behavior toward women and his appearance, specifically his lion mouth can be considered as a Stealth Pun; he is a sexual predator.
• After being saved by Brook, Franky starts getting irritated at Brook's fear that it might already be too late for the others who were captured. After Brook uses it as a chance to make another of his "skull jokes", Franky points his Weapons Left at the skeleton, but Robin stops him. By saying Brook is already dead.
  • She stops him using Weapons Left a further time... but when Brook makes another Skull Joke and Franky threatens to punch him... she simply tells Franky to let him have it.
• How Brook discovered the zombies' weakness to salt: he accidentally spied on zombies lamenting the demise of one of them because he wanted to eat grilled salty fish.
  • And then Brook threatens Hogback:
  Brook: I know your zombies' weakness. Tell me where my shadow is or I'll scatter fish all around the island!
  Hogback: Fish?
  Brook: (thinking): so that's not it... does that mean the weakness is salt?
• After being captured, the enemies poke fun at Luffy's apparent fear due to his wearing a suit of armor... he corrects them pointing out that it is a MAN'S ROMANCE to put on a suit of armor. A notion loved by Oda, and most fans, harkening back to Montblanc Cricket (as well as being similar to the gag from Bill & Ted).
• "He ATE the cage?!"
• The short Running Gag of Cindry nonchalantly getting in front of Dr. Hogback whenever he comes onscreen.
• Usopp waking up Sanji, Luffy and Zoro with the cry of "A beautiful lady swordsman just showed up with a ton of meat!"
• Luffy tells Sanji to go rescue Nami... and Sanji rages so hard, he goes Super Saiyan.
  Zoro: Don't fire him up any more. I'm afraid he might transform into something.
  Sanji: Damn you, invisible man! You're gonna pay! [literally explodes with rage]
  Chopper: Awesome! He exploded!
  • This becomes an Actor Allusion in the English dub: Sanji's voice actor, Eric Vale, also voices Trunks in Dragon Ball Z.
    Zoro (to Usopp, who had just mentioned Absalom perving on Nami earlier while invisible): Why'd you have to add more fuel to the fire? He not seem angry enough to you?
  • Becomes a Brick Joke later on when he's fighting Absalom:
    Sanji: You make me so mad, I just wanna EXPLODE! (Proceeds to do so)
    Zombies: HE DID!
• And then, in Thriller Bark, long after you probably have forgotten it, we have Perona's reaction to Usopp being immune to her negativity ghosts.
  • It's the same reaction Eneru had to Luffy's immunity to electricity. Only it was far better executed in the anime this time.
  • She's so dumbfounded and depressed by the revelation that they play their tear jerker music, "Mother Sea"!
  • And it turns out he's so negative, that he eventually turned Perona negative with the trick, causing her to grovel to Kumacy!
    • ... And as it turns out, Usopp is so negative that even Perona encourages him to think positive, in a manner similar to as if she were talking to a suicidal person:
    Perona: You are the only person negative enough to resist my abilities, to which I say... (She and her negative hollows flash a thumbs-up) Cheer up! Life's good!
    Usopp: I don't need your pity!
  • The zombies actually start yelling words of encouragement at Usopp after it happens, much to his chagrin.
    Usopp: Listen up, you zombie bastard! When it comes to negativity, no one's more negative than me!
    Zombies: WHAT A TERRIBLE SOURCE OF SELF-ESTEEM!
  • Behold, the dub version.
  • In the anime, Usopp's seiyuu was absolutely Chewing the Scenery by the time Usopp was setting up to finish Perona, leading to some hilariously over-the-top delivery.
    Usopp: *setting up his "Golden Pound".* "USO-WO-WO-WO-WO-WO-WO-WO-PUU"
  • And then there's the attack right before that that causes Perona to Freak Out and set her up for that final blow: typical Usopp in that it's a trick shot yet absolute genius considering his opponent, he calls it the Shining Black Star...aka Cockroach Star. Being stuck where she was while cockroaches crawled all over her made her panic so much that the incoming hammer stroke makes her faint in shock.
• Robin tells Professor Hogback to order her and Chopper to jump out of the tower. When he does, they step out of the way so he's pointing at Sanji and Zoro's zombies. They then proceed to jump out of the tower, still fighting with each other.
  • Even better, the scene plays out Ode to Joy as they do so... and instead of jumping out a window, they just plow through the tower wall.
• Tactics 15! Pirates Docking Six! Giant Robot Warrior! BIG EMPEROR!. Only its incomplete.
  Franky: Oi, Robin! Come on, you need to form a part of it too!
  Robin: I won't. I'm embarrassed as a human being.
  • The anime makes that joke even better by adding another scene later: When Sanji starts fantasizing about how awesome it would be to see Robin docking, she gives him such an epic Death Glare that he feels it despite not facing her way. Even funnier is that the more than likely reason Sanji give up on his fantasies after Robin's Death Glare, is that he remembers what she did to Franky back in Water 7.
  • Zoro's face after the docking in the anime, as if he couldn't believe what he had done.
  • Let's give the dub version some love, because it is hilarious. Stephanie Young's voice makes Robin's contempt more vocally clear.
  Robin: Don't ever ask me to dock with you again. I'm serious...
  • Even better, Oars is disappointed that the docking failed.
• In Episode 367 of the anime, there is a scene where Brook searches for salt in the Thriller Bark kitchens. But he also finds a bottle of milk. And he gets... really excited over the prospect of drinking it.
  • The Funimation dub is arguably even better. Ian Sinclair's ecstatic delivery is simply glorious.
    Brook: Ah-! Wait! It's barely expired, so it's OK! I'LL CHEW DOWN THE CURDLED CHUNKS FOR EVERYONE'S SAKE! TIME TO BUILD UP THESE BONES!!!
• Sanji explains why he wanted the power of Suke Suke Fruit (which grants its user invisibility):
  Sanji: If I ever got the ability I wanted to use it to GIRL'S BATH - Ah no, I meant I asked myself GIRL'S BATH - No, I wanted to use it to benefit humanity GIRL'S BATH!
  Zombies: His head is filled is filled with the idea to peep the girls' bath!
  Sanji: SHUT UP! Thanks to my years long simulation I know all you can peep—I mean do with that power of yours!
  • The Funimation dub deserves a mention as well, as it's just as funny.
    Sanji: My dream, I saw it so clearly! I can do so much good with it! Use it to protect- NUDE GIRLS! No, I mean I can help all mankind and- NUDE GIRLS! No! I had this beautiful vision of the future and- NUDE GIRLS!
  • After hearing this, Absalom proceeds to (rightfully) call Sanji out over being so angry at him for something he knew nothing about. Then he pushes his luck when HE calls Sanji a pervert.
    Sanji: (Kicks Absalom in the face) I DON'T WANNA BE CALLED THAT BY YOU!
  • The random zombies delivering commentary the whole time.
  • For more Hypocritical Humor, Sanji's angry at not only peeping on Nami in the bath house, (on top of Absalom licking Robin on the Sunny, and kidnapping Nami for a forced wedding), but also for eating the one devil fruit that would have allowed Sanji to do the same thing. Sanji's not a loathsome fiend on Absalom's level, but still.
• During the struggle between the Straw Hats and Oars, the latter is eventually turned upside down after a series of successful attacks. As he tries to stand back on his feet he looks really mad and threatens a gory revenge on the pirates... then he discovers that he's stuck in the ground (because of the horns) and is unable to actually move. Cue a series of Slasher Smiles from the crew followed by an nonchalant, epic, off-screen No-Holds-Barred Beatdown on Oars.

