Funny / Patlabor: The TV Series

• From episode 9: "Red Labor Landing"
  • Noa and Asuma end up having to share a hotel room while on assignment. This clearly doesn't sit well with her, and frets over it in the furo. So she waits until she thinks Asuma's asleep before entering the room to turn in. When he "awakes" and creeps toward her futon, she's clearly expecting to be groped and braces herself for the inevitable... except he completely ignores her and goes for her snack bag, causing Noa to become outraged and clock him!
  • What makes this funnier is the ambiguity of whether she was upset over Asuma raiding her bag, or indignant that he'd choose snack food over copping a feel!
  • The end of the episode is even funnier: That snack was actually something Gotoh had asked the two for, as it's apparently a local delicacy. When he finally asks them about it... he's very dismayed to find out that the technicians had already gotten a hold of what's left of it.
• The second half of episode 38: "Mystery Tour". Specifically:
  • Kumagami's reaction to the rat swarm and to Shinshi's wail when he and Ota catch up to them.
  • Noa swooning three times, while being chased through the sewers by a giant albino alligator!
  • The final chase sequence, period; particularly when Tadayama goes from outrunning Asuma and the others, to being left in the dust, until he sees what's behind them! It quickly becomes a mad dash for the exit, all while Kumagami's blissfully unaware, thanks to being passed out on Hiromi's back while he and the others are running for their lives!
• The episode where everyone gets plastered. Choose between: Asuma and Ohta's verbal fight that culminates in them going for the fitsticuffs, Shinshi's drunken rambling, and the drinking competition between Noa and Kanuka.
• Episode 43, "The Working Girl" has reporter Momoko Sakurayama filming Noa's life for a few days. At one point, the crew films Noa asleep and mistake her murmuring Alphonse for a lover's name. Momoko tries to wake her up, but Noa started polishing her face. And the whole segment, hostage crisis and all, is preempted by a baseball game.