Squid Game / Funny

Despite how bleak Squid Game is due to its premise, there are still plenty of laugh-worthy moments in it.

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"Red Light, Green Light"

Right after being beat up and forced to sign a blood contract by loan sharks, Gi-hun sits in the corner defeated... and then asks them if they can loan him ten-thousand won. The way the gang all look at each other as if asking each other, "... Is this dude serious?"
- Cue him going back to the clerk at the counter as he meekly asks if she could return the ten-thousand he gave her.
When Gi-hun gets his daughter a present from the claw machines, they both unwrap it together to find a gun inside. He tries to quickly play it off as his daughter looks at the gun in her hand with concern. Then when she pulls the trigger, it turns out to be a lighter in the shape of a gun.
As the Salesman appears to Gi-hun, Gi-hun immediately scoots away as he says he's not interested in the teachings of Jesus. He later on tells him he comes from a long line of Buddhist believers, so he should just drop it.
- The Salesman continues to talk to him, causing Gi-hun to pull out the gun he got his daughter and point it at the Salesman who immediately raises his hands up. Cue Gi-hun pulling the trigger and showing it was just a lighter.
The Salesman pausing before hitting Gi-hun a few times to see him flinch in anticipation and clearly having fun messing with the man.
After losing many rounds of ddakji and getting a slap in the face from the Salesman each time, Gi-hun finally wins. He's so eager to pay the Salesman back that he starts winding up an enormous slap and has to be reminded that he was playing for money.
- The Internet compared this scene to when you're heating up food at night and stop the microwave one second before it starts beeping, adding another humorous layer to the scene.
As the players line up to take their photos, one guy (Player 324) starts making funny faces and attempts to get his photo taken a few more times to get his pose right. The guy behind him shoves him away telling him to stop playing around, before he looks at the screen and fixes himself up before his photo is taken.
- Seong Gi-hun's photo in particular has him sporting a goofy grin after the camera asks him to smile.
During the "Red Light, Green Light" game, once the bloodbath begins, the only person who seems unfazed by this is Il-nam, who just moves along to the song and stops right on cue, all while having a shit-eating grin of genuine joy.

"Hell"

While it's to encourage the other players to stay in the games and participate, there's something hilarious about a large see-through piggy bank coming down from the ceiling immediately filling itself up with cash. As some viewers have noted, it even makes the sounds of slot machines when you win big money.
After being booted from the games, Gi-hun and Sae-byeok are thrown out out of a van onto the road, tied up and in their underwear, with their clothes in bags nearby. Sae-byeok convinces Gi-hun to untie her with his teeth, but after dressing herself, she prepares to leave without helping him, claiming that he will only hassle her about her stealing from him. Gi-hun swears on his mother's life that he will let the matter go, but as soon as she frees his hands, he lunges at her demanding his money back. He doesn't get far with his feet tied up and falls over as she backs away laughing.
Gi-hun tries to tell the police about the game, and convinces one to call the number on his card. The cop asks if he can play a game, only to get a woman screaming at him for being a pervert.
- There's also the fact that when the cop repeats the explanation back, Gi-hun seems to start realizing how crazy he sounds and responds with a bashful nod.
Sae-byeok threatens the North Korean defector broker after telling her that he needs more money to bring her mother to South Korea. She agrees, but not before stealing his wallet as she leaves, much to his shock.
When confronted with the Filipino gangsters who have come to South Korea to collect the money he owed them, Deok-su taunts them in English, which didn't come out the way he meant:
Deok-su: "I killed Deok-su, okay!?"

"The Man With The Umbrella"

