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"Holy fuck. That was DIABOLICAL!"

Where there is lots of gory violence in The Boys (2019), there is also so much dark comedy to be mined.

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Season 1

    Episode 1 - "The Name Of The Game" 
  • The Cold Open, which is otherwise a largely straightforward superhero action scene, ends on a preview of the dark humor the series will have. Homelander arrives, lasering one of the criminals and tossing his buddy high into the air before warmly turning and asking the teenagers if they're alright. It's the sort of Big Damn Heroes moment you'd expect from a Superman figure...until the poor bastard he threw comes crashing back to earth and explodes, also smashing a car on impact.
  • Butcher and Hughie's entire conversation in the car.
    Butcher: There's fuck-all security to worry about. In fact, they're a bunch of Muppets. And the metal detector won't pick this [bug] up, right? And what they'll probably do is take you through the security and then up into the boardroom. Sit down, be nice, congenial. Then, real polite-like, tell 'em you're gonna take a fat shit. Go into the bog, take the bug out. Peel back the plastic bit to reveal the sticky side. Put the plastic bit in the bog, flush it. Then go back to the boardroom. Sit down — big smiles — plant the bug underneath the table. Easy peasy Japanesey. Bob's your uncle. That's that.
    Hughie: That's that? That was— that was a lot. Hold on, can you just— can you repeat it again? Just a little bit slower, because I—
    Butcher: Shh. Listen.
    Hughie: Fuck.
    Butcher: Hughie, calm down, all right? This is like that scene in The Matrix. Now, you could take the fucking red pill, right? Spend the rest of your life jacking off, crying into your chai tea green latte what the fuck. Or... you could take the blue pill. Or is it the red pill? Anyway, take the other pill, and quit being a cunt.note 
    Hughie: Which pill do you want me to take?
    Butcher: Just quit being a cunt, is what I'm saying.
  • Hughie has the drop on Translucent, prepared to shock him with a ripped TV cord... but the cord won't reach. Yeah, we've all been there. Even better in that it subverts what Butcher obviously intended as a Pre-Asskicking One-Liner.
    Butcher: "Translucent" doesn't even mean "invisible." It means "semi-transparent." [nods to Hughie]
    [Hughie yanks on the cable, but it's a good foot from Translucent, so he tries again and again, as Translucent hears Hughie and turns towards him]
  • Call it puerile, or vulgar, but the fact that Translucent is brought down by literally electrocuting his ass.
  • Hughie thinks they'll be all right after shocking Translucent to (not quite) death, since Butcher is an FBI agent. Well, yeah, about that... as Butcher explains that he's not really a Fed, all Hughie can do is let out a flummoxed Big "WHAT?!". It's the high pitch of his voice that really sells it.
    Butcher: Yeah, o-okay, so, look, technically, I'm not a Fed.
    Hughie: WHAT?! THEN WHO THE FUCK ARE YOU?!

    Episode 2 - "Cherry" 
  • A-Train visits a child named Colby with cancer as part of a Make-A-Wish request. Problem is, the kid wanted to see Translucent. The whole scene just Crosses the Line Twice. This is all being recorded on Facebook Live, and as the meeting grows more and more uncomfortably awkward, the views start plummeting and the reactions change from hearts and thumbs up to shocked, sad, and angry faces. Even as A-Train tries to reassure Colby that they can get Translucent the following week, he looks up at a doctor quietly shaking his head. A-Train then promises to help Colby run as fast as him, leading to this line:
    Colby: Really? You're gonna help me outrun cancer?
    • Better yet, Ashley and Stillwell are watching it, with Stillwell complaining that that's what happens when they didn't give A-Train a script to follow.
  • The Deep whining about his role in The Seven. Bear in mind, he's complaining to Starlight, the woman he sexually assaulted yesterday.
    The Deep: Oh wow. What a surprise. A water crime. Fuck me running. I swear to God, they only call me when there's trouble at a dock. Or a river, or a lake, canal. A jetty. Fucking idiots, I could be doing so much more. But no, Vought just wants me to make my big pretty dives into the water and flash my fucking biceps for Instagram. I mean, sure, four million hits a day, but still, it's fucking demeaning. [Beat] What's your problem? You've had that pissy look on your face all night.
    Starlight: [Just stares at him while the surrounding lights around them flicker from her powers]
    • And The Deep's dive is, indeed, both big and pretty.
    • Starlight and The Deep stop some guys smuggling fentanyl in talking Homelander plushie dolls (which raises a whole bunch of questions on its own), then the camera crew busts in to record the moment of triumph. Starlight is very confused, unable to do anything but gape at the sudden lights and lenses.
      Ashley: [pointing to one of the downed crooks] Stand over him and say "This is lit."
  • In that same scene, Chace Crawford's delivery of the line about his 'Fuckin Cherry' dive is HILARIOUS. Completely nails the characters entire Swimmer Bro/Frat Boi persona.
  • Ashley complaining to Starlight that the latter gives her Secret Identity away it's hilarious, mainly because Starlight didn't even use a mask to hide her face and everyone who know her can actually recognize who she really is.
  • Black Noir at a Vought meet-and-greet with Congressional bigwigs, emptying a beer through a straw through his full-face mask, complete with slurping sound. He then reaches for an hors d'oeuvres on a passing waiter's tray, before seeming to remember that he wouldn't be able to eat it anyway. Because, you know, full-face mask.
  • Frenchie offering Hughie a little something to help him keep calm after another failed attempt to kill Translucent.
    Hughie: What is that?
    Frenchie: It will help with your, uh, anxiety. It's LSD and MDMAnote . This is a candy flip. It'll smooth you right out, take it.
    Hughie: Uh, thank you, but I... I don't think now is the time for a major hallucinogen.
  • Hughie detonates Translucent's Ass Bomb, turning him into Ludicrous Gibs. He stands there a moment, stunned at what he's just done and that he's now covered in human remains... then "Cherry Bomb" kicks up to close out the episode.

