Funny / Stardew Valley

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General

• The chicken icon for the exit button on the main menu. "If you quit before you've even started playing the game, you're a chicken."
• During the intro showing the player working for JojaCorp, the camera pans over several weary, dead-eyed office workers, save for one grinning man who is licking his lips, tapping away furiously at his keyboard, with wide eyes and a huge cowboy hat. Looking closely reveals he has half a dozen medicine bottles scattered around his desk, indicating that he's high as a kite.
  • If you're into Black Comedy, the dead coworker is also worth a laugh.
• This game allows you to name a lot of things, so the usual silly names for your player character, pets, and farm animals are the same as other games. However, this game also lets you name your favorite thing, which seemingly doesn't get referenced anywhere in the game so you'll forget what it was until you get your first stardrop, the taste of which "reminds you of your favorite thing: silly-thing-you-wrote-20-hours-ago". Or worse, maybe you named it something very rude...
  • There is also an Easter Egg: if you say your favorite thing is ConcernedApe (the handle of the game developer), the message will acknowledge this with an affectionate surprise and say thanks.
• This game has had some interesting bugs, namely in 1.0.4 if you named your pet after one of the NPCs, that pet will follow their routine and effectively become that NPC - so you can have a horse that you can give gifts to and will sleep in a bed in town!
• Eating a food item involves tossing the entire thing into the air and then chomping it with a single bite, dish and all.
• The notices on the Help Wanted Board can be absolutely ridiculous:
  I'd like to put an Octopus on my great-grandfather's tombstone. Please deliver it some time today. -Demetrius
  • Any time Haley requests something "FOR GIRLS ONLY: you know what it's for", fandom consensus is always that it's for dirty reasons.
  • Gus can request Joja Cola... despite the fact that his saloon already has a Joja Cola machine and the gold you get is literally the same amount you need to buy a can.
  • The Wizard requesting absolutely anything, but especially commonplace/trash items. "I would like to study the arcane properties of the Joja Cola!"
  • There's even a whole Tumblr dedicated to this.
• Abigail's Mama's Baby, Papa's Maybe situation becomes hilarious if you're playing with the anthro mod, where her mother's a ferret, her father's a raccoon, and she's a dragon. The Wizard is the only other dragon in the valley.
• Whenever you hire Robin to construct or upgrade a building, she can be seen working on it at all hours of the day- when you wake up at 6AM, she is already there, and will still be working when you go to bed at 2AM. While this may have been intended as a semi-abstract representation of the building being worked on, it makes her come off as being ridiculously dedicated to the job.
  • If a nightly event (such as the witch or the fairy) happens within range of the building, Robin will still be there. She's not even going home to sleep until she's finished work.
  • Robin will literally do this in thunderstorms.
  • Usually, Robin and Demetrius go to the saloon on Fridays and dance. If Robin is working, Demetrius will still dance awkwardly by his lonesome. Makes you feel a little guilty about cutting into their rec time.
• The shelves at JojaMart contain products ranging from the mundane (various kinds of bread) through all kinds of exaggerated but still somewhat believable foodstuffs ("Maypul" Syrup, Powdered Breakfasts - Just Add Water, Powdered Butter...) to the downright weird, like Joja Multipurpose Detergent which is apparently good for laundry, dishes, as hand soap, toothpaste and as cake icing. There's also a shelf of escalating levels of hot sauce, starting with "hot", going through "fire" and "inferno" sauces all the way to "Searing Pain Sauce" and "Take-Me-To-The-Emergency-Room Sauce". In the other direction, there's "Mild Sauce", "Granny's Sauce" and "Taco Sauce For Babies".
• You can put hats on the sea urchins you keep in fish tanks. Truth in Television, as sea urchins do wear stuff for protection.
• Speedrunning marriage involves acting like an absolute maniac from the point of view of your chosen spouse, and yet you still manage to make them fall in love with you in record time. For example, Shane speedruns usually involve sleeping for an entire month, ^note in order to pass time until summer, when you can grow peppers then spending most days stalking Shane, throwing a pepper in his face as soon as he walks out the door, and afterwards swinging your pickaxe at lightning speed until you collapse on the ground.^note Collapsing from exhaustion is faster than walking back to your house
• 1.5 made it so that Penny now likes all artifacts. And we do mean ALL artifacts. This means you can gift her glass shards, a chewing stick, or even a rusty spoon^note An artifact that even the tooltip says is "not very interesting" as a Winter Star or a birthday gift and she'll like it!
