Funny / Scream VI

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• The real Ghostface dismissing Jason's belief that they're doing the murders out of their love of movies.
  Ghostface: Who gives a fuck about movies?!
• When Dr. Stone asks Sam to really open up after spending six months with him and not really explaining her trauma, Sam shares that her father and her former boyfriend were serial killers, and that she was able to stop her boyfriend. When Stone asks how she did so, she replies in an almost casual tone that she stabbed him 22 times, slit his throat, and shot him in the head. Stone is clearly disturbed, certainly not expecting that answer.
• The scene of Sam visiting her apartment afterwards contains several amusing moments.
  • Once she's inside, we see that she has numerous locks on her door, as she meticulously locks each and every one of them.
  • Sam then hears strange noises coming from one of the rooms, and the scene gets tense, as there might be an intruder. As she gets closer to the noises...they just turn out to be her roommate Quinn having very enthusiastic sex.
  • Shortly after, Sam asks "Is that Paul?" about the man Quinn's sharing her bed with. As Quinn says no and closes the door, we hear the man saying "Who the fuck is Paul?" in the background, implying either that Sam got his name wrong or that Quinn is so sexually active that she's already replaced a Paul in the past with a new guy; both are equally humorous to imagine.
• Although the frat party scene is quite dramatic, as it revolves around a drunk Tara nearly being taken advantage of by a sleazy guy, there are several funny moments.
  • When Anika and Mindy try intervening, the guy tries to assure them that Tara will be fine and introduces himself. The "warmth" is not reciprocated.
    Frankie: Don't worry, I'll take care of her. I'm Frankie.
    Anika: And I am spectacularly uninterested in knowing anything about you.
  • Sam casually telling Frankie that she is going to tase him in the balls a second before doing so.
• While Sam and Tara are fighting after the party, Anika and Ethan have switched hats, which is in the background for the majority of this tense scene, adding a bit of levity to it. After Sam gets hit with soda, you get a clear view of him in Anika's orange hat when he offers her some tissues, and Sam actually takes them.
  Ethan: I have, like, three tissues.
• In Sam's first scene with her new boyfriend Danny, we find that he's not turned off in the slightest by Sam's stained reputation as a result of the rumors that she masterminded the previous movie's murders. In fact, he feels quite the opposite.
  Danny: Can I help it if my kink is "woman who's ashamed to be seen with me"?
• This part in Bailey’s first interview with Sam and Tara:
  Bailey: Do either of you have anyone that might want to target you?
  Beat
  Tara: Not anyone who’s still alive.
  Bailey: Yikes.
• Earlier in the same interview, Bailey asks Sam and Tara about their whereabouts at the time of Greg and Jason’s murders. Sam explains she was at her therapist before going to a frat party where she tasered a guy. When Bailey eyes her oddly, Sam explains the incident as “unrelated”.
• Sam, angry that Gale went back on her promise to let Richie and Amber die in anonymity, takes a swing at her, not unlike Sidney. Gale initially dodges it and triumphantly snarks that she's "done this dance before"...only for Tara to get her from the other side. Later, when Gale apologizes to the sisters, Tara tells Gale she’s sorry for the punch. Gale says “No, you’re not,” to which Tara instantly agrees.
• While going over all past Ghostfaces with Detective Bailey, Kirby notes that Roman Bridger was the only solo Ghostface and offers some sarcastic praise.
  "Kudos to him for ambition."
• Mindy explaining the rules of “a sequel to a requel”:
  • Her bluntly pointing out that all the newbies are potential suspects.
  • Her telling Quinn that she’s likely to die because of her being "the slutty roommate, a horror movie classic," to which Quinn says she's "sex-positive."
  • Immediately afterwards, she starts grilling Quinn on how she entered Sam and Tara's lives:
    Mindy: Um, how did you come to live with Sam and Tara?
    Quinn: I answered their ad online.
    Mindy: Okay, say no more. You've already implicated yourself enough.
    Tara: It was an anonymous ad, Mindy. And you know we vetted her, plus her dad is a cop—
    Mindy: And that makes it more likely that she's the killer, because having a cop dad is a great cover! Do you not remember how these movies work, Tara?!
