Funniest joke/scene in the MI series *spoilers*

[SRTie4k]

What do you think was the funniest joke or scene in the entire series?

Obviously this thread is going to contain spoilers, so only read below if you've completed all the games! YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED!

























I think the funniest scene was in LeChuck's Revenge when Guybrush attaches the banana to the metronome to hypnotize JoJo. I literally laughed for a couple minutes when JoJo freezes, staring at the banana. I still LOL just thinking about it, rofl.

[threepcross]

leather jacket...

[Merkel]

How do I get out of this f.....ing island!

[Shale]

I can't decide between "It doesn't look like a skull at all! It looks like a great big enormous duck! It should be called Duck Island!" and "A Pirate I Was Meant To Be."

[serweet]

Have you heard of Bobin Threadbare?
or I'm Bobin Threadbare, are you my mother?

both had me laughing, I love the reference jokes.

[SRTie4k]

That reminds me, I love it when Guybrush is about to leave Skull Island and tells the Flying Welshman to wait a second...

And pushes the winch operator off the cliff lol

[LuigiHann]

I mentioned this in a different thread, but I think my favorite gag must be the circumstances of Stan's appearance in CMI. That is some tight and hilarious continuity.

[Ignatius]

One of my top 5.
So stupid and simple...(just like me at the time i played this i guess).

http://xs940.xs.to/xs940/09234/love2142.jpg (http://xs.to)

[SRTie4k]

^ LULZ, I don't think I ever saw that scene.

[VagrantWulf]

I have loads, but there's one that really stands out for me...

Near the start of Lechuck's Revenge, where Guybrush is gravedigging. It builds up suspense with creepy music, and for a moment it even switches to Largo, who shivers and says something like 'It feels like someone is walking on my grave!', then back to Guybrush, lightning strikes, highlighting his silhouette against the night sky. He thrusts his bounty aloft, epic music rolling in the background, and then... down go his trousers.

It was just a brilliant moment because I didn't see it coming, at all. And for such an old game, it was a surprisingly cinematic scene, and thus very impressive.

Edit: The memories come flooding back; tearing the pages out of that book, the manilla envelope, vandalising that wanted poster, taking well deserved jabs at that chubby Governer, telling Wally that Cap'n Dread stole his monocle... all golden. Gah, this is making me want to play MI 2... again.

[Xocrates]

"But it's pink!..."


Yeah, probably not the best, but even today I can't look at anything pink and not think of Guybrush.

[Bagge]

I love the scene where Stan, looking at the Sea Monkey in the Mêlée Island harbour, starts regretting having sold the boat. He is about to cancel the sale, when the mast on the boat comes crashing down and he leaves the place in a hurry telling Guybrush "Then again, a deal is a deal".

[lord darkstorm]

Governer Marley's house in SOMI, when you go off screen. Hilarious.

[Angel Summoner]

There are far too many 1st class jokes in Guybrush's adventures to single one out, because even the throw away quips or descriptions were quite often side-splitters, but I'll quite happily read what everyone else's favorite bits were.:D

[Fed-Up]

Heh, gotta love the one in Secret of Monkey Island, when you put the Piranha Poodles to sleep with the drugged meat, and a notice pops up saying;
"IMPORTANT NOTICE: These dogs are not dead, they are only SLEEPING. No animals were harmed during the production of this game. "
=)

[Joe Newberry]

There are so many things, but I always crack up at the long exchange with the Men of Low Moral Fiber concerning the bucket. "Pretty please with sugar, nuts, and a cherry on top." All that pestering and finally they relent. It teaches the valuable lesson to never give up on the MI dialogue tree just because someone says no a dozen times.

[Threepwood4Life]

Guybrush: If I gave you your arm back, what would you do with it?

Murray: I’d terrorize the South Seas! I’d torture the living! I’d demolish the… er… What I meant to say was, I’d use it to pet kittens.

Guybrush: Nope. You blew it.

Murray: Drat.

Gotta love Murray, hope he returns.

[AxezCore]

"But it's pink!..."


Yeah, probably not the best, but even today I can't look at anything pink and not think of Guybrush.
Glad I'm not the only one who caught on to that, sometimes I've tried quoting it in conversations, just makes people look at me like I'm crazy :P

But yeah like others have said, there's simply too many good ones to single one out.