    Episode 3 - "Get Some" 
  • Frenchie trying to console Hughie after the latter has a fight with his dad. Emphasis on trying, all Hughie can do is stand in confusion, his face beaming "what the fuck was that about?"
    Frenchie: My father was a bipolar. One night, when I was ten, he tried to smother me with a Hello Kitty duvet. [nods, smiles, and gives Hughie an "I feel ya, bro" slap on the shoulder before walking away]
  • Frenchie and Mother's Milk are inches away from killing each other over a very serious dispute (which Hughie is clueless on because it happened before he joined), Butcher's trying to keep them apart and set them on the road towards working together... and Rick Astley's "Never Gonna Give You Up" starts playing, because it's MM's ringtone. Yes, it's a meta Rickroll. And it's his wife calling, and they discuss their romantic evening plans, culminating in MM having to say "I love you, baby," and make a kissy noise to the phone, at which point Frenchie and Butcher can't handle it anymore and double over laughing, with Hughie smirking as well.
    MM: Fuck all of y'all, okay?
    • Even funnier? M.M's face when he hears Frenchie laughing screams "I'm never going to hear the end of this".
  • It's a tense moment, but Hughie literally runs into A-Train, who stares at him with zero recognition. When A-Train responds with "Dude, you want an autograph or something?" Hughie, just for a second, lets a "Dude, seriously? You chunky salsa'ed my girlfriend and you don't recognize me?" look cross his face. It's hysterically eloquent.
  • Homelander and Queen Maeve casually stroll through a hail of automatic weapons fire while discussing Translucent's whereabouts as if they were just hovering around the water cooler.
    Queen Maeve: Look, Translucent's probably just lurking around a gynecologist's office or something.
    Homelander: For two days? Come on. I don't get it. Why is no one concerned about this?
    Queen Maeve: Because if people find out one of the Seven is missing, they panic. [Gunfire rings out, bullets landing all around them] Besides, you can't fucking stand Translucent.
    Police Officer: Give 'em hell, Homelander!
    Homelander: [to the officer] Yeah, you bet, pal! [to Maeve] But, if something's happened to him, then that's a direct attack on The Seven, which is a direct attack on me.
    Queen Maeve: You've managed to make this about you in less than 20 seconds flat.
    Homelander: Hey, I'm not the one who's down a point and a half. So I think what you mean to say is, "Gee, thanks, Homelander, for showing up out of the blue and and bringing the extra press to my collar."
    [The ESU captain shows up]
    Police Captain: Homelander. Maeve.
    Homelander: [pats the police captain's shoulder] Captain, you guys are the real heroes. We're just glad we can help, right?
    Queen Maeve: That's right.
    Homelander: Where's your shooter?
    Police Captain: Shooter's on 31.
    Homelander: All right. Sit tight.
    [Homelander immediately flies up and into the building. Maeve watches him and sighs in frustration.]
    Queen Maeve: Elevators?
    [Smash Cut to Homelander leaning against the wall as the elevator on the 31st floor dings and Maeve walks out]
    Homelander: I'm just saying, a missing team member is more important than A-Train's insipid race.
    Queen Maeve: Mr. Edgar wants us both at the race to roll out his new talking points. You know this.
    Homelander: I've X-Ray'ed Edgar, you know. He is this close to a coronary. He's got blood like engine oil. And Stillwell, with that mewling baby... it's ridiculous. They're just people. But they snap their fingers and we jump. Why? Why do we do that?
    Queen Maeve: 'Cause they sign our checks. Can we just cut to the part where you show up to the race anyway?
    Homelander: [chuckles] See, that's why I love you. You're the only one who tells me the truth.
  • Frenchie is in the process of breaking into A-Train's locker room through the ventilation ducts, but is about to be caught when Annie is about to walk in. By pure coincidence, Hughie recognizes her from when they met on the park bench two episodes ago and calls out to her right as she opens the door, and we see Frenchie completely frozen with a priceless expression on his face, halfway down the rope he was climbing from the vent.
  • Hughie's Adorkable attempt to ask Annie for her number. Moves into heartwarming when she asks him if that's what he wants.
    Hughie: Do I call you, or do I just commit a crime?
    Annie: Probably committing a crime would get me to you quicker, so...
  • Homelander revelling in the cheers of the crowd, but muttering "you fucking cocksuckers" under his breath in the most deadpan manner possible.
  • Popclaw seducing Aleksy. They almost immediately jump into a goofy roleplay with Aleksy in the role of a burglar who Popclaw captures. Popclaw facesits him and gets so turned on that she accidentally crushes his skull with her ass.

    Episode 4 - "The Female Of The Species" 
  • Butcher may well be the poster boy for "unflappable."
    Raynor: But if you fuck me on this, for the rest of your life, you'll be drinking your own piss at a black site. Say you understand.
    Butcher: See, now, Susan, this is why it never went anywhere with us. You can't have two alpha males.
  • When The Boys follow the Noodle Guy into a grocery store, Hughie is concerned and Frenchie reassures him, calling him "Petite Hughie" (a call back to his comics nickname, Wee Hughie) which has already become a habit for the mercenary. Though Frenchie likely just says it because Hughie is the youngest, newest member of the team, Hughie begs to stop being called that, pointing that he is in fact six feet tall. Made even funnier by the fact he's a good head TALLER than Frenchie.
  • Funny in a dark, sad way. Frenchie's "yep, you're absolutely right but I'm still going to do it" Nod/Shake of the head while MM tells him not to release The Female is pretty funny, especially when it ends on Frenchie immediately opening her cage, allowing her to leap out and tear two of her prison guards to literal pieces.
  • Butcher looking over the remains of The Female's escape.
    Butcher: What a mess. [to Hughie] You alright?
    Hughie: I mean, just when you think this shit can't get any more horrible...
    Butcher: Nah, don't worry. It can get a lot more horrible.
  • Black Comedy indeed, but (up until he turns it terrifying) Homelander trying to casually make his way off the crashing plane while reassuring the passengers that everything is under control, there's absolutely nothing to worry about, and of course Homelander and Queen Maeve have the situation entirely in hand and aren't getting ready to save their own skins.
    Passenger: You're leaving us?
    Homelander: No, no, no, no, no. I'm just seeing something down the back.
  • Butcher’s impressively surreal comparison of the Boys to The Spice Girls. Even better, it actually works. Not necessarily by inspiring Frenchie and MM to put their differences behind them, but by getting them to at least agree on how weird Butcher is.
    MM: He really does give the worst pep talks.
    Frenchie: He really, really does.
    • Then later, Frenchie convinces Butcher to give him another shot at talking The Female down by asking "What if she's a Spice Girl?"
    • Take it even further, there are 5 in the Boys (Okay, 4 and Kimiko) and 5 Spice Girls, and the gang does actually tick the same 'personality' boxes. Billy is Scary, MM is Posh, Frenchie is Ginger, Hughie is Baby and Kimiko is Sport.
    • Let's not forget Mother's Milk reaction to said pep talk, right after Butcher is making his dramatic point.
      MM: How the fuck do you know so much about The Spice Girls?
    • Made even better by cutting to The Deep's ill-conceived rescue of a dolphin from Oceanland, with "Wannabe" playing.
  • Speaking of which, the botched dolphin rescue is so horrifically botched it wraps around to being hysterical.
    "Okay, okay! If I just touch it, will you shut up?!"

    Episode 5 - "Good For The Soul" 
  • Butcher's conversation with a pastor at the Believe Expo is pure gold with him calling God a cunt.
    Pastor: I'm not really sure what you're saying, son.
    Butcher: I'm saying that if there is some geezer up there with a big white beard, he's a world heavyweight cunt.
    Pastor: I'm sorry, did you just call God a C-word?
    Butcher: Yeah. He's got a hard-on for mass murder and giving kids cancer and his big old answer to the existential clusterfuck that is humanity is to nail his own bleeding son to a plank. That is a cunt move. Come on, even you got to agree with me there. We should lob a fucking nuke at him, get it over and done with, you know what I'm saying?
  • Hughie improvising when the blackmail evidence against Ezekiel is a bit more difficult to show than anticipated.
    Hughie: You fucked me.
    Ezekiel: What?
    Hughie: Yeah, in a private Supe club. You know the one on East 29th? Secret Lair, I think it's called?
    Ezekiel: Don't know it. Nope.
    Hughie: There were three of us? Oiled up and you... wrapped your stretchy arms around me, and it was- It was... so fucking hot, and your dick was so... perfect. And long, and... stretchy. And you- You played my butt like jazz. With poise, and skill, and... willingness to improvise.
  • Mother's Milk is impressed at how well Hughie's taking to the kind of work the Boys do.
    MM: You are a natural, kid. You're like the fucking... Rain Man of fucking people over.
    Hughie: Not a compliment.
  • Butcher weaponizes a baby's Eye Beams to kill some people coming in for him. Just look at the picture, and revel in its absurdity. The kicker is one of the assailants being unsure if he should fire his gun, since he might hit the baby, but also knowing not hitting the baby would mean the baby killing him, which happens. And to take out the last guy, Butcher shakes the baby (gently), as if it's a malfunctioning piece of equipment. And when the massacre is over, the baby gives Butcher this hilarious "WTF is wrong with you, mister? Put me back in my crib!" sideways look that puts the proverbial cherry on top of an already perfect scene of absurdity.