  Oars: You guys are like demons!

  • Depending on your interpretation, knowing Oars was powered by Luffy's shadow, they were probably taking out months (RL time: years) of pent-up frustration with their idiot captain on him. Luffy might be their friend, but Oars, on the other hand...
  • In anycase, here's the dub clip.
• To ensure Oars hunts down all the Straw Hats, Moria stitched their wanted posters on Oars's arm. When Sanji is forced to face Oars alone, the rest of the crew is confident Oars won't attack Sanji because Sanji's horribly drawn wanted poster looks nothing like him. Then it turns out Oars is the only person in the entire One Piece world who recognizes Sanji in his wanted poster and attacks him anyway.
  Sanji: "What part of me looks like that poster?!"
  Oars: "Everything."
  • While finding a weak point on Oars, Chopper makes an estimate of his cause of death; 500 years ago, he froze to death in a country of ice, specifically because he wasn't wearing anything. This is so stupid that it managed to get Zoro and Sanji to agree on something:
    Zoro/Sanji: I DON'T WANNA LOSE TO AN IDIOT LIKE THAT!!
• As Brook merrily makes his way towards the zombie holding his shadow, he passes a hallway of paintings, which proceed to come alive and attempt to attack him. He defeats them with ease, cuing this scene:
  Brook: (After cutting down the zombie paintings, he puts away his sword)
  (Sighs)
  (Beat)
  Brook: OH, MY GOODNESS! THAT WAS SO SCARY! (Flees in terror back the way he came)
• The Stealth Pun during Luffy's first fight with Moria. Luffy, having been unable to get past Moria's Brick Bat, jumps off the balcony he's on and strikes upward with a Gum-Gum Stamp, smashing through the bottom of the platform and hitting Moria right in the rear. He literally kicked Moria's ass. Doubles as a CMOA, since that was the first hit he landed during that fight.
• The Establishing Character Moment of Captain Lola The Proposer and her crew:
  The Risky Brothers: Allow us to present the captain of the Rolling Pirates: Lola The Proposer! Current count is 4,443 proposals!
  Lola: (Flatly) Oh my, are you handsome. Will you marry me?
  Luffy: (Without missing a beat) No, thanks.
  (Beat)
  The Risky Brothers: REJECTED! That makes 4,444! Better luck next time!
  • She later gets rejected by the other males of the crew. Nevertheless, her crew doesn't try to look sad at all and add up to her rejected proposals. One of the funnier ones is at the end, when Franky non-chalantly turns her down by saying he's too super for them to work out.
• When Moria grows in size, the Rolling Pirates are simply awestruck by the monstrous form... in the dub however.
  Risky Brother 1: In the most deadpan tone humanly possible We're screwed.
• Bartholomew Kuma describing the Straw Hats as skilled before fighting Zoro. The serious music stops to show them all embarrassed and blushing at the indirect remark.
  Lola: This is no time for you all to act flattered!
  • Kuma has eaten the Paw Paw fruit, which makes him a paw man. He's says this while holding his hands up showing paw pads in his palms. This emotionless giant of a man has such a ridiculous sounding ability makes the crew stop taking him seriously for a moment until Kuma knocks down Franky in one hit for it.
  • Also, this makes Robin start thinking about cats.
• After having defeated Moria, Nami is overjoyed for what Lola (as a warthog zombie) did for her that she reconnects with the confused human Lola by giving her some of Moria's loot. Recognizing Nami is a money grubber, Luffy and Usopp flip when she does that.
• Brook joining the crew:
  Brook: Um...can I join your crew?
  Luffy: Sure thing!!!
  Straw Hats minus Zoro & Robin: HE JOINED...JUST LIKE THAT?!!

