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* Dreyfus, driven to the breaking point by Clouseau's antics, starts venting his problems to a psychiatrist with hilarious twitching results, freaking out when he days a word the way Clouseau does.

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* Dreyfus, driven to the breaking point by Clouseau's antics, starts venting his problems to a psychiatrist with hilarious twitching results, freaking out when he days says a word the way Clouseau does.
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* "If someone has been murdered here, please let it be Clouseau, hm?"

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* Dreyfus prays to God at the scene of yet another murder: "If someone has been murdered here, please let it be Clouseau, hm?"
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*** And both times, Dreyfus lets out his signature losing his sanity giggle while surveying the damage he's done to himself.
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* "Francois... I've just cut off my thumb."

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* Dreyfus, driven to the breaking point by Clouseau's antics, starts venting his problems to a psychiatrist with hilarious twitching results, freaking out when he days a word the way Clouseau does.



* Dreyfus going mad and having to be pried off Clouseau's leg by Hercule.

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* Dreyfus has two hilarious DaChief moments with Clouseau with the first ending with him angrily crossing his arms while he's holding a letter opener, causing him to meekly call out to Francois for help.
-->'''Dreyfus:''' Would you call for a doctor? I seem to have stabbed myself with the letter opener.
** The second time, Dreyfus is using a cigar cutter to clip the end of a cigar. After Clouseau leaves he angrily slams it down...On his thumb, resulting in Dreyfus having to have the doctor called again, and spending the rest of the film with an oversized bandage on his re-attached thumb.
* Dreyfus' villain breakdown after Ballon and the other killers are blown up. When Clouseau accurately tries to tell him they were killers, Dreyfus grabs Clouseau's lapels and angrily tells him that "Compared you ''you'' they were all ''saints."
* Dreyfus going mad mad, snarling like a dog, and attacking Clouseau's leg. Hercule arrives and pries Dreyfus off Clouseau's leg. Then what happens? Dreyfus has a brief moment of calm before snarling and launching himself at Hercule's leg instead and having to be pried off Clouseau's leg by Hercule.off.
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* Also, the act where Clouseau and Maria Gambrelli must enter into a nudist colony, searching for a specific person. [[spoiler:The person they are seeking is found dead.]] In the end they must escape from the colony without their clothes, so as not to be framed, but they end up stuck in traffic, where onlookers discover that they are nude. They both are taken to the police station with three cops "glued" to the back window of the paddy wagon, looking in at them.

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* Also, the act where Clouseau and Maria Gambrelli must enter into a nudist colony, searching for a specific person. [[spoiler:The The person they are seeking is found dead.]] dead. In the end they must escape from the colony without their clothes, so as not to be framed, but they end up stuck in traffic, where onlookers discover that they are nude. They both are taken to the police station with three cops "glued" to the back window of the paddy wagon, looking in at them.
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-->'''Francois:''' ''(sighs regretablly)'' Clouseau.

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-->'''Francois:''' ''(sighs regretablly)'' regrettably)'' Clouseau.
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* "Francois... I've just cut off my thumb."
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** Despite maintaining his infamous composure onscreen, in the outtakes George Sanders cracks up twice at Sellers' antics, particularly on the "rit of fealous jage" line.
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** Then it cuts to Clouseau’s EstablishingCharacterMoment, where he arrives at the Ballon estate and immediately tumbles into a pond the moment he steps out of his car.
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-->'''Dreyfus:''' ''(shuts eyes)'' [[ThisIsGonnaSuck Oh my god.]]

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-->'''Dreyfus:''' ''(shuts eyes)'' [[ThisIsGonnaSuck [[OhCrap Oh my god.]]
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-->'''Francois:''' ''(takes off glasses)'' Clouseau.

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-->'''Francois:''' ''(takes off glasses)'' ''(sighs regretablly)'' Clouseau.
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* Also, early on, there's Dreyfus's reaction when he finds out that Clouseau is assigned to the case.
-->'''Dreyfus:''' Who did you assign to the case?
-->'''Francois:''' ''(takes off glasses)'' Clouseau.
-->'''Dreyfus:''' ''(shuts eyes)'' [[ThisIsGonnaSuck Oh my god.]]
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Changed the butlers around since Henri was killed and Maurice was the blackmailer getting dirt on everyone.


* At one point Ballon assures Dreyfus that the butler (Maurice) can vouch for his alibi. Only for Dreyfus to open a closet and Maurice's dead body to fall into his arms.
--> '''Ballon:''' Well, he could have vouched for it.

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* At one point Ballon assures Dreyfus that the head butler (Maurice) (Henri) can vouch for his alibi. Only for Dreyfus to open a closet and Maurice's Henri's dead body to fall into his arms.
--> '''Ballon:''' Well, he could have vouched for confirmed it.
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* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Os0PYZVLFpY The billiards scene.]] Clouseau and Ballon are ''trying'' to have a serious conversation about the murders, but it's rather undercut by the flying cue balls and broken equipment. (Through it all, George Sanders manages to be unbearably suave, [[FacialDialogue as well as communicate]] "This is the dumbest man I've ever met" without saying a word, or doing anything so coarse as rolling his eyes.)
-->'''Ballon:''' Would you kill for her?\\
'''Clouseau:''' [[SayingTooMuch Of course!]] Er, not!
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* Dreyfus going mad and having to be pried off Clouseau's leg by Francois.

