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Funniest moment on Firefly

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Tuesday, October 24, 2006 5:16 PM

MAZAEN

What is the funniest moment on Firefly?

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Tuesday, October 24, 2006 5:27 PM

YINYANG

You were busy trying to get yourself lit on fire. It happens.

It depends on the mood I'm in, and what I'm paying attention to (seeing as how I would be on my tenth or eleventh run of the show). But, usually, the funny moments come when Alan makes a face - any face, really - that reflects either his mood, or the general mood. 'Cause, come on, Alan making faces is funny (and pretty darn cute, too).

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Tuesday, October 24, 2006 11:26 PM

WINDSTRUCK

In 'OUR MRS REYNOLDS' episode when Saffron was crying because Mal would not accept her as his wife,
Kaylee says, "It's ok honey, he makes everyone cry. he's a monster."
Mal says: "I'm not a monster!"

I can't help laughing. It was just a very, very childish reply but delivered perfectly!

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Tuesday, October 24, 2006 11:42 PM

GLADIATOR32

The whole thing in 'Jaynestown' with River and Book's hair puts me into hysterics every time I see it.

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Tuesday, October 24, 2006 11:52 PM

GLADIATOR32

Oh, and Wash's moustache in 'Out of Gas'.

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Wednesday, October 25, 2006 12:48 AM

RAINSTICK

there are several,
but one is in Shindig when River puts on the Dayton accent and talks to Badger, and then Jayne says: "Exactly the kind of diversion we could have used."

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Wednesday, October 25, 2006 1:15 AM

HUGHFF

OMR - when Saffron does her speil from the scriptures about the man's plough and Mal says, "Woa! Good Bible!" In fact, that whole scene: "I'm going to a special hell."

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Wednesday, October 25, 2006 2:55 AM

MAGDALENA

"No power in the 'verse can stop me!"

Uh ... just one? Well there are so many but I love all the reactions when they see Inara greet a female senator on Serentiy - and even Shepherd Book says 'Oh My!'... culminating with the famous... 'I'll be in my bunk'...

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Wednesday, October 25, 2006 3:00 AM

SERENITYINSCOTLAND

Mal: They're whores.
Jayne: I'm in.

Perfect delivery!

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Wednesday, October 25, 2006 3:22 AM

TEACHDAIRE

River trying to eat the ice planet on Out Of Gas...

"My food is problematic..."

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For every battle honour, a thousand heroes die along, unremembered and unsung...

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Wednesday, October 25, 2006 3:36 AM

SHINYTRINKET

Jayne: "Smells like crotch."
Kaylee: "Jayne!"
Jayne: "Well, it does."

Too many funny things to list, but this is definitely one of my faves!

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1. Never bypass a bathroom
2. Never waste an erection
3. Never trust a fart

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Wednesday, October 25, 2006 4:34 AM

SABRI3L

Ai ya it is so hard to choose...

Wash: "You want a slinky dress? I can buy you a slinky dress. Captain, can I have money for a slinky dress?"

Jayne: (mock reading Simon's journal) "Dear Diary...today I was pompous and my sister was crazy." (flips page) "Today, we were kidnapped by hill folk never to be seen again. It was the best day ever."

Mal: "Well, look at this! Appears we got here just in the nick of time. Whaddya suppose that makes us?"
Zoe: "Big damn heroes, sir."
Mal: "Ain't we just!"

Book: "If you take sexual advantage of her, you're going to burn in a very special level of hell. A level they reserve for child molesters and people who talk at the theater."

Kaylee: (cheerfully) "Oh well let's see...we killed Simon and River, stole a bunch of medicine, and the Cap'n and Zoe are springin' the others got snatched by the feds."

Mal: "Fear's nothin' to be ashamed of, doctor."
Simon: "This isn't fear. This is anger."
Mal: "Well. Kinda hard to tell one from t'other, face like yours."
Simon: "Well I imagine if it were fear, my eyes would be wider."
Mal: "Hmm. I'll keep a look out for that next time."

Kaylee: "But he coulda made 'em family. 'stead of keepin' Simon from seein' I was there. And I carried such a torch! And we coulda...goin' on a year now and I ain't had nothin' twixt my nethers weren't run on batteries!"

Knitter of Cunning Jayne Hats

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Wednesday, October 25, 2006 8:17 AM

SMARTBUTDUMBBLONDE

drunken Wash in Jaynestown. Everytime, I'm in hysterics. I love it.

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Wednesday, October 25, 2006 5:42 PM

FLORALBUNNY

Drunken Wash a treat.

Drugged Jayne (..all bendy) a treat.

Jaynestown:
SIMON: Just stop describing me.

There are too many...

Book popping back around corner: "The special Hell!"

