Pokémon Ultra Sun and Ultra Moon / Funny

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Not pictured: A Hydreigon getting snuggled maliciously.^note

Ultra Sun and Ultra Moon have a number of hilarious aspects just like their predecessors.

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The Game

On Route 4 of Akala Island, there's an area called Pikachu Valley because of the abundance of Pikachu there. If you try to go inside the Pikachu-themed camper van, you will always be interrupted by a Pikachu pushing past you to get out. And sometimes, you'll be interrupted by a Mimikyu instead of a Pikachu.
Playing with the Slowpoke in Hala's house is amusing because of how slow the Slowpoke reacts, especially when contrasted with the energetic responses from the other Pokémon you can play with. Particularly amusing if you choose "Turn around", to which the Slowpoke responds in kind...over a full five seconds.
Speaking to one of the Magnemite in the Hokulani Observatory has it say "Alola!" in Morse code.
In Ultra Sun and Ultra Moon, the Totem Togedemaru has an angry expression like the other Totem Pokémon... but even when it's glaring at you, it's just too cute to take seriously, and ends up being funny-looking instead.
When the player scales Wela Volcano Park a second time for Mina's trial, Hiker David will be there to greet them instead of Kiawe.
- Speaking of Kiawe, if you capture a Cubone (grinding into Marowak optional) and teach it Thief, it can steal… a bone. Not just any bone, though, the bone that is the source of Totem Marowak's ability to put up one hell of a fight and its reputation as a salt-maker; the Thick Club. Your Cubone will get an awesome boost from it too, and its Ground typing is super effective against Alolan Marowak's Fire/Ghost typing. So essentially, you're taking the source of Alolan Marowak's power and bludgeoning it to death with its own weapon.
The Alola Photo Club is rife with absurd decorations for taking photos. Given the ability to pause both the player's model and the Pokémon's, it is full of potential for hilarious abuse.◊
In one Pokémon Center, a Comfey will appear out of nowhere and heal the player's Pokémon. The nurse then gets angry with it for stealing her job.
In the Vast Poni Canyon, after you've basically seen the last of Team Skull, except for Guzma who's gone through the Ultra Wormhole with Lusamine, there's a random Team Skull Grunt in an alcove right near the path that takes you to the altar, who demands your Buginium Z, stating "I don't care if you have one or not!"
When Solgaleo loses enough speed in the Ultra Wormhole, it goes from a majestic sprint to a less impressive walk until it starts floating through while standing totally still.
Buzzwole's Ultra Space, Ultra Jungle, which looks normal compared to other Ultra Spaces except for the gigantic trees, which have their branches bend in a way that it looks like they are flexing; the theme that plays makes it funnier.
Xurkitree's Ultra Space, the Ultra Plant, looks fairly uncanny, what with all the giant Xurkitrees in the background...and then you see a few Xurkitree skipping around happily.
- Gets into a both funny and Fridge Horror territory when you realize the giant ones means the one you can catch might have been just a baby. With base 173 Special Attack.
Celesteela's Ultra Space, the Ultra Crater, has one fairly humorous moment with one Celesteela in the background; as you approach, it promptly blasts off into the sky, as if to say "Screw This, I'm Outta Here"
Getting your bond up with Rotom enough results in it asking you if it can call you by a nickname, which ends up being 'Roto-[the first letter of your name]'. Which means if your name starts with 'M', the nickname ends up being...'Roto-M'. It makes Rotom come off as a little conceited if you're not aware of this fact.
- For additional humor, if you play for long enough, eventually Rotomdex apologizes for the earlier nickname and offers to come up with a better one. It suggests calling you Master, and you can either accept or stick with the earlier nickname.
- Rotomdex may eventually ask you if you would rather go inside a Pokéball, or go inside the Rotomdex.
Despite the overall Nightmare Fuel that fills the Ultra Ruins, there's something funny about how nonchalant the only other human there is, casually suggesting not to breathe in the toxic air, and somehow not knowing what the color blue is despite it being on his suit.
Just the fact that Hiker David is a sticker option. You can have him photobomb all of your pictures!
In Po Town, there's a Totem Sticker on the side of the Shady House. When you begin to take it, however… turns out Team Skull stuck more stickers on top of it, meaning you'll be pulling stickers from the same spot for a while.

