Funny / Super Paper Mario

This is an actual screenshot from the game. And it is glorious.

Yes, even the infamously dark Super Paper Mario is also one of the funniest games in the whole franchise.

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• The dating sim parody between Peach and Francis the nerdy chameleon, which he uses to ask Peach to marry him. The possible responses range from accepting to considering; one is "How much money do you make?" Peach snaps at the player no matter which choice is picked.
  • At one point Francis hovers the cursor over "Smooch" for a few seconds, then quickly picks something else.
  • "I love going on message boards and complaining about games I've never played!"
  • "They're NOT DOLLS. They're ACTION FIGURES. WITH REAL FIRE-PUNCHING ACTION."
  • The finale of the Dating Sim is golden as well; Peach accesses her own menu (like the ones that Francis keeps using), navigates to "Pixl", and selects Boomer, blowing up Francis's graphics card. Yes, that means that Peach put a bomb in a dating game.
    • "NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO! MY GRAPHICS CAAAAAAARD!"
• Many of Dimentio's lines, mainly because of how absurd they are. He's like Paper Mario's answer to Fawful.
  • "Now we must duel! Like two gleaming banjos on a moonlit stoop!"
  • "And so I strike! Like an unseen dodgeball in an echoing gymnasium!"
  • "Ah! Once again we meet, like two angry, burly dinosaurs with terrible indigestion!"
  • "Now you and this robotic guardian can spend some quality time... Yes, quality snack time! When he snacks... on you! For you... ARE the snack!"
  • Then there's his first shown interaction with Mimi...
    Mimi: Hanging out with the count! That's MY idea of a perfect world! ♡
    Dimentio: And here I thought Mimi's ideal world was a gem-filled pool with hunky lifeguards...
    Mimi: (Transforms into Bowser) Hey! Dimentio! Have you been reading my diary? I mean... Umm... Never mind.
  • Dimentio's Dimension D allegedly multiplies his power by 256, making him invincible... or at least it would, except it multiplies your power by 256 as well. When you beat him the first time, his reaction to this idea is subdued but priceless.
    Dimentio: ...Oh.
    • The real joke has to do with 8 bit computing. In an 8 bit system, the highest number one can have is 255 (11111111 in binary). Adding 1 to 255 would reset it back to 00000000, because although the actual value should be 100000000, that would require 9 bits to store, and so the system either resets at 0 or 1, or crashes.
• Fracktail, both before and after Dimentio fried his hard drive, has some funny lines.
  • "Level 5 mustache detected!"
  • When he's searching his databanks for Mario's identification, his eye becomes the Wii Shop Channel Loading Screen, and he makes the same sound.
  • His system error meltdown and some of the emergency protocols his harddrive forces on him really say some stuff about his creators.
    • "I AM ERROR."
    • "SYSTEM MAY BE BUSY OR MELTING INTO SLAG."
    • "You lost everything. Way to go, genius."
    • "404 computer hamsters not found."
    • "THREAT LEVEL UPGRADED TO JELLY ROLL 1. DETONATION IMMINENT. BEEBLEBLIP!"
    • "CTRL... ALT... DEL!"
• Mimi's face when you actually pay off her loan.
• Merlee and Mimi's catfight is surprisingly hilarious, including this wonderful line:
  Oh, please, you make me gag.
  I am hot, no need to brag.
  And you... well, you’re a hag!
• In the beginning cutscene, Mario tells Bowser the reason he and Luigi were able to get inside his castle was because... the gate was open.
  Bowser: How many times do I have to tell those idiots? If you're the last one in, LOCK THE GATE!
  • "Hey, what's with the hairy guys up front! We SHAVE around here, minions!"
  • The bit about the locked gate gets a bit of a Call-Back later on in Chapter 3, when the heroes arrive outside Fort Francis to rescue Tippi. Bowser's initial reaction to seeing it is to ask exactly what it's got over his castle. And the first thing you encounter as resistance? A locked gate.
• When the Cragnon chief is explaining that the Floro Sapiens have been making off with his people, he gives us this: "Now rescue team of Cragnons need to BE rescued!"
  • "Nerd Cragnons name them Floro Sapiens."
• At the end of his first boss fight, O'Chunks mishears Mario's name as "Maria".
• Merlumina is the only one to ever realize that Mario fell asleep during her story.
  Merlumina: "And... You're sleeping again!?"
• Flint Cragley. Everything about him. CRAGLEY HO!
  • Also the fact that, of all things, you have to rescue his camera crew for him.
    • And they're not really in danger, they just hate working for him.
• A Cragnon's reaction upon the heroes falling from the sky at the start of Chapter 5: "OH CRAG!"
• The Catch Card description for the Dark Megabite: "This thing wants to end you. That's all."
  • A lot of Catch Cards, actually; Schlorp: "It's a vacuum cleaner! It's a worm! It's both! Don't feed it bombs, or you'll ruin its appetite. Forever."
  • "This Dark Ninjoe creeps around a certain secret pit. They move at the speed of DEADLY."
  • The Dry Bones card basically says that a possible reason why the skeletons came back to life is because they want to eat pie, which they apparently didn't get to do while they were alive.
• The last few lines of Tippi's tattle of the Cherbils: "Some say the gas comes from their mouths. Some say it comes from elsewhere... ...Oh, dear..."
  • The best thing is that the last part isn't even positioned at the beginning of the text box.
