Funny / Bushwhacked

• The smoke signal scene.
  Fishman: Okay, “H” is two longs and one short. ...No no no, stop, stop, wait, two shorts and one long.
  Barnhill: Oh great! What are we supposed to do, cross that letter out!?
  • Then when Jack tries to read them:
  "'Belp'...'Belp'?"

• When Max is revealed to be a fugitive by the store clerk in front of Scout Leader Erikson, there’s a brief moment where Max and Erikson slowly look at one another. The sheer panic on Max’s face sells it.

• Later in the film, Fishman bursts out of the trees and runs to Max, screaming his head off. When Max demands to know what the problem is, the troop points out a bear cub nearby. What does poor Max proceed to do? He starts playing with it, much to the horror of the scouts.
  • Then finally, Fishman reminds Max that the cub wasn’t the bear that sent him running. Cue the literal Mama Bear coming up behind Max, who doesn’t notice until he turns around to meet her face-to-face.

• Earlier in the film, Max is swarmed by several biting insects at a campground. Fishman helpfully offers him a small vial of bug repellant. However, Max doesn’t use it as intended, and instead chugs the entire bottle. Only after it’s empty does he notice, and stumbles offscreen to bring it back up.

• After hiking through the woods for about an hour, the kids eventually pull over to a nearby cliff to answer nature’s call. What they don’t know however, is that Agent Palmer and Scout Leader Erikson are right on their tails. This exchange follows:
  Barnhill: Hey Spider! We just pissed on some guy’s head!
  Max: (Immediately looks over the cliff, as Palmer screams angrily up at them) OH FUUUU—uuudge…(Awkwardly looks at the surprised kids)
  • He then orders them to run. When they hesitate, he claims it’s to earn their “running badges”, which gets them going at once.

• ”I’m Milton Fishman superstud, I’m Milton Fishman superstud…I’m Milton Fishman superstud! It’s not working!”

• When the gang has to set up camp somewhere, Fishman declares that they should start looking for pinecones to start a campfire. Exasperated by the earlier events of that day, Max echoes “pinecones?” with an expression that screams are you serious? Unfazed, Fishman whips out his manual, stating what it says in the book. Max retorts with this gem: “If the manual told ya to stick your wiener in a light socket, would ya do it?”
  • Fishman is actually speechless at this, for once.

• The above incident is followed up by the troop excitedly plucking the biggest pinecones they can find out of the trees. Max joins in on the fun, boasting that he found one “as big as a football”. He then pretends to play football with said “pinecone”, as most of the kids beg that he throw it to them. Only Fishman is wise enough to realize that what Max is holding is in fact not a pinecone…it’s a beehive .
  • Cue Oh, Crap! from Max, and the scouts.
  • Even better, as Max proceeds to scream, there’s a few reaction shots of the local wildlife—including the bear from a few scenes ago!

• When the troop finds out who Max really is, they initially panic. In the middle of them figuring out how to survive now that they’re trapped with someone who’s been accused of murder, we get this gem:
  Kelsey: Oh god, we’re trapped with a killer!
  Fishman: (Frantically flipping through his trusty manual) I don’t think they cover that in here!