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  • Aunt Jet breaks the tension after regaling the sad history of their ancestor Maria by declaring that the only curse in the family... is Aunt Frances.
  • Sally is impressed by the strength of Gilly's latest lover:
    *After seeing him effortlessly catch a heavy bag from two stories up* Sally: Wow.
    Gilly (giggling): Sal, you have no idea.
  • According to Sally's husband, the shaving cream she was developing for the botanical shop tastes delicious.
  • Dancing under the full moon seems to be very popular in the witch community. What you wear seems to be optional.
    Sally: And I don't want them dancing naked under the full moon!
    Aunt Jet: No, of course. The nudity is entirely optional. As you well remember!
  • In the midst of Gilly preparing Jimmy's corpse for resurrection, she takes the opportunity to break up with him.
    Gillian: Okay, Jimmy. I will get you out of this, but when I do we are definitely breaking up. It is over.
    *Impulsively slaps Jimmy's face*
    Sally: ...What are you doing?
  • Sally flinches away from stabbing Jimmy's milky dead eyes by hopping away in disgust like a kindergartner confronted with an earthworm.
  • There is something darkly amusing about how approximately two seconds after resurrecting Jimmy, they're forced to kill him again. Show of hands: who predicted that their plan would backfire?
  • Gilly starts off her new job at her sister's botanical shop by enthusiastically testing the merchandise. Sally isn't amused. But her two other employees sure are.
  • Whenever the ladies get drop dead drunk!
  • Sally and Gillian in the kitchen the morning after “midnight margaritas,” nursing their hangovers. Sally’s daughter (who either heard the revelry or knew via witch intuition) is playing “Coconut” on the kazoo at them. Sally asks for the kazoo and promptly chucks it out the window.
  • Kylie seeing Jimmy's spirit near the rosebush that grew above his grave overnight? Spooky. Gilly's first instinct to attack it with her bare hands? Comical.
  • Sally is rather shaken when Officer Hallet arrives. Gilly comes up with the story that she left Jimmy when he hit her and they haven't seen him since.
    Sally: I left him because she hit him, and uh...
  • Sally's Bad Liar babbling to Gary about her connection to Jimmy includes almost slipping the fact he practically kidnapped them... then awkwardly trying to pass it off as "a little nap". As her rambling "explanation" gets more disjointed, Gilly's expression gets more incredulous. For his part, Officer Hallet seems more concerned with a scratch on Sally's neck than trying to make sense of whatever the hell she was saying.
    Gilly (whispering): What is wrong with you??
    Sally (mouthing expressively): I don't know!
  • Officer Hallet gets some... interesting responses from the townsfolk when he inquires about the Owens family.
    Old Lady Wilkes: Their niece owns a shop where they cook up a special placenta. And that's why the aunts don't age!
  • Gary handling the excitable Antonia's questions:
    Antonia: Do you have a gun??
    Gary *nods head yes*: Mhm.
    Antonia: Can I see it??
    Gary (long look at Antonia's mother) *shakes head no*: Mm-mm.
  • Gary's face after Sally confesses to killing James Angelov "a couple of times" is priceless.
  • Apparently Kylie and Antonia like to use pancakes as frisbees.
  • The daughters victoriously running away with the cursed syrup after they realize that Gary is the man of Sally's dreams - literally.
  • One of Sally's customers has an awkward Delayed Reaction to realizing that a baldness ointment should be applied to his crotch and not his head.
    • Which begs the question, just why was he trying to grow hair down there? And why is there apparently such a high demand for a product that promises such a result?
  • The Mood Whiplash of going from Sally knocking out her possessed sister by punching her into a cabinet to cheerily calling the women on the phone tree to rustle up a coven, baldly confessing to being a witch.
  • After the coven successfully banishes Jimmy's spirit permanently, one of the ladies' comments:
    "I wonder if that'll work on my ex-husband."
  • Instead of sweeping the dust away with her broom, little Antonia is whacking at it like her broom is a hammer.

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