[hammy797]

"Oh...there's...a...monkey in my pocket and he's stealing all my change, his stare is blank and glassy, I suspect that he's deraaaaanged."
-A famous children's song

[RockNRoll]

every little thing is so funny. thinking back to the first time i played it, i still think playing through the original insult swordfighting is probably the most enjoyable time i've ever had in adventure games. still to this day, i make sure to get every single insult learned even when i can already beat carla.

the entire concept, just so frickin brilliant.

i also love when the really nasty tough pirates break character with guybrush over some small thing and actually show a momentary sensible side. love that. i can't think of a specific line right now, but there are a bunch.

[JK1985]

Love the skeleton song... "the head bone is connected to the arm bone...."

[RockNRoll]

HAHAHA i just thought of what always makes me crack up. all the conversations with the head of the navigator. i love when he finally smiles out of his depression too. oh god too funny

[SRTie4k]

Papapishu!

[RobD]

Papapishu!

bless you.



Rhyming insult sword fighting is still the best.

[CalBearRJ]

In SoMI, on Monkey Island, I love when you fall off the edge of the mountain top and are given the old King's Quest "Restore, Restart, Quit" option window. I totally flipped out and got mad when I saw it. "What the F*&@!!! I thought you couldn't die in this game!!!"

Darn those tricky rubber trees.

[GuyMontague]

In CMI, on Monkey Island, I love when you fall off the edge of the mountain top and are given the old King's Quest "Restore, Restart, Quit" option window. I totally flipped out and got mad when I saw it. "What the F*&@!!! I thought you couldn't die in this game!!!"

Darn those tricky rubber trees.

Holy crap. I've played through CMI a dozen times and am certain I've never seen this. I'm going to have to load it up and find a good walk-though.

Makes the Voodoo Lady's prophecy, "You will die," even more prophetic.

[Xocrates]

In CMI, on Monkey Island, I love when you fall off the edge of the mountain top and are given the old King's Quest "Restore, Restart, Quit" option window. I totally flipped out and got mad when I saw it. "What the F*&@!!! I thought you couldn't die in this game!!!"

Darn those tricky rubber trees.
That's on Secret of Monkey Island, not Curse.

[Bagge]

Holy crap. I've played through CMI a dozen times and am certain I've never seen this. I'm going to have to load it up and find a good walk-though.


It's not in CMI, it's in SMI.

[Leak]

Papapishu!
Gehundseit.

np: Sin Fang Bous - We Belong (Clangour)

[kblood]

I really like the details in the games. The library book index in MI2 has kept me entertained for quite a while :) Cant remember any specific ones at the moment.

Oh, and Wally. I take away his monocle first chance I get, just to leave him blinded for as long as possible :D Hillarious. Then blaming it on that captain.

All those references to grog and gags about how strong it is, eating up mugs and metal :)

Spitting contest :) Simply brilliant. Especially in hard mode.

All those "trademarked" items they made. Like the Sam n Max totems in SoMI at the giant monkey head. Well I think that was trademarked as well.

Murray and Stan. Also Guybrush asking Murray if he can call him Bob :) The first undead pirate he got to know in SoMI.

By the way, anyone noticed the kind of continuety fail they made in MI4 with the hermit on Monkey Island? In SoMI there is a diary about how Herman Toothrot got to Monkey Island with his friend, but in MI4 Herman Toothrot had another story about getting to Monkey Island.

Still not that bad since its the only story line problem I have found, and I did like the idea in Monkey 4 even if it didnt add up that diary.

[Bagge]

Also Guybrush asking Murray if he can call him Bob :) The first undead pirate he got to know in SoMI.

Also, Bob had a loose head.

[CalBearRJ]

Holy crap. I've played through CMI a dozen times and am certain I've never seen this. I'm going to have to load it up and find a good walk-though.

Makes the Voodoo Lady's prophecy, "You will die," even more prophetic.

My bad everybody. I was thinking "Secret of Monkey Island", but I still hit C. I'm still getting used to using acronyms to distinguish between the games.

It's on the Secret of Monkey Island and it's hilarious.

[CalBearRJ]

Thought of another great line:

"You're a bunch of foul smelling, grog swilling pigs!"

"To be a pirate ye must also be a foul-smelling, grog-swilling pig."

[Rulzern]

Do you remember Bobbin Threadbare?(MI3)

Or...

