History Funny / HonorHarrington

-->'''Alfred''': I think someone needs a spanking. And not our daughter.
-->'''Allison''': Oooooh, promise?

* On Grayson, Honor freaks out over a bunch of similarly dressed hooligans (clearly a gang) armed with large sticks advancing menacingly upon her position, and no one notices or sees what she sees, even though they have a live feed and people are with her... They're a bunch of guys heading for the ballpark to play baseball. Clearly Cricket won out over the millenia.
** Nah, TheBeautifulGame did. On Manticore at least.

-->'''Ashes of Victory''': Hamish Alexander stood on ''Benjamin the Great'''s flag deck with his hands clasped behind him and tried very hard not to feel a sense of godlike power.

-->'''Henke''': All things considered, Her Grace's plan may not have been the single rashest, most foolhardy, do-or-die, all-or-nothing throw of the dice in the history of the Royal Manticoran —- or Grayson -— Navy. If it wasn't, however, I have so far failed to find the plan that ''was''.

* Until chronlogically late in the books, humans and Treecats never use the same names for anyone, given that they can't communicate directly with each other. By random chance, a set of Treecat mirror-twins in ''Fire Season'' end up with the exact same names between the humans and the other treecats: Left-Striped and Right-Striped, based on their only differentiating features.

* Allison is a barrel of laughs, essentially a [[HandsomeLech Pretty Lech]]. Like one time, on meeting Honor's new [[NumberTwo executive officer]], she tells Honor how gorgeous the guy is. And how Honor needs to tap that, pronto.

** When a pair of Peep battlecruiser divisions assigned to ambush a light cruiser accidentally run into a Mantie dreadnought, an inverted DescriptionCut occurs as the narration jumps from the Mantie bridge -- where we see the watch officer (a ''communications'' officer, and self-admitted tactical ignoramus) order the ship to swing to port simply because the starboard sidewall came up first -- to the Peep flag deck:

--->Admiral Pierre swallowed a groan as the dreadnought snapped around and her sidewall swatted his broadsides contemptuously aside. He'd never seen a ship that size maneuver so rapidly and confidently. She'd taken barely ten seconds to bring her sidewalls up and get around--her captain must have the instincts and reactions of a cat!

--->Admiral Pierre swallowed a groan as the dreadnought snapped around and her sidewall swatted his broadsides contemptuously aside. He'd never seen a ship that size maneuver so rapidly and confidently. She'd taken barely ten seconds to bring her sidewalls up and get around—her captain must have the instincts and reactions of a cat!

* The scene in ''The Short Victorious War'', where Honor is floating in a pool, and Nimitz starts bombing her with tennis balls. Her warning "Throw it and you're bedroom shoes!" and subsequent [[CatchAndReturn retaliation]] (treecats like water about as much as do the Earth felines for which [[CallASmeerpARabbit they're named]]), is a fun little lighthearted moment. Especially given [[WarWasBeginning what happens later]].
** Leads to a BrickJoke a dozen books later when Honor's BlackBestFriend Mike is shown to have been given fluffy slippers by Honor, slippers styled to look like purple treecats.

** When [[TheCavalry the local treecat clan]] arrives with Stephanie and company to help them, the 'cats use pretty much the exact same strategy, collectively issuing forth a sound described as being ear-splittingly painful even for the humans.

* In ''Mission Of Honor'', when Admiral Crandall arrives in Spindle, she waits for a while before opening communications, intending to make the Manticorans sweat. When she does hail them, instead of the terrified Manticoran officer she expects, she gets Gregor O'Shaughnessey, idly reading a novel at his station, [[RefugeInAudacity not even ''noticing'' the Admiral at first]]. It's a wonder that Crandall doesn't suffer an apoplectic fit.

** Of course he shows up a lot here. His real name is Laughs Brightly.

* In ''Mission Of Honor'', when Admiral Crandall arrives in Spindle, she waits for a while before opening communications, intending to make the Manticorans sweat. When she does hail them, instead of the terrified Manticoran officer she expects, she gets Gregor O'Shaughnessey, idly reading a novel at his station, [[RefugeInAudacity not even ''noticing'' the Admiral at first]].

