After being dumped by Warner, Elle's reaction to a guy in a movie telling his love interest "I love you":
Elle: LIAR!!! (Tosses chocolates at the tv screen)
The stunned reaction of the Harvard Law admissions committee to Elle's video, and the one guy trying to describe how good Elle's extra-curricular activities are in more conventional terms.
In the video, Elle tries to demonstrate that she is feminist by calling out "I object!" to a boy wolf whistling at her - only to Squee afterwards.
Elle also ends her video talking to the camera while lounging in a pool dressed in a bikini. The admissions committee is bemused, but after talking amongst themselves decide she fits their criteria and admit her. Most ads and trailers cut that out and make it look like they admitted her based on the bikini alone.
Following their closing argument, an administrator affirms welcoming Elle to Harvard, except he delivers it in a very "Why not?"/"What the hell?" kind of tone.
Callahan's bemused, "Do you think she just woke up one morning and said 'I think I'll go to law school today'?" After Elle gives him her resume on pink, scented paper. If only he knew.
Emmett also remarks that the paper smells quite good.
Brooke snarking that a picture of her husband's dick would explain why she married him. The icing is the interns' various reactions.
This delightful quote from Elle:
"Exercise gives you endorphins. Endorphins make you happy! Happy people just don't shoot their husbands. (pause) They just don't."
When Enrique tries to backtrack and say Chuck is just a friend, said "friend" rose from the stands and yells a very hurt “You bitch!” before storming out of the courtroom.
Elle starts her talk about perms in the trial, using her sorority friend as an example. She takes the time to compliment Chutney's bone structure - cut to Chutney's mother looking all pleased.
The Running Gag in the sequel of people assuming Elle's an intern. They tell her where intern orientation is. When she sits down at congress, there's this amusing exchange.
Congresswoman: Intern orientation is in room—
Elle: 216. So I've heard.
And when everyone's trying to get Elle's bill passed, the montage shows Margot and Serena outside Room 216 - wondering why everyone keeps telling them to go there.
Elle to Warner after being chosen to work on Brooke's case. It's hard to tell if she's being Innocently Insensitive or roasting him.
Elle: Oh, Warner? Do you remember those four amazing hours we spent in the hot tub after Winter Formal?
Warner: Yea-no.
Elle: This is so much better than that!
Vivian's face throughout is a picture.
Vivian:(To Warner after Elle walks away)Four hours?
Elle pretending to be David's girlfriend beginning by coming in out of nowhere and slapping him in the face, much to his obvious bafflement.
The Musical
The whole "Gay or European" sequence. Turns out he's gayandEuropean!
Elle: Did you see it? Warner: (enthusiastically) No, maybe you should do it again! Enid:Please!
While everyone's arguing, the Judge says this about Nikos:
Judge: But if he turns out straight, I'm free at eight on Saturday!
Everyone on stage were second-guessing Nikos and whether or not he's really gay ...until Carlos showed up.
Nikos: I'm straight!
Carlos: You were not yesterday.
An added little Freeze-Frame Bonus (in the MTV pro-shot, at the very least) when Emmett moves to prove he's lying, Christian Borle crosses in front of Nikos before putting his hands in his pockets in such a way that it makes the back of his jacket rise up. Since Nikos follows him as he walks by, Emmett basically got the guy to perjure himself by invoking Distracted by the Sexy and getting him to check out his ass.
Several parts of "Ireland" and its reprise:
Before the song starts, Elle is miserable about Warner and Vivienne's relationship, leading to this exchange:
Paulette: What's she [Vivienne] have that you don't got? Three boobs?
Elle: She's "serious".
Paulette: I'm serious, does she have three boobs?
Orfeh's delivery of "Isn't that relaxing? It's called CELTIC MOODS!!!!!" Elle's expression is priceless (According to the producers, that line in her audition is what won Orfeh the part.)
In the original version's lyrics, Paulette claiming that Elle looks like a poster for Ireland...only to realize that she looks more like the poster for Sweden. She disregards it, deciding that she'll never see either place.
