Funniest moments in sff

[Foxbat]

No-one mentioned Futurama yet? Most of my favourite moments involve Zap Brannigan or Zoidberg (or Bender of course).

My favourite Futurama moment - where Bender grows a civilisation on his behind (next to his nuclear pile)

 

[BAYLOR]

Red Dwarf When Kryton defends Rimmer from the charges that he caused the demise of the whole crew of Red Dwarf.

Then there's episode with the Arnold Rimmer song.

 

[Ice fyre]

I always found Neil Gainmans work to be on a par with Mr pratchett's for humour. I love a scene in one of his book when an extremely nervous young man is meeting his mother in law. The descriptions are along the lines of baracudas circling its wounded prey! Anazai boys was a lovley read! The rivers of London series has a dry humour which I love.

 

[BAYLOR]

I always found Neil Gainmans work to be on a par with Mr pratchett's for humour. I love a scene in one of his book when an extremely nervous young man is meeting his mother in law. The descriptions are along the lines of baracudas circling its wounded prey! Anazai boys was a lovley read! The rivers of London series has a dry humour which I love.

Good Omens.

 

[BAYLOR]

Quark the 1978 one hour premier , they did a hilarious spoof of Star Wars .

 

[Balthagor]

I've found Jim Butcher's humor in the Dresden files to be excellent. One of my most recent LOL moments was the bit with the donut at the of Small Favor.

 

[Deep Space Nina]

I think it was so funny when everyone was stressed after making it to the ship last minute after the bank robbery, just River stays calm and said: "I swallowed a bug."

 

[Balthagor]

Firefly has lots of great moments, we could have a thread just for those.

 

[Deep Space Nina]

Sure, this was just the one I remembered in the most vivid way.

 

[Grimward]

I agree about Serenity.

"Let's go back to the part where Jane gets knocked out by a ninety pound girl 'cause I don't think that's ever gonna get old."

 

[Deep Space Nina]

Oh yes, that is great! *lol*

 

[J-Sun]

Firefly has lots of great moments, we could have a thread just for those.

We do.

I'll have to give the general thread topic more thought. Like most everybody, I love Firefly and Galaxyquest and so on. Whenever I think funny lit SF/F, I always think Harrison's Stainless Steel Rat and Leiber's "Lean Times in Lankhmar" but it's hard to pin down exact "moments".

 

[Cascade]

It's been a very long time since I read it, but towards the climax in Terry Pratchet's - Pyramids, and the gods come to life there is a scene in which the various sun/ sky gods, fight to carry the sun across the sky commentated by a watching priest like its a six nations rugby match. I am smiling just thinking about it.

 

[BAYLOR]

Dark Star 1974 . The most important lesson leaned from that film. Never teach a self aware bomb about philosophy.

 

[Venusian Broon]

It's been a very long time since I read it, but towards the climax in Terry Pratchet's - Pyramids, and the gods come to life there is a scene in which the various sun/ sky gods, fight to carry the sun across the sky commentated by a watching priest like its a six nations rugby match. I am smiling just thinking about it.

Is Pyramids the one where they try and build a really big pyramid. So big that it starts to warp space and time really badly around it, so that one of the characters is forced to invent quantum accountancy just to pay the workforce?

 

[BAYLOR]

Is Pyramids the one where they try and build a really big pyramid. So big that it starts to warp space and time really badly around it, so that one of the characters is forced to invent quantum accountancy just to pay the workforce?

Anything by Pratchett.

 

[Cascade]

Is Pyramids the one where they try and build a really big pyramid. So big that it starts to warp space and time really badly around it, so that one of the characters is forced to invent quantum accountancy just to pay the workforce?

Yep thats the one.

I still think it is my favourite of his stand alone Disc world books.

 

[michaelhall2007]

Branching out from an earlier conversation, wondering what scenes stand out in genre books/films/television as funny. My favourites are (in no particular order) -

Nanny Ogg having a bath. I cry with laughter at the first bong, bugger it, bash of the bath tub (Lords and ladies, anyone know?)
The Butterbug scene in Vorkosigan (A Civil Campaign). The build up to it, the whole comedy of manners around it and the pacing is fabulous.

On films, I love the 'Don't stop me now' scene in Shaun of the Dead. I also loved loads of the humour in Guardians of the Galaxy, and thought they used pacing and timing well.


And for a skit, Eddie Izzard's Death Star Canteen makes me laugh every time.

GALAXY QUEST
[the crew is on a shuttle descending to an alien planet]
Guy Fleegman: I changed my mind. I wanna go back.
Sir Alexander Dane: After the fuss you made about getting left behind?
Guy Fleegman: Yeah, but that's when I thought I was the crewman that stays on the ship, and something is up there, and it kills me. But now I'm thinking I'm the guy who gets killed by some monster five minutes after we land on the planet.
Jason Nesmith: You're not gonna die on the planet, Guy.
Guy Fleegman: I'm not? Then what's my last name?
Jason Nesmith: It's, uh, uh - -I don't know.
Guy Fleegman: Nobody knows. Do you know why? Because my character isn't important enough for a last name, because I'm gonna die five minutes in.
Gwen DeMarco: Guy, you have a last name.
Guy Fleegman: DO I? DO I? For all you know, I'm "Crewman Number Six"! Mommy... mommy...

 

[WaylanderToo]

No-one mentioned "The Iron Druid" series yet? Oberon's observations (especially on sausages) are great fun

The Uranus trilogy are also fun in a school-boy humour sort of way

But for me Tripping the Rift is pure quality (note though that this is NOT a child-friendly series!!!!!)

 

[BAYLOR]

Bill The Galactic Hero by Harry Harrison . lots of funny moments. One that sticks out The Bloater Star Drive . To travel in space rather then have a convectional FTL drive. in which you trade from point a to point B, instead With the bloater drive causes the ship and crew to expand to their destination and then de expand when they get there. In other world you expand to get from point A to point B. Ive never seen this concept of space travel and quite frankly wished id never had.