Sabaody Archipelago

• During the Straw Hats' fight with Duval, his pirates talk about staying in formation. The problem is, in Japanese, the the term they use, hentai hikō, can mean either "formation flying" (編隊飛行) or "perverted delinquent" (変態非行) with slightly different kanji. So Franky thinks they're calling for him!
  • To their credit, Funimation tried to adapt the joke by making it sound like Franky is simply mishearing them. But it's awkward.
• While wandering around Sabaody, Zoro meets a World Noble (Celestial Dragon) and, not knowing that nobody is allowed to talk to them or even cross their paths, rudely asks him if he wants DIRECTIONS or something. Mind you, this is coming from a guy who can get lost on a straight path.
• After talking with Rayleigh, the Straw Hat Pirates prepare to cause ruckus for 3 days to give him time to coat the ship. Luffy's words after that are just EPIC.
  Luffy: We're up against an admiral! We'll have to make sure none of us die, eh?
  Usopp: Don't say scary stuff like that!
  Franky: Three days, huh?
  Luffy: Then, let's go... To the amusement park!
  Sanji, Nami, and Zoro: Oi!
• The entire chapter where the crew found Camie the mermaid.
  • Sanji gets Marshmallow Hell'd trying to save her.
  • The crew, even Zoro, entirely erase Kokoro being a mermaid from their minds.
    Sanji: (after being reminded of Kokoro by Usopp) Gigantic monsters? Zombies? That was nothing. That's not fear. My heart already felt the true meaning of terror when I saw her...
  • Correction. The rest of the Crew try to forget Mermaid Kokoro and pass it off as a bad nightmare. Zoro on the other hand, the very moment he thinks about it, literally erases his memory of her at will and carries on speaking to Cammie and Luffy without skipping a beat. Chopper, somehow, is able to witness this.
    Zoro: A mermaid huh? First time I've seen one.
    Chopper: HE ERASED IT! HE JUST ERASED HIS MEMORY!
  • This conversation.
    Luffy: Do you poop?
    Camie: Well, actually, I—
    Sanji: DOOOOOOOOO NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOT!
  • Brook, upon realizing that he can't ask for Camie's panties, proceeds to ask if he could borrow some money from her. The next logical step, of course.
  • Meanwhile, while all that's happening, Pappug is leaning against a wall depressed that he hasn't been introduced yet.
    Pappug: Hey Camie? Hello? Camie? Aren't you forgetting someone? Like a friend you neglected to include in your fun little chat? Someone like...me?
• This page. The Thousand Sunny's Gaon Cannon is more awesome than even Luffy can handle.
  • To clarify: instead of merrily shouting about how awesome it is, Luffy just stands there, eyes shining and crying Manly Tears.
• In a variation of You Just Told Me, we have this gem from Episode 387. The Straw Hats go to rescue Camie's Fish-man friend only to find that it's Hatchan, one of Arlong's mooks from nearly 350 episodes back! When he hears them, he disguises himself by covering his body with ink. As they approach, this great dialogue happens:
  Zoro: There's something about that guy's voice that seems really familiar. (to Nami) You noticed it too, right?
  Nami: His shape, too. Yeah, I know who he is.
  Luffy: You do?
  Sanji: Let's just ask him and get this over with already. Hey, you! So how's Arlong doing these days?
  Hatchan: Oh, him? Not so good, actually. Him, Chuu, Kuroobi, all the others got caught by the Navy. I was the only one who escaped! Now I'm giving up my life of crime, and I'm running an octopus fritter shop! Funny how time flies, right?
  (Beat)
  Nami and Zoro: ... *sigh* What an idiot.
  Luffy: ... Ar... long... eh?! EEEH?! IT'S YOU! THE DUMB SQUID WITH THE SWORDS!
  Hatchan: AHH! THEY TRICKED ME!!!
  • But due to his new profession, Luffy then has to decide between food and common sense.
    Luffy: But... well, umm... ya know... umm, just asking, but are your octopus fritters really as yummy as everyone says they are?!
    Sanji: Why don't you think with your head instead of your stomach?
  • When Camie comments on the fact that the Straw Hats know him, and asks if he's an old friend, Zoro angrily responds that he's not... while scaring the hell out of her.
• Duval's face revealed.
  • Hatchan and Zoro's comment on comparing Sanji to him that ended up giving him Color Failure.
    Hatchan: They really do look the same, don't they?
    Zoro: Two peas in a pod.
    Sanji: *weird reaction◊*
  • Brook just loses it, falling to his knees and pounding the floor with his fist.
• The perfect finish for this arc is after Caimie has rescued Sanji from under the water. She brings him to the surface, and then cries out going 'Oh my God, please, help!". While everyone asks what's wrong, Camie explains how she thought Sanji was alright, but now his nose is bleeding.
  Usopp: If he wants to die like that, then let him.
  Nami: Yep. It's what he would have wanted.
• In the Funimation dub, in a voice with all the refinement of Patrick Stewart, Basil Hawkins comments on a plate of food spilled on one of his crewmen.
  Hawkins: Such was the fate of your pants.
• Luffy, Eustass Kid and Trafalgar Law bickering at each other about how each of them could take out the siege around the Slave Auction House single-handedly. And at one point, Luffy going Leeroy Jenkins again.
  Kid: Straw Hat, you really are screwed up in the head!
  • It's brief, but while they're busy making idle talk, the Marines try to take advantage of the situation and reconvene to attempt capturing Kid, Law, and Luffy at once. Killer, Bepo, and Sanji show up and savagely beat them away from their captains as the three calmly part ways.
• After Caimie is kidnapped and taken to the human slave auction, Chopper is told by Sanji and Usopp to wait for him. This is a serious situation, but Brook is completely chilling out. He explains that panicking isn't going to make Usopp come any faster, so they might as well relax while they wait for him. Chopper takes Brook's advice so well that by the time Usopp comes to pick them up, they are relaxing as if they were on a beach. Cue Face Fault by Usopp.
• Turns out that the guy who's gonna coat the Thousand Sunny, Silvers Rayleigh, was the vice-captain of Gold Roger. Cue everyone being really excited... except for Robin, who already knew who he was, and Brook, who, due of having been trapped in the Florian Triangle for 50 years, barely remembers Roger as "some rookie".
• Yes, the scene where the Straw Hats are separated by Kuma is a total Tear Jerker, but there's one moment that briefly gets a little humor in.
  Brook: I'll protect you... even if it COSTS ME MY LIFE! ...Oh, but I'm already dead, I suppo- *gets sent flying*

