Funny / Rocky Balboa

• Something of a meta example: many fans were making jokes prior to the film coming out about how Rocky's opponent was in a no-win situation - either he'd beat up a sixty-year-old man or he'd be beaten up by a sixty-year-old man. In the film itself, a reporter says almost those exact words.
• In the deleted scene: Breakfast has Rocky attempting to consume raw eggs, only to spit em out afterward.
  • Gets even funnier if Sylvester Stallone ever saw Run Fat Boy Run, where Simon Pegg does exactly the same thing. Thing is, Pegg said that he did that as a tribute to the original Rocky movie, only found out during the take that he simply couldn't keep the eggs down. So now Stallone could possibly have been doing an homage to a homage of his own movie!
• Paulie picks "High Hopes" by Frank Sinatra as Rocky's "Entrance music", much to Rocky's bemusement.
• Rocky first sees a black and white kid hanging out at the street corner, and Marie mentions that one of them is her son.
  Rocky: You know he sort of resembles you, he got that, big Irish hair.
  Marie: Yeah, it's the other one.
• Rocky and Spider years after their first and only fight. More or less heartwarming, because he offers Spider free meals at his restaurant and even more heartwarming because Spider wants to work to earn those meals. But the exchange between them is hilarious ending with this line.
  Spider: Don't make me fight you again. Last time you got lucky.
  • When Rico said that "Jesus wants me to clean", Rocky heads up stairs, mumbling to himself "I'm glad Jesus didn't tell you to cook."
• As Rocky looks at an older dog, Steps takes the moment to share some snark.
  Rocky: What should we call him?
  Steps: Fleabag.
  • Later, Rocky agrees to a name Steps joked about.
  Steps: ''Punchy.''
  Rocky: (thinks about it) Yeah, that's a good name.
  Steps: ...seriously?
  Rocky: Yeah. It's easy to remember and it's just one word.
  [...]
  Steps: You know I was joking, right?
  Rocky: Yeah I do.
  Steps: Heh heh.
• When Rocky offers Marie a job at his restaurant, and Marie turns him down, he decided to joke about it when asking why she thought she isn't good enough for it.
  Rocky: I'll be standing here, yelling at a bus and say "yo! Run me over! Because this girl thinks she's not good enough to be in my restaurant!"
  Marie: (giggles) There hasn't been a bus here for a long time.
  Rocky: ...yeah? Whew. Close call.
• Paulie sneaks Rocky into a good old meat locker.
• This exchange, between Mason and Rocky:
  Rocky: Ain't nothing over till it's over.
  Mason: What's that from, the '80s?
  Rocky: That's probably the '70s.
• This small exchange between Mason and Rocky:
  Mason: You one crazy old man!
  Rocky: You'll get there.

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