Funny / Creepshow

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Film

• Several with Stephen King's Jordy Verrill:
  Jordy: Meteor shit! [wipes hand on his overalls]
  • During his fantasy sequence about seeking medical attention for his fingers, the doctor flips open a steam-sterilizer and pulls out a cleaver:
    Doctor: This is going to be extremely painful, Mr. Verrill!
  • During his "bummer" fantasy sequence about the broken meteor, the scene is framed with an overlay of a raincloud and set in the "Department of Meteors" at the university. At the end of the sequence, Jordy, utterly shamed, uses his hat to cover the worthless meteor.
  • The fact that his idea of getting rich off the meteor is being paid 200 dollars.
  • When he's about to bathe and strips down to see how much of the plant is on him, he screams in terror when it's implied that the plant is growing over his crotch.
    Jordy: Oh no, not there!
• Richard Grantham accidentally (on purpose) saying "hick" and not "husband" to describe Hank.
• Henry's Indulgent Fantasy Segue where he fantasizes about shooting his bitchy wife right between the eyes, and everyone else applauds his aim.
  Wilma: Oh, God, Henry, what's wrong now?
  [BLAM!]
  Henry: Not a thing, Wilma! [Wilma slumps over; Henry blows the barrel] Everything's just fine!
  [onlookers turn to stare at Henry; they begin applauding]
  Henry: Hell of a shot!
• Henry, as Billie is devoured by the yeti thing from the crate, simply tells her, "Tell him to call you 'Billie'!"
• The garbage men who find the discarded comic at the end are rather amusing, particularly the note of disappointment in their voices that they can't send away for the "authentic voodoo doll".
• Upson Pratt's conversation with Mrs. "Katzenjammer", while showing that he's unbelievably heartless, is Black Comedy at its finest.
  Pratt: Would you mind telling me who gave you my private number? I'd like to fire him.
  Mrs. Castonmayer: [in tears] It was in my husband's address book, you son of a bitch!
  Pratt: ...Well, I can't fire him, now, can I?
• How chuffed Nathan is to finally get his "cake". There is a very obvious smug tone when he says "I got my cake!"
  • Richard belts out a hilariously over-the-top "OOOOOHH MYYYY GHHHAAAOOOOAAAAAHHHH!!!" at the ghastly sight. It practically gives the kid from Troll 2 a run for his money!
• Leslie Nielsen returns to his playing evil characters with his segment as Richard after doing Airplane!... but the final shot of him? Screaming comically "I CAN HOLD MY BREATH FOR A LOOOOONG TIME!!!", and it comes off as comical as any post-Airplane! role he'd ever had.
  • Nielsen's character cracks a decent joke when Harry, buried up to his neck in beach sand, wakes up and finds a crab scuttling inches from his face:
    Richard Vickers: He's just getting revenge, Harry. For all the relatives of his you ate baked and stuffed at Ma Maison!
  • The crab even flexes a claw at Harry when Richard says this, almost as if it's agreeing with him.
  • Zombie!Harry can be seen smirking, appearing as if he's trying to hold back laughter as Richard goes Laughing Mad.
    • There's also the part where he groans "IIIIIIIIT'S SHOWTIIIIME!" as he and Becky shamble after Richard, in the most enthusiastic voice a drowned dead guy could possibly muster.

Series

• "Gray Matter":
  • Richie's insistence to his son that he'll quit drinking is sad the first time, but the second time he does this, he pops open a can of beer almost immediately after. The third time, he is actually in the middle of drinking a beer, and his son just walks off in annoyance.
  • Apparently, Richie's mutation into a Blob Monster, aside from giving him an insatiable hunger for human flesh, a sensitivity to light, and other such horrifying details, also makes him addicted to daytime soaps.
• "The Finger" is nonstop hilarity, even if it's very dark hilarity.
  • After going apeshit getting another phone call from the debt collector, even going so far as to beat the shit out of his answering machine with his phone, Clark proceeds to tell the audience that he's not usually this agro... before essentially claiming that the caller deserved it.
    Clark: (to the caller) Why don't you fucking die?! (assaults his answering machine) Die! Die! Die! You fucking vampires! (hangs up; breathes heavily) ... (to the camera) Sorry. I'm not normally this, um... aggro... It's just... I mean, come on. You hate them too, right? Those anonymous people who- who aren't even really people. Don't you just wish you could make them suffer? Suffer the way they've made YOU suffer?