Pokémon

The way the trailer released in October 2017 introduces Blacephalon's Secret Art.
A new move: Mind Blown
Searing Sunraze Smash has Solgaleo or Necrozma toss the enemy into Ultra Space before attacking it. Sounds awesome, right? Well, instead of biting or tackling it, Solgaleo or Necrozma then proceeds to roll into the target. Like a Spin Dash, but at 10 times the size.
Mimikyu's new "Let's Snuggle Forever" Z-move is as hilarious as it is creepy. Mimikyu dashes through a forest, scaring the opponent, before attacking them from above and engulfing them in its disguise, which can even stretch to accommodate for potentially large sizes. The trainer signals Mimikyu with a thumbs-up and Mimikyu beats up the opponent underneath the disguise before throwing them out.^noteDelves into Fridge Horror territory when you realize that meant the poor sap must have seen Mimikyu's true form...
- The trainer's cheesy grin when they give the thumbs-up provides some weapons-grade Comedic Sociopathy.
- If you have fought Ghetsis in the original Black and White and have PTSD over how terrifyingly difficult his battle is, finally having a chance to obliterate his Hydreigon with "Let's Snuggle Forever" during Rainbow Rocket Episode can be hilariously satisfying.
As in the previous game, you can get ambushed by Pokémon jumping from nearby bush. However, on Poni Plains, one of the Pokémon jumping at you is Chansey. That's right, a Pokémon who is larger than the entire plant, as its shadow indicates, can somehow hide in it undetected.
Stakataka, in Pokémon Refresh, will fold up into a wall and remain completely motionless. Whether you please or displease it, one of the bricks will open up revealing its eye, then quickly close again, like one of those old-fashioned speakeasy doors with the sliding gap for the guard to peek through.

Pokédex

Alolan Ninetales' Ultra Sun entry:
The reason it guides people all the way down to the mountain's base is that it wants them to hurry up and leave.
In Ultra Sun, Alolan Raichu's entry says another name for it in Alola is hodad. That happens to be a 1950's slang term for someone who isn't a surfer.
"It focuses psychic energy into its tail and rides it like it's surfing. Another name for this Pokémon is “hodad”."
Wailmer's Ultra Moon entry:
Due to their memories of when they once lived on land, pods of them will, very rarely, wash up on shore.
Golbat's entry in Ultra Sun:
Every once in a while, you'll see a Golbat that's missing some fangs. This happens when hunger drives it to try biting a Steel-type Pokémon.
Paras' puntastic Ultra Moon entry:
The mushrooms, known as tochukaso, are controlling the bug. Even if the bug bugs the mushrooms, they tell it to bug off.
Relicanth's Ultra Moon entry:
The reason it hasn't changed at all in a hundred million years is that it's apparently already a perfect life-form.
Electabuzz's Ultra Moon entry:
While it's often blamed for power outages, the truth is the cause of outages is more often an error on the part of the electric company.
Heracross and Pinsir, despite being bitter rivals, apparently get along well in Alola. Because they both apparently see a bigger rival in Vikavolt than in each other.
Lickitung's Ultra Moon entry has two conflicts with said entry lampshading the latter clashing with the former.
It licks filth clean with its tongue. Whatever it licks always stinks afterward, so whether it's really clean is...questionable.
Part of Palossand’s Ultra Sun’s entry reads, “Each of its grains of sand has its own will.” The design means that hundreds — or possibly thousands — of sentient grains of sand thought of nothing other than to make the shovel that sticks out of the top of Palossand rotate.

