Funny / Halloween (1978)

• Dr. Loomis is quietly watching the Myers house when the same boys who'd bullied Tommy earlier show up, and one of them is goaded into walking up to the house and looking inside on a dare. Loomis scares him off:
  Loomis: (hoarse whisper) Hey. Hey, Lonnie. Get your ass away from there.
  • As the boys run screaming down the street, he stands watching them with a little self-satisfied smirk on his face... and seconds later, Sheriff Brackett silently comes up and puts his hand on his shoulder to get his attention, causing Loomis to fairly jump out of his skin.
• Annie stuck in the window in the laundry room. Especially since she then tells Lindsey not to tell anyone about it, with Lindsey immediately answering the ringing phone and saying to the guy on the other line that Annie got stuck in the window.
  • Laurie lets her have it for that when she shows up at the house.
    Laurie: (seeing Annie's new clothes) Ooh, fancy.
    Annie: This has not been my night.
• There's also Lynda and Laurie ribbing Annie for ending up in the boys' locker room.
  Laurie: Exploring uncharted territory?
  Lynda: It's been totally charted.
• Annie attempting to have it out with Michael standing behind the bush, finding no one there and then mischievously teasing her friend with "Laurie, dear...he wants to take you out tonight."
• Laurie's first scream of the movie is a cute "oh!" as she bumps into Annie's father.
• Annie playfully teasing Laurie about her crush on a classmate, followed by Laurie's deadpan "Shut up."
• Annie's interaction with her dad while high on weed.
• Lynda's constant use of "Totally!"
• The Stylistic Suck of Annie's improvised "Paul" song.
  "Oh, Paul, I can no longer stall..."
• The Black Comedy of Laurie assuming Lynda's death throes are actually Annie reaching orgasm.
• As Loomis is chewing out Dr. Wynn at Smith's Grove for not taking the threat of Michael's escape seriously enough:
  Wynn: Sam, Haddonfield is a hundred and fifty miles away from here. Now, for God's sakes, he can't drive a car.
  Loomis: He was doing very well last night! Maybe someone around here gave him lessons!
  • Which later makes Michael's screeching to a halt after Annie yells at him quite funny; almost like The Shape is oddly self-conscious about his driving ability.
• Michael himself has a somewhat Black Comedy moment when he gets dressed up as a Bedsheet Ghost with big nerdy glasses. It almost seems like he's making fun of the fact that he just murdered Bob a minute before and is portraying what he (Bob) could look like as a restless spirit.
• Another Black Comedy moment comes when the cemetery keeper says to Loomis that every town has some gruesome incident in its past similar to Judith Myers' murder, then proceeds to share an anecdote about a man "over in Russellville". Loomis cuts him off just as he's reaching the climax of the story, which is heavily implied to be a case of Pater Familicide.
  Cemetery Keeper: Old Charlie Bowles, about fifteen years ago. One night he finished dinner, and he excused himself from the table... He went out to the garage, and got himself a hacksaw. Then he went back into the house... kissed his wife and two children goodbye... and then he proceeded to—
  Loomis: (in agitation) Where are we?!
• This line from Bob, which Crosses the Line Twice.
  "First I rip your clothes off, then you rip my clothes off. And then we'll rip Lindsey's clothes off."

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