Funny / The Rescuers

"Holy smoke! Why don't you watch where you're goin'?!"

• When Bernard takes off his rain cap to recite the Rescuer's pledge. When he puts it back on, he dumps a hatful of water onto him. His resigned expression and lack of comment sells it.
  Bernard: Duty calls.
• When Bernard talks to Orville over the radio, who first mistakes him for the ATC tower, then nearly gets blown away by a passenger helicopter taking off. After a bout of Angrish (completely with radio Sound-Effect Bleep)...
  Bianca: What did he say?
  Bernard: I wouldn't dare repeat it.
• The "preflight checklist" was hilarious. What does an albatross preflight? Goggles, wings, rudder ("tailfeathers"), and..."If at first you don't succeed, try, try again."
  Bernard: Sure wish we'd have taken the train!
• The entire sequence with Orville's arrival in the Devil's Bayou: first he's Groin Attacked by a firework, then gets his tailfeathers set on fire, causing a crash landing. When he tries to take off again to go back home, he's sucked into Medusa's Swampmobile turbine intake, first with an all-bird sounding "squack!", followed by a Goofy Holler (water distorted, no less) and an Ash Face once he's finally spit out the other end.
  • How about his attempted takeoff? The triumphant notes before his first takeoff play and then... SPLASH!
• Anytime Luke (or somebody else) takes a drink of his Swamp Juice.
  • They end up using it as jet fuel for the Swampmobile in the climax... and it works.
    Ellie Mae: Fill 'er up Luke! (Luke pours barely a sip into the gas tank) Hurry! (Ellie Mae pushes the jug, dumping the whole thing into the gas tank) ALL OF IT! (The Swampmobile let's put a puff, and Bernard is blown clear out of the exhaust pipe, ash-faced)
• The entire calliope scene, especially Bernard's reaction to being shot up in the air and trying to run.
  • Fridge Brilliance kicks in when you realize that when Medusa hears the noise, her first thought is not 'Who is playing the organ?' or even 'Snoops, stop playing with the organ!' but to shout at her alligators to stop. Brutus and Nero must make it a habit.
    Medusa: (storming out of her room) BRUTUS! NERO! STOP THAT INFERNAL RACKET! I MEAN NOW!
  • Even the music that plays as Nero and Brutus are walking is hilarious.
• The Eek, a Mouse!! sequence that follows the calliope scene. It gets even better when Medusa starts firing a semiautomatic shotgun ... and everyone dives for cover from her erratic shots.
  • And when we mean everyone, that even goes for "Disney's Greatest Villains" and "A Disney Halloween", where the shots ricochet and cause bulletholes to form on the Magic Mirror, as if to say that even he is subject to getting hit, causing him to escape from the crossfire.
  • Then the gun jams. Medusa demands Snoops explain why it's not working: "SNOOPS! WHAT'S WRONG?!" Snoops (peering out from behind a chair) doesn't even manage to finish saying, "I don't know," before it goes off again, taking off most of his hair with it.
• At one point, Penny does an imitation of Medusa's behavior, concluding with imitating Medusa's butt swinging as she walks. Bianca and Bernard found this funny in-universe.
• As Medusa is reveling over finally getting her hands on the Devil's Eye, Snoops asks to look at it. She turns it toward him for just a split second.
  Mr. Snoops: Hey, that wasn't a very good look.
• A bit of dark humor, but when Medusa is pointing her rifle at Snoops and Penny, Snoops looks absolutely terrified, while Penny just looks pissed. It's funny because you'd expect it to be the other way around.
• The climax itself is both a Moment of Awesome AND a CMOF.
  • The entire charge of the swamp-dwelling funny animals with the accompanying manic banjo and violin music is something straight out of a Three Stooges or maybe even a Looney Tunes routine, especially when one of them sets off the fireworks on the boat... in which Snoops and Medusa get their rears singed.
    Medusa: You! YOU! AND YOUR INFERNAL FIREWORKS! YOU- DAH!!! YOU- DAH!!! OH, YOU- DAH -NDER HEAD!!!
  • Speaking of the charging animals, there's Gramps, an old turtle, who understandably has trouble to keep up even on two feet... so the rabbit angler catches him with his fishing pole and carries him at the end of the pole. Gramps still protests.
    Gramps: I don't need any help from anybody!
  • The initial attempts to get the Swampmobile working.
    Bernard: Advance the spark! (HONK!) Not the horn! The spark lever!
  • Medusa ends up getting a Humiliation Conga of the most glorious kind during the climax. She gets a mini-pitchfork in the rear, multiple rolling pins to the head, her gun blown up in her face, the aforementioned ass scorching, dragged along and bumped about on the water by the Swampmobile in an attempt to reach Penny, using Brutus and Nero as water skiis, concluding in her slamming out of control into the sunken riverboat's smokestack while Brutus and Nero barely miss and try to eat her afterwards after they've had enough of her mistreating them. And Snoops laughs at her while fleeing away.
• When Medusa tries to climb to the Swampmobile during the skiing sequence, she almost makes it at first until Ellie Mae notices her right behind them and smacks her hands with the rolling pin with no hesitation.
• The reporter interviewing Penny is totally thrown by her talking about the two talking mice who helped her like it's the most natural thing in the world.

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