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At the beginning of the movie, when the troll's eye fills the window.
Animals: Eye! Eye!
Giselle: 'I' what?
Troll: I eat you now!
[Giselle runs away, as the troll reaches in...and ends up grabbing the Prince mannequin]
Troll: HEY, THAT'S CHEATING! I'M SUPPOSED TO EAT YOU!
- Then when Pip hops on top of the troll's head, the branch of the tree starts to lean down due to the combined weight.
  Pip: I gotta lay off the nuts.
- Speaking of the troll, when Edward rides along singing the "True Love's Kiss" song, then the troll overtakes him while singing in a low bass voice, "True love's kiss!"
An early sign that Prince Edward is meant as a parody, when he answers Giselle's name with an impressively-hammy, "Oh...Giselle!"
- "WE SHALL BE MARRIED IN THE MORNING!!!"
All the woodland friends pouring out of the coach (remind you of a certain other Disney movie perchance?) like it's a clown car in the beginning. Also, having Narissa turn into the same crone as the Evil Queen from Snow White was a pretty funny touch.
This quick moment between Giselle and the dw—little man:
"Grumpy": Geez, lady, are you for real?
Giselle: Well, I-I-I think so....
When an homeless man steals Giselle's tiara.
Giselle: You... are not a very nice old man!
During Robert's introduction to Giselle:
Robert: Do you need me to call somebody for you?
Giselle: ...Well, I don't think they'd hear you from here....
Robert: (Beat) What?
- When she first falls on him, her "OW!" sounds...astonished. ("What is this?—it's not supposed to hurt!")
- And when she talks about how she fell out of Andalasia, Robert asks, "Is this a habit of yours, falling off of stuff?", which Giselle repeats later when Robert is the one to fall off something.
When Giselle tries to get into Robert's apartment, only for her dress to keep her from making it through the doorway. Her huff and eye-roll is priceless, all but screaming You Have GOT to Be Kidding Me!.
As Edward and Pip fall down the magic well to rescue Giselle:
Edward: Fear not, Giselle, I will rescue you!
Pip: Yeah, but who's gonna rescue meeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee?!
"Happy Working Song", the song Giselle sings while tidying up the apartment with the help of some animals.
- The mere fact that the cockroaches were helping with said house cleaning (bathtub mildew ring, begone!). Not to mention they looked so adorable too.
- The lyric "Sing along. If you cannot sing, then hum along."
- At the conclusion of the song, one of the pigeons abruptly turns and eats a cockroach with whom he was earlier happily singing.
Following the "Happy Working Song," Robert and Morgan are both in a panic about all of the vermin inside the house. Morgan holds up two rats and asks what she's supposed to do with them. Robert tells her get rid of them outside.
Morgan: Put them back?
Robert: Put them outside! Don't put them back.
Once the last of the vermin have been evicted, Robert and Morgan hear Giselle humming in the shower.
Robert: [knocking on the door] Hello?
Giselle: [cheerfully] Come in!
- Robert walks into the bathroom, and is immediately dumbstruck by the sight of birds hastily wrapping a towel around Giselle.
  Giselle: Oh, I hope you had nice dreams.
  Robert: I think I'm still in one...
- Nancy shows up while Robert is in the bathroom dealing with Giselle. Morgan answers the door to her, and...
  Nancy: Hey girlfriend. What do you say? Ready to kick it?
  Morgan: Kick what?
  - Noticing how tidied up the place is, she naturally assumes that they hired a maid.
- At that moment, Giselle tries to do her vocal summons to get the doves to dry the bathroom floor. The doves hit Robert in the face, he grabs onto Giselle, and ends up pulling her on top of him as he lands in the hallway... right in front of Nancy.
  Robert: Nancy?!
  Giselle: Oh, hello!
  Nancy: [suspicious] Who is this?
  Robert: This is...nothing. This is... this is nothing!
  Giselle: I'm Giselle! I was on my way to the castle to get married.
  Nancy: [bristling] She's married!?
  Robert: [awkwardly] No. She's not. Not yet. Just...not yet.
  Nancy: What does that mean, "yet"?
  Robert: Nancy, she was lost. I was just trying to help her.
