Line #3 Funny/TheTamingOfTheShrew


1	* The (onscreen or offscreen, depending on the adaptation) wedding scene. Petruchio shows up [[UnderdressedForTheOccasion in what can only be described as "get-up"]] (sometimes involving the most phallic cod-piece known to man), accompanied by Grumio, looking equally ridiculous. Undaunted by everyone's shock and embarrassment, he runs in and marries Kate in the most absurd manner possible, then proceeds to ''[[AbductionIsLove kidnap her]]'' before anyone can go to the reception.
2	* After the ZanyScheme of the subplot finally blows up, everyone involved except Lucentio just books it rather than hang around to explain. It's even funnier when you have the script in hand:
3	--> ''Exit BIONDELLO, TRANIO and Pedant, [[OhCrap as fast]] [[ScrewThisImOuttaHere as may be]].''
4	* Hortensio's monologue about getting hit with the lute.
5	-->'''Baptista:''' Why, then thou canst not break her to the lute?
6	-->'''Hortensio:''' Why, no; for she hath [[RussianReversal broke the lute to me]].\
7	I did but tell her she mistook her frets,\
8	[[HandsOnApproach And bow'd her hand to teach her fingering]];\
9	When, with [[BerserkButton a most impatient devilish spirit,]]\
10	'Frets, call you these?' quoth she; 'I'll fume with them:'\
11	And, with that word, [[DisproportionateRetribution she struck me on the head]],\
12	And through the instrument my pate made way;\
13	And [[StunnedSilence there I stood amazed for a while]],\
14	As on a pillory, looking through the lute;\
15	While she did call me rascal fiddler\
16	And twangling Jack; [[HurricaneOfEuphemisms with twenty such vile terms]],\
17	As had she studied to misuse me so.
18	** [[AmazonChaser Petruchio's]] ''incredibly turned-on'' reaction deserves special mention as well.
19	--> Now, by the world, it is a lusty wench;\
20	[[InLoveWithYourCarnage I love her ten times more than e'er I did:]]\
21	O, how I long to have some chat with her!
22	* During the wedding scene in the Zeffirelli version, as Petruchio and Kate make their wedding vows, Kate blurts out, "I WILL N–!", only to be [[{{Pun}} Kissed Mid-Sentence]] by Petruchio. The priest, sensing trouble, hastily pronounces them man and wife as the kiss takes place.
23	* Petruchio tries to butter Baptista up by flattering Kate, but her father is all too aware of what kind of woman she is. Live productions usually punctuate the exchange with an extremely pregnant {{Beat}} or AsideGlance.
24	-->'''Petruchio:''' Pray, have you not a daughter\
25	Call'd Katherina, [[BlatantLies fair and virtuous?]]
26	-->'''Baptista:''' I have a daughter, sir, [[DamnedByFaintPraise call'd Katherina.]]
27	* A 2005 production for Oakbrook, Illinois' First Folio sets it in the Old West with the RunningGag of Grumio entering scenes dressed like classic Old Western movie characters like Creator/JohnWayne or Creator/GaryCooper. It all builds up to "The William Tell Overture" playing and he enters in [[Franchise/TheLoneRanger a hat, familiar blue outfit and a mask]] while everyone just gives "what the hell?" looks.

Context Funny / TheTamingOfTheShrew