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Wicked (the musical)

  • Glinda's Moment of Awesome
    Glinda: Madame, have you ever considered how you'd fair in captivity?
    Morrible: What? I don't—
    Glinda: Captivity. Pri-son.
  • Another point for her would be:
    Galinda: And [Fiyero’s] been thinking, which really worries me.
    • Which is followed by:
      Fiyero: I've been thinking...
      Elphaba: Yes, I heard.
  • Damn near everything said by G(a)linda because it was written for Kristin Chenoweth and she's always adorably hilarious. Such as the following:
    Dr. Dillamond: Yes. Miss Glinda.
    Galinda: It's Galinda. With a Ga. And I don't see why you can't just teach us history instead of harping on the past.
    (Everyone, especially Elphaba, give her a long look.)
  • The following exchange between Elphie and Glinda that leads to a Catfight:
    Glinda: What exactly have you been doing besides riding around on that filthy old thing!?
    Elphaba: Well we can't all come and go by bubble! Whose invention was that? The Wizard's? Of course. Even if it wasn't, I'm sure he'd still take credit for it.
    Glinda: Yes. Well, a lot of us are taking things that don't belong to us, aren't we?
    Elphaba: Now wait just a clock tick! I know it's difficult for that blissful blonde brain of yours to comprehend that someone like him could actually choose someone like me! But it's happened, it's real, and you can wave that ridiculous little wand of yours all you want, you can't change it! He doesn't belong to you, he doesn't love you, and he never did! He loves me!
    (Glinda slaps Elphaba across the face)
    Elphaba: AHHH HA HA HA HA HA!!! Feel better now?
    Glinda: Yes I do!
    Elphaba: Good. (She slaps Glinda) So do I!
    (Cat Fight ensues, complete with Glinda swinging her wand around like a weapon until the Ozian guards break it up)
    Guard: Attention! Halt! In the name of the Wizard!
    Elphaba: STOP! LET ME GO!
    • Especially hilarious when watching the original cast with Kristin Chenoweth's Glinda as Kristin is the tiniest of people (she's 4ft11in, so already short compared to the 5ft4in Idina Menzel) ... who is whirling her staff around like a weapon.
    • Ginna Claire Mason makes laser gun like noises like a Star Wars blaster while Glinda is swinging her wand.
    • Willemijn Verkaik ends her witch cackle with a whistling noise that sounds like a dolphin.
  • A few seconds later, Fiyero literally (at least in one performance) comes swinging onto the scene, screaming like Tarzan before landing and threatening " LET THE GREEN GIRL GO!". He's swinging on a vine like rope in a cornfield. Even Glinda and Elphaba are confused by this.
  • In one instance on the final matinee for one member of the Dutch company, Fiyero is apparently short on rifles, so his bluff-threat of Glinda is done with... a broomstick.
  • Galinda says "Something's wrong...I didn't get my way...I think I need to lie down" before nearly fainting.
  • "They're just shoes! Let it go!" Considering how dark the scene is, and what it's regarding... absolutely HILARIOUS!
    • In some cases in which the actress playing Elphaba has also portrayed Queen Elsa in Frozen, Glinda does actually just say 'Let it go!' in this scene. It's even more hilarious with the Frozen parallels in place.
    • And for further hilarity to a somewhat downer scene, Savannah Stevenson actually turned that part into a Shout-Out to Frozen by singing the line. This was during Willemijn Verkaik's final matinee - she voiced Elsa in the German and Dutch dubs. Not to mention that she is now Elsa in the German production of the stage musical.
  • This line:
    Galinda: Let's each tell the other other something we've never told anyone! I'll go first! Fiyero and I are going to be married!(in some cases of actresses portraying the character in this scene, proceeds to slam her face into her pillow and scream very loudly)
    Elphaba: He's asked you already?
    Galinda: (gleefully) Oh, he doesn't know yet.
  • From the song "What Is This Feeling?":
    Both: There's been some confusion
    Over rooming here at Shiz:
    Elphaba: But of course, I'll care for Nessa.
    Galinda: But of course, I'll rise above it.
    Both: For I know that's how you'd want me to respond.
    (Spoken:) Yes
    There's been some confusion
    For you see, my roommate is—
    Galinda: Unusually and exceedingly peculiar and altogether quite impossible to describe—
    Elphaba: Blonde.
    • Also, the opening from "What Is This Feeling?"
    Galinda: (bubbly) Dearest darling Momsie and Popsicle...
    Elphaba: (deadpan) My dear Father...
  • Almost the entirety of "Popular". "La la, laa-aa, laaaaa!" For certain the moment when Galinda tries to use her new wand to turn Elphaba's frock into a "magnificent ball gown".
    Galinda: *ahem* (in a lilting, fairy-like voice) Ball gown. *nothing happens* *ahem* (In a decidedly LESS fairy-like voice) BALL GOWN!!!(shakes wand) "Is this on?" (tosses wand aside) "Wear the frock, it's pretty!"
  • This little gem:
    Fiyero: You think I'm really stupid, don't you?
    Elphaba: No, not really stupid.
  • Nessa's hand gestures (indicating shortness) when mentioning Boq during "Dancing Through Life".
  • During Popular: "Toss-toss". This usually leads to Corpsing from both actresses.
    • In addition to this, in Kristin Chenoweth's final performance as Glinda, she throws in a little surprise for everyone, including most of the backstage crew, in the form of a book called "How to be Popular"! She had Idina Menzel in stitches, and somehow managed to keep a straight face through it all! Can be seen here.