  Nancy: With what? Finding the shower?
  Giselle: [obliviously] The shower? The shower is wonderful, Nancy. You really should get in-
  Robert: That's enough, thank you very much. Okay?
  Nancy: Oh, I'm sure it is. [starts to head for the door]
  Robert: Nancy, just calm down, please! Let's just talk!
  Nancy: Talk about what, Robert?! How I never stay the night because we both agreed that Morgan's here and you have to set some boundaries?! And I thought, "I'm so lucky, he's sensitive." I didn't realize you were worried about crowd control!
  Robert: What... what about taking Morgan to school, you know, for some grown-up girl bonding time?
  Nancy: What, so YOU can have some "grown-up girl bonding time"? [glares at Giselle] I don't think so.
Giselle making dresses out of Robert's curtains and carpets.
- When Robert says he's not unhappy, "I'm angry!" to which Giselle replies, "...Angry?" She says this with a low tone and frown that makes it come off like she's thinking, "Well, gee...that's—a bit of an overreaction...."
- As Robert explains to Giselle the implications Nancy is under, Giselle has this advice for him:
  Giselle: You should sing to her!
  Robert: Sing to her?
  Giselle: And maybe that will reassure her of your affections. You need to rush to her side, and hold in your arms and then pour your heart out in a beautiful ballad! And then she'll know for sure. [Robert stares at Giselle, dumbstruck] Why are you staring at me?
  Robert: I don't know. It's...It's like you escaped from a Hallmark card or something.
  Giselle: Is that a bad thing?
- Then Robert very abruptly remembers he has to take Morgan to school. Morgan spreads out her hands with an impatiently bewildered look that can best be described as "Duh!"
Nathaniel popping out of the manhole. The annoyed utility crew asks him if he's looking for a beautiful princess like Edward was before him. Nathaniel replies "No. I'm looking for a prince, actually." Their dumbfounded looks cemented the scene.
- "Right."
- And when he first climbs up, one of the construction workers mutter, "Where do all these people keep coming from?"
As Nathaniel tries to locate Edward upon going through the portal, it's not hard to find him as at that exact moment, he's riding on the roof of a bus, which he thinks is a giant metal beast. He then stabs his sword through the roof, seemingly "killing" the bus (in reality, the driver applying the brakes). Then the driver gets off to confront Edward, and freaks out when Pip gets on her head and starts imitating her gestures, leading her to think he's a rat. Bonus points if you notice that the driver's hair is made to look like a hidden Mickey.
Bus Driver: Are you crazy?! Nobody stabs my bus! I'LL TEAR YOU APART!
- He does the whole thing under the impression the bus is some kind of monster that imprisoned everyone on board.
  Edward: The steel beast is dead, peasants, I set you all free!
- The old lady reporting it to Giselle and Robert: "He (Prince Edward) was on the BUS this morning. He tried to KILL ME!" (And Giselle giggles at this.)
As Robert leads Giselle into Time Warner Center where he works, Giselle is genuinely impressed by a statue of a large woman in the lobby.
Giselle: She's beautiful.
Robert: [exasperated] She's a statue!
Sam's introduction to Giselle involves our beloved princess spitting a fish from her mouth. It Makes Sense in Context...sort of. And it's hilariously cute.^note
Giselle: It's nice to meet you.
Sam: [disgusted] It's...nice to meet you too.
Pip trying to tell Edward that Nathaniel is working for Narissa.
- All of Pip's charades to Edward are pretty funny, since Edward can't figure them out to save his life.
  Edward: Go ahead, Pip. What is it you want to say?
  Pip: [clears his throat, squeaks] You with me. [rubs paws together and points to Nathaniel, trying to tell Edward that Nathaniel is a traitor]
  Edward: Nathaniel?
  Pip: Uh-huh! Nathaniel!
  Edward: Nathaniel's glad to have me near.
  Pip: No-no-no-no-no! [Pip thinks for a moment on how to get his message across] Oh!
  [Pip puffs his chest and emulates Narissa giving Nathaniel his orders. He then scurries on top of Edward's soda cup]
  Pip: Broop, broop broop.
