Being a satire, Orconomics is full of funny moments.
- Gorm's increasing annoyance at everyone knowing about him punching out an Elven guard for insulting Gleebek/Tib'rin.Thane: Ah. So you must be the same Gorm Ingerson who punched out the Elven Guard at—
Gorm: Bloody bones, has anybody not heard about that?- Later, when someone else has heard about Gorm's punching of the Elven guard to save a Goblin, he mocks the Dwarf for thinking that having a reputation of being friendly to Shadowkin is going to make an Orc talk to him. Gorm promptly announces that he's going to leave so that Gaist and Heraldin can talk to the Orc instead.
Orc: Why? Who are they?
Gorm: I guess they don't have much of a reputation yet. - Anything Brunt does. Anything. His limited vocabulary doesn't prevent him from having the absolute funniest lines.
- Chief Zurthraka, Tib'rin, and Char's discussion of the latter properly following the path of the "aggressive sales".Char: I have followed the way of aggressive sales, just as you have commanded.
Zurthraka: And how did you open?
Char: I showed them our fine assortments of weapons for sale.
Tib'rin: A thousand pardons, but it could also be said that you waved your axes at the Lightlings, and took their own weapons from them.
Char: I contrasted our product and disparaged the competition. It is the way of the aggressive seller.
Tib'rin: And then we were commanded to follow you.
Char: I would not take no for an answer!
Tib'rin: And we were separated from each other—
Char: You were given service at a personal level!
Tib'rin: Then were paraded through town—
Char: I showed off our impressive facilities and shopping centers!
Zurthraka: Wait a moment. Do you suggest that our guests felt too much sales pressure?
Tib'rin: No, Lord. I suggest that they think we are prisoners.
Zurthraka: What!
Char: Impossible! I wore green beads over orange, and my beard—
Zurthraka: But surely you remembered that Lightlings do not read the beads, and green over orange beads would mean nothing to them.
Char: I... uh... I was true to the path of the aggressive seller.
Zurthraka: You failed to establish your value proposition! You have fallen from the way of aggressive selling! One must always announce one's purpose in the market to the potential customer! - When Gorm asks Thane after why he didn't help them against the orcs, Thane just says they were wearing green beads over orange, as if it's the most obvious thing in the world.
- In the audiobook, the above-mentioned conversation is heard in Shadowtongue with English/Imperial dubbed over it. If you listen carefully, you will not that "aggressive seller" and "sales pressure" are spoken in English/Imperial, implying that Shadowtongue doesn't have those terms. Also, Shadowtongue words for "chief" and "failure" are "poobah" and "fubar", respectively.
- The moment it becomes clear that Gorm has been calling Tib'rin "Hello" all this time ("Gleebek" is Shadowtongue for "hello").
- In the second book, the recently deceased are being polled by the head of undead marketing (a floating skull with an equally floating clipboard) regarding the best way to attract the living to their way of life.
- The first undead to rise up in the second novel starts chanting "braaains" in a typical zombie fashion. Then another undead pulls an axe out of his head, resulting in the first undead sighing with relief and thanking him before mentioning that he really does have a craving for brains all of a sudden.
- In the aftermath of book 2, the survivors of the Undead Horde decide to go into finance and open up a bank. They start dividing out jobs they can do. Tyren is made Chairman because even though he knows nothing about finance, everyone is still bound to do what he says. Mr. Stearn comments this is normal for bank chairmen.
- Mr. Stearn is a Were-bear. As in Bear Sterns. He suggests investing in mortgage backed securities.
