Funny / Wie is de Mol?

• George, the mole of season 3, had some of the best confessionals (as a mole) of the entire series:
  • One confessional, after a challenge where the producers pretended to burn the belongings of (some of) the contestants:
    Karen [to the group]: If this is the way they treat the contestants, I'm out! They'll have to get by without a mole!
    The mole [to the confession cam]: So Karen shouted that she was quitting and that the group would have to go without a mole...
    The mole: ... and everyone went quiet for a moment and then laughed their asses off.
    The mole [imitating a fellow contestant in a mocking voice]: "Karen is the mole, yeah right!"
    The mole [dead serious]: And then they go around and fill in Karen's name on the test!
    The mole [deadpan]: If, at this point, you still believe that Karen is the mole, then you, well and truly, haven't understood the basic rules of this game.
  • When the mole gets an opportunity for a phone call with himself, as a rewards for a challenge, and one of the contestants, Ellen, suggests exactly that as a possible outcome:
    Ellen: So, George, will you have a call with yourself?
    The mole [acting confused]: No, why?
    Ellen: Silly George, now we know for certain that you aren't the mole, dummy!
    The mole [to the confession cam]: Dear Ellen, of course I'm not going to admit to calling myself, I'm the mole, dummy!
• Marc-Marie and Isabelle's interaction during the communication challenge in Season 5, episode 7, with Isabelle not realizing just how loud a megaphone-amplified voice can be.
  Marc-Marie: YEAH, OKAY! "Isabelle's clever"...and deaf, too!
• The contestants' terrific attempts to sing and dance for money in Season 8, episode 6. Dennis and Patrick, upon seeing them, literally collapse onto the floor with laughter.
• In a Dramatic Irony situation similar to Al's from the U.S. series, a video confessional of Joris in season 8 in which he said, "I never suspected (Dennis) so either I'm the joke of the year or I've had it right and it's not him. If Dennis is the Mole, I'll eat Edo's hat!" got a lot of laughs from the other contestants when it was replayed during the finale. It also doubled as a Brick Joke as the first thing Joris did after he was executed was to ask Edo if he could have his hat.
• In Season 10, episode 4, the contestants decide to get back at Frits for choosing an exemption over money for the pot by stealing almost all of his luggage and forcing him to choose between keeping the exemption or getting his stuff back. Frits retaliates by stealing their own luggage and hiding it in the woods until they return his stuff.
• One challenge in Season 12 required three of the four remaining contestants to disguise themselves so they could secretly photograph the fourth contestant. Tim's oh-so-subtle disguise? Putting on a brightly-colored flamenco dress and high heels and posing in plain sight at the town square. And then being shocked when Hadewych immediately tries to figure out who he is!
• Season 15 was filled to the brim with funny moments:
  • One of the first challenges of the season had the contestants search an abandoned police station for lines, which they had to capture on camera to create a consistent path across a series of monitors. As it was one of the first challenges, the contestants had agreed on trying an organized approach before they began. This organized approach went out the window the moment the challenge started, with everyone running around the police station like headless chickens. A line from a review of "Recensiekoning.nl" summarized it best:
    It was as if Chris Zegers told them "Hey, I know this place from one of the travel shows I hosted, let's go!" and the rest of the contestants just followed his lead.
  • The lasergame challenge in episode 3 contained a moment where Martine accidentally shot one of her fellow contestants, Margriet, in the back. What made this moment even funnier was the remark Martine made seconds before shooting Margriet:
    Martine [to Margriet]: I've got your back covered!
    [Shoots Margriet in the back immediately after]
  • Episode 3 also contained the notorious moment where Rik and Chris Failed a Spot Check and sailed off on a speed boat with a random Sri-Lankan fellow.
