Funny / Carmen Sandiego

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Games

• The animations of the Acme Good Guides capturing the criminals in the 1996 World and USA games.
  • Rock Solid rolls a log over the perp, making him/her Squashed Flat or he swings his axe at a tree that causes an entire prison to be built around them.
  • Dee Plomassy just points at the perp, and a mob zips in and ties them up. In U.S.A., she slams her turban over the perp, trapping them like a strait jacket, then tips them over.
  • Ann Tickwitee holds a genie's lamp in hand. The perp laughs until Ann rubs it, summoning a genie who grabs them and drags them into the lamp.
  • Kim Yoonitee skips towards the perp and hands them a balloon. The perp flies away until Kim uses a pea-shooter to pop said balloon and the perp comes crashing down.
  • Herman Nootix throws the book underneath the perp's feet to trip them up.
  • Renee Santz uses a paintbrush to paint ropes and a gag on the perp, or she plays a saxophone solo that causes the perp to dance until the musical notes trip them.
  • Ivan Idea summons a little floating sphere drone before it summons a hand on a winch wielding a mallet that lightly taps the perp on the head.
  • V.I.L.E.'s bumbling agents (RoboCrook, Carmine the cat, and the janitor ICK Brothers) in the same games, who show up whenever you are making progress in the case. Their antics are enough to make one wonder what could possibly motivate Carmen to continue employing them,
• Carmen Sandiego: Word Detective:
  Carmen: [to crook] Take these keys and hide them, and not under your pillow like the last time.
• In Where in Time Is Carmen Sandiego?/Carmen Sandiego's Great Chase Through Time, you can do a number of things to annoy the NPCs you're with, such as botching up the mummification process in the Egypt level, using Gutenberg's printing press without uting any ink on in the Germany level and generally drive historical figures up the wall as much as the villain you're trying to capture!

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2019 Netflix cartoon

Season 1

Becoming Carmen Sandiego (Part 1)

• Chase giving chase, and failing spectacularly.
• The ridiculously slow elevator, and Chase lampshading it.
  Chase: Why must the elevator date back two centuries? Was no-one ever IN A HURRY BACK THEN?!
  • After cutting to Carmen for a few minutes, it then cuts back Chase finally emerging from the elevator... only to find that it's only gone up one floor.
• Carmen and Player's banter.
  Carmen: Okay, who walls up an atrium?
  Player: Anyone who values storage over natural light.
  Carmen: He said, a little too knowingly.
  Player: Don't judge. I'm happy here in my dark little cave.
• Chase falling down onto his car, faceplanting onto the window and slowly sliding down.
• Chase tells Carmen to stop. So she does. But when Chase takes a few steps towards her...
  Carmen: You didn't say how long! [flees]
  • His completely serious response to her obvious Trolling is worth a chuckle or two.
  Chase: It was implied!
• Carmen's pranks at throwing water balloons at Cookie every time she came to VILE to upload new data. She's always on schedule.
  • When Cookie's driver angrily chases Carmen, she slips and is nearly caught before Coach Brunt comes over, towering over the man and punching him away. She then moves the wet caution sign over to the man now sitting in the fountain as she takes Carmen away for a treat.
• While trying to decide his codename, Gray suggests Graham Crackle.
  Jean Paul: We are criminals! Who would take us seriously if we had puns for names?
  • A hilarious jab at all the VILE agents with punny names in the original continuity.
• While talking with Player, Carmen gets called away by Graham and tells Player she's got an infiltration class to run to. Player, with a quizzical look on his face, asks "What kind of school do you go to again?"

Becoming Carmen Sandiego (Part 2)

• The scene where Mime Bomb is revealed to be the V.I.L.E. council's spy among the student body reveals a bit of a flaw in his position — namely, that they have to spend some time deciphering his charades to get any useful information.
  Maelstrom: Who here thought it was a good idea to make a mime a spy?
• Carmen's expression when Coach Brunt blames herself for Carmen failing and giving her a Bear Hug.
• As Carmen prepares to break in and steal back her phone, Maelstrom and Dr. Bellum talk about how Carmen got her hands on the phone, with Bellum wondering why Carmen didn't turn in the item she stole for extra credit.
• Player's reaction to learning that Carmen is in a thief school.
  Player: I’d say that would explain a lot...
• Carmen talking to the Mime Bomb, with Player still on the other line.
  Player: This is the most one-sided conversation I've ever heard.
• Carmen putting two and two together, realizing Mime Bomb was going to snitch on her and throws him in the janitors closet.
  • However, Mime Bomb looks around and spots a tool case. As he grabs it in order to pick the lock, Carmen returns and snatches the box away from him before slamming the door shut.
  Carmen: And don't even think about picking the lock!
  • Just before this, when Carmen turns to chase Mime Bomb, he runs... or rather, mimes running. Carmen tackles him with little problem.
• While Carmen is riding the elevator with Cookie, the background music is a Muzak-style rendition of the Where on Earth Is Carmen Sandiego? theme.

