Funny / W.I.T.C.H.

For the cartoon see here.

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• The first summon of Will's Astral Drop in the comic book is what inspired the cartoon version: due to Will's feelings at the time the summoning went awry, and the drop (after accidentally ruining Will's written instructions) kissed Matt, then realized she was supposed to kiss Susan, asked her advice but didn't explain well the problem (so she ended up slapping Matt in public), and when Susan told her she had a date with professor Collins she replied "Have fun" (Susan's face was priceless). All of this was not on purpose.
  • In the same occasion Cornelia first summons her Astral Drop, and states her surprise at her being that identical... And the Astral Drop replies that they're not, since she doesn't have split hair. Cornelia almost throttles her then and there, and is only stopped when the problem with Will's Astral Drop is noticed.
• Hay Lin repeatedly spends time with her friends (for obvious reasons) but only shows up for meals, then quickly leaves. She's told to stop treating the house like it's a restaurant... Only for her father to say "But this is a restaurant!"
• In the second arc, Nerissa attempts to weaken the girls by giving them nightmares, then trying to kill them in their dreams. In one dream, Will and Cornelia end up inside Cornelia's dollhouse... And the doll's head turns around to reveal Nerissa's possessed the doll in the dream.
  • "Care for some tea?" she asks while throwing the table at them. It Makes Just As Much Sense In Context.
• Orube's introduction to life as a human on Earth does not go very smoothly, as she is unfamiliar with a lot of Earth concepts, such as money... and so, when she complains that she's hungry and Will gives her some money to buy food, she misunderstands and thinks the money is food.
  Orube: '*chomp chomp chomp* They don't taste very good. ...I think I'll eat the rest of it later on.
  • She once asked why two of the girls' teachers were beating up each other, and Irma joked they were just saluting each other. Two minutes later she first met Matt, and greeted him with a Megaton Punch. Will was not amused.
  Irma: If she gets us, we're doomed!
  Orube: You are doomed! I've just done what you told me to do!
  Irma: Stop believing me!
• Every time Orube appears with something edible, something bad happens.
  • First time, she set the kitchen on fire.
  • Second time, she burned something she was frying, a cake and the pasta. She was taking lessons from Irma because she knew how much she sucked at cooking and had guests, but still...
  • The third time, while she was trying to cook for those guests, she flooded the kitchen (thankfully Cornelia had learned about them and had a lot of French food shipped to her).
  • Finally, she offered a cappuccino to Cedric...and he finds it disgusting. That was actually part of a successful attempt at getting him in a good mood, but still makes the list.
• Comic book only: Orube lampshading their useless wings.
  Orube: How do we enter the fortress? Flying?
  Irma: Forget it! Only Hay Lin can fly!
  Orube: Then why do you have wings?
  Irma: Ah! Stupid question! It's so obvious! It's because... Because...
  Beat
  Orube: So you don't have an answer to everything, Irma!
  Will: We'll enter while invisible. We've already done it, and it works.
  Will: *whispering to Hay Lin* Anyway, remind me to ask the Oracle why we have wings.
• Matt's grandfather's reaction at finding out his grandson has been hit (either the slap from Will's Astral Drop or Orube punching him because Irma told her it was a form of salute on Earth) is to encourage the hitter: he doesn't know why, but whatever he did he needs to be punished for it.
• In the final issue of the comic the Guardians have successfully passed a series of tasks to get a new power-up (they have an increased sense each and can unite in a super-powerful being with all of their powers) and not being forced to quit. To celebrate, Yan Lin had an immense cake prepared for them (only Will could see where it ended thanks to her superpowered sight), but when the girls are about to jump on it...
  Yan Lin: "Wait. Did you wash your hands?"
  Will: "But... Oracle!"
  Yan Lin: "Oracle, and grandma too."
  • As they're eating, Will gives a look at what's happening to Matt, and sees him with a girl he recently met, with Hay Lin using her superpowered hearing to confirm she was flirting with him. Cue Will deciding to show off her Improbable Aiming Skills by throwing a piece of cake at her.
  The girl flirting with Matt: "When I'm with you I feel so much sweetne-"
  She's hit by the cake
  The flirting girl: "ARGH! Oh, really fun!"
  Matt (half-surprised and half-amused): " But... It wasn't me!"
  Will: "What is she saying now?"
  Hay Lin: "I'm too polite to repeat."
• Early in the comic, Andrew Hornby, the school's most popular, guy had disappeared, and the Guardians wondered if Cedric was involved... Until Irma revealed she knew what had happened to him: she had used her older and more attractive Guardian form to get him to notice her, but when he attempted some Auto Erotica she accidentally turned him in a toad.
  • At the end of the issue they track Hornby down and Will tells Irma to get him back to normal. Irma's reply? "I hope I don't have to kiss him".
  • Gets a Call-Back in the alternate future shown in issue 50: a grown-up Andrew Hornby was being an Obstructive Bureaucrat to the girls until Irma ordered him to get out of the way, and the girls are convinced he still remembers that time she turned him in a toad.
  • Another Call-Back is in the New Power saga: Irma had decided to tell her then current boyfriend about Kandrakar, but he didn't believe her and was Doing In the Wizard on her demonstrations, so she turned him in a toad.
