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The Film

  • In every previous film, Bond entered the office by throwing his hat on the coat rack. Here, he opens the door, hat at the ready... only to discover that the coat rack is right next to the door, and he hangs it up normally with a dejected look.
    • Then, when he leaves to go on his mission, he finds his hat missing. He even lampshades it.
  • Q equipping Bond in the Bahamas. First Bond's less then enthused reaction to seeing him ("Oh no. What a pleasant surprise."). Second his whole tropical outfit: flowered shirt, shorts, socks, and travel hat. Finally Q gives Bond a capsule with a "harmless" radioactive device so that he could be tracked.
    Bond: "Now what do I do with this?"
    Q: "You... swallow it of course!"
    Bond: "Now?"
    • Not to mention Bond fiddling with the switches on the underwater propulsion pack and Q’s resultant annoyance.
  • Bond screwing with Largo during baccarat by saying he saw the "specter of defeat" on his shoulder.
  • Patricia's "Wait, what" expression after this exchange:
    Pat: I would've thought you were just the type for a widow.
    Bond: Oh not this one. He didn't like me at all.
  • Bond stealing a grape during a round of snooping at the health spa.
  • The effects of the hydrofoil sailing fast looks like it was simply being on fast-forward.
  • Bond comes across Fiona Volpe naked in the bath. She asks him for something she can put on. Bond then hands her a pair of shoes.
  • Bond tells Domino and Ladislav Kutze that they need to abandon ship. Kutz protests that he can't swim. Bond nonchalantly hands him a life preserver and shoves him overboard.
  • Bond not being sure what to do with Patricia's new found interest in him after he makes love to her - and in particular her disappointed reaction to him wanting to sidestep making love to her a second time.
  • "I'm glad I killed him." "You're glad?"
  • When Bond uses Fiona Volpe as a human shield and she's shot by one of Largo's Mooks, he sits her corpse down and tells the patrons next to her, "Do you mind if my friend sits this one out? She's just dead." As he walks away, Sean Connery's reaction to the line sells it. There's a look on his face that just screams, "Why the hell did I just say that?!"
  • Bond skeet shooting at Largo's. Largo shows off. Bond asks for a round and holds the rifle low at his hip.
    Bond: Seems terribly difficult.
    [swings around very slightly, and fires in a way that seems to suggest he did it by accident; target shatters]
    Bond: No, it isn't, is it?
    • There's also a brief moment where Largo (accidentally?) points the shotgun at Bond, who casually pushes it away without so much as missing a beat.
  • A small one, but a funny moment nonetheless, during the underwater battle at the movie's climax, a shark shows up, attracted to the area by the blood in the water. One of Largo's henchmen and a US navy diver, who are fighting each other, both see the shark and panic, pausing their fight to shoot at the shark instead.
  • Another one from the pre-titles sequence: after killing a SPECTRE operative who had faked his death and is now dressed in drag , he throws a bunch of tulips over the corpse in mocking tribute. Even funnier is the fact that said operative is played by the very same man who played Bond in the famous gun barrel sequence from the three previous films. So, in a sense, James Bond killed James Bond.

The Novel

  • Bond's about-face regarding the importance of eating crisp bread for breakfast.
  • The first few chapters are Bond being sent to a health spa after M has an epiphany at one, much to his chagrin.
  • And when a SPECTRE goon also staying there almost kills him, Bond seriously considers reporting M to the Ministry of Defense of being of unfit mind and body because he sent Britain's prize secret agent to almost getting murdered at said health spa.

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