    Episode 6 - "The Innocents" 
  • Hughie discussing Butcher's favorite swear word:
    Hughie: You know, you're always calling people "cunts" or "twats," but I just— I never really got how that's an insult? They're flexible, take a pounding, and they're the reason behind, like, 98% of my life decisions.
    • And Butcher's response:
      Butcher: [smirks] You're a good cunt.
  • Butcher and Hughie sitting in on the support group.
    • The writer’s story about dating Ice Princess. This leads to him mentioning how one night, they were playing around and she accidentally turned into ice for a second when she climaxed. Only he was…still in there at the moment and she was around -346 degrees. The same temperature as liquid nitrogen. And unfortunately…it snapped off. And even Hughie and Butcher are visibly disturbed.
  • Homelander is stewing about his Freak Out over the documentary Vought is making of his fake childhood; he takes a baseball and tosses, which thanks to his super-strength goes flying like a missile over the horizon. Stillwell walks up with this response:
    Stillwell: That is gonna kill someone when it lands in Boston.
  • The Deep is shown gassing up a Hummer H2 on the way to Sandusky listening to his public apology statement on the pump's display as a woman breaks his window and yells "Fuck you, Fish Dick!" as she rides off in a truck. He simply smiles, gives a thumbs up, and says "Keep speaking your truth!" and then immediately drops the smile.

    Episode 7 - "The Self-Preservation Society" 
  • The Vought rep explaining to The Deep that Sandusky has a low crime rate.
    Vought Rep: Not much crime in Sandusky. I mean, we're not a shithole like Akron. But if something comes up, we'll call.

    Episode 8 - "You Found Me" 
  • Black Noir randomly turning out to be an excellent piano player.
  • Hughie slips in his old retainer and gets himself thrown into the same prison cell as Mother's Milk and Frenchie, hoping to use it as a lock pick. The retainer gets stuck and Mother's Milk offers to extract it by decking Hughie in the face. Even funnier? Laz Alonso actually punched Jack Quaid during filming.
  • Hughie, determined to save his allies, walks through the parking to get to them. There’s epic rock music, he’s striding with confidence, he’s ready... five seconds later he’s ambushed by some soldiers hiding in between the cars and tackle him to the ground like it’s nothing.
    Hughie: What the FUCK!?!
  • Hughie is brought into the cell with MM and Frenchie, announcing he's here to save them. They clarify several times that he is, in fact, alone, and Billy is not waiting to jump out somewhere, before they both step back, horrified. Frenchie's notes that how he's not even mad; he's so blown away by the absolute uselessness and redundancy of Hughie's brave sacrifice that he's doubled back around to impressed... much to Hughie's dismay.

Season 2

    Episode 1 - "The Big Ride" 
  • It's just weird to see, amidst Stan Edgar's discussion with the Secretary of Defense on how Supes will join the military, a man just listing the lunch orders.
  • After decapitating Naqib, Black Noir passes by a child's bedroom... and plays with his plush toy in an attempt to calm the boy. While still holding Naqib's head in his other hand.
    • There is pure Crosses the Line Twice Black Comedy during his attack on a terrorist base. A woman carrying a water glass has her throat horrifically slit by Black Noir. Who then collects the spurting blood in the glass before daintily placing it on the ground.
    • Right before his death, Naqib is in the middle of discussing his brand (because Super Terrorists have that apparently...) with a colleague, namely coming up with a catchphrase. He settles on "Burn in truth!" just before Black Noir shows up and cuts his buddy down. He immediately puts it to use.
      Naqib: {BURN IN TRUTH!}
  • Translucent's funeral is absolutely over-the-top, a fitting end for a Supe in their world. If the image of an empty-looking glass casket was a bit funny, then the following gallery of images depicting his life, accompanied by Starlight's corny tribute song "You'll Never Truly Vanish", will send you over.
  • After Starlight recalls a Passion play she and Gecko were in Capes for Christ: "Pontius Pilate and Mary making out? Sacrilicious!"
  • The hilariously bad TV show reenactment of Stillwell's death.
    "Stillwell": Please! My baby needs a mother!
    "Butcher": Oi! Shut your trap, you dumb bird, or else I'll bollocks you.
    • That show being hosted by Chris Hansen makes for a great cameo.
  • The Deep's breakdown continues, and he's as spectacularly ineffectual as ever. By this point, all he can do is drink until he's screaming at kids in a water park and standing where he used to be in a photo stand-in board before his part was cut out.
  • A very subtle moment during an otherwise horrific scene: after destroying Blindspot's ears, Homelander begins an intimidating lecture to Ashley... only to falter ever-so-slightly when he realizes Ashley is too busy gawking at Blindspot to pay attention.
    Homelander: What made you think I would ever allow a cripple into the Seven, for fuck's sakes - Ashley, don't look at him, look at me!

    Episode 2 - "Proper Preparation and Planning" 
  • Queen Maeve, who had been quite a polite person otherwise, Flipping the Bird to Ashley while leaving in the elevator to deal with a family emergency (namely that Elena's in the hospital with a ruptured appendix). As soon as Maeve is gone, Stormfront sheepishly tries to claim a family emergency too to get out of Ashley's schedule.
  • Butcher sends an Edible Arrangement to Raynor's funeral.
  • As if the sheer absurdity of The Deep talking to his own gills (voiced by Patton Oswalt) wasn't enough, they eventually start singing "You Are So Beautiful".
  • Stormfront continues her snark, this time focusing more on Vought, their marketing, and the media, which endears Starlight and most likely the audience.

    Episode 3 - "Over the Hill with the Swords of a Thousand Men" 
  • Both Ashley and Vought's film producer express excitement on possibly having Lin-Manuel Miranda voicing a digital Translucent.
  • Butcher lampshading the homoerotic moment of The Boys going wild over Hughie (he gets glomped by Milk and snogged by Frenchie) after his plan to expose Vought works, by promising to buy him a family size bottle of lube and then "tickle your balls until you beg me to stop, and even then I won't."
  • The cruel and bloody death of a whale should not have been as funny as it ends up being. As a bonus, Hughie is clearly shellshocked by the event ("Pinocchio is staying put.")
    • Bonus points is the Deep's over-the-top mourning over the whale's (Lucy's) corpse, followed by him immediately hugging Homelander when he and the Seven show up.
    • They're understandably weirded out by this. Except Black Noir, who puts his hand to his chest in what may or may not be mocking sympathy.
  • When the Deep swears that he's going to make things right to Annie, Stormfront catches onto the words he uses and asks if he just joined the Church of the Collective. He answers, "...Maybe", much to her disapproval.
    Stormfront: You're an idiot.
    Deep: Hey, easy on the religious prosecution, okay new girl?
    • Speaking of Annie; she's not impressed.
      Annie: There is no fucking way you're coming back!
      Deep: There's no need for language...
  • Homelander is dealt with by The Boys in the stormdrain, with Billy unbinding Kenji's hands to bring the tunnel, the road above and a bus down on his head. Right after Homelander's taunting of Billy's wife. Doubles as an Awesome Moment.
    • Even funnier, Homelander thought Kenji was going to make the ground collapse beneath him at first. He responded by levitating with a smug smirk before the bus came down on his head.