• In the first issue, Martin had irritated Irma at the party, so she told him to disappear. Martin promptly became invisible.
  • Later in the party he bumps into Vathek.
  Vathek:: "By the Moons of Gaahn! An invisible creature!"
  Martin *as the spell wears off*: "I know I'm not exactly popular, but to rub it in isn't nice anyway."
  • The following issue, Irma has just told the other Guardians she had accidentally transformed Andrew Hornby in a toad, prompting them to laugh. This is what follows:
  Irma: "Why are you laughing? It's serious business! It's a tragedy! A catastrophe!'
  Martin: "What happened, dear?"
  Irma: "Martin, disap-"
  The other Guardians *while physically muzzling Irma*: "Irma, no, don't say it!
  Irma *after being unmuzzled*: "Could you please get out of my face, Mart!"
• A short story showed us that Irma never learned how to ride a bicycle, and every instance of her on one involved her creating invisible training wheels.
• During the publication of the New Power arc the short stories showed the girls getting roped by Taranee in joining the Jensen Dance Academy and helping with their musical. This series of short stories has various funny moments:
  • Will Got Volunteered by Irma with choosing a story and a plot, and given full creative liberty. What did she come up with? The Twelve Portals Arc.
    • Doubles as Brick Joke: a possible future had Will becoming a successful writer with a novel based on their fight against Phobos.
  • Irma Got Volunteered by Will for writing the script (mainly the lines of the characters), and she took inspiration from a video Taranee put together by filming people without them noticing... Including her brother making an overly sweet phone call to Cornelia. Cornelia was not amused. Everyone else was too busy laughing and saying no real people would be so cheesy to notice.
  • The casting. First candidate is an hyperpunk emoboy; the second is discarded as "too much cheerleader; one is an Hamlet, and another is Jack Sparrow in person; and one unseen is said to be too much "too much". The actresses are chosen when the Guardians stumble in people extremely similar to them, whose initials spell the word "Magic".
    • Will's part is the last to be given. The girls are at Tara's house discussing it while waiting for some pizzas... And the pizza girl, Meg, is a tomboy with her clothes decorated with frogs, an apprehensive and strict mother who's dating her math teacher, has just moved in town from another place, and is a competitive swimmer. How did Taranee introduce her to a spooked Will?
  "Will! It's her! Well... It's you!
  • The costume design. One of the team, which is lead by Hay Lin, suggests modernizing the ideas a bit, so they can get more creative than just white robes. Since the play is based on the girls' adventures, they have a fun time imagining the Oracle and his councilors dressed as Totally Radical.
• The story of how Irma's father Tom and step-mother Anna met (as discovered by Irma while reading old letters): He and a few police colleagues were called out to search a house for criminal activity but accidentally got the wrong house number. She was in the kitchen baking a cake and failed to hear the knock on the door because her housemates were, respecively, singing in the shower and vacuuming the living room. He broke down the door to storm the house and catch the criminals. Her reaction to seeing a cop storming her kitchen was a bemused "If you wanted cake, all you had to do was ask."
• The reaction to Hay Lin making a Title Drop by writing down on her hand the initials of herself and the girls and getting "W.I.T.C.H.": Taranee told her to stop writing on her arms and hands before she poisons herself with all the ink, while Irma started ranting on Hay Lin being already poisoned to the point it got to her head and made her come up with that acronym.
  • Later Hay Lin doing this fails since no one can read her writing, prompting her to speak aloud what she intended to keep discrete with the most deadpan annoyed look on her face.
• Miss Rudolph, who previously took Hay Lin and Irma hostage (for much more innocent reasons than that makes it sound), ends up having the girls, minus Will and Cornelia for plot reasons, over for tea. It goes extremely awkward and culminates in Miss Rudolph catching them in their "secret" mind speak. Bonus points for this part.
  Miss Rudolph: (after the girls assure her they're not suspicious) Then why haven't you taken any of my cookies? Afraid they've been poisoned?
  Irma (with what looks like dozens of cookies on her lap, crumbs all over her face and a mouthful of cookie) Uh, they're not, are they?
• In one issue of the Ragorlang Arc, while trying to reach her grandmother through their new mirror in the bookshop, Hay Lin (and Taranee) of all things manage to see the Oracle taking a bath, whistling before realizing he was being watched and closing the 'transmission'.
• In one chapter, while WITCH (minus Hay Lin) were practicing their powers in the middle of the marketplace (invisible, of course), while Irma, Cornelia, and Taranee converse with one another concerning their enemy, Will thwarts and ousts a pickpocket.
  • When Ludmoore uses his Eye to make a fire when they're still there and all the people start running away in a panic, an irritated Irma wonders why everyone bumps into them and then remembers they're invisible.
• In issue 69, Will blackmails a vending coffee machine.
• When the girls were first experimenting with her powers, Hay Lin wondered out loud what would happen if you combined the Power of Earth with the Power of Water:

