The Watch series
- In The Sixth Watch, the Running Gag of Gesar and Zabulon's bet over whether the Gorodetskys would panic upon hearing about the prophecy. They don't, and Gesar triumphantly takes Merlin's tobacco pipe from a sullen Zabulon. Later, when the family ditches the Great Ones and makes their exit via portal Anton hears Gesar tell Zabulon, "I told you, Dark One! Merlin's tobacco pouch if you please!"
- Even funnier is that the tobacco is absolutely disgusting to smoke but Gesar stubbornly keeps smoking it to make a point.
- Also in The Sixth Watch, fourteen year old Nadya freaks her parents out by casually implying she and Kesha had sex... before revealing they just made a blood brothers pact. Svetlana and Anton are understandably not amused.
- Followed by them relentlessly trolling her by claiming they're going to give her and Kesha The Talk.
- Gesar and Zabulon's bickering, which doesn't relent even when the end of the world is nigh.
- Zabulon is Anton's grandfather. Just think about all their interactions in light of that revelation. Becomes a Heartwarming Moment when you remember all the references to Zabulon's perceived 'fondness' for Anton.
- Svetlana slaps Gesar, Great One and most powerful Light One in all of Russia, across the face. He is stunned. And then she does it again on Anton's request that she gives him one on Anton's behalf.Svetlana: I've been dreaming about doing that for a long time!
- The Tiger, all-power being and embodiment of the Twilight, has taken up smoking and drinking coffee... after watching Anton. He's also developed a sense of humour.
- The film version of Night Watch adds some humor to the scene where Anton first sees the physical manifestation of Svetlana's curse while trying to track down a vampire in the subway. The audience is seeing things from his perspective and knows that his glasses and flashlight are vampire tracking equipment... But once Svetlana exits the subway car, the special effects abruptly stop and we see what the other passengers were seeing this whole time: Some idiot wearing sunglasses indoors, screaming and freaking out while waving a flashlight around at nothing. To bring it home, the woman standing next to him scoffs and says he must be on drugs.
- In Twilight Watch, Anton is facing down this Beyond Categorization Witch and has to expend all his power just to survive, with no hope for actually fighting back or rescuing his kidnapped daughter... And his thoughts are that he just has to hold her until his wife gets there. She does. She kicks ass.
- The so-called "Bureaucratic Rat" spell created by the Inquisition (introduced in School Supervision) is both practical and hilarious in its effects. Practical because it renders the target temporarily unable to use magic. Hilarious because the victims also start talking in Spock Speak (hence the name). And yes, the Bureaucratic Rat takes the shape of an actual rat. And it bites.
- In School Supervision Dreyer attends an important meeting that includes the higher-ups from the Inquisition and both Watches. When asked why someone as low-ranked as him is even there, he nonchalantly replies that right now he's not even an Other.
