Funny / The Last of Us Part II

Last of Us: Part II is not only dark in terms of themes, but in terms of comedy as well, and it shows.

General

• Last game, Ellie was a travelling companion to the main character Joel who she annoyed with an array of puns she had found in a book. Now she's the main character, stuck with a travelling companion who annoys her with bad jokes.

Prologue

• Ellie's day begins with her waking up late. She's woken up by Jesse, who mentions that Ellie had quite a night last night. Ellie, thinking it was about her and Dina kissing, apologizes for it, and...
  Jesse: ...I was talking about your fight with Seth. Wait, you kissed Dina?
  Ellie: ...Oh.
  • Jesse assures that he was just messing with her, and not actually angry with her. But he does stop her from closing the door just to say...
    Jesse: It's kinda fucked up you did that.
• In the 2018 E3 trailer, Ellie assures her friend Jesse that he and Dina will be back together within the week. But not 90 seconds later, she and Dina are kissing on the dance-floor. Bros Before Hoes, Ellie! Even better, Jesse then ends up barging in on the two half-naked women as they're cuddling after having sex the very next day. Poor dude can't catch a break from getting it rubbed into his face.
• After seeking shelter from a blizzard in a library, Ellie and Dina discover that it was a hidden workshop for an old man named Eugene that Dina had previously worked with on patrols before dying. After finding evidence he was a Firefly and a hidden passageway behind a bookcase, they discover his secret...a massive lab for growing weed. The best part is that it was sorta foreshadowed when the girls had found his bong and noted how he always seemed to have some on him. Naturally, they take the opportunity to share a joint and have some fun while waiting out the storm.
  • Later Jesse, Dina's ex-boyfriend, shows up looking up for them and is exasperated at finding the two of them together; less upset about his ex having already moved and more they chose now when they're on patrol.
    Dina: It's a blizzard outside!
  • And then he looks around and asks "Is this weed?"
  • After some time all of the weed Eugene was growing has died save for a mason jar of joints the two find. After Ellie fails to open it, Dina tires for a second before just chucking it on the floor and breaking it. Ellie's response is "What the hell is wrong with you?" in a tone that more sarcastic rather than anger.
  • The same weed bunker also contains its previous owner's Porn Stash, much to Ellie's and Dina's amusement. While that itself is funny enough, it also counts both as a franchise-spanning Brick Joke and an in-universe example of Rule 34 thanks to one of the flicks' names: "Dong of the Wolf". The previous game had numerous mentions of something called "Dawn of the Wolf", a thinly veiled Twilight Expy that Joel described as "a dumb teen movie". The other movie is called "Smash Brandi's Cootch."

Seattle

• In a darkly funny kind of way, on Outbreak Day,^note When the pandemic first started some geniuses got it in their heads to rob a bank using the panic as a diversion only for one guy to end up locked in the vault with all the money while the remaining three are implied to be the Infected Ellie and Dina just killed looking for supplies.
• One checkpoint has a graffiti in a wall saying "Fuck FEDRA" near the gate. Ellie and Dina refer to it as the "Fuck FEDRA Gate", and Ellie marks it as such on the map.
• While scavenging in a building Dina will bring up Joel's love of coffee with Ellie noting how he'd sell half his stuff for a bag of beans.
  Dina: Never understood that. Always tasted like burnt shit to me.
  Ellie: Thank you. "Acquired taste" my ass.
  • Becomes a Brick Joke with a later flashback where Ellie catches Joel drinking some coffee... and being embarrassed at "what he had to trade" to get it.
• For anyone who's ever done jury duty, Dina thinking it would be fun to be on a jury will make one chuckle. Especially for those who grew up on courtroom shows and though the exact same thing once upon a time.
• In an abandoned WLF watchtower, there's a note from an extremely bored soldier who, in addition to complaining about the time left on their shift (complete with a long, drawn-out "fuuuuuuuuuuuuuck"), also doodled boobs, dicks, and what seems to be a dick made of boobs.
• During a hectic fight with some Infected, Ellie falls into a river formed from the destroyed streets of the city leading to pulled into an adrenaline-fueled ride through the sewers. After she finally gets to dry land she only has this response:
  Ellie: [completely done] Fuck Seattle.
• Ellie shows Dina a photo of Leah (with her boob out as she was sending the picture to Jordan), which has Dina whistling in a "She's hot" manner.
  Ellie: She's one of them.
  Dina: Oh. Well, fuck her then.
• In "Hostile Territory" you can enter one of Manny's love dens and find an embarrassing love note written to him, which Manny quickly snatches from you as soon as you try to put it away in your pack.
  Note: My man, my lover. When I'm with you, the world slips away. I want to feel the slippery heat of our tongues touching again. I want to feel your breath as you start whispering Spanish in my ear. I want to mold you like clay, heat you up in a kiln until you're hard.
  
