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- This scene from "The Dream Machine":Greenback: Oh, and one last thing, Penfold. Don't, whatever you do, say "rock". (disappears)
Penfold: "Rock"?
(A rock falls out of thin air and hits DM on the head; it sprouts legs and a mouth and runs off, laughing silently as DM turns to glare at Penfold)
Penfold: I don't get it, Danger Mouse, I only said "rock".
(a second rock falls out of thin air; DM tries to dodge it, only for it to stop in midair, sprout arms, and hit DM repeatedly over the head with a large sausage. Greenback can be heard laughing as Penfold gives the camera a surprised look)
Danger Mouse: Look, Penfold, just don't say... R-O-C-K.
Penfold: R-O-C-K?
(steel-plated letters spelling ROCK appear one at a time, then a train whistle sounds as they trundle off screen... and then across the background... and then the camera zooms in on a worried-looking Penfold... and then we hear four offscreen crashes as DM yelps in pain, Penfold cringing with each one)
Danger Mouse: (from under the pile of steel-plated letters) Penfold...
Penfold: Yes, sir?
Danger Mouse: Have you got anything for a headache, Penfold? - From "Trouble with Ghosts", after Penfold has laid down in bed and is freaking about about something:Danger Mouse: What is it, Penfold?
Penfold: There's a two-headed, faceless THING at the bottom of the bed!!
Danger Mouse: Yes... Those are your feet, Penfold.
Penfold: Oh. Silly me. - From "Tower of Terror", after Danger Mouse goes through one too many Humiliation Conga.Danger Mouse: (angrily) Right! Ask me what I'm going to do now! Go on! Ask me!
Penfold: Uh, what are-?
Danger Mouse: I'm going to go bananas! Do you hear!? I'm going to go bananas!
(Danger Mouse jumps up and down frantically making silly noises as he goes off-screen)
Penfold: (to the viewers) I'm awfully sorry about this, uh ha. H-he really doesn't got any bananas at all.
Danger Mouse: (still off-screen) Of course I haven't got any bananas, I've gone bananas!
The reboot's clever meta sense of humour leads to multiple of these moments.
- The narrator's line when things start going missing in "The World Is Full Of Stuff" after his long hiatus:Narrator: Finally, I get to appear in this episode! Yes, all around the world, stuff continues to go missing! What will be next? Maybe my micropho- (Loud static blaring)
- Richard Ayoade's purposefully extremely deadpan performance as the Snowman has to be heard to be believed. He constantly sounds like he's feigning surprise at something he knew was going to happen and it's hilarious.
- "Dark Dawn" has the princess' teddy bear start possessing others and having them cause havoc as revenge for the princess growing out of him after entering her grungy phase. When Penfold's bear, Bernard, gets taken, they have the princess apologise to her bear to try and return everything to normal:Danger Mouse: Repeat after me, Dawn! "I'm really sorry I was mean to you, Snuggles, please stop scaring people."(Penfold nudges him and looks hopeful)Danger Mouse: (Sighs) ..."and please give Bernard back."Penfold: BERNARD!
- And then there's the way the two make Dawn apologise in the first place. Penfold stumbles across her diary and Dawn begs them not to tell anyone in embarrassment, resulting in this:
Danger Mouse: (With dramatic music playing in background) Then do the grown-up thing and help us fight these teddy bears!(Music stops awkwardly)Danger Mouse: ...Yes. Doesn't sound quite as grown up when you say it out loud.- In that episode, the narrator witnesses a group of grown adults crying over their teddy bears escaping, and he questions if everyone's too old for teddies. A laser beam is immediately fired at the screen and the shadow of a teddy bear is seen flying away. The narrator promptly enters a state of Heroic BSoD until he gets it back.
- In "Hail Hydrant", DM fails to win an award for arresting the most supervillains, losing by only one villain. His reaction?Colonel: You can cope with being second best for once, can't you?(Cuts to Danger Mouse, who is fuming and turning red. Penfold hands him a bucket.)Danger Mouse: (Shouting into the bucket) AAAAARGH! NO! Not fair! NOT FAAAAAIIIIR!!! (Lowers the bucket and composes himself) Of course, Colonel. Whatever you say.