Also from OMR:
MAL: How drunk was I last night?
JAYNE: I dunno. I passed out.

This could go on all night.

bun, memory overstuffed
~Bastards singed my turtle~

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Thursday, October 26, 2006 9:09 AM

CANTER

Everything everyone else said.

and...

Mal: "Do you have time to do my hair?" in the Train Job

Zoe: "I was weak" in the Train Job

Wash: "I was in a firefight....ok, I was in a fire....well actually I was fired from a fry cook opportunity" in War stories

And of course: the "alternate" Haven scene from Serenity:

Nathan: Get those bodies together....... I wan't them laid out over the nose of the ship. Put Book front and centre, he is our friend, we should honor him. Kaylee, get that kid who's taking a dirt nap with baby Jesus, we need a hood ornament. Jayne! Try not to steal too much of their shit"

hahahahahaha!

Burn the land and boil the sea...

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Thursday, October 26, 2006 11:41 AM

FWBBROWNCOAT

Wash: Well....MAYBE I SHOULD DO THAT!
Mal: MAYBE YOU SHOULD!
Wash: FINE!
Mal: FINE!

Jayne: I got an idea. I say Zoe gets nekkid.
Wash(looking down, muffled): No.
Jayne: I could get nekkid.
Wash(now attentive and scared): No!
Simon(offscreen, almost as fast as Wash): No!

"Come a day there won't be room for naughty men like us to slip about at all." - Malcolm Reynolds

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Thursday, October 26, 2006 11:42 AM

FWBBROWNCOAT

Sorry...double posted that.

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Thursday, October 26, 2006 12:16 PM

ECGORDON

There's no place I can be since I found Serenity.

There are so many, but I'm surprised no one has mentioned my favorite from "Our Mrs. Reynolds" when Saffron asks Mal if he wants her to wash his feet. Nathan's expression is priceless.

wo men ren ran zai fei xing.

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Thursday, October 26, 2006 1:26 PM

DOCTROID

The whole scene in "Out of Gas" where they recruit Jayne.

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Thursday, October 26, 2006 2:07 PM

WHIMSICALNBRAINPAN

There are so many, the scene at the end of the duel in Shindig; "Well, I'm all right.", the opening scene in Our Mrs. Reynolds; "How can you say that? How can you shame me in front of new people?"; the scene at the end of War Stories where Mal tells Zoe that they must make love, "Now somethin' about that is just downright unsettlin'."

But I always get a good laugh from River in Jaynestown after she has seen Book with his hair down and he tries to approach her at the end of the episode. Everytime I hear her say "Just keep walking preacher-man." I laugh and I honestly couldn't tell you why. It just gets me every time.

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Thursday, October 26, 2006 4:35 PM

FLORALBUNNY

Ahhh yes Whims...
"Take me, sir. Take me hard."

Also: "There's been obeying going on right
under my nose!" (War Stories)

bun, chuckling
~Bastards singed my turtle~

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Thursday, October 26, 2006 4:43 PM

MARINA

Without a doubt the funniest moment is in "Objects in Space."

River: I know you have questions.
Mal: That would be why I just asked them.
River: But we don't have much time captain. I need you to trust me.
Mal: Am I dreaming?
River: We all are.
Mal: (rolls eyes)
River: Don't make faces.
Mal: (suddenly nervous)

I like the subtlety (you can't just listen to it, you have to watch it) and how CONVINCING Nathan is in his sudden fear and confusion, like maybe she might ACTUALLY be posessing the spaceship. lol.

Don't make faces.

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Thursday, October 26, 2006 4:48 PM

MARINA

Quote:
Also from OMR:
MAL: How drunk was I last night?
JAYNE: I dunno. I passed out.

My second favorite funniest moment. It might be the only scene in the series or the movie (that I've noticed, anyways) that makes these guys seem like the average boys you went to classes with. In this scene they're co-conspirators in their hedonism, the captain-mercenary relationship is temporarily relaxed and replaced by the bond that only alcohol creates.

Don't make faces.

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Thursday, October 26, 2006 5:02 PM

TRAVELER

Quote:
Originally posted by Gladiator32:
The whole thing in 'Jaynestown' with River and Book's hair puts me into hysterics every time I see it.

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This one gets me too. The way River runs away.

Traveler

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Thursday, October 26, 2006 8:01 PM

FLORALBUNNY

marina wrote:
My second favorite funniest moment. It might be the only scene in the series or the movie (that I've noticed, anyways) that makes these guys seem like the average boys you went to classes with. In this scene they're co-conspirators in their hedonism, the captain-mercenary relationship is temporarily relaxed and replaced by the bond that only alcohol creates.
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Yep. Morning (*late* morning!) on one of the
guys' dorm halls. In Dining Commons. Or one
of the Greek houses. Delivery of the lines
was completely real.

bun, reminiscing
~Bastards singed my turtle~

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Thursday, October 26, 2006 8:41 PM

BELUGASMOM

Train Job .....Jayne:".and you can't change that, by getting all ...bendy...." the EXPRESSION on Wash's face......J:"the lights.....from the console......shine...like little angels." CRASH^^^^ Just watched that episode yet again the other night....almost spewed hot chocolate all over the couch and the cats.