  And though I sit astride you like a stallion, holding down your wrists, I can't control you. Not when you gently bite my neck. Not when you use your fingers on me, in me.
  
  You've tapped something deep inside me, and I'm never going to be the same again. You've spoiled me for all other men, you monster. I'll make you pay for that. Over and over.
  
  - C
  Abby: [disgusted] Oh... no!
• Abby and Lev have some pretty funny moments, particularly in Lev not getting certain phrases or technology due to his Amish-esque upbringing in the Seraphites, like him saying "cold" instead of "cool".
  • When you come across a picture of dogs playing poker:
    Abby: Do you know our dogs can play cards like that?
    Lev: [sighs] I'm thirteen, not eight.
    Abby: You're the size of an eight-year-old.
    Lev: Do other people think you're funny?
    Abby: No.
  • Lev effortlessly doing dangerous platform jumping and Abby barely containing her envy and jealously due to her own fear of heights.
  • Lev asking Abby, while she is concentrating on not falling to her death from the highest platform in the game, if there is "something going on" between her and Owen.
    Abby: Oh my God, Lev! Now?!
    Lev: [in a teasing tone] It seems really awkward!
    Abby: Just go!
  • After Abby gets past one stressful platform crossing and reaches a safe area, Abby considers hugging Lev to celebrate, thinking it's all over. Lev can't bring himself to say that Abby is not finished yet.
    Lev: You're not gonna want to hug me in a second.
    Abby: Why?
    [Beat]
    Abby: Why?!
    Lev: You'll see!
• Abby can find a shrine to The Prophet filled with Seraphite prayer notes. She's about as respectful as expected.
  • One man asked for a new horse so he wouldn't be stuck working in their village.
    Abby: She's not a genie, dude.
  • A girl asks that she will help the Elders realize that they should marry her to the boy she is in love with because she "longs to bear his children".
    Abby: Ooh, someone wants to get laid.
• Abby needs to find a gas mask for Lev so he can get through a spore infested area. Choosing the closest option results in:
  Abby: Finally. [Abby starts to remove the mask, but notices a bullet hole through the eye] If you're going to kill yourself, don't ruin the mask. [beat] Dick.
• Abby's reaction to running into the female Seraphite brute she previously fought who, as it turns out, stole her gear.
  Brute: You!
  Abby: Are you wearing my backpack?!

The Past

• While at the dinosaur museum, Ellie plays with the phone behind the desk.
  Ellie: Oh, hello. Sorry, the dinosaurs are busy right now.
  Joel: What are you doing?
  Ellie: Oh wait, one of the dinosaurs is here. Joel, it's for you.
  Joel: Very funny.
  Ellie: It is pretty funny. You get it? It's 'cause you're old.
  Joel: Oh, I get it.
  Ellie: Okay.
  • Also in the museum, Ellie starts putting her hat on various dino skulls. Joel’s reaction sells it.
    Joel: Is this gonna be a thing? Please don’t let it be a thing.
  • What’s more hilarious is that every so often he puts his hand over his face as if he’s doing a Face Palm and barely restraining the urge to make a snarky comment.
    Ellie: "Tyrannosaurus Rex, King of the Tyrant Lizards."

• You can find a pallet while swimming in the Museum. Ellie suggests that they should use it for old time's sake and Joel almost audibly rolls his eyes and declares that those days are over.

• During a patrol together, Joel asks if Jesse and Dina (who are an on-again-off-again type of couple) are together, to Ellie's confusion until it's revealed that he thinks she has a crush on Jesse. Ellie denies this with Joel not being convinced since he has a "sense for these types of things." Especially funny since (as seen in her Journal) Ellie was dating a girl named Cat at this point and apparently everyone but him knew.
  Ellie: Not in this case.
  • Becomes a Brick Joke later when she and Jesse are travelling through Seattle and Ellie mentions this saying how he wasn't her type:
    Jesse: What, Asians?
    Ellie: [as sarcastically as possible] Yes, obviously that's what I meant.
    Jesse: [laughs]
    • Doubly funny if you noticed a photo in Ellie's home at the very start of the game and dug around in Ellie's journal and learnt that Cat was Asian herself.

The Epilogue

• Ellie and Dina randomly named one of their sheep after Eugene, but spelled "Ewe-gene."

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