Trying to hold your breath for over 10 minutes. (MI1)

Or...

The bone dance. (MI2)

Or...

Insult swordfighting (not the rhyming version).(MI1)

Or...

Pretty much every other scene in either of the first two games (and most of them in the third).

[Merkel]

VanGoughderfassenson. Jethro VanGoughderfassenson

[Arcadian]

What about the chicken with the pulley in the middle! There are a hundred uses for it. :)

Oh yeah, and how appropriate. You fight like a cow.

[der_ketzer]

I really like the 2 Deaths in SoMI (the fake one on MI and the real one when you held your breath for too long).
And the Death in CoMI with the fake credits.

[Irishmile]

I like the Murry, Stan... I like how he never really seems to be able to get some Grog... I liked when Guybrush did the deep flirty "hey baby" voice in the third one it was funny.... All the Star Wars references... I hope they can still do them.

[Ignatius]

I really like the 2 Deaths in SoMI (the fake one on MI and the real one when you held your breath for too long).
And the Death in CoMI with the fake credits.

And dont forget the death in MI2, in LeChucks torture chambers. The lines between Guybrush and Elaine afterwards are really wonderfull.

[thanatos56]

"Well, Haggis is only my nickname. My true name is ‘Heart Lungs And Liver Boiled In The Stomach Of The Animal McMutton’."
"Oh, so your parents were expecting a girl."
"Aye."

[der_ketzer]

- Guybrush Threepwood? Ha ha ha!!! That's the stupidest name I've ever heard!
- What's Your name?
- Mancomb Seepgood.

[Guybrush_Threepwood]

1. Swish-swish.
2. Hooooooooock!
3. Chwwwwwwwwwwww!
4. Ptooie!

[peace_of_cake]

My favourite line was "Polly wants a cracker". This was especially funny in the german version: "Polly will nen keks". I'm still laughing today when pronouncing this sentence.

"CRACK" :D

[Winged Devil]

The bone dance. (MI2)




This one literally made me fall out of my chair way back then... Took me completely by surprise!

Also, getting Stan to "leave" his coffin shop in MI2 :D

[imqqmi]

Murray: "...and the forces of darkness will applaud me as I STRIDE through the gates of hell carrying your head on a pike!"

Guybrush: "Stride?"

Murray: "Alright then, ROLL! ROLL through the gates of hell..."

[Merkel]

Guybrush: "What are doing up there?"

Murray: "I am standing as a testament..."

Guybrush: "Standing?"

Murray: "Alright, hanging as testament..."

Guybrush: " And how did you get all the way up there?"

Murray: "By mere force of will!"

Guybrush: Huh huh

[threepcross]

when they changed the scumm bar to the lua bar was lol. and the insult arm wrestling.

[War-overlord]

Guybrush: "I wonder if Murray knows that they have his arm on display here ?"

OR

Guybrush(throwing his voice at Mr. Fossey):"Uhh, testing, one, two ,thee"

Mr. Fossey:"Uhoh, I'm hearing the voices Again."

OR

Guybrush(throwing his voice at LeChimp):" Look at me, the crew, We're all... Monkeys"

Mr. Fossey:"You mean, like in the Darwinnian sense, sir ?"

Guybrush(throwing his voice at LeChimp, annoyed):" No, I mean in the quite litteral sense."

[mithrandiryod]

Honestly it's between "Skuuuullll Isalnd....duck" and in MI2 the Easy version you have to ask wally if he has any "bright ideas" how to escape and put out the candle on the machine...and later wally comments, "I told him I needed to go to the bathroom." There are just too many to choose from though...it's all greatness.

[Leak]

My favourite line was "Polly wants a cracker". This was especially funny in the german version: "Polly will nen keks". I'm still laughing today when pronouncing this sentence.

"CRACK" :D
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np: Deadbeat - A Joyful Noise (Part II) (Something Borrowed, Something Blue)

[Catokuken]

"Goodbye cruel adventure game..!"

[Secret Fawful]

Guybrush: (throwing his voice to Manny) (Spanish accent)Waiter. There's a metatarsul in my soup.

This one had me rolling. And they say there's no dark humor in CMI.

[Magic Emperor]

"Snugglecakes" Van Helgen: "Haggis! Lend a hand!"
Haggis: "I'm barely holdin' on meself, mates!" (is revealed to be holding down his kilt during a ferocious storm) "By God, this wind! She's the devil's own!"