Amazon Lily

• After eating a giant boar Luffy says it reminds him of when Garp used to throw him into the woods. after a short clip of Garp Luffy quickly says "I don't want to remember that."
• The great anime-only moment when Luffy is singing Bink's Sake to the Kuja Pirates.
• There's a little bit of filler in the anime when Luffy is being Chased by Angry Natives on Amazon Lily:
  Luffy: Man, Nami is nothing compared to these guys!
  *flashback montage of her beating him up for acting dumb*
  Luffy: (apprehensively) Maybe not...
• The scene where Luffy wakes up and the Amazons started taking notes on his wacky, weird-for-anybody behavior, thinking all men had stretching arms and thought only of hats. Especially the gold balls. English translations translate this as "Family Jewels."
• When Luffy first meets Hancock, it's because he fell through the ceiling while she was taking a bath. And since he saw her back, it means he has to die. Hancock gives him a blast of her Love-Love Beam and... nothing happens. There's a Beat Panel where everyone present has cocked their heads with an individual question mark above it. Even better, Luffy actually confuses Hancock's Love-Love Beam with Foxy's Slow-Slow Beam.
• Hancock being a walking Ms. Fanservice to every gender doing anything remotely cute.
• Luffy livening up the party with the other female warriors is totally hilarious like any other celebration parties.
  • The kicker is how every girl in the kingdom form a long line outside the party because all of them want to touch his rubber skin and are being charged 20 golds per touch.
• Anime-version: Elder Nyon, Sandersonia and Marigold's reaction when they find out that Hancock fell in love with Luffy. Especially Elder Nyon's over-the-top behavior explaining that "Love is a hurricane".
• Luffy calling Hancock "Hammock". She doesn't mind one bit either way.
• Any of Hancock's crazy Imagine Spot with Luffy reciprocating her affections to him.
  • She imagines Nami and Robin as being her love rivals for Luffy. She is so distracted serving him tea that she completely overflows the teacup with it. An unfazed Luffy looks at her while she fantasizes about a romantic story to take him away from his two female friends.
    Luffy: You really suck at serving tea.
• On the Navy ship, Hancock draws a heart on the wall with her name and Luffy's in it. She even uses her Love-Love Beam once to make it more romantic.
• The Marine soldiers suspecting Hancock of being a dubious Big Eater (when in truth all those 100 lbs of food are for Luffy hiding in her room). They even doubt she eats that much food five times a day when she herself comes out pushing the cart with dirty plates...
  Marine Soldiers: Oooh, whatever! She's hot!
  • Adding to that, the Marines start suspecting partially because they heard Luffy inside her room saying "Oh, I'm stuffed" after one meal. Since they don't believe a princess like Hancock would say something so improper they question if there's someone else in the room, and joke they'll change their haircut to a Mohawk if she expresses like that in front of them. Cue Hancock saying exactly that when she's pushing the cart, and all the Marines shifting their haircuts as the immediate reaction.
• When Hancock tries sneaking Luffy on the Navy ship under her garb, she tells Luffy (clutching her body) that it hurts to walk like she is and asks him to "climb a little higher," which he does. Hancock's surprised expression and intense blushing doesn't make it difficult to figure out what happened. If it had been anyone else, she would've been angry.

