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Season 1

"First Day of Rule"

From the ending when Elena inducts Naomi into the Grand Council. What makes it even funnier is that she chooses Naomi before she also tells Esteban that he's also in the council too:
Naomi: Me?!
Esteban: Her?!
- Meta: According to Craig Gerber in an interview with the Podcast Princesses, this became an inside joke among the crew, where Naomi saying "me" in the script would immediately have someone chime in with a "Her?!".

"Model Sister"

When it becomes clear that Esteban is the hammy evil uncle... err... cousin:

Esteban: Once King Toshi sees how well I know his ways, he will entrust me to make the trade agreement, and it will be clear to everyone who is the real power behind the throne.

Higgins: Uh, Princess Elena?

Esteban: Me!

Isa asks her why she changed clothes, she replies "Uh, wardrobe malfunction?".

"All Heated Up"

"Island of Youth"

This exchange:
Esteban: I've gotten older and I have nothing to show for it!
Higgins: Nonsense, you've got plenty of wrinkles!
Esteban: Grr...
Esteban losing his belt and pants because they fell off when he deaged. Best of all is that this was adlibbed.
Another hilarious comment from Higgins about Esteban's age towards the end:
Elena: Abuelo always said another gray hair makes him that much wiser.
Higgins: Yeah, you've got plenty of gray hairs!
Esteban: [growls]

"Spellbound"

When Elena and her friends discover that the entire ballroom has been Taken for Granite, Naomi accidentally snaps off half of Esteban's moustache, then sheepishly puts it on his shoulder. It becomes a Brick Joke once everyone is restored; Esteban makes to stroke his moustache, then realizes half of it is missing.

"Prince Too Charming"

"Finders Leapers"

"Royal Retreat"

"A Day to Remember"

This exchange:
Carmen: I'm an artist, Julio! The plate is my canvas, the food my paints!
Julio: Sometimes it does taste like paint.

"The Scepter of Light"

Zuzo's "advice" on how to deal with Orizaba:
Zuzo: First, we're gonna start with a few cleansing breaths. (breathes in and out) Feels good, doesn't it? Now slowly, gently... get used to living in a world of total darkness.
Elena: What?!
Zuzo: Oh, it's not so bad. Just think of it as a non-stop slumber party!

"Elena and the Secret of Avalor"

Elena singing "I have a plan that can't fail" in the song "My Time". Why is this funny? Because Elena's plan to stop Shuriki was just walking into the throne room with Shuriki's wand (disregarding that she has no experience with magic), and unsurprisingly, the plan does fail.

"Navidad"

"Olaball"

"Flight of the Jaquins"

Skylar's younger brother Nico reveals that they once pranked their father, King Verago, by taking apart their nest at home and rebuilding it upside-down while the latter was sleeping in. Ciela deems this impossible as Verago would've fallen out only for Nico to reveal that he and Skylar tied him to the nest with vines! The thought of this prank is a real rib-tickler.

"Crystal in the Rough"

"The Princess Knight"

During one of Elena's training, she gets pelted by mangoes and one nails her on the butt.
- Then when an angry Elena turns to face Gabe, he tells her that she's fortunate that he throws mangoes because his instructor throws coconuts.

"Captain Turner Returns"

"My Fair Naomi"

"My Fair Naomi" has Naomi telling Elena to wear an ugly pink ruffly gown for her birthday party. When Naomi and Esteban leave Elena and Luisa alone, Elena tells her grandmother that she's going to ask a question and needs her to be honest only for Luisa to give her answer before Elena even asks her.
Elena: Abuela, I'm going to ask you a question, and I need you to be honest.
Luisa: It's hideous.
Elena: Right?!

"Spirit Monkey Business"

The spirit guides explaining their roles as guardians and advisers. One darts off to help someone with a math problem, one helps another get over his fear of heights, and the third realizes her charge has fallen into a pit of snakes.
Spirit Guide: He's still alive!
- The same episode also features Esteban finding an oddly specific chapter titled "How To Remove a Stuck Helmet"^note.

