Funny / Love, Death & Robots

Though there are plenty of heartstopping, bonechilling and mindbending stories about Love, Death and Robots, some episodes remind us that these kinds of stories can be gut bustingly hilarious too.

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Volume 1

Three Robots

• The trio's interaction with The Entertainment Sphere! is a nice Establishing Character Moment for the groups dynamic.
  11-45-G: "It's called a ball."
  • XBOT-4000 is hesitant to bounce the ball, so 11-45-G provides encouragement.
  11-45-G: "Stop being a whiny pussy and fucking bounce it!.. Please."
• The trio spend their time at a diner trying to understand why humans eat.
  XBOT-4000: "Now why would humans need an entire orifice for that?"
  K-VRC: "Who knows? Things were coming in, things were coming out, it was crazy!"
  • Throughout the whole discussion, 11-45-G spends her time in the kitchen, completing a long dead customers order for her own entertainment.
  11-45-G: "Sorry for the wait, champ."
  • She steals the patrons hat quickly after, and spends the rest of the episode wearing it, which makes for a funny image.
• The three robots and the cat. Just the entire scene.
  XBOT-4000, still petting the cat: "Why did humans even consort with these hairy murder machines?!"
• Poor XBOT discovers what teabagging is, and regrets it horribly.
• When it comes time to discuss humanity's exinction, 11-45-G has a dramatic speech about humanities hubris to explain it. It was either that or:
  11-45-G: "It just sounded better than: naw, they just screwed themselves by being a bunch of morons."

The Witness

• You'll either find the emcee's over-the-top personality hilarious or grating, but their reaction when the Woman says she's late due to witnessing a murder is priceless:
  Emcee: [Beat] Ew, gross! I mean, you always have the most bizarre excuses. Just come in and get ready!

Lucky 13

• Cutter's callsign is a Stealth Pun: her name is Colby, which is also the name for a kind of cheese. In other words, she's the one who cut the cheese.
• This is listed as the thirteenth episode of the first volume on Netflix.

Alternate Histories

• The first of Hitler's many deaths involves him bumping into a jewish kid, jumping into a raging rant. He stops when two much larger Jewish men appear behind him... and then the kid stabs him out nowhere before the beating occurs.
• The first two deaths are pretty reasonable: beaten to death or run over by a wagon. The third death? Getting crushed by a giant glob of gelatin.
• The third simulation ends with Russia landing the first man on the moon. Vladimir Putin, suited in an astronaut suit made out of a bear, with an exposed six pack.
  Multiversity Narrator: "Vladimir Putin, the first real man on the moon."

Volume 2

All Through The House

• While it's otherwise a tense short, there's something darkly hilarious about this grotesque beast puking up the perfect gift and handing a perfectly wrapped box covered in saliva to traumatized children.
• At the end, the two children wonder what would have happened if they'd been bad. Given Christmas traditions, it's entirely possible that the monster would have simply coughed up lumps of coal for them.

Life Hutch

• Once the pilot finally destroys the malfunctioning maintenance robot, the Life Hutch's automated system helpfully gives a much-belated warning that the robot is malfunctioning.

Ship A.I.: Warning. Maintenance robot malfunction.Terence: No shit.

Volume 3

Three Robots: Exit Strategies

• Elena, the seastead holographic servant, thinks the trio are humans and calls them "disgusting meatbag" and "skintube."
• The gang looks over the skeletons of dead tech millionaires and laugh.
  K-VRC: THEY WERE MEAN TO ROBOTS AND ROBOTS KILLED THEM!

Night of the Mini Dead

• Humanity accidentally summons a zombie plague that proceeds to wipe out the entire species. Sounds like a disturbing and tragic story, right? Well, when you show it in the form of a stop motion diorama, viewed in a tilt-shifted angle that results in all of the characters sounding like squeaky voiced munchkins, then you end up with the funniest parody of the zombie genre ever made.
• The reason the apocalypse starts to begin with: a couple were having sex in a cemetery, broke a statue that caused a cross to fall upside down, and letting it get struck by lightning. Yeah.
• Amongst the scenes of miniature carnage, we see the Vatican Guard defending the Holy See from the zombie horde, with the Popemobile driving figure-eights out in front while someone (presumably the Bishop of Rome) fires an automatic weapon out the doors at the zombies.
• The end of the short zooms back into a view of the galaxy as the earth is about to get nuked to kingdom come, capping off the whole thing in a way that perfectly represents the significance of the events of the short in the grand scheme of things:
  Earth: Flatulence

Kill Team Kill

• The team keeps referring to the cybernetic bear as a "Honey Badger," even after they've been told by Sergeant Morris that it's definitely a bear.
• Morris describes the bear's turning on his squad and killing them all gruesomely as "unpatriotic behavior."
• Sergeant Nielsen manages to keep his cool throughout most of the story not due to any particular gift of badassedness, but because a career in the Army has evidently just forced him to deal with so much stupid bullshit that all he can muster is a tired sense of resignation to their grim situation.