Funny / Pump It Up

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Gameplay

• The standard Game Over message is "Hey! Why don't you just get up and dance, man?!" Apparently, trying to dance and failing is the same thing as sitting on your butt and not dancing!
• The course "Wanna's Train", in which you play "Wanna" five times in a row.
• "Bee" Another Nightmare (Double ??), a hilariously impossible chart.
• Speaking of hilariously impossible charts, VV D27 from Infinity has so many gimmicks crammed into one chart that figuring out the steps themselves is only half the battle. Good luck trying to clear that with an A.
• "Pumptris Quattro"'s Single 17 chart, which is composed entirely of hold steps. The game will give out all Perfects for a hold note so long as you keep it held down the entire time, even if you "buffer" the note by holding it in advance. Some players' solutions to getting all Perfects on the chart? Sit down on the panels for the entire duration of the song.
  • Unfortunately averted in XX as it is now required to tap on the holds. The official YouTube channel posted a video of the chart, demonstrating what happens if you attempt the same trick now.
  • Although it is easy enough to pass by stepping on the arrows, Ugly Dee's Single 3 chart can also be cleared using the same trick.
• "Dawgs In Da House"'s Routine/Co-op chart. Yes, you and your partner are supposed to go "doggy style" for some parts of the chart. Have fun getting kicked out of the arcade!
• Infinity has the song "Girlz Buttz", a song that is about, well, "lookin' at girlz buttz". The video consists of various Pump players fooling around, while the Routine chart occasionally has either player holding down one set of panels while using their hands to hit the other panels, sticking their butt out in the process.
• Mawaru Infinity from Infinity is a Crowning Mission of Funny. Highlights include:
  • The player can obtain a bonus for "Summoning Roberto" if they get all Perfects minus one. This references an in-joke concerning Mexican player Roberto - an otherwise skilled player who became known for attempting full Perfect combos and failing because of one Great or Miss.
  • When the player is asked to spin along to the arrows in the "Beethoven Virus" segment, the arrows themselves spin too.
  • The second Brain Shower segment is hosted by the Hwangdong Hunters, the protagonists of "DJ Otada". If the player using the left side of the pad gives out a wrong answer, Hwang (the ninja) will slash the player character's pants leaving their underwear exposed.
    • On the other hand, if all players present give out the right answer (as seen in this run), Hwang will "smile" and give them a thumbs-up. Awwww!
  • The Defend! segment features the protagonist of "Beat of the War 2" fighting the evil spherical robots from "Canon-D". The player can hold the center panel and give her a chance to fight... or miss the center note completely and watch as she loses balance and falls.
• What if Tribe Attacker Co-Op X4 was done by only two people?
  • Even better: What if Bad Apple Full Co-Op X4 was done by only ONE person?
• Mope Mope is considered to contains the biggest troll charts in the game as intended. On the happy parts, it is very lighthearted and "simple." Once the song gets to the more glitchy and dark side, the Difficulty Spike was taken in spades. Seeing people play this chart the first time cause the audience to laugh due to the trolling nature of the song.
  • This was later on patched. The flashes in higher difficulties were meant to be a distraction challenge. However, they were caused due to inducing seizures in players.

Background Animations

• Unintentional example: "Baroque Virus" from Infinity (later crossed over to Fiesta 2) would be a completely serious BGA... if it were not for two words: Iternal Fight.
  • Amusingly, the BGA for the original version of the song featured as an unlock in Infinity features no such text. However, the BGA for that version contains the text "Song by Engine" and "BPM 128", which is funny because both of those information are wrong - the composer is Zircon and the BPM is 135. It's most likely unintentional for the former because Engine is the name of the BGA's visualizer.
• "Come Back To Me" from Perfect Collection. The gun-toting protagonist of this BGA happens across an obstacle in his way - a blocked rail crossing. How does he deal with it? Why, by shooting at the barrier to lift it! Naturally, he's run over for all his trouble. Worry not, though; the immediate next shot reveals that he is a robot or cyborg of some sort, so he lives to fight another day.
• Pro featured a censored version of the infamous BGA for "Ba Be Loo Be Ra" from Exceed. This is, in fact, not the first time the video is toned down. The animation was recycled from "It's My Party", a cancelled song in Prex 3; among other changes, the woman's bikini was edited and covered with a miniskirt. Just see for yourself.
• In the otherwise heartwarming "I'll Give You All My Love" from Exceed 2, the protagonist, determined to make her potted plant bloom into a flower, overtakes a car on foot to get to the highest building in her hometown. The driver is left with an epic Oh, Crap! expression.
  • Immediately after, she is chased by two police officers. Her response? Why, use their police car as a trampoline and go on her merry way!
  • Depending on how you interpret the ending, the protagonist's flower may have left everyone in the universe in a hyper state - including the two aforementioned policemen!
• "I Love You Baby" from Exceed SE, later crossed over to Zero, has two lifeguards try to impress a pair of beachgoers by posing dramatically. The video ends with the two punching each other for no apparent reason at all. They weren't even fighting over the same girl!
• "My Brother is Street Singer" from NX. Just as in the song, the protagonist of this video is a teenage girl with a lazy, mooching Big Brother Bully. Except, in the video, she actually gets to Megaton Punch him twice for his trouble. Doubles as an awesome moment for the girl for standing her ground.
• Super Junior's "U" from NX Absolute. Two words: Moonwalking Dracula.
• BigBang's "La La La" from NX Absolute has three boys engaged in what seems to be a paintball match with toy guns (and spray paint cans, in the case of the boy with a surgical mask). By the end, their game has angered an old woman enough to drive them off her turf with a bat. If the question marks over their heads in the last shot are anything to go by, the boys didn't even get a clue!
• "DJ Otada" from NX Absolute features an extremely bizarre take on an adventure RPG with a trio of bounty hunters as the protagonists. While the whole video is hilarious, what takes the cake is Hwang, the trio's leader, accidentally striking Teddy with one of his shuriken during the Training Montage sequence, as well as Hwang's exaggerated "OH NO!" reaction afterwards.
• "X-Tree" from Fiesta ends with the heartbroken protagonist transforming into a bigger version of himself in a Godzilla costume with a broken heart in the middle, just as if he were a Magical Girl.
  • This may be a reference to the equally comical "Mr. Firefighter" from Zero, which predates "X-Tree" by a few years and also has a rejected Stalker with a Crush transform into a cartoony Godzilla-like monster.
• Arcana Force from Prime 2. A white rabbit, under attack by pig aliens, transforms into a Magical Girl. She then defeats the pig aliens... by turning them into white rabbits identical to her previous form. At the end of the video, she can be seen holding one of the rabbits in her arms with a devious smile in her face.

• Brain Power's background is a modernized version of the original music video. If you thought the song's chorus was hilarious, there are two ways that make its Pump incarnation even funnier. First, despite the song saying the word "cocaine", the word was censored as "COXXXXXXX" in the BGA alongside a censored stamp. To add humor, when the singer says "Killer Machine", it displays the Pump It Up XX machine itself.