"Wizard-in-Training"

"Realm of the Jaquins

Victor and Carla cementing themselves as the hammy Evil Duo:
Victor: They will all regret having wronged Victor Delgado!
Carla: And Carlaaaaaa! [Victor gives her an unimpressed look while she sheepishly smiles]

"The Gecko's Tale"

"Party of a Lifetime"

"Blockheads"

At the end, Franciscio, Luisa, and Esteban return from Cordoba and notice that Elena, Isabel, Mateo, Gabe, and Naomi had been playing Olaball indoors, and it seems like Luisa is going to scold Elena for being careless, but it turns out she's only upset that her granddaughter was playing Olaball without inviting her abuela, not even caring that they knocked a hole in the wall.
*Gabe stands in front of the gaping hole in the wall, in a vain attempt to hide it*
Luisa: "Is that an olaball?"
Mateo: "Yes. It is. We were playing olaball and accidentally knocked a hole in the wall. Behind Gabe. Gabe, could you move, please?"

"Masks of Magic"

Season 2

"The Jewel of Maru"

"Royal Rivalry"

"The Curse of El Guapo"

Gabe gets possessed by "El Guapo", the spirit of a master soldier who's also a ridiculously Large Ham that makes Spanish Buzz look subtle. Just seeing the bemused Gabe alternate between the two is hilarious, including one moment when Guapo gets control of his feet while Gabe has the upper body and is trying to slow them down.
When Elena presents Gabe with his new Captain of the Guard sword, he hesitates to take it.
Elena: "This one's not cursed. Mateo checked."
Matteo: *shouting from the back of the stadium* "All good!"

"Three Jaquins and a Princess"

When Elena announces that Migs is coming back from a trip with a big surprise, Esteban grumbles that he hates surprises.
Doña Paloma: [appearing out of nowhere] Surprise!
Esteban: [deadpan] Case in point.

"A Spy In The Palace"

Victor and Carla rapping. It's hilariously terrible. That is all.

"Science Unfair"

When Victor and Carla, both in disguise, meet in the marketplace, and almost blow each other's covers:
Victor: Don't call me Papa, Carla!
Carla: Don't call me Carla, Papa!
Victor disguises himself as an old lady in the marketplace, leading to this exchange.
Carla: You look ridiculous.
Victor: Really? I think I look quite fetching!

It gets even funnier when a man walks by and Victor laughs like an old lady.

"Rise of the Sorceress"

When Naomi notices a disguised Carla's hair turn black as a sign that the potion's wearing off, she comes up with the perfect Blatant Lie: "The sun makes my hair darker!"
After Shuriki says she suddenly feels festive:
Victor: You? Festive?
Carla: You? Feel?

"Shapeshifters"

The fact that during "The Right Thing to Do", Esteban, while trying to convince Elena not to go after Shuriki and the Council to decree she stay in the palace, manages to fit his Catchphrase ("This is true!") seamlessly into the song.
Mateo gets a little too into his new jaquin form and chases his tail.
The fact that Migs calls Dulce "Pookie-face" is hilarious in and of itself. But once she overhears this, Luna won't stop using it on him.

"The Scepter of Night"

After Mateo accidentally leads Victor and Fiero to the Scepter of Night's staff and they escape with it, Elena tells him that he has a chance to make up for it and holds out her hand for him to take. When he doesn't do so due to being too ashamed of himself, there's a Beat before she awkwardly reminds him with a nervous smile that the bad guys are getting away.

"Race for the Realm"

Victor and Carla are finally made into malvagos by Fiero. Victor assures him "You will not regret this!" as he and Carla prepare to take off in their horse-cart...only to show they have no idea how to drive it and go way too fast down the road.
Fiero: I immediately regret this.
- Carla mis-remembering Mateo's name as "Matato".