From the reprise:
Paulette: The Irish fear nothing and no one! They keep fighting till EVERYONE'S DEAD! (beat) I'm not sure where this metaphor's goin'. I just felt like it had to be said!
When Elle and Emmett help Paulette get her dog back, Dewey shows up at the door of his trailer and immediately sucks in his gut when he sees Elle. Paulette's exasperated expresssion is just the icing on the cake.
The first scene with Kyle. "I've got a package". The amazingly funky soundtrack helps as well.
It's actually an Easter Egg on the OBC soundtrack.
"The new UPS guy is walking porn!"
"So Much Better." "It's so-oh-oh-oh-OH! much better than before!"
During some productions, at least one male student has to bend double either to laugh or to hide his own physical reaction to Elle's very effective simulation.
"Guys, how is this helping me? He's not even here! He left while we were 'shaking junk'!" Most of "Positive" qualifies, with the sorority girls initially suggesting that Elle fight Vivienne while still "keeping it positive".
"Bend and Snap" in its entirety, but before it, we can see all of Paulette's interactions with the Greek Chorus. This one is the best:
During the court case, Elle states that she would like to go to the bathroom, meaning the actual bathroom that Brooke's step-daughter was apparently having a shower in. The judge assumes she means that she needs to use the toilet. When Elle tries to clarify...
Elle: Your Honor! I would like to go to the bathroom. Judge: ...shouldn't you have gone before the murder trial? Elle: Oh no, I mean I would like us all to go to the bathroom, together. Warner: Why do girls always DO that!?
And then, when the entire court room goes to the bathroom, the Judge has to admonish Elle's parents and the Greek Chorus not to smudge the chalk outline. (The Chorus immediately engages in hopscotch.) The Judge herself ends up perched on the (closed) toilet, looking highly annoyed by how this day is going.
The court stenographer has only two lines in the entire musical, but they are gold:
Elle: Will the court stenographer please read that back? Stenographer:[Imitating the Chorus just moments before] "Omigod we rock! It's the scene of the cri-" Elle: Oh no, before that.
Better yet, the stenographer is recording the proceedings on a roll of toilet paper.
From "Chip On My Shoulder"
Emmett: What kind of rich romantic planet are you from?
Callahan: Miss Woods, excellent work today. I assume you're applying for my internship. Do you have a resume?
Elle: I am one step ahead of you. Here you go, and thanks in advance for your consideration (turns on her heel and strides past Warner while internalizing a scream that makes her sound like a whistling tea-kettle.)
Callahan:(beat) Dear God, it's scented.
The party scene with Elle in the Playboy Bunny outfit. Now, anyone who's seen the movie will be thinking, Okay, yeah, that was cute, but why is this a crowning moment of funny? Because of a slight change that the script writers included that was absolutely brilliant. After Vivienne tells her to go home and change out of her "skank costume," Elle immediately says that she is not, in fact, dressed as a Playboy Bunny, but instead as Gloria Steinem during her time working as a Bunny to do research for her feminist article "I Was a Playboy Bunny." She then loudly asks if Vivienne's calling Gloria Steinem a skank — cue slightly tipsy Straw Feminist Enid coming in and yelling "Who's calling Gloria Steinem a skank?" before chasing Vivienne off-stage looking ready to tear her hair out and telling Vivienne's boyfriend to get out of the way. Silly? Yes. Hilarious? Also, yes.
And in the scene immediately after that, Elle's bunny ears flopping down to her face as she tells Emmett to hit her head with a rock.
And immediately before that, when Emmett finds her looking despondent, he asks "What's up... (realizes she's in a Playboy Bunny outfit and just cannot help himself...) Doc?" The "Are You Kidding Me?" look Laura Bell Bundy shoots Christian Borle is absolutely priceless.
This bit, when all of Elle's sorority sisters are concerned for her after Warner dumps her.
Pilar: I think he should be shot! Serena: And let me tell you what — I don't think he's all that hot. Margot: I do! Serena: Yeah, well, you're a slut.
that line in her audition is what won Orfeh the part.)