Funny / Samurai Champloo

• Episode 1 ("Tempestuous Temperaments"):
  • The crowning moment as it cuts away from the rather grim opening of Mugen and Jin accepting their "execution":
    Title Card: One Day Earlier...
    (Cuts to shot of modern-day metropolis with hip-hop playing in the background)
    Title Card: ONE DAY EARLIER!
    (Episode rewinds a la VHS back to the appropriate time period)
  • After the shop burns down, the unconscious Mugen dreams that he and Jin are still trapped in the fire... and Jin just so happens to be having a bath while Mugen stands there bewildered by the fire. Mugen wakes up, finds that he and Jin are tied up, and the following exchange ensues:
    Mugen: I remember a dream... There was fire, all around me...
    Jin: It wasn't a dream.
    Mugen: Oh yeah? So you were in a bathtub with your thing hanging out?
    Jin: (twitches) Now that was a dream.
  • At the end of the episode, Fuu stops Mugen and Jin from fighting, stating they'll settle matters with a coin toss on whether or not they'll fight, or postpone their fight and accompany her on her journey. Mugen takes the coin and throws it high up in the air a bit hard.
    Fuu: ... Don't you think you might've tossed it a little too far?
    Jin: He doesn't know the meaning of restraint.
    Mugen: Kiss my ass.
• In episode 2 ("Redeye Reprisal"), the samurai who gets in the spring with Jin starts talking about how fireflies mate, sometimes homosexually.
  Samurai: [Enters bath and interrupts greetings to observe fireflies] Beautiful, aren't they? Do you know why fireflies glow like that? It's a form of communication. Signals sent by the males and females to attract one another. However, they say that every once in a while, a male will try to attract another male.
  [beat]
  Jin: Time to go.
• Episode 3 ("Hellhounds for Hire, Part 1"):
  • Jin's brief Shamisen performance near the end. It is hilariously bad, and both Jin and the mooks know it. After a couple seconds, Jin gives up and draws his sword.
  • This mook's exclamation after Jin drops his Disguised in Drag. "Cross-dressers! I mean, double crossers!"
• Fuu's epic diceroll in episode 4 ("Hellhounds for Hire, Part 2").
• Episode 5: Fuu decides to not be mad about the nude painting based off of her, because the artist gave her big boobs...but then gets mad when Jin and Mugen comment upon her lack of.
• Episode 6 ("Stranger Searching")
  • The eating contest, where the narration is so Hot-Blooded.
    SURVIVAL OF THE FULLEST!
    This... this girl's stomach is a Cosmos unto itself! It's connected to the void of the universe!
    SUCH GLUTTONY!
    How much can a human being eat? One has to ask: Where have we been? Where are we going? Their forms are like unto the gods themselves! This is truly awe inspiring!
    What we may very well be witnessing here today is a birth... the birth of the next stage in human stomach evolution.
  • As time passes in the contest, lots of people barf and pass out after reaching their limit.
  • Jin immediately gives up after one bowl, prompting the commentator to ask why he even bothered to enter.
  • Mugen soon started to reach his limit, as he was eating slowly until he looked ready to throw up. Jin won't allow him to stop.
    Jin: You must not consider stopping. My swords are on the line. Now swallow, dammit.
    Mugen: (in a daze, looks up into the sky, and promptly collapses)
  • Two words: Fat Fuu.
    Mugen: Who the hell are you anyway?
    Fat Fuu: Get off my case!
  • Isaac’s Occidental Otaku tendency to spout out bits of info he’s learned about, especially if you’ve started taking East Asian studies in college.
    Isaac: (Excitedly) That’s wabi-sabi, right?
    Mugen: (Irritated) That’s wasabi.
• "Something just popped out."
• The beatboxing guy in episode 8 ("The Art of Altercation"). Also, Drunk Jin is pretty hilarious and so is him and Mugen being hungover.
• The end of episode 9 ("Beatbox Bandits"), where an entire field of weed burns. Mugen's trip (even if it's a little...excessive for weed) is only the beginning.
  • By the end, Fuu and Jin spot Mugen with the weed smugglers all completely high. Fuu and Jin had the most hilarious murderous glares like they wanted to kill Mugen.
    Fuu: YOU JACKASS!!!!!!
• Episode 15 ("Bogus Booty"):
  • When Jin utterly fails to catch fish with a good old fashioned fishing rod, Mugen and Fuu (happily chowing down on their own catches) start mocking him behind his back. Cue a beat, followed by promptly diving into the water and jumping around like a fish.
  • "Maijin Fuu". Whenever Fuu gets a chance to engorge herself with food, her entire body physically changes. She becomes so bloated, that in this episode two men try to search for her... but when they see her (now back to normal size), they continue looking, saying that there's no chance it could have been her.
    • A few minutes after changing back to her normal size and shape, she complains that she's hunger. Momo who is on her shoulder does a Face Fault and falls off.