    Episode 4 - "Nothing Like It in the World" 
  • Annie tries to alleviate the mood during the car ride by turning on the radio. It plays her song, much to her annoyance and Hughie's amusement. She changes the station, but finds it playing there too. She changes it a third time... Same song.
    • Hughie tells her that she has a really good voice and "Can do that wavering thing they do on American Idol." MM quickly tells him it's called vibrato.
    • When "We Didn't Start the Fire" plays, both of them get really into singing it. Mother's Milk shuts off the radio when they get loud.
      Mother's Milk: Hey, hey! This ain't no little Vegas road trip, okay? Y'all ain't on no date, either. Just... chill. I'm not your goddamn chaperone.
  • Homelander watches Taxi Driver with Doppelganger-as-Stillwell, and roots for the "disrespected" Travis Bickle, because of course he would be. Even funnier, his interpretation is pretty much the same as the real Misaimed Fandom of the movie.
  • Black Noir pops into Vought's operations to track Billy down. The employee he works with, after being caught off-guard by his appearance, sheepishly offers him an Almond Joy bar before tossing it out under his suggestion.
    • They pull an all-nighter and more in trying to find Billy, and when they finally do, the security camera footage has him Flipping the Bird to the view.
  • Mother's Milk recalls how his father would constantly sample every flavor at Baskin-Robbins, no matter how long the line got behind them or how long it took. Mother's Milk would want to just have the ground swallow them up to end the embarrassment.
  • Hughie and Annie discuss the latter's taste in candy, with Hughie also comparing her tastes to those of serial killers since they also liked them.
  • A-Train sees Shockwave, his rival at Vought, who shoots him a smirk as he enters an elevator. He then finds out that he's being booted out of the Seven, bluntly revealed by Homelander. Ashley tries to soften the blow by saying that he'll still get chances for focus and several celebrity perks, including features on Vought+.
    Homelander: It's nothing personal. We'll always be friends. Etcetera. Attaboy.
  • One of the women being interviewed about love tells on how she made an Embarrassing Tattoo because of a man who she broke off two weeks later—"I fucking hate Ed Sheeran!"
  • Doppelganger tries to appease Homelander when he comes back to the cabin at the end of the episode... by transforming into him and offering sexual favors. All the while dressed in a negligee.
    Homelander/Doppelganger: I'm gonna suck your cock so fսcking hard. So good. You're gonna look in your own eyes when you come. And it's not even gay if it's with yourself, right?
  • Homelander faces off against the memes making fun of him produced by Stormfront's personal troll farm. It gets him so pissed off that he goes into her room just to scream about how he's still more popular than her. Her sarcastic congratulations seals the deal. Making it even funnier is that the memes are terrible. None of the jokes are very clever, their formatting is simply bland, and the insults are childish. Yet these basic memes are still enough to get under Homelander's skin.
  • When M.M, Hughie, and Starlight reach a motel, Hughie tells them there are two rooms and one person will sleep in one room, while the other two will sleep in the other. Hughie and Starlight look at each other but Hughie quickly states he'll share a room with M.M who tells him "Good choice". Obviously, M.M doesn't want the two keeping him awake. The look M.M gives Hughie though is also the equivalent of a dad glaring at his daughter's new partner, while Hughie is disappointed with the arrangement since M.M is snoring loudly in the next bed.
    • Hughie and Starlight end up in bed anyway and Hughie is sporting an appropriately wide grin the next day... Which slides off his face when he sees M.M's extremely unimpressed expression in the rear view mirror.
  • Homelander, when confronted about the lack of diversity in the Seven, mentions A-Train (keep in mind this is after he booted A-Train off the Seven) and then Black Noir...before mentioning that he might not be of any race.

    Episode 5 - "We Gotta Go Now" 
  • The Bad "Bad Acting" of Maeve's "coming out" scene in Rise of the Seven. In fact, pretty much everything we see of the film is cheesy, blatant, thinly-written and poorly-acted melodrama.
    Homelander: This Joss-rewrite stuff really sings, huh?
    • Homelander misreading Ashley's "girls get it done" slogan as "girls get it on" in relation to Maeve. Most likely on purpose.
  • Vought's PR team trying to put a spin to Maeve's relationship, to her and Elena's disgust.
  • A-Train is still sore about being booted off the Seven. He rewrites the script to try to make his departure from the movie as ambiguous, but nobody, not even Ashley, will tolerate this.
    • Made even funnier after the release of A-Train's rewrites, which include Homelander praising A-Train as the greatest superhero ever.
  • While Stormfront is mocking A-Train, you can see the frappuccino she ordered has her name mispelt as "Storefront". What's even funnier is considering how she's the newest face on the Seven and requested the drink use her superhero title and the barista still somehow managed to write the name wrong.
  • Homelander's reaction to the African Supe throwing a windblast that causes a lot of collateral damage but none to him, is a very brief mocking pretension of being impressed and fearful before killing him.
  • The Attack of the CG Mutants—two guys in green spandex and chrome bubble helmets, waving sticks in the air.
  • The Deep makes a couple of public appearances, from interviews to PSAs to better his image to the public. A-Train is scornful over viewing one such advertisement for the Church of the Collective.
  • Homelander trying to justify himself at Victoria's rally can come across as funny for how awkwardly he tries to improve his reputation to the crowd, who are having none of it. He just keeps digging himself deeper the more he speaks.
  • The Boys hear Black Noir set off a booby trap. There's a pause, then they hear his footsteps...another bomb, then more footsteps... another bomb...
  • After walking through explosions, fire, and bullets, and very nearly killing Butcher and Hughie only to be stopped by Edgar's intervention... Black Noir casually leaves through the front door.
    • Not only that, but Edgar's ringtone is "Hallelujah"!
  • Maeve approaches The Deep with a deal. This exchange occurs:
    The Deep: Do you think I'm a piece of shit?
    Queen Maeve: Fuck yeah.
    • The Deep accepts this without a single syllable of protest.
  • Butcher gives Terror a Homelander plushie to destroy.
    • Earlier on, Judy notes that Terror doesn't just wreck his dog toys; he fucks them. This was in response to Hughie handling Terror's favorite toy.
  • Homelander and Stormfront hit it off, and they have an over-the-top sex scene featuring the Seven's Flying Bricks.
    Stormfront: Don't be a pussy, laser my fucking tits!

    Episode 6 - "The Bloody Doors Off" 
  • Frenchie expresses being a fan of The Golden Girls and compares himself and his friends to the cast. The show's theme is what the episode ends on.
  • Billy and Kimiko watch an interview with their respective sworn enemies, Homelander and Stormfront, then exchanging glances as they pickup on their sexual chemistry.
    Billy: ...They're fucking.
    Kimiko: [nods]
  • The Deep tries to tell Maeve about a school of fish he befriended. She doesn't want to hear any of it.
  • A-Train listens to a rap theme song that Vought commissioned for him. They also plan on having Lil Nas X cover it.
    Ashley: Isn't it lit?
    • Said cover then plays during the credits of the episode.
  • The Deep then greets A-Train with a dab and then chats him up. He arranges a meeting with Alastair Adana to induct him into the Church of the Collective, and their tension against each other is rather entertaining.
  • Before raiding Sage Grove, Butcher tells Frenchie to "Don't get caught." Frenchie responds, "I never do." Cue a Smash Cut to him being handcuffed to a table eight years prior being interrogated by Mallory.
  • While also seen last episode, Lamplighter's choice of weapon is a zippo lighter that says "titty committee."
  • Kimiko used her pay from her hitman job to pay for a knuckleduster that says "bossy." Frenchie argues how it's not going to help her disguise, and she keeps it anyway.
    • Becomes a Brick Joke when she punches Love Sausage hard enough to leave an imprint of it.
  • Homelander actually tries to be romantic to Stormfront. He intended to surprise her with a bouquet of roses in his trailer, with a note. A sociopathic Super Supremacist doing something this cheesy is hilarious and oddly adorable.
    • When Stormfront doesn't arrive on time and Homelander realizes that she was lying, he burns his trailer down. And also lies that it was an electrical issue. Hell hath no fury like a Supe scorned.
    • When a resentful Homelander tries to walk away from Stormfront, he claims to be going to run lines with Black Noir.
  • Billy and Starlight need to commandeer a vehicle to transport Hughie. When the driver tries to fight back:
    Billy: If I wanted to boost some wheels, it wouldn't be a fucking Hyundai, you daft cunt!
  • Lamplighter tries to turn down the Boys' offer of an Enemy Mine, then gets attacked by an acid-spitting Supe. When they take him out quickly and observe his rather gruesome death, Lamplighter changes his mind immediately.
  • Years ago, when The Boys had Lamplighter under their thumb, they held a meeting discussing their conditions. The Boys can't help but laugh at his superhero costume.
  • We get the appearance of Love Sausage, with MM being taken a bit aback when he sees him on the cameras.
    • Mother's Milk is very uncomfortable once he figures out he was nearly strangled by a tentacle-like Gag Penis. Frenchie tries to brush it off with a "Don't be so close-minded".
    • He later suggests that MM tell Billy about the incident. Mother's Milk mouths a quick "fuck you" right back.
    • Mother's Milk and Frenchie are more astounded than horrified when they first meet him, after realising what Love Sausage was using to choke M.M., Frenchie is still impressed by his... erm... "sausage".
  • Butcher and Annie bonding over mocking Hughie's taste in hygiene products.
    • And their first meeting, with Starlight glaring at the man who shot her with an anti-armor rifle and Butcher surprising Hughie by inviting her along on the mission...because he wants to use Starlight as The Bait to divert Vought's attention if things go sour.
  • When Stormfront confronts Lamplighter about the breakout, she asks him where Dr. Carlton is:
    Lamplighter: Uh, he's in the cafeteria and the hallway and... some of the walls.
  • The news report describing Eagle the Archer's foreplay of "hunting" and then "mounting" someone in a deer costume.

