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  • Despite Badger declaring that the children's rhyme song about the farmers is creepy, he bobs his head to the tune while playing a recording of it.
  • The "Don't you cuss with me" scene with Mr. Fox and Badger snarling at each other. The scene is hilarious enough on its own, but it becomes even funnier when you get the mental image of Bill Murray and George Clooney, two of Hollywood's most beloved and respected actors, in the recording booth making snarling and hissing animal noises at each other.
  • If it doesn't scare you, Kylie is hilarious when he does the eye thing (getting spirals in his eyes whenever he's distracted or scared)!
    • Especially when Mr. Fox does it too after dealing with the rabid dog Spitz.
  • Weasel yelling, "STOP YELLING!" when Mr. Fox yells his Latin name.
  • Bean asks Petey about the song he was singing during the tunnel robbing montage. As he responds by saying that he's just making the lyrics up as he goes along, he gets this:
    • And then he flicks his cigarette at Petey and leaves in a huff. It's horribly mean-spirited and hilariously random at the same time.
    • Even funnier when you remember that Petey is voiced by acclaimed songwriter Jarvis Cocker.
  • When the baddies are stuck on the roof with Spitz growling at them below, Bean says in a deadpan way, "Petey, bring us a ladder please."
  • After the animals are washed away by a flood of cider, a shaken-up Kylie says to himself, "Apple juice... Apple juice flood..."
  • Mr. Fox eating his French toast very quickly and with no silverware.
  • The scene where Mr. Fox and Kylie drive the tiny motorcycle and sidecar from behind the regular-sized motorcycle.
  • Mrs. Fox has some pretty good ones. Most notably:
    "If what I think is happening
    is happening
    it better not be."
    • It really does need three full lines to get the whole effect.
      Mrs. Fox: I'm going to lose my temper now.
      Mr. Fox: ... When?
      Mrs. Fox: Right now.
      Mr. Fox: Well when- *slap*
  • This exchange:
    Ash: I'm sick.
    Mrs. Fox: You're not sick.
    Ash: I have a temperature.
    Mrs. Fox: You don't have a temperature.
    Ash: I don't want to go.
    Mrs. Fox: Hurry up, you're going to be late.
    Ash: *growls but complies*
    Mr. Fox: I love the way you handled that.
  • The delivery of "What the cuss? Where'd this giant fence come from, we had a master plan!"
  • Fox and Kylie are trying to escape from Boggis's chicken farm after a successful plan. Except they forgot one thing.....
    Kylie: Alright, what's the master escape plan?
    Fox: (Looks to the camera with wide eyes.)
    (The music immediately stops as the the lights flash on and the alarm sounds)
  • When Mrs. Fox asks, "Why is he wearing that bandit hat?", Mr. Fox replies, "His ears were cold." This is despite the bandit hat not even covering Kristofferson's ears. Even more suspicious, Mr. Fox adds, "He's not with us."
  • When the three men are trying to dig the family out, this exchange happens.
    Mrs. Fox They'll kill the children!
    Mr. Fox Over my dead body, they will!
    Mrs. Fox That's what I'm saying, you'd be dead too in that scenario!
    Mr. Fox Well, I'm arguing against that!
  • When Fox and family escape Boggis, Bunce and Bean trying to dig them out of the tree, Bean calls Petey to rent "one Mighty Max, one Junior Spitfire, and a Longways Tornado 375 Turbo". Smash cut to what those are: three different sized backhoes, with Boggis, Bunce and Bean driving them at high speed and laughing maniacally like kids on a joyride.
  • Both Bean and Mr. Fox write in magazine letters, prompting the other to ask, "Why did they write this in letters cut out of magazines?" (Kylie thinks it's for anonymity, before realising that not only is it pointless since the farmers are the only ones trying to kill them, they signed their names).
    • Especially funny when Bean asks it, since it leads to Bunce saying, "I don't know, but you did do the same thing."
  • While Rat's death is otherwise treated with dignity, it's punctuated by his eyes making X signs, like in 2D-animated cartoons/anime how KO'd or dead characters have X'd out eyes.
  • When Bean finds out that he's been outsmarted by Mr. Fox, he's... he's not too happy. He trashes his room in anger.
  • After Rat dies following his assault on all the other animals, Kylie comments, "He went bananas." Mr. Fox simply replies, "He did".
  • The entire conversation about Mrs. Fox's...colorful past:
    Kylie: Is that true?
    Mr. Fox: Of course not. She lived, we all did, it was a different time. Let's not form a Double Standard though, she marched against those-
    Kylie: The town tart?
    Mr. Fox: Shut up.
    • Even better is the fact that everyone, including Rat, stop to stare at Mr. Fox while he explains it.
  • Badger losing his temper with Mr. Fox:
    Badger: Those farmers aren't going to stop until they have you and your entire family dead and nailed to a stick upside-down with your eyes gouged out.
    (beat)
    Mr. Fox: This is getting a little bit too personal.
  • "I don't even want to talk about it."
  • When Mr. Fox is trying to figure out what skills everyone has, most give skills specific to their species (Mole can see in the dark, Rabbit is fast, and Beaver is able to chew through wood). When Mr. Fox gets to Badger? Badger claims to be a demolitions expert, prompting an incredulous Mr. Fox to just go "What?! Since when?!?!" before just rolling with it. Also this bit afterwards:
    Kylie: Hey, I didn't get a job yet, or a Latin name. What's my strength?
    Mr. Fox: Listen, you're Kylie. You're an unbelievably Nice Guy. Your job is really, just to... be available, I think. I don't know your Latin name, I doubt they even had opossums in Ancient Rome.
  • This exchange:
    Mr. Fox: Kylie, hand me your credit card. (Kylie does so) See, this is what I was talking about with the availability thing- A TITANIUM CARD?! How the cuss are you qualified for this?
    Kylie: I pay my bills on time. I've always had good credit.
  • Pretty much the entire scene with the moving squirrels. "Lift with legs, not with your back. Flip it sideways, don't try to be a superman here!"
  • Mr. Fox's Badass Boast speech which gets hilariously subverted.
    Mr. Fox: Your tractors uprooted my tree, your posse hunted my family, your gunman kidnapped my nephew, your rat insulted my wife, and you shot off my tail! I'm NOT leaving here without that necktie...
    Bean: KILL HIM!
    (Mr. Fox and his group ducks down as the humans open heavy fire destroying most of their hiding spot. Then he sees Bean and his posse reloading their guns)
    Mr. Fox: Actually, we should just go. Where did I park?

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