  • Episode 4 contained a challenge where the contestants had to remember the names of over a hundred Sri-Lankan party guest. As these people had complicated names (for dutch standards), the contestants resorted to slightly changing the names in their heads to remember them more easily. This led to most of the party guest being named after either their physical features or common household items by the contestants
    Rik: Mister Chindakka had a considerable chin and mister Betu looked like he wanted to go to bed.
  • Episode 5 had a challenge where the contestants had to transport packages across a (virtual) map of the Netherlands on boats. Chris was put in charge of coordinating the other contestants from a floating desk, which he did surprisingly well.
    Chris: Man, I should have gone for an office job!
  • In one of the episode 6 challenges, the contestants had to form a four-digit number with a bunch of (small) trucks (which was equal to the amount of money they could win). They ended up running out of trucks while making a €-symbol and improvised by lying head to feet to form the final branch. Unfortunately, their €-symbol looked like an E, which Chris (who was flying by in a plane) interpreted as a clue to a season 8 candidate, Edo Brunner. The look on the faces of the other contestants, when Chris gave Art his answer, was priceless. It became even funnier when Edo was invited to "Moltalk", the aftershow of "Wie is de Mol?", the following week:
    Edo [about the number being interpreted by Chris as his birth year]:
    He was only off by four years, so that's something.
  • Episode 7 contained a scene at breakfast, where Martine and Margriet were trying to trick Chris into believing that Martine had a black exemption. The plan was that Martine would leave for the bathroom, after which Margriet would reveal (somewhat shocked) that Martine still had a black exemption. Unfortunately for them, Chris wasn't fooled by the Bad "Bad Acting" from either of them. It didn't help that Martine (somewhat) overacted the relief she felt from using the restroom.
    Chris [in the middle of a laughing fit]: What kind of poorly performed play is this?
  • Episode 7 also contained a "mole election" in a small Sri-Lankan village, where each contestant had to convince the villagers that they were the mole (even if they weren't). As no one in the village knew about the show, this ended up becoming a popularity contest. Out of all the contestants, only Chris really got the gist of the challenge, while the other contestants failed (more or less) epically. Chris eventually won with over 50 % of the votes. Two of the most funny fails were provided by Margriet, who tried to hypnotize the villagers with a Kubrick Stare while chanting "Look at my face, remember my face and vote for me!", and Martine, who went on a rant about Pieter, the first contestant to be eliminated, during her 1-minute elevator pitch.
    Marlijn: So Martine started a complicated story about why she was the mole, which tangentially spun off to a story about a guy named "Pieter".
    Marlijn [laughing]: As if those people know who "Pieter" is.
    Rik: It was incoherent and chaotic, with anecdotes that went on for far too long.
    Marlijn [laughing]: It was hilarious.
• During the laser tag challenge in Season 16, episode 3, Rop manages to get stuck underneath a net and a crate less than a minute after starting.
• Season 17, episode 2: Imanuelle gets really into in the amusement park challenge, enthusiastically imitating the banging of guns in her confession cams and dragging around a trash bin to hide behind from the snipers' fire.
• During the "car-aoke" charades challenge in season 18, episode 8, one of the things Olcay does to get Jan to correctly guess Michael Jackson's "Thriller" is an imitation of Jackson's crotch grab. It must be seen to be believed.
  • Also from the same episode, Ruben describes Jan in a wetsuit as "the wet dream of every man and woman" and himself looking like "a hairy toothpick in a really stupid outfit" in comparison.
• Season 20 had a challenge where contestants had to give directions to Chinese taxi drivers. The problem was that, as none of the contestants spoke Chinese, they had to rely on translations made by owners of Chinese restaurants in the Netherlands which were given over the phone. This already led to some funny situations, as the restaurant owners on the other side of the phone weren't informed that they were going to get a call. One cab in particular had Rob and Nathan interacting with what must have been the jolliest cab driver in China.