    Episode 7 - "Butcher, Baker, Candlestick Maker" 
  • Hughie is tasked with babysitting Lamplighter, who forces him to watch a bunch of supe-themed porn.
    Lamplighter: Hey, different strokes.
    Hughie: Please don't say that in this context.
  • When Homelander reveals that Annie has been exposed as a mole and was apprehended by Vought, we cut to Hughie staring in shock. Not because he was watching the news, but because he's reacting to a Jack from Jupiter porn parody. Then the news breaks.
    • Funnier when you realize the porn parody is based on one of Jack's leaked photos in the comics.
  • Hughie and Lamplighter exchange their woes with porn terminology. When Hughie prepares to break Annie out, he tries to get Lamplighter motivated by saying, "Let's fuck the wife! ...Consensually." It works.
    • ...A little too well. Once they get inside the Seven's meeting room, Lamplighter finds that they replaced his statue. Turns out he wanted "do it" in front of it. And by "it", we mean light himself on fire and set off the alarm system. Much to Hughie's initial shock and subsequent annoyance.
      Hughie: Fuck you, man!
    • Right after Hughie scurries out of the room to go find Annie, he just remembers that he still needs Lamplighter's hand to open security doors and goes back to cut off the charred Lamplighter's hand.
    • Mother's Milk is unhappy about the news. And the dialogue is hilarious with or without context.
      Mother's Milk: Kid, you are fucking unbelievable! All you had to do was watch porn!
      Hughie: I didn't know he was gonna set himself on fire!
  • The Deep and A-Train catch up at Alastair Adana's party, with The Deep going about his usual Sham Marriage antics.
  • Ryan shows off a stop-motion LEGO recreation of The Blind Side he made. Homelander can barely hide his embarrassment.
  • Once Ashley finds Maeve sleeping with two men, she's quickly enraged saying "That is not lesbian!"
  • Hughie breaks Mrs. January out of Vought HQ.
    Donna: Is that a human hand?
    Hughie: Yes. Yes, it is. Come on, we gotta go.
  • Maeve defeats Black Noir not by matching him in a straight fight, but by force-feeding him an Almond Joy. Apparently he has a tree-nut allergy.
    • Noir then pulls an Epi-Pen out of his pocket, only for Maeve to knock it away before he can use it.
  • When everyone's heads start exploding during the Congressional hearing, The Deep is seen frantically grabbing at his own to feel if it's still there.
    • Ashley gets splattered with Shockwave's blood and then the woman's beside her.

    Episode 8 - "What I Know" 
  • Neuman and Mallory have a meeting with the Secretary of Defense Robert Singer, who delivers this gem so deadpan it's hard to tell if he genuinely wishes for a scandal like that to give him an excuse to resign out of this shitshow or if he's just mocking how much From Bad to Worse the situation is going:
    Mallory: Here's what we do have, Bob—
    Singer: Oh, let me guess. A tape of me fucking my kids' nanny at her daughter's quinceañera? Release it. Please. I'm begging you.
    • In a way, this line could be seen as a Lampshade Hanging about the sheer amount of blackmail that happens in the series.
  • The Boys just decide to kill off The Seven. No more elaborate conspiracies, no blackmail, just go on with their weapons and the weaknesses that they know. Frenchie justifies it.
    Frenchie: Wile E. Coyote. Always chases Road Runner, always with an elaborate plan, always fails. You know, I always say, "Why do this, Coyote? All you need is an AR-15, and 'meep meep' no more."
    Butcher: Exactly, see? We're just gonna shoot Road Runner in the fucking head.
  • The Boys try their best to make Becca feel at home in their less-than-stellar pawn shop basement. It seems that Billy's spoken about her in great detail, so they know what drink she likes (and try to emphasize how they are real close with Billy). After Billy and Becca share a kiss, the other Boys (sans Hughie) are all grinning at him. Billy just replies with a "fuck off, you lot!" Also a Heartwarming moment.
  • When Annie and Hughie visit Maeve, the latter keeps referring to Hughie as a "twink."
    Maeve: Take your fucking twink and get the fuck out of here!
  • A-Train sneaks into Hughie and Annie's car to talk with them. His quick "What's up, shitbirds?" sells it.
  • Homelander and Stormfront try to make Ryan's powers manifest, using an action figure of The Deep for laser-vision target practice.
    • When Stormfront starts trying to teach her ideology on Ryan, Homelander can't help but feel disturbed by hearing it spoke aloud, seen with his facial expression.
  • Billy tells the rest of the team that they don't have to follow him on his upcoming, dangerous plan. M.M. won't have it:
    Mother's Milk: Lick my big black balls! Sorry Becca.
  • A-Train says what we're all thinking: "Fuck that Nazi bitch!"
  • The Boys manage to out Stormfront's status as a Nazi, causing a cavalcade of disapproval from social media.
    • "Nazi Stormfront, Hitler's star, run her over with a car!"
      Hughie: It's catchy.
    • Later, she tries to explain that those images are clearly deepfakes and photoshops.
  • Right before the threeway fight on Stormfront, Kimiko diffuses the tension by just laughing in her face, to the confusion of everyone involved. She then signs to Frenchie and he grins before delightedly translating for Stormfront.
    "She says the truth is she's gonna stick her boot up your Nazi kitty."
    • Doubly amusing if you imagine Frenchie either mistranslating or deliberately censoring that Kimiko likely meant 'pussy'. Or that's Frenchie's own personal Unusual Euphemism for the c-word.
  • The beatdown on Stormfront that culminates from Annie, Kimiko, and Maeve teaming up. Because "Girls Get It Done!" Doubles as an Awesome moment, very reminiscent of the final scene in Death Proof.
    • What makes it so funny is that, rather than an over-the-top and visually spectacular CGI fight as you'd expect for the climactic battle of a superhero show, the fight quickly turns into a jumping of the like you'd expect to find on WorldStar, complete with the gang sucker-punching her, pulling her hair, stomping on her when she's on the floor, and yelling vulgar insults ("Eat my shit you Nazi bitch!").
    • At one point it cuts to Hughie, Frenchie and MM standing looking awkward holding their utterly superfluous weapons.
      Frenchie: [in his best "Should we be doing something?" voice] Girls do get it done.
    • To add insult to injury, even the non-powered Becca is able to get one in on Stormfront by stabbing her in the eye.
  • Alastair tells the Deep and A-Train that they're both suspects after information about The Collective having Nazi ties is released. The Deep immediately turns his back on A-Train until Alistair reassures the latter that this is actually working in their favour, as Stormfront's recent death means they can just blame her for everything, and that The Seven is in a forgiving mood. The Deep immediately offers A-Train a high-five. Then Alistair says that they only want A-Train back. Karma never misses when it comes to the Deep.
    The Deep: So they took him!?
    A-Train: Fuck yes they did! Well shit! Peace out, bitch!
    • The Deep finally vents off against the Church of the Collective, saying he struggled not to laugh about the part regarding humans being "cosmic zygotes". Also, the woman they forced him to date gives terrible blowjobs, which is hilarious when you consider that's probably as close to getting consenting head that he's ever been.
  • Butcher and Ryan both mourn the death of Becca before Ryan is taken into witness protection. It's an incredibly somber moment, but is lightened up when Butcher asks Ryan to repeat the advice he gave him:
    Ryan: Don't be a cunt.
  • The episode ends with Homelander—devoid of any allies or pawns—pathetically venting his frustrations by masturbating and saying "I can do whatever the fuck I want" over and over, with the final shot being him standing on a parapet set against the full moon, just like in the final shot of Batman (1989) ...Except his pants are around his ankles.
  • After being insulted and casually dismissed by Alistair, The Deep's angry rant is shrugged off. The last line is the only one that seems to genuinely offend Alistair: "Fuck Fresca."
    • And earlier in the episode Stan Edgar refused getting Fresca from Alistair during their meeting, calling it "awful stuff" and making Alistair wince. Turns out there is no real secret behind the drink - it's simply the favorite of the Church's leader and that's why all members and guests are made to drink it.
      • Fittingly enough, Victoria blows Alistair's head off just as he was opening a can for himself.
    • Just take in the fact that The Deep's storyline mostly meant little to nothing for him. He's back to square one in terms of character development and his chance to reform to get back into The Seven is given to A-Train instead. The Collective's leader is taken out by the end, so the storyline didn't even act to set up a new successfully-threatening faction! One can only wonder where the story is going to take The Deep next.