      • In said book that Kristin bought out, Glinda has a top ten list of how to help Elphaba, which includes showering "Elphie, every day, shower [...] perhaps some of that green will come off", putting on deodorant "deodorant - no-one likes a stinky witch", fixing the hair "We'll get to that", clean underclothes "that's all I'm gonna say!", and posture, bed making, broom straightening and a beautiful smile.
  • Glinda introducing herself to the Wizard.
    Glinda: Glinda, the "Ga" is silent.
    (The Wizard gives an extremely bewildered look)
  • This little gem, which doubles as a Take That!:
    Wizard: Where I come from, we believe all sorts of things that aren't true. *Beat* We call it history.
  • When you put "Defying Gravity" through Google Translate, you get "Ignoring Gravity".
  • Kyle Dean Massey tells the story of one incident while playing Fiyero where a touring production of Wicked had done something that accidentally left either oil or grease on the floor. Unfortunately during the scene where Fiyero and Elphaba run into the field after rescuing the Lion Cub, Kyle slipped, crashed, and the cage broke open displaying the mangled puppet to the audience. The funny part? The slip happened between two very specific lines, and Kyle couldn't think of anything else to say other than the scripted line.
    Elphaba: Don't shake him!
    (Fiyero crashes and breaks open the cage)
    Fiyero: I'm not.
  • In the intro of the stage production, Glinda repeatedly tries to float away in her bubble (which is of course physically suspended from the ceiling of the stage by some means or another), only for the Ozians to ask her yet another question, forcing her to come back down. Finally, someone asks her if it's true she and the Wicked Witch were friends. After a long Beat, Glinda motions for the stage hands to lower her back down yet again.
  • This little Shout-Out:
    Nessarose: What's in the punch?
    Boq: Lemons and melons and pears.
    Nessarose: Oh my!
    • Similarly, this when Elphie arrives at the Governor's office to see Nessarose.
    Nessarose: What are you doing here?
    Elphaba: Well, there's no place like home.
    Nessarose: (to Boq as he's trying to leave) Did you really think I'd let you leave me here flat!?
  • Fiyero delivers this weird little gem:
    Fiyero: There's no pretense here. I happen to be genuinely self-absorbed and deeply shallow.
  • Elphaba's little "Boo!" at the end of "What Is This Feeling?", and Galinda and the Ensemble shrieking immediately after this.
  • The Wizard makes his machine do a really funny jaw drop and eyebrow raise when he accidentally acts intimidating towards Elphaba and Galinda, only for them to reveal themselves.
    • The whole revelation of the scene is this. We see this giant head start bellowing "I am Oz! The Great and Terrible!" scaring the ever living daylights out of Elphaba and Galina. When Elphaba announces who she is, the Wizard is heard shouting "Oh! Is that you, Elphaba?! I didn't realize!" in his normal voice and then pops out, looking very much like Maurice from Beauty and the Beast. Depending on the actor, he may even get applause.
  • From the German-language production in Stuttgart: the scene where Fiyero laughs at Elphaba for having been "Galinda-fied". Doesn't sound remarkable? Well. When Fiyero - the ultra-masculine Mark Seibert - imitates the "TOSS TOSS!", the sound that came out of his mouth is so high he legitimately sounds like a girl. Like Galinda. Enjoy. Plus, the full-body fling, in comparison to his much more restrained colleagues (Anton Zetterholm, for example).
  • Glinda distracts from Fiyero's doubts about people's beliefs about Elphaba, or the Wicked Witch...
    Fiyero: Do you hear that? Water will melt her? People are so empty-headed, they'll believe anything. (stalks off)
    Glinda: Fiyero! Oh, yes. Thanks plenty, dearest. He's gone to fetch me a refreshment. He's so thoughtful that way! That's why I couldn't be happier...'
  • "The Wizard and I" contains some lines that are clearly intended as ironically amusing, given what we're told at the beginning of the play and what we likely already know coming in...
    I know - it sounds truly crazy
    And true, the vision's hazy
    But I swear, someday there'll be
    A celebration throughout Oz
    That's all to do with me!
    And I'll stand there with the Wizard
    Feeling things I've never felt
    And though I'd never show it
    I'll be so happy, I could melt!
  • This entire conversation.
    Fiyero: Why is it that every time I see you you’re causing some sort of commotion?
    Elphaba: I don’t cause commotions, I am one!
    Fiyero: That’s for sure.
    Elphaba: So I should just keep my mouth shut? Is that what you’re saying?!
    Fiyero: No! I’m saying—
    Elphaba: You think I want to be this way? You think I want to care this much?
    Fiyero: All I meant was—
    Elphaba: You think I don’t know how easier my life would be if I didn’t?
    Fiyero: Do you ever let anybody else talk?
    Elphaba: Oh, sorry. (Fiyero tries to speak again, gets interrupted by Elphaba) But can I say one more thing?
  • Even though it's supposed to be a heart-felt moment, there's an amusing moment somewhere within Glinda and Elphaba's final farewell. Elphaba tells Glinda she's the Only Friend she ever had in her life. To this, Glinda responds that she's had so many friends (but Elphaba was the only one that mattered). While sweet in context, there's something to be said for how Glinda mentions having so many friends as though unwittingly trivializing how many friends Elphaba's made. She may be the official Good Witch of the North Galinda, but it seems some things never change.
  • In the Swedish production the line that usually gets the biggest laugh is when Nessa asks Boq what’s in the punch. His answer is ”banan, melon, kiwi och citron” (banana, melon, kiwi and lemon), which is the name of a Swedish pop song which was extremely popular in 2022. The song itself is about a drink featuring said fruits.

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