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  • In general, there is much Black Comedy over the amount of Amusing Injuries Sing is subject to. It helps that he gets better from most of it.
  • The landlord is thrown out the window and gets a flower pot dropped on his head for good measure, drawing blood. As the other tenants of Pig Alley slowly approach the body to see if he's okay... the landlord calmly tells everyone to go away and they all go back to their daily lives.
  • After the three hidden masters are killed, the community gets together to discuss it. The barber tries to step up, only to be unceremoniously shut down by the landlady.
    "Obvious! I am the chosen one!" *thwack*
  • The Barber's inexplicably exposed asscrack. It is always visible. The closest thing to an In-Universe acknowledgment of it is when Sing gives a confused look while the Barber is cutting Bone's hair.
  • When Sing offers to fight anyone in Pig Alley (not figuring out just yet what kind of district it truly is), he first picks a woman and gives her first hit...and she hits him in the gut, hard enough to make him spit out blood. He then picks a short man in the crowd. As the crowd parts the short man stands up to reveal his staggering height and muscular figure. Sing hastily changes his mind. Followed by an elderly man with glasses who turns out to have a bodybuilder figure. Followed by Sing challenging a kid... who ALSO happens to have a bodybuilder figure.
  • When the barber calls the Landlady on Sing after he tries to blackmail him, the Landlady proceeds to beat the crap out of him as he retreats, even taking a running jump at him to slap him with her shoe.
    Sing: So, fat woman, are you the boss around here or what?
    Landlady: [takes her shoe off, slaps Sing with it] Fat woman, my ass!
    Sing: Hey! I'm with the Axe Gang!
    Landlad: [slaps him] Axe Gang, my ass!
    Sing: (calling to the sleeping Bone) Boss!
    Landlady: [slaps him] Boss, my ass!
    Sing: I will sue you for this!
    Landlady: Sue me, my ass!
    Sing: How about a date?
    Landlady: Date, my ass!
  • When The Axe Gang shows up in Pig Alley after Sing's antics, bringing ominous clouds with them with each step, the Landlady dismisses the clouds as it's going to rain. But when she gets called out by them, she dashes up the stairs with Super-Speed to her room and hides under her blankets in bed.
    • Her husband, still laying face-down from the flower pot she'd hit him on the head with, takes one look at the incoming gang and promptly puts his face back down and tries gathering the loose soil around his face to hide.
  • Brother Sum is constantly dancing even when he's about to kill someone.
  • Sing and Bone's catastrophic attempt at assassinating the Landlady. First, Sing tries to throw a knife at her from afar. It bounced off of a ceiling and rebounds into his shoulder. So Bone tries to do it instead, but Bone has even worse aim and throws it directly into his other shoulder. So Sing suggests Bone gets closer, only for Bone to stab him with a third knife on the backswing and smack the landlady with the handle instead. Bone, being kind of a bonehead, pulls the knife out of his arm, then when Sing complains he puts it back in.
    Landlady: Who the hell is throwing the handles?
    Bone: Handle? Where's the third knife?
    Sing: God knows where it went....
    Bone: We should check for fingerprints!
    (Pulls knife out of Sing's arm)
    Sing: [groans in pain] Don't!
    Bone: Sorry!
    (Sticks knife back into Sing's arm)
    • And that's only the beginning - in the process of getting away, Sing ends up getting covered by a basket of poisonous snakes. Bone tells him that the snakes can be pacified if he whistles. Sing, after a brief moment of hesitation, tries it... and instantly gets bitten in the mouth by two snakes.
  • Sing, fleeing from the enraged landlady (with both of them on Wheel o' Feet), uses the knife stuck in his shoulder as a rearview mirror.
    • When both of them try to avoid a truck, Sing slides into it, and the Landlady gracefully jumps over it... without looking in front of herself, resulting in her crashing into a billboard, with her flips-flops, hair rollers and bra landing around Sing, allowing him to flee.
  • The Axe Gang dance at the beginning.
  • When Sing is completely demolishing the Axe Gang, the Landlord and Landlady watch:
    Landlord: If he studies hard, he could be a good doctor or lawyer.
    Landlady: More likely a stuntman.
  • Sing's childishness:
    Sing: I want to be a killer.
    Bone: I see ice cream.
    Sing: (excitedly) Where?!
  • The Landlady's roar doesn't just take down The Harpists, it obliterates their outfits! They end up running for their lives in nothing but their undies.
  • After the Landlady and Landlord obliterate The Harpists, they suddenly appear inside Brother Sum's car. Some of the other Axe Gang members run up to see what they should do, only for Sum's advisor to yell at them for causing a racket so late in a working class neighborhood. Then the Landlady silently threatens Brother Sum if he ever comes back, leaving him so shaken that he sets himself on fire trying to light a cigarette.
  • After the Axe Gang free the Beast from a mental asylum, they're perplexed that a balding, overweight old man wearing nothing but reading glasses, briefs, a tanktop, and cheap flip-flops, is really the vicious kung-fu master. The Boss' assistant asks him to show them his skills but the Beast flatly refuses. Then Sing tries to give it a shot. Even the Beast finds his antics hilarious:
    Sing: Please Mr. Beast, we went through a lot of trouble getting you out, if you'd be so kind as to show us your skills?
    Beast: You must be crazy!
    Sing: (clenches his fist) See this? It's a pretty big fist, don't you think? I scare myself when I use it!
    Beast: Really? Then, show me!
    Sing: You asked for it! (draws back his hand to prepare a punch, but then pokes the Beast's head, and runs behind a statue) Is he okay?

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