  Restaurant owner [translated]: They want to go under the bridge.

  Cab driver [translated]: Which bridge? There are three bridges in the neighbourhood...

  Rob: This is taking far too long, they must be talking about the weather or something.

  Nathan [laughing]: Nah, they're probably talking about football.

  Both: [get into a laughing fit]

  Restaurant owner: [Hangs up in frustration]

  Cab driver [to Rob and Nathan in Chinese]: I guess he hung up because he didn't know which bridge to choose either.

  Rob and Nathan: [Start laughing even harder]

  Cab driver: I guess we made him mad, let's have a drink somewhere.

  • The same challenge had Tina straight up ignoring the restaurant owners and giving her cab driver instructions in Dutch. She eventually ended up lost in a remote location somewhere.
    Tina: Perhaps we should take a right turn, but it's your call.
    Cab driver [utterly confused]: Do you wanna go right or do you wanna go straight ahead.
    Tina: You think we should go straight ahead? Let's go straight ahead!
    Tina [to the confession cam]: Somehow it felt like we were having a good conversation. He really got me.
    Tina [to cab driver]: Perhaps we should make a U-turn, we're back at the theater.
    Cab driver: Do you want to go straight ahead or take the roundabout on the right?
    Tina: So you're telling me right is a dead end?
    Cab driver: [looks confused]
    Tina: The theater, you know [overacts that she's crying] Boohoohoo.
    Cab driver: [mimics Tina's acting]
    Tina: No, theater! [gestures behind her]
• The annniversary season had an episode-long challenge where four of the contestants (Ron, Peggy, Patrick and Jeroen) had to find the other two in an Elban prison before the two could escape. The four contestants split up into two groups (Ron & Peggy and Patrick & Jeroen) and were given two mobile phones to remain in touch. Unfortunately, the two mobile phones both ended up with Patrick & Jeroen, which leds to these funny exchanges:
  Peggy: I told the other group to stay in touch with us if they find a clue.
  Peggy: Do you have the phone on you, Ron?
  Ron: Nope, I don't have a phone.
  Peggy: Are you serious?! Did those scatterbrains take both of them?
  Peggy: You gotta be kidding me...
  Ron: Are they still nearby?
  Peggy [shouting]: Patrick!
  Peggy [to Ron]: This is so lame.
  Peggy [to the confession cam]: How can it be, that we split up into two groups, because we have two phones, and that both phones end up with one group, who's now out of reach?
  Peggy [to the confession cam]: And then I thought to myself, is Ron trying to sabotage us by hiding the phone? But I left it at that because we had to work on the challenge.
  [a bit later, Patrick and Jeroen are trying to contact the other group to share information]
  Patrick: Shall I call the other group to share some intel.
  Jeroen: Go for it.
  [Patrick takes out his mobile and dials the number]
  [The mobile in Jeroen's pocket starts ringing]
  Both simultaneously: No...
  Patrick: I thought you would give them your phone!
  Jeroen: I thought you would!
  Both: [Start laughing]
  Jeroen [to the confession cam]: It was like something from a poorly written comedy routine.
  Jeroen [to Patrick]: This is so dumb! Why didn't Ron & Peggy check if they had a phone on them!
  Patrick: They were probably too preoccupied with other things.
  Patrick [to the confession cam]: We can't reach them, they can't reach us, they don't have a map either, such a shame.
• Season 21 had several hilarious challenges:
  • Episode 5 had a challenge where contestants had to fingerpaint contestants, actions and places. While most of the paintings were abstract at best, Charlotte's paintings took the cake, which was made funnier by Joshua's deadpan remarks about their quality:
    Charlotte: [draws two blue squares with 4 yellow triangles in the top square]
    Charlotte [to Joshua]: What do you think? It's the cheese market!
    Joshua [sarcastically]: Crystal clear.
    Charlotte: You mean that! Thanks!
    Joshua: [starts laughing]
    [A bit later]
    [Charlotte draws a naked female stick figure sitting in a poorly rendered outhouse]
    Charlotte: She's at the sauna! See, that's her boob [gestures].
    Joshua [laughing]: Yeah, I noticed.
    [Charlotte shows the drawing to Marije]
    Marije: That lady's definitely sitting on the toilet.
  • The same challenge had Splinter draw Pinocchio's growing nose to represent lying. He then told Renée that he hoped it wouldn't be mistaken for another body part that can grow. Fortunately for him, Joshua mistook it for a (rather odd-looking) beer mug.
  • Episode 7 contained a challenge where three of the contestants had to portray songs using their body language, while the other two had to guess. The sheer amount of effort some of the contestants put into their routine made the challenge a hoot to look at, while some of the wrong guesses from the other two made it extra hilarious.
    ["All the single ladies" from Beyoncé starts playing]
    Charlotte: [Points to herself, as she's single at the time]
• Lavezzi talking about the sentence-forming task in season 21 in his seperate analysis show, referring to Splinter and Charlotte only making 1 coherent sentence out of all five available sentences:
  It's not like a writer and a journalist have to form sentences together.
• In Season 22, Thomas suddenly breaking out in song while descending down head first through a 60 meter tall cooling tower. He continued to break out in song at the most inopportune times throughout the rest of the series.
  Thomas: I hate ['We are the World'], but it's such a nice, calm song.
  • The same season also had Kim-Lian covering herself in "regenerative" mud from a local pond in the middle of a task (during a moment of down-time, according to her). Not only was it hilarious to look at, but the end result (Kim-Lian covered from the neck down in mud, apart from her clothes) was enough to give Everon the longest laughing fit he had that year.
  • One of the last challenges had the candidates avoiding movement sensors and laser traps, while trying to extract money from the house of a former Albanian president. During the challenge, Kim-Lian embraced her inner spy entirely and moved through the house sliding and crawling like a true commando, which, nevertheless, looked absolutely ridiculous on camera. It was still quite effective, however, and she returned with the most money out of all the contestants.
• The way the 23th season properly starts. The destination this time is South Africa's Western Cape, known for its beautiful nature and history prominently having influenced the area's architecture...and everyone is locked up in wooden boxes, not unlike those used for the transport of wild animals.
• In the 24th season:
  • Three man-sized larger-than-life pastel, L-shaped boxes standing right next to the candidates as they are about to start a new task...with absolutely no one even talking about what those giant conspicuous things are doing.
  • Tooske dancing to the music and then suddenly realizing it's her turn to act.
• Fons pleading for Anna and Kees not to bring back any article words (of which the Dutch language has three) and, when Anna finally hears what he's saying, just reacting with 'oh' - while holding an article word in her hand.