"The Tale of Two Scepters"

"Class Act"

While Elena and Isa are being given a tour of the Science Academy, they come across some students who are studying Isa's class project from "Science Unfair". The two can only look on in confusion before shrugging it off and continuing with the tour.

"All Kingdoms Fair"

"A Lava Story"

Song of the Sirenas"

When Elena calls out Cristobal for betraying the family, he responds by starting up the cliche line that "betrayal" is such a strong word and that he would call it... and then he fumbles for a while trying to think of something before conceding that no, "betrayal" pretty much sums it up.]]
When trying to break the royal family out of the prison on the jaquins, Mateo asks who wants to go first, and Esteban immediately says "Me! Me!" before sheepishly letting Isabel go first, though Mateo gets both of them anyway.

"The Tides of Change"

Esteban is upset that Elena wants to do a Grand Council meeting because it's stalling his "pre-siesta siesta".

"The Secret Life of Sirenas" shorts

One of the shorts, "Marisa And The Mirror", has her coming across a broken mirror in a shipwreck. Since she's never seen one before, she is understandably confused yet also cute when doing so. She then proceeds to make a bunch of silly expressions, which makes Elena laugh with her.
- They almost get attacked by a shark, but are saved when he starts looking at the mirror.

"The Return of El Capitan

"Finding Zuzo"

"Snow Place Like Home"

"Two Left Fins"

"Movin' On Up"

Esteban walks in on Elena using her Scepter's Vanish spell to prank Mateo. Esteban initially scolds her for demonstrating improper princess behavior... before telling her to do it on the chair next.
Mateo trying to tell his mom that Elena has shown him the Royal Sorcerer's Quarters... which she surprisingly reacts to in glee, as she knows it means Mateo has been invited to stay in the palace. The next morning, she's all packed and it turns out she thought that she was also invited.
Armando informing Elena that she has council work to do. When Elena assures Rafa that it won't take too long to do before she can continue showing Rafa around, Armando pulls out a Long List and says that Esteban "added a few."
Rafa placing houseplants around the palace, which is always immediately followed up by Esteban walking in and expressing disgust at it before trying to hide it, like behind a curtain. When Elena and Mateo greet Rafa goodbye, Esteban dashes out the door with one of her houseplants, begging her to take it with her, only to be too late as she leaves the palace grounds in her carriage, causing him to yell an skyward "No!" As the episode closes, Esteban drops the plant from a high window and only the sound of a broken vase is heard.
Rafa cleans the family picture plates hung in the dining room, but offsets Esteban's. Right as Esteban tries to remove the houseplant on the dining table, his attention is immediately switched to his offset plate, which he tries to fix, only for it to break in half.
Rafa pestering the royal chef about what food to serve to Mateo.
Olivia accepting Rafa's plates of food in the middle of a lesson, oblivious to Mateo's current issues about it.
Rafa saying that she doesn't want to leave Mateo all alone from the dangers of the modern world in the palace, which includes exploding potions, dangerous spells, and "that horrible Esteban". Keep in mind that she's never had a direct interaction with Esteban in the show.
As Elena and Mateo leave the Royal Sorcerer's Quarters after resolving to talk to Rafa about her unpopularity with the staff, Esteban, Armando, and the royal chef are all crowded at the door with their complaints.

"Not Without My Magic"

"Luna's Big Leap"

"Naomi Knows Best"

Gabe returns after trying and failing to find Victor and Carla, and Naomi and Migs each realized that he's stinky and suggest that he wash up. All it takes for Gabe to see their point was to sniff his own stinky armpit.

Season 3

"Sister of Invention"

Elena discovering Isabel had stowed away with them:
Elena: [offscreen] Isabel Castillo-Flores!
Gabe: Uh oh, the full name.
Carla trying to get a peek at Ash trying to solve the puzzle, much to the latter's annoyance.

"To Save a Sunbird"

This exchange the minute little Hool enters Avalor:
Hool: There are three things I've always wanted to do in Avalor: see Tempa Muul, hug a churro, and eat a noblin!
Migs: Come again?
Hool: I mean eat a churro and hug a noblin. Oops.