Impel Down

• The Manticores and Sphinx of Impel Down are able to mimic human words but don't understand them. Bored prisoners decided to teach them words, so the fierce beasts chase escapees while yelling out different types of panties and noodles.
• When Luffy gives Buggy the mark to Captain John’s treasure. what makes this scene is a beautiful combination of Buggy’s faces, and Shigeru Chiba’s legendarily hammy voice acting. Especially when Buggy doesn’t watch where he’s going and slams into the wall. You can only imagine the direction Chiba was given during recording when instead of yelling in pain he just lets out a random assortment of vowels.
• Luffy and a giant Sphinx play Whack-A-Mole with Mr. 3. No, really.
• Luffy and Buggy's back and forth banter when they meet in Impel Down for the first time is nothing short of hysterical. One dubbed set of lines in particular are gutbusting.
  Buggy: This was supposed to be a cinch! I called it "Buggy's Peaceful Escape Plan"... DOES THIS LOOK PEACEFUL TO YOU!?!
  Luffy: Who Care-
  Buggy: (leaning in, interrupting Luffy) AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!!
• Impel Down's level 3: Starvation Hell, a desert cell block that's hot as hell. How hot is it? Luffy, Buggy and Mr. 3 come across a literal fried bird that flew too close to the sky.
  Luffy/Buggy: How hot is this place!?
  • Unsurprisingly, Luffy is seen eating the bird.
• In the anime's rendition of the scene where Garp and Sengoku discuss Luffy's breaching of Impel Down, Sengoku gets so angry with Garp's laid-back attitude toward all the trouble Luffy's caused that he swipes Garp's bag of rice crackers and downs them himself. And this is the one thing in the entire scene that makes Garp upset.
• Mr. 3's reaction to realizing Mr. 2 is in Impel Down.
  • Mr.2 is reintroduced happily doing a sing and dance number about how awesome being Okama is. And unlike his cellmates who're dancing along with him before collapsing from exhaustion, he doesn't even seem to notice the searing heat of Level 3.
• When Luffy fights Magellan the second time, he gets Mr. 3 to give him special armor on his hands and legs. He promptly goes into Let's Get Dangerous! mode for a second before ruining it. (Anime, Episode 449)
  Luffy: I don't know why, but this brings a tear to my eye! Thank you!! Thanks for making me look so cool.
• Our first time in the Warden's office. While Magellan swoons over Hancock's beauty, Hannyabal is sitting at his desk, muttering, "Someday it will be mine..." then the phone rings. (Paraphrased)
  Hannyabal: (answering phone) Hello, warden's office.
  Magellan: (breathing poison, furious) Why are you answering my phone!?
  Hannyabal: (keels over) Agh! You're killing me! Blast! I wanted... to be the warden...!
  • The whole scene counts as one.
  Hannyabal: H-Hey! Be careful when you exhale! Your breath is poison gas! (Magellan is shown laughing his ass off at Hannyabal) Right! That's so funny!
  Magellan: That serves you right, stupid vice-warden!
  Hannyabal: He spews venom!
  Hancock: (Kicks Magellan down) Hey, you! What did you breathe in my face?! That's rude!
  Magellan: Wow! What a beautiful woman! I'm in love!
  • At one point, Magellan is stuck in the crapper when a guard delivers word about Luffy's shenanigans. How does he listen to it? He opens a tiny window on the back of the porta-potty, which startles the crap out of Hannyabal.
• Buggy and Mr. 3 trying to get through Level 5: Freezing Hell.
  • Really, everything involving those two is amazing.
• Emporio Ivankov doing the Newkama Dance. After watching this you know this place is weird when Bon Clay of all people is left speechless.
• Ivankov's Delayed Reaction to finding out Luffy is Dragon's son. Complete with him flying backwards into the wall. She spoke for a full panel before he realized what he just said.
  • Taken up to eleven in the anime, where Ivankov takes about twenty seconds to realize that Luffy just called Dragon "dad", and another six seconds after THAT to propel himself backwards into the wall. Further, everyone present is shocked too.
