The Iron Giant/Funny

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  • Giant metal robot + cannonballing into a lake + giant wave + epic Oh Crap face=Hilarious
  • "Would you say grace please?" 48 seconds of pure hilarity.
  • "Yes....I mean, NO! CALL ME DEEEEEEAN!"
  • The cafe scene: Hogarth has lost his squirrel, his mom has been getting on his case about bringing stray animals home, Dean happens to be in the cafe.

Dean: [Smiling awkwardly] Found your pet.
Hogarth: Great, where is it?
Dean: [Suddenly starts to crack] It's in my leg, man. The squirrel's in my pants, Hogarth. I'm trying not to wig out here.
Hogarth: Don't wig out.
Dean: [Nervously] Oo-kay, he's heading North now. [Jumps up from the table, shaking his leg] Ugh, I'm sorry kid. [To the other customers] I'd like to apologize to everyone in advance for this! [Proceeds to unzip his pants, letting the squirrel out which causes mayhem in the cafe]
Dean: Check please.
Annie: [Glares at Hogarth, who just grins sheepishly]
Random background customer: IT'S A RAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAT!!!!

  • "... Is there any more coffee?"
  • Hogarth meeting Kent.
  • Kent during his investigations.

Kent Mansley: (gets in car) Enormous beast, yeah... Biggest thing in this town is probably the homecoming quee- (discovers half of the car is gone) ohmyGOD!!

  • "Screw our country! I wanna live!"
  • Dean meets giant robot.

Hogarth: His name is Dean. We LIKE Dean.

    • "DEAN."
  • The entire scene of Hogarth sneaking the Giant's hand out of the house.
  • The "Scrap and Art" scene.
    • "Alright, there are two kinds of metal here: scrap and art. If you gotta eat one of them, eat the scrap. What you currently have IN YOUR MOUTH IS ART!
  • Kent and General Rogard's phone conversation.

Kent: This thing...this thing is a menace. It tore up a power station, it- it caused a train wreck!
Gen. Rogard: What did? Tell me again, Mansley, and this time...listen to yourself.
Kent: [Sighs] A giant...metal monster.
Gen. Rogard: [Laughs hysterically]

  • The Giant's final solution to stopping a car alarm: *FLING!*
  • The cannonball scene, after Dean is deposited on the road.

Farmer (pulling up in truck full of pigs): Hey!
Dean: Yeah?
Farmer: You're right in the middle of the road!
Dean: Yeah?!
Farmer: (Beat) Alright. (drives off)

    • "I think that's enough fun for one day."
  • "You know, this is why it's so important to really chew your food."
  • Rogard falling for Hogarth and Dean's ruse that the Giant is one of Dean's art projects. He takes out his frustration on Kent.
  • Kent Mansley muttering in his car about Hogarth's unusual name.

Kent: What kind of a sick person names a kid 'Hogarth'? Might as well call him Zeppo or something.

  • Not to mention the blink-and-you'll-miss-it moment of him checking out Hogarth's mother's chest when she opens the door all the way. Then again, who can blame him?
  • Hogarth making Kent a "landslide" ice cream sundae.
  • The montage of Kent pestering Hogarth in the house about what he saw in the woods, culminating in Hogarth bellowing at the top of his lungs, "I'M GOIN' OOOOOOOOOOOOUT!"
  • YMMV on this one, but as a truck with Rogard, Mansley, and another soldier are driving away with a pissed off Giant in pursuit, Mansley is yelling at the driver: "DRIVE, BABY, DRIVE! STEP ON IT, FLOOR IT! IT'S GAINING ON US! FASTER, FASTER, FASTER! (in a high-pitched voice) HURRY!"
  • The scene where Hogarth is going home and the Giant is following him.

Hogarth: No. No. Me go. You stay. No following. (Giant continues following him, until Hogarth gets annoyed) I told you! I'll come back tomorrow! NOW, STAY! (Hogarth walks off and Giant continues following him) (getting frustrated) NO, NO, NO! BAD ROBOT!

Hogarth: Get outta here! ...Uh, Satan? So that we may live in peace.


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