  • When Mugen and Jin are introduced to the only pretty Geisha in the brothel, they immediately start playing Rock Paper Scissors like two frat boys. When Jin loses he collapses dramatically to the ground. Mugen, on the other hand, gloats like the champ he is.
  • Jin, despite dispatching five ninja in a Single-Stroke Battle (as in he kills five ninja with one slash), groans about his backache due to his night with the ladies.
  • How does the plot progress? Mugen gets promised for sex if he helps out... and he does. It's amazing what he will do to get some action.
  Mugen: I want my nookie!!
  • Yatsuha, a female ninja disguised as a Geisha, who ends up manipulating Mugen with promises of sex if he kicks a criminal group's ass. And falls in love with him in the end. It's clear she's way in over her head with the guy, but that doesn't stop her from clobbering him over the head twice with a simple distraction:
  Yatsuha: Hey look, a naked woman!
• The travellers in episode 16 ("Lullabies of the Lost") who rap about Yoshitsune.
  He's fat, he's fly, he's tall as the sky/Always grabs his rocks when the bitches walk by!
  And the dude's so handsome all the bitches wanna pants him!
• Episode 18 ("War of the Words"):
  • What you have here is a graffiti rivalry of epic proportions and an awesome Cool Teacher. He overpowers Mugen, lectures him on the disgrace of being an illiterate and forces him to CHUG a bottle of sake in a fit of drunk rage and then passes out with Mugen in a headlock. The next day, he KIDNAPS Mugen and forces him to learn how to read through a rousing motivational speech! And he's voiced by Norio Wakamoto!
  • When there's a graffiti battle going on, the teacher gets real pissed, but he's not mad at the graffiti. He's mad that the graffiti artists wrote the character wrong!
  • At the end of the episode, Mugen graffitis everything Jin and Fuu owns, including themselves and Momo (whom he has labeled "Animal").
• Episode 19 ("Unholy Union") gives us Xavier III, who's bizarre introduction is capped off with an extreme closeup of his spaced-out-looking◊ gonkish face as he gallops away on his horse.
• Episode 22 ("Cosmic Collisions") is just one huge bizarre episode which also ended abruptly with a meteor crash where everyone was at. Some onlookers a distance away just comments how the resulting explosion cloud looks like a mushroom.
  • The gang finds some mushrooms, where Fuu says that the kind they came across would sell for a lot of money, just as Mugen eats it. Fuu angrily tries to get Mugen to spit it back out, then Jin comes across another, and also eats it, much to Fuu's horror. Mugen and Jin continue to find more mushrooms which they just eat while Fuu runs back and forth between them to stop them from eating. Once the two wind up eating all the mushroom, Fuu makes mention that she read in her horoscope that she needs to avoid mushrooms today, which Mugen angrily asks why she didn't mention that before they started stuffing their faces.
  • It's heavily hinted that due to how bizarre the episode was which involved a Zombie Apocalypse and a meteor crash resulting in their deaths, that it was all just one huge Mushroom Samba from the mushrooms they had eaten earlier.
• Episode 23 ("Baseball Blues" ie. SAMURAI BASEBALL!)
  • The opening to the episode itself. Mugen is feeling deeply uncharacteristically kind, and he treats Jin and Fuu to an extravagant meal at an expensive, fancy restaurant. After they finish their food, Mugen nonchalantly stands up, starts stretching and getting limber and promptly dashes out of the restaurant at full speed, leaving a dazed Jin and Fuu behind to pay the bill.
  • Manzo disguised as an American. Naturally, his scheme fools no one.
  • The dog batter winning by doing absolutely nothing thanks to holding the bat so low^*because of being ... well, a dog that it's nigh-impossible to throw a strike.
  • The line of corpses the Japan team accumulates mid-match... with one of them being Jin.
  • Kagemaru sending signals to Manzo through sign language when the latter is up to bat. It's pretty obvious Manzo doesn't understand and just nods. When he screws up on the first two pitches, Kagemaru starts to get pissed off at Manzo's complete failure to understand his directions. Even when he flips him off and makes strangling gestures like he wants to kill him, Manzo just dumbly nods and screws up the last pitch anyway.
  • The narration attempts to end the episode on a good note with a scene of Mugen seemingly lost in thought while looking at the sea. Annoyed, he then turns around, revealing his half-beaten face from before, and tells the narrator to stop making things up.
• Jin and Mugen's last confrontation in the final part of "Evanescent Encounter". They've survived self impalement and explosions respectively and are damn tired, but they FINALLY have their last battle. They clash blades once, and both of them break. Their reaction?
  Mugen: Damn, we suck!
  Jin: You got that right.
  (both of them faint)
• From "The Disorder Diaries", Mugen's hair 'rising' over the monk's bald head in a spoof of 2001: A Space Odyssey while rudely addressing him as Baldy, Chrome Dome, and Cueball. The monk painfully whacks Mugen for his blatant disrespect.

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