Funny / District 9

Hilarious Spoilers Ahead!!!

• During the climactic mech suit battle, Wikus uses the mech's gravity gun-like weapon to pick up a live pig and fire it at a soldier (the pig walks away relatively unharmed).
• The incredibly obviously photoshopped picture of Wikus having sex with a Prawn prostitute.
  • The TV news report claims that Wikus escaped quarantine for an alien STD, and is highly contagious. As if that weren't bad enough, the report airs at the exact moment Wikus is trying to order at a fast food restaurant. The scene plays out like something from a sitcom.
    Wikus: Can I get seven schnitzel burgers and a large sauer klopse, please?
    News Reporter: (voiceover) We interrupt this program to bring you breaking news. A patient has escaped from the isolation ward and is loose in the city. Wikus van de Merwe was recently apprehended-
    (Cue photoshopped imaged of Wikus mounting a Prawn doggy-style, complete with censor blur.)
    News Reporter: -After prolonged sexual activity with aliens in District 9.
    (Employee and customers glance at the TV, then back at Wikus.)
    Wikus: (under breath) Oh, you bliksem.
• FOK!
• Wikus trying to win over Christopher's son with a "sweetie", only to have the little guy bean him in the head with it. This comes right after Wikus openly mocks the child with his companions, saying that he should have been aborted (and threatening to shoot him). He sure deserved it.
  "You almost poked my eye out with a fokken lollipop! I'm tryin' to be fokken nice to you, man!"
• During the evictions, Wikus and the soldiers confront a Prawn wearing a propeller hat. There's something innately funny about a freaky, seven-foot-tall alien bug creature with a little spinning pinwheel perched on its head. Another Prawn wears a pink bra.
  • One Prawn shows his displeasure with the soldiers by urinating right in front of them. Another one, seemingly hungover, vomits all over the ground.
• "Baby, listen, I might have crapped in my pants—" "SURPRISE!". As one YouTube user put it:
  Wikus: I might have crapped in my pants—
  Party Guests: SURPRISE!
  Wikus: (craps in pants again)
  • After the initial shock, Wikus desperately tries to reach the toilet, only to be repeatedly accosted by people who want to talk to him.
  • Later, when Wikus is getting increasingly sick, we hear him in slow-motion when he's about to cut his cake. The way it sounds is hysterical.
    Wikus: Okay! Let's cut some cake! (then again in slow motion) CUT...SOME...CAKE...
• The conversation between Wikus and Christopher Johnson as they break into MNU.
  Christopher: I thought you said not to kill them?
  Wikus: He shot at me!
• This exchange between Wikus and Christopher as they're fending off MNU agents.
  Christopher: I thought you had a way out?
  Wikus: I didn't say anything about getting out! I said I would get us in!
• Wikus stumbles into CJ's shack—battered, bloodied and carrying an ax — and tries to convince CJ to let him hide out.
  Wikus: (frantic) Okay, please, I-I need your help! Shhhh! (to Little CJ) Okay, we're gonna play 'hide and seek'!
  Little CJ: (excited) Yes! Yes!
• "Is that tear-gas?" "No, it's cat food." The tone clinches it.
• After Wikus finds the command module: "For 20 years you've had this fokken thing hidden down here. This is... This is very illegal. I mean, this is a fine."
• The automated instructions in the MNU vehicles: "When dealing with aliens, try to be polite, but firm. And always remember that a smile is cheaper than a bullet."
• When the Prawn mothership experiences a power surge, it emits a single, brief hum that lasts less than a second — and blows out every window in the city. A bit later, it lets out another and sets off every car alarm in the city simultaneously.
  • For added comedy there's the Special Effects Failure in the above scene where every window in the city gets blown out... except for the one building comprised almost entirely of windows.
• Wikus' looking for Christopher 's son.
  Wikus: Hello, little guy. It's the Sweeteh Mahn coming!
• Wikus's pathetic attempt to fly the command module is exacerbated by the fact that Little CJ keeps climbing on him. Culminating in a bit where he uses Wikus's mouth to gain purchase, with Wikus letting out his usual response to high stress situations.

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