Season 3

    Episode 1 - "Payback" 
  • In Dawn of the Seven, Stormfront is portrayed by Charlize Theron, hamming it with an extremely sultry voice delivering cliche dialogue peppered with German words.
    • Even funnier is when later, we find out Stormfront is still alive but bed-ridden and kept alive because she's Homelander's lover. While comforting him and supporting his bruised It's All About Me ego, she proceeds to start repeating the same spiel her movie self said, showing once more how genuinely cliché she actually is. She also does all this while giving him a handjob with her one good hand, by the way, only for her Nazi spiel to ruin it for him.
  • When a reporter starts grilling A-Train about his comeback, Ashley tells her to only ask questions about the movie and redirects her to talk to Black Noir.
  • A-Train's passive-aggressive behavior with Hughie on the red carpet, first complimenting him on his 'big dick energy' and then asking who he's wearing. When Hughie admits to not knowing the make of his suit, A-Train happily comments that's good, because he doesn't give a fuck.
  • Ashley has sex with the film's director in the men's restroom, where she proves to have a surprisingly wild side, asking him to pull on her hair and then to pull it out (which does happen when they climax).
    • Ashley's dirty talk:
      Ashley: You shitty fucking director! Tony Gilroy had to reshoot all your shit!
    • Hughie enters the bathroom moments later as the two are leaving.
      Ashley: [curtly] Mr. Campbell.
      Hughie: Uh... [Hughie sees Adam tossing the strands of Ashley's hair he just pulled out into the garbage can]
      Adam: [shakes Hughie's hand] Thanks for coming.
      Hughie: Yeah. [Hughie looks at his hand with disgust and decides to wash up]
  • Termite shrinks himself to enter a man’s body…via the man’s dickhole, to jerk him off from the inside. What follows is slightly less funny. Maybe.
    • Followed by a ridiculous scene where Termite wants to leave no witnesses, planning to kill Frenchie by expanding from within him.
      Frenchie: He's trying to get in my ass!
    • And before that, he entertains a party crowd by humping a Barbie while shrunken down.
    • Termite is defeated when he tries to jump into Frenchie's mouth and Butcher snatches him up in his own bag of drugs, very quickly putting him out of commission as due to his small size he's surrounded and coated in the stuff (not helped by Butcher shaking the bag.) After Butcher dumps the bag on the table and watches Termite vomit and pass out due to technically ingesting a large amount of drugs Butcher can't help but mock him by calling him a "Fucking lightweight." When he's leaving he casually tells Frenchie to turn Termite on his side to keep him from choking on his own vomit, which conjures up the mental image of having to position someone that size with tweezers.
    • Before Butcher arrives, Kimiko comes to Frenchie's aid in time for Termite's attempted Ass Shove murder-from-the-inside. Without needing any more context, she's digging her hands down his pants and scooping the tiny man from between Frenchie's cheeks. It's weirdly sort-of heartwarming.
    • Victoria Neuman describes this as Butcher giving Termite "a metric Belushi of cocaine."
  • Stan Edgar calls Homelander and Starlight in for a meeting. Homelander, being the petulant man child he is, tries jogging to beat Edgar to the chair at the center of the table.
  • Doubles as Nightmare Fuel, but the look on A-Train's face after Homelander overhears him quietly whispering "Fuck you, man" and calmly asks "What did you say" from 14 feet away is priceless.
    • Right after Homelander says "What did you say?" and turns around to start walking back to A-Train, you can see Vought employees quickly clearing the area. They know the drill. Bonus points to the guy who's walking towards Homelander, only to sharply turn on his heel.
  • When Homelander shows up at Butcher's apartment and demands to know Ryan's location...
    Homelander: Where's Ryan?
    Butcher: He's at 673 "Gnosh My Bollocks" Ave. You want a pen and paper?