Story

Guzma effortlessly stopping two Rocket Grunts from getting to him by...planting his hands in their faces and pushing them away while they uselessly flail their arms at him. Extra points for him only being on their level by both slouching and standing with his feet wide apart. Guzma spends all the time between the second floor of the Aether Mansion being opened up to Giovanni being defeated doing this. For even more hilarity, these two grunts start by calling Guzma a fool, before they end up accidentally revealing the secret to the puzzles ahead. Guzma, naturally, mocks them for this while holding them in place.
Team Skull is banned from using the Mantine Surf not because they're villains, but because they keep dancing on the Mantine's back, and have wiped out more than once because of it. When you shoo away the grunts at the Melemele surf area, the NPC there thanks you for sparing Mantine from their terrible surfing skills.
When you obtain the Flyinium Z in Ten Carat Hill, Kahili randomly shows up, teaches you the pose for the Z-Move, and then leaves without ever introducing herself. Well, at least it's more than you saw of her pre-E4 than in the previous games.
When you first battle Dulse or Soliera (depending on version), they send out a Furfrou in a Beast Ball. Recall that Beast Balls only have one-tenth the effectiveness of a regular Poké Ball when used on a non-Ultra Beast Pokémon, and you have to wonder exactly how long it took them just to catch that Furfrou. ^{The Math}5.5% at full HP; 24.7% asleep at 1 HP
Malie City has a building known as the Kantonian Gym. It's basically a recreation of the Vermillion Gym from Red and Blue...except that it gets various details wrong:
- The room is still filled with trash cans. Except that there aren't any switches hidden inside and instead they're all filled with ice and drinks.
- The statues at the front have the entrance fees and all the Gym trainers listed rather than the trainers who won against the Gym Leaders.
- All trainers in Alola don't ever walk to the player when spotting them within their sights, but the trainers of the Gym fully believe it's a Gym tradition to walk to the trainer when spotted.
- The Gym is a replica of the Vermilion Gym, which was an Electric-type Gym. But none of the trainers have Electric-type Pokémon — the Gym doesn't even have a set type, and the trainers' Pokémon are all assorted types.
- Like in other Gyms, there is someone waiting at the back of the Gym who hands out badges. Unlike in other Gyms, the trainer isn't a Gym Leader, he's just a normal trainer. He doesn't even have more than one Pokémon.
- Rather than having a gym guide and a Leader, the Kantonian Gym has a dancer named Jim Gyde and a trainer named 'Leader', and neither does anything close to what their jobs should be.
- Ordinarily, the major reward for beating a Gym is a badge. However, while the Kantonian Gym does give successful challengers a badge, the badge does nothing. Instead, they hail the player as 'the new Kantonian', which is not something that other Gyms do.
- All in all, you get the sense that it was created by Alola natives who have heard about the concept of Pokémon Gyms, but haven't seen one in person.
- And remembering the Player Character moved to Alola from Kanto and probably has experience with gyms (or at least has some level of familiarity with the concept), one has to imagine the amount of cringe going through their head.
At the Hokulani Observatory, before officially starting Sophocles's trial, you are tasked with finding three missing Charjabug that wandered off while eating. Two of them are fairly close by each other, but the third is nowhere to be found. Molayne ponders on where it could be... and then you see it in the background slowly inching its way around the Exeggcutor Express bus. One of the other Charjabug even turns to look as it passes by.
- After the trial, all of the Charjabug can be found on the table in the places where you left them. Except for that one Charjabug, which has somehow managed to crawl off the table and into the corner of the room.
After defeating Dusk Mane/Dawn Wings Necrozma and watching it engulf the region in darkness, Lillie comments on how you have a lot of Z-Crystals at the point in the island challenge that you've reached, and Guzma compares your feat to that of "the dumb captains and kahunas, who mostly focus on one type". Not only does that come from a Bug-type user, but it gets even funnier when you think about how they're acknowledging how the big battles they put in the game focus on such.
