Funny / Kung Fu Panda

As a Moments subpage, all spoilers are unmarked per wiki policy. You Have Been Warned!

Shifu's still watching you while stealing Po's dumpling..

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• The opening dream sequence:
  • The very first lines of the series: "Legend tells of a legendary warrior, whose kung-fu skills were the stuff of LEGEND!"
  • "I see you like to chew! Maybe you should chew ON MY FIST!"
  • "The warrior said nothing, for his mouth was full."
  • The bandits who go blind from overexposure to Awesomeness. "My eyes!" "He's too awesome!"
    • Female bunny: "And attractive." Even better, the person who voiced her was Jack Black's wife.
  • "There is no charge for awesomeness." (Beat.) "Or attractiveness." Cue a delighted squeal from the aforementioned attracted bunny.
  • When the "Legendary Warrior" Po encounters the Furious Five:
    Master Monkey: We should hang out.
    "Legendary Warrior": Agreed.
  • The whole scene is Narm Charm at its finest.
• Mr. Ping says that once Po knows the Secret Ingredient in the Secret Ingredient Noodle Soup, Po will take over the restaurant, just like Mr. Ping did from his father, who took it over from his own father, who won it from a friend in a game of mahjong.
• The candle-blowing scene. Oogway has something important to tell Shifu, but decides to start blowing candles out... one... by... one. The only thing funnier than Oogway seemingly preparing to continue speaking only to keep blowing them out would have to be Shifu's understandably irritated expression.
  • Finally, Shifu uses his kung-fu to blow them all out. Oogway looks a tiny bit surprised and disgruntled (and if you listen carefully, he blows one more time).
• Shortly after that, Shifu and Oogway contemplate who will receive the Dragon Scroll:
  Shifu: But who? Who is worthy to be entrusted with the secret to limitless power? To become...the Dragon Warrior?
  (Beat)
  Oogway: I don't know.
• During Po's attempts to get into the show, we get this gem:
  Shifu: Believe me, citizens, you have not seen anything yet!
  Po: I KNOW!
• "I love kung-fuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu...oooooo..." *falls over*
  • Funnier, shortly after Po is rocketed into the air screaming, he remembers what he was saying, and goes "aaaieeuuuuuu!", before falling back down.
• An easy-to-miss one: during the Big "WHAT?!" sequence after Po is named the Dragon Warrior, the last person we're shown is Mr. Ping, who was previously outside the arena. So, how did he get in? He opened the door. This means all that work Po did to get into the arena was completely unnecessary.
• The Sacred Hall of Warriors contains many revered kung-fu artifacts but – Po’s absolute nerdgasming aside – some of the things border on ridiculous:
  • "The Sword of Heroes! Said to be so sharp you can cut yourself just by looking—OW!"
  • There's also the "Invisible Trident of Destiny!" ^note Of course, the added joke is that since Po never touches the "trident", there's nothing to suggest there's anything actually there at all or that there ever was.
  • "I've only seen paintings of that painting..."^note Funnier if you realize that back in the old days, the only way to make a copy of a painting was to...paint a painting of it. That's right, forgery used to be an acceptable occupation before the invention of photography.
  • After Po accidentally smashes the urn of whispering warriors, the collected souls moan every time Po nudges the pieces.
• On his first day of training, Po suggests they start with exercises suited to his level, like "level zero"; Shifu says there's no such thing. Later, Shifu gives an evaluation to Po's totally un-awesome display^note Read: Getting his ass handed to him by a training dummy/doorstopper...which knocks him into a series of increasingly painful training equipment, culminating with a floor made entirely of flamethrowers: "There is now a level zero."
• The rhino guard putting his hand over his mouth after he accidentally shoots Tai Lung's wrist restraint. Doubles as an Oh, Crap! moment.
• There's this bit near the end of Tai Lung's prison break. No dialogue, but it's still too funny for words.
  Commander Vachir: (growls)
  Tai Lung: (growls)
  Zeng: (scared duck squawk)
• Shifu and the Five, upon finding his bed empty, are convinced they have finally got rid of Po, they then open the entrance to the Jade Palace, and are met with Po's ass trying to get on a split.
• After Crane helps Po out of the split:
  Po: Thanks.
  Crane: Don't mention it.
  Po: No, really I appreciate...
  Crane: Ever.
• Shifu then demonstrates the years of effort needed to master kung-fu by having Tigress high jump and kick two plates mid-air. Tigress promptly struts off, fully convinced she has put Po in his place. Po however is just an elated fanboy-mode the entire time, even when the leftover debris falls on his head. He then slowly attempts to sneak part of it behind his back.
  Shifu: Put that down! The only souvenirs we collect here are bloody knuckles and broken bones!
• The acupuncture scene.
  • When Po suddenly makes a weird face at Tigress out of nowhere and she thinks that he is trolling her after she called him a '"big fat panda that treats [kung-fu] as a joke":
    Tigress: OH, THAT IS IT! (prepares to hit him only to be stopped by Mantis)
    Mantis: WAIT! My fault! I accidentally tweaked his facial nerve! (Po falls to the floor, revealing that Mantis has jammed at least a hundred acupuncture needles into his back.) And may... have also stopped his heart.