    Quinn (to Sam): Is she always like this?
    (Sam gives her a small nonverbal reaction that could be read as "Yeah, pretty much")
  • Her describing Amber and Richie as "whiny snowflake film nerds with Letterboxd accounts instead of personalities". To that end, the current top review of this film on Letterboxd reads "Not going to lie the letterboxd insult hurt a little".
  • Chad taking notes and writing down "beheading", which becomes a Brick Joke later on in the climax after a Ghostface socks a display doll’s head off while trying to kill him. The first place his mind goes — "Beheadings?!"
  • Ethan revealing he’s a virgin unprompted, to the chagrin of everyone else.
    Mindy: That was...a weird overshare.
  • After Mindy highlights how the "legacy characters" (Gale and Kirby) are now at risk of death, she says, "That's not even the worst part!", to which Chad casually tells Tara and Ethan, "This is the part where she tells us the worst part."
• Chad’s initial attempt at getting Sam, Tara, and Mindy to agree to the new “Core Four” name is pretty quickly rebuffed. However, this soon becomes a heartwarming moment when they finally do accept it.
  • The first time Mindy uses the name, Chad thanks her and high-fives her, which she reciprocates while saying, "I hate myself."
  • Later in the film, when Chad tries to bring group morale by bringing up the nickname, Danny tries to join in only for Chad to tell him it’s a “Core Four” thing (i.e. the Woodsboro survivors) — which Danny quickly learns to respect.
  • The scene also has a great bit of sibling bickering, with Mindy making gagging noises when Chad and Tara are having a moment.
• Sam's belief that her and Danny's romance is a Secret Relationship is undercut by the revelation that Tara and the twins were completely aware and have been for a while.
• During the apartment attack:
  • In a darkly comedic sense, Danny's solution to trying to get Sam, Mindy, and Anika into his apartment is a utility ladder. Sam is incredulous when he first pulls it out.
    Danny: You have a better idea?
  • Before that, though, when Danny can't get Quinn or Sam's attention when he sees Ghostface in the apartment across from him, he tries talking mad shit at the killer in an attempt to intimidate him. It doesn't work, but it seems even the killer found it funny.
  • Sam at one point tells a wounded Mindy to go through the bathroom. By doing so, Mindy discovers the mutilated body of the guy Quinn was having sex with in the bathtub; her woozy, shock-induced reaction is a splash of humor in a tense sequence.
    "OH, FUCK, that guy's dead!"
  • Later on, a wounded Mindy tells an even more injured Anika that she’s bleeding a lot, to which she tells Mindy to "say something more positive!"
• Gale's incredulousness at Kirby now being an FBI agent, calling her both a "child" and a "zygote" despite Kirby being 30.
  • Kirby getting Gale to stop picking on her by pointing out that she has a gun, to which Gale immediately backs off.
  • Gale later uses her investigative journalism skills to seemingly try and one-up Kirby on discovering new details of the Ghostface murders. After she reveals that she's uncovered the shrine packed with Ghostface memorabilia, Kirby mentions that she never discovered any such location when looking over financial records. Gale responds pridefully:
    "Don't worry, I'm just really good at my job. You'll get there."
• While the main group is walking to the theater for the first time, eagle-eyed viewers can spot Chad pestering Mindy by putting his finger in her ear in the background of a shot.
• While the group are enacting Kirby's plan to trace Ghostface on the phone:
  • Mindy vocally expressing her disbelief in the plan. While her doubts are not unfounded, her trademark snark makes them entertaining.
    "And you think they're safe because it's broad daylight in a public place? This is exactly how our uncle Randy died. Broad daylight — public place — yanked into a van — stab, stab, stab — no more Randy."
  • Shortly after, Ethan randomly tries offering Chad his bag of Cheetos; the look Chad gives him can only be summed up as "Are you serious?"
• Tara and Sam steal Bailey's cop car to get to Gale's apartment, leaving him shouting, "You can't steal a cop's car!" Sam even asks if they'll turn on the lights and sirens, to which Tara quips back, "You think we'd steal a cop car and not use the lights and sirens?", and then turns on the lights and sirens.
