It's easier to list the moments that aren’t funny, especially in the somewhat Lighter and Softer second book, but there are some standouts.
Series wide
- The Running Gag of no one being able to think of a rhyme for Dalbry's name besides hallway for a heroic ballad.
The Dragon Business
- Duke Kerrl's blatant attempts to steal the kingdom of his neighbor Norrimund, first through falsely claiming that it rightfully belongs to him (when a boundary map shows otherwise) and then by convincing Norrimund to adopt him and calling him "Dad" while plotting an Inheritance Murder are over-the-top in their hilarity.
- Dalbry wants to name his new horse Lightning, but there is already a horse with that name registered at the stable. He goes through a bunch of already-taken weather-related names before settling on Drizzle.
- Tremayne, Dalbry, and the other knights play a game of oneupmanship with increasingly eyebrow-raising tall tales about draconic beasts (including a dragon slug) they have supposedly killed.
Skeleton in the Closet
- Dalbry and his party tell a queen about his (fake) exploits hunting monsters and lament that there are no more for them to kill. Then she reveals that a hostile lake monster is nearby, and she is delighted that he has seemingly volunteered to fight it, as the heroes try to hide their panic.
- In a nice Bait-and-Switch Comment bit of Deliberate Values Dissonance, Cullin asks a young scullery maid if her kingdom has child labor laws, then nods in relief when she says it does, but they don't apply to her, as she's already eleven.
- Reeger tries and fails to invoke True Art Is Incomprehensible and gets some extra money by smearing manure on some wooden planks.
- The heroes use secret passages to fake ghost voices and reveal (made-up) embarrassing secrets about the crass orc invaders. The orcs gasp in horror after being told that (among other things) one of their number picks his nose and doesn't eat the boogers.
- Dalbry and the other hostages complain about how the orcs' boss (a powerful and brooding dark wizard) died before they got to learn his origin story, and one nobleman interjects that he once read a profile on the guy in a monastery newspaper and he was a failed jester out for revenge against his old hecklers.
- An adult Cullin proudly shows off the literal man cave beneath his castle to his son.
