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[[caption-width-right:350:Sister Mary's surfing habit is nun of your business.]]

* ''Film/LeGendarmeDeSaintTropez'' series of French films has several [[DrivesLikeCrazy eccentric nuns on 2CV]] aiding the eponymous policeman.

* Sister Clotilde in ''Film/LeGendarmeDeSaintTropez''. Sister Clotilde is a very enthusiastic young nun who DrivesLikeCrazy a comically small [[TheAllegedCar Citroën 2CV]]. She's ''myopic'' and wears no glasses.

* ''Film/LeGendarmeDeSaintTropez'' series of French films has several eccentric nuns on 2CV aiding the eponymous policeman.

* The Italian comic book ''Suore Ninja'' (lit. "Ninja Nuns") has the Vatican have a trio of ninja assassins to sick on any and all threats to their survival... And because of this trope, they are [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin the titular crazy nuns]]. Even ''ThePope'' was surprised when he was told (he had just been elected).

* The 1960's ''Series/{{Batman}}'' combines Batman with Nuns for great [[HilarityEnsues hilarity]].

* There was an episode of ''Series/WillAndGrace'' that featured a in a brief but humorous cameo. The nun was played by ''Ellen Degeneres'', so you ''know'' she's gonna say something funny.

* And what ''Comicbook/YoungJustice'' fan can forget the immortal words of Robin on a runaway supercycle: "Oh no! Nuns in a station wagon loaded with high explosives! [[http://robintheunlikelykiller.ytmnd.com/ Just my luck!" (Warning: sound)]]

** Said nuns are dressed... [[FetishFuel interestingly]], to say the least, and are rather impressive in their range. The synchronized-swimming team (of nuns), for example, ...

* ''Series/MontyPythonsFlyingCircus'' loves funny nuns: one sketch has the nuns and monks playing football.

* Mostly averted in ''Doubt: A Parable'', but Sister Aloysius has a line about nuns falling over like dominoes when one trips over something. The mental image of that is made of this trope.

* The German and Hungarian nuns in ''Lilies of the Field'' are pretty badass, having come over the Berlin Wall and on to New Mexico, and living on nothing; but even the ironclad Mother Superior has her cute, funny moments and they have a lot of FunWithForeignLanguages.

* In ''[[MilestoneComics Xombi]]'', despite not being comedic figures, there was Nun of the Above who had clairvoyant abilities and Nun the Less who could shrink. The humor mainly came from their punny names, and there was a third nun whose task was to guard a door to an underground prison. When asked which nun she was, she replied "[[StealthPun None of your business.]]"

* BarenakedLadies: But how do you plan for a bank full of nuns?

* ''Film/{{Airplane}}!'' has a gag where a nun is seeing reading the magazine "Boy's Life[[note]] The official magazine of the Boy Scouts of America[[/note]]", followed immediately by a boy reading "Nun's Life", with a cover featuring a nun riding a surfboard. Later, she's playing her guitar singing "Respect" to the two jive-talking black guys who are sick from eating fish.

This could be because "nun" is an {{Inherently Funny Word|s}}, or that their outfits look silly. This trope mostly manifests as "normal" things being made inherently funny due to nuns doing them. Someone boarding a plane? Normal. A nun doing it in her religious habit? Hilarious! Of course, the majority of modern nuns ''do not'' wear habits anymore, preferring plain black or grey dresses instead, maybe including the headdress, but...[[RuleOfFunny that's not as funny.]] [[note]]Some of the more traditional orders still prefer religious members to stay in full habit all the time. [[/note]] Also, the ''[[JustForPun convent]]''ional stereotype of them is that they are very stern, severe and disapproving, thus making them either [[TheComicallySerious foils for wackiness going on around them]] or upping the humor value when ''they'' [[NunTooHoly do something wacky]].

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* The ''WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy'' episode "When You Wish Upon A Weinstein" has a gaggle of nuns go out, ChurchMilitant style when they (somehow) detect Peter, a Catholic, entering a synagogue.

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* Throughout the entirety of ''WesternAnimation/AGoofyMovie'', [[RunningGag Goofy and Max keep on bumping into the same four nuns]] at various escalatingly unexpected times, including during [[CrowdSong an impromptu musical number on the highway]], at a monster truck rally [[LikeADuckTakesToWater that they seem to be very excited about]], and finally [[SerialEscalation a huge rock concert]] which we must assume is the entire reason they were on the road in the first place.

* A gag in ''RushHour 3'' has Carter (and eventually Lee as well) trading insults with a French-speaking triad through a nun. Lee (at first) reminds Carter to watch his mouth: "Sister, you tell this piece of S-Word that I will personally F-word him up."

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* The German and Hungarian nuns in ''Lilies of the Field'' are pretty {{Badass}}, having come over the Berlin Wall and on to New Mexico, and living on nothing; but even the ironclad Mother Superior has her cute, funny moments and they have a lot of FunWithForeignLanguages.

* Throughout the entirety of ''AGoofyMovie'', [[RunningGag Goofy and Max keep on bumping into the same four nuns]] at various escalatingly unexpected times, including during [[CrowdSong an impromptu musical number on the highway]], at a monster truck rally [[LikeADuckTakesToWater that they seem to be very excited about]], and finally [[SerialEscalation a huge rock concert]] which we must assume is the entire reason they were on the road in the first place.

* One of the reasons why, after ''Anime/MagicalGirlLyricalNanohaStrikerS'', the writers had [[NunTooHoly the very childish and naughty]] [[spoiler:Sein]] become a nun-in-training and placed her under the direct tutelage of the [[SternTeacher lecture-happy]], [[TheComicallySerious super-serious]] Sister Schach. [[spoiler:The other reason is DefeatMeansFriendship]].

* ''ChronoCrusade'' plays with this trope some in the first few episodes/volumes of the manga. Rosette is just not your typical nun and it makes it rather hilarious.