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  • "Hey! Stop that! Go do some loner junk in the woods or something."
    • The best part is the expression on Wolverine's face as he runs off like a scolded dog.
  • Jane Austen's reaction to Sense and Sensibility and Mister Darcy and Sharks In Space Riding Motorcycles Plus There Is a Time Machine.
  • After the witches tell their prophecy to Macbeth and Banquo:
    Banquo: Are you thinking what I'm thinking?
    Macbeth: (thinking) KILL EVERYONE.
    Banquo: Haha, our kids are totally gonna hook up.
    Macbeth: Wha?
    • And the strip after that one:
      Macbeth: Send a message to Glam Castle!
      - Cue David Bowie -
      Macbeth: Oh, I meant Glamis.
  • Sexy Tudors, particularly the last panel. Poor William Cecil.
  • The Nancy Drew covers. "I don't want to solve this mystery."
  • These comics featuring Inspector Javert, especially the third and fourth ones.
  • This little exchange:
    Tom: You'll never be like us, Gatsby. We're old money.
    Gatsby: Well, how old?
    Tom: So old. Old as balls.
    Tom: Well, I have no idea what that one is about.
  • Jules Verne's letter to Edgar Allan Poe.
  • Adams and Franklin
  • Pretty much all of "Julius Caesar, Part 2," but especially the dogs of war and Cinna's bad verses.
    Cinna: Check it - Roses are red, I give them to mom, she makes me cookies, nommy nom noms.
  • Every comic here.
  • The comic with Tycho Brahe has "What if the earth orbits the sun" "WHAT IF YOUR WIFE ORBITS MY DICK"
    • Tycho that was uncalled for!
  • "But I have the heart and stomach of a king, and the wingspan of an albatross!" Also a Moment of Awesome.
  • Everything involving The Watsons. "Jam!"
  • Mystery Solving Teens:
    Teen: It was the baker or something.
    Inspector: The baker?! I knew it!
    Baker (getting arrested): I'm innocent!
  • Mark Antony tries to give a eulogy:
    Mark Antony: This was the noblest Roman of them all
    Anonymous Roman soldier: Was he?? ... Should we be angry with you, now that he's dead?
    • And the first comic on that page:
      Caesar: Antony, you're a big strapping fellow. Next time you run by my wife, Calpurnia, give her a good punch, will you?
      Mark Antony: Why?
      Caesar: She's barren.
      Mark Antony: Is that a thing?
      Caesar: Well, I'm no doctor, but yes.
  • How To Win
  • Dude Watchin' with the Brontës
  • Anne's distraught expression in the first panel of this strip is equally hilarious and adorable.
  • The Madness Of King Lear
    • The scene with a mad Lear wandering in the storm.
      Jester: Nuncle, someone doeth approach!
      Lady Macbeth: Out! Out damned spot!
      Jester: Lotta crazy people out in this storm...
    • Good Idea
      Lear: Cordelia, you know we could probably just live together in a bird cage forever and ever!
      Cordelia: Oh man dad, that sounds awesome! Let's just... go for a little walk first *dumps Lear outside a Bedlam House called Crazy Acres*
  • Dracula
    Jonathan Harker: *writing* The peasants keep crossing themselves at me and weeping, etc. Man... what is their fucking deal?!
    • Harkers first meeting with the Count.
      Harker: It's good to meet you, Count! The locals have told me much about you.
      Harker: *thinking* This is probably okay
    • Harkers encounter with Dracula's brides.
      Bride: We'd like sex obviously
      Harker: So wrong yet so right!
      Bride: We'd also like to vote and own property!
      Harker: Get your hands off me!!
    • The ship crew wonders why the Count had them haul coffins full of dirt onboard, and figure that he probably wants them to plant something in them. Cue Dracula recoiling at the sight of turnips sprouting in his resting place.
  • The Gangsters comic where a group of hitmen give their victim a note with the Black Spot on it.
    Victim: You've mixed up genres.
    Gangster: Wise guy eh?
  • Brown Recluse Spiderman! Does Whatever A Brown Recluse Spider Can!
    Spiderman: *chasing a criminal* I'll get you!! Ohh, a crevice! *burrows into a wall crevice*
    • Biting a person out of instinct, even though they're the same size and he has no reason to be afraid.
      Guy: Why did you do that?!
      Spiderman: I dont know, I was scared...
      Guy: What's happening to my arm?! What did you do?!
      Spiderman: *cowering* I'm sorry, you're just really big!!
  • L'anse Aux Meadows presents a radical new theory as to why the original Norse settlements in the New World were abandoned: The settlers turned into Newfoundlanders.
  • The entirety of Founding Fathers in a Mall.
    George Washington: Have we not rid ourselves of the monarchy, Mr. Madison?
    James Madison: We have indeed sir.
    George Washington: (Holds up a Burger King bag) YET WHO IS THIS MAN

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