    Episode 2 - "The Only Man in the Sky" 
  • The ridiculous trailer for the TV movie based off The Deep’s book, Deeper, which is retitled Not Without My Dolphin.
  • Butcher's hallucination of Homelander mocks him for how low he's sunk, to which Butcher retorts he'll sink lower, straight down to Hell. This cheesy line earns him an exasperated eyeroll from his own taunting hallucination.
  • Doubled with Heartwarming considering her past, Kimiko’s child-like awestruck towards Voughtland. Despite you know, being controlled by Vought. Frenchie is baffled that she wants to go on a Homelander-themed roller coaster.
    Kimiko: (Can we go?)
    Frenchie: (Come on. You want to wait three hours for a three minute ride that is a monument to a monster?)
    Kimiko: (I've always wanted to!)
    Frenchie: (Since when?)
    Kimiko: (Since Kenji and I were little.)
    Frenchie: Okay, first work, then pleasure. Oui?
    • Contrasting with that is Frenchie’s eye rolling reaction towards the place, in particular towards the fake bibliography presentation of Soldier Boy and the Crimson Countess' ballad. He’s visibly looking around to see if anyone’s buying this crap.
  • Frenchie, upon seeing a kid enjoying a Luther Burger at Voughtland...
    Frenchie: Que c'est... Hamburger with a doughnut for a bun?
    [Beat]
    Frenchie: Truly, there is no God here.
  • Kimiko unironically enjoying the Countess’ show, while Frenchie just stares at her in utter disbelief. She even compliments her music when they meet her in person.
  • Crimson Countess’ ballad abruptly cutting off to her snorting drugs in her room.
  • Right in the middle of Kimiko and Countess watching a music video together, Frenchie gets fed up and tells her to get things over with in their sign language. Kimiko seamlessly and begrudgingly goes from a fan meeting her idol to putting Countess against the wall.
    Kimiko: (She's nice.)
    Frenchie: (She's nuts!)
    Kimiko: (No, she's not.)
    Frenchie: (Let's get it over with!)
    Kimiko: (Fine...)
  • Part of Homelander’s revised script include Starlight singing happy birthday to him instead of announcing Starlight House. After a long minute stare, she complies and dispassionately speeds through it before being cut off.
  • Stan Edgar, as always, puts up with exactly none of Homelander's bullshit, only this time he's not afraid to publicly say just how little he thinks of him.
    Stan Edgar: If Starlight doesn't want to sing, she doesn't sing.
    Homelander: Stan! What a surprise.
    Stan Edgar: Our testing shows that 76% of likely viewers will make every effort to watch tonight for Starlight. As for you, 53% might DVR. I think that that means she can call her own shots, don't you?
    Homelander: So how about I just walk, Stan? How would that rate?
    Stan Edgar: After the PR hole you dug for yourself this past year, I'd say you're lucky we're putting on this farce at all. But hey, it's your party. You can cry if you want to.
  • Part of A-Train's attempt at rebranding into his African heritage is an "interactive learning experience." Ashley stares at the demo art in silence for several seconds before asking, on the verge of hysterics, if he's talking about a video game about the slave trade.
  • Although it quickly turns into Nightmare Fuel, Homelander’s apathetic and dismissive demeanor to Chelsea, a suicidal girl, is darkly funny. It’s a complete reversal of instances in the comics where Superman saves someone who is suicidal through compassion and understanding. Also, the part where he waves his hand and says “You don’t know this because, you know… Jew,” is hilarious.
  • Even though M.M.'s freak out over the fire alarm going off is played seriously, it's still oddly funny to see him beat and insult the ever-loving shit out of a simple device.
  • Hughie's cover story to explain his visit to Red River is that he's there because he and Starlight want kids but his sperm is "like a bunch of fat, dead tadpoles." Even better is that Red River buy it, and are in fact ecstatic, because supe kids are less likely to accidentally murder their parents if at least one is a supe themselves.
  • Butcher walks through a metal detector only for it go off. He apologizes and removes his gun from his belt. The security guard compliments it and lets him continue through as it’s security for a gun show.

    Episode 3 - "Barbary Coast" 
  • Ashley comes to tell Homelander that his points went up after his live rant, which leaves him with a Raging Stiffie that makes Ashley uncomfortable. Homelander's response to her? "It's not because of you."
  • Milk tells Frenchie to use a plate when eating. Frenchie responds “I don’t need a plate when I eat your mother’s sweet and savory vagin.” Milk begins laughing and Frenchie joins him.
  • Hughie casually asks Kimiko to break his arm much to the surprise of everyone. Kimiko doesn't even let him count down before she does it.
    Hughie: OW! WHAT THE SHIT?
  • Before unveiling that he's bringing back The Deep, Homelander says that instead of choosing Starlight's pick for the Seven, he's instead pitching the "craziest twist", saying that "the audience'll never see it coming" while motioning towards the office's door...that happens to be in the direction of the camera during the moment we see him doing this.
  • Hughie starts giving an inspirational speech to Butcher before Butcher promptly vomits on him. Hughie manages a "What the fuck?" before we cut to a Vought commercial.

    Episode 4 - "Glorious Five Year Plan" 
  • The Solid Gold show that Soldier Boy guest stars in has him singing Blondie's "Rapture", specifically the infamous rap solo in a completely tone deaf and blatantly off beat delivery that must be seen to be believed in it's entirety.
  • Kimiko killing Russian gangsters with dildos and vibrators. Bonus points because they're themed after The Seven, including Starlight.
  • Homelander asks Ashley if her "idiot brain is getting fucked by stupid" and states that it isn't rhetorical, and she later repeats it to Cameron Coleman. The former is terrifying, the latter is hilarious as she elaborates how she'd punish him by pulling a Homelander themed strap-on out of her desk drawer. Cameron eagerly agrees.
    Cameron Coleman: My idiot brain is getting fucked by stupid, ma'am.
  • There is something morbidly hilarious with Homelander signing "Best Homelander" on Hughie's cast right after he was about to harm Hughie.
  • M.M. expresses his worry about infiltrating a military compound. Butcher eases his worries by clarifying how it's a Russian military compound and compares it to breaking into a Baja Fresh.
  • Hughie is revealed to have taken the Temp V when he teleports and kills a mook but no Magic Pants means he ends up naked. The rest of The Boys are more put off at the sight of Hughie nude, as Kimiko covers her eyes.
    M.M.: [Kneeling and so eye-level with Hughie's crotch] Your dick’s out.
  • The Russians have what is essentially their own version of the laser-eyed baby from season 1. In this case, it's a hamster injected with Compound V that brutally murders a security guard in a manner not unlike the Killer Rabbit of Caerbannog.
  • A-Train stars in an almost note-for-note copy of Kendall Jenner's infamous Pepsi commercial from a few years back (where she gives a Pepsi to one of a line of cops in the way of a marching protest and everyone ends up partying). The only difference is the cops in A-Train's commercial have full riot gear.

    Episode 5 - "The Last Time To Look On This World of Lies" 
  • The faces of Vought's Crime Analytics team just screams You Have GOT to Be Kidding Me! when The Deep is revealed to be their new head.
  • Hughie describing how he figures out teleportation; clench your butt and jump.
  • Pretty much everything and every word out of The Legend's mouth is both hilarious and Crosses the Line Twice.
    • When he offers Hughie cocaine, Hughie answers, "Oh, no, I'm- I'm good. I'm full. ...Of cocaine."
  • The Imagine Spot of Kimiko and Frenchie starting a musical number to 'I Got Rhythm' after watching Girl Crazy. Most notably, the nurses create sparks by clapping with defibrillators and the patients drumming on bedpans.
  • Seth Rogen appearing as a client of Crimson Countess on a porn site for Supes. Even as she gets tackled and incapacitated by Butcher, he keeps wanking until he climaxes.
    • If you get a good look at the chat screen, you can see that Countess charges $19.50 per minute of chat time and they've been conversing for at least 18 minutes before she starts doing anything even remotely sexy.
  • While walking across the city, Soldier Boy briefly looks at a poster of "Dakota Bob" Singer. Why this is amusing is because Singer is portrayed Jim Beaver and Soldier Boy by Jensen Ackles, and they both stared together in Supernatural (with Beaver's character on that show also named Bobby Singer).

