Funny / Chitty Chitty Bang Bang

• When Jeremy and Jemima ask the junkman what he's planning to do with Chitty, he seems a little too happy to go into excruciating detail about how he's going to melt her down, like he's actually trying to upset the children. Very Dahlian touch that's pretty amusing to contemplate.
• How does Caracutus brush off his children skipping school?
  "Oh, well, uh... gives the other children a chance to catch up!"
• Caracutus showing off his proto-vacuum cleaner to Truly.
  Caractacus: Away with sweeping, and away with brushing, and away with dirty carpets!
  (Cue prototype vacuum cleaner sucking up the entire carpet)
• When Caractacus first arrives with Chitty, it looks like he's driving her up casually like any car owner, only for the camera to zoom out and reveal that it's being drawn by a horse.
• During the montage of Caracutus rebuilding the car, Grampa is sitting by the fire reading the children a story when Caracutus suddenly strolls in, humming to himself, measures the metal cover for the fireplace, lifts it out of the wall with his bare hands, unleashing a cloud of soot, and exits with it though the opposite side of the room without a word. After a Beat, Grampa and the children just resume their story.
  • The story itself deserves mention, just by how Hammily British Grampa delivers it to the children:
  Grampa Potts: "And so the big brown bar came LOLLOPING over the mountain. 'Oh no!' the Princess cried..."
• The spies. Just the spies. The moment they're introduced, the first one goes full melodramatic villain, while his cohort plays the bumbling fool.
  Agent: [Sheds his "disguise" upon arriving on a beach, looking as sinister as he can muster] Ahhhh, where are we...
  Other Agent: Ah yes! [clumsily unfurls a map] I have here a map-
  Agent: [Snatches the map and starts whacking him with it while shouting] I know where we are, stupid! We are in England! And what do we do in England?
  Other Agent: We play cricket!
  Agent: Yes, we play- [whacks the other guy some more] No, you idiot! We dress up like Englishmen!
  • The spies that try to be English with horribly out-of-date information as to how the locals really dressed and acted.
  • Not to mention their classically slapstick antics while trying to capture Caractacus and Chitty, including mistaking Grandpa Potts for the inventor — hilarious.
• The "Posh!" musical number; Grampa has just been abducted, little house and all, by Baron Bomburst's zeppelin, and at one point the balloon starts to drop, forcing the crew to toss various things in an attempt to lose weight.
  Baron: We are still losing height!? But zhere must be zomething we can throw out!
  Agent: But there's nothing we can throw out!
  Other agent: Yes, there's nothing... (Chuckles nervously when he sees that he and his fellow agent are being stared at)
  • After they're ejected:
    Other agent: What do we do now?!
    Agent: Start swimming!
    Other agent: I don't swim!
    Agent: THEN START DROWNING!
  • And then they show up in Vulgaria at the end, see the fighting, and just start swimming back out to sea. Apparently, he learned.
• The "Roses of Success" number, where Grandpa Potts attempts to help several elderly inventors to convert the Baron's car into a floating one like Chitty. Equipping the car to do just that, the men all climb aboard to sound off their success... Only for the car to fall to pieces right out from under them!
  • "When I first got here, I was a midget!" This being said by the tallest person in the group.
• It's a little moment, but in the song "Chu-Chi Face" when Baron Bomburst and the suit of armour snap their fingers in frustration at the same time. Of course the suit of armour isn't animate, but the laws of reality can be broken for a good gag, right?
  • After she rolls out of the way of a spike from the chandelier, the Baroness stares at it sticking into the table for several seconds clearly looking traumatized, even as she continues to sing this frothy song.
  • Actually, the whole song itself is quite amusing.
    • Really any scene involving Baron Bomburst is hilarious. Especially considering one of the actor's previous roles.
  • Bomburst's castle is apparently filled with very bored or very mischevious suits of armor; in addition to the above, another suit of armor obliges when Potts asks it to hold something; during the final battle, a suit of armor bops someone on the head with a mace, then raises its visor to reveal that someone is indeed wearing the armor! Apparently they're just there for a good time.
• Truly repeatedly hitting Caracutus during their duet. Most of the times seem possibly like accidents, but the last one clearly happens on purpose.
• Caractacus has wound up Truly's music box, but it only goes for a few seconds before stopping. Caractacus has perfect timing looking down at it to see what can be done, then deliberately kicking the music box to get it going again.
  • The duet between Caractacus and Truly has a few sweet, funny moments—the first time Potts attempts to join in on the duet, he gets unceremoniously bopped by Truly's hand coming around, to the amusement of the court and watchers alike. At the end of the song, after the two finish their (admittedly heartwarming) song, Potts attempts to kiss Truly's hand—in response, Truly raises her hand at the last moment as the last notes play. She's not gonna be that easy for Caracutus to court!
• At the end of the movie, Caracutus comes home only to see Lord Scrumptious and Grampa bonding and having a jolly old time playing soldiers.

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