History Funny / Emma

!!2020 Film
* Miss Bates is almost a continuous source of comedy.
* Mr. Churchill, [[BridalCarry while carrying Harriet]] after rescuing her from gypsies, explains to Emma what happened, in the process spinning around so that Mr. Knightley has to duck to avoid Harriet's legs.
** Mr Churchill then asks why Mr. Knightley (who it is implied was about to confess his feelings to Emma) is at Hartfield, since Emma has only just arrived home from the same party from which he and Harriet were returning. Mr. Knightley fumbles hilariously for a while, before finally saying that one of his carriage-horses threw a shoe.
** Both men leave the room, then Emma (trying to match-make) calls out to them not to go and they both come running back.
** Mr. Woodhouse then rushes in: "Is she alive?"
** Finally followed by Mr. Knightley going home and pulling off his clothes in a fury, throwing them to the floor and lying flat out on it. A footman comes in, takes one look and leaves without a word.
* Mr Elton's fixed smile as he dramatically unveils the frame he has made for Emma's painting to her and Harriet.
** Harriet's over-wide smile back.
* Emma stabbing a ball of yarn as she says "three months of doing more than I wish and less than I ought."
* The whole scene in the shop with Miss Bates telling Emma about her niece, particularly Emma's gasp and turn around when she sees her through the window. Then followed by her trying to appear busy as Miss Bates spots her and comes in to talk.
* Just before Mr Elton's proposal in the carriage, he falls forward and nearly lands right on Emma's chest.
* Anytime Mr Woodhouse feels a draft.
* The very stiff and awkward tea at Miss Bates' with Emma, Harriet and Jane Fairfax all staring off glumly into space. Then Miss Bates mentions that Jane plans to stay for three months, [[ThisIsGonnaSuck causing Emma to pause in the middle of drinking her tea.]]
* Mr Elton, during an awkward moment at dinner, tries to make small talk about the weather, saying that it looks like it will snow. This sets off [[{{Hypochondria}} Mr Woodhouse]], who starts worrying about the health of Isabella and her children, and everybody else at the party, who all rise from the table in a flap and hurry to get home. [[OnlySaneMan Mr John Knightley]], one of the last to depart, bids a deadpan, "Happy Christmas."
* Mr Knightley's comment on Emma's painting of Harriet's likeness: "You've made her too tall."
* Mr Knightley's love confession to Emma where she ends up getting a nosebleed. Made even funnier by neither of them outright saying "I love you." It ends with Mr Knightley deciding to go and see Robert Martin and Emma saying that she ought to go and leaving to do it. Mr Knightley then has a mini fist-pump moment, since this pretty much confirms Emma loves him back.
* Mr Woodhouse's gloom at Miss Taylor marrying. "Poor Miss Taylor!"
** However, he is not so miserable that he cannot skip the last two or three steps of the staircase by leaping down them like an overeager or petulant child. (It's even funnier when one considers that this is something Mr Woodhouse in the book probably would have fainted dead away at the idea of.)

* When Emma goes to visit Miss Bates after being blindsided by Mr. Elton's proposal, she finds that even Miss Bates could see that he was after her and not Harriet. Her mental face-palm is almost palpable.

* Mr Knightley's love confession to Emma where she ends up getting a nosebleed. It's even funnier due to them mostly alluding to what they mean in 19th-century prose. It ends with Mr Knightley deciding to go and see Robert Martin and Emma saying that she ought to go and leaving to do it. Mr Knightley then has a mini fist-pump moment, since she pretty much confirmed she loves him back.

* Mr Elton, during an awkward moment at dinner, tries to make small talk about the weather, saying that it looks like it will snow. This sets off [[{{Hypochondria}} Mr Woodhouse]], who starts worrying about the health of Isabella and her children, and everybody else at the party, who all rise from the table in a flap and hurry to get home. Mr John Knightley, one of the last to depart, bids a deadpan, "Happy Christmas."

** Mr Churchill then asks why Mr. Knightley (who it is implied was about to confess his feelings to Emma) is at Hartfield. Mr. Knightley fumbles hilariously for a while, before finally saying that one of his carriage-horses threw a shoe.
** Both men leave, then Emma (trying to match-make) calls out to them not to go and they both come running back.

* During Mr Elton's proposal in the carriage, he falls forward and nearly lands right on Emma's chest.

* When Emma and Mr Knightley are joking around, and he says it must be better for Mrs Weston to have only one to please rather than two. Emma in jest agrees - "Especially when one of those two is such a fanciful, troublesome creature!" She's talking about herself but her father assumes she means him and agrees with her.
--> “I believe it is very true, my dear, indeed,” said Mr. Woodhouse, with a sigh. “I am afraid I am sometimes very fanciful and troublesome.”

* Mr Elton's fixed smile as he shows Harriet and Emma the frame for the painting.
* Emma stabbing a ball of yarn when she says "three months of doing more than I wish and less than I ought."
* The whole scene in the shop with Miss Bates telling Emma about her niece, particularly Emma's gasp and turn around when she sees her through the window followed by her trying to appear busy as Miss Bates spots her and comes in to talk.
* During Mr Elton's proposal in the carriage, he falls forward and nearly lands right in Emma's cleavage.

--> “I never should have presumed to think of it at first,” said she, “but for you. You told me to observe him carefully, and let his behaviour be the rule of mine—and so I have. But now I seem to feel that I may deserve him; and that if he does chuse me, it will not be any thing so very wonderful.”

--> “Harriet, I will only venture to declare, that Mr. Knightley is the last man in the world, who would intentionally give any woman the idea of his feeling for her more than he really does.”

* Emma, after learning the truth of Frank Churchill (who she believes Harriet loves) and his being engaged to Jane Fairfax is angry with herself. "If she could not have been angry with Frank Churchill too, it would have been dreadful."

* Mr. Churchill, while carrying Harriet after rescuing her from gypsies, explains to Emma what happened, in the process spinning around so that Mr. Knightley has to duck to avoid Harriet's legs.

** Finally followed by Mr. Knightley going home and pulling of his clothes in a fury, throwing them to the floor and lying flat out on it. A footman comes in, takes one look and leaves without a word.
* Mr Elton's fixed smile as he shows Harriet and Emma the frame.

* The whole scene in the shop with Miss Bates telling Emma about her niece, particularly Emma's gasp and turn around followed by her trying to appear busy as Miss Bates spots her and comes in to talk.
* During Mr Elton's proposal, he falls forward and nearly lands right in Emma's cleavage.

* Emma, after learning the truth of Frank Churchill (who she believes Harriet loves) and his being engaged to Jane Fairfax:
--> She was extremely angry with herself. If she could not have been angry with Frank Churchill too, it would have been dreadful.

* Mr Knightley politely and definitely rejecting Mrs. Elton's UnwantedAssiatance when he invites them to Donwell.

* There is something rather humorous at Emma's utter melodrama when she bursts into Knightley's office, sobbing that she can never marry him in spite of her feelings, and runs away, leaving him bewildered.

* At the climax, Mr. Knightley's emotions are expressed this way: Emma is low and dejected. ("Frank Churchill is a villain!") Emma never felt anything for Frank. ("Frank Churchill is not so bad.") [[spoiler: Emma loves Mr. Knightley.]] ("Can't think of Frank Churchill right now, but he's probably a very good sort of fellow.")