After beating Ultra Necrozma, you finally get to partake in Mina's trial. After getting all the petals from the previous captains, you fight the Totem Pokémon, who has a menacing entrance with a creaking door and it swooping in from the entrance of Mina's House. The reason this is in Funny and not Nightmare Fuel? The Totem Pokémon turns out to be a Ribombee. You know, the cutesy Bug/Fairy type that evolves from a thing literally called Cutiefly? It can still put up a fight, though.
- One of the petals you have to collect in Mina's trial has become a source of jokes by fans of the franchise, due to its shape looking like a.....butt plug.
When approaching Kiawe's location to fight him for Mina's trial, he is not there. Instead, it's Hiker David, who ends up watching the fight with Kiawe when he arrives. Immediately after winning, David screams and gets in another fight with you out of excitement.
- Hiker David greets you by asking you who he is. The possible responses: "The Hiker", "The best Hiker", "The same old Hiker", and "The suspicious Hiker". And then he fights you after you beat Kiawe.
Kiawe: My Hiker friend was so pleased by your right answer that he simply had to battle you!
- As for the actual Fire Trial, check out the third match puzzle for the Fire Trial. Is Hiker David twerking?!
When you arrive at Aether House to battle Acerola for Mina's trial, you find that Nanu had to take her place after she went off to the Elite 4. In Ultra Sun, Nanu can't be bothered to battle you after having just lost to Hau, so he just gives you the petal and sends you on your way.
- In addition, everyone before him who gives you a petal will accompany you to where you need to go next. Nanu is the exception, preferring to just stand where he is, and you have to travel there by yourself.
In Heahea City, the bellhop at the hotel is lamenting his former dreams of working at the Grand Hano Resort, but doesn't want the manager to know. When the manager hears of this, he asks the player to bring a Magmar to the bellhop. When you do, he has a heartfelt memory of his mother, who always encouraged him to follow his dreams, because she heavily resembles a Magmar.
When you first arrive to Hano Grand Resort, you'll have a chance to witness a marriage...of Pikachu! Complete with the marriage kiss, although the screen blacks out for that one.
- Furthermore, when the screen blanks out, they say "Chu".
Like in Sun and Moon, during the champion festival, the trial captains and kahunas all show off their Z-Move poses on stage, with Nanu doing his pose alongside the others this time. Instead, Mina is the one doing her move hidden away in the distance. After doing her move, the camera does a close-up on her, and she looks very startled, as if she just noticed she was being watched.
One of the Black Comedy kind: Reading a book in the Trainer's School in Melemele Island, will tell the player the cute children's story of how Pikachu, Pyukumuku, and Slowpoke set out on their island journey and tells the reader to look out and try to see this plucky trio. You can find them either as a cameo appearance in the Pikachu Valley, or as cryogenically frozen statues in Lusamine's dungeon.
Return to Nanu's police station after clearing Mina's Trial, and you'll see a short scene where Nanu, deciding to do his Kahuna duties for once, offers a kid a choice between three starter Pokémon. Only, instead of the actual starters...it's three identical Alolan Meowth. And the kid, naturally, takes the choice 100% seriously and needs the player's help to decide.
- To sell it further, all three had personalities that would match the usual three starters typing (Laid back and easy going Meowth for Grass type, for example), but they're still Alolan Meowth's.
Team Rainbow Rocket is as funny as Team Rocket ever was. They all have some hilarious moments, but the running gag of the Grunts trying to fight you en masse or as a duo but failing due to some unforeseen circumstances are gold.
- During the second of a set of rooms where you need to memorize floor tile patterns, one grunt tries to stop you...by making a distracting pose. In the third set, two Grunts try to stop you with a Pokémon battle, which can work... at first. If you retry the puzzle, they will tell you they want to interrupt you... but they can't, because they cannot battle you again.
- You'll warp into a room full of grunts, and the lead one announces they're gonna gang up on you... only for him to be the single guy you have to battle. When he calls out his buddies on this, they say they failed to get the timing right. So, plan B: run away.
- Another room has a teleport pad puzzle, except instead of walls, the way is blocked by Rocket Grunts linking arms. Not only won't they stop you using the teleport pads, but this also means most of them would have been pointless for only warping the user a few steps across the room.