The Sticky Rice Caper

• Carmen, noticing that they're being followed, tells Zack to shake the tail. Zack proclaims that he can shake it all night long, and Carmen dryly notes, "Not your booty. The tail!"
• Ivy blocking the agent, wearing a fake beard and dressing up as a fisherman. When they angrily demand she move, this is what she asks.
  Ivy: Uh... Parlez-vous français?
  Agent Zari: MOVE IT! NOW!
• On the plane trip to Indonesia, Zack and Ivy get into a fight since Ivy didn't get any food. When Player asks how the siblings are (specifically asking when she was going to throw them off the plane), going on, Carmen states that they're "in-flight entertainment".
• Dr. Bellum telling her co-worker that she was actually looking over something very important. One of her many screens shows a slice of pie, and a cat that she takes a moment to "aw" at.
• Apparently Zack and Ivy met with Carmen at a V.I.L.E hide-out disguised as a donut-shop. We get the whole story in the second season.
• During a car chase, a durian is hurled onto the windshield. Zack is happy to find something to eat, but when he sniffs it, he recoils in disgust...for about three seconds before taking a bite.
  • Then when Ivy gets thrown back into the car, she sniffs the air and wonders what it is.
• When Carmen initially confronts Tigress, she asks what V.I.L.E. is planning.
  Tigress: Wouldn't you like to know?
  Carmen: Yes. That's why I'm asking.
• As Tigress prepares the fireworks with the bioweapon inside the doctor tells her to launch on schedule as to not seem suspicious. Tigress gets this good zing in about Carmen.
  Tigress: You do realize that means risking another surprise visit from Fedora the Explorer? Or whatever she's calling herself these days.
  • Carmen’s reaction is also slightly chuckle-worthy:
  Carmen: Name-calling. Another reason I unfriended you.
• Dr. Bellum doesn't get Tigress' call about launching the fireworks early since Carmen arrived, because she was busy watching cat videos. Specifically one playing the piano.
• The musicians at the festival are remarkably blase about Carmen and Tigress brawling right in front of them. The puppeteers not so much - they go screaming in fear when the fight spills over onto the stage.
  • Carmen and Tigress's fight ends up getting mistaken for part of the performance, with the audience clapping and cheering and Tigress going as far as to give a little bow when she wins. The musicians even start up a new song for them.
• The flashback of child Carmen eating VILE brand rice. She hated it.
  Carmen: Vile doesn't even come close to describing it.

The Fishy Doubloon Caper

• While digging through the chest in the sunken ship, Carmen seems to find a real life treasure map... only for the ancient map to disintegrate into the water seconds after being unrolled.
• Player calls in Ivy and Zack that Carmen needed them, unfortunately notifying her previous classmate, La Chevre. As he walks towards them with a giant fish hook asking if this Carmen was Carmen Sandiego, Ivy and Zack switch between saying San Francisco and San Jose.
  Ivy/Zack: [simultaneously] Carmen Sanfrancisco. / Carmen Sanjose.
  Ivy/Zack: Sanjose? / Sanfrancisco!
  Ivy/Zack: Sanfrancisco! / Sanjose!
• Carmen and El Topo's dumbfounded reactions when a fish swallows the doubloon right before either of them can grab it.
  Carmen: Wow, that really just happened.
  • And shortly after, the fish is caught in a net and carried to the surface.
  Carmen: Come on, really?
• El Topo surfaces due to Carmen pulling out the oxygen tube in his swim gear this causes Le Chèvre to get get distracted, as he attempts to get a life saver Zack and Ivy push him off the boat.
• Maelstorm's reasons for wanting the doubloon? He wants to melt it down into cuff-links so he can make Countess Cleo jealous.
• Zack and Ivy have to obtain the tuna that swallowed the doubloon. So Zack decides to bid for the tuna at $150,000 which is more than anyone else can afford much to everyone's surpsise. Even Le Chevre is bewildered and Carmen just facepalms.
• The Chief accidentally pokes her holographic finger through Chase's head while pointing at him emphatically.
  [Beat]
  Chief: Okay, stay still, because if I don't pull out slowly, you could wind up speaking backwards or tasting color. [Beat] I'm joking!
• El Topo accidentally knocks out Le Chevre with the fish. As they walk away, El Topo claims he lost consciousness due to altitude sickness.

