Funny / Inception

• The very first joke is Dom rhetorically asking Saito what the most resilient parasite is and brings up bacteria and intestinal worms...while Saito is eating his dinner. Arthur momentarily panics and tries to get to the point quickly, as if he's a salesman whose partner is phenomenally screwing up their pitch.
• When Saito rescues Dom in Mombasa, one of the guys is ready to fire his gun, but Saito opens his car door just by his side and casually knocks down the gunner. "Care for a lift, Mr. Cobb?"
• Saito buying out the whole airline in order to secure seats next to Fischer. The nonchalant way he adds "It seemed neater" to their shocked faces sells it, as if he's confused as to why they wouldn't think of that.
• While preparing to begin the heist, everyone very nervously securing the cabin and setting up their IVs...and then just as nervously reclining their first-class seats.
• The reason it's raining in the first level: Yusuf drank too much and then forgot to use the lavatories before starting the inception mission, so Los Angeles is all rainy.
  Eames: Too much free champagne before we went under, eh Yusuf?
  Yusuf: Ha ha bloody ha.
  • Also funny is that it's stopped raining by the time Ariadne and Arthur climb out of the water. Even if nothing unusual is shown in Yusuf's clothes after he wakes up, it was easy to imagine that it meant he had urinated himself mid-dream back on the plane.
• Fischer's initial reaction to having a gun drawn on him:
  Fischer: [sighs dramatically] Great.
• "Quick, give me a kiss." *kiss* "They're still looking at us." "Yeah, it was worth a shot."
  • Ariadne has the most hilarious look on her face as she realizes what Arthur just did.
• In a very quick moment of Mood Whiplash in an othwerwise-dramatic scene, Mal in the Action Prologue suddenly shooting Arthur in the leg. How sudden it is and Arthur's scream of pain is priceless before it abruptly goes dramatic again.
• While Yusuf is driving the van, he manages to take out some of his pursuers and land the van upright after it is rammed off the road. He looks back and says gleefully "Did you see that?" to the dreamers and seeing that they're still fast asleep turns back to the wheel in disappointment.
• Yusuf flipping off the projected security guys and making intense faces as he drives backwards off the bridge.
• "This would be a kick." The looks they give each other sell it.
  • Arthur's chair getting kicked over multiple times in montage, much to the amusement of everyone else. What sells it is him jerking awake before he hits the floor.
    • Mostly Eames' and Yusuf's amusement.
    • Basically Arthur being not strait-laced/uptight.
• Arthur's silent reaction to the "You mustn't be afraid to dream a little bigger, darling" line.
  • The looks on Arthur's face during that scene are brilliant. Probably due to the fact that Eames' "darling" part of the line wasn't part of the script.
  • Most of Eames and Arthur's interactions are quite funny: some rather polite Vitriolic Best Buds.
• "Paradox." *Pushes off staircase*
• Upon hijacking a car, the first thing Arthur does is pull a face and turn off the music (which does not sound anything like Édith Piaf). Very discreet and short, but effective. Arthur's actually a large source of humor despite (or because of?) his serious attitude.
• "Asshole. How do you mess up the carpet?"
• "Oh. I see you met Mrs. Cobb."
• "If I could have a moment, Mr. Saito..."
• When the van is falling and everyone's arms and legs are flying up in the air like they're on a carnival ride.
• Fischer getting exasperated and saying what everyone in the audience was thinking by that point:
  Fischer: Couldn't someone have dreamt up a goddamn beach?
  • Made funnier by the fact that Cobb does eventually "dream up a goddamn beach", but it quickly degenerates into a pure nightmare.
• Fischer's mildly annoyed but otherwise completely biased reaction to being kidnapped in a taxi:
  "There's five hundred dollars in there. The wallet's worth more than that, so you might at least drop me at my stop."
  • Made even funnier when a couple scenes later, Yusuf is examining the wallet, sniffing it, and incredulously remarks, "Five hundred dollars, this cost?"
  • He keeps going for the first few minutes of his captivity, informing his kidnappers that he's insured and "this should be very simple."
• Eames tossing something to a mook while driving by on a snowmobile. That something turns out to be an explosive charge. Eames flashes a thumbs-up to the mook. BOOM.

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