History Funny / RoboCop1987

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-->'''[=RoboCop=]''': Come quietly or there will be... [[Understatement trouble]].

* [[spoiler: "Dick, you're ''fired!''"]]
-->[[spoiler:'''Robocop:''' Thank you. ''[shoots Jones out the window]'']]
* [[spoiler:After [=RoboCop=] shoots Jones out the window, Johnson jumps up with this ''huge'' smile and gives Robo a thumbs up.]]
** Just before that is that quick look he gives [[spoiler: to Jones while his confession is playing on the video screens]], with a smirk that says "Oh, you are ''fucked'', my man."

-->'''The Old Man:''' [[{{Understatement}} Dick... I'm very disappointed.]]
-->'''Dick Jones:''' I'm sure it's only a glitch. A temporary setback.
-->'''The Old Man:''' You call ''this'' a glitch?!

** By this point, it is painfully obvious how comically flawed ED-209 is in design but one cannot forget its greatest enemy. [[EpicFail Stairs!]] When Dick sics one on Robocop, it seems like he is at the end of his rope until he is chased into a stairwell. ED-209 is close behind but stops at the top step. It sees the precarious position it is in and realizes its oversized feet are way too big for the steps. It cautiously tries to walk down the steps almost looking like a kid afraid to dip their toes in pool water and, you guessed it, slips and falls down the stairs on the first step! ED lands flat on its back, unable to get up and actually starts squealing like a pig! As in actual pig noises! The lion growls are obviously for intimidation but you have to wonder what the thought process was in designing ED-209 and who thought it was a good decision to actually program it to make pig squealing when in danger!
*** You could also argue that the squealing is the programmers way of calling Dick a [[StealthInsult pig]].

* Trying to pursue [=RoboCop=], ED-209 falls down a flight of stairs and throws a temper tantrum. Helpfully, his programmers taught him to squeal like a pig or a bratty child when he can't get up.

** By this point, it is painfully obvious how comically flawed ED-209 is in design but one cannot forget its greatest enemy. [[EpicFail Stairs!!]] When Dick sics one on Robocop, it seems like he is at the end of his rope until he is chased into a stairwell. ED-209 is close behind but stops at the top step. It sees the precarious position it is in and realizes its oversized feet are way too big for the steps. It cautiously tries to walk down the steps almost looking like a kid afraid to dip their toes in pool water and, you guessed it, slips and falls down the stairs on the first step! ED lands flat on its back, unable to get up and actually starts squealing like a pig! As in actual pig noises! The lion growls are obviously for intimidation but you have to wonder what the thought process was in designing ED-209 and who thought it was a good decision to actually program it to make pig squealing when in danger!

** By this point, it is painfully obvious how comically flawed ED-209 is in design but one cannot forget its greatest enemy. [[EpicFail Stairs!!]] When Dick sicks one on Robocop, it seems like he is at the end of his rope until he is chased into a stairwell. ED-209 is close behind but stops at the top step. It sees the precarious position it is in and realizes its oversized feet are way too big for the steps. It cautiously tries to walk down the steps almost looking like a kid afraid to dip their toes in pool water and, you guessed it, slips and falls down the stairs on the first step! ED lands flat on its back and actually starts squealing like a pig! As in actual pig noises! The lion growls are obviously for intimidation but you have to wonder what the thought process was in designing ED-209 and who thought it was a good decision to actually program it to make pig squealing when in danger!

** By this point, it is painfully obvious how comically flawed ED-209 is in design but one cannot forget its greatest enemy. [[EpicFail Stairs!!]] When Dick sicks one on Robocop, it seems like he is at the end of his rope until he is chased into a stairwell. ED-209 is close behind but stops at the top step. It sees the precarious position it is in and realizes its oversized feet are way too big for the steps. It cautiously tries to walk down the steps almost looking like a kid afraid to dip their toes in pool water and, you guessed it, slips and falls down the stairs on the first step! ED lands flat on its back and actually starts squealing like a pig! As in actual pig noises!

** Then, in a classic example of DiggingYourselfDeeper, Leon tries to kick Robo in the nuts. Which he doesn't have. Because that area is now made of a kevlar/titanium laminate. The result is [[AgonyOfTheFeet very predictable]].

** Funnier is the fact that ED-209 doesn't react while Kinney has the gun pointed at Jones.

* The best example of BlackComedy ever created for any film: [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZFvqDaFpXeM Dick Jones demonstrates ED-209]]. To demonstrate a [[BlatantLies typical]] arrest and disarming procedure, Jones hands another board member, Kinney, a Desert Eagle and tells him to point it at ED-209.
-->'''ED-209:''' PLEASE PUT DOWN YOUR WEAPON. YOU HAVE FIFTEEN SECONDS TO COMPLY.

-->'''ED-209:''' YOU NOW HAVE FIFTEEN SECONDS TO COMPLY. YOU ARE IN DIRECT VIOLATION OF PENAL CODE 113 SECTION NINE.