• Talk to an NPC with a weapon equipped - since the "interact" button is the same as the secondary attack, you can make it look like you're trying to smash them in the face with a hammer or rapidly-stab them with a dagger. Some players intentionally do this to their hated NPCs. Sure, you can't actually harm them but it's fun to imagine you talking to someone... only to smash them in the face right after
• Befriend people and they will send you things in the mail - usually recipes or food. One wonders how the food stays fresh.
  • Kent deserves special mention for mailing you BOMBS. For those who don't expect this, it might come off like he's trying to KILL YOU. It makes him seem even more psychopathic if you married Sam before he returned...
• The Community Centre event becomes this when you're on a second playthrough, when Lewis laments that it's in disrepair because nobody wants to get involved with the community anymore and kids these days would rather watch TV - because you know almost the entire town goes to the saloon on Friday Nights and Lewis just doesn't know how to manage his money.
• Some of Pam's favourite gift(s) are alcohol. You can literally give her this on her way to the bus.
• 1.6 made mayonnaise a consumable item, which you do by drinking it. Doing this near an NPC will make them give off a small speech bubble expressing Squick or disbelief.
• Among the 1.6 additions are additional outfits for the villagers. Highlights include Linus adding additional leaves for winter.

Heart Events

• The four-heart event with Linus the homeless man: he apologizes to you for not trusting you and offers to show you something in his tent. The camera stays outside so all you hear is a strange wet beating sound that increases in pace and then ends with a squish. He's teaching the player character how to make wild bait. The player's uncertain expression upon emerging from the tent sells it.
• During Sam's six-heart event, he will get scolded by Lewis for skating on a flower pot. If you stay out of their argument, then both will agree on Sam not doing it again... before Sam turns to you and asks you, with a sheepish grin, if you've seen his sick trick.
• In Abigail's four-heart event, she invites the player to come and stand under a tree with her. The problem being that it's entirely possible for the player to have chopped down this tree already, meaning the player moves one space up in order to stand under nothing.
• A bit of Mood Dissonance in Shane's four-heart event: You and Marnie find him passed out in a pool of his own vomit and beer. You wake him up by dousing him with your watering can.
• An unexpected scenario during Pierre's six-heart event— your player character sneaks into his room and finds his "secret stash" and immediately gets caught red-handed. A secret stash of what, exactly, is never revealed (though given where you find it and Pierre's reaction when he catches you doing so, one can probably connect the dots).
• Shane's So Bad, It's Good commercial for Joja Bluu featuring Emily and Clint.
  Clint: The world-class science team at Joja Headquarters have determined that Joja Bluu does not cause a significant erosion of the stomach lining.
  • After the take, when Emily prods Clint after being so silent, Clint turns blue with panic (or possibly from drinking too much Joja Bluu. "When will you turn Bluu", indeed...).
• During Clint's six-heart event, you find him hiding in the bushes after having chickened out of asking Emily out on a date. He tells you that he's pretty much stuck there until she stops talking to Caroline and leaves. You threaten to never upgrade your tools again if he doesn't ask her out, prompting him to call you a villain. ^note  Although, since the player is pretty much Clint's only customer, you're essentially threatening to put him out of business.
• Haley's eight-heart event has her take pictures near Marnie's ranch. She decided that she wants to learn how to approach a cow, while she has her camera set on a timer. One of the photos has her ride a cow, while the next one has the cow send her into the mud. There's even mud added to her portrait after the photos! She laughs it off, admitting that she had fun, and heads home to shower.
• Emily's six-heart event has her take you into her room and... dance. Not just one animation look, but five-- two for facing one direction, and three for the others. Complete with wacky, trippy, and just plain weird visual filters and special effects on-screen. Afterwards, she asks you how it was. You can say it was amazing, embarrassing, or just say nothing and slow clap. She then goes to take a shower because she got so sweaty doing the routine.
• In Abigail's eight-heart event, she invites you over to try out her "spirit board", which starts to spell out a message... "I ❤", followed by the first three letters of your character's name. Abigail panics and "accidentally" knocks over the spirit board.
