Funny / Second Empire

• Xenol is in his office at Ziragalen, brooding, when a call from the Golden Emperor is transferred to him. The voice presents the Long List of the Emperor's titles... and then finishes stating he wishes to reverse the charges.
• Like Leslie Nielsen in Airplane!, simply having a Dalek act as anything other than a poker faced Straight Man seems to result in Hilarity Ensues.
  Zlonozite: All defence turrets apart from C2 are raised, engineering Daleks are working on it now.
  Dalek Engineer: There is sand fouling the pistons, I need a tin of 'Silicone-Gone' and the big hammer.
• Yttral, just... Yttral.
  Yttral: Ah Emperor, there you are, I have been looking for you everywhere.
  Xenol: Everywhere except in my throne room, apparently.
  • Earlier, Yttral invites Xenol to test his new Transmat device.
    Yttral: (next to Xenol at the end of a long table) The upgrade is complete; you should now see a new command icon on your control console.
    Xenol: I see it, the one marked "Where would you like to go today?"
    Yttral: Yes, though it is currently only a closed circuit which will take you to the command centre and back to your travel machine. Give it a try, everything is ready.
    Xenol: And you are sure it is safe?
    Yttral: (at the opposite end of the table) Perfectly.
• On page 136, Xenol assures his officers that, although their attack was unsuccessful, it would still arouse suspicion from the populace towards the Golden Emperor. Cut to Dalek Newscaster Wyndzon reporting the top story on Skaro:
  Wyndzon: Horticulture Daleks claim to have produced the biggest Kwalorblmn Fruit to be seen on Skaro since the Genesis Wars. Mmmm... Kwalorblmn.
  • Sure enough, every Dalek on Skaro is talking... about the Kwalorblmn Fruit.
• Buraoun's Death By Genre Savvy. During the invasion, Buraoun leads a squad to an abandoned service port, revealing the lock and overriding the codes by entering his date of birth. Entering, he encounters Grexnarl, who shoots the door shut, leaving the rest of the squad outside.
  Dalek: The Supreme Dalek is trapped, we have to re-open the lock. Quickly, what is Supreme Buraoun's Date of Birth?
  (Blank stares)
• Grexzol is so utterly incensed when the invading First Empire forces blast his new Diplomasee toy to cinders, he breaks cover and tears into the attackers. That's the awesome part. The funny part is that his commanding officer makes a note to both commend him and put him on a shortlist for medals for bravery... and add several demerits to his file anyway for breaking formation, promising he'll be sent to clean up magma from the fortress' lower levels. And even then, Grexzol gets hung on the idea of the promised punishment and once again embarks on a happy trip down memory lane in the middle of the attack, reminiscing on the punishment details he's been sent to.
• Ghalt's Funny Afro.
  Ghalt: I will be examining all your travel machines' targeting records later and the Dalek whose shot ruptured that container will be working a sanitation detail for the next five hundred years.
• As intensely heartwarming as Grexzol's entire platoon waiting for him in the Afterlife Antechamber before they could all disappear into the light can be, the situation takes a turn for the heartwarmingly ridiculous when Zapper tosses Grexzol his Diplomassee toy back.
• Despite earning considerable leeway by killing a Mechonoid Paladin, actively participating in a heroic defense everyone else considered a Suicide Mission and helping end it in a decisive Dalek victory, Grexzol still ends with ten demerits at the end of Trapped in Amber, and is back to the Sisyphean, pointless task of painting a bridge, just as he was doing at the beginning.
  • Earlier on, after being volunteered for another Suicide Mission (destroying an enemy artillery piece) while disguised as Mechonoids, he's repeatedly told not to try talking to Mechonoids even though he's one of the few who can sort of speak their language, mostly because his accent's awful. His group gets caught, and he immediately tries to talk to the guard to weasel out of danger. The guards immediately attack.
  • When the mauled group returns to the base, the commander immediately awards Grexzol even more demerits. When the astonished Grexzol asks how he knew it was he who blew the mission, the commander just stares at him long enought for him to get how.
    • And the Dalek who blew the weapon and returned unscathed to the base? Old Wolma.