The Borgias/Funny
- Rodrigo's "Take That!" Kiss to Cardinals Orsini and della Rovere upon being elected Pope in "The Poisoned Chalice". Pure Throw It In from Jeremy Irons.
- The bottomless chair and "examination" of the new Pope's genitals. Rodrigo's face is just priceless.
- "Pardon my monkey."
- The less-than-pleased looks on Rodrigo and Juan's faces in response to a portrait of a potential bride for Juan in "The Borgias in Love" are pretty hilarious.
- Giovanni Sforza's "trial" for impotence. All of it.
- The Oh Crap look on Rodrigo's face and throat-cutting gesture he gives Cesare when Cesare calls Charles on the fact that that "papal legate" basically means "hostage".
- King Charles seems outraged when he first hears that the Pope has a mistress... but only because he doesn't have one.
- The montage with all of Lucrezia's terrible suitors.
- Special mention to the one who's obviously checking out a guard standing behind Rodrigo, and Rodrigo turning around in his seat to see what the suitor was looking at!
- "Unburden your soul." Doubles as Crowning Moment of Awesome.
- When Rodrigo learns that Giulia Farnese is home early, as he's washing a naked young woman in the bath, his expression...priceless.
- Cesare releasing his adrenaline in a sudden roar of victory after the successful bluff with the fake cannons.
- Cesare's reaction upon meeting Micheletto's sweet, cuddly mother in "The Choice". His subsequent trolling--"For Mama"--and Micheletto's expressions are kind of... sadistically hilarious.
- Rodrigo rather hesitantly explaining how when Cesare went to Forli on a diplomatic mission, there was an "accident"; namely " Giovanni Sforza...fell...on a knife...which...Cesare happened to be holding". His "I can't believe I'm actually saying this" delivery is hilarious, as is Vanozza's growing amusement, culminating in her saying that she would have pushed the man onto the knife herself if she'd been there.
- In the same scene he's lamenting the fact that he's given up "intimacy" for lent. His expression is excellent, as is Vanozza telling him that he can leave...meaning that he can no longer ogle her while she's having a bath.
- Honestly, her cackle - which verges on Evil Laugh - is just the capper. She's having such fun messing with Rodrigo.
- In the same scene he's lamenting the fact that he's given up "intimacy" for lent. His expression is excellent, as is Vanozza telling him that he can leave...meaning that he can no longer ogle her while she's having a bath.
- Machiavelli giving a stuffed owl to the gang of small boys demanding "vanities" to burn in the name of Girolamo Savonarola's moral crusade. In other words, he gives them the bird ...
- In the same scene he engages in a great bit of Self-Deprecation about his own ugliness when he says "and as you can see, with these looks, I have no vanity". He also calls them out with "so, God is reduced to breaking windows", with such biting sarcasm that even the kids get it. The way the kid keeps trying to play the tough guy by mindlessly reciting what Savanarola told him would also be quite funny, if he didn't have the potential to do serious harm.