- In the room right after, a male and female grunt try to pull off a seemingly clever pincer attack... only for the female grunt to accidentally take a warp pad to a dead end room. If you go into that room and fight her, she laments how nothing goes right for her and considers quitting and living with her parents.
- Before battling each boss (bar Giovanni and Ghetsis), two Grunts try to stop you, some of them having various oddities. Archie's guards have less than three days at the job, while one of Lysandre's Grunts tells you to do a 360 degree turn and walk away, only to correct herself once she loses.
- After defeating Archie and Maxie, Guzma holds up two grunts by their faces to get information out of them. It's hilarious with the grunts flailing their arms about trying to hit him. But even more so when the grunts gloat about not telling him how to reach Lusamine... only for one of them to spill the information needed to reach the room she's in. Guzma even remarks on how dumb they are.
- The second spinning tile room has a poor male Grunt that wanted to use the restroom, only to be frustrated by the room layout.
Team Rainbow Rocket, infamous for incompetent moments such as snoozing in front of the Silph Co. and dropping the Lift Key only to announce it and not pick it up, insult Team Skull for their incompetence. This is all Team Rainbow Rocket continuing the string of their general Grunts' incompetence.
After Giovanni's defeat, Faba desperately tries to cover up his involvement with Rainbow Rocket, only to accidentally confess to everything, even his reasoning for doing it. There's a brief Beat where Lillie looks surprised, Guzma looks like he can't believe how stupid Faba is, and Lusamine is giving Faba a Death Glare before Faba runs screaming from the room. The Player just has the same generic smile.
- What is Faba's punishment for his part in this disaster? He's demoted to being an intern. You can tell that the Employee who's now bossing him around is enjoying it.
A post-game quest has your mom involved in a catfight with a neighbor... literally. You use your pet Meowth, who belongs to your mom, to fight against the neighbor's Alolan Meowth, in limited animation like the old Game Boy style, instead of the usual battle sequence. It's as hilarious as it is awesome.
- Even funnier is that choosing the other options will have your mom scold you and pulling a But Thou Must! on you and feel as if she'd know what you are planning to do as you pick your choices, and the reveal that your mother is a Retired Badass known as the Scratch Cat Girl back in Kanto; the neighbor soon sees her as The Dreaded when she was all haughty early in the side quest, all while your mom smiles at the neighbor's growing panic as they leave the house. Now we know where our protagonist got their Perpetual Smiler habits from...
A side quest involves a reporter looking for an interview with Tapu Bulu, which you need to capture for the side quest to be completed. As the reporter questions, Tapu Bulu's answers are only "Bulu-lu". Eventually, Tapu Bulu gets fed up with the questions and goes back into its Poké Ball. The reporter's extremely excited personality and her insisting on interviewing Pokémon despite language issues imply that she is the same reporter who tried to interview the star Pikachu in Hano Grand Resort, making it a Call-Back as well.
In the credits sequence, as Gladion leaves Alola on a ship, a bunch of Aether Foundation employees are standing on the edge of the Hau'oli docks waving goodbye to him... and hidden among the crowd is a little boy, with his head down playing on his 3DS and not paying attention.
One sidequest that you'll find once you reach near Route 16 is a fisherman whose Starmie wants a staring contest with any Pokémon that it finds. You need a Pokémon that learns "Tickle", and one of the Pokémon that can learn it and obtainable at that point of the game is... Mr. Mime. You don't get to see it, but the notion that a Starmie is defeated through "Tickle" is hilarious. The Starmie, however, wants to do another staring contest when it's over, but the trainer has had enough and just wants to go home.
Like the previous game, you can sit on Guzma's arm chair like a boss after you fight him the second time in Po Town. A Grunt enters, but instead of arguing that you're not the boss of him, he says that he wished he could get away with actually sitting on Guzma's chair like you did.
- Not to mention that when the Grunt says this he's facing towards the camera, making it seem like he's talking directly to the player.
The Ultra Recon Squad's awkward attempt to do the Alolan salute, not getting that it's supposed to resemble a rainbow.
