Line #6 Funny/TheWitches


1	* An unintentional one, but during the scary opening speech, there's a bit of levity when it says, "but... and here comes the big 'but'." Don't get it? Say it out loud!
2	* While the stories about the kids who were lost to the witches are quite unsettling, there's something oddly funny about how Grandmama specifies that Birgit, a girl who was turned into a chicken, laid brown eggs and her parents made omelettes out of them. Grandmama comments that they were delicious.
3	* One of the children lost to witches was a boy named Harald who was [[TakenForGranite turned to stone]]. Grandmama offers to take the protagonist to see him, as Harald's parents are [[BlackComedy using him as an umbrella stand]].
4	* Grandmama describes the strange occurrences that happen at the hotels that witches have their annual meetings at. While most of them are fairly mundane, the last thing she mentions is an incident where a cook found a baby crocodile swimming in a saucepan of soup.
5	* When Grandmama gets pneumonia, the doctors tell her to change the location of her summer holiday and give up smoking. The narrator makes a point of saying that Grandmama was convinced to change her mind about the holiday... but ''not'' the smoking.
6	* Before realizing they're all witches, the boy witnesses the RSPCC attendees all scratching their hair and starts idly speculating about what's making them itchy.
7	* The Grand High Witch spends a little too long emphasizing the "delayed action" aspect of Formula 86 Delayed Action Mouse-Maker, causing her audience to get impatient.
8	-->'''Grand High Witch:''' Child eats choc vich has in it Delayed Action Mouse-Maker liqvid... Child goes home feeling fine... Child goes to bed, still feeling fine... Child vakes up in the morning still okay... [[OverlyLongGag Child goes to school still feeling fine...]] Formula, you understand, is ''[[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin delayed action]]'' [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin and is not vurrrking yet.]]\
9	'''Witches:''' We understand, O Brainy one! But when does it start working?
10	* While the Grand High Witch gives out the recipe for the Formula 86 Delayed Action Mouse Maker, one of the witches panics because she thinks they'll need millions of alarm clocks, with one clock per child. The Grand High Witch tells them that one clock will work for a thousand children, but not before providing this comparison:
11	-->"Idiots! If you are vonting a steak, you do not cook the whole cow!"
12	* One of the ingredients for the Mouse-Maker is the egg of a gruntle bird. Amist the general excitement of the audience, the protagonist overhears one of the witches in the back row quietly griping to her neighbor that she's getting too old to go bird's nesting, especially because gruntles nest in very high places.
13	* At the end of the meeting, the Grand High Witch calls for questions. One witch asks what happens if an adult eats one of the Mouse-Maker-laced chocolates, which prompts the Grand High Witch to nonchalantly say that that's just too bad for the grown-up before loudly dismissing the meeting.
14	* Bruno [[ObliviousTransformation doesn't even notice he's a mouse until the protagonist points it out to him]], and even denies it, even though the floor is much closer to his face and judging by the protagonist's description, he must have gone through some very intense pain during the transformation.
15	-->"The fact that you're a mouse has nothing to do with me."
16	* The boy gets [[BigEater Bruno]] to start warming up to the idea of being a mouse by telling him that mice can sneak into the larder at night and eat themselves silly with whatever they can find.
17	* The graphic novel has the distaff version of Jenkins repeatedly point out that her parents live a bohemian lifestyle. When they finally appear - after their daughter said they would have just been to yoga - Grandmama notes that they're carrying buckets of coins, which means they'd lied about the yoga and were instead gambling in the casino.

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