Funny / Kaiketsu Zorro

• General:
  • The sub-par quality of the voice acting in some scenes, especially for minor characters, can easily turn dramatic or emotional moments into Narm.
  • The Running Gag of Lolita's parents encouraging her to get married—usually to Diego, but Lolita's mother in particular clearly doesn't care who Lolita marries, so long as he's rich enough to help them out of the financial trouble they've landed themselves in. What's funny isn't the attempts themselves, but rather the sheer lack of subtlety involved and their ensuing puzzlement at Lolita's rightfully outraged reactions.
    • And it only gets funnier on the rare occasions when Diego is on the receiving end of their misguided matchmaking.

• "Return of the Hero:"
  • Poor Gonzales makes his first appearance while chasing Lolita's carriage. He initially does a good job of keeping up, only to be tripped off his horse by a kid, complete with a close-up of his pained face as he hits the dirt. His expression as he watches the carriage vanish in the distance is the icing on the cake.
  • While Lolita and the soldiers have a tense face-off, Diego hovers awkwardly in the background with a nervous expression that's entirely out of place next to stubborn Lolita.
    • Likewise, Diego's attempt to defuse the situation has to be seen to be believed, from the awkward grin he puts on to deliberately getting Gabriel's rank wrong to his exaggerated breakdown over supposedly flunking out of school.
  • Bernard's idea for getting Chichita's baby to stop crying is to make faces. Naturally, it doesn't work.
  • Don Alejandro interrupts Lolita's parents in the middle of a discussion over how they were planning to take advantage of the Vega fortune to solve their own financial problems after Diego and Lolita were married. The result is a lot of comical fumbling before they make a hasty excuse over how they were worried that Lolita might not be "good enough" for Diego. Blink and you'll miss it, but when the scene cuts back to Alejandro, his expression says he's not buying it.
  • After watching Zorro disarm most of his men, Gonzales makes a Badass Boast and urges his horse into the fray...only for it to rear and throw him to the ground instead. Not to be deterred, he picks himself up and decides to fight Zorro on foot, and gets his rear handed to him and his belt cut for his trouble. Then, just to add insult to injury, he falls flat on his face while trying to pull his pants back up.
    • Blink and you’ll miss it, but when Chichita and his wife gallop away, the horse they’re riding looks suspiciously like Gonzales’s horse. Guess somebody's walking home...
  • The soldiers are tearing a ship apart, searching every possible nook and cranny for Chichita's family...and then the camera pans over to Gonzales, with his feet propped on a table, helping himself to the meal the ship's cooks were preparing when the army barged in.
  • Gonzales reports to Gabriel that there's no sign of Chichita or his family anywhere on the ship. He then adds that he's been thinking very hard and decides that if they're not on board, they must be somewhere else.
    Gabriel: Fathead!
• "The Barrels of Wine:"
  • Lolita has an emotional confrontation with Diego over his changed behavior. Diego, in a rare moment of seriousness, admits that he would tell the truth if he could...and then turns around and cheerfully admits that yes, he's the one who broke an expensive vase at her house.
    • He pulls this same stunt again in the following scene. Diego approaches a soldier who is bullying one of the townspeople while a crowd watches with bated breath and ominous music plays. The soldier turns to confront Diego, rudely asks if something's wrong—and Diego immediately replies that nothing's wrong, and is there anything he can do to help? Cue Facepalms from Lolita and Bernard.
  • Sergeant Gonzales's reaction to being held at swordpoint during the bandit raid.
    Bandit: Move and you die, fat man!
    Gonzales: (quaking in terror) You don't scare me!
  • Gonzales going after the one bandit who's left behind after the others flee with the Vegas' wine, all of it. He completely ignores a bemused Zorro, attacks the bandit with a series of wild stabs that result in some hilariously animated flailing from both parties, and finally chases the bandit off into the distance, shouting and slashing with his sword the whole way.
  • When Bernard reveals that he knew Zorro's secret identity all along, Zorro tries to play a bit too dumb.
    Bernard: I knew it was you all along, Diego! I was sure of it since the very first time I saw you!
    (Beat)
    Zorro: Who's Diego?
• "Proposal of Marriage:"
  • Don Carlos decides he doesn't want to let Lolita see Diego anymore because of how lazy he's become. His wife convinces him to change his mind by pointing out that a lazy son-in-law would be easier to manipulate. Then Lolita walks in and responds to his none-too-subtle prodding by saying that she's not interested in Diego at all. Carlos begins singing Diego's praises in an effort to invoke an Opinion Flip Flop, but Lolita just scoffs in his face. Poor Don Carlos is left dumbfounded.
  • When he learns that Lolita is engaged to Diego, Gabriel challenges him to duel for her hand before the whole city. Hilarity Ensues.
  • After the 'duel' Gabriel, having proved that Diego is a mollusk, asks Lolita to break her engagement and become his fiancee… Only to learn she hates soldiers. Her rant leaves him looking at her with his mouth hanging open, much to the laughter of the viewers… And the in-universe witnesses.
  • Following a thorough drubbing at Zorro's hands, Gonzales releases Lolita, who immediately throws herself into Zorro's arms. The soldiers take advantage of this distraction to run away as fast as possible.
• "Wake Up My Friend!"
  • Lolita picks a fight with some soldiers abusing their authority, and Diego, trying to stop the fight, gets targeted. The soldiers attempts at beating up and then killing Diego have to be seen to be believed, as do their faces when Gabriel, who really was just passing by (he was on patrol) orders them to stop murdering his hated romantic rival to try and make a good impression on Lolita.
  • Zorro isn't much for wordplay, but he can't resist the urge to make a pun after opening a dam and letting out a tidal wave that washes most of Gabriel's men downstream.
    Zorro: I just thought it was time you cleaned up your act.