At Hano Beach, you can find a pair of Pyukumuku named after Romeo and Juliet who are tragically torn apart when someone comes along and throws one (and for some reason only one) back into the sea. You can reunite the two, and immediately after that another person comes along to throw one back into the sea.
- When you're told the story, the camera zooms in on the player when it's mentioned that one was chucked into the sea, heavily implying that it's your fault.
Some of the sidequests that you're given the chance to do have some funny prompts. For one, you have the Gentleman with the lost Meowth on Route 2, and when he asks you to help him, the other option is "Can I do it later?". And in Hau'oli City Hall, the father of a young lady who wants him to let her marry her boyfriend, when she asks you to battle him, the other response is "How is this my problem?!". It's how much emphasis they put on the answers that make it funny.
In the Royal Avenue Malasada Shop, there is pair of self-appointed malasada promoters, Mala and her Pyukumuku "Pyukuku." Their "commercial song" involves a lot of energetic yelling and eating malasadas in front of people, to the exasperated amusement of the employees and customers alike. Mala believes that Pyukumuku make a better mascot than Slurpuff, since Slurpuff can't be caught in the Alola region. She excitedly declares they will keep singing until they either become the store's mascots or you give them Moomoo Milk. If you give her the milk, then she'll declare they can use it to make "Mythic Malasadas." She'll then give you a big malasada, but tell you to buy a mythic malasada yourself, then run off with Pyukuku to spread the word about how delicious mythic malasadas are. Said Mythic Malasada appears rarely at shops, appearing for exactly one week at a time and then disappearing again until 31 days later.
After defeating Archie and Maxie during Episode RR, the two will come through to the main room of the castle, and see each other. Both of them come from worlds where they were victorious over their counterpart. Naturally, they are both extremely confused by the situation. They then decide that they'll have a battle to decide which of them will get to unleash his plans on the Alola region... only for them to suddenly teleport away. Their expressions do not change while they are being sent back to their original worlds. They don't come back. It's hilariously awkward and abrupt.
- For this matter, the Fridge Brilliance behind Archie and Maxie both being in Team Rainbow Rocket — they didn't know they were on the same team. It's such a cheap reason it's difficult to not laugh.
If you visit the Alola Photo Club after clearing Episode RR, you are given special villain stickers that are said to be given to you by someone from "Rainbow". The last person to leave the universe in the epilogue of Episode RR is Giovanni. So before he leaves the player's world, he somehow has some free time for giving you these very stickers for the Alola Photo Club.
- What's even funnier is that due to each of the villain team emblems being shaped like letters, players can spell "GRAMPS" with them.
Zygarde's appearance during the credits sequence. While it's meant to show the player it's available to catch in its 50% forme, it instead ends up feeling more like Something We Forgot given Zygarde's much smaller role compared to Sun and Moon (where its involvement was already small to begin with) and the stakes in the story being higher and more worthy of Zygarde intervening.
- Considering its role as protector of the ecosystem, it's possible that Zygarde come to Alola in response to Necrozma & the Ultra Beasts' appearance. Too bad Alola is so far away from Kalos, it didn't make it in time.
Like before, talking to the Team Skull Grunts at the Po Town Pokémon Centre after becoming Champion alters the responses like in the previous game. This time, they also give you a Team Skull Cap for free with the game getting in on the fun.
"You got a Team Skull Cap, yo!"
The villainous team leaders in Team Rainbow Rocket hold all their Pokémon in Master Balls. Makes sense for the Legendary Pokémon they're carrying, but when they send out something like Mightyena or Crobat, it comes off as just a bit overkill. Lysandre's Gyarados leads to a particular brand of humor if you imagine him wanting a Magikarp so badly that he's willing to use a Master Ball on it.
Once again Kiawe and Lana are present for Mallow's trial, but unlike the previous titles, when they're offered a taste of her latest concoction, they both come up with random excuses to get the hell out of there.

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