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  • The Moment Killer as Joi was about to (virtually) kiss K. The Blade Runner receives a phone call on Joi's emitter and it freezes her in kissing position.
  • Wallace's file clerk jokes about how, amidst all the genuinely devastating data losses during the blackout, the missing bank records were actually a plus for indebted families like his.
  • Luv saves K's life using remote-controlled drone missile strikes from a chair to blast the scavengers attacking the Blade Runner in the dump yard of San Diego... while having some fancy manicure. There's a small animated reindeer on her thumb's nail, among other things.
  • Joi suggesting K take a new name when he believes himself to have had a birth. Funnier as Joi continues speaking to K and referring to him as Joe until K gets annoyed.
  • The sheer environmental toxification of the film's world gets some dark laughs at times, like when K gets a shower that cheerfully labels itself as "99 percent detoxified water." It lasts for literally one second.
  • While talking with K in his apartment, Joshi more-or-less hits on him by asking what'll happen between them when the booze runs dry. K completely ignores it, and cue "not a basic pleasure model" jokes from the internet commentators.
  • Some Black Comedy with Luv's indifferent treatment of Joshi's body after she kills her. After holding it up so her face can get scanned, she lets Joshi's face slam against the table before falling onto the floor.
  • Although it's more sweet than anything else (since it shows he cares so much about her that he doesn't treat her differently than a flesh-and-blood person), when K and Joi are experiencing some rough weather in his spinner above San Diego, K turns to her and tells Joi, "Buckle up." Um....Why, exactly?
  • K makes polite small talk in Wallace Headquarters with a slightly creepy, balding desk clerk (played by Caliban, no less.)
    Desk Clerk: (ruefully) My mom still cries over the lost baby pictures.
    K: Well, that's a shame, you must have been adorable.
  • The first words coming out of Deckard, the previous protagonist and a major catalyst of both films' events, played by much renowned actor Harrison Ford:
  • Deckard and K's first meeting, where K lets Deckard punch him silly to prove he has no hostile intentions.
    Deckard: (Referring to the Elvis recording of "Can't Help Falling in Love") I like this song. (awkward silence between them) We could keep at this, or we could get a drink.
    K: (spits blood, then goes over and retrieves his gun from the floor) I'll take the drink.
  • Deckard offering K a drink after punching him half a dozen times is downright hilarious in light of the fact that that's exactly what happened between Ford and Gosling in real life when Ford accidentally punched Gosling for real in one take of the fight scene.
  • When Deckard's Post-Apocalyptic Dog joins them at the bar, Deckard takes one of the millions of bottles of whiskey and pours it onto the floor, which the dog then immediately starts happily lapping up. It's both funny and totally adorable.
  • Also, this exchange:
    K: Is that real? (referring to Deckard's dog)
    Deckard: I dunno... Ask him.
  • The Running Gag of Joi's emitter going off at odd moments, her cheerful Leitmotif contrasting about as much as it is possible to do in the bleak setting of the film. At one point she is poking around Deckard's hideout while K dozes, and when the dog walks in, K turns off the emitter, hiding Joi just before Deckard walks in. It's never clear if Deckard knows she's present.
  • When K confronts Sapper Morton, their physical language gets more confrontation as they prepare for a fight. Meanwhile they discuss Sapper's farming and what he's cooking. When Sapper says he grows garlic for himself, K stops, looks around, and with a squeamish look asks "Is that what I smell?" The fact that the audience has clearly seen Sapper farming grubs earlier pushes it into outright Blatant Lies territory. Soon after, K even glances into Sapper's cooking pot to make sure.
    • During their conversation, K mentions that he never eats before the day's work is done, making it especially amusing when the first thing he does after killing Sapper is to inspect whatever Sapper had on the stove.
  • There's a little bit of this mixed with Fridge Brilliance when you realize that the Living MacGuffin everyone has spent the whole movie searching for, the one that Wallace's so desperate to find, has literally been right under his nose the entire time. So much for Mr. Godlike Genius Scientist Visionary. Not only is the child he wants someone who he has business dealings with on a regular basis, she literally works for a subdivision that his company controls!
  • Immediately after K explains that Rachael liked Deckard, based on how she was asking him personal questions to raise a response, Luv immediately starts questioning K on personal matters.
  • K and Mariette's implied sex in K's apartment where Joi attempt to overlay herself on top of Mariette. It's funny, awkward and heartwarming moment rolled into one.
    Mariette: *Smirks* "Look at you..."
    Joi: "Quiet! Now I have to sync."
  • The wooden horse. A worker mentions to K that selling the thing could make K filthy rich. Meanwhile K just wants it scanned.
  • Deckard offers K some whiskey. Then remarks with an air of resignation that he's got millions of bottles of whiskey, since he's hiding out in the remains of Las Vegas.
  • When Luv arrives with her hit squad to capture Deckard, he slams a heavy door and locks it behind him, evidently still not trusting K. A moment later, K casually enters through a solid marble wall and the two continue running like Deckard didn't just try to leave K behind.
    • Even funnier? Deckard doesn't just lock the door immediately, he waits for his dog to get through, then locks the door on K. Clearly the man has his priorities in order.
  • When Deckard is confronted by Wallace, it's a bit darkly humorous when the all-dominating villain on the verge of winning gets put off just because he is told one thing he can't even see:
    Deckard: "Her eyes were green."

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  • The page's picture from the filming, with Ryan Gosling and Harrison Ford making priceless faces when shooting the Las Vegas fight scene. It happened after Ford accidentally punched Gosling for real.

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