• Shifu informs Master Oogway that he has bad news:
  Oogway: Ah, Shifu. There is only news. There is no "good" or "bad".
  Shifu: Master, your vision... your vision was right! Tai Lung has broken out of prison! He's on his way!
  Oogway: That is bad news... if you do not believe that the Dragon Warrior can stop him.
• Master Oogway on Po being chosen as the Dragon Warrior: "There are no accidents."
  Shifu: Yes, I know. You've said that already. Twice.
  Oogway: Well, that was no accident, either!
  Shifu: (muttering) Thrice.
• When Master Oogway is gently remonstrating with Master Shifu, reminding him to let go of the illusion of control, Shifu insists that there are things he can control!
  Shifu: I can control when the fruit will fall!
  • He viciously side-kicks the tree, causing peaches to fall around him... and one to drop directly onto his head. Oogway's little chuckle after just screams "Oh, can you now?" So Shifu isn't done on his tirade.
  Shifu: I can control... (flings peach into the sky, leaps after it) (chops the fruit in half with a chop) Where to plant the seed! Hiii-YA! (punches a crater) That - is no - illusion - Master! (flings the stone pit into the freshly made divot)
• Po imitating Shifu after getting a noodle on his lips.
  Po: (kneels on the floor and deepens his voice) "You will never be the Dragon Warrior unless you lose 500 pounds and brush your teeth!"
  (the gang except Tigress breaks into laughter)
  Po: "What is that noise you're making? Laughter? I never heard of it! Work hard, Panda. And maybe someday, (puts up two bowls on his head mimicking large ears) you'll have ears like mine."
  • Followed up by Po continuing his impression with an unamused Shifu standing right behind him.
• "It is not your destiny to defeat Tai Lung! It is his!" (points dramatically to the empty space where Po was standing) "Where'd he go?" (cut to Po running away, screaming like a little girl)
• Po's simple excuse of "getting a cookie" is priceless, as well as how surprised Shifu is by it. Also, a Moment of Awesome considering that Po punched and kicked through the wooden cabinets and drawers, moving pretty agilely for food.
  • "Don't tell Monkey."
  • It's made even more hilarious in the credit scenes; Monkey's looking for his almond cookies in the jar and finds them missing, while Po is outside, with the cookies in hand!
• From Shifu: (eyes closed) Panda, we do not wash our pits in the Pool of Sacred Tears.
• The chopstick fight. And Shifu pretty much trolling Po during both the training scene and in this one when it was about the fact that he may eat only after he was trained.
  • Awesome part? The whole scene is a reference to an old Jackie Chan movie, The Fearless Hyena.
  • As pictured above, a Freeze-Frame Bonus exists as Shifu steals the first dumpling.
  • At the beginning, Shifu stylishly twirls both his chopsticks. Po? He merely clacks them together.
  • When Shifu hides the Dumpling in one of three bowls and begins a Shell Games and mix them together, Po surprisingly kept up where the Dumpling was on his first try. When he does pull it off, he is vocally pumped.
  • And at the end (after ALL the effort Po puts into trying to get the dumpling...):
    Po: I'm not hungry...Master.
• By the time of the Furious Five's fight with Tai Lung, he's already heard about the Dragon Warrior—through hearsay and rumors that clearly are either obviously exaggerated or Tai Lung blatantly misinterpreting the stories so as to make Po sound more awesome than he actually is at this point.
  Tai Lung: I heard how he fell out of the sky on a ball of fire, that he's a warrior unlike any the world has ever seen.
  Monkey: Po?
  • Doubles as a Brick Joke, as Tai Lung is unknowingly echoing the Furious Five's earlier mockery of Po.
    Viper: I don't understand what Master Oogway was thinking. The poor guy is just going to get himself killed!
    Crane: (sarcastic) He is so mighty! The Dragon Warrior fell out of the sky on a ball of fire!
    Mantis: (sarcastic) When he walks, the very ground shakes!
• The bit where Mantis tries to hold the bridge ropes by himself.
  Mantis: Go! (grabs ropes, strains from holding them) AUGH, WHATWASITHINKING?!
• "Ooohoohooohh! My tenders!"
• When Po and the others first learn that the Dragon Scroll has nothing but a reflective surface, Po tries to show it to Shifu. Shifu starts to refuse, claiming that he's not allowed to look at it - and then barely a second after, he snatches it out of Po's hands and looks at it, opening and closing it a couple of times to make sure he's not seeing things.
  • Tai Lung later does the same thing, as if he's checking another page.
• Po tells his father, "Honestly, sometimes I can't believe I'm actually your son..." immediately followed up by "Po, I think it's time I told you something I should have told you a long time ago... the Secret Ingredient of my Secret Ingredient Soup!".
  • That's the same line that he says when talking about finding Po in the sequel. There are two things this could mean. A, he intended to tell his son about his adoption but chickened out at the last minute. Or B, he treats his Secret Ingredient Soup with the same seriousness as he does the matter of his son's adoption.
