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  • Gump is a stuffed head mantelpiece of a moose-like creature brought back to life through magic.
    Gump: The last thing I remember is walking through the forest and hearing a loud noise.
  • In reference to the key-wound Tik-Tok:
    Jack Pumpkinhead: If his brain's run down, how can he talk?
    Dorothy: How can you talk if you haven't got a brain?
    Scarecrow: I don't know! But some people without brains do an awful lot of talking. Don't they?
    • From that same scene, "Right! Tie my feet together..."
    • Also from that scene when Tik-Tok's brain runs down, "Little girls, pumpkinheads make chicken, fly the coop!"
  • When the group is flying on the Gump to the Nome King's mountain, Jack sees the Wheelers following them and asks the Gump if he could speed it up. The Gump replies, "Not unless one of you wants to jump off!"
    Jack: ...Tik-Tok, you're the heaviest.
    Tik-Tok: Hmph!
  • When the Gump goes in to try and find the Scarecrow, he says "I should have quit while I was a head."
    • When he's entering the room itself, while most of his muttering is inaudible, what little can be heard sounds like him grousing he didn't volunteer to be a part of this.
  • When Mombi talks about waiting for Dorothy to grow a bit older before taking her head for her collection, Dorothy's response (made brilliant by Fairuza Balk's delivery).
    Dorothy: I believe you will not!
  • When Dorothy and Billina notice the headless statues in the Emerald City.
    Dorothy: Look Billina. These ones have lost their heads.
    Billina: Now that's just plain carelessness.
  • The Reveal of the Nome King wearing the Ruby Slippers is both funny and scary.
  • The Nome King's answer for Mombi's question as to why he doesn't just turn the leads into ornaments and be done with it:
  • The Nome King repeatedly demanding that Mombi bow "Lower!" until she's literally lying face-down on the floor.
  • The sheer Mood Whiplash when the Nome King, at the very height of his Nightmare Fuel laden Villainous Breakdown, hears Bellina clucking. The way his face shifts from sinister glee to dumbstruck fright the moment he hears the chicken is both satisfying and hysterical. Then his reaction to swallowing a chicken egg not long after.
    Nome King: *whimpering* An... Egg?...
    Nomes: *slink away in terror* Poison! Poison!
    Nome King: Don't... you... know that eggs... are... poison?
    Billina: *offended* Poison, indeed!
  • After the Gump falls apart and everyone lands on snow, Tik-Tok is face-down in a little alcove, and repeatedly says "PICK ME UP" over and over like a broken record.
  • The look Tik-Tok gives Jack when Dorothy introduces him just screams "What the heck?!"

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