"Father-in-Chief"

"The Incredible Shrinking Royals"

The villain that the shrunken royals are endangered by... is an angry crayfish.

"Norberg Peace Prize"

"The Magic Within"

When Elena and Flo meet for the first time, Flo doesn't notice Elena's shock and thinks the princess is trying to give her a different name.
Elena: You're the float model!
Flo: Float model? Well, that's a mouthful. How about you just call me "Flo"?
Elena: You're alive?
Flo: That one's nice, too, but I think I prefer "Flo".
Elena: Zuzo!
Flo: No, sticking with "Flo".
In an otherwise depressing scene, when Esteban and the Delgados get to the treasury room, Esteban tells them to wait so that he can deactivate the traps. He then walks over to a control panel and shuts it off with his key, as opposed to doing his whole dance routine again from "King of the Carnaval". Now imagine that happening while the Delgados get upset over him taking so long.

"Discovering the Magic Within" shorts

No Good Deed Goes Unpunished is essentially 2 minutes of Elena having magical mood swings, and it is hilarious. Special mention goes to her bawling her eyes out over lost puppies. Aimee Carrero definitely had some fun here. But if that's not funny enough, the short finishes with Naomi, Mateo, and Gabe hiding from Elena in fear.
- Modern Royal Family is also hilarious. Particularly, one scene has Armando put on a puppet show about a dog who lost his bone. Elena then cries hysterically alongside the other kids until he ends the show with the dog getting the bone.

"Flower of Light"

A possessed Abuelo scooping someone's ofrenda cookies into his mouth before running off.
- A meta example: Someone on Twitter mentioned how he would've done this even if he wasn't possessed.

"Captain Mateo"

In the beginning, when Elena gets angry and her magic kicks in and she tries to think calming thoughts before finally settling on her mother's song.
Elena: Think calming thoughts: a day at the beach, fresh pan dulce—great, now I'm angry and hungry!

"Sugar Rush"

During dinner, Elena and Isabel are talking about the hydro-gandola, ignoring their grandmother. Elena uses her scepter to look at the options they have until Abuela angrily pokes her head through the illusion and snaps at her to turn it off, scaring both her granddaughters.
After the customers buy and eat Elena's tainted chocolates, a man walking with his dog starts speeding up and it looks like his dog can't catch up... only for his dog to jump onto his back like a piggyback ride.

"The Family Treasure"

Isabel openly admits to Antonio and Pablo that Elena can be annoying, and the latter agrees only to realize what the former just said.

"Dreamcatcher"

Elena's dreams come to life, and one of those dreams is a tree with jewels and cake. Isabel climbs to get the cake. Then she says this:
Isabel: Elena, could you dream up some tamales tonight?
Meta: Esteban's voice actor, Christian Lanz, found out for himself watching this episode that Esteban was cut from the intro and thought it was cold. At about 56:00 of this interview, he apparently jumped out of his couch from how bad that Gut Punch was.

"Changing of the Guard"

"King Skylar"

"Spirit of a Wizard"

"Team Isa"

Quique isn't shown to be completely in sync with Isabel's plan. When Tito goes off to rob the bank, we get this exchange:
Quique: Why is he going to the bank?
Isabel: To rob it!

"The Last Laugh"

Naomi and her childhood friend Veronica find the time capsule they buried as kids to find letters they wrote to themselves—and it turns out Veronica started hers with "Dear old me".
Mateo laughing his butt off thanks to the Chiki-Chiki
Although Elena and Naomi's argument is pretty serious especially coming from them, it ends rather humorously:
Elena: C'mon, Mateo! Let's go catch this Shimmy-Shimmy thing! [flies away on Skylar]
Naomi: [calls after them] It's Chiki-Chiki!
Elena: WHATEVER-WHATEVER!