    Sub: "DID HE SAY DAAAAD?!"
    Dub: "DRAGON'S YOUR DAAAD?!"
    • And Luffy personally doesn't seem to mind. He just says "Oh, you're talking about my dad."
• On the way to Impel Down, there's Hancock's daydreaming moments about Luffy. All of them. She imagines Luffy as a typical bishonen, complete with Art Shift, gets jealous just by thinking about Nami and Robin, and even carves a heart in the wall with their names on it, like a teenage girl with a crush.
• Buggy's dejected face when Luffy doesn't remember his Buggy Ball attack is priceless (especially since he actually closes his mouth during it.) It really looks he's heading for Despair Event Horizon.
  • In his despair, he starts slowing down, only to remember he's being chased by a giant Minotaur and speeds back up again. This happens three times.
• Buggy gets attacked by a Blugori after leading Luffy to the entrance to Hell Level 2. He immediately reminds the thing that he is a split man, meaning he can't be cut.....only for him to fall through the hole. But look at the Blugori while this is happening; it's waving goodbye to him in an mocking fashion.
• Hannyabal's massive Jaw Drop when Magellan orders Shillew (the psychotic ex-jailer) to be released.
• It's a small gag only lasting one panel, but the whole "I am Saldeath!" / "A monkey?" (saru desu) exchange between Saldeath and Luffy.

Crew's Whereabouts

• "As for me, I'm, well, uh, how to put this... No! It's obvious... I'm in hell!"
  • The anime reveals that it's entirely his own fault too, due to a rather egregious case of foot-in-mouth.
  • Even better was his Eneru-ish expression when he properly saw his "savior" Elizabeth. He was expecting a beautiful, buxom maiden like this◊. Then, a little miscommunication later he's confronted by this!◊
  • Even funnier is that he does end up being an okama for a short while.
    • How did he revert back? The news of Ace dying was so shocking that he went from being womanly to manly in 2 seconds top.
• Anime only. In Episode 421, Zoro is stuck in a castle after being sent by Kuma and is being treated by Perona, who was also sent there by Kuma. After Perona hits Zoro with a Negative Hollow, he collapses, wakes up and finds out he's been stuffed into Kumacy the bear's body. We then have this following exchange.
  Zoro: Get off of me!
  *Perona looks at him angrily and hits him with a Negative Hollow*
  Zoro: I'm sorry that I yelled.
  Perona: It's ok as long as you learned your lesson.
  Zoro: (recovers) You little bitch! (gets hit with another Negative Hollow) I'm sorry about my attitude. (recovers again) Screw you! (gets hit again) I'll call you 'mistress' (recovers again) I won't! (gets hit for the last time) I'm really sorry that I'm being so rude. (Perona laughing) That's enough, you idiot! (starts heading North) I don't have any time to waste. I got to go back.
  Perona: (points East) The exit is this way.
  Zoro: Yeah?
  (Zoro walks South)
  Perona: Why did I tell you that!? Where're you going? How can you miss the door!?
  (Zoro blushes in embarrassment)
• And 35 episodes later, he's still looking for his swords, and Perona's reaction as he screws up her directions AGAIN harkens back to Enies Lobby:
  Perona: Fantasista, huh?
  • She later encouraged him the same way she did to Usopp.
• Brooks whereabouts are also pretty hilarious. He ends up in an island right in the middle of a Satanic cult's ritual, and his terrifying appearance makes them think he's the Devil. While they're nervously wondering what to do to appease him, Brook spots a beautiful female cultist and does his usual Would you please show me your panties? routine. The entire cult proceeds then to show him their underwear.
  • The true kicker is:
    Brook: Um... I don't want to see the men's underwear.
  • ...Which, in the dub, is followed by a very impressed-sounding "wow."

