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Season 1 - The Maze

The Original

When Peter Abernathy, in a past configuration, was a Hannibal Lecter-esque cannibal, he was programmed to quote and reference, among others, William Shakespeare, John Donne and Gertrude Stein. Ford notes that he knew the Stein references were anachronistic, but couldn't resist putting them in.
During the saloon robbery, Hector politely moves Maeve to the side, then a safe gets shoved off the upper gallery, slamming to the floor right next to them. Neither of them look at it.

The Bicameral Mind

The blackest of Black Comedy, but Destin's antics as he is about to have his way with what he thinks is a deactivated Hector. Especially with all that's going on in the background.
- When he finally catches on, he turns around and stares in shock at Armistice.... And he has a very visible erection under his smock with his pants down.
Plenty of what Armistice gets up to also falls into Black Comedy, including her trolling of Sylvester and her odd fascination with Felix. And her and Hector's delight upon being introduced to automatic weapons.
When Felix questions his humanity, he starts unconsciously doing the robot dance move until Maeve tells him not to be ridiculous.

Season 2 - The Door

Journey Into Night

After slaughtering all the guards, Hector went right to the bar to get smashed. And Maeve immediately knows to go there to find him.
Maeve threatens Sizemore after he tries to sell her out to a QA team.
Maeve: Try something like that again, and I will relieve yourself of your most precious organ and feed it to you. Though it won't make much of a meal.
(beat)
Sizemore: I wrote that line for you.

Reunion

After the new El Lazo and all his men kill themselves with a message from Ford that William has to find the door on his own, Ed Harris gives a gloriously frustrated "Fuck you, Robert!"
- Capped by William then silently firing a few extra rounds into El Lazo's dead body while Lawrence watches in confusion.
Sizemore wears a stable boy outfit after he was forced by Maeve to give his clothes to Hector which shows that he's now promoted as the show's resident Butt-Monkey.

Virtu e Fortuna

Lee Sizemore argues that Maeve and Hector aren’t programmed to have affection for each other:
Lee: You two were designed to be alone. Yes, there’s some attraction, but you’d never have an actual relationship.
Maeve: Oh. I guess we shouldn’t have fucked then.
Abernathy breaking away from Bernard and Charlotte to defiantly sing "Battle Hymn of the Republic" right in the faces of the hostile Confederados.
Bernard reprograms Rebus into essentially a Knight in Shining Armor, resulting in one very confused board member running from him in terror while he chases after her begging to protect her.
Hector's awed reaction when he witnesses Armistice appear out of nowhere in the catacombs, blasting everything with a hefty flamethrower.
Hector: She has a dragon!
Felix and Sylvester return with Sylvester still being the Butt-Monkey of the two. Felix was just tied up, while Sylvester was tied up and had a grenade tucked between his neck and shoulder with the pin removed. Armistice take her sweet time removing the grenade and replacing the pin.

Akane No Mai

After more than a year and half of this season, we finally reach Shogunworld. Which is quickly revealed to largely just be a reskinned Westworld due to Sizemore getting lazy, complete with an Asian instrumental of "Paint It Black." Even funnier when you remember that A Fistful of Dollars and The Magnificent Seven are remakes of Yojimbo and The Seven Samurai respectively.
- Maeve and Hector's indignant reactions when they realize that they're watching the saloon robbery set-piece, with their narratives literally copy-pasted and tweaked only minimally for the alternate setting.
Armistice: I'll be damned. It's us!
Sizemore: Yes, fine. I may have cribbed a little bit from Westworld. You try writing 300 storylines in three weeks!
- Sizemore listing the many ways getting involved with their Shogunworld doubles will be trouble capped off by describing Armistice and Hanaryo's entranced mirrored Quizzical Tilt routine as "That!"
Maeve reacts to the sword-wielding forces.
Maeve: You know the old saying about knives and gunfights...
(the Shogun warrior wrap them in lassos)
Lee: Does the saying have a footnote about fucking lassos, then?!
Maeve smirks to the gang that "I have everything under control." Gilligan Cut to her marched with a gag over her mouth and a priceless annoyed look on her face.
Sylvester suggests that Felix try to communicate with the Shogunworld hosts and get them to let the party go. Felix angrily responds "I'm from Hong Kong, asshole."