    Episode 6 - "Herogasm" 
  • The first thing shown is a disclaimer regarding what will be seen in this episode:
    Some scenes may not be suitable for some, really most, let's be honest here all viewers. But rest assured that any consensual relationships depicted, be they human, animal, superhero, or other, aren't real, harmed no one, and in fact cost a hilariously large amount of money in visual effects.
  • The episode opens with a brutal parody of Gal Gadot's infamous "Imagine" video, featuring The Deep, A-Train, and other celebrity cameos including Patton Oswalt and Kumail Nanjiani. But special mention goes to the video ending with Black Noir "singing" (holding up a cue card) the last line.
  • Vought is reviewing camera footage of Crimson Countess's death via CCTV, which isn't going well due to the fact that Homelander had the Deep purge the Crime Analytics department in the previous episode. This means that the Deep is left having to man the equipment himself with less than optimal results.
    • The Deep tries to pin the blame on Ashley for firing almost everyone. Ashley immediately interjects and makes it clear that it was Deep who did it. The Deep quickly changes subject.
  • The Deep entertains the theory that this Soldier Boy could just be a cosplayer using CGI for his face. Cue Ashley roasting him as he clearly doesn't know what CGI means.
  • Soldier Boy talking about how he considers Bill Cosby to be "America's dad." As Hughie mentions there's a lot to unpack there, SB also notes how Cosby made some strong drinks.
    Hughie: Holy fucking shit...
  • Since Herogasm is a Supes only event, Annie convinces Love Sausage that Mother’s Milk came along because of his talents with cunnilingus, complete with Annie going "nom nom nom nom nom." Our good little "Capes for Christ" girl from Des Moines, Iowa has come a along way.
  • While inside Herogasm, M.M. gets accidentally brushed past by Termite, who gets a sticky fluid coated on his jacket. Just as M.M. goes to the bathroom to clean up, he opens the door and promptly gets sprayed with another supe’s load.
  • Annie walking in on the Deep getting sucked off by an octopus. She's clearly having the time of her life getting revenge when she nearly texts Homelander about it.
    Annie: WHAT THE FUCK?!
    The Deep: It's not what it looks like!
    Annie: What are you doing here?!
    The Deep: Nothing! I'm doing anything! Why would you...This octopus was sick!
    Annie: [pulls out her cellphone and takes a picture] Homelander is going to love this!
  • Before angrily confronting A-Train, Hughie insists on putting on a pink silk robe.
  • After discovering Soldier Boy was behind the explosion, Homelander and Black Noir leave while Homelander asks Black Noir why Soldier Boy would do what he did, and states that he is glad Black Noir has his back. As soon as Homelander is gone, Black Noir gets in the closest elevator, cuts his tracker out, spraying blood all over the confused woman in the elevator, and promptly leaves. As the cherry on top, Black Noir just hands the tracker to the shocked woman, who is still covered with his blood.
  • Doubling as a MOA for Butcher, Homelander's response to being blasted by Butcher's heat vision is priceless. He isn't even injured or in pain, he's just utterly baffled about what is going on.
    Homelander: What the fuck?!
  • Soldier Boy grabbing Homelander’s cape (after mocking Homelander for wearing one), slamming him into the ground, and then throwing him into a wall is borderline slapstick looking. It just happens so suddenly.
  • Once Hughie joins in to fight Homelander, demonstrating his teleportation abilities to the latter and its unfortunate side-effect, Homelander looks less indignant that Hughie managed to hit him at all and more genuinely confused for a moment as to why he's naked in the middle of the fight.
    • Earlier, Hughie uses his power to stop Starlight from going after Soldier Boy by teleporting them to where Butcher's car is parked. This leads to a heartbreaking scene about Hughie's insecurities about Annie's powers. A scene slightly undermined by the fact they're having this conversation on a deserted highway in broad daylight while both are completely naked.
    • In addition, the camera still feels the need to keep Hughie and Annie's nude bodies obscured despite having been okay with all sorts of frontal nudity earlier.
  • It's funny when you consider that the fight of the episode is basically Superman Vs. Captain America, and Superman basically loses.

    Episode 7 - "Here Comes a Candle to Light You to Bed" 
  • Starlight revealing she'd secretly been streaming a conversation with Homelander where she got him to both threaten Hughie and basically confess to Supersonic's murder. His quick shift from threatening to cheerfully chastising Starlight for filming their rehearsal is hilarious.
  • Say what you want about Soldier Boy, but he has some pretty funny lines. His interactions with Hughie are great.
    Soldier Boy: If you're gonna act hysterical, I'm gonna slap you like I'm Connery.
    Hughie: You might want to lay off the weed huh?
    Soldier Boy: And you might want to gargle my ballsack.
    • And later:
    Soldier Boy: What the fuck did you just say?
    Hughie: Literally nothing.
    Soldier Boy: Jesus, how hard?
    Hughie: What?
    Soldier Boy: How hard did Butcher suck your dick to make you miss him that much? His mouth must feel like a Hoover Deluxe!
    Hughie: God, everything you say is so gross!
  • While at times it gets horrifyingly graphic, the fact that Black Noir has to cope with the past is by hallucinatory reenactments done by animated animal versions of Payback. (even better, The Stinger of the episode is the cartoons doing a curtain call!)
    • Noir turning his back on his cartoon animal friends and petulantly crossing his arms when they try to get him to talk about it.
  • While it quickly becomes serious due to why he's telling him this; it is quite humorous when Homelander gets a phone call from Soldier Boy and braces himself for a tense, dramatic conversation between arch-rivals, only to instead listen as Soldier Boy goes into graphic detail about this time in 1980 that Vogelbaum had him masturbate into a cup, down to the pornographic magazine and model he beat off to.
    Soldier Boy: June. Danielle Deneux. Bush like a pomeranian...
    Homelander: What?
    Soldier Boy: I beat my meat into a cup!
  • The Deep tries to initiate a threesome with Cassandra and the octopus he was being intimate with in Herogasm. It goes about as well as you'd expect.
    • FORMIDABLE INTELLECT!
  • A-Train waking up from his coma with Ashley catching him up with the current situation, the only thing he doesn't have outrage or confusion about is if he doesn't mind shit talking Starlight during an interview.
    • There's something bleakly hilarious about A-Train's scene. He survives by having the heart of the supe who crippled his brother transplanted into his chest. And the first thing Ashley does is pitch a White Man's Burden film which has his beloved brother Adapted Out immediately after A-Train had just attempted a murder-suicide trying to avenge him.

    Episode 8 - "The Instant White Hot Wild" 
  • The episode is light on laughs but there's a hilarious moment where Hughie tries to welcome Maeve, and she bluntly cuts him short by saying he looks like he should wear a shirt that says "Raw dog me, I'm a bottom."
    Hughie: Great to see you.
    • Before that, M.M's look of pure disgust at Maeve's dirty bare feet on the couch.
  • Though the scene is otherwise intense, when Homelander confronts Black Noir about him running away and gets him to reveal that Noir was always aware of Homelander's true parentage and that he had a father out there, he brokenly asks when the latter never bothered to tell him over all the years they worked together only to then catch himself.
    • When Homelander asks Noir what Soldier Boy was like, Noir simply writes 'BAD' on a sheet of paper. When Homelander replies that nobody is all bad, Noir underlines 'BAD' twice for emphasis.
  • Frenchie defiantly refuses an order to shut up by Butcher and proudly declares that he will never let Billy or anyone else control him ever...which then lapses into him going on a tirade about deserving paid vacations and dental before Hughie interrupts him.
  • The look A-Train gives the Deep after Homelander lays into him for leaving Herogasm and 'fucking an octopus.'
  • The revelation that Ashley has been wearing a wig and is actually nearly completely bald. Seems the hair falling off and all the pulling at it caught up to her.
  • Soldier Boy grabbing Homelander’s face.
  • Soldier Boy hitting Ryan is very sudden. There’s something darkly humorous about Homelander and Ryan showing constant concern and compassion for Ryan’s safety only for Soldier Boy to show up and not care at all about the kid.
    • Also the way Soldier Boy says “Wait, Homelander fucked your wife?”

Other

  • In episode 2, the Deep complains about being cut off in a group picture, with only his shoulder showing. In the official season The Seven promo poster, he stands to the far left. As a result, he's off screen in the Amazon Prime menu.
  • Entertainment Weekly, in hyping up the Season 2 finale, posted the main cast posing in front of the magazine's covers of them in opposite clothing. Karl Urban in a Superman-Homelander costume (with kiwis instead of eagles, as both actors are New Zealanders!) and Antony Starr-as-Butcher is ridiculously funny.

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