History Funny / SevenSamurai

* Katsushirō's HypocriticalHumor when he chides Shino, whom he thought was a boy, for picking flowers.

* The start of the search for samurai is played with a mix of tragedy and comedy, such as when the villagers bemoan that while they can tell good rice from bad rice, they can’t tell a good samurai from a bad samurai, or later when the beaten-up samurai at their hostel tries to convince them to hire him. This culminates in the sequence when they finally have their man: seeing Kambei shave his head to save a child, they realize that this samurai might be persuadable to help them. They nervously follow him into town, until one of them works up the courage to approach him — and is pushed out of the way by Kikuchiyo, who is himself struck dumb before Kambei, grinning awkwardly at him until *he* is forced out of the way by Katsushiro, who asks Kambei to be his *sensei* and engages him in conversation. Both Kikuchiyo and the villagers have to follow them to the next town before either interrupt them and press their case.

** Kikuchiyo's whole drunken bragging ends up with him chasing Katsushiro and Heihachi who keep confiscating his nodachi. Finally, Kikuchiyo becomes so exhausted that he collapses onto the straw in a drunken slumber and starts snoring loudly.
-->'''Katsushiro:''' Is he really a samurai?

* Kikuchiyo's failing Kambei's SecretTestOfCharacter is funny in its own right. While holding the "auditions" for his team, Kambei arranges for a booby trap by having someone hide next to the door with a blunt object, ready to wallop whoever comes in. Kambei knows that a trained samurai would either be smart enough not to fall for it or skilled enough to avoid the attack, which is exactly what most of the candidates do. When the untrained (and drunk) Kikuchiyo comes in, he walks right into the trap. We don't see him get hit, but Katsushiro's ReactionShot and the cartoonish *Bonk* we hear say it all.
* Kikuchiyo demonstrates his skill as a horse rider by riding behind some bushes... and the horse gallops out alone with Kikuchiyo chasing it. Even [[NotSoStoic Kyuzo]] is laughing at the sight.

** Meta hilarity, as Creator/ToshiroMifune is probably the finest swordsman and rider of all the actors, but is cast as the buffoon who can't ride. Apparently this was done on purpose to distract the audience away from Kyuzo's actor, who was not trained in riding and had never used a sword but plays the finest warrior of the bunch.
* Kambei breaking the tension before the final battle with the bandits by telling Katsushiro, who was discovered with one of the farmer's daughters the night before to "Fight bravely, for now you are a full fledged man!" causing both the farmers and the other samurai to laugh.
** Although Katsushiro likely felt it was a case of DudeNotFunny, seeing as [[spoiler: he was reluctant to begin with, and his finally hooking up with Shino resulted in her father, who was paranoid of just such a thing happening that he ''hacked'' her hair off, beat her while Katsushiro did nothing]].

* Gorobei is watching an impoverished Heihachi cutting firewood for food, and chatting with him about battles, and Heihachi says that he knows he can't kill all his enemies, [[KnowWhenToFoldEm so he usually runs away]]. Gorobei asks him "Incidentally, are you interested in killing thirty bandits?" Which causes him to massively miss his mark on the next chop, and look at him with a perfect "WTF?!" expression.

* At one point, Katsushiro is gushing to Kikuchiyo about how awesome Kyuzou is.

* Bandit scouts are examining the village's new defenses. To keep the bandit leader from learning that the village hired defenders, the six samurai are hiding in a hut. It's a tense moment. And then Kikuchiyo (who was told about the bandits in the previous) comes swaggering through the village with his enormous sword looking for the other samurai so they can all go bandit hunting. The second Kikuchiyo gets within grabbing range of the samurai hideout, Heihachi reaches out, grabs him, and ''yanks'' him out of sight. He is too late: the bandit scouts see Kikuchiyo and his sword, realize that the village has samurai, and head back to their horses to report on this. Luckily, thanks to Katsushiro’s blooming romance, the samurai already know where the horses are and can intercept them there.
* When the peasants in town report to the samurai of Kikuchiyo's fighting ability, Katsushiro wordlessly begs Kambei to let him do the test again with only a big, beaming excited grin.

