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  • Watching Jackie Chan with that umbrella WHILE music from Singin' in the Rain is playing in the background.
    • Watching it with closed captioning makes it funnier, as it actually spells out the "do de do do do de do de do do..."
  • Similarly, watching Jackie Chan beat up a bunch of cops in a revolving door while music reminiscent of Keystone Cops plays.
  • Roy's response after Chon recriminated him for pimping him out was priceless.
    Roy: Chon, just go in there and do your business and think about your sister in England.
    • Roy's reaction to seeing Chon with his prostitute, helping her readjust her sore back, involving a strange yoga position and some rhythmic motions.
      Roy: Chon! We gotta move! We- Oh god! Chon, enough! Get up, you decadent philistine!
  • When saving Charlie from the street toughs, Chon uses nearby produce from the market to fight the thugs. One of them throws his forearms in front of his face to protect his eyes when Chon prepares to squirt lemon juice into them. Chon waits a few seconds for the man to lower his arms tentatively, squirting the juice directly into them.
  • Chon saves Lin just in the nick of time. She thanks him by slapping him as soon as her hands are free.
    Chon: I just saved you!
    Lin: You were late!
  • Rathbone's annoyance at Wu's Stealth Hi/Bye entrances. "MUST you keep doing that?!"
  • Roy messing with the palace guard. "That's the biggest damn beaver I've ever seen!" Then gets a Groin Attack when he touches the guard.
  • Lin throws Jack the Ripper off of a bridge and yells something that is subtitled with symbols at him.
  • Roy talking about his future children with Lin: Vera, Chuck, and Dave
  • The appearance of this sudden heavy guy we've never seen before or again during the pillow fight. He seems to enjoy it but Roy's just confused.
  • After much conflict, Chon gives Roy his blessing to Roy to pursue Lin.
    Chon: But if you break her heart, I break your legs.
    Roy: That's fair.
  • After Chon escapes their dangling-above-water predicament, he battles Wu's mooks while trying to keep the gear holding Roy above water from moving. Several times he loses control and Roy ends up submerged, and upon being pulled up and lowered again:
    Roy: Wait! No! It's dirty! The water's dirty! Hbalargblaba-
    Roy: Just go ahead and drown me. I don't care anymore.
  • The reveal early on in the film that Roy spent half of his and Chon's money from the first film writing a series of Blatant Lies novels depicting himself as The Ace and Chon as the Bumbling sidekick.
  • Roy insulting the scrappy street kid Charlie.
    Charlie: Who showed you how to do all that kicking and punching?
    Chon: My father.
    Roy: Have you ever heard of those? They're parents. You don't 'cause you're a little orphan.
    • This comes up again in the blooper reel, where it turns out the line was so ludicrously mean Owen Wilson could barely get through it without laughing.
  • "Roy O'Bannon will not go quietly! You hear that, England?! Throw whatever you want at me! Your terrible weather, your perverted killers, YOUR SPOTTED DICK!"

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