Funny / SSSS.GRIDMAN

Episode 1

• When Yuta is forcibly sucked into Junk, Utsumi and Rikka arrive at the latter's shop moments before he is completely sucked in. Then we get this beautiful exchange:
  Utsumi: Yuta's been swallowed by Junk...
  Rikka: Old computers are terrifying...

Episode 2

• Rikka asks about the missing classmate. Cue her friend complaining to homeroom teacher that Rikka's memory is messed up.
  Teacher: "Well... That's good."
• Rikka's reaction when the "Gridman Alliance" now has to drop by her family's shop everyday since Gridman's computer is there.
  • And another when Sho reveals he has collected the address of their missing classmate beforehand.
  Rikka: "You're creepy..."
• Since Samurai Calibur wears his sword sheaths horizontally behind his hip, they end up slamming with Junk Shop's door sending him collapsing. Twice.
• Homeroom teacher's first response to Monster of the Week gunning for him is taking photo of it with his mobile phone.
  • In a darkly comedic way, after the monster decimate several building blocks with its beam, the teacher somehow survives all that just long enough for Gridman to save him.
• Akane's reaction to Calibur becoming a sword for Gridman.
  Akane: WHAT THE—-? This guy has weapons now???
• After Gridman defeats the monster, Akane has a brief tantrum and kicks her computer monitor, cracking it. What's funny is the fact that Alexis Kerib actually felt that.
  Alexis Kerib: Ow, ow, ow... so violent...

Episode 3

• Utsumi has a thought that like how Samurai Calibur can turn into a sword, perhaps people have been turning into Kaiju. This naturally gives Yuta a scare, thinking he's been unknowingly killing people... and then we get this:
  Utsumi: Kidding!
  Yuta: That's... not funny at all.
• The fact that Samurai Calibur, from out of nowhere, jumps through a window, and abducts Yuta and Utsumi from school so that they can fight a Kaiju.
  • Later, he also finds Rikka in the rain... and abducts her too without warning.
  • When they arrive at the shop, Calibur decides to throw the three of them right at Junk, complete with Yuta rolling in on a wheelie chair.
• The Bookend ending to the episode where just like at the start, Anti is outside Akane's house waiting for her to give him a bagged lunch. She gives it to him alright...by throwing it in his face and then walking away.

Episode 4

• Somehow Max is seen eating bread in Rikka's family shop with mask on.
• Borr and Gridman egging Yuta and Sho into following Rikka and Akane on their Group Date.
  • Later on, while the boys watch from the inside of a pastry shop, the Neon Genesis Junior High Students are sampling the shop's wares.
• Samurai Calibur's idea to find the karaoke room Rikka is in is to waltz right into each room one by one.
• Rikka's solution to Gridman and Co. freezing up mid-transformation; pull the plug and restart the computer. Upon coming back in the shop, Gridman is backwards on Junk's screen and confused about what the hell just happened.
• Realizing that Junk can't handle all four support members at once, Utsumi decides to send the strongest, and asks who that is. There's a Beat as Yuta looks at Max, before looking back at Utsumi in confusion, indicating that not even the support members themselves know who is the strongest among them.
• The way the Monster of the Week watches Anti fly past after Gridman shows up again at the 18:20 mark.

Episode 5

• "Amnesia is such a pain in the ass."
• Yuta looks at the size of a river from the train with amazement, despite Sho pointing out that there are now several immobile kaiju the size of buildings in the background.
• As the instructor is telling the class how to paddle, Rikka's friends begin teasing Sho for being a bit flabby, and Akane quickly joins in the fun with Sho having a... reaction. Yuta gets distracted watching, and when the instructor asks if everyone got what he was saying, quickly says "No we didn't!"
  • A bit later we see Sho still being conscious about his fat. When the kaiju appears he declares out loud that 'no, he is not hurrying to help just because it's Akane'.
• What the Neon Genesis Junior High students do when not being weapons: lounging in Rikka's shop all day doing absolutely nothing to the dismay of Rikka's mother.
  Calibur: "We have... too much time."
  Rikka's mom: "Do any of you actually work at all?"
  Full 3 seconds pause
  Rikka's mom: "Hey, do you actually work!?"
  Vit: (smiling) "We work, and we don't work."
• Because Yuta is too far away from Junk to transform, the Neon Genesis Junior High Students have to buy the computer from Rikka's mom and wheel all the component parts to Yuta.
  • After the scene where Yuta slips while climbing, Max appears to notice despite the distance, but it turns out they nearly miss their stop on the train because they all fall asleep just like Yuta and Sho almost did earlier.
    • Once everything is set up, Gridman is completely bewildered by the experience and repeatedly asks for someone to tell him where they are.
• The opening of kaiju fight.
  Gridman: "No matter how big the enemy is... we will not lose!"
  • Right after he says this, he's immediately punted by the Kaiju's nail.
• Anti appears for yet another rampage and gets ignored, as usual. He still does not stop even after Gridman left and there is a defeated Kaiju size of a mountain about to drop on top of him. Akane's reaction to this amounts to "Well, that just happened."
• Hass and Namiko naturally get a kick out of seeing Rika still in her swimsuit when she and her friends make it back into town, well after the field trip has ended. Namiko teasingly asks if she'd accompanied Yuta and Sho the whole way dressed like that while Hass can barely contain her laughter.
  Rikka: (very visibly embarrassed) "I can't hear a word of what you're saying right now!"
• Those that pay attention to the minor students will notice that a girl who appears to be Trigger's own Akko having a background romance arc with a boy that appears to end in success.