  • Even funnier, if you give your farmer a single-letter name for whatever reason, she'll knock the board over after the ❤, making it look like she did it completely at random, for absolutely no reason. It's exactly as absurd as it sounds.
• Alex's ten-heart event is a romantic dinner with you at the Stardrop Saloon. Should you say that you share his feelings, he is pleased with your response, then proceeds to start eating his meal... only to have his dog, Dusty, barge through the window.
  • Even funnier if you remember the 2-heart event where he confided about his abusive father, then tried to lighten the mood by taunting Dusty with a steak. The moment he orders steak at the Saloon, you know what's coming.
• Leah's ten-heart event is a romantic picnic in the forest... that gets interrupted by Leah's ex, Kel. Kel asks Leah to come back to the city. Leah refuses. You can give Kel a punch to the face. If you don't, Leah will instead.
• Penny's ten-heart event is a swim together at the spa. One of the possible responses when she asks if you know why she invited you is "You wanted to see me in my bathing suit."
• Leah's 14-heart event involves offering you painting lessons. Eventually, she has you work with her on a portrait for Marnie. Your result is... less than spectacular, and Marnie tells you as politely as possible to keep your painting, which earns you the decorative item "My First Painting".
• After 14 hearts, Elliot goes off to do book signings for a book he wrote. One of the letters he sends has him write a poem about a less-than-appealing Joja Value Meal that he ate that day:
  Should this be called "food"?
  Or "edible matter"?
  I needn't long brood
  It must be the latter
• Maru's 10 heart event has her showing you the robot she built. While it's being activated, Demetrius barges in with a triumphant "I knew it!" before freaking out at the sight of the robot. He later admits that, not knowing about the robot, he figured that Maru was downstairs the whole time "fooling around with [Player]", to both yours and Maru's embarrassment.
• During Emily's 8 heart event she'll ask different townsfolk to put on new outfits to reveal a new side of themselves. Lewis comes out in his normal clothes, but he's replaced his flat cap with a huge purple hat and added a cape and cane that were no doubt intended to emulate the Governor but wind up making him look like a pimp.
• Emily's 10 heart event is an overnight camping trip that gets interrupted by a bear, leading to a There Is Only One Bed situation and Sexy Discretion Shot. That's not the funny part. You actually know that bear. You've had letters and phone calls from him. He told you how to find good berries. Which implies two things: you didn't tell Emily that the bear isn't dangerous because you didn't mind being stuck in a tent with her, and the bear's "attack" was him being a good wingman to you.

Other Events and Dialogue

• Much of Sam and Sebastian's friendship.
  • On Friday nights, you'll find Sam and Sebastian playing pool in the Saloon. Sam is terrible at it.
    Sebastian: Should I let Sam win for once? ...nah.
  • At the Luau:
    Sebastian: One year Sam put a pound of anchovies in the potluck soup.
    Sebastian: Ever wondered why Sam leads the town in community service hours?
  • At the Dance of the Moonlight Jellies
    Sam: I wonder if they're poisonous?
    Sam: Maybe I shouldn't push Sebastian in after all.
  • This gets downright hilarious during the Festival of Ice if you're married to Sam. Since the bachelors/ettes' lines change to be more focused on the player after marriage, talking first to Sam and then Sebastian nets you this:
    Sam: Aren't you cold? Are you sure you don't want my jacket?
    Sebastian: Cold? Nah, I never get cold.
• When you finish the community center and Pierre confronts Morris, you can tell them to settle it reasonably, in which case Pierre rallies the town to boycott Joja. Or you can suggest they "settle things the old-fashioned way". Pierre gets in a fistfight with Morris, uppercutting him through the ceiling, and then puts on a pair of sunglasses.
  • During said fight, George of all people can be seen cheering Pierre on.
• The quest where Lewis asks you to find his missing "lucky shorts" and return them discreetly. They're in Marnie's room.
  • Because of the way items are coded, you can put them in your produce display at the Stardew Valley Fair. As of version 1.1, Lewis is not amused.◊
  • As of version 1.3, you can also put the shorts into the potluck at the Luau... with spectacularly hilarious results.
  • With the addition of clothes tailoring in 1.4, the shorts can now be made into a wearable version. Talking to either Marnie or Lewis while wearing them gets a reaction (giggling and a shocked screech respectively).
