Funny / Percy Jackson and the Olympians (2023)

Trailers

• In the teaser, when Grover arrives at Percy's house^note well, vacation cabin, going by the book, Percy notices something unusual about Grover; namely, that he has goat legs.
  Percy: Grover, why is there half a goat in your pants?
  Grover: So the important thing is not to panic...
• The official trailer has a scene where Luke hands Percy a bow, saying they have to figure out what he's good at (and who his godly parent is). As with his book counterpart, Percy is a terrible shot. He aims his bow too high, misses the hydra-shaped target and causes his fellow campers to duck, leading to this exchange.
  Percy: Should I... try again?
  Campers: NO!
• In the trailer, there's Percy talking to Luke right before capture the flag.
  Percy: Maybe I won't even need a sword.
  [Later]
  Percy: ...I'm gonna need a sword.

Season One: The Lightning Thief

I Accidentally Vaporize My Pre-Algebra Teacher

• When Percy explains to Smelly Gabe that he got kicked out of school for attacking Nancy Bobofit, Gabe actually pauses for a moment and makes a "Not bad, kid" face before going back to scolding him.
• When Percy's mother is trying to explain about his father:
  Sally: I realized he was unlike any man I had ever met before... because he wasn't a man at all. He was a god.
  Percy: (nonplussed) You fell in love with God? Like– like Jesus?
• Grover shows up at the cabin in Montauk, urging Sally and Percy not to panic. Sally calmly points out that she isn't panicking, with her expression conveying the unstated message of "You need to not panic."
• The "half a goat in your pants" exchange from the trailer (mentioned above) occurs after quite a bit of Grover and Sally talking urgently while a bewildered Percy is just trying to get a word in edgewise about the elephant (or goat) in the room.
• As he and the Jacksons are being chased by the Minotaur, Grover reveals that he's actually 24. Percy is clearly taken aback by this.
• Sally tries to side swipe the Minotaur. It doesn't work but it is, in fact, hilarious. Sally is a mortal in her 30s... and she's just tried to run down a Minotaur.

I Become Supreme Lord of the Bathroom

• Dionysus trolls Percy by claiming he's his father and tries to trick the kid into getting a bottle of wine for him, which Chiron quickly puts a stop to.
  • Mr. D indignantly points out that he could be Percy's dad for all they know, and Chiron asks if he is. Mr. D can only exasperatedly say, "Why must you ruin everything?"
• Upon meeting Percy, Dionysus' Malicious Misnaming of him as "Peter Johnson".
  Grover: Mr. D, this is Percy.
  Dionysus: (annoyed) I know, Grover. I heard him the first time.
  Percy: But did you?
• Percy's Epic Fail montage with Luke trying to help him find his "feat of skill" that would hint at what his parentage is.
  • At the archery course with what appears to be the Apollo Cabin, the head of the cabin offers to light Percy's arrow for him. He declines, saying, "I wouldn't if I were you." Then as Percy prepares to fire an arrow, he shoots wide, causing the other campers to hit the deck.
    Percy: ...Should I try again?
    The entire field: NO!
  • At the forge, Percy is offered a go at smithing with the Hephaestus Cabin. He gives the blade a few whacks with a hammer before the blade flies off due to the force and starts to set fire to a nearby sack. Luke grabs Percy by the shoulders and quickly steers him away from the forging area, like an older brother trying to avoid getting both of them yelled at by their parents.
  • Discouraged at not being anywhere closer to his goal, Percy asks if there's a God of Disappointment who may be missing a kid. Chris Rodriguez does give an answer on a goddess who closely represents that.
    Chris: But she's mostly the goddess of failure.
• Grover comes to tell Chiron and Mr. D that Sally might still be alive and interrupts their card game. Chiron is visibly relieved at the interruption — must not have been a good hand.
• Annabeth and Percy split off from the other campers with Percy tripping over a log. He manages to right himself up before sarcastically saying he was fine.
  • Percy saying that he knows Annabeth is smarter than him since he has no idea what they're doing. Annabeth makes an expression that says, "At least you know your place here."
• During the Capture the Flag game, Luke reassures Chris that Annabeth has a plan, and that Percy can handle himself. Cut to a montage of a bored Percy doing the floss dance, peeing in the woods while whistling to himself, petting a lizard, and just lying down... before Clarisse shows up.
  • There's also the fact that it's revealed after beating Clarisse that Annabeth was invisibly watching the entire time, which means she likely saw all that.