Episode 6

• Imagine being Yuta: you're walking along an alley when an unknown (and smelly) girl suddenly enlarges herself in front of you, then she asks you to a date.
• "They shouldn't be making episodes without Kaiju in them."
  • Even funnier when this is immediately following a bit with Alexis, all alone inside Akane's computer screen, stating he's starting to worry that Akane won't be making any Kaiju today. It's like the episode was riffing on itself at this part.
• "Please do not feed stray cats in the park."
• Rikka's mother leaving Vit in charge of the shop.
  Customer: "Do you have another keyboard?"
  Vit: (Pauses for a long while) "If it isn't there, it isn't."
  Rikka: (Cut) "I'm relieved."
• When the scene is showing how Akane is in control of the world, it is done in a video game parody style, complete with polygon designs.
  • The dirt and grass texture looks almost straight out of Minecraft.
  • Although, given the context of the scene, it could count as dark humor.

Episode 7

• After Yuta tells Utsumi and Rikka that the little girl that he met the previous episode is a Kaiju and that she told him Akane is the god of this world, the first thing Utsumi says in response is that he's going to smack him, leading to this exchange:
  Utsumi: ... I'm gonna smack you.
  Yuta: No, I'm serious.
  *Beat*
  Yuta: I'm telling you, it's the truth!
  Rikka: I'm disgusted by this story of yours.
  Utsumi: Disgusted.
• Anti suddenly appearing and ambushing Yuta just for the sake of calling Gridman out is surprising. Him abruptly running away after a brief conversation is equally so. Then he runs back in and steals Yuta's lunch.
• When everyone calls Vit into battle, he just reacts in confusion. Brilliant, but Lazy indeed.
• Alexis Kerib casually walks into a restaurant to meet with Yuta. It's even funnier when you replace the audio with Peter Parker meeting Adrian Toomes in Spider-Man: Homecoming.

Episode 8

• When Calibur enters into the school, all the teachers come out to question him.
• Calibur smiling smugly at Borr after getting Anti's contact number.
• At the end of the episode, we get to see the main three cross-dress for their club in the school festival. Rikka is a captain, Sho is a maid, and Yuta is a schoolgirl.

Episode 10

• Dark Comedy, but during the fight with the Monster of the Week's second form, it picks up a building and smashes it over Gridman's head, not unlike a move from the Pipeworks ''Godzilla'' Trilogy.
• More Dark Comedy: Akane, after repeatedly using skyscraper sized kaiju to try and take out Gridman, more or less decides "Screw it," and just stabs Yuta.
• The fact that the Akane's house is literally next door to Junk's. When everyone decides to confront Akane directly, the scene builds up the confrontation as an intense moment...until they reach her house after walking a few feet past the shop. It gets even funnier when after ringing the doorbell fails, Max just forces the door open.

Episode 11

• Alexis makes his presence known during a talk between Akane and Rikka by quite bluntly declaring "Allow me to interrupt this pointless conversation."; Dark Comedy ensues once more, especially with how things go for Akane.

Episode 12

• Alexis Kherib getting slugged in the face so hard by Gridman that he implodes? Awesome. Getting punched so hard that he screams "YEAAAAAAAAART!" as he crumples at the point of impact? Hilarious.
• One from the dub: Barry Yardell finally gets to throw in one of Kilokhan's catchphrases and calls Rikka a "meat-thing".
• As Akane returns to the real world, even the air conditioner disappears.
• The fact that Rikka never noticed that Yuta had a crush on her till Gridman spilled the beans. A very obvious crush.
• The real Yuta waking up is implied to lack any memories of the series, and since it was really Gridman posessing him up until that moment, it's kinda funny to note that he missed out on everything.

Voice Dramas

• In 1.1, Rikka tries to convince Namiko and Hass that nothing is going on between her and Yuta, but when they quite logically ask why on Earth Yuta would've fainted right outside her house she reacts so suspiciously they outright call her a Bad Liar.
• In 2.2, Gridman accidentally lets himself be heard by Rikka's mother, so Yuuta has to cover for him saying that he's working on his voice acting. Gridman completely goes along with it, even trying to repeat things Yuuta says to keep the illusion.
• In 4.4, Utsumi questions who will take Junk home with them, now that the Assist Weapons actually bought the computer. Turns out none of them can, due to Calibur and Vit having pets at home (Vit actually has a fish tank, but worries about his electric bill). But Max? He refuses to take it because Junk's color clashes with the rest of his furniture.
  • Utsumi and Yuta are also ruled out, the former due to worrying his younger brother will get ahold of Junk, and there's no actual way to get Junk to Yuta's apartment. In the end, the group decides to return Junk to Rikka's shop, thinking that returning used goods should be fine as long as a receipt is present... only for Max to remind them that they didn't take a receipt.
• In 9.999, Yuta and Akane are a pair of Sickening Sweethearts.
  Yuta: Huh? ... well, yeah, having someone as cute as you tell me you're my girlfriend is...
  Akane: Yup! Your cute girlfriend, Shinjo Akane, that's me! Yaaaaay!
  Yuta: Yaaaay! ... wait, hold on, what are we doing?
  Akane: We do this all the time!
  later, after Yuta notes that being stabbed by a girlfriend as cute as Akane might be worth it to see her smile...
  Akane: Eh? What was that?
  Yuta: Like I said, a girlfriend as cute as you...
  Akane: Yup! Your cute girlfriend who'll stab you right through the heart, Shinjo Akane, that's me!
  Both together: Yaaaaaay!
  Yuta: (laughing) Seriously, what are we even doing?
  Akane: (laughing) I have no idea!
• In 12.12, Rikka is trying to recall the name of Gridman's Fixer Beam, but ends up calling it "Something Beam," which Utsumi points out.

Fan Works

• This pic shows the aftermath of a particular part of the opening.