* Katsushiro's HypocriticalHumor when he chides Shino, whom he thought was a boy, for picking flowers.

** Meta hilarity, as Creator/ToshiroMifune is probably the finest swordsman and rider of all the actors, but is cast as the buffoon who can't ride. Apparently this was done on purpose to distract the audience away from Kyuzo's actor, who was not trained in riding but plays the finest warrior of the bunch.

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** He calls one to step forwards, then does an exaggerated parody of his awkward walk and blank face, getting a round of laughter from the watching children, then says he might have to start charging admission.
** [[ActuallyPrettyFunny even the farmer being mocked chuckles along.]]

* Gisaku saying Kikuchiyo's false alarm to teach the villagers a lesson was needed. Kikuchiyo nods then turns to others, his face pretty much says, "this guy gets it."

** He calls one to step forwards, then does an exaggerated parody of his awkward walk and blank face, getting a round of laughter from the watching children, [[ActuallyPrettyFunny even the farmer being mocked chuckles along.]]

* Bandit scouts are examining the village's new defenses. To keep the bandit leader from learning that the village hired defenders, the six samurai are hiding in a hut. It's a tense moment. And then Kikuchiyo (who obviously hasn't heard about the scouts) comes wandering through the village with his enormous sword, yelling "Where is everybody?!" The second Kikuchiyo gets within grabbing range of the samurai hideout, Heihachi reaches out, grabs him, and ''yanks'' him out of sight.

-->'''Katsushiro''': Is he really a samurai?
-->'''Kambei''': Only in his mind.

-->'''Gisaku:''' "I thought we might need that many. But if I told you that, you'd bring fifteen."
* At one point, Katsushiro is gushing to Kikuchiyo about how awesome Kyuzou is.
-->'''Kikuchiyo:''' (yawning) "You're amusing. Your jabbering is very interesting."

-->'''Heihachi''': Now that he's gone, I kind of miss him.

-->'''Kikuchiyo''': This way!
-->'''Heihachi''': Dammit.

-->'''Kikuchiyo''': You all look simply splendid. Like a bunch of scarecrows.

-->'''Heihachi''': Only in his mind.

-->'''Kambei''': Only in his mind.

** Kikuchiyo's whole drunken bragging ends up with him chasing Katsushiro and Heihachi who keep confiscating his nodachi. And then he collapses onto the straw in a drunken slumber and starts snoring loudly.

* When Kikuchiyo tries to prove his lineage with a scroll. As the senior members of the Seven examine it, you can see in the background one of the other members count on his fingers the years involved in Kikuchiyo's claim. He begins to laugh uproariously in quiet just before the readers realize that Kikuchiyo would have to be a child- a thirteen year old ''girl''- for his evidence on the scroll to make sense.

* The way Kikuchiyo eagerly bites his lip when he asks Yohei where he's been hiding all the pretty farm girls.

* When Kambei suggests volunteers to go and raid the bandit camp, Kikuchiyo eagerly rubs his hands together.
* When Kikuchiyo asks the farmers' children if they've got "a pretty sister", Heihachi jokingly pokes him in the back of the head.

* When Kambei suggests volunteers to go and raid the bandit camp, Kikuchiyo eagerly rubs his hands together.

-->'''Kikuchiyo''': You all look simply splendid. Like a bunch of scarecrows.

** Kikuchiyo's whole drunken bragging is tragicomic as it ends up with him chasing Katsushiro and Heihachi who keep confiscating his nodachi.

** Meta hilarity, as ToshiroMifune is probably the finest swordsman and rider of all the actors, but is cast as the buffoon who can't ride. Apparently this was done on purpose to distract the audience away from Kyuzo's actor, who was not trained in riding but plays the finest warrior of the bunch.