• Gale's faceoff with Ghostface:
  • During Gale's first proper call with the killer, they have this exchange:
    Ghostface: You never got to be the leading lady, did you? It was always all about poor, sweet Sidney sucking up all the oxygen. Where did that leave you to be?
    Gale: The brains and the sex appeal?
  • Shortly after, Gale asks Ghostface if she can put him on hold. Much like the previous Ghostface in Scream (2022) when Sidney hung up on him, this Ghostface is stunned, only managing a confused "Huh?" before Gale does just that. Gale then star-69s the killer to out their location and promptly shoots at the door they're hiding behind.
• When Mindy and Ethan get separated from the rest of the group at the subway, Mindy gets startled by Ethan putting his hand on her shoulder and says:
  Mindy: Get your Ghostface ass away from me, Ghostface.
• After being attacked on the subway, Mindy, true to form, has this to say while barely alive with an Agonizing Stomach Wound:
  Mindy: Fuck this franchise.
  • When Ethan discovers her on the floor of the subway and carries her to safety, he asks if she's okay. In the midst of her extreme pain, she responds, "Yeah, I'm so good."
  • The fact that she's less upset about her Agonizing Stomach Wound than she is about failing to finger the correct killer — again. Bonus irony points: she wasn't wrong.
• When Ghostface attacks Chad and Tara shortly after their first kiss, they manage to fight the killer off and then make for the door. At the exact instant Chad pulls open the door, Sam pushes it open from the other side, and all three end up accidentally startling each other.
• Chad swings a giant camera into a Ghostface's head with a one-liner:
  "Smile for the camera, motherfucker!"
• Everyone automatically assumes Ethan is the killer. And, funnier in hindsight, they're right — he's just that obvious.
  • The Running Gag about everyone disrespecting Ethan in general. During the Motive Rant, even his own father implicitly favors his late older brother Richie over him.
  • Ethan's attempt at trying to kill Tara and Sam at the end of the climax is quickly interrupted by Kirby casually dropping a TV on his head.
• Another darkly funny moment: when Ethan reveals himself as a Ghostface, he explains that it was easy to manipulate the roommate lottery to room with Chad and meet the Core Four. He then goes into a brief tangent about how Chad is a "conceited, condescending alpha" and says, "Fuck! It felt good to kill him!" But as we find out in the end, he couldn't even do that after stabbing Chad countless times. Maybe Detective Bailey was right to favor Richie?
• When it's out that he and all three of his children are psycho killers, Tara snarks to Bailey, "Great parenting job, by the way."
• After Bailey lays out his whole Motive Rant, explaining how Sam killing Richie had motivated the rest of his family to take up the Ghostface mantle for vengeance, Sam takes the opportunity to mock Richie further, and he doesn't take it lightly. The brief exchange they have is hilarious for the sheer image of Bailey, an old and respected police officer, breaking down like a child and responding to Sam's statements about his son with the equivalent of "Nuh-uh!"
  Sam: He was... he was so pathetic.
  Bailey: (gets offended) That's not true!
  Sam: Yeah, your son. He was a man-baby, who made his girlfriend do all the killing.
  Bailey: (in denial) He was a strong, virile young man!
  Sam: He was a limp-dick little fuck who cried before I slit his throat.
• A small dark comedy moment: after Ethan stabs Kirby and Sam has to defend herself against the Baileys, Sam goes up to Kirby, says, "Sorry, but I kinda need this," and pulls Ethan's knife straight out of her stomach.
• After Sam brutally finishes off Detective Bailey, the sisters break the tension:
  Tara (awkwardly): Nice.
  Sam: Thanks.
• Mindy is initially disappointed when she thinks Ethan really isn't the killer after he comes to her aid when she takes two stabs to the gut. When she later finds out he really was one of the killers, she is once again disappointed at not witnessing the villainous monologue.
  • In the same scene, she casually mentions she’s on several hospital drugs.
  • She enters the scene by running up to the rest of the group and confidently announcing that Ethan and Bailey are the killers. Once she learns that Quinn was also a killer, she's both surprised and disappointed that she didn't call that.
  • Long before, Mindy lampshading her previous track record at trying to find the killers.
• "Not every movie needs a post-credits scene!" says Mindy, of course.

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