  [Pip grabs an ice cube to simulate an apple]
  Pip: [as Nathaniel, offering the "apple"] "Helloooooo!" [as Giselle, dancing in place] "I've been dreaming of a true love's kiss."
  Edward: Oh! Ooh ooh, I know this! Uh...
  Pip: [as Nathaniel] "Apple?" [as Giselle] "No thank you." [as Nathaniel] "It's good!" [as Giselle] "Oh. Okay!"
  [Pip crunches on the ice cube, and pretends to have a seizure and "die"]
  Pip: [triumphantly] TA-DA! [waits for several moments to see if Edward gets it]
  Edward: You feel you'd die without me here!
  Pip: [groans, exasperated]
- Most of the interpretations have to do with Edward himself and rhyme.
  (Pip points at Nathaniel and jumps into the air)
  Edward: Nathaniel likes the way I leap?
  (Pip sucks in his stomach to give himself a feminine appearance, jabbers a few bars of "True Love's Kiss", then keels over)
  Edward: I'm handsome even when I sleep?
- Then at the climax when Edward finally manages to decipher Pip's pantomiming.
  [Pip, in a hamster ball, rolls up to Edward's feet]]
  Edward: Pip! You'd like to finally be released... to help Giselle... to best the beast. [Pip squeaks happily as Edward finally got it right] Why didn't you say so in the first place?
  [Pip groans and facepalms as Edward opens the hamster ball to let him out]
Robert's secretary. Of note is her attempt to find Andalasia.
Sam: She has no driver's license, no passport. I can't even find this place she comes from.
Robert: What place?
Sam: Andalusia.
Robert: Andalasia.
Sam: Yeah, whatever. I've called every travel agent, every airline. I don't know if it's a country or a city.
Robert: Well it can't be a state. [Both watch Giselle happily spinning in place]
Sam: More like a state of mind. And she told me it's just beyond "the meadows of joy" and [Giselle impression] "the valley of contentment". I mean, what is that all about?
- Especially since the background music playing while she's dancing is "Part of Your World".
When Robert asks how long Giselle and Edward have known each other.
Giselle: Oh, about a day.
Robert: You mean it feels like a day because you're so in love?
Giselle: No, it's been a day!
Robert: You're kidding me. A day?! One day?!
Giselle: Yes! And tomorrow will be two days!
The Crowd Song Giselle initiates "That's How You Know"; all of it. Some other highlights include:
- Robert's baffled and indignant reaction to how all the back-up dancers know the words to this song Giselle made up on the spot.
  Robert: He knows the song too?! I've never heard this song before! What the hell is it?
- Edward hears all the commotion somewhere else in Central Park, and attempts to launch onto a reprise of "True Love's Kiss":
  Edward: (hears the singing) GISELLE! (vaults over the bridge he's standing on and starts to reprise "True Love's Kiss") I've been dreaming— (gets run over by a pack of bicyclists)
- Robert unconsciously dancing along before realizing what he's doing and looking around awkwardly.
- This bit:
  Giselle: Well, does he take you out dancing just so he can hold you close?
  Robert: I don't dance.
  Giselle: Dedicate a song with words meant just for you-woo-oo...
  Robert: And I really don't sing.
- The street musicians and mariachis follow Robert and Giselle even when they try rowing in the lake.
- During a break in the song, Giselle gets some doves to take a heart shaped wreath of flowers to Nancy. Robert's skeptical, since she didn't give them a last name or address. So at the conclusion of the number, he's surprised when Nancy calls him to thank him for the wreath and doves, and Giselle gives him a cute "See I told ya!" beam.
At one point in where Edward and Nathaniel are in a motel, playing with the TV, they change the channel and the audience can hear the music of what they're watching...the Pink Elephant scene from Dumbo. Nathaniel immediately asks Edward to change the channel again.
Paige O'Hara (a.k.a. Belle)'s cameo in a trashy Soap Opera. Especially the way she delivers the line "How can I love a man who doesn't even like himself?" Nathaniel's reactions were pretty funny too.
- Nathaniel and Edward's conversation after this cements it:
  Nathaniel: Sire... Do you like yourself?
  Edward: (very casually) What's not to like?