  • 1.6 gives an alternative solution to finding the shorts if you don't want to get Marnie up to 3 hearts. By placing a staircase in Lewis' house, you can enter his basement, and collect his shorts there... only for it to come to life and start to attack you. That's right, the mayor's underwear is invincible and wants you dead!
• After the shorts quest, Lewis will issue a new quest: "I need truffle oil. Don't ask me why." When you deliver it to him, he remarks in particular about how slick it feels.
• If you gift Abigail with something she likes, she'll comment on how delicious it looks. Even if it's something obviously not edible, such as rare minerals. This was initially an oversight, but a patch not only kept it, but if you're married to her, has her tell you to bring back something delicious from the mines.
• When Lewis thanks you for killing some slimes:
  Lewis: I can remember papa going into a rage after I got purple slime all over my brand new dress
  Lewis: pants.
• Occasionally after catching a certain amount of fish for Willy, he'll mention how he caught that kind of fish the size of a large object. You may raise an eyebrow if the fish in question is a typically small fish, like a sardine, and he claims to have caught one the size of an encyclopedia set.
• Sometimes, when your spouse helps out with a chore, the dialogue for "doesn't have any of that" (no animals, crops, or fences) triggers, and they'll remark that they couldn't find any and gently criticize you for being lazy. Even though the crops are clearly watered and whatnot, and presumably within eyeshot of your house.
• If you're married to Maru, there's a glitch where she might wear her nurse outfit to bed and say "Shh! Don't let the doctor see you!" when you try to talk to her. Well, it's probably a glitch.
  • The corresponding glitch with Shane has him taking his chicken to bed.
• If you give Kent an item from his worst gifts list, he'll shudder and tell you that he was tortured with that when he was held in a Gotoro prison camp. Possible choices include Joja Cola.
  • It's hilarious when the "help wanted" quests have him want those.
• If you're married to Elliott, one of the possible lines he'll say when you speak to him in the morning has him mention a recurring nightmare in which you apparently give him a buzz cut. He does trust that you will not do it for real, though.
• Similarly, sometimes Elliot will say that he wouldn't trade you (his spouse) for 100 Iridium bars. If you keep pestering him about it, he'll keep raising the number... and raising it... and raising it.
  Elliot: One MILLION?! Don't make me do this, [PLAYER]!
• Given his usually grumpy demeanor, George's response to getting something he likes is a plain old "Thanks." regardless of if you gave him a wildflower or a diamond.
• Put something absolutely disgusting (such as void mayonnaise, a red mushroom, or anything else with a negative Energy value) in the potluck soup at the Luau. You'll take a serious blow to your relationship values, but the Governor's disgusted reaction is hilarious.
• With 1.3 there is a note that tells you to interact at 12:40 at night with a big bush next to the bridge to the beach. If you do that, Lewis and Marnie jump out of it and run away. Going by where Lewis' shorts were found...
• It’s possible for Abigail to say that she and her dad had a consumable that the player sold for dinner. This includes items like sap.
• With the 1.4 update, you can build a movie theater in town after finishing all the bundles in the Community Center (or buying all the Joja Warehouse upgrades). You can invite other villagers to go to the movies with you, which can lead to some amusing reactions:
  • One of the villagers you can invite is Krobus, who somehow passes himself off as a human by dressing up in a purple fedora and matching Conspicuous Trenchcoat.
    Krobus: *ahem* Hello! I am very excited to be at the visual entertainment center and to consume the popped corn... just like you!
  • The Dwarf will love any movie you bring them to, saying they didn't understand a word of it (since they don't speak English) but liked all the bright lights and loud sounds.
• As it turns out, the Wizard doesn't like Strange Buns, because (like other gifts he doesn't like) he thinks they're too mundane for him.
• If you marry Haley, who is established in early Heart Events as being lazy and careless about cleaning, talking to her in the mornings will occasionally have her cheerfully remark that she's "finally getting the hang" of keeping house— as her portrait shows her completely covered in grime.
• Introduced in 1.5 are special orders, which allow you to take on substantial tasks. It has its share of hilarity.
  • The introduction to the feature has Robin and Lewis assemble a special bulletin board. If you show interest in getting involved, Robin replies asking if you mean you're "on board". Lewis groans, while Robin is still laughing about her pun as the cutscene fades.