"Festival of Lights"

"The Birthday Cruise"

"Giant Steps"

"Crash Course"

"Sweetheart's Day"

The whole premise. Armando and Flo botch a potion, causing everyone to speak only in song. Hilarity Ensues.
Elena asking why they're all singing.
Flo: It's his fault!
Palace staff: His fault!
Flo and the palace staff: His fault!

"The Lightning Warrior"

Carla's side comment that she hopes Soledad is as nice as Ixlan's island.
The Moyacu's facial expressions.
When Ixlan is freed and tells of how she was foretold of Elena, she mistakes Naomi, Carla, and even Victor for her.

"Dia de las Madres"

The running gag of Francesco holding out his hand and having a guitar placed into it whenever he does a musical number has been improved. It's happening to Francisco... and both of his granddaughters. Yes, apparently Avalor palace now has three people hired specifically to be there to hand out guitars to the future Queen, her sister and her grandfather whenever they decide to sing a musical ditty that requires a guitar!
Baby!Isabel has one goal: Cover literally everything she can get her hands on in chocolate. This includes Elena, Esteban, Luisa, her mother, her grandmother's chocolate shop and, apparently, her father and grandfather.

"Heart of Jaguar"

"Elena's Day Off"

Elena’s own behavior trying to get things right and being unable to relax causes Aimee Carrro’s performance to sound almost like Adora.
Ixlan provides many of the episode's funny moments being a confused Fish out of Temporal Water, most notably with how she treats trying to get Elena to relax as a competition. She also lists her many faults.

"To Be Queen or Not Be Queen"

Elena's utter horror that Esteban and Doña Paloma are ruling Avalor side by side in the alternate reality.

"Coronation Day"

Armando being unable to keep up with the beginning song and the whole stage collapses in the end.
In a Black Comedy Burst, it turns out that turning Troyo and Zopolite into small, harmless creatures resulted in them being Killed Offscreen.
- Troyo has a funny moment here where he's all "Welcome to the Elena Victims Club! Up high!", to which Zopolite's response is "Yeah, no."
- When Elena reunites with her ghost parents, they are ecstatic to see her, but then become perplexed at what their daughter's even doing in the Spirit World.
Raul: Elena!
Elena: Papa!
Lucia: Elena! Wait. Are you—?
Elena: No! Well, not yet anyway.
- Her parents apparently live inside a hollow tree.
The Grand Macaw in general. Helped that he's voiced by Patrick Warburton.
- For one thing, when Elena tells her parents she has to win an olaball game to be allowed back into the living world, they're confused, until she mentions the Grand Macaw and they agree it's something he would do.
- Ash's final fate is to be trapped into serving the Grand Macaw in his party pad forever. As she is taken away, Zopilote remarks to Orizaba "There she goes...my greatest disappointment".
During the olaball match, when Elena is wondering how Avalor is doing, we then cut to a scene of Valentina screaming....because she has to deal with messy hair. Alonzo also obliviously comments about this while he's checking on his hair. Rebecca and Chloe's sarcastic comments really well this.
Chloe: Who do you think'll look away first?
Rebecca: Us, probably.
- Later, when Naomi bursts in with Marisa, Alonzo's still looking at his hair while Valentina says "Right, Alonzo?" to get him to act up.
Ixlan once again has many funny moments. For example, when everyone is talking about how each member of Team Ash is dangerous, she can only respond to the effect of "This is it? I've seen better." Later, when the Four Shades Of Awesome invade Avalor, she's like "I'll take them down, and then you live to tell my story.".
Esteban's hair returning to normal...meaning he could have combed it down this whole time.
Elena's scepter actually goes with her new dress...leading to a joke about how Elena's scepter change was to set up for this moment.
The running gag throughout the series of people randomly having guitars on hand to give to people to sing is even more contagious than we thought. There's four of them now.
The Dance Party Ending. From Esteban's weird breakdance moves, Mateo and Carla bumping heads, to Julio and Doña Paloma having a Kissing Discretion Shot of all people... yeah, we're gonna miss these guys.

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