- Bonus Points Again! This time, the title song in a minor key!
Robert is telling Giselle about his daughter Morgan, about how she's shy and sensitive, doesn't have many friends. So he doesn't want to fill her head with fairy tales or "dreams come true nonsense," to be able to face the world for what it is.
Giselle: But dreams do come true. And maybe something wonderful will happen.
Robert: (full Sarcasm Mode) Oh, yeah, well, I forgot who I was talking to.
Giselle: (perfectly serious) Well, I hope you don't. I like talking to you.
Nathaniel's over the top accents when he attempts to feed Giselle the poisoned apples.
- Robert lampshades the feeding-poisoned-apples by saying, "How come people keep giving you free stuff?"
  - He even jokes about the apple martini, "Be careful, it's poisonous."
- Nathaniel, in keeping with the Italian restaurant location, apparently decided to disguise himself as Mario.
Edward, thinking the TV is a magic mirror, asks it where to find Giselle.
Edward: Magic mirror. I beg you. Tell me where she is!
Mary Ilene Caselotti: [on the TV screen] Reporting from 116th and Broadway.
Edward: One hundred and sixteenth and Broadway!
[He flings his arms around the TV.]
Edward: Thank you, mirror.
[He kisses the screen and runs off.]
Edward knocks on a door, revealing a pregnant housewife with four girls. She looks at him:
Housewife: You're too late.
Edward: My apologies.
- And that, my dear tropers, was Judy Kuhn, the singing voice of Pocahontas.
- One of the apartment doors he knocks on involves a man with two cats, one of which hisses at Edward and he hisses back.
Edward's search for Giselle in Robert's apartment building. The entire scene. Bonus points goes to the part when Edward knocks on the apartment unit of a tough-looking biker...that then smiles lecherously at Edward.
Giselle realizing she's developing feelings for Robert:
Giselle: "No!" "No! "No!" Over and over again! Every word out of your mouth is "No!" It just makes me so...
Robert: Make you so what?
Giselle: You make me so... so... ANGRY!!! [bursts out laughing in delight] I'm angry. I'm angry! [Giselle punches Robert on the arm]
- The abrupt changes between Giselle giggling and punching Robert are prime examples of how Mood Whiplash can be absolutely hilarious.
Edward when he refers to Robert and Morgan as "peasants."
- "These are my friends!" *beat* "Oh." He says it so nonchalantly, like he didn't just try to kill Robert. It's so true of Disney films too.
- His race through the apartment building too. Heck, every time Edward was on screen qualifies.
- When Giselle explains to Edward that she's not singing because "I'm just thinking". Edward's complete bafflement over the concept of thinking is hilarious.
- Right before trying to kill Robert, Edward asks if he has any last words. Robert's reaction is, of course, "You have got to be kidding me!" Edward's response? "Strange words," followed by motioning for the blow before Giselle stops him.
Morgan's reaction when Edward asks Giselle "What's a date?"
- Watch Morgan's face throughout that scene. She looks absolutely bewildered when Edward is singing to Giselle, despite the fact that she seems to like fairy tales. You can imagine her thinking "The crazy renaissance fair actor who just tried to kill my dad with a sword is now dancing in my apartment and singing."
Giselle specifying to Edward "It's not really a dog. They just call it a hot 'dog' here."
This piece of dialogue:
Morgan: And you don't wanna wear too much make-up, because then boys get the wrong idea, and you know how they are. They're only after one thing!
Giselle: What's that?
Morgan: I don't know. Nobody will tell me.
Narissa delivers some excellent snark in the movie (in true Big Bad tradition).
- Once she meets up with Nathaniel, he's parked in a car, listening to a motivational talk show host, and is currently their next caller, trying to come to grips with just how bad life's been for him with absolute his devotion to Narissa.
  Narissa: Hello, worthless. Miss me?
"Wow! Really good reception here!" doubles as a Heartwarming Moment, considering the context.
From the "Where Are They Now?" Epilogue, where Nathaniel and Pip have become best-selling authors in New York and Andalasia, respectively.
- The Troll shows up again in line for Pip's book-signing.
- There's something really funny about how the former's book only lists the author as "Nathaniel".

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