• Tai Lung's sheer disbelief at Po being The Chosen One.
• Po and Tai Lung fighting in the climax is a mix of Moment of Awesome and this:
  • At the start of the fight, Tai Lung mockingly asks Po "What are you gonna do big guy? Sit on me?" Which is EXACTLY what he does to him while both are falling down the palace stairs. In slow-mo, no less.
  • Made even funnier by Po retorting, in a snarky tone, "Don't tempt me."
  • Afterwards, Po reveals the Dragon Scroll and taunts Tai Lung ("You want it? Come and get it!"). Cue Tai Lung sucker punching Po and taking the scroll... only for Po to bounce back from a pillar and stomach-punt Tai Lung. Tai Lung's reaction (shaking his head in disbelief) also counts.
  • The beginning of Po and Tai Lung's fight where Po makes a mocking-taunt-face towards Tai Lung while making Funny Bruce Lee Noises. Tai Lung then begins running toward Po in slow motion. Cue Po getting an Oh, Crap! face, then turning to run while shouting in slow-motion, "Whoa!"
  • When they fall down the stairs, at one point Po lands in a tree. He then uses it to his advantage by flinging the tree to hit Tai Lung, who cannot avoid it because he was midair.
  • A Call-Back to the chopstick fight from earlier: Po is on stilts, Tai Lung is below him, and the Dragon Scroll is between them. Tai Lung is about to grab it when Po throws a wok at Tai Lung's face, knocks over a cart full of woks and other cooking supplies and hides it under one with the stilts, then starts switching them around in a blinding fast Shell Game. ("Lightning!") Then Tai Lung just up and cuts the knot by doing a Ground Pound that tosses all the dishes into the air at once. Po's dismayed reaction to this is funny enough all on its own.
    • The dumbfounded look on Tai Lung's face as Po switches the woks around is also hilarious.
  • Tai Lung then attempts to fight off Po to get to the Scroll, but Po on stilts proves to be a major hindrance to him because Po kept on impeding his movement. When Tai Lung circumvents this again by shoving the stilts aside, Po falls on top of him.
  • While chasing the scroll (which is nothing but a long series of awesome and funny moments, often both at the same time) at one point, it gets stuck in a high place, so Po imagines it as a giant cookie to reach it. Tai Lung's reaction sells it:
    Tai Lung: The scroll is giving him power! Noooo!
  • Tai Lung kicks the building the scroll is stuck in down, hoping to bring down Po with it. This ends up biting him in the tail when Po's frantic climbing sends a few roof tiles loose and they hit Tai Lung in the face.
  • Tai Lung hits Po with the nerve strike attack thingy and he keels over... only to start laughing when Tai Lung keeps punching him. "Stop it! I'm gonna pee! Don't!". Shortly afterwards, Tai Lung sends a punch to Po straight in the belly just as he stood up. Cue Po keeling backwards, then rebounding and double-punting Tai Lung, sending him flying.
  • Po tricks Tai Lung into biting his own tail. Cue adorable kitten squeak.
  • If you pay attention to Po's facial expressions during the part where Tai Lung is ranting about Po not being the true dragon warrior, when Tai Lung calls Po a "Big Fat Panda", Po's face drops from mild annoyance to deadpan disappointment and one gets the idea that he decided to end Tai Lung for that comment alone.
    • Tai Lung's blithering as he stumbles out of the crater demonstrates just how utterly wrecked his ego and psyche is after being bested by Po of all people.
  • Tai Lung's reaction to Po using the Wuxi Finger Hold.
    Tai Lung: *gasp* The Wuxi Finger Hold!
    Po: *smirks* Oh, you know this hold?
    Tai Lung: *terrified* You're bluffing... you're bluffing! Shifu didn't teach you that!
    Po: Nope.
    *Tai Lung smiles nervously*
    Po: I figured it out.
    *Tai Lung stares in utter disbelief, then winces in preparation of what will happen next*
    Po: *flexes pinky* Skadoosh.
• Right at the very end, Shifu thanks Po for bringing peace to the valley as well as to him, before he proceeds to slowly close his eyes, which causes Po to believe he's dying:
  Po: No... Master... No, no, NO! Don't die, Shifu! Please!
  Shifu: (abruptly opens his eyes) I'm not dying, you idio...uh...Dragon Warrior. I am simply at peace. Finally.
  Po: Oh. So...I should...stop talking?
  Shifu: If you can.
  Po: Oh. 'Kay. (lies down with him; long Beat) Wanna get something to eat?
  Shifu (sigh): Yeah.
  • Especially with how his eyes go wide open, implying that Shifu's also a Big Eater.
• From the tie-in video game: Po is hopelessly lost in a desert while trying to get back to the Jade Palace. He comes across Tai Lung's secret training ground and comes across Tai Lung himself (either him or an illusion, it isn't made clear).
  Tai Lung: Why have you come to my training ground?
  Po: Your tr—tr— Oh...
  Tai Lung: WHY!?
  Po: I ca-came for the cookies?
  [Tai Lung stares at him for a moment, then shoves him off the platform they're standing on.]

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