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* Dreyfus going mad and having to be pried off Clouseau's leg by Francois.Hercule.
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--> '''Ballon:''' Well, he could have vouched for it.

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--> '''Ballon:''' Well, he could have vouched for it.it.
* Clouseau winking at Dreyfus, causing Dreyfus's own eye to go into a wild tic.
* Dreyfus going mad and having to be pried off Clouseau's leg by Francois.
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* The whole watch-synchronizing bit, especially when Hercule calls [[BrickJoke Clouseau afterwards.]]

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* The whole watch-synchronizing bit, especially when Hercule calls [[BrickJoke Clouseau afterwards.]]]]
* "If someone has been murdered here, please let it be Clouseau, hm?"
* At one point Ballon assures Dreyfus that the butler (Maurice) can vouch for his alibi. Only for Dreyfus to open a closet and Maurice's dead body to fall into his arms.
--> '''Ballon:''' Well, he could have vouched for it.
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* The whole watch-synchronizing bit, especially when Hercule calls [[BrickJoke Clouseau afterwards.]]


!! The ''[[Literature/TheHobbit Hobbit]]'' fanfic:
* Dáin notices something Thorin hasn't.
--> '''Dáin:''' Oh, Thorin? Glad to see you have one of your beads back. I look forward to the wedding.
* The BrickJoke of some of the Company sarcastically calling Bard Bilbo's mistress.
--> '''Thorin:''' What do you mean [Bilbo] took his mistress? Since when did he get a mistress?
--> '''Nori:''' [Bombur] means Bard.
--> '''Thorin:''' WHAT?! I WAS OUT FOR TWO DAYS AND YOU FOOLS LET HIM RUN OFF WITH THAT WORM?! WHAT IS WRONG WITH ALL OF YOU?! YOU HAD ONE JOB! ''ONE''!
* Bard wonders what the Company will do after reading the letters Bilbo left, saying where he was going.
--> '''Bilbo:''' Scream. Curse. Brood. Scream some more. [...] I'm hoping Gandalf will talk some sense into them if they try [to follow us]. They just came out of a battle where some of them nearly died. They can't handle such a journey.
--> '''Bard:''' Oh yeah, and we're in such great shape ourselves.
* Bilbo and Beorn watch Bard and Tauriel fight.
--> '''Bilbo:''' It's like watching a pair of siblings.
--> '''Beorn:''' I've seen nicer fights between cats and dogs.
* Bilbo dazedly telling Legolas he looks like his father when he glares, then adds that his father is pretty but has the personality of a rock.
* Gandalf coming to have a word with Bilbo after the latter is rescued from Mordor.
--> '''Bilbo:''' Gandalf! How... nice to see you. Here. With us.
--> '''Gandalf:''' Bilbo Baggins. It is time for you and I to have a conversation that has been ''long'' overdue.
--> '''Bilbo:''' I'm not sure about that. What are my chances of getting out of this conversation unharmed?
--> '''Gandalf:''' Slim. And getting slimmer.
* Bilbo and the Company go back to the Shire to introduce Thorin to Bilbo's family. Two of the relatives who show up are Bilbo's aunts, and "Bilbo felt his heart freeze with a terror he had not felt since facing Smaug".
--> '''Aunt Mirabella:''' We have so very much to catch up on, my dear boy.
--> '''Aunt Donnamira:''' Oh, yes, quite a bit. Starting with why you ran off for a year without a word to anyone.
--> In answer, Bilbo — the Elf-friend, the Ring-bearer, the Burglar, the Barrel Rider, the Consort-to-be Under the Mountain — squeaked and dived for cover behind the sofa.
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* The whole watch-synchronizing bit, especially when Hercule calls [[BrickJoke Clouseau afterwards.]]


