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* Othar's reaction [http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20031020 here].
{{quote|'''Othar:''' No one ever takes ''me'' to parties.}}
** Don't forget the reaction!
{{quote|'''Gorb:''' Hokay, ve haff our own. *cracks knuckles* Hyu ken be de pinata!}}
* Bang, right from the moment she "introduces" herself.
{{quote|''Ta-daa! I'' am ''here!''}}
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* ...''[http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20100426 most]'' likely.
* [http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20100430 The] [http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20100503 bucket].
* [http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20100602 "...Then one day, while sacking a castle, I was ravished by a wild princess..."]
** That whole arc is arguably a crowning moment of funny for the entire series.
* [http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20100609 "She is categorized as course hazard! Like in dot krezy game vere dey hit stuff mit sticks!" "...Piñata Jousting Polo?" "Dot's de vun!"]
* [http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20100609 Zeuxippe]. Not only is she a hazard, but...
{{quote|On my ''horze!'' Iz a ''nize horze!''}}
* Really, just everything about the [http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20100519 Maxim Buys A Hat] sidestory. The punchline is so hilarious I dare not spoil it.
** The wrap-up is also hilarious:
{{quote|'''Maxim:''' (striding triumphantly out with his new hat) Vell? Is hyu ready to go, or vot?
'''Oggie:''' (jawdrop) Iz dot-
'''Maxim:''' It ''iz''.
'''Oggie:''' (shocked) Hyu mean ''hyu''-
'''Maxim:''' Hy ''deed!''
'''Oggie:''' (panicked) Deed hyu-
'''Maxim:''' De ol' man is ''fine''.
'''Oggie:''' (astonished) But ''how''?
'''Maxim:''' Hyu uzed my ''brainz!''
'''Oggie:''' (suspiciously) ... who ''iz'' hyu, really?
'''Maxim:''' SHADDAP AND LETZ GO!}}
* [http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20100816 Violetta playing a chaperone]:
{{quote|[[Leaning on the Fourth Wall|Whose adolescent slave-girl fantasies are we]] ''[[Lampshade Hanging|indulging]]'' [[Lampshade Hanging|here, anyway?]]}}
** Made even funnier if you recall the title of [http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20040206 one of Gil's favorite books.]
* [http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20060125 Krosp has fallen into a sewer.] He's gone rigid with horror; even his tail is so stiff it can be used as a handle. This isn't just because he's drenched in stinking and no-doubt slimy filth. It's because one of the Jaegers suggested he could clean himself '''the way cats do'''.
{{quote|'''Krosp:''' (after a long, horrified pause) KILL ME!
'''Lars:''' Can't blame him, really.}}
* [http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20101101 CHOPHEAD TINYBITS!] [[Anticlimax|*spak!*]]
** ...nom?
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* Ferretina and the Fashion Clank ''skipping off into the sunset'' - (or wheeling, rather, in the Clank's case) - ''amidst a pink background of flowers and butterflies'' at the end of Revenge of the Weasel Queen. Everyone else staring in shock just adds to the hilarity.
* [http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20110427 Regarding who has been playing the fool around whom], and who wasn't ''playing'' [[Love Makes You Dumb|the fool]].
* Agatha needs to get a semi-delirious Gil up and moving, so...
* ''[http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20090717 Again?]''
{{quote|'''Agatha:''' Hey Gil! All of Paris is about to go up in flames, and Zola has her head caught in a bucket! Up and at 'em, hero boy!
'''Gil:''' (blearily staggering to his feet) A bucket? ''Again?'' Okay, I'm comin'.
'''Zola:''' (glares pure hatred at Agatha)}}
* The one thing that can make even supergenius adventure heroes back off? [http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20090729 A really ugly spider the size of a human head.]
{{quote|"'''Agatha:''' Well, we've got to do ''something.''"
"'''Gil:''' Yeah, this is just embarrassing ''everybody''." }}
* [http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20090819 This] strip.
{{quote|'''Agatha''': And then the cascade effect that usually ''kills everyone and sets the lab on fire probably'' won't even have a chance to ''begin!'' This has a small, but fascinating chance of ''actually working! Let's do it!''
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** Especially the end line: "No, No! It's going to be all right! We're just going to ''kill'' you, and then you'll be ''fine!!''"
* http://twitter.com/othar Othar's twitter. Full stop.
* [http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20100602 "...Then one day, while sacking a castle, I was ravished by a wild princess..."]
** That whole arc is arguably a crowning moment of funny for the entire series.
* [http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20100609 "She is categorized as course hazard! Like in dot krezy game vere dey hit stuff mit sticks!" "...Piñata Jousting Polo?" "Dot's de vun!"]
* "'''''Now''' I vill not just keel '''HYU''' - Now I keel EFFERYVUN!'' ....[http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20070629 Hey]....Dot is verra gud coffee."
* [http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20110216 This page.]
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'''Zog:''' Hy ''said'' hy vos ''shocked''! }}
* General Khrizhan's idea for [http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20110318 getting the Other out of Agatha's head]. He knows how pipple vork!
* [http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20110404 Vanamonde being led home by anhis new assistant.]
** The amusing part is that this was her first day on the job. The novelisation implies that they ended up married.
* Tarvek is constantly having to put up with Violetta's ''painful'' remonstrations whenever she's angry with him, and because she's so much more physically powerful, he has to put up with it. [http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20110422 Until he changes the rules.]
