Funny / Guillermo del Toro's Pinocchio

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• The morning after Pinocchio's been brought to life, a hung-over Geppetto helps himself to more alcohol from his bottle before realizing the bottom half broke last night.
• There's something creepily funny about Pinocchio meeting Geppetto with the cheeriest of dispositions while twisting about in creepy Grudge-like fashion, since he's still getting used to his limbs. Geppetto's scared out of his wits, but Pinocchio? He's absolutely oblivious to it all.
• Pinocchio's song about discovering the world, gleefully breaking everything he touches as he goes. He asks Geppetto what each thing is for, and when he grabs a chamber pot, Geppetto just stutters, grimaces, and decides to say nothing.
  • Earlier, there's Geppetto being forced to dance in order to dodge an array of knives launched at him by accident.
• Sebastian constantly suffers all sorts of Amusing Injuries, most often by getting squashed by something.
  • Sebastian's Butt-Monkey-hood kicking off when he tries to begin writing him memoir as he intended. Only to accidentally scribble on the first word from Geppetto chopping down the pine tree housing him.
  • During Pinocchio's song "Everything's new to me", towards the end of the musical number, poor Sebastian hanging on for dear life as his "room" spins about, as Pinocchio is spinning around in excitement.
  • Also, the Running Gag where he tries to sing his own father's song about optimism, only to get interrupted one way or another.
• While seeing the Podesta, Candlewick and the Priest do a Romanan salute after Geppetto answers the door is rather surprising to see for a first-time viewing, the Priest's bike falling and him subsequently trying to catch it before going back to the salute is sure to elicit at least a few chuckles.
• When Pinocchio notices the cup of hot chocolate the Podestà is holding in his hand, the man slightly grimaces at him and moves the cup closer to himself, in the fashion of a little kid who doesn't want to share.
• While Pinocchio and Candlewick have hot chocolate, the latter dares the former to stick their feet in the fireplace. Pinocchio then voices how he so happily enjoys the warm feeling of his feet being burned. He just laughs and screams "Yes! Look at me! Look! I'm on fire! YAAAY!" while Geppetto frantically tries to find a source of water to put the fire out. And when he finally extinguishes it? Pinocchio is disappointed: "Aw, look what you did, Papa! You've ruined the nice lights on my feet..."
  • The look on the faces of the priest and the Podestà as Geppetto runs around with a gleefully burning puppet.
• When Pinocchio lies to Geppetto before his children fans, at one point, the lie starts growing pine cones on his nose, much to the wooden boy's delight. Geppetto is not amused and shoos away the children for treating their father-son argument like some spectacle to gawk at.
• The Black Rabbits singing a Comically Serious funeral dirge for Pinocchio before proceeding to punch a clock and start playing cards. When they actually talk to each other they sound like a bunch of working-class Brooklynites.
• The first time Pinocchio returns from the dead. The doctor says "How do you intend to dispose of the dead body?" and right on cue Pinocchio springs back to life asking "A dead body? Where?!?" enthusiastically.
  • Before that, we get some funny lines:
    Doctor: Niente... there's nothing we can do! I'm afraid the body is rigid!
    Geppetto: Well, he's always been rigid: he's made of wood!
  • These lines a probably a nod to the original story, where one of the doctors points out that, since he is a wooden boy, his heartbeat can’t be checked even if he is alive.
  • And shortly after, David Bradley and Christoph Waltz have a Ham-to-Ham Combat when Geppetto and Count Volpe argue:
    Count Volpe: Even if he's dead, I could still book him...
    Geppetto: How dare you, sir?!? Show some RESSSPECT!
    Count Volpe: (as he turns to menacingly swing his cane in the air) YOU SHOW RESPECT! To me and my projected quarterly earnings!!
    Podestà: Gentlemen, please! This is no time for your petty grievances!
