Funny / Battle of Britain

• The very first line of the film?
  "Who the hell is he trying to kid?"
• Andy receives a letter from his wife complaining about being bored on the countryside after Andy had his family evacuated from the city.
  Andy: Silly bitch!
  Archie: He's calling you names again, Arnold.
• There are three that stick out, all centered on the Poles and their difficulties with English.
  • "Repeat, please!"
    • Followed by their British CO realizing what they're doing and reacting with a wonderful This Is Gonna Suck expression and an exasperated "Oh, God's truth..."
    • "SILENCE! IN POLISH!" The whole scene might as well be a Polandball comic.
  • 'Hogs' gets shot down and lands in a farmer's field... where the farm-workers think he's a German and promptly take him prisoner.
    Hogs: [bows gentlemantly, smiles in a friendly way and speaks with a heavy accent] Good afternoon!
    Farmer: 'Good afternoon' my arse! You Boche bastard! [motions with his pitchfork] Put your hands up!
    Hogs: [totally confused] Co jest? Ale— ("What gives? But—") [gets interrupted as the farmer physically forces him to raise his arms and then walked away] Ale ja jestem polskim pilotem! ("But I'm a Polish pilot!")
  • Towards the end of the movie, when the Allied pilots are waiting for another attack, they kill time as best they can. If you look closely, Hogs is reading a textbook called "Początki angielskiego" ("Basics of English").
• Sergeant-Pilot Andy and Pilot Officer Archie have a practiced routine:
  Andy: You can teach...
  Both: ...monkeys to fly better than that!
  • Even better, they're quoting one of their boss's rants from the beginning of the film.
• This exchange from the pilots:
  Pilot: Talk about a hairy take-off.
  Andy: I saw Jimmy buy it. Did Archie get off?
  Archie: Oh, I’m with you, old boy, but I’ve left my stomach behind.
  Skipper: Ah, shut up, will you?!
• Goering is berating his group commanders for not being able to beat the RAF. Then he says that he's chastised them enough - is there anything they need?
  Falke: Yes, Herr Reichsmarshall. Give me a squadron of Spitfires.
  • In real life, it was Major (later General) Adolf Galland^note  Galland was an exceptional pilot who overcame an eye injury that nearly blinded him to stay in the cockpit. He rose rapidly through the ranks to become the Luftwaffe's youngest general based on his flying and leadership skills, and his movie-star good looks certainly didn’t hurt either. Galland is said to have been the first to refer to Goering as the Fat Bastard, and was probably the first to call him that to his face, taking full advantage of his untouchable status as a celebrity war hero. Goering tried to get rid of him by assigning Galland to suicide missions, but he persistently survived. Galland was making preparations to defect to the Allies with his unit, Jagdverband-44, when their airfield was overrun by the US Army in 1945. who said that to Goering's face. Galland was one of the film's technical advisers.
• The Germans think they have destroyed half the RAF's fighter force, and that their bombers are only being intercepted because the RAF is bringing in reserves from the north. So they decide to bomb the north with squadrons from Norway, which means they won't have fighter protection. The first raid crews are nervous, and have just gone to action stations. One of the gunners sees something, "Achtung! Spitfire!" One Spitfire. The entire bomber formation breaks and scatters, and it's several seconds before we see a squadron coming in to attack.
• One British pilot bails out, and ends up crashing through someone's greenhouse, in front of a stunned boy. While the pilot tries to extract himself, the boy runs inside... and comes back out a box of cigarettes, offering one to the grateful pilot. Edward Fox brilliantly rolls Large Ham, I Am Very British, and I Need a Freaking Drink into his reply.
  Archie: Thanks awfully, old chap!
• A group of English boys standing and watching while arguing over what type of German bombers are about to bomb the city they're in.
• Air Marshal Dowding's doom-laden utterances in every scene he is in, delivered in Sir Laurence Olivier's rich tones, are obviously not intended to be funny but on repeated viewings they come across as comically melodramatic.