Marineford/Post-Marineford

Marineford Arc

• Buggy gets made out to be way stronger than he actually is when the Marines reveal his connections. The Marines are impressed that he's managed to fly under their radar despite being a former member of Gold Roger's crew and a close friend of one of the Four Emperors, Shanks, while the prisoners Buggy freed are so amazed they pledge fierce loyalty to him as their new captain. All the while, Buggy is panicking because his new reputation means that the government's gonna go after him.
• After the bombshell dropped where Ace is revealed to be Gold Roger's biological son, it's shown that Luffy knew the truth all along... as he almost casually blabs it out by complete accident to an astonished Buggy and the rest of the Impel Down escapees.
• Everyone's reactions to Luffy being Luffy to Whitebeard.
  • To elaborate, Luffy told Whitebeard, who had a bounty of 5.046 BILLION berries, to shut it as he knew nothing about him and also tells him to the face that if he wants to be King Of The Pirates Whitebeard will have to go through Luffy (Luffy at the time only worth 300 million.) Cue A Truce While We Gawk from everyone except the above two, as Whitebeard finds it Actually Pretty Funny.
• Ivankov's Hell Wink causes the battleship to flip upside down, up into the sky, and sending Luffy and the inmates plummeting towards Marineford. Everyone's reaction was priceless.
  • GARP! IT'S YOUR DAMN FAMILY AGAIN!!
• When the incredibly huge gates to Marineford start opening for no apparent reason, Buggy suddenly takes the chance to build himself up even more among his crew members by suddenly holding out his arms with a stick in one hand, making it like he pulled a Moses and opened the gates himself, after which the majority of the crew start bowing down to him.
• Luffy's "Jet Substitute" attack vs. Mihawk, where he simply grabs the unchoppable Buggy as a human shield then blames Mihawk.
  • Buggy is a magnet for these. After being pulled down, Buggy feels brave enough to hurl one of his Muggy Balls at Mihawk... only for the swordsman to easily send it back at Buggy. The look on Buggy's face before the ball explodes? Priceless.
    • Naturally, since exploding is mostly the same as getting chopped up, he got better.
      Buggy: Here's a joke! How is the Muggy Ball useful for tunnel construction?
      Mr 3: And the answer is?
      Buggy: Say it together everyone! Because it goes...
      Everyone: BOOM!
      Mr. 3: I've never heard that one before.
  • The English dub of the joke is even funnier, with Buggy comparing the Muggy Ball to a "robust financial market".
  • In some translations, he even says Ok, or not.
  • This is then followed by:
  Luffy: (Running away during the distraction) Thanks, Buggy! See ya in the afterlife or whatever.
  Mihawk: We're not done!
• When Buggy and the Impel Down escapees find a knocked-out Den Den Mushi, they try to wake it up... and accidentally scare the shit out of it by making scary faces, causing the Den Den Mushi to pull back into its shell.
• Serious as the moment is, there's something funny about the fact that Shanks shows up and Mihawk's reaction is to immediately leave. He also says he agreed to fight Whitebeard and that fighting Shanks was nowhere in the agreement and it's time to quit.
• Right after Jinbei and Luffy are saved by Crocodile, sent flying by his Sables attack, they are caught in mid-air by Buggy, who was trying to flee the battle. While Buggy is freaking out over a gravely wounded Jinbei and Luffy smacking into him out of nowhere, he looks down in time to see one of Akainu's magma fists coming directly at him. The look of pure terror on his face is priceless◊.