  • When the detectives show up at his front door in order to ask him questions about his ex-wife, seeing as she was recently killed, Clark decides to truncate the interrogation by abruptly slamming the door shut in their faces in order to summarize things for the audience.
  • Bob's love of watching daytime soaps and eating popcorn.
  • Clark shoving an unfortunate trucker's testicles into the garbage disposal, having no real reaction outside of annoyance because of all the brutal things he's seen Bob do.
• "The Man In the Suitcase":
  • Justin discovering the titular character.
  Man: Will you help me?
  Justin: How? I mean, you look like you need a hospital, like, yesterday. Let's, uh, let's put you in my car, and I'll take-
  Man: That's very kind of you. But there is nothing that a Western hospital can do to help... with this... condition.
  Justin: Are you kidding? Uh- They c- they can do ANYTHING, I mean, there's this kid at my school who wrecked his motorcycle and lost his legs, and so now he uses these pogo stick things that they made for him, and now he's, like, good at basketball, which is WEIRD 'cause he, like, sucked before. And now he's some sort of unstoppable cyborg, which, I think is going to his head, really, because now he's mopping up the court with everybody and talking smack about it around with everyone, but not in a funny way.
  Man: (interrupting) Excuse me, please! I... do not mean... to interrupt but, I am in a great degree of pain, and I cannot give your schoolyard drama the attention that I am certain that it deserves.
  • Despite being in an intense amount of pain, the man in the suitcase still takes the time to correct Alex when he refers to Istanbul as Constantinople.
• "Skincrawlers" has Henry smugly looking at the viewer while munching on a candy bar after seeing everyone who underwent Sloan's weight-loss procedure explode spectacularly while he showed hesitation and survived.
• "Twittering from the Circus of the Dead" has quite a few moments thanks to Blake's snarky narration, such as when her brother Eric wears her leggings and skirt as the family stop for lunch at a Greasy Spoon. The accompanying visuals have Mom unable to stop laughing while Dad is facing away from the family with a look that says he'd rather be anywhere else right now.
• "Shapeshifters Anonymous". Where do we even start?
  • Robert first came to the conclusion that something was going on with him when he noticed bone fragments and fabric strips in his toilet, prompting Dr. Talbot to have him bring a sample. We then cut to Robert awkwardly holding a plastic container of his shit in the waiting room, in a position where the little kid in front of him can easily turn and look at it.
  • The series' trademark mood lighting, typically saved for moments of great emotional or horrific significance, appears over Robert getting an uncomfortable rectal examination in Dr. Talbot's office.
  • When offering to show Robert a video he took on his phone of one of his transformations, Andy is talked out of it by Phyllis, who claims that the last video he showed them was of "him and some girl doing the nasty". Trying to save face, Andy tells Robert that the girl was a college cheerleader majoring in massage therapy, but Phyllis clarifies that she was an old woman with a walker.
  • The gypsy who curses Robert with lycanthropy does so for the extraordinarily petty reason of Robert making too much noise. The very next day, Robert finds out that he ate her and her annoying dog, providing an ironic dose of karma. He also pissed on her hedges to mark his territory.
• The end of the opening dream sequence in "Model Kid", where the Mummy and the Gillman enter a brawl that's cut short as June calls for her son, bringing their fight to a halt and leaving them looking around in confusion.
• Bookberry's little "blooper" in one of the early scenes of "Public Television of the Dead":
  Bookberry: [...] It's the WQPS pledge drive! That's when we ask all the mommies and daddies out there to fuck! (Claudia and the crew flinch in shock) God-damn it! Line?
  • How is Evil unleashed in the first place? The idiotic host of The Appraiser's Road Trip reads the wretched incantations of the Necronomicon out loud, even after he actively recognized that the book holds wicked powers and his guest Ted Raimi tells him not to.
  • Ted even brought the Necronomicon onto the show in the first place because he found it collecting dust in his fruit cellar and wanted to have it appraised so he could blow the cash on a Camaro or hot tub. He even decides on getting the Camaro when he fakes being unpossessed.
• When Sam offers Morgue some eggs and sausages for breakfast in "Dead and Breakfast", Morgue clarifies that she's actually vegan and views meat as murder.
  Pam: I thought you liked murder.
  Morgue: Well, yeah, but just people.