Life is short, brutal, and unpredictable. EAT DESSERT FIRST.

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Friday, October 27, 2006 6:34 AM

CANTER

Quote:
Originally posted by BelugasMom:
Train Job .....Jayne:".and you can't change that, by getting all ...bendy...." the EXPRESSION on Wash's face......J:"the lights.....from the console......shine...like little angels." CRASH^^^^ B]

Just reading that set me giggling....and what makes it worse is that some of my secretaries walked in and now they think I'm insane....!

Burn the land and boil the sea...

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Friday, October 27, 2006 6:45 AM

MSG

Did he just go crazy and then fall asleep??

I almost die laughing every time... though my runner up would still be
Mercy is the mark of a great man ( stab) Guess I'm just a good man. (stab) I'm alright

and See how I'm not punching him? I think I've grown

I choose to rise instead of fall- U2

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Friday, October 27, 2006 7:06 AM

CLIOMUSE

Wash's non-verbal reactions always get me. For example, the thumbs up he gives Zoe when she calls Mal "sir" in the pilot right after they were discussing how Mal likes to be called sir. His reaction in Trash to the tissue up Mal's nose is priceless.

I also love me some snarky Simon. In the face of danger with his sister behaving strangely he still smart mouths the bounty hunter with the gun pointed at him.

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Friday, October 27, 2006 7:19 AM

CLEMENTINE

Quote:
Originally posted by Sabri3l:

Kaylee: "But he coulda made 'em family. 'stead of keepin' Simon from seein' I was there. And I carried such a torch! And we coulda...goin' on a year now and I ain't had nothin' twixt my nethers weren't run on batteries!"

Don't forget
Mal: "Oh GOD, I can't know that!"
Jayne: "I could stand to hear a little more."

Both of them perfect delivery.

No one has mentioned,
"And we will call it....this land."
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Friday, October 27, 2006 9:42 AM

THATWENTWELL

Already mentioned, but Book with the hair and the whole interaction between he, Zoe and River makes my sides hurt. And the one where Mal and Inara are discussing when she fell and hit her head. Mal - "You didn't really fall and hit your head did you? Inara - (with surrender in her eyes) No Mal - (grinning) I knew you let her kiss you."

I'll be in my bunk.

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Friday, October 27, 2006 9:57 AM

GLADIATOR32

The Alliance/A lion thing in 'Objects...' always cracks me up

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Friday, October 27, 2006 1:15 PM

VETERAN

Don't squat with your spurs on.

This is a great thread.

For number one I'd have to go with Book's hair. Not just River's reaction the but way it's followed up with Zoe's too.

Of course there's Jaynestown when they see the statue and Simon says,"This must be what it feels like to go insane." Then later when the guitar player starts singing "Jayne, the man the call Jayne." he says,"No this must be what if feels like to go insane."

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Friday, October 27, 2006 1:22 PM

GORRAMREEVERS

Impossible to choose just one. Many of my favorites people have already listed above. But, one which I *ALWAYS* love to see is the Operative.....

(fade to the Reaver fleet howling out of the Ion Cloud onto unsuspecting Alliance goons)
Operative (in increasingly high frantic tones): "Target the Reaver Ships. *Target The Reaver Ships*! Target *Anyone*! ** SOMEBODY FIRE** !!!!"

:)

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Friday, October 27, 2006 1:28 PM

LITTLEALBATROSS29

Everyone has mentioned most of my favorites already. But I'm going to add this one..

In Jaynestown when River is trying to fix Book's bible " Noah's ark is going to be a problem " I just crack up every time.

Bryce
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I swallowed a bug.

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Friday, October 27, 2006 1:59 PM

STINKINGROSE

Too..many...choices! Can't..pick!

I loved Book's hair. He just looked so much like Einstein at that moment, I thought she was freaking out over seeing the living face of a god of physics or something until the dialogue later. Zoe's reaction was priceless.

Yeah: too, too many choices.

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Friday, October 27, 2006 2:25 PM

CHRISTHECYNIC

It's been said, of course, so I'm hardly original.

Regardless, for me the entire, "Did he just go crazy and fall asleep," scene is one long drawn out funniest moment and the moment he collapses while grabbing at the light like little angels is the absolute funniest normal sized moment.