* "[http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20110615 Hmf]. Well, if we threw in every minion we have, we might take out ''one'' of them." "That's a terrible plan!" "Thank you, sir!" "There's another twenty of them! We don't have enough minions!" "Er...."
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** [http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20120116 "I heard there was a HAT!"]
* A small one, but when the 2/20 comic was first put up, it used "Hanger" instead of "Hangar". Whoops. The goof has since been corrected.
* The [http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20120210 background event] to hearing Klaus' story repeated. Apparently ''Tarvek'' is the only one who can actually like [[Take That Me|Foglio's storytelling]].
* DuPree finds out [http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20120224 what Vole likes best].
* Gil's new and improved (and untested) falling machine.
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'''Gil''': We will make a '''daring escape''' in my '''amazing flying machine'''!
'''Tarvek''': Not the flying machine! '''[[Anything But That|Not the flying machine]]'''! }}
* The [http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20120210 background event] to hearing Klaus' story repeated. Apparently ''Tarvek'' is the only one who can actually like [[Take That Me|Foglio's storytelling]].
* [http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20120413 "A charming pair of] '''[[Mugging the Monster|INNOCENT HOSTAGES!"]]'''
* [http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20120326 "Special trousers. Very heroic."]
* [http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20120413 "A charming pair of] '''[[Mugging the Monster|INNOCENT HOSTAGES!"]]'''
* Agatha ''[http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20130111 properly introduces]'' Franz and Gil to each other.
* Agatha cuts Tweedle down to size [http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20130408 the first time].
* The [http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20140404 decoy Jager] incident.
{{quote|Now ''dis'' iz de part vere hyu tells me dot hyu luffs me for my ''brains!''}}
* [http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20140602 Assassin disposal]. All part of the service!
* Drusus [http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20150831 tries to stiff the incumbent Heterodyne] and very quickly finds out why he should not. What a - Quack!
* [http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20161109 Dimo understands] the local problems.
* Agatha is [http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20180112 learning] from Spark of the Realm.
* Bang got ''[http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=2009071720180126 Again?fangirls]''!
* Queen Albia's way to... ''[http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20180309 gently suggest]'' that perhaps Agatha should do her own homework.
* Tarvek is officially ''[https://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20180516 not]'' jealous this one time even though Gil, again, hoards all the attention.
* The [http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20181102 incident with two sandwiches]. They don't call it "Spark-induced fugue state" for nothing.
* Tarvek [http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20181105 risks a heart attack], thanks to Higgs' sense of humour.
* It's always shocking when children have to confront their parents' sex lives.
{{quote|'''Lady Astarte:''' I remember when your father come to England... oh, it must have been forty years ago. Such a flirt, that man.
'''Gil:''' (puzzled) Wait... my father? ''Klaus'' Wulfenbach? (pulls the corners of his lips down into a frown) His mouth does ''this'' all the time?
'''Lady Astarte:''' And his beautiful, doomed affair with Albia...
'''Gil:''' (jawdrop) His '''what''' with '''who''' now?
'''Lady Astarte:''' Oh, she was furious when he left...
'''Gil:''' (visibly falling apart) The man who thinks "romance" is a ''type of lettuce''?
'''Lady Astarte:''' Furious and heartbroken... truly a tragedy for the poets...
'''Gil:''' (wandering dazedly through the background) He taught me not to ''shake hands ''with a girl until I'd ''met her parents''!
'''Lady Astarte:''' But enough about old court scandals. Why are you here?
'''Trelawney Thorpe:''' We hope to consult the Queen's memory.
'''Lady Astarte:''' Well, of course. What about?
'''Gil:''' (shrieking) '''THIS IMPOSTER CLAIMING TO BE MY FATHER!'''}}
* Dimo [http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20190724 attends] an object lesson on politics.
* Seffie learns a lesson in why [http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20200501 one does not attempt to bluff the immortal god-queen]. After an accident during which a plate of desserts got stuck to her hair...
{{quote|'''Albia:''' Princess Xersephnia, we presume. *blinks* Ah, is that-?
'''Seffie:''' (with impeccable savoir-faire) ''Couture de sucreries'', your majesty. I have only just come from ''Paris''.
'''Albia:''' (gleefully) Well, you look absolutely charming! You simply ''must'' wear it at tonight's celebratory revels! [...] Our court is simply ''insatiable'' for the new fashions from Paris! They will adore you! For now, Lord Womble will show you to private quarters where you may refresh yourselves and prepare.
'''Seffie and Martellus:''' Thank you, your majesty.
(immediately after Albia departs)
'''Seffie:''' (shrieking) Am I going to have to wear ''food'' in my hair ALL DAY?!?}}
* At Albia's royal ball, Martellus has an attack of foot-in-mouth disease at the exact wrong moment and inadvertently insults the ladies' appearances after they spent all day getting ready. And the Polar Lords didn't have enough ice for the burn his sister and Agatha laid on him in reply.
{{quote|'''Seffie:''' ... just so you know, I'm okay with you killing him now.
'''Agatha:''' Oh, I couldn't! When he dies, I want him to understand ''why!''
'''Seffie:''' Well then, I do believe he will live ''forever''.}}
 
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