We Visit the Garden Gnome Emporium

• As Percy consoles with the Oracle, she shows him a vision of none other than his stepfather, Smelly Gabe. Percy is not amused to say the least.
  Percy: Really?
  • When he first confronts the Oracle, he looks around awkwardly and makes small talk with its husk. He's understandably creeped out and unsure about how this all works.
• While finding recruits for his quest, Percy finds out that Mr. D punished Grover for disobeying him by making him scoop up pegasus poop, while chatting with one nonetheless.
• Thalia was the butt of the joke on a couple of occasions:
  • Percy points out that Zeus, the most powerful being in the universe, couldn't think of a better way to protect his daughter than to turn her into a tree. When Annabeth says she got a hero's fate, Percy says it's more like a "pinecone's fate." Grover visibly shakes his head at Percy.
  • Alecto taunts Annabeth that if Thalia had been better, she wouldn't be housing squirrels at the moment.
• Grover's Consensus Song, a silly song about making a consensus during an argument. He tries to explain that it actually helps air out disagreements and connect people, only to shrink back at Annabeth's annoyed face. What started the argument was Percy trying to vote on whether or not Annabeth gets the final say on how they don't get to vote.
  Percy: (after Annabeth leaves) Our voting system is broken.
  • At the end, Percy ends up singing the song to lighten the mood. And unlike his Hollywood Tone-Deaf book counterpart, this version of Percy can sing. Capped by Grover trying to be annoyed by it while clearly trying to suppress a smile.
    Percy: [starts clapping]
    Grover: You're gonna sing the song, aren't you? OK...
    Percy: [starts singing] Oh, golly, the road's gettin' bumpy, consensus...
    Grover: [trying not to crack a smile] Whatever.
• Annabeth's scene in the store. While browsing for Bigoof candy balls, Annabeth carefully takes a couple and studies them to see which would be better and what the others would prefer. She ends up taking all the flavors, along with chips and soda.
• As they enter Medusa's home, Percy and Grover are staring at the table filled with treats that Medusa offers for them while she gets lunch prepared. Percy asks Grover if the food is maybe poisoned. Grover replies he's hungry enough to take that chance. Later on, when Annabeth warns Grover to be ready to run, he looks up mid-chomp in confusion.
• Grover tries to concoct a plan to distract Medusa, but when he says "Maia" before he could even finish, he ends up activating the winged shoes anyway and he flies into the darkened ceiling.
  Annabeth: ...We need a new plan. [Percy nods]
  • Then, as Medusa advances to Percy, Grover suddenly zips in screaming, "I Didn't Think This Through!" and ends up crashing into a statue, much like he did in the books. Once Percy chops Medusa's head off, Annabeth checks on Grover:
    Annabeth: You okay?
    Grover: [dazed] You say something?
• Percy and Annabeth decide to use Medusa's head to take care of Alecto. Percy pauses at the door, seemingly nervous, but then he points out to Annabeth that his hands are full of severed monster head at the moment, with the unvoiced request to "please open the door already" quite evident.
• Percy deciding to mail Medusa's head to Mount Olympus, complete with the "I am impertinent" exchange from the book.
  • Followed by Hermes' reaction when he delivers it.
    Hermes: You guys are not gonna believe this!

I Plunge to My Death

• A couple mortals are present on the train to witness the Chimera attack the questers. Except thanks to the Mist, they see a Chihuahua.
• Percy's impersonation of Athena, who's British for some reason.
  Percy as Athena: Be right down! Just going to the potty!
  • Doubly funny as of Episode 7, where it turns out Percy's father, unlike the rest of the Olympians, speaks with a British accent.
• Upon realizing that Percy has been poisoned by the Chimera stinger Grover and Annabeth realize that he needs a source of water to heal him. Cut to the two of them splashing water onto Percy outside the Arch museum in the fountain as onlookers understandably give confused looks.

