Funny / Emma. (2020)

• When Emma is performing The Last Rose of Summer on the piano, she sights theatrically before singing last verse. Jane Fairfax makes a hilarious facial expression upon seeing this.
  • Immediately afterwards, Emma returns to her seat very pleased with herself and, upon crossing paths with Jane Fairfax, who was on her way to the piano, snidely remarks that it is a pity she did not bring her music. Jane modestly says that she hopes she can recollect the tune. Emma sits down and receives the adoring compliment of her friend Harriet, which she savors for exactly one second before Jane Fairfax launches into a flawless rendition of Mozart's Sonata in F. The look on Emma's face is priceless!
• FOR IN THY SIGHT!
• Miss Bates is almost a continuous source of comedy.
• Mr. Churchill, while carrying Harriet after rescuing her from gypsies, explains to Emma what happened, in the process spinning around so that Mr. Knightley has to duck to avoid Harriet's legs.
  • Mr Churchill then asks why Mr. Knightley (who it is implied was about to confess his feelings to Emma) is at Hartfield, since Emma has only just arrived home from the same party from which he and Harriet were returning. Mr. Knightley fumbles hilariously for a while, before finally saying that one of his carriage-horses threw a shoe.
  • Both men leave the room, then Emma (trying to match-make) calls out to them not to go and they both come running back.
  • Mr. Woodhouse then rushes in: "Is she alive?"
  • Finally followed by Mr. Knightley going home and pulling off his clothes in a fury, throwing them to the floor and lying flat out on it. A footman comes in, takes one look and leaves without a word.
• Mr Elton's fixed smile as he dramatically unveils the frame he has made for Emma's painting to her and Harriet.
  • Harriet's over-wide smile back.
• Emma stabbing a ball of yarn as she says "three months of doing more than I wish and less than I ought."
• The whole scene in the shop with Miss Bates telling Emma about her niece, particularly Emma's gasp and turn around when she sees her through the window. Then followed by her trying to appear busy as Miss Bates spots her and comes in to talk.
• Just before Mr Elton's proposal in the carriage, he falls forward and nearly lands right on Emma's chest.
• Anytime Mr Woodhouse feels a draft.
  • A funny moment during Jane's performance on the piano, Miss Bates fans herself enthusiastically and Mr Woodhouse sitting next to her keeps twitching from the draft she's causing.
• The very stiff and awkward tea at Miss Bates' with Emma, Harriet and Jane Fairfax all staring off glumly into space. Then Miss Bates mentions that Jane plans to stay for three months, causing Emma to pause in the middle of drinking her tea.
• Mr Elton, during an awkward moment at dinner, tries to make small talk about the weather, saying that it looks like it will snow. This sets off Mr Woodhouse, who starts worrying about the health of Isabella and her children, and everybody else at the party, who all rise from the table in a flap and hurry to get home. Mr John Knightley, one of the last to depart, bids a deadpan, "Happy Christmas."
• Mr Knightley's comment on Emma's painting of Harriet's likeness: "You've made her too tall."
• Mr Knightley's love confession to Emma where she ends up getting a nosebleed. Made even funnier by neither of them outright saying "I love you." It ends with Mr Knightley deciding to go and see Robert Martin and Emma saying that she ought to go and leaving to do it. Mr Knightley then has a mini fist-pump moment, since this pretty much confirms Emma loves him back.
• Mr Woodhouse's gloom at Miss Taylor marrying. "Poor Miss Taylor!"
  • However, he is not so miserable that he cannot skip the last two or three steps of the staircase by leaping down them like an overeager or petulant child. (It's even funnier when one considers that this is something Mr Woodhouse in the book probably would have fainted dead away at the idea of.)
• A little bit of funny snobbery on behalf of Emma and Mr. Woodhouse: when they arrive at church and find Mr. Elton's wife occupying what is ostensibly their pew, Mr. and Mrs. Cole make room for them in their pew. Rather than sitting with them however, Emma and Mr. Woodhouse choose to sit in the second pew.