The Duke of Vermeer Caper

• Zack's look of horror when Carmen notifies him that he will need to act like a duke, and wear a suit.
  • For context, Zack opens the door to their suite, thinking it was room service, and out comes Dash Haber (one of Countess Cleo's lackeys). Zack has to lie that he is a Duke (since Carmen Sandiego's alias for the mission is The Duchess). The conversation from when the two first meet sells it.
  Dash: You aren't a duchess.
  Zack: You...aren't a sandwich.
• Zack's delirious talk switching from "Park the car in aardvark yard" and figuring out which fork is which then becoming both.
• Chase follows Carmen and Ivy as they try to jump over a bridge...but Ivy chickens out at the last second, causing Chase to fly over them and land the car into the upturned bridge...which falls into the water.
  • Carmen and Ivy can only stare blankly as Chase falls into the river which really clinches it.
  Carmen: (stunned) Way to shake a tail.
  • Then, he has to use the ejection seat...cue him rising hundreds of feet into the air, screaming.
• Dash trying to impress Cleo who's having none of his shenanigans and he becomes jealous when she shows an obvious liking towards Zack.
  • As he's putting the painting away, he's angrily muttering, "Duke, schmuke."
• Cleo telling Zack a joke about Dash and Zack mentions that Dash probably thought art was just a painting of dogs playing poker.
  • He mentions earlier in the episode that he thought the above was true art.
• Zack having to eat beluga caviar (he's not into fish) and just as he's forced to swallow a spoonful, Chase barges in. When no one is looking, Zack tosses the caviar to the side.
• Chase barges into the dinner party, proclaiming that he knew a dangerous criminal was here.
  • What really makes it is the fact that Chase is stating this to a room packed with known criminals and V.I.L.E AGENTS!!! In fairness to him, however, he didn’t know until later that they were V.I.L.E. agents. Which leads to another funny moment when he’s embarrassed to find out he could have given the Chief proof of the existence of V.I.L.E. had he not been so focused on Carmen Sandiego!
    • The Janitors standing behind him are ready to knock him out with weapons, but when Chase says he's here for Carmen Sandiego, they look disappointed before lowering their tools.
• Chase goes after someone whom he believes is Carmen on a snowmobile (it’s actually Ivy acting as a decoy) and when he catches up to her Ivy angrily asks why he was chasing her, which only confuses Chase more.
  Chase: But... your red coat!
  Ivy: What about it? Red brings out my eyes and COATS ARE WARM!
  Chase: [flinches and snow falls on his head]

The Opera in the Outback Caper

• To keep the scientist from launching the rocket when under the influence of VILE's hypnosis Ivy and Zack attempt to turn her around with little effect and end up tying her up with rope and shoving her in a room.
• Zack telling El Topo that the opera song was causing the dingoes to go crazy outside.
  • He then drives up to save Le Chevre telling him that all of the dingoes have gone away.
  El Topo: Le Chevre! It is safe to come down! The dingoes have all gone!
  Le Chevre: What are you taking about?
• Any Australian viewers will have this reaction to the Australian accents attempted in this episode... if not just a version of 'WTH'?
  • The episode even opens to Player's bizarre accent which is by far the most hammy.
• After Ivy falls from the rocket, Carmen saves her and stops the rocket from launching with only two seconds left. Ivy takes note of the number two, and says she thinks she done the same thing in her pants.

The Chasing Paper Caper

• Maelstrom gives a speech about the slide he's showing holds the image of the foundation of law and order in the Western world. Coach Brunt points out that she thinks it looks like a lion cub chasing its own tail. Gunnar looks up to see that one of his psychology ink blot tests was on the screen with the image Brunt described. He mutters that that wasn't what he was talking about as he moves to the next slide to reveal the Magna Carta.
  Maelstrom: Erm, wrong slide.
• In the flashback, Paper Star folds an origami, bows to Shadowsan and attempts to throw it at the instructor who easily dodges, but the star ends up tearing through his paper screen door. He's less than pleased.
• Carmen muttering "Come on", when Paper Star's shuriken cuts up her fedora. Carmen swears that Paper Star is going to get her a new hat.
• Le Chevre telling the staff that Paper Star made him tell where the getaway point was because she gave him very deadly paper cuts. He exclaims that she was a psychopath, causing the other VILE instructors to glare at Maelstrom. He gingerly tries to cover himself.
  Maelstrom: [Nervous Laugh] Merely a label, you know.
  • El Chevre also shows that Paper Star gave him paper cuts on both hands that were in casts.
• Chase ends up accidentally cuffing himself (or being cuffed by Carmen) to a chair going through a tunnel trying to cuff Carmen! Even going straight into a stuttering "No, no no no!"

The Lucky Cat Caper

• Carmen wakes up from a dream of her failing Shadow-san's test with her phone ringing. She immediately picks it up to shout, "The coat was empty, wasn't it?!"
  • Player's exasperated response suggests that she has answered several phone calls this way.
• Player tells Carmen she'll have to get through Karl. She's confused at first before remembering that the San Franciscans call the fog "Karl".
• As Chase is pursuing Carmen through the fog, he gloats about how easy it is to track her by the sound of her heels. Cue silence, followed by one of Carmen's shoes smacking into his face.
• The poor lucky cat shopkeeper who cowers behind their counter while gingerly holding up one of their cats as Carmen and Tigress fight.
  Shopkeeper: We have others, you know!
• Chase attempts to interrogate Mime Bomb. It goes...about as well as you might think.
  Chase: Three words, first syllable. An elephant, getting a pedicure? Giving you a pedicure? While rolling cheese onto a baguette? On Bastille Day?!
  Mime Bomb: [face palms]
  • Julia ends up perfectly translating what Mime Bomb was trying to say.
• When Chase states that his coat is lucky, Julia asks if he was wearing this "lucky" coat when he crashed his car into the river, or when he fell off a roof ledge onto his windshield.

The French Connection Caper

• Due to having his coat shredded in the previous episode, Chase is stuck wearing a jacket with a Lucky Cat on it.
  Chief: Are you joining a K-Pop band?
  Chase: I was cold, it was on sale...
• Chase's attempts to resist VILE's truth machine strapped to his head is by screaming the French anthem. This throws off Coach Brunt for a good few moments.
• As Zack is fleeing from Coach Brunt and can't climb the wall, he climbs up a pipe that is literally right above her.
• After Shadowsan reveals how he's Good All Along, he then admits that yes, his coat was empty.
  Carmen: I KNEW IT!

Season 2

The Hot Rocks of Rio Caper (Part 1)

• Zack thought a Carnival dancer was Tigress and Ivy states that a VILE operative dressed up as themselves would be the "lamest disguise ever". Later on, Zack and Ivy are easily able to recognize Le Chevre. Why? He's wearing a goat mask.
  Ivy: We spotted Le Chevre in the lamest disguise ever.
  • Le Chevre's repeated insistence that it's a costume, not a disguise.
• Zack and Ivy trying to bribe a jewelry store owner for info about the alexandrite mining location, with Zack first mistaking "bribe" for "bride" and then trying to bribe him by using the owner's own watches.

The Hot Rocks of Rio Caper (Part 2)

• After Tigress tells the heads of VILE about Shadowsan being at the mining operation in Rio de Janeiro, she tells them how he claimed he'd informed the other heads of VILE that he was there — only he never told the other heads of V.I.L.E. that he was in Rio! Tigress gradually realizes what this means and the Oh, Crap! expression on her face when she asks if he never told them is hilarious, as is Coach Brunt's violent reaction!
• Ivy and Zack's reactions to Shadowsan joining them: Zack is gushing about ninja training and Ivy just gives the "I've got my eye on you" gesture. Shadowsan snarls in annoyance.
• Ivy and Zack performing their duck dance in matching costumes on top of a giant duck float that's currently housing the mined alexandrite.

• "Now, would you care to explain to us how you can so quickly lose sight... of a GIANT DRAGON!?"

The Daisho Caper

• Ivy and Zack, who are from Boston, singing, of course, More Than a Feeling. Especially noteworthy is Zack's over the top performance and both of them replacing "Marianne" lyrics with "Shadowsan", to his distress.
• In Lady Dokusho's bar, one of the hired mooks is singing "Suspicious Minds" until Shadowsan arrives. This becomes the fighting music as Shadow-san brawls.

The Fashionista Caper

• Julia practicing what she will say when she catches Carmen.
  Julia: Sandiego... (puts glasses on) You just got beached.
  (music similar to "Won't Get Fooled Again" plays, cutting off when Julia walks into a wall)
• Shadowsan awkwardly asking if he can buy a pair of sunglasses. His reason?
  Shadowsan: Zack got to have gelato and pizza.
  • And prior to that, he's the one who brings up about the Fashion Fest. There's a pause before he explains that he heard it from Countess Cleo.
• Carmen asks Julia to help her steal the gowns by asking her to pose. You can tell that she's easily flustered by it as she doesn't put her hand on her hip during the pose scene.
  • Julia notes that there are four gowns and only two of them. Carmen states she has it covered. Cut to Zack and Ivy on stage and posing as if they're in a disco much to the DJ's confusion and the audience thinking it's All Part of the Show.

The Boston Tea Party Caper

• The episode's info dump about Boston happens right when Carmen is about to sneak onto the boat containing V.I.L.E.'s counterfeiting operation. Zack yanks her down and goes into his knowledge about the city at one of the least opportune times.
• Zack and Ivy decide to gather some money under their clothes. And by "some", they stuff their shirts with them!
• When Zack looks at one of the windows to see Coach Brunt telling El Topo to print more money to buy "Beantown" real estate, Zack (tied up in rope with Ivy) angrily yells to never call Boston, "Beantown", much to El Topo's surprise.
  Zack: Never. Ever. Call Boston, BEANTOWN!!!
  El Topo: (still looking at the screen, quickly looks over to the window to see where the scream came from with his eyes wide open and mouth gaping)

The Stockholm Syndrome Caper

• Moose, one of the two agents who capture Ivy in the mistaken belief that she is Carmen Sandiego. Not only is Ivy able to get valuable information from him about the data crystal containing stolen nuclear launch codes, but when she frees herself and Moose tries to recapture her, he winds up with his tongue stuck to ice!
• As Ivy takes on Carmen's role, Zack decides that this makes him Player, and proceeds to rattle off some (completely inaccurate) trivia about Stockholm. Player is not amused.
• With Carmen missing, Ivy put on her hat and red coat in a dramatic fashion, determined to finish the mission. She then run toward the stairs only to slip on the icy floor and falls down on her butt.
• Ivy interpreting the conversation between Otter Man and a buyer.
  Ivy: (pretending to be the buyer) [deep voice] Hello, I'm Shady McShade from some sleazy rogue nation. Check out my briefcase full of untraceable cash.
  Ivy: (pretending to be Otter Man) [squeaky voice] Wanna buy my icy gnome with a data crystal containing stolen nuclear launch codes hidden inside?
  Ivy: (pretending to be the buyer) [deep voice] Boy, do I!

The African Ice Caper

• After crashing a secret handoff between Le Chevre and a Swiss customer, Shadowsan escapes down a ski lift with the goods. Le Chevre follows, only to lose him in the station.
  Le Chevre: Show yourself!
  Shadowsan: (Drops the briefcase into Le Chevre's arms then drops down and karate chops him, knocking him out)
  Shadowsan: Be careful what you wish for.

The Deep Dive Caper

• Zack and Ivy are undercover as baristas at a local coffee shop. Their attempts to make a drink order include burning themselves on the hot steam and beating the machine with their hands.
• In the same scene, ACME Chief, for whom the drink is for, casually asks Carmen if the drink will be ready. Carmen just replies she wouldn't try it.

Season 3

The Luchadora Tango Caper

• Carmen breaks into a woman's house to see if she's Carmen's mother. Said woman is a luchadora and easily overpowers Zack and Ivy. She then attempts to intimidate Carmen. Carmen's response is a deadpan "Do you always wear a mask in your own house?"
• Lupe Pelligroso asks if they'd like to see her demonstrate a wrestling move. Zack enthusiastically agrees.
  Beat
  Zack/Ivy: Do it on her!/Do it on him!
• Coach Brunt refers to Chase as Carmen's "handsome partner." He's too flattered by the compliment to realize that Brunt thinks he's working with Carmen.
• During the exposition of Veracruz, Zack asks what's the signature dish there. It's red snapper. As it cuts from a picture of steak to the fish, the fish opens its mouth as Zack bemoans the fact that it's seafood.
• Chase practicing his quip for when he finally meets with Carmen again while Julia is questioning this...which is kinda hypocritical since she was also practicing those in the previous season.
• At the luchador arena, Julia questions why Carmen would be there since there's nothing to steal...Chase points to the numerous trophies next to them.
• During the wrestling match against Lupe, Coach Brunt's phone drops just as Maelstrom, Cleo and Dr. Bellum are watching at what she got into. Dr. Bellum has been doodling a cat burglar, as in a cat with a swag bag.

The Day of the Dead Caper

• Spinkick and Flytrap finding Carmen in the middle of a cornfield...but it's actually a scarecrow with the tracking device. Cut to Shadow-san in a car with a smirk as he drives off.
  • When Spinkick and Flytrap contact VILE, they are shocked to find Maelstrom dressed as a clown who suggests that they call him by his "parallel universe" name...Charlie Pants.
• Despite being a criminal organization, VILE decided to dress up for Halloween: Countess Cleo is a mummy with an Egyptian headdress, Dr. Bellum just put a giant glass bowl over her head, and Coach Brunt is a cowboy with a hobby horse.
  • Maelstrom warns the two operatives to find Carmen, all while brandishing a knife. When the call ends, he asks who's ready for the pumpkin carving contest as everyone else shows off pumpkins.
    • And later, they're off to playing "Bobbing for apples"...but replace the apples with haggis. Coach Brunt, of all people, is shown to be nervous of eating it, whereas Countess Cleo is excited! Thankfully for Brunt, the cleaners appearing at the door stops her from puking.
• When Carmen asks for Player to track the address of the art thief, he replies "Arr! Matey!" Cut to him wearing a pirate hat, eyepatch and parrot.
• Zack ate too many tacos and is about to hurl...right into the vase that has the client lists. Once Ivy fishes it out, then he vomits, which Contreras sticks her hand into when she tries to get her book.
• V.I.L.E.'s operative, Contreras, incapacitates Carmen by tricking her into saving an "artifact" that shocks her. She tries to repeat the trick when Zack and Ivy come looking for Carmen. But unfortunately for her, they don't have the same desire to preserve cultural history and let it crash to the floor.
  Ivy: I hope that wasn't worth a lot.

The Haunted Bayou Caper

• Zack is dressed up as a devil and gets spooked by a person in a hockey mask...which happens to be his sister.
• Chase is attending a costume party, intending to capture Carmen. When he contacts the Chief with news, he is still in his costume.
  Chief: A banana?
  Chase: I needed a disguise... It was on sale.
• The Troll trying and failing to walk the Cleaners through using a phone app.
• Paper Star ends up getting lost in the mansion.
  Paper Star: I would [abort the mission] if I knew how to find my way out of here!
• Carmen using the dressed up Red Drone (as a Bedsheet Ghost) to prank Paper Star and make her fall into the bayou waters.
• The Chief warns Chase that he has until midnight to catch Carmen or she will haunt him. At the end of the episode, Chase is on the roof of the manor and drops his communicator pen, which lands in front of Zack and Ivy and spooks them out.
  Chief: It's after midnight. LET THE HAUNTING BEGIN!

The Masks of Venice Caper

• Shortly after they arrive in Venice, Carmen and Shadowsan chase Mime Bomb, leaving Zack and Ivy to spot Neal the Eel when he arrives and leading to this inappropriately-timed conversation as they take chase:
  Zack: "It's that Australian guy!"
  Neal: "I'm from New Zealand! It's a completely different country, nitwit!"
  Zack: "He's right. I should really know that by now."
• Zack's disguise is basically him in costume and scribbled on mustache.
  • When being interrogated by Zari, he states that his English is terrible. So Zari speaks fluent Italian in front of him, making him speechless (thankfully Player gave him some Italian for him to recite back).
• When Zari is out to apprehend Carmen and Shadowsan, she's knocked unconscious by a guiding post wielded by Hideo.
  Hideo: (as Carmen and Shadowsan look in disbelief) What? I did not have olive oil.
• Mime Bomb attempts to warn Neal that the police are about to corner them, but Neal can't understand him. So, Mime Bomb eventually just flees on his own.
• When Chase jumps on her boat to arrest Carmen, he is very out of breath and can barely get his handcuffs out. Carmen merely leaves the masks with him and runs off.
• When Carmen and Shadowsan explain to Hideo that they are stealing the masks only to protect them, this is how the conversation goes:
  Carmen: Look, we are taking the masks, but only to protect them from real thieves. (shows a recording of a mime who pretends to be fishing)
  Hideo: A street performer!?
  Shadowsan: He is no common clown. He is an elite member of... an international criminal organization.
  Hideo: You mock me! It is clear that you are both attempting to distract me while your cohort does the dirty work!