Phase Space

Emily takes quite a bit of pleasure informing her father that she's taken full advantage of the more... adult features of The Raj. After a season and a half of being a terrifying unstoppable force, William is reduced to squirming just as much as any parent getting this information.
Emily gets a bit of dark humor when she notices that Lawrence's men are raiding a "honeypot," a fake Ghost Nation raid scene used to lure them into a vulnerable position. She casually shoot both of the men lying in wait.
Coughlin's reaction upon confirming that Stubbs's first name is indeed Ashley.

Les Écorchés

Sizemore finally makes it back to something approaching safety, only to see the entire Mesa staff and the mercenaries fleeing from Dolores' attack, leaving him to wander through them looking completely appalled.

Kiksuya

There's some Black Comedy here when Akecheta meets Ford, who is under the spotlights, removing the Ghost Nation hosts' scalps in a very calm fashion as if Anthony Hopkins is channeling his inner Hannibal Lecter role. The way Ford converses Akecheta while holding the scalps is like him conversing over drinks.
With some Fridge Brilliance: William looks even more pathetic in his search for the maze after you find out it wasn't even anything Ford did that got him started on it, but the separate efforts of Akecheta that he just happened to stumble across.

The Passenger

Sizemore's Heroic Sacrifice is awesome but if you look it in the perspective of the QA security, all they see is their boss ranting like a lunatic. It's even hilarious that while Sizemore is delivering Hector's speech, the guards repeatedly tell him to drop his gun and calm down.

Season 3 - The New World

Parce Domine

Caleb makes extra money using what's basically Tinder for crime, turning your life into one big Grand Theft Auto game as you're offered all kinds of jobs in your area. And the whole thing is pointlessly Totally Radical, with your options on whether to accept a job being "fuck yeah" and "I like being basic."
Dolores is spying on a conversation from a rooftop bar across the street, when an older man walks up and attempts to hit on her. Before he can even say anything, Dolores immediately tells him to "fuck off" and the man disappointedly walks away.

The Winter Line

Bernard and Stubbs go to the former Park 4, which was apparently Game of Thrones with none other than that show's creators working on Drogon.
After putting the Warworld simulation on a Logic Bomb, Maeve sees a bullet frozen in front of Sizemore's face. Then, Maeve flicks it off and scoffs at Sizemore, thinking that he also got frozen. But Sizemore corrects her saying he's just scared because of the bullet coming right before him.

Genre

Everything about Caleb's trip on Genre qualifies, but special mention must go to the Noir and Romance segments. Especially because the Romance portion of his trip comes into play just as Dolores is taking out mooks with an automatic weapon, making it look like he is seriously turned on by her rampage.

Decoherence

After Maeve restores Hector's memories in the Warworld simulation, the two lovers make out until Sizemore interrupts them by coughing.
William's AR therapy is composed of his past selves with James Delos as the therapist. While all his past selves are arguing, William yells at them to shut the fuck up until Delos gently reminds him, "William, please don't interrupt. It's not all about you, you know."

Passed Pawn

William's reaction to the revelation of Stubbs being a host was "Fucking Ford". Then, he gets talked down by Stubbs and he replies, "Don't lecture me, you fucking can opener."

Season 4 - The Choice

Années Folles

When Caleb and Maeve infiltrated the new Delos park called the "Temperance", the latter notices that it reuses the storylines from "Westworld" much to her chagrin. She even tries to steer Caleb away from those storylines.
- When she watches knockoff Maeve says her famous line, Maeve quips that her delivery is much better than hers.
- When knockoff Hector does the same thing that the original Hector did, Maeve comments that he still knows how to make an entrance.

Zhuangzi

The human resistance leader, Jay, wants to use Stubbs as a "canary in the coal mine" as they travel down the subway, meaning he will be used as an early indicator of potential danger. Stubbs accepts the job, much to his chagrin, and replies, "Tweet, fucking tweet".

Que Sera, Sera

While Host!William is driving, he is listening to Johnny Cash. The Man in Black listening to the Man in Black.

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