Post-Marineford Arc

• Despite Chapter 582 being serious, there was one absolute gem. Trafalgar Law's crew and Jimbei are at Amazon Lily, and have been given orders to stay out of the village. Law's crew begins talking about trying to sneak in to see the women, when Bepo (a bear) says, "Think there's any female bears?"
• From Luffy's latest flashback, Luffy, Ace, and Sabo ran out on a check. A chef finds a piece of paper that says Treasure Credit — Luffy. Doubling as a CMOF and Chekhov's Gun.
• The flashbacks of Luffy, Ace, and Sabo of their various adventures and fun. Garp visits, smiling in one panel... and beats up all three in the next.
• When Franky first meets Kitton and his grandfather, he started dancing with them about why he will not wear pants.
• Lack of cola, the doctors who repair Franky puts tea into him. The result is Franky becoming a gentleman with his hair neatly combed but still remains pantsless.
• Franky in Chapter 592. The way he triggers the self-destruct switch (pirate button!) in Vegapunk's lab. Especially his 'thumbs up' in the background.
  Franky: (voice over) So, hypothetically, if by some crazy chance I pressed that button like you said... you wouldn't, like, hold it against me, would ya?
  • One chapter later, we get to see how he looks after the explosion when he figures out what Luffy's message is. What should be undiluted horror as the skin on his face has been blown off becomes comedy gold with what he says in response to this.
    Franky: Forsooth.
  • And then, two chapters later, Franky puts on a Tiger skin in order to stop freaking out the people he is with as he still hasn't put on new skin. However, while lighting a Fireplace, he accidentally sets the Tiger skin on fire, and runs out ablaze, scaring the crap out of a Marine patrol, and thus starting the myth of the "Sacred Burning Beast of Baldimore" as the cheesy thumbs-up is shown once more.
• Chapter 595: Refusing to join him, Jewelery Bonney kicks Blackbeard in the face, as he muses that's not a ladylike-thing to do as the crew laughs, and after learning about Newkama Food, Sanji asks Ivankov for the recipe. His response? A dropkick to the face.
• Anime version of the flashbacks up the comedy. Like the Dadan family practicing their cover story in the case when Bluejam's crew came looking for Ace and Luffy. When attempting to lie they all make the same utterly unconvincing poker face as Luffy! Also Curly Dadan counting the boys after Sabo moved in uninvited:
  Dadan: One, two, huh? One, two, huh? One, two, huh? Ace, Luffy, huh? Ace, Luffy, huh? (a full minute later) Ace, Luffy and — WHO IS THAT?!
  • Makino teaching Ace and Luffy how to express gratitude. This is both hilarious and adorable.
  • The anime version of Garp's visit. Just one huge "Oh, Crap!" moment for everyone involved.
• Nami using her cuteness to trick the old men on Weatheria. After she fails to convince them to forgive her, she takes off her sandals and runs towards the nearest cliff, pretending she's going to jump off in guilt. The old men run after her and apologize, saying she's too young to throw her life away like that, and Nami instantly stops, turns around with a huge smile on her face, and walks away, saying she forgives them. She then proceeds to introduce herself, as the old men are about to fall off because of their momentum.
• Sanji discussing with Ivankov because he doesn't want to accept the fact the guy in the poster is him. He even spits Blood from the Mouth.
  • As one Youtube comment put it:
    Zoro laid down his pride and asked Mihawk for training because of Luffy, Sanji laid down his pride and embraced his wanted poster for Luffy.
• Usopp's time at Boyn Islands with Heracles:
  • Anytime Heracles introduces himself is a hilarious moment.
  • Both episodes highlighting Usopp's time on the island have Heracles saving Usopp from a monster only to get Usopp and himself injured in the process and all three crashes into the ground with the exact same pose.
  • Heracles calling Usopp the weakest creature on the island and that he is weaker than a baby ant and a worm. Usopp attempts to defend himself by saying he should at least be stronger than those two only to find out that even a baby ant and a worm are giants on this island.
• The fact that while the rest of the crew pretty much figure out Luffy's message from the get-go, Zoro is the slowest at understanding. In the anime, the scene is set to dramatic music as he is seen staring at the newspaper intensely, as if mentally straining himself, followed by : TO BE CONTINUED at the end of the episode, in the same fashion as a dramatic cliffhanger.
• Blackbeard's crew is shown on some island (which is on fire). Here's how it goes:
  • Sanjuan Wolf complains about having to stand in the water because he nearly broke their raft.
  • They don't have a bigger ship because they were too attached to said raft.
  • And when Akainu and the Marines show up, they have a ship, but not one for them. (So they run for it.)
• Hawkins, while casually sitting on the beaten up body of a pirate, asks Brownbeard to repeat his name.
  Hawkins: I see. I thought I misheard it because it's such a stupid name.
• Grandma Nyon acting with exasperation everytime Hancock is around Luffy and thinks whatever he says is a proposal. And this didn't change one bit, after the timeskip.