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  • "...His fingers are way the fuck up my nose!"
    • "GET! YOUR FINGERS! OUT! MY MAN'S NOSE!!"
  • The General's plan to murder Ms. Munson backfires hilariously when a cuckoo clock startles him into swallowing his lit cigarette, then he tries to drink the water containing her false teeth, which makes him bolt out in terror, tripping over the cat and breaking his neck as he falls down the staircase. All set to an old-timey gospel tune.
  • "Mm. One must float like leaf on the river of life... And kill old lady."
  • "Why you can light this stuff on fire, hit it with a hamm-" Explosion!.
  • The look on Professor Dorr's face when Lump tries to think for himself:
    Lump: "Y'know, I've been thinkin', professor."
    Dorr: "Oh, dear..."
  • Ms. Munson's barrage of slaps to Gawain's face upon hearing a sample of his "hippity-hop" language.
  • "Professor...I can't really play the buttsack."
  • Anything Gawain says and/or does:
    • This bit, after Garth tells him about his IBS and won't stop talking about it:
      Gawain: Can't stop shittin', can't stop talkin' about shittin'...
    • When the bomb goes off, he and a security guard stare at each other for a few seconds, and Gawain breaks the silence by asking him: "Did you just fart?"
  • The director of the dog food commercial that Garth is working on refers to the ASPCA rep as that "humane fucker". Then Garth gives the passed-out dog CPR.
  • Some of the professor's unorthodox behavior is good for a laugh, like when he first tours the basement and abruptly shouts "Whih whih whih!"- he explains he's testing the acoustics.
  • Mr. Munson's portrait changes over the course of the film, but the best highlight about the portrait is that it's changing expressions are never addressed in the film. Like the scene where the c4 prematurely detonated while Professor Dorr was outside the house. Before Dorr goes back in, look carefully at the portrait's surprised face.
  • "No bullets?" *BLAM*
  • Pickles, Ms. Munson's cat, screwing over Pancake by stealing his blown off finger is a Brick Joke in itself. After the thieves are already dead, Pickles spits Pancake's finger onto the same trash barges that carried the thieves' dead bodies away.

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