* One of the security measures Manticore takes in response to the Mesan threat is to pair up critical personnel with volunteer treecats to gain advance warning against stealth assassinations. [[EnemyMine Admiral Lester Tourville's]] assigned minder pointedly objects to his habit of [[CigarChomper lighting cigars at dramatic moments]] by sealing up his space suit as soon as a cigar is unwrapped.

--->'''Teague:''' You are ''so'' going to get all of us killed.

--->'''Albrecht:''' [[OhCrap Aw]] ''[[PrecisionFStrike shit]]''.

'''Albrecht:''' What? ''(blinks in surprise)'' We didn't have anything to do with that!

* In ''A Rising Thunder'', Emily gives ''Honor'' a DopeSlap.

* A bit earlier in the book, Eloise Pritchart is trying to decide what to do about a pair of troublesome members of her own delegation. She starts to fantasize about just having Honor strangle them, noting that Harrington could probably do it without breaking a sweat, and afterward she could just give her a presidential pardon. Then she realizes, hey, Honor has diplomatic immunity anyway!

* Toward the end of ''Mission of Honor'', a lowly ensign has the watch as Admiral Harrington's ship comes docking back in with her flagship, and he begins going through the usual motions. Only to stop as ''the Queen herself'' follows Honor out of the ship. Cue centuries (and a dozen books) worth of military tradition coming to a sudden, abrupt halt at the unexpected arrival. Despite the gravity of the situation, it's easily the funniest thing in the book.

* Allison is a barrel of laughs, essentially a [[HandsomeLech Pretty Lech]]. Like one time, on meeting Honor's new flag lieutenant, she tells Honor how gorgeous the guy is. And how Honor needs to tap that, pronto.

* An advisor informs Queen Elizabeth of an urgent matter which demands her attention - presumably, more important than the poker game she is losing against the Prince Consort and the Crown Prince (read: her husband and son). The Royal Family proceeds to engage in a light-hearted session of tinfoil hattery, accusing each other of devious machinations and high treason, all over a Pinochle game.

* In Fanatic (Service of the Sword), at the end (as in, the last line). After Victor Cachat spent the last few months terrorizing, beating, and torturing the naval staff of a sector headquarters so that he could dismantle and neutralize the StateSec keeping an eye on them, his boss's wife Ginny (his private sister figure) shows up and, after learning that Victor is very tired and just wants to go home, says to the commander of said headquarters, who had several times been beaten nearly to death by Cachat;
-->"Victor Cachat is one the sweetest men in the universe! And you-! You bastards! You were ''mean'' to him!"
* Ties in with [[{{CrowningMomentOfAwesome}} CMoA]], but in Ashes of Victory, the discussion about the San Martin government. San Martin had recently been liberated, and was having massive difficulty electing a leader. As in, it took them two years, with no sign of progress, when Commodore Jesus Ramirez returns. Upon learning exactly who he is, every candidate except one drops out of the race, and he is elected president. Its clear that he barely even knew or planned about this, as the book states "...Jesus was drafted, almost without being consulted..."

* Ties in with [[{{CrowningMomentOfAwesome}} CMoA]], but in Ashes of Victory, the discussion about the San Martin government. San Martin had recently been liberated, and was having massive difficulty electing a leader. As in, it took them two years, with no sign of progress, when Commodore Jesus Ramirez returns. Upon learning exactly who he is, every candidate except one drops out of the race, and he is elected president. Its also clear that he barely even knew or planned about this, as the book states "...Jesus was drafted, almost without being consulted..."

* Ties in with CMoA, but in Ashes of Victory, the discussion about the San Martin government. San Martin had recently been liberated, and was having massive difficulty electing a leader. As in, it took them two years, with no sign of progress, when Commodore Jesus Ramirez returns. Upon learning exactly who he is, every candidate except one drops out of the race, and he is elected president. Its also clear that he barely even knew or planned about this, as the book states "...Jesus was drafted, almost without being consulted..."