History Funny / TheTerminator

-->'''Policeman''': Wha?

** Doubly so when you remember those were the FamousLastWords of one of the aforementioned punks (the one played by Creator/BillPaxton). Indicating the Terminator learned that phrase shortly after arriving... and decided ''this'' was the appropriate moment to use it.

* The amused punks teasing the T-800 in the beginning: "Nice night for a walk" "Wash day tomorrow, nothing clean, right?", before it turns into MoodWhiplash.

** In a dark way, after it's clear the cop won't let the Terminator through, he carefully surveys the wood-and-glass construction separating the lobby from the rest of the police station. Obviously satisfied with its scan, the Terminator leans forward, delivers the immortal line, then follows through. . . with CarFu to knock the barrier down and gain access to the police station.

-->''(the T-800 turns its head to face the door, its vision showing a dialogue tree with the following options for responses: "Yes/No"; "Or what?"; "Go away"; "Please come back later"; "Fuck you, asshole"; and "Fuck you"''
--> '''T-800:''' [[PrecisionFStrike Fuck you, asshole]].
** Doubly so when you remember those were the FamousLastWords of one of the aforementioned punks (the one played by Creator/BillPaxton). Indicating the Terminator learned that phrase shortly after arriving. . . and decided ''this'' was the appropriate moment to use it.

* The gun store owner describing all his heavy weaponry as [[NoKillLikeOverKill "ideal for home defense."]]

* Meta example: The reason for the infamously poor stop motion animation of the Terminator's endoskeleton at the end? The visual effects team made it out of steel, [[FailedASpotCheck not realising how heavy and difficult to operate this would make it.]] [[DidntThinkThisThrough Oops.]]

-->'''Reeese (yelling)''': What year?!
-->'''Policeman''': what?

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-->''(the T-800 turns its head to face the door, its vision showing a dialogue tree with the following options for responses: "Yes/No"; "Or what?"; "Go away"; "Please come back later"; "Fuck you, asshole"; and "Fuck you"; it then chooses "Fuck you, asshole")''

* The gun store owner describing all his heavy weaponry as "ideal for home defense."

-->''(the T-800 turns its head to face the door, its vision showing a dialogue tree with the following possible responses: Yes/No; Or what?; Go away; Please come back later; Fuck you, asshole; and Fuck you; it then chooses "Fuck you, asshole")''

* After having a bad day at work, tripping up and falling on the floor, a rather mean kid puts ice cream down Sarah's apron. One of her co-workers rattles off a good line.

* Sarah's friend Matt calls her thinking it's his girlfriend Ginger (who lives with Sarah) and has Phone Sex with her. Sarah decides to mess with him at first and then seriously asks who this is. Matt, clearly embarrassed politely asks for Ginger, to which Sarah obliges. Then when Ginger is on the phone he repeats the exact same following line in the exact same tone.

* The scene of The T-800 ripping its eye out becomes funny when after he covers it with his shades, it adjusts its hair in the mirror before going out to try to kill Reese and Sarah once again.

--> "In a hundred years, who's gonna care?"

* Sarah bites Reese on the hand (which would become a RunningGag for every time Creator/MichaelBiehn stars in a James Cameron movie). Reese says the following line very matter-of-factly.

* Silberman and Vukovich dickishly enjoy themselves too much during Reese's interrogation, but Silberman does produce several cracking lines: Skynet is attempting some sort of "retroactive abortion" and "why didn't you bring... ray guns"

** The gun store owner in response presuming it's an actual contemporary weapon and responds he only sells what he has on display.
* The scene of The T-800 ripping its eye out becomes funny when after he covers it with his shades, it adjusts its hair in the mirror before going out to try to kill Reese and Sarah.

* Probably unintentional, but Ginger's EightiesHair in all its glory when primping with Sarah is hilarious.

* More HilariousInHindsight than due to the movie itself, but the cops in the police station rationalize that the terminator was just some "guy on PCP." Given that it's the standard excuse for vampire-related antics on ''Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer'', you start to wonder if the Sunnydale PD got some transfers...
* After the T-800 has killed Reese and is crawling after a badly injured Sarah. She manages to crush it in a hydraulic press, but not before she says "You're terminated, fucker!"

* After being run over by a truck, the T-800 disposes of the driver when he worriedly goes to check on it and commandeers the vehicle. It then turns toward the passenger, its human disguise completely mangled by this point, and tells him to get out. [[ScrewThisImOuttaHere The passenger wastes little to no time in complying]].

* More HilariousInHindsight than due to the movie itself, but the cops in the police station rationalize that the terminator was just some "guy on PCP." Given that it's the standard excuse for vampire related antics on ""Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer"", you start to wonder if the Sunnydale PD got some transfers...

* More HilariousInHindsight than due to the movie itself, but the cops in the police station rationalize that the terminator was just some "guy on PCP." Given that it's the standard excuse for vampire related antics on Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer, you start to wonder if the Sunnydale PD got some transfers...

* After [[spoiler: the T-800 has killed Reese and is crawling after a badly injured Sarah. She manages to crush it in a hydraulic press, but not before she says "You're terminated, fucker!"]]

-> '''Landlord''': Hey, buddy. You got a dead cat in there, or what?
->''(the T-800 turns its head to face the door, its vision showing a dialogue tree with the following possible responses: Yes/No; Or what?; Go away; Please come back later; Fuck you, asshole; and Fuck you; it then chooses "Fuck you, asshole")''
-> '''T-800:''' [[PrecisionFStrike Fuck you, asshole]].