[kblood]

The voodoo doll in Monkey 2 :) Its so cool. And the "If this is 5 what is this" puzzle. The wanted poster, the ending. Its hard to go 5 min without at least having a big smile in Monkey 2. But I guess thats just how all Monkey games are unless you are stuck.

I really should begin going through them all again, especially now that I can play them on ScummVM on my Wii :)

Btw:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GG7WYCt4SRo&feature=related

[tredlow]

Secret: The instant replay and the BLIMP CAM had me laughing til the end credits.

Curse: Papapishu.

Escape: "It's a rather unspectacular duck..."

I dunno about my favorite in Revenge, I'll have to think about it.

[Threepwood4Life]

whoa look at the size of her...ponytail.

Lol like that when Guybrush looks at the Elaine waitress at Planet Threepwood

[kblood]

Oh yea. Walking offscreen in one of the Scenes in EMI:

*click off screen*

I could go over there... but I reaally dont want too... yeaaa.

:)

[serweet]

In Revenge when you are in Elaine's room and Guybrush says "You know, I've heard some people talking about Marley's bust..." when you look at the stone bust.
That one had me in stitches.

Edit:
For those who may not have seen it
http://img4.imageshack.us/img4/6976/mi2bust.jpg

[Bagge]

That whole scene with Guybrush trying to seduce Elaine while wearing a pink dress is pretty hillarious.

[Astro Gnocci]

MADRE DE DIOS !
ES EL POLLO DIABLO !!

Prabably not my favourite, but i just love this line:D

[The Tingler]

In Revenge when you are in Elaine's room and Guybrush says "You know, I've heard some people talking about Marley's bust..." when you look at the stone bust.
That one had me in stitches.

Edit:
For those who may not have seen it
http://img4.imageshack.us/img4/6976/mi2bust.jpg

I prefer the chest in the other corner. "It's impolite to stare at a woman's chest!"

A short list of my favourite Monkey Island gags that haven't been mentioned:
- Repeatedly trying to 'pick up' Kate Capsize
- "I think we're having a real moment here" before the ship's mast snaps in half.
- "Okay dog, you're coming with me"
- Jojo The Monkey-Wrench
- "What kind of weird duck are you?"
- Combining all the Prosthetics together and creating a monster. "It's.... alliiiive!"
- "I will hide your keys beneath your upholstered furniture! And never more will you be able to find socks that match!"
- MurrayBall
- "I choose the banjo!"

[serweet]

Speaking of Kate Capsize... You can come across the glass bottomed boat in CoMI during Insult Swordfighting. I always sink it ^^

[edforth]

"I Choose the Banjo"

"I Accept!"

"You Do?"

[Secret Fawful]

I've been replaying CMI for the first time in a long time again (I never finished it before), and I had never seen the final smuggler scene before. I must say that is one of the funniest, most brilliant scenes I've seen in a Monkey Island game ever. The lighting in the smuggler's cave after the lights went out, provided by lightning flashes, was very cool, serious, and atmospheric.

And the ending where he throws that elevator guy off of the cliff as revenge was HILARIOUS. And people say Guybrush stopped being a jerk after MI2. Not so at all. :D

[seancyrustowel]

I am a big fan of the references to other adventure games, from the Lucas Arts game references to the deaths from MI1.

Someone mentioned the men of low moral fiber, and having to get to the end of the conversation tree to finally get the item. This taught me the same thing... but Herman Toothrot in MI2, taught me that sometimes, while it may take forever to get to the end of... there really isn't anything important there. "If a tree falls in the woods and no one's around to hear it, what color is it?"

[Edward VanHelgen]

Guybrush: You say you're nasty pirates...
Guybrush: ...scheming, thieving, bad bushwhackers?
Guybrush: From what I've seen I tell you...
Guybrush: ...you're not pirates! You're just slackers!

A pirate I was mean't to be...

[Fed-Up]

I am a big fan of the references to other adventure games, from the Lucas Arts game references to the deaths from MI1.

Someone mentioned the men of low moral fiber, and having to get to the end of the conversation tree to finally get the item. This taught me the same thing... but Herman Toothrot in MI2, taught me that sometimes, while it may take forever to get to the end of... there really isn't anything important there. "If a tree falls in the woods and no one's around to hear it, what color is it?"