  • Emily asks for five gemstones for a Rock Rejuvenation session. Completing the task allows you to view the session with Haley, Caroline, Abigail, and Marnie. When Emily asks if they felt the energy from their gemstones, Abigail says she hasn't, Marnie does feel something, Caroline feels relaxed, and after some silence, Haley falls asleep.
  • Pam asks for a batch of potato-based spirits. You're probably assuming Vodka, but the result is still labeled as "Potato Juice" like any other vegetable processed in a keg. After fulfilling her order, a cutscene occurs in which she tests one bottle... and likens it to fermented baboon kidney.
    • Ironically, if you have the Artisan Valley mod installed, you can make vodka from potatoes!... but it requires a machine called a still, not a keg. Whoops?
  • Pierre's is a fantastic Take That, Scrappy! quest. You get a full season to donate to him 25 Gold Quality veggies. Easy enough. What follows is Pierre trying to sell them... for 25,000 gold, ten times what you got for completing the quest. Resulting in everyone in town pissed as hell at Pierre, and telling him what an idiot he is for trying to gouge them like this.
    Gus: Pierre, I'd have to sell the Saloon to afford these!
    • At the end of it, he tries to sell the vegetables back to you... for exactly 1 gold more than he paid you for them.
• When first meeting Leo, a feral child on Ginger Island who claims to be a bird, the farmer can try to reason with him by asking how he can talk if he's a bird... forgetting that these are parrots.
• At the Stardew Valley Fair, there is a minigame where you can "test your strength" by hitting a stone while a bar is moving up and down, being awarded with a star token if you hit it while the bar is at the top. You will be given a "strength rating" depending on where the bar landed, with higher ratings such as "Mammoth" and "Ox" while the lower ratings include "Toothpick", "Wet Tissue"... and "George's Knee".
  • If you get the bar at the very bottom, the man at the stone will be so impressed at your weakness that you will be awarded a star token.
• It's worth it to buy the telephone just for the entertainment value:
  • Call the Saloon and Gus might answer the phone with his mouth full.
  • Call up Pierre and you could catch him panicking because Abigail's guinea pig is loose in his store.
  • Alternatively, Pierre could call you, purely to advertise at you.
  • Lewis can call you up to ask how the farm is doing. You have the option to ominously state you "know his secret," whereupon he nervously pretends he can't hear you and hangs up.
  • The Hat Mouse may call at odd hours to advertise his wares.
  • Vincent can call you and ask if you have any piggies on your farm.
  • The bear can somehow call you to thank you for the maple syrup.
• After you unlock the walnut room on Ginger Island you meet Mr. Qi who tells you about Qi gems. He feels the need to warn you to not put them in your mouth, as they are highly radioactive.
• Robin and Demetrius have a scene where they argue over whether tomatoes should be considered fruits or vegetables. When asked for your opinion the "correct" response is that they are fruits, but the game has them in the vegetable category. It seems like no one can agree of their classification.
• Starting in Year 3 you'll be able to encounter Trash Bear, a fat raccoon-like critter who sits in the forest by the sewer exit. Upon interaction, they'll ask a Farmer for a seasonal fish or foraged item, then another, and then two random cooked dishes. Complete all their tasks, and you'll be treated to the hilariously bizarre spectacle of Trash Bear magically cleaning up the garbage at the base of the cliff with a pan pipe. Then they fly away on an umbrella Mary Poppins-style, stopping along the way to clean up the garbage outside Pam's home and give Dusty the dog a new doghouse (and a steak).
• Emily wasn't originally a marriable spouse until an update made her an eligible bachelorette. However, likely due to an oversight, Clint's dialogue and heart events were never updated to reflect this. This can lead to the hilariously awkward situation in one of his heart events where he asks you for dating advice, then proceeds to ask out your own wife right in front of you, as RTGame unfortunately discovered.
• Following one of the secret notes leads you behind Mayor Lewis's house... where you find a giant golden statue of himself, which the game refers to as "the Mayor's secret project." If you place it in the middle of town and go to sleep, you'll receive an angry letter from Lewis the next morning, along with 750g to never do it again. The location where the statue was placed will be replaced with a rotten plant as well.
  • Even better, the statue will be randomly moved to one of three set locations, and you're free to take it and place it back in town again. One of these locations is Marnie's Room.