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Friday, October 27, 2006 3:45 PM

FLORALBUNNY

BelugasMom wrote in part:
almost spewed hot chocolate all over the couch and the cats.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
My God, woman! Where is your Firefly hygiene?
Seating should be protected if not already
waterproof, and all cats must be kept covered!

Yes, agree that the Jayne Bendy scene is probably
the best protracted funny scene, for the acting
of all participants, and for the lines.

But single lines? There are others as yet not
mentioned.

JAYNE: That's why I don't kiss 'em on the mouth.
And note reactions.

BAD COP (looking up at Jayne): That hat makes you
look like an idiot.

SIMON asks what's Jayne's job -- on the ship
MAL: Public relations.
The way Nathan nearly throws this line away and
quickly stuffs food in his mouth -- perfect.

bun, stuffing face
~Bastards singed my turtle~

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Saturday, October 28, 2006 7:42 AM

SIRI

This is my first response and I haven't figured out how to do the official quote thing yet ... Not sure if this has been mentioned but I really liked Mal's line in Heart of Gold when Mandy kisses him - there's a pause and she asks what's wrong and he responds "I'm just waiting to see if I pass out."

Siri

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Saturday, October 28, 2006 8:57 AM

ATIGDNG

I threw up on your bed...

Yep that's my sister.

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Saturday, October 28, 2006 10:56 AM

RIVERTWIN

Only one? Man, not possible!

Like many others, I love the whole Book hair scene. But I totally cracked up in Serenity when River said, "I swallowed a bug!" And Simon being snarky is amusing in any situation to me.

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Monday, October 30, 2006 5:20 PM

VETERAN

Don't squat with your spurs on.

Oh I forgot about the whole fixing the Bible exchange. How about the end of the episode when Book approaches her while she's editing the Good Book and she says,"Keep movin'Preacherman."

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Monday, October 30, 2006 5:22 PM

VETERAN

Don't squat with your spurs on.

Quote:
Originally posted by FloralBunny:
.....SIMON asks what's Jayne's job -- on the ship
MAL: Public relations.
The way Nathan nearly throws this line away and
quickly stuffs food in his mouth -- perfect.

I think Nathan is a comic at heart. Wasn't he on a comedy? Two Guys a Girl and a Pizza Place?

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Monday, October 30, 2006 6:45 PM

RMMC

My two favs in the series are Book's hair ("Scary hair!") in Jaynestown and Jayne's line in Our Mrs reynolds of "That's why I never kiss 'em on the mouth."

Both those make me laugh hysterically every time.

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Monday, October 30, 2006 6:50 PM

FLORALBUNNY

(my version of the quote thang)
Veteran wrote:
I think Nathan is a comic at heart. Wasn't he on a comedy? Two Guys a Girl and a Pizza Place?
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
That and one called Miss Match -- and he is
reputed to be an improv genius -- you can find
all his screen stuff at imdb.com if you're
curious.
I think he's gorram funny in Firefly
(yes! that "waiting to see if I pass out" moment!)
and in SLiTHER, but he has range
and I will venture out to Whiter Noisier just
for that. Hoping, of course, that the movie
isn't really, really bad...

bun
~Bastards singed my turtle~

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Tuesday, October 31, 2006 12:03 PM

ERGASTER

Yep...too many moments to count.

I do like Jayne's little dialogue in the movie, though:

"I'll kill a man in a fair fight...or if I think
he's gonna start a fair fight...or if he bothers me, or if there's a woman...or if I'm getting paid. Mostly only when I'm getting paid."

Heh. That's our Jayne....

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Tuesday, October 31, 2006 2:54 PM

WILLIAMJAMESW

In Jaynestown, after Kaylee and Simon talked about him not swearing, and he said that he swears when apropriate. Then, after seeing the Jayne statue, he reacted with "son of a ..." (don't remember off the top of my head if he finished or not) and Kaylee got this look of surprise and joy on her face.

I could stand to hear a little more.

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Tuesday, October 31, 2006 4:01 PM

CALLEY

So many to choose from.....why did this show get cancelled?
I agree with Floralbunny.

Jayne: "That's why I never kiss 'em on the mouth." The camera getting everyone's look and silence.

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Tuesday, October 31, 2006 4:06 PM

DOCTROID

Wait, wait... how could this thread get this far with no mention of the final camera shot of "Shindig"?

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Tuesday, October 31, 2006 6:19 PM

FLORALBUNNY

...or the scene (in OoG) in which Jayne is
recruited???

EDIT: Shucks. Just reviewed the thread and found
that Doctroid had already nominated the Jayne
recruitment scene.

Mooooooooooo!

What about Jayne whimpering and ripping tape off
his hairy bod in "Jaynestown?"

bun, no sad seven
~Bastards turned my turtle~

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