• Sebastian finding himself stuck under a glass weighted down with a hammer (due in part to Pinocchio not wanting the cricket to follow him). He almost gives up hope and bangs his head against the glass, before realizing it can still be budged. So he pushes as hard as he can! ... Before a panned-out shot reveals how pathetically small and slow his efforts are. He's got a long way across the table before he can make progress.
  • The scene ends and transitions to the next with Sebastian letting out an exasperated scream... which turns into the female opera singer's from the vinyl Count Volpe and Spazzatura fell asleep listening to in their circus wagon.
• Positively everything involving Il Duce, who is portrayed as a squat little manchild voiced by Tom Kenny doing a stereotypical Italian accent ("I like-a puppets!"). Pinocchio rewrites one of Volpe's propaganda pieces into a cavalcade of Toilet Humor at Il Duce's expense, which ends with Mussolini ordering Pinocchio shot.
  • Mussolini arrives at the show in an Absurdly-Long Limousine that takes several seconds to pass the screen (and has a radiator figure of himself giving a Roman salute), only to be revealed as comically short once he gets out of the car.
  • When Pinocchio unleashes his barrage of fecal insults, Volpe, who's watching the show from the sidelines, has such a massive Oh, Crap! moment that he starts eating the script in his frustration. Mussolini's reaction to being called a piece of poop repeatedly is equally hilarious.
    Mussolini: (to his guard) "Poop"?
    Guard: (deadly serious) Yes, "poop," Your Excellency.
    • Plus, when you think about it, never once does his nose grow throughout the entire song...
  • All the children in the audience absolutely love Pinocchio's parody song, happily clapping and laughing along the whole time. Even Candlewick can't help but chuckle, for which he is promptly slapped on the back of the head by his disapproving father. Mussolini, meanwhile, is not amused, and orders Pinocchio's summary execution in a tone that's morbidly funny in its casualness:
    Mussolini: These-a puppets I do not like. Shoot him... and burn it all down!!
    (Mussolini's guard fires his gun, followed by a Smash Cut to Pinocchio cheerfully popping out of his coffin in the afterlife)
• Prior to Mussolini's scene, Volpe informs Pinocchio about how he's coming to see the show and claims that he and Il Duce are actually "very close", and to prove this he pulls out a photo of them hanging out in Rome... which turns out to be just a selfie Volpe took of himself during a Fascist rally while enthusiastically indicating Mussolini behind him, who's too far away to be clearly seen anyway.
• The Black Rabbits also provide much comedy, being more eager to play cards than to do their deathly duties. Pinocchio cheerfully bugs the Black Rabbits immediately after being shot in the afterlife:
  Pinocchio: I cannot die!
  Black Rabbit: (annoyed) We know!
  Pinocchio: (singsong) I can't die! I can't die!
  • Based on some of his later lines, it's implied that Pinocchio died a few times off-screen while traveling with the carnival... also implying the Rabbits have this conversation with him every single time.
• The way the Sea Captain instantly flops off the ship upon sighting the Dogfish.
  Sea Captain: Arrivederci!
  (dives off the boat without missing a beat)
  • The Sea Captain in general, given he's voiced by Tom Kenny doing the exact same voice he uses for Patchy the Pirate.
• Sebastian trying to convince the Wood Sprite to revive Pinocchio one last time by pointing out he taught him right and wrong, before clumsily admitting he made mistakes here and there.
• The final scene revealing that Sebastian has been telling this entire story to the Black Rabbits in the midst of their card game. When they offer him some cards so he may join their game, Sebastian is pretty annoyed by their apathetic response to what amounts to over-all good story-telling.
• The incredible meta-humor of having Sebastian sing his song during the end credits. Netflix does a Credits Pushback once the proper credits start rolling, and in this movie, it's no different. The viewer is therefore given the chance to invoke the Running Gag a third time if they don't click on the minimized screen before the countdown ends. Poor Sebastian just can't catch a break, and he's already dead.

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