• "The Ties of Blood:"
  • At the annual harvest festival, Diego takes part in a contest that involves crawling across a set of ropes and leaping onto a barrel. Diego decides that, just this once, he's going to stop acting like a weakling and really show off what he can do. However, his moment of glory only lasts about fifteen seconds before Lolita loudly declares that she's in love with Zorro (in response to yet another of her parents' attempts to "encourage" her to marry Diego). A shocked Diego loses his grip and is left hanging upside-down from the barrel by his toes, much to the amusement of the crowd. Just to add insult to injury, it isn't long before his toes can't hold out any longer and he plummets into the ocean, screaming all the way down.
  • Diego interrogates Gonzales, offering him wine to get him to talk... And then runs away without paying.
    • When Gabriel throws Diego into the rough sea, Gonzales states it's divine punishment for not paying the tab.
    • And later still, Diego as Zorro orders Gonzales to forget the debt while holding him at swordpoint.
• Episode 6:
  • Bernando warning Diego of a group of bandits (actually working for Gabriel) riding toward Lolita's home, telling him he wants to take part to the action... And being tied up and left behind.
    • After fighting the bandits and being nearly killed due their leader using hypnosis on him, Diego comes back home, tells Bernardo he's OK, and falls asleep next to him... leaving Bernardo still tied up.
  • Gabriel saying Lolita is shy. Sure, there's a reason for it, but still...
  • Gabriel has framed Zorro for the heist, but Lolita says she doesn't believe it, and reveals that she knows how to recognize the bandit leader in spite of the mask due having wounded his right forearm. Then Bernardo, Lolita, her parents, and Gabriel realize that Diego has a wound right there... And for a moment even Gabriel entertains the idea before they all get a good laugh.
• Episode 7:
  • Lolita showing jealousy over Diego, backpedaling once she realizes it was a misunderstanding and claiming that no girl would fall for him... And then correcting herself, as he has apparently broken the heart of a cow.
    • Later, she catches Diego with another girl (actually the victim of Raymond's latest scheme—Diego is trying to help her enter the town so she can claim her inheritance). Hilarity Ensues (at least until Gabriel shows up).
  • Raymond has put road blocks around the town to stop the lawful heiress of the late Don Fernandes from claiming her inheritance, and Diego is trying to smuggle her, disguised as a shepherd, through Gonzales's roadblock. In exchange for passage, Diego and offers him a case of wine:
    Gonzales: This is bribery!
    (Diego nods)
    Gonzales: Well, I can't refuse such a gift... Let them pass!
    • As Diego, Bernardo and the heiress are passing through, Gonzales orders them to stop...because her poncho has the worst stench he has ever smelled.
  • After Diego is imprisoned with the heiress, Lolita comes to help, tries to convince Gonzales to let her pass by feigning jealousy, and when that fails she lifts her skirt...to reveal a bottle of wine. That one works.
  • The soldiers going crazy due to the plan Diego suggested to Lolita- namely, a dozen people disguised as Zorro riding through the pueblo to distract them.
    • The finale: Gonzales, left alone to guard the jail, is confronted by Lolita and Bernardo, both dressed as Zorro. Lolita suggests that he should faint...and he immediately produces a bottle of wine and knocks himself out.
• Episode 8 has Lolita trying her hand at astrology. Hilarity Ensues... At least until she predicts a murder and it happens.
• Episode 13 is basically Home Alone, Recycled WITH ZORRO, complete with Bernardo using one of the traps from the original movie (the heated doorknobs). That is all.
• Episode 16 revolves around Raymond buying a katana, believed to be able to cut straight through another sword ''and'' the guy wielding it, as a gift for the governor. A three-way fight quickly ensues between the soldiers escorting it, a group of bandits trying to get their hands on it, and Zorro trying to prevent it from falling into the wrong hands. In the end, the leader of the bandits gets hold of it and slashes at Zorro, who has no choice but to block with his sword. The katana promptly snaps in half. Turns out it was a bamboo sword painted to look like a real katana, and nobody in California knew it. Hilarity Ensues immediately, and then again when the governor and Raymund find out.
• "Cornered:"
  • After forcing an injured Zorro to flee the previous evening, Gabriel wakes up to find the outlaw in his bedroom, holding him at gunpoint. He tries to call for the soldiers, only to be informed that it will be better for his health if he keeps quiet. Then Zorro has him dress up a copy of his costume, ties him to Viento, and sends him on his way as a distraction. Zorro's thinly-veiled amusement and Gabriel's helpless fury as the plan unfolds just sell it.
  • Moments later, Gonzales is flabbergasted to find Zorro still inside the army base when all the other soldiers have just gone after him. He doesn't even put up a fight as Zorro frees the prisoners he's guarding. Even when Zorro prepares to inflict his trademark Z, all he does is ask if Zorro will put it on the seat of his pants instead, since he only has one good jacket left.
• "Lady Barbara:"
  • Zorro sneaks into the titular noblewoman's carriage as part of a plan to steal a box of jewels in her possession (Raymond stole the jewels from the townspeople and then gave them to Barbara as a going-away present, without her knowing of their origin). Barbara screams out for the soldiers, but Zorro covers her mouth with one hand and politely assures her he's not there to harm her. She nods in understanding, he removes his hand—and she screams out for the soldiers even louder than before. The look on Zorro's face has to be seen to be believed.
• "Lolita Get Your Gun:"
  • Diego has to briefly disguise himself as a female peddler to get inside a nunnery where Lolita is being held hostage...but by the time he's changed to his Zorro outfit, he's forgotten to wipe off the make-up. Leading to a rather embarrassing moment when Lolita points it out.
    Lolita: When did you start wearing lipstick? (Zorro sheepishly covers his mouth)

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