A God Buys Us Cheeseburgers

• Percy explains his theory that Hades had an accomplice steal the master bolt. Then he realizes that Annabeth and Grover already suspected that and he's the last to figure it out.
• Annabeth's initial distance from Percy post-Arch is assumed by him to be because she hugged him, resulting in him saying they don't have to be weird about it.
  • Later on, when the two realize the shield is most likely in the Thrill Ride of Love, Annabeth tells Percy not to repeat it.
• When the trio first meets Ares on the road, they poke their eyes over a concrete wall to talk to him like Wilson from Home Improvement.
• When the questers meet Ares in the diner, he's starting a Flame War on Twitter, just because he can.
• Ares describes the Olympians as a Big, Screwed-Up Family with Chronic Backstabbing Disorder and that's why he loves them so much.
• Percy and Annabeth's befuddled reactions when the Thrill Ride o' Love starts blaring Haddaway's "What is Love?"
  Annabeth: What is happening?
  Percy: I feel like I've heard this before. I think it was the orthodontist's office.
• Grover and Ares discuss Ares' wars as if they're films. World War II is the popular one that Ares looks down on because everyone likes it, while Grover takes pride in knowing about obscure wars like the Lobster Wars, the Turbot War, and the 335-Year War.

We Take a Zebra to Vegas

• Percy and Annabeth disagree on what day of the week they encountered each monster. Luke says they sound Like an Old Married Couple.
  Percy: Not to change the subject, but I'm gonna.
• The questers help the animals they're traveling with escape the truck. When Percy is concerned about the safety of the plan, Grover reassures him the animals are safe. Percy says he meant the humans as the animals are now wandering in the street. Grover doesn't really seem to care.
• Hermes realizes that Annabeth stole his car keys and leaves an envelope in his car saying "To the dumb kids."
  Annabeth: Should've known the god of thieves noticed his pocket getting picked.
• Percy, who's twelve, trying to drive Hermes' car out of the garage. He crashes it into multiple fixtures around the garage and almost gets hit by another car before they even get to the exit ramp. When Percy has to make a left turn, the soundtrack makes it sounds like he's confronting a monster. After Percy successfully gets to the exit, he and Annabeth smile at each other… until the car starts scraping the wall long enough for the mirror to fall off and they crash through the ticket booth.
  Percy: Yeah, sure. I mean... I killed the Minotaur on my first try, right? [tosses Hermes' keys] How hard could this be?
• A car almost hits Percy before quickly driving away. Percy, ever a New Yorker, aggressively honks the horn.
  Percy: That guy didn't even slow down!

We Find Out the Truth, Sort Of

• The questers shove their way to the front of the line of ghosts in the Underworld because "only suckers wait in line."
• The ghosts in line for Charon's boat are all wearing what they wore when they died. The ghosts include a motorcyclist, a pilot, and a bullfighter.
• The heroes meet Charon.
  Charon: You're not dead.
  Percy: I mean... We're all dying... to some extent?
• Percy tries to bribe the ferryman with drachmas. Unimpressed, Charon blows into a nearly-inaudible whistle. Percy, not yet aware of what's going on, quips, "You can buy a new whistle!"
• Annabeth distracts Cerberus with the squeak stress ball they stole from Procrustes.
• After the build-up of the dismal and desolate underworld, Percy and Grover finally meet Hades... who welcomes them, offers them a snack, and then brings them to his living room.
• Percy dramatically confronts Hades about working with Ares to steal the Master Bolt... and Hades gives a Flat "What", having no idea what he's talking about.
• When Grover accuses him of being jealous of his brothers, Hades responds that he's perfectly happy here and the underworld is "candy canes and rainbows" compared to dealing with his family on Olympus.

The Prophecy Comes True

• While genuinely sad, there's something funny about Poseidon sending Percy back to camp to avoid answering Percy's question.
  • Percy's reasoning for asking his question is also pretty funny, given who caused him to ponder about it in the first place.
  Percy: Do you dream? Ares said that gods don't dream...
  Poseidon: Ares is a moron. Haven't you noticed?
• Percy telling Zeus how the latter had a very messed-up family. Talk about an Understatement.
• Sally is helping Percy keep a dream journal whenever he dreams about Kronos. She tells him not to call the Lord of all Titans "Grandpa".
• The Stinger which shows that Sally has divorced Gabe, as he loudly complains to his lawyer. When he realizes that she changed the locks to the apartment, he quietly asks said lawyer on how to pick a lock which gets him hung up on. Then he notices the package containing Medusa's head on the floor and tears it open after seeing it's addressed to Percy. "Whoa, that is gross" are probably not the best last words for someone to say before they get petrified.

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