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  • The DVD menus are an absolute riot, despite being a huge Mood Whiplash for the whole film. For starters, the main menu has Captain Spaulding in full clown gear greeting the audience and getting progressively more pissed off at the lack of response.
    Spaulding: Look. If you don't quit doin' the asshole shuffle and pick one of these goddamn options, I'm gonna come out there and put my boot up your ass!
    • One page of the chapter menu has Otis regaling us with a story of how Tiny decided to one day "become a man" and lost his virginity... to a stump... A stump that was home to a squirrel that didn't take kindly to an uninvited guest, and bit Tiny right on the pecker. Otis can barely finish the story and starts Corpsing and walks off screen.
  • After the robbers burst into Captain Spaulding's store, he immediately raises his hands in mock surrender, giving the finger with each.
    • Killer Karl manages to be decently intimidating... the same can't be said for his partner in crime, Richard Wick. He's shaking like a leaf the whole time, sounds like a wimp whenever he speaks, and repeatedly bumbles his way through the robbery.
      Wick: Yeah, and don't move! Or I'll blast a hole the size of a-a-a Kansas City watermelon th-through your ugly ass... b-bozo face!!
      Spaulding: What the fuck is that supposed to mean...?
      Karl: Go grab that other asshole out of the shitter, and drag his ass back in here!
      Wick: Right! [Manages to trip over the tiny velvet rope on his way there]
    • To say nothing of Stucky bringing up his Embarrassing Nickname from childhood, "Little Dick Wick."
      Stucky: [singing] Little Dick Wick, playing with his prick, don't the smell just make ya sick!
      Wick: STOP SINGIN', I HATE THAT SONG!
    • And then there's this exchange:
      Karl: I'm gonna count to ten, and you're gonna hand over all the cash! Or I'm gonna splatter your greasepaint mug across the state line! One!
      Spaulding: Fuck yo mama!
      Karl: Two!
      Spaulding: Fuck yo sister!
      Karl: Three!
      Spaulding: Fuck yo grandma!
  • When Bill tries to probe the Fireflies for more information on Dr. Satan, Grandpa Hugo becomes annoyed.
    Grandpa Hugo: What are you, Jimmy Olson, cub reporter for the Daily Asshole?
  • The sheer disgust in Bill's voice when he says "Oh my god," as he watches Mother Firefly kiss a fetus in a jar.
  • The fact that, instead of torturing Denise like his family expected him to, Tiny decides to sit down in front of the TV and eat a bowl of cereal. He even waves to her when she tries to leave. Making the whole thing funnier is when Otis bursts into the room and tosses Denise into a cage. When he glares over at Tiny accusing him for her escape, Tiny merely shrugs.
  • When Wydell rings Captain Spaulding's bell, Spaulding responds with a string of curses and threats, before immediately backtracking upon seeing them. Even funnier is the fact that he's wearing a shirt that says "Pigs is beautiful", featuring a pig in a sheriff's hat.
  • "If I ever find him, I'ma gonna kill that Skunk Ape." Said with a completely straight face.

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