Mi-nyeo makes a racket, demanding to use the bathroom, with the triangle guard standing on the other side apathetically. She then screams and demands to see one of the "square guys". Cue the man himself stepping into view.
- Mi-nyeo uses her bathroom break to extract the cigarettes and lighter she hid up in her... area. Her enjoyment of her smoke is then interrupted by a switchblade-wielding Sae-byeok and she meekly offers her the cigarette.
Most of the scenes involving Mi-nyeo. She tries so hard to play the act of Femme Fatale, but only succeeds in annoying everyone around her. She's also prone to hamming it up, especially the scene in the bathroom where she tries to stall a guard until Sae-byeok comes back from the vent by pretending that she isn't finished relieving herself yet, moaning and groaning loudly about the size of the poop she's taking.
- Running out of patience, the guard storms into the bathroom and opens the stall door, only to find Mi-nyeo with her pants and underwear down and Sae-byeok holding toilet paper in one hand and her nose in the other, truly as if nothing has happened. After finishing her business, she threatens to sue the guard.
  - This also happens to be the first instance of the guards being Not So Stoic, since the guard's body language as he slams the stall door makes it very clear that he's either extremely embarrassed about barging in on Mi-nyeo seemingly in the middle of doing her business, or extremely irritated about having to put up with her nonsense. One can almost picture his reaction behind the mask.
- Once she finished extracting her shape from the candy in the second game, she casually taps a guard and shows it to him all while sporting a huge grin. She even tauntingly eats her shape right in front of him once the announcer confirms that she passed.
As the players see the shapes on the doors, Gi-hun decides to go with the umbrella because he always lost his umbrella and his mother scolded him for it.
Gi-hun realizing the mistake he made in choosing the umbrella shape for the game.
Gi-hun: I'm screwed.
- Then when the camera shows him again, he's hunched over with his butt upwards, desperately trying not to break his honeycomb. Doubly funny since the camera panning would make one think it's a typical Male Gaze shot of one of the girls, but it's Gi-hun instead.
When Gi-hun realizes that he can melt the honeycomb pattern by licking it, the others try to follow suit with almost every player in the game starting to lick their honeycombs. Even the guards seem to have a "WTF" moment as they observe the players suddenly licking en-masse.
- Ali's solution is just as ridiculous: just break the corners of the honeycomb. The only reason he gets away with it is because his shape is a plain circle.

"Stick to the Team"

Gi-hun teasing Sae-byeok about her name is good for a chuckle.
Gi-hun: Sae-byeok? That's a pretty name. Though I'm not sure how well it fits.
As everyone tries to form a group, Mi-nyeo ends up in Gi-hun's group since no one else wanted her. She proudly declares that there is nothing she isn't good at, leading the others to clearly start thinking This Is Gonna Suck or already resigning to the fact they might die because of her.
Mi-nyeo's reaction to going up against an all-male team: "Shit. It's a sausage fest."
While not evident due to wearing a mask, you can tell the armed Soldier had an Oh, Crap! moment when he realized the staff member he told off was actually one of the Supervisors^note.

"A Fair World"

Mi-nyeo congratulates her team and praises the men for their ingenuity. However, she immediately starts throwing racist remarks at Ali, who quickly points out Mi-nyeo wasn't as calm as she claimed she had been during the games. He even mimics the way she was screaming and crying in fear that they were going to lose.
Mi-nyeo: So that's what you heard?
Ali: You were crying, (voice going falsetto) "But that's the edge! There's no way I'll go!" (normal voice) Like that.

"Gganbu"

When players are told to pair up, Mi-nyeo at first is smug and claims she will easily find someone. Her Jerkass behavior naturally wins no one, and her attempts at making someone take her instead are hilariously inappropriate.

"VIPs"

Mi-nyeo again offers some moments, first when she turns out to be alive and well (if only for all the marble game's survivors shocked and disappointed faces), and later shortly before throwing herself at Deok-su, as she makes sure to call out his Teeny Weenie.
VIP 4 is outraged to discover that Player 069, the player he was betting on, committed suicide out of grief for his wife's death in the previous game. He subsequently decides to bet on Player 096 next, simply because it's the closest to number 69, only for Player 096 to end up being the first to die in the fifth game.
- Related to this, Gi-hun was originally taking the vest for first to play in the fifth game, until 096 came up begging for it because he wants to Take a Level in Badass for once in his life and be first, which Gi-hun lets him. And then they learn what kind of game they were up for.
- VIP 4's reaction to 096 picking the first vest knowing it's a death sentence is also priceless.
  VIP 4: YOU... FUCKWAD! PIECE OF SHIT!
A bit of Black Comedy, but Player 244 is wasting time by praying instead of moving forward. When one player tries to get him to start moving, he manages to push him into the glass ahead of him, creating a path. Seeing this as a sign from god, he moves to the next glass and begins to pray once more, but he's pushed off by the player behind him not a second later, who loses his patience. The suddenness of his death, his high-pitched scream and the fact that it could count as Laser-Guided Karma make this death more comical than the other deaths in the show.

"One Lucky Day"

While the context for it is extremely depressing, there's something chuckle-worthy about the banker being baffled at Gi-hun - who's a multi-billionaire at this point - dressing like a hobo and looking extremely unkempt, who then asks if he could borrow some money. Don't judge a book by its cover, indeed.
- And conversely, we are so used to seeing him look like a hobo for 95% of the series that there's inherent humor in finally seeing him in a nice suit, let alone with red hair.

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