• From "The Right Snuff", Ocula's cockpit has a dashboard hula girl with a space helmet.
• The first half of "Sibling Rivalry" has heavy comedy thanks to Lola's idiotic and scatter-brained mannerisms as the girl tells her story, including thinking that her sickness is the result of her being pregnant, mainly because she thinks sperm can become airborne, land on the skin, and crawl inside the vagina.
  • At one point, Lola casually tells Mrs. Porter that she needs to establish the backstory, hinting that she's aware of being in an In-Universe comic book.
  • Not even Andrew himself can get over how idiotic his sister is being when he creeps up on her and tells her that he can't tell their parents on him. It gets to the point where he and Lola bust out laughing at how ludicrous the whole situation is.
• A brief scene in "Pipe Screams" has Linus checking out Janet's shower drain, and as he's a plumber, naturally his ass crack is exposed.
• Though he's revealed to be an adulterer and an egotistical gold digger, Simon from "Night of the Living Late Show" demonstrates how much fun he has inside Horror Express, hanging lampshades on everything around him and praising both Christopher Lee and Peter Cushing when they turn up "onscreen".
• The moronic antics of the trio in "Queen Bee", such as when they accidentally murder a security guard and forget about doing so within seconds, as well as when they squee when they find out that they're getting closer to Regina, even as they're dealing with human corpses and strange, glowing-eyed nurses.
• The many movie references from "Skeletons in the Closet", such as when Lampini pranks Bateman with Eye-gor's "got no body" joke, and when Bateman's skeleton tries to get to the crying Lampini by hacking down the bathroom door.
• In "Familiar", there's Jackson and Fawn's date/rendezvous at the restaurant, where Fawn suddenly stares in shock at something behind Jackson and gasps, causing him to whirl around in fear. He finds that there's nothing there as Fawn laughs.
  • After this, as he's talking to Boone about the Familiar-banishing ritual, he yells that there's no way he's taking the fortune-teller's "blessed crate" back home with him. Cut to Jackson leaning on the crate in the elevator, a comically-annoyed look crossing his face.
• "Stranger Sings" has Barry being pretty damn slow on the draw in regards to his hostage situation, such as his thinking that Miranda's a cannibal and not a siren. He also tries to attack Sara right after she warns her not to get Miranda pissed off, further showing his low intelligence.
• The sheer tactlessness Saul shows in "Time Out" as he invites Tim's crush Lauren and her friend Mia into the dorm, point-blank telling her that Tim's had a crush on her all semester.
  • As a kid, Tim's grandmother keeps him out of his grandfather's special armoire, but instead of explaining to him why he's not allowed inside, she just keeps giving him pointlessly cryptic warnings about it.
• "The Things in Oakwood's Past" features one of the titular town's more spaced-out citizens (with a butterfly barette in his beard) who claims that the 1821 disapperance was the work of aliens.
  Citizen: What else makes sense? They alien-ed down in their alien saucer, tractor-beamed the whole village, then alien-ed them off to do their probing and whatnot!
  • The scene where Marnie substitutes a class at the town's elementary school starts off this way, especially when the kids make their own suggestions about the time capsule's contents:
  Boy: If I had a box, I'd put toys in it.
  Boy #2: I think they put in lists of friends in order of how they liked them... (looks smugly at the girl sitting next to him) with Jackie at the bottom.
  Boy #3: My dad has a box, and there's lady pictures in it, and none of them are Mommy. (Marnie gives him a blank stare)
  • As Marnie displays the slides of the 1621 villagers, one of the kids in class (modelled after Gretchen Grundler) is seen recoiling from the scent of Mac's shoes, since he's watching Marnie and putting his feet on the desk next to her.
• During the climax of "Drug Traffic", Mai's mother claims that the "thing" Beau is trying to stop is her daughter, while also claiming that she's an American citizen. Beau lampshades how that second factoid isn't nessecarily useful at the moment.
• Lorna's exasperated conversation with Okwe the pizza guy in "Twenty Minutes with Cassandra", trying to get him to leave before the monster kills him and growing angered when he doesn't take her warnings seriously.
  • She also tries to fashion a bat with knives taped on it to use as a weapon against the monster. The packing tape she uses isn't strong enough and the knives promptly fall off.