• A minor one but it shows a lot. After Mimi insults Peach for not being a fighter (stating that she has two 'boyfriends' to protect her), Peach stands her ground and tells Mario and Luigi to let her fight alone. After she screams if they understood, they don't object. They just stare each other, say 'sure' and WALK BACKWARDS away from the Princess.
• Bowser has some rather amusing dialogue when set as the active player character:
  • Upon meeting Squirps:
    "Good gravy, you're ugly! What in the world ARE you? And what're you doing here?"
  • As he and Tippi grow suspicious of Squirps' motives:
    "Gah! I KNEW it! All along, I KNEW something was off about this deal! You! Space niblet! I didn't trust you from the BEGINNING, squaaargh! What in the... GRAAGH! Now I'm talking like you!"
  • In Chapter 5, the Floro Sapiens capture some Cragnons and go down a pipe. If Bowser is your active PC, you get this:
    Tippi: Disappeared through a pipe, did they?
    Bowser: What am I, blind? Shut up.
  • When encountering O'Chunks in the above chapter.
    "Hey O'Fatty! Take it easy! You're gonna blow out your beard, pal, seriously."
    "Listen, babbling is not gonna save you. You need stomping. And I'm a Stomptologist."
  • During Count Bleck's appearance in Chapter 6:
    "Who's the creepy clown with the cape? ...Count Bleck!"
  • Upon being insulted by Mr. L.
    "Hey! I'm not fat! I just got a big shell."
• The Chapter 5 interlude is golden. Nastasia punishes O'Chunks for his recent failure... by forcing him to write a song in Count Bleck's favor and sing it 1,000 TIMES! GOLD!
  O'Chunks: Raise yer chunks in the air, as the most debonair man o' men strides into the room! ♪
  Springin' forth from 'is lair as 'is foes all despair, for Bleck be the name o' their doom! ♪
  Whooa-OH! That's our Bleck! ♪
  Bleckity, Bleckity DOOOO! ♪
  Yeh, uh, somethin' Bleck...
  That's the guy who says...
  Woo? ♪
  • And then Mimi flips in to complain, claiming O'Chunks is breaking windows with his singing (no sign as to whether or not that's hyperbole).
  • Hell, O'Chunks himself provides a lot of laughs with his dialogue.
• A lot of Luigi's lines are funny.
  Luigi: Oh no! I don't give my name to scoundrels! Just watch as Luigi punishes you for your badness!
  Luigi: I'm my bro's bro.
  Luigi: The G-Great Luigi, you say? A... A daring defender? ...Me? Then I've got no choice! Luigi must spring into action! My fans need me!
• Fleep, the flipping Pixl has been in the bathroom in Chapter 4 for 100 years, waiting for someone to bring him toilet paper. All the while, he sings nonsensical songs in a Spanish accent at the top of his lungs, punctuating each verse with "AMOOOOOOOOOOOORE!"
  • The other Pixls can be quite funny too, such as Boomer. To make sure that you and he are compatible, he asks you a series of questions, to each of which you have a choice of two answers... which are both always in the affirmative.
    • Two of which are "You don't really understand why I'm askin' you all these weird questions." and "You're gettin' real tired of these questions." with the responses to the latter being "You said it, not me." and "Umm...yeah."
• After defeating King Croacus, Tippi says quite possibly the most awesomely nonchalant line in the whole game.
  "We have defeated your king. Get over it."
  • Although, this quickly becomes Harsher in Hindsight when the Floro Sapiens tell you their motives.
• The Underchomp battle, which is one big Shout-Out to early turn-based JRPGs such as Dragon Quest and the Mother series. The text in the battle in just ridiculous.
  "[Character] dodges like a pro"
  "Oh no! It's putrid!"
  "Now that's hot!"
• From when you beat Mr. L in his Brobot L-Type:
  Mr. L: Awwww, WHAT?! No way! My Brobot L-type shoots missiles. MISSILES!
• Tippi's snarky lines when you keep refusing to wear a space helmet.
  So let me get this clear: you enjoy NOT breathing.
  • Really, this scene as a whole of you choose the stupidest of decisions. What is really funny, however, is if you say yes to dying:
    Ugh. Who is stupider? You? Or me, for listening to you...No more... Good-bye!
• Near the ending of the game, Peach mentions she, Bowser, Luigi fell through the floor. Bowser landed fine, she landed on Bowser and comments it was a surprisingly soft landing, then Luigi proceeds to mention they found him knocked out.
  • Not to mention the hilariously casual gem Bowser gives right before that.
  Bowser: "I fell through the floor before I got flattened by the ceiling."
• When Peach eats a Golden Apple in The Overthere in Chapter 7-3, she's fallen asleep. The only way to wake her up is by feeding her the nasty Black Apple. However, before this, the player can feed her the other color apples, some of which will make her giant, shrink her, give her a mustache, and even turn her into an actual peach!
• Tippi gushing over Luigi's jump in one of her hint tattles. For comparison, she's usually calm, if a bit sad.
  Tippi: Luigi's jump is amazing! I'm sorry, Mario, but it's leaps and bounds ahead of yours!
• When Squirps reveals the location of the pure heart;
  Tippi: The Whoa Zone? You simply must be kidding with me... I demand answers...
  • Followed by;
    Tippi: Who are you REALLY, you incontinent little imp?
• Mr. L's taunts depending upon which character you play as can be pretty hilarious
  Hey, Mr. Jumpsallthetime! NOW we'll see who's the better jumper!
  Hey, Ms. Alwayskidnapped! I'll kidnap your FACE!
  Hey, Ms. Pink n' Frilly! Try not to get kidnapped before I defeat you! Have at you!
  Hey, Mr. Getsfoiledallthetimebytheredguywiththemustache! I'll foil your FACE!
• Every. Flipping. Sammer Guy.
  • A particularly funny one is Sammer Guy 67, Mustard of Doom, a long Shout-Out / Continuity Nod to Fawful, complete with his Evil Tