Funny / Catch Me If You Can

• The feds are at Frank's mother's house, and she's set out a nice French dessert and coffee. While discussing her son with Hanratty, Amdursky keeps trying to surreptitiously reach across and grab a fork. Hanratty eventually gets fed up, grabs a fork, and hands it to him points first.
  • When Frank's mother finds out Frank may have stolen money, she breaks out her checkbook.
  Mrs. Abagnale: Just tell me how much he owes and I'll pay you back.
  Hanratty (halfway out the door): So far, it's about 1.3 million dollars.
• After getting ribbed for being too serious, Hanratty tells a joke.
  Carl Hanratty: Well, would you like to hear me tell a joke?
  Earl Amdursky: Yeah. Yeah, we'd love to hear a joke from you.
  Carl Hanratty: Knock knock.
  Earl Amdursky: Who's there?
  Carl Hanratty: (Beat) Go fuck yourselves.
  • The TV edit is funny in a Narm-y way. It's "Go flog yourselves."
  • Later on, after his boss gets on his nerves concerning the case, how does he react? "Knock knock."
• Frank paying a model/call girl with a phony check, and getting cash in return.
• The "two mice" Running Gag, although by the last time we hear the start of that fable it's veering into Tear Jerker mode.
• Brenda standing by Frank's desk, teeth clenched and visible, waiting cheerfully for him to notice that her braces were off.
  • Only seconds later, after getting kissed by Frank, the girl literally leaps into his seat for a passionate make-out session. The cherry on top is how she completely messes up his hair, to the point it's standing up on its own like he's going Super Saiyan.
• Frank pulling his first duty as a lawyer in Louisiana, riffing off a courtroom scene he lifted from a Perry Mason episode:
  Judge: Mr. Conners, this is a preliminary hearing. There is no...defendant (waves to empty table). There is no...jury (waves to empty jury box). It's just me. (Beat) Son... what in the HELL is wrong with you?
• Frank telling his fiance Brenda the truth:
  Brenda (in tears): Frank? You're not a Lutheran?
• The sheer audacity of Frank getting through Miami airport with Hanratty covering every inch of it with cops: by hiring the prettiest girls he could find under the scam of a stewardess program and walking them in costume past all the guards. It's a Moment of Awesome, and also funny as hell.
• "Do you concur?"
  • For anyone who works in healthcare the way Frank takes the sterile gauze and holds it to his mouth while he thinks is an hilariously wonderful nod to how little he actually does know about medicine (not to mention hygiene). The fact that nobody seems to react and nobody remarks upon it just makes it all the more funny.
• Frank blowing chunks in the janitor's closet after seeing a boy's injured leg covered in blood while impersonating a doctor. It's arguably Laser-Guided Karma for pretending to be a doctor, which is a pretty awful thing to do.
• Carl catches on to Frank's loneliness and laughs, making Frank slam the phone down:
  "You didn't call just to apologize, do you? [laughs] You have no one else to call!"
• When Frank successfully passes himself off as a Secret Service agent, he gets Hanratty to babysit his room while Frank takes his "evidence" with him. Carl sits by himself before deciding to finally look into the wallet that Frank handed him minutes earlier...only to notice it's filled with food labels to pass itself off as a full billfold. Horrified, Carl runs to the window, where Frank is already in the distance running off, bulky typewriter in his arms.
  Carl: [spotting Frank out the window] HEY! Oh, GODDAMMIT! [throws wallet in exasperation at himself]
  • An overlooked bit in the lead up to this scene, Carl on his way up to Frank's hotel room and clearly on edge, comically stumbles to draw his service revolver, and when the he frightens a maid he reassures her he's FBI while flashing his badge to himself, and upside down.
• It's a bit of a Mood Whiplash, given that Frank has just learned that he has lost his father in an accident, but after he runs to the plane lavatory to grieve, Carl tries to get the door open a few moments later to get Frank out. Frank doesn't answer, and after the FBI agents do get the door open, Carl spots screws on the floor, to hold down the plastic frame of the toilet; Frank's slipped out through the empty space surrounding the metal toilet bowl under the frame. Realizing that Frank has escaped again, Carl frustratingly struggles into the serviceway.
  Carl: [scoffs in frustration, struggling:] FRANK?! FRAAANK?!

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