  Irma: "The Power of Mud!"

  *Beat. Irma and Cornelia exchange Death Glares. Hilarity Ensues*

• in Issue 97, during a conference call, while telling the team of Kandor's secret passage in his room, Irma ended up also connecting a pizza delivery store. They immediately go Oh, Crap! and hang up before calling again without involving them.
• How a fight between Cornelia and her mother ended:
  Elizabeth: "And what do you want next, a banking account?!"
  Harold Hale: "That I could do myself, I'm a banking director."
  *Beat. The fight ends because mother and daughter cannot stay serious after that. Harold acts like nothing has just happened.*
• In one occasion, Will, Irma, Taranee, and Cornelia recalling in horror a recurring event: Hay Lin always buying herself whatever they had been planning to give her for birthday. It went to the point they found an unbelievable alien-themed pajama, bought it, and when they went at her home Hay Lin greeted them in the very same garment...
  • That year they ultimately found a gift they knew she didn't have, namely the tickets for a concert the day of her birthday, and called the ticket office to buy the last five only for someone to buy them in person. So they resort to other gifts, wondering how many gaffes they will have that year... And discover that for once Hay Lin didn't already have their gifts, but was instead the one who bought the tickets.
• Issue 123 is one Bizarro Episode and it is just plain funny:
  • This dark lady takes the form of, of all things, an automobile.
  • Her antagonist abilities? Control every car on Heatherfield. Meaning she can cause all sorts of auto-accidents
  • Lady Crash smacks Cornelia with the head-rest.
  • She captures the girls… except Irma’s clothes get caught in the car door.
  • Crash takes the girls in the middle of the night, which means they’re in their pyjamas.
  • She even traps them with seatbelts. Justified to keep their hands tied, but it’s still funny.
  • Right as the lady is about to take Cornelia’s powers, she just dashes out of the car because Irma’s little Wardrobe Malfunction kept the doors from locking fully.
  • After this, the girls have to literally outrun a car to make it run out of fuel.
  • Cornelia’s boyfriend’s car, Bugg, even arrives and fights Lady Crash.
  • And finally, Lady Crash runs out of gas and tries to get more fuel… except the pump doesn’t work because she has no way to pay.
  • And what's more, because this happened at night, the girls end up having to go home and they have school the next day. Irma is absolutely not looking forward to gym class first period.
• In an early issue, Cedric and Elyon had trapped the Guardians in the same painting he had trapped Elias Van Dahl into centuries earlier. He then takes a last look to enjoy their suffering... And upon seeing they have figured out how to escape and are trying to procure what they need, he gets in a rant about how younger generations have no respect, because in his day when one was sealed in a painting they made peace with their fate and stayed there. Then Vathek agrees with him that younger generations have no respect for tradition.
  • In the same issue, Uriah and his gang had snuck in the museum at night after rumors of a lizard man being spotted there. The lizard man was a Galhot, but he wasn't there anymore - they instead meet Cedric in snake form and Vathek, who were looking around after sealing the Guardians in the painting. They only survive the encounter because the two villains are stunned long enough for the gang to throw a skull at them and trigger the alarm, making them flee in the nearby Portal. Uriah and his gang end up arrested, blamed for the lizard man rumor, and have to clean up the museum for a month in exchange for their charges being dropped.
    • And then it's later revealed that Uriah, Kurt and Clubber had to stay two months: Kurt and Clubber were caught using hominid skeleton props to play baseball while Uriah pretended not to see, while Nigel wasn't with the others and was let go as expected.

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