  • Then, when the monster (who turns out to be far more gentle and composed when Cassandra isn't around) breaks into the house when the titular twenty minutes are over:
  Lorna: (brandishing her knife-bat) No! I said... no! I need... a minute!
  Monster: (speaking clearly) You've had twenty. More, actually.
  Lorna: Yeah, but that was spent dealing with her bullshit! Can I just reclaim this space for, like, five goddamn seconds?!
  Monster: No, you're right. Just, waiting outside can be frustrating, is all.
• Though "Smile" is pretty dark, Sarah's horniness during her and James' date is pretty chuckle-worthy, as she tells him that she got their reservation by blowing the restaurant's owner, reminds him of the time they did it in the bathroom, and hopes that there's a coat room or storage closet where they can get busy again, even telling James how "fuckable" he looks.
• The very first scene of "The Hat", where Jay looks like he's preparing to blow his brains out as Astrid freaks out on him. He quickly reveals that his pistol isn't loaded and he was using it as a coping mechanism for his stress.
  • At one point, Jay tries writing something without wearing the titular hat, as a means of proving that he doesn't need any lucky charms to assist in his work. When he finishes, he claims that he didn't need the hat after all... only to find that he's typed out a string of gibberish.
• The entirety of "The Parent Deathtrap"; dark comedy at its finest.
  • As Lyle tries lopping off his father's head with a family sword, it only cuts an inch deep into his neck, prompting Archibald to reprimand his son for not sharpening the swords and being unable to kill him properly. When his mother enters the room after he finishes killing Archibald, she too rebukes Lyle... for getting blood all over her living room set.
  • Lyle's ghostly parents and their cat quickly approach him as he lays in bed, going right back to where they left off in regards to their abuse of him and causing him to scream in terror. One Time Skip later, Lyle goes about his regular routine with a stoic face as his phantasmal parents keep nagging and abusing him, showing that he's not even bothering with the whole thing anymore.
  • As Violet spots Lyle apparently talking to thin air when he goes shopping, he and his ghostly parents promptly haul ass, with Lyle himself crashing into a paper towel display. This prompts Violet to help him up and engage in conversation, asking him how his parents have been:
  Gloria and Archibald: Don't tell her we're dead!
  Lyle: They're... dead. (the ghostly parents groan in exasperation)
  • The many, MANY moments throughout the episode where Lyle's parents follow him and Violet everywhere, inserting various comments and reactions throughout the more somber and emotional scenes. Of particular note is the scene where Lyle and Violet take a walk by the lake, where Lyle "confesses" what happened to his mom and dad:
  Lyle: I've never told anyone this before, but my parents were... murdered.
  Gloria: Are you out of your mind?!
  Archibald: Do you want to go to jail?!
  Lyle: By each other.
  Both parents: What?!
  Lyle: They caught each other cheating. They were both... real big slսts.
  Archibald: (incensed) It was just one orgy!
  • As Lyle and Violet start making out and getting frisky while watching a movie, the ghostly Archibald makes use of his invisibility and eagerly watches them. He tries to follow them into the next room, only for his wife to pull him away.
• From "To Grandmother's House We Go", Marcia gets a call from a debt collector saying that she's behind on credit card payments. She promptly makes static noises into the phone and hangs up.
  • When Benny comes across the frightened Marcia complaining that a monster took Ruby into the woods, he notably doesn't believe her at first.
  Benny: "Monster." I'll give you a monster.
  Marcia: (offscreen) I heard that!
• Alex peeping on a moon-bathing Anna in "Meet the Belaskos", especially when he snaps a picture and alerts her, leading to her bra tearing off as she tries to leap off the roof.
• "Cheat Code"; as horrific as it looks, Dave being forced to move around like a video game character and getting killed by Weird Wednesday's obstacles can emit a few giggles.
• In "Something Burrowed, Something Blue", Allison gets hit with two seperate Gilligan Cuts disproving her refusal of her father's wishes, one during Sunday brunch, and the other having her wedding at his mansion.
  • The scene where Ryan's party-boy cousin Darryl spazzes out on the dance floor with a beer in each hand. He's still raring to party at the end of the episode, after he climbs out of the Minhocão's den and keeps it from getting fed.
• While "George Romero in 3-D!" is largely a loving tribute to the Godfather of Gore himself, who even plays a major role, George is chill and patient with everything going on around him, often acting as either Mr. Exposition or the peanut gallery.

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