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  • Benny's reaction to the group's "La Vie Boheme."
    • Even better in the movie, where he has a bunch of humorless high-corporate-types accompanying him. They all spend a minute reacting in utter shock before abruptly leaving the bar.
    • When Benny reveals his wife didn't come to the show because their dog died. And then, Mark and Roger realize which dog it is. The one Angel killed for their Christmas celebrations. Accompanying faces from Collins (a silent "Shut the hell up, bitches") and Angel's face is just short of almost fake whistling like "I didn't do nothing." just pile on the hilarity
      Roger: Why did Muffy -
      Benny: Alison!
      Roger: - miss the show?
      Benny: There was, there was a death in the family.
      Angel: (innocently and genuinely) Who died?
      Benny: Our akita.
      Roger and Mark: (look at each other) Evita! (reactions from Angel, Collins, Mark, and Roger)
      • In both the movie and stageplay, everyone says "EVITA!" as if not just Collins, Angel, Mark, and Roger knew about it, and in some productions, a random cast member will bark!
    • Especially the "impromptu salon in honour of the death of Bohemia".
      Mark: And Roger will attempt to write a bittersweet, evocative song... *Roger starts playing Musetta's Waltz* ... That doesn't remind us of Musetta's Waltz.
    • Especially Mark's capitulation of Mimi's contribution, which creates...quite the image.
      Mark: Mimi Marquez, clad only in bubble-wrap, will perform her famous lawn-chair handcuff dance to the sound of iced tea being stirred. (In the movie, Mimi's expression and pose as he says this is the icing on the cake)
    • For the final shot in the movie, it pans across the table. First is Collins and Angel dancing together, then Roger and Mimi kissing, then Mark just absolutely rocking out on his own before finishing with Joanne and Maureen gazing into each other's eyes.
  • The following exchange in "Life Support" when Mark goes to a Life Support meeting with Angel and Collins yet does not want the others to think he is HIV positive.
    Mark: Sorry, excuse me- oops!
    Paul: And you are?
    Mark: Oh, I'm not- I'm just here to- I don't have- I'm here with— Maaaarkk, Mark! I'm Mark! Well, this is quite an operation.
  • Adorkability Levels Rising: At the beginning of Tango: Maureen, Mark quickly advances on Joanne and spontaneously busts out with some of the most jarring, awkward dance moves imaginable. She looks startled and backs away slightly.
    • When Mark and Joanne dance, Joanne leads him at one point and he comments on how awkward it is to be the one led. Joanne then tells him to try it in heels as she dips him.
    • Tango: Maureen is just one big CMOF with a hint of Heartwarming — Mark predicts and correctly guesses every move Maureen has pulled on Joanne (as it happened to him multiple times before) and essentially gives her an ear to air her grievances.
    • Literally everyone who has ever spoken into a microphone ever can relate to this exchange.
    Mark: Say something, anything.
    Joanne: Test, one, two, three.
    Mark: (exasperated) Anything but... that.
  • Collins' Oh, Crap! moment. "I may be detained."
    "What does he mean? What do you mean 'detained'?"
  • A blink-and-you'll-miss-it moment, during "Christmas Bells".
    Collins: That's my coat!
    Saleswoman: We give discounts.
  • "Over The Moon". That is all.
    Maureen: (imitating Elsie the cow) Still thirsty?
    Maureen: Parched!
    Maureen: (as Elsie again) Have some milk!
    Maureen: And then, I lowered myself beneath her swollen udder and sucked the sweetest milk I had ever tasted! *slurp*
    • "Moo with me!"
    • In the movie version, Maureen puts on sunglasses at one point to emulate Benny, who then removes his own sunglasses with a nervous look.
  • "Light My Candle" has some pretty funny moments, particularly:
    Mimi: Do you want to dance?
    Roger: With you?
    • Also:
      Mimi: They say that I have the best ass below 14th Street — is it true?
      Roger: What?
      Mimi: You're staring again...
      Roger: Oh noI mean you do—have a nice—I mean—
  • In "Happy New Year B":
    Angel: My cat had a fall and I went through hell.
    Benny: It's like losing a... how did you know she fell?
    • CHAMPAGNE?
  • "THERE WILL ALWAYS BE WOMEN IN RUBBER FLIRTING WITH ME! Give me a break!"
  • Collins's "whpp-ssh" whip noise when Mark agrees to go and fix the sound equipment for Maureen.
  • Maureen's mom after "Take Me or Leave Me", in the movie verson.
    "Maybe now you two can get back together."
  • Towards the end of the stageplay, as Mark is preparing his projector and both him and Roger are celebrating Benny's wife pulling him away from anything having to do with the East Village, the boys' power goes out again, and they suspect she found out about Benny's affair with Mimi and wonder who told her. Then Collins walks in, implying that he ratted Benny out.
    • Doubles as a CMA because Benny was really screwing Allison over, and someone needed to tell her.
  • Christmas bells are ringing, Christmas bells are ringing, Christmas bells are ringing — somewhere else.
  • "Vampire welfare queens who are compulsive bowlers" Anyone?
  • After Benny pays for Angel's funeral, Collins tells him, "It's fair to say, you just paid for the funeral of the man who killed your dog," to which Benny replies, "I know. I always hated that dog."
  • At the end of "La Vie Boheme" in the film, the camera pans across each of the couples dancing together, completely in the moment and loving it... and then Mark, completely rocking out on his own.
  • Several Real Life examples in the DVD commentary:
    Christopher Columbus is the new Antichrist!note 
    "Wanna see my tango pose?"
    Adam Pascal: Yeah, Roger has issues.
    Anthony Rapp: Big issues.
  • In the movie: Mimi's reaction to Maureen and Joanne's fight in "Take Me Or Leave Me" — the only thing she was missing is a big box of popcorn!
    • The fact that she is basically dragging Roger from room to room to watch, when all Roger wants to do is eat.
  • In the film, a bit of a Funny Foreground Moment during "La Vie Boheme" — when it gets to the word "bisexuals", Maureen jumps right into the frame and basically takes it all up (before moving to look at Angel for "men"). This is some really clever staging with a Call-Back: the camera deliberately pans to Angel on the appropriate word, whereas Maureen has to actively put herself in front of it, a funny call back to the fact that everybody mistakenly calls her a lesbian.
  • In the 10th Anniversary performance, with the OBC:
    • Acceptability seems to have risen, Maureen literally sticking her head into Joanne's crotch at one point.
    • During "I'll Cover You", Wilson James Heredia grabs and spins Jesse L. Martin quick enough for Jesse to shout "OH SHIT! I FORGOT HOW FAST YOU WERE!", causing almost everyone in the theater to break into laughter.
    • Benny slapping Maureen's ass at the start of "La Vie Boheme", instead of Maureen herself. This is completely OOC, and definitely because their actors (Taye Diggs and Idina Menzel) had gotten married by this point.
    • Idina Menzel forgetting her lines created some funny parts: halfway through "La Vie Boheme", she forgets what to sing/say to Fredi Walker, so she goes "something, something, oh just kiss. We're close. (laughing)"
  • One on a meta level. A fan joked on Twitter that she wanted to get a tattoo of Mark's line "mucho masturbation." Anthony Rapp liked the tweet, so the fan replied that she would actually do it if Anthony handwrote the line and took a picture of it for Twitter, so she can get it in his handwriting. So he did. The replies to this have ranged from "ANTHONY NO" to "ANTHONY YES" to "ANTHONY WHY?!"

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