Funny / Silent Movie

• When Mel calls up world-famous mime Marcel Marceau to ask him if he wants to be in his silent movie, and he replies (out loud), "Non!"
  "What did he say?"
  "I don't know, I don't understand French."
  • The very plausible possibility that the entire film was just an Overly Prepared Gag for that one scene.
  • Plus Marceau does his "walking into the wind" routine into actual wind, which is blowing in through an open window.
• When Engulf and Devour find the picture of Vilma Kaplan and show it to the members of the board. They stroke their chins, and the table slowly rises from the ground...
• As Mel and his friends stop outside a public restroom so that Dom can relieve himself, a man asks if one of the other two can look after his dog while he uses the restroom. Marty agrees, but then a blind man comes along with an identical dog and the same request. Inevitably, the first man takes the blind man's guide dog (despite Marty's attempt to alert him to his mistake) and tries to jaywalk, only for the dog to stand firmly in place while the sign says "DON'T WALK". The blind man gets the first man's dog and is dragged off helplessly as the dog bounds through the park.
• The scene where the big boss of Engulf and Devour slowly goes rabid... culminating in him biting one of his men, growling like a bulldog and eventually howling like a wolf.
• Marty trying to catch an elevator. Mel and Dom get in ahead of him, but he dawdles for long enough that the doors close in his face. So another elevator shows up... and several dozen doctors and nurses march out of it, so that by the time the car is empty, the doors have closed again. The elevators then troll Marty by repeatedly flashing to indicate that the doors are about to open, then not actually opening the doors, as he bounces back and forth between them like a pinball.
• The trio chasing Paul Newman on electric wheelchairs. Inevitably, he is a much more skilled driver than they are, and they cause endless injuries and chaos in their attempts to keep up.
• In the hospital, taking his medicine, the Big Pictures chief puts the pill in his mouth, and he takes an entire glass of water with it. When he opens his mouth to complain that the medicine never works, the pill is still in plain sight, stuck to his tongue. Meanwhile, Marty and Dom turn his EKG monitor into a game of Pong.
• After Marty's first sleazy attempt to hit on a woman, Mel mouths at the camera:
  Mel: You sick son of a bitch.
  Card: You bad boy.
• Anne Bancroft being shown with all those young men when in reality she was married to the director.
• When five Engulf & Devour board members report no earnings for the first quarter, Mr Engulf orders Mr Devour to slap them. He slaps the first four, but the fifth slaps him. So when the board members report no earnings for the second quarter either, Devour slaps the first board member, then says, "Pass it on." So the first board member slaps the second, and so on down the line... until the fifth board member slaps the fourth before he can be slapped, so the fourth board member slaps the third, and so on back up the line until the first slaps Devour again.
• The scene on the carousel in which Vilma's horse lifts its tail... and starts excreting wooden alphabet building blocks. You may never look at hobbyhorses the same way again.
• A scene transitions into the New York skyline to the tune of "San Francisco" before the orchestra comes to a noisy halt (apparently recognizing their mistake). Cue some sheet music rustling before they resume with "I'll Take Manhattan."
• The Vengeful Vending Machine that Dom encounters. It launches Cokes at high velocity and never out of the correct slot, including places where vending machines don't normally dispense goods, such as from the sides. Every time he blocks one exit, a new one appears. When he finally gets the brilliant idea to block the two side slots with his hands and the middle opening that happens to be at groin height...
  Dom: They're right. It is the real thing...
• Apparently the DVD subtitles were very easy to write up.
  Before the sole audible word in the entire movie: [NO AUDIBLE DIALOGUE]
  After it: [NO AUDIBLE DIALOGUE CONTINUES]

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