Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom/Funny

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  • Willie throwing off the snake that Indy tried to warn her about thinking it was the elephant.

Willie: I hate that elephant.

  • Indy and Short Round arguing about who was the bigger cheat while Willie runs screaming from every little noise.
    • To boot, it starts off in English before switching over into Chinese and then back into English without skipping a beat. So if you aren't laughing at Willie, you're watching a kid and a grown man engage in full on Ham-to-Ham Combat with Gratuitous Foreign Language.
  • The whole dinner at the palace.
    • The look on Willie's face when they're serving chilled monkey brains.
    • Captain Blumburtt flicks a baby snake away, and it screamed.
    • One of the dinner guests belches after eating a bug.
  • Most of what Short Round says elevates him from being a mere Ethnic Scrappy to a funny-as-hell little kid. "Maybe he like...older women" and "You tell me later" stand out in particular.
  • From the DVD making of special: the description of how one of the elephants ate part of Willie's very expensive dress, to which they actually had to put on the insurance form "eaten by elephant."
  • This dialogue:

Willie: A hole. He put two holes in my dress from Paris!
Lao Che: SIT DOWN!
[Willie sits away from Indy]

    • And this:

Indy: Where's my gun?! WHERE'S MY GUN?!!
Willie: I burned my fingers AND I CRACKED A NAIL!!!!

  • "Are you actually developing a sense of humor or am I going deaf?"
  • Indy punches a cigarette lady. Of course, the poison is starting to run through his system.
  • Willie tries to get the diamond, but people keep kicking it.
  • "I hate the water! And I hate being wet! And I hate YOU!!!!!"
    • "Good!"
  • "Willie, quit monkeying around on that thing."
    • On a related note, Indy telling Short Round to stop "playing" with the Maharajah.
  • Indy and Shorty are being crushed in the spike trap. Willie has to feel inside a hole for a lever to save them. Inside it is full of bugs.

Indy: Just feel inside!
Willie: YOU FEEL INSIDE!
[Indy's fist comes through the wall.]
Indy: Do. It. NOW!
Willie: OOOKAAAAAAAAYYY!!!!

  • "Willie, WE are going to DIE!" Followed by the most stone-cold serious :C face you could ever imagine.
  • The bedroom scene in which Indiana is hunting for the secret passage while Willie has other things on her mind...

Indy: Nobody's here.
Willie: No, I'm here.
[Indy shakes his head]

  • "Nice try, Lao Che!"
  • "A boat?! We're not sinking! WE'RE CRASHING!"
  • Indy using his foot to brake the mine car and it smoking and Indy yelling "Water! Water!" as he and Willie try to put the fire on his foot out. Suddenly an oncoming deluge of water starts flooding down the tunnel and Indy yelling and pointing "Water! Water!"
  • Indy runs into two Thugs with swords. He decides to just shoot them, but realized he lost his gun. He smiles nervously at them, and they attack.
    • Indy starts chasing one with a sword. He suddenly stops at a close-up of his face. He sees something, and then nervously runs the other way. Suddenly, a whole army of Thugs chase after him.
  • Indy calling Willie for help.

Indy: (trying to hold the ceiling up) Hurry!
Willie: (aggravated) ALRIIIGHT!! Oh I broke a nail.