-->'''ED-209:''' YOU NOW HAVE FIVE SECONDS TO COMPLY.

-->'''ED-209:''' FOUR, THREE, TWO, ONE. I AM NOW AUTHORIZED TO USE PHYSICAL FORCE.

-->'''Kinney:''' Help! Help me!

-->''[ED-209 fires on Kinney with both of its guns at full automatic. Kinney is thrown backwards onto the model city and flops about as he is riddled with hundreds of bullets, [[BloodyHilarious long after he is most certainly dead]]. This goes on for a full fifteen seconds before the boffins are able to yank the cord out of the motherboard. As the ED-209 shuts down, the terrified executives get back on their feet, and the Old Man [[{{Facepalm}} buries his face in his hands]]]''

-->'''The Old Man:''' [[{{Understatement}} "Dick... I'm very disappointed."]]

** [[BrickJoke Later]], [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fl8mQhxhE_Q we see a commercial]] in which an uncanny T-Rex chases terrorized civilians through a city street. Then its eyes pop out with a cartoony sound effect when it sees a big 6000 SUX, "An American Tradition!" and then on the bottom of the screen, we see the text "[[HummerDinger 8.2 MPG]]".

-->[[spoiler:'''Robocop:''' Thank you. **BOOM**]]

** The scene is established with the police arriving and setting up a perimeter with yellow crime scene tape. Which [=RoboCop=] nonchalantly drives through and breaks before parking.

-->'''Ron Miller:''' First, don't fuck with me! I'm a desperate man! And second, [[YouGetMeCoffee I want some fresh coffee.]] And third, I want a recount! And no matter how it turns out I want my old job back!

-->'''Negotiator:''' Hey no problem, Miller. Let the Mayor go, we'll even throw in a Blaupunkt[[note]]a German brand of car radio[[/note]].

* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OtHqqkpfmMU The hostage situation scene at City Hall]]. [=RoboCop=] tells the negotiator to keep Miller talking while he's going upstairs to take him down. Miller has some demands that he wants paid for on the city's dime:

** When the hostage taker is thrown out of the window by [=RoboCop=], the news cameras fixate at his body falling and hitting the ground, deliberately averting GoryDiscretionShot in-universe for the sake of sensationalism.

* The best example of BlackComedy in the entire film: When ED-209 malfunctions during a demonstration and shoots Kinney, a hapless board member, to death. [[BloodyHilarious And then continues to shoot up his lifeless body]]. When the programmers finally manage to unplug it, Morton gives us this gem:

** In fact, [[FunnyBackgroundEvent if you look in the background]] while the Old Man is talking to Dick and Morton, you can see the paramedics casually strolling in.
** In-universe, of course, the scene is utterly horrifying and traumatizing to everyone in the room. But to the audience? The overly deep voice, the panicking executives, the ridiculously long overkill, Kinney flopping about as he gets shot in the crotch several times while with an overly big hole in his chest, the boffins struggling with the motherboard and Kinney splashing ridiculous amounts of blood all over the pristine white model city is sheer BlackComedy.
** And the Old Man's quip in response to the incident? [[{{Understatement}} "Dick... I'm very disappointed."]]

** As a stealth jab at the Miller Lite beer, the robber immediately locates the store owner's safe hidden within a stack of Miller Lite beer cans, implying that the light beer is so undesirable at the time that it is used as camouflage that no customer will ever look into.

* The hostage situation scene at City Hall is funny. [=RoboCop=] tells the negotiator to keep Miller talking while he's going upstairs to take him down. The moment is when Miller demands a new car on the city's dime, specifically "something with reclining leather seats, that goes really fast and gets really shitty gas mileage!" The negotiator suggests the 6000 SUX, and even offers to throw in a Blaupunkt[[note]]a German brand of car radio[[/note]] if Miller lets the mayor go. There's a BrickJoke: we see a commercial in which an uncanny T-Rex chases terrorized civilians through a city street. Then its eyes pop out with a cartoony sound effect when it sees a big 6000 SUX, "An American Tradition!" and then on the bottom of the screen, we see the text "[[HummerDinger 8.2 MPG]]".

** The font used in the [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fl8mQhxhE_Q 6000 SUX]] ad can look like it's saying GOOD SUX. Yeah, BeingGoodSucks in Detroit in this franchise.
** This troper caught that wordplay too but interpreted it as a sex joke, ala 'a good suck'

* [[spoiler:"Dick! You're fired!"]]

** Just before that is that quick look he gives [[spoiler: to Jones while his confession is playing on the video screens]], with a smirk that says "Oh, you are ''fucked'', my man."

** Then, in a classic example of DiggingYourselfDeeper, Leon tries to kick Robo in the nuts. Which he doesn't have. Because that area is now made of a kevlar/titanium laminate. The result is very predictable.