The Jolly Good Show Caper

• Apparently, Countess Cleo wasn't briefed when they planned to trap Carmen by getting her caught trying to steal England's Crown Jewels.
  Cleo: She will? We are?! Oh my! They would go well with so many of my outfits!
  • And when Roundabout implies that they aren't, the disappointment is clear on her face and in her voice.
• Zack getting confused on what constitutes as "chips" in England and questioning where's the circus in Picadilly Circus.
• When Devineaux is alerted about Carmen's arrest, he's surprised to hear the news about his adversary. His response is what really sells it.
  Zari: Carmen Sandiego was just taken into custody... in London.
  Devineaux: THAT IS TERRIBLE! ...that we were not.. the ones to make the arrest.

• During the swordfight between Shadowsan and Roundabout, Roundabout brings up that he used to be the captain of his fencing team. Shadowsan is quick to bring up that he used to be a member of Yakuza, silently pointing out how stupid Rounabout's boast is compared to him (he still loses the fight but only because it makes Roundabout look worse than the video Team Carmen leaked to the world already does when the authorities show up).

Season 4

The Beijing Bullion Caper

• Zack tells Xifeng to "Break a leg" before she gets to go on stage. This becomes a Brick Joke when Shadowsan injures his leg — after being poisoned by Lady Dokuso and falling off the roof of the building.
  Zack: (as Shadowsan is in a wheelchair and a cast on his injured leg) Aww man, I totally jinxed it when I said "Break a leg!"
  Shadowsan: (scowling)
• While Roundabout is dragged off by the Cleaners, Neal is revealed to have escaped on a fishing trawler, which he treats like a cruise while the fishermen yell at him to get out of the way as they drop fish on him.

The Big Bad Ivy Caper

• While at her secondary lab, Dr. Bellum gets distracted from finding replacement parts for her mind-wipe machine and decides that the main reason V.I.L.E.'s operatives have been failing is due to "human error". The rest of the council know where this is going immediately, suggesting this isn't the first time she's proposed this idea.
  Maelstrom: (Face Palm) Not again...
  Cleo: We should never allow Saira to visit her Himalayan laboratory without adult supervision. She simply has too many toys there.
  • She then attempts to show off her new "Robo-Robber"...which ends up trying to steal everything in the lab. Predictably, it grabs some volatile equipment; cue explosion.
  • Later, she tries to prove she's fixed the problem, only for the robot to steal her prescription goggles, leaving her to wander around and smack into the screen.
• With Carmen and Ivy abroad, Zack has to keep an injured Shadowsan company, much to the latter's annoyance — to the point that he eventually resorts to nerve-pinching Zack (under the guise of giving him ninja training) to get some peace and quiet.
• How much does Ivy love chocolate? She tries to lick up molten chocolate coming out of a hose... in the middle of a fight.

The Robo Caper

• Ivy's Big "WHAT?!" when Carmen mentions she's being chased by a robot.
• The robot looming ominously over Carmen, stepping back into the street with the crown—and immediately getting hit by a car. Of course, it manages to No-Sell it a moment later, but it’s still funny!
• The Running Gag of how low the crime rate in Iceland is, that the police don't seem to take their jobs seriously.
  • Ivy and Zack distracting the police officer by invoking Iceland's law against turtles.
• Being locked up in an interrogation room, Chase throws a chair against the window. Instead of the glas breaking, the chair bounces right back and hits him in the face.

The Himalayan Rescue Caper

• Maelstrom playfully calling Bellum "Queen of the Robots" because she's wearing the stolen crown from last episode while having her robot wait on her.
• Zack and Ivy's reactions to meeting Player in real life.
  Zack: Player's a lot shorter in person.
  Ivy: They say the internet adds ten pounds.
• Zack finally pulls off the Ninja Pressure Point Pinch on Player's teacher.

The V.I.L.E. History Caper

• Le Chevre and El Topo having fun with the VILE relic by taking a group selfie with it in a hot air balloon while all of it is happening during a heist as Carmen pursues them. Their dialogue makes it quite hard to take them seriously as villains.
  El Topo: Victory is ours, mi amigo!
  Le Chevre: (holds a cell phone in front of them posing to take a selfie) Ready? Say "goat cheese."
  Le Chevre/El Topo: GOAT CHEESE! (Le Chevre snaps a photo)
  (Later)
  Le Chevre/El Topo: (laughing at their selfie)
  El Topo: A keeper! Now, let us do one with funny faces!
  Le Chevre: (looks at the photo disappointed) [sighs] Now, let us do one with the relic facing in the right direction? (shows the photo where the relic is facing with the strange markings instead of the letter "V").
  El Topo: Oh, my bad! Try again!