Not important!? ...well, if you didn't go to the end of it, you would never know that it's ALL colors! Would you now?
=)

[Shiversul]

How appropriate, you fight like a cow

I LOVE insult swordfighting

[Threepwood4Life]

Guybrush: What a minute, you name is I.Cheese.

Ignatious Cheese: Aye...

Guybrush: Cheese...

Ignatious Cheese: Aye.

[AntR0we]

I'd say either
Edward Van Helgen: "What! You shot my banjo!"
Guybrush:"You can't be sure of that. That shot may have come from the grassy knoll."

or

Murray: "I'm a powerful demonic force! I'm the harbinger of your doom! And the forces of darkness will applaud me as I STRIDE through the gates of hell carrying your head on a pike!"
Guybrush: "Stride?"
Guybrush: "Alright then, roll! ROLL through the gates of hell. Must you take the fun out of everything?"

EDIT:
just thought of another..

Guybrush: "How much wood would a woodchuck chuck if a woodchuck could chuck wood?"
Carpenter: "A woodchuck would chuck no amount of wood since a woodchuck can’t chuck wood."
Guybrush: "But if a woodchuck could chuck and would chuck some amount of wood, what amount of wood would a woodchuck chuck?"
Carpenter: "Even if a woodchuck could chuck wood and even if a woodchuck would chuck wood, should a woodchuck chuck wood?"
Guybrush: "A woodchuck should chuck wood if a woodchuck could chuck wood, as long as a woodchuck would chuck wood."
Carpenter: "Oh shut up"

[joinseekers]

My big all time favorite scene of fun: the spitting contest (MI2).

[threepcross]

when Pegnose Pete slips...

[RobD]

"Hey! What have you done to my arm?"
"I pasted it!"
"You are a sad, strange man..."

[SRTie4k]

Voodoo Lady in SoMI

"I see the guilt of stealing my chicken grows. You may have it."
"Why don't you want it? Is it jinxed with some mystical voodoo curse?"
"No. The pulley squeeks."

[jukeboxhero]

Captain Kate shouting out the advertisement for 'Three hour tours'.

[PariahKing]

"Hey! What have you done to my arm?"
"I pasted it!"
"You are a sad, strange man..."When does he say this?

[Ignatius]

When you add glue to his arm to get Morts lamp. In the Goodsoup crypt.

[gordy]

In LeChuck's fortress
Guybrush: "How's it hanging?"
Or
Guybrush: "Wally. I love you man."

Or in CMI
Guybrush: "If you've been locked in that coffin, how were you able to have business cards made?"
Stan: "Now's not the time to worry about the technicalities, son"

[threepcross]

Sugar boots

[Tacobob]

MI: That whole circus scene..The two brothers, Guybrush's short career in the circus and the little pot he had for his protection.

MI2: Guybrush stuffing a live dog down his pants.

MI3: Every scene Murray was in. That guy was a nut. Guybrush singing the "hits" to impress the Barber-Shop Pirates.

[threepcross]

live dog AND live monkey

[SRTie4k]

...or sharpen your whiteboard markers
...or paint a yellow dotted line in your driveway
...or go bowling with your mom
...or have a yelling contest with your neighbors dog
...or publish a magazine about pencil shavings

And on and on :D

[Guybrush 3pwood]

I don't know why, but the scene in CMI with the cabana boy is sticking in my mind, perhaps because Guybrush 1-up'd him in the end... more than once too :)

[tredlow]

Ah! I finally remembered my favorite joke in MI2!

The Woodchuck discussion with the woodsmith on Scabb Island.

[subwarm]

From CMI, when Guybrush is manning the cannon in the beggining.

"Hey, you're going to get us all killed! AGAIN!"

After a few more shots...

"It's like your not one of LeChuck's evil minions!"

[Wicked Mouse]

Heheh I also liked the "Oops" "Sorry!" when you hit the fortifications :p

[FQ_Threepwood]

Guybrush: "Ahoy there! I'm Guybrush Threepwood, a mighty pirate!"
VanHelgen: "Of course you are!"

Precious!

[threepcross]

the credits on every game is pretty much hilarious

[Zilla]

The beginning of CMI with the cannon, and having Guybrush look at the grate.

Guybrush: "Great"

Makes me laugh everytime. Also shrieking in terror at Murray, and his evil laugh after.