!! The ''[[Literature/TheHobbit Hobbit]]'' fanfic:
* Dáin notices something Thorin hasn't.
--> '''Dáin:''' Oh, Thorin? Glad to see you have one of your beads back. I look forward to the wedding.
* The BrickJoke of some of the Company sarcastically calling Bard Bilbo's mistress.
--> '''Thorin:''' What do you mean [Bilbo] took his mistress? Since when did he get a mistress?
--> '''Nori:''' [Bombur] means Bard.
--> '''Thorin:''' WHAT?! I WAS OUT FOR TWO DAYS AND YOU FOOLS LET HIM RUN OFF WITH THAT WORM?! WHAT IS WRONG WITH ALL OF YOU?! YOU HAD ONE JOB! ''ONE''!
* Bard wonders what the Company will do after reading the letters Bilbo left, saying where he was going.
--> '''Bilbo:''' Scream. Curse. Brood. Scream some more. [...] I'm hoping Gandalf will talk some sense into them if they try [to follow us]. They just came out of a battle where some of them nearly died. They can't handle such a journey.
--> '''Bard:''' Oh yeah, and we're in such great shape ourselves.
* Bilbo and Beorn watch Bard and Tauriel fight.
--> '''Bilbo:''' It's like watching a pair of siblings.
--> '''Beorn:''' I've seen nicer fights between cats and dogs.
* Bilbo dazedly telling Legolas he looks like his father when he glares, then adds that his father is pretty but has the personality of a rock.
* Gandalf coming to have a word with Bilbo after the latter is rescued from Mordor.
--> '''Bilbo:''' Gandalf! How... nice to see you. Here. With us.
--> '''Gandalf:''' Bilbo Baggins. It is time for you and I to have a conversation that has been ''long'' overdue.
--> '''Bilbo:''' I'm not sure about that. What are my chances of getting out of this conversation unharmed?
--> '''Gandalf:''' Slim. And getting slimmer.
* Bilbo and the Company go back to the Shire to introduce Thorin to Bilbo's family. Two of the relatives who show up are Bilbo's aunts, and "Bilbo felt his heart freeze with a terror he had not felt since facing Smaug".
--> '''Aunt Mirabella:''' We have so very much to catch up on, my dear boy.
--> '''Aunt Donnamira:''' Oh, yes, quite a bit. Starting with why you ran off for a year without a word to anyone.
--> In answer, Bilbo — the Elf-friend, the Ring-bearer, the Burglar, the Barrel Rider, the Consort-to-be Under the Mountain — squeaked and dived for cover behind the sofa.
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!! The fanfic:

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!! The ''Franchise/ThePinkPanther'' movie:
* Clouseau is in a multistory building where a musical is taking place. Suddenly, Clouseau hears what he believes is a scream (it's a woman singing for the audience), and is ready to knock down the door, but [[DoorJudo an usher opens the door for him, causing him to dash across the room and out an open window]], falling into a pool of SoftWater down on the first floor.
* Also, the act where Clouseau and Maria Gambrelli must enter into a nudist colony, searching for a specific person. [[spoiler:The person they are seeking is found dead.]] In the end they must escape from the colony without their clothes, so as not to be framed, but they end up stuck in traffic, where onlookers discover that they are nude. They both are taken to the police station with three cops "glued" to the back window of the paddy wagon, looking in at them.
** Made funnier by the fact that it's the culmination of a RunningGag of Clouseau being arrested and being hauled away in the same paddy wagon for failing to provide "Licenses" for his disguises, with visual gags representing most of the disguises sticking out the back of the wagon.
* The whole watch-synchronizing bit, especially when Hercule calls [[BrickJoke Clouseau afterwards.]]


!! The ''[[Literature/TheHobbit Hobbit]]''
fanfic:
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* Bilbo and the Company go back to the Shire to introduce Thorin to Bilbo's family. Two of the relatives who show up are Bilbo's aunts, and "Bilbo felt his heart freeze with a terror he had not felt since facing Smaug".
--> '''Aunt Mirabella:''' We have so very much to catch up on, my dear boy.
--> '''Aunt Donnamira:''' Oh, yes, quite a bit. Starting with why you ran off for a year without a word to anyone.
--> In answer, Bilbo — the Elf-friend, the Ring-bearer, the Burglar, the Barrel Rider, the Consort-to-be Under the Mountain — squeaked and dived for cover behind the sofa.
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* Gandalf coming to have a word with Bilbo after the latter is rescued from Mordor.
--> '''Bilbo:''' Gandalf! How... nice to see you. Here. With us.
--> '''Gandalf:''' Bilbo Baggins. It is time for you and I to have a conversation that has been ''long'' overdue.
--> '''Bilbo:''' I'm not sure about that. What are my chances of getting out of this conversation unharmed?
--> '''Gandalf:''' Slim. And getting slimmer.
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* Bilbo dazedly telling Legolas he looks like his father when he glares, then adds that his father is pretty but has the personality of a rock.
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* Bilbo and Beorn watch Bard and Tauriel fight.
--> '''Bilbo:''' It's like watching a pair of siblings.
--> '''Beorn:''' I've seen nicer fights between cats and dogs.
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!! The fanfic:
* Dáin notices something Thorin hasn't.
--> '''Dáin:''' Oh, Thorin? Glad to see you have one of your beads back. I look forward to the wedding.
* The BrickJoke of some of the Company sarcastically calling Bard Bilbo's mistress.
--> '''Thorin:''' What do you mean [Bilbo] took his mistress? Since when did he get a mistress?
--> '''Nori:''' [Bombur] means Bard.
--> '''Thorin:''' WHAT?! I WAS OUT FOR TWO DAYS AND YOU FOOLS LET HIM RUN OFF WITH THAT WORM?! WHAT IS WRONG WITH ALL OF YOU?! YOU HAD ONE JOB! ''ONE''!
* Bard wonders what the Company will do after reading the letters Bilbo left, saying where he was going.
--> '''Bilbo:''' Scream. Curse. Brood. Scream some more. [...] I'm hoping Gandalf will talk some sense into them if they try [to follow us]. They just came out of a battle where some of them nearly died. They can't handle such a journey.
--> '''Bard:''' Oh yeah, and we're in such great shape ourselves.
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