• Julia's confused reaction when Player hacks into her computer to talk to her.

The Egyptian Decryption Caper

• For some reason, Bellum needed Mime Bomb as a code breaker to the riddles, therefore having to translate his charades. And then, when Carmen grabs the map piece before she can:
  Cleo: Send your operative after her!
  Bellum: So he can do what? Tie her up with invisible rope?
• When they meet up in Egypt, Carmen asks Chase if he wants to hear the full story, just like with Gray in season 1. When Chase answers yes she tells him that they don't have time for that. Chase then asks if she can at least tell him if Carmen Sandiego is her real name to which she asks if Chase is his real name, to which he answers that yes, it is his real... nickname. That he gave himself. In French it means "the hunt". He slowly grows more flustered as he digs himself deeper.
• Chase's outrage when Tigress reveals she's the one who slashed his coat in San Francisco.
  Chase: I loved that coat!
• Tigress's dissatisfaction with the mission is clear, starting with Cleo telling her off for attempting to pilfer a cat statue. Her irritation continues to build during Julia's deciphering of the V.I.L.E. riddle and the group exploring the pyramid, until she chances upon a sarcophagus with a cat motif... only to find it filled with scarabs, which she absolutely hates. And then she promptly gets trapped in said sarcophagus by Chase. By the time the Cleaners come for her she's a twitching wreck.

The Viennese Waltz Caper

• To Tigress's dismay, brainwashed Carmen is even more of a bitch than she is and wastes no time asserting herself as the leader of the group... or getting payback for Tigress picking on her years ago. It's even funnier when Tigress just flat-out resigns herself to this and grumpily plays along.
  Carmen: (wraps her arm around Tigress) C'mon. Friends?
  Tigress: (heavy sigh) Sure. BFFs.

The Dark Red Caper

• The Reykjavik police officer is researching turtles.
• Tigress is locked up with the female Faculty members in a womens' prison, while Maelstrom finds himself sharing a cell block with Mime Bomb in a criminal asylum. Maelstrom is clearly displeased with having to share the block with Mime Bomb, considering himself a genius - while the ladies aren't happy about Tigress needling them about promoting Carmen to faculty.

Other

To Steal or Not to Steal

• When Bellum reveals her invention she will use on Zack and Ivy proudly declaring it to be "The Wiper," Cleo snarkily asks if Bellum means it will help clean their windshields or their bottoms.
• In Coach Brunt's mission, Carmen has to steal one of the soldiers of the Terracotta Army of Qin Shi Huang so that Brunt can use it as a towel rack. The way Brunt directs Carmen to pick one sounds hilariously similar to a nagging mother instructing her daughter to pick up something from the store.
  Brunt: (over the phone) Too wimpy. Eh, Too ugly. There, that one! Yea-no, the beard, not the mustache!
  Carmen: Ugh, I agreed to be your thief, Brunt, not your matchmaker.
• Failing Brunt's mission reveals that Bellum has renamed "The Wiper" into "The Mind Melt". Brunt lampshades how it sounds like a sandwich and orders a Mind Melt with a side of coleslaw.
• Failing Bellum's mission reveals that she now is calling "The Wiper" the "Cranial Dranial." Cleo quips she likes that name.
• When Bellum's requests Carmen to fetch a dinosaur bone, Carmen questions her if she going clone one to which she replies
  Dr. Bellum: If anyone is going to attempt this feature of nature, it will be me! [cackles]
  • Her "evil" laugh is what really makes this the cherry on top.
• Julia's cute-angry shout of "La Femme Rouge!" if you trick her during Cleo's mission, borrowing Chase Devineaux's catchphrase.
• El Topo of all people getting to lean on the fourth wall during Bellum's mission.
• If you get Julia to help by disguising herself as Carmen, after the mission she does a little roleplay in the mirror, still wearing the outfit.
• Zack and Ivy free-styling the famous original "Where In The World Is Carmen Sandiego" theme song purely to annoy their captors. It turns out to be one fantastic Chekhov's Gag in the bonus scene that can be unlocked with any of the good endings, where nearly the entire cast of the show, including V.I.L.E., shows up to sing the full theme song.
• The music for the end credits is a muzak version of Where on Earth Is Carmen Sandiego?.
• Player, who usually possesses the prepubescent voice of a child, suddenly providing the bass singer's line at one point in the bonus scene. Mime Bomb also does this at a different point in the song.

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