History Funny / StarTrekTheMotionPicture

* Ilia reports to Captain Kirk, and almost immediately feels the need to inform him that she's under an oath of celibacy. [[BoldlyComing Your reputation precedes you,]] [[AnythingThatMoves Captain Kirk.]] It's even funnier when you read in the book Ilia is {{Troll}}ing Kirk! In Gene Roddenberry's original script Kirk directly asked Ilia the question “Have you ever sexed a human?", which means [[WriterRevolt the screenwriters most likely were trolling Gene Roddenberry for writing such a terrible line]].

* After Spock compares V'Ger to a child, [=McCoy=] replies "This 'child' is about to wipe out every living thing on Earth. Now, what do you suggest we do, spank it?"
** A few moments later, when V'Ger is attacking the ship "Your 'child' is having a tantrum, Mr Spock".

* Not intentionally funny, but Bones appearing on the ship in a funky 70s robe-like uniform, full beard and "[[WebSite/SFDebris the eye piece of]] [[Film/RaidersOfTheLostArk the Staff of Ra]]" around his neck definitely elicits a laugh.
** His clothing and demeanor combine to give the impression not that Bones was recalled to Starfleet and was standing by to come aboard, but was instead in a retirement home and got beamed up with no warning on the way to the bathroom.
*** Fanon, and indeed some versions of the script, had him reunited with Fabrini leader Natira and retired on the World of the Promise from "For the World is Hollow and I Have Touched the Sky".

** Even funnier when you consider that in the original script this was Chekov's death scene. The fact that his whole demeanor is clearly asking WhoWouldBeStupidEnough to try to touch the probe (or, more accurately, why everyone else assumes ''he'' will be stupid enough) makes the inversion of his usual naive behaviour even better.
* Ilia reports to Captain Kirk, and almost immediately feels the need to inform him that she's under an oath of celibacy. [[BoldlyComing Your reputation precedes you,]] [[AnythingThatMoves Captain Kirk.]] It's even funnier when you read in the book Ilia is {{Troll}}ing Kirk!
** Even better, in Gene Roddenberry's original script Kirk directly asked Ilia the question “Have you ever sexed a human?", which means [[WriterRevolt the screenwriters most likely were trolling Gene Roddenberry for writing such a terrible line]].

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[[caption-width-right:350:"[[Music/TheBeeGees Well, you can tell by the way I use my walk]], [[ImADoctorNotAPlaceholder I'm not a woman's man, I'm a country doc!]]"]]

** For those with a military background, it's appropriately amusing to know that even two hundred and fifty years in the future, Stop-Loss policies and orders still wreak their havoc on poor servicemembers' retirements.

* In a scene cut from the original but restored for the expanded TV and Director's Cut versions, soon after the above exchange, Sulu becomes flustered in Ilia's presence, even pushing the wrong button on his console. Takes on an additional tone of irony in that the actor - and, according to the later ''Film/StarTrekBeyond'', the character - is gay.

-->''[Ilia-probe boldly walks [[DynamicEntry directly through the door]], leaving a gaping hole in it.]''

* Probe!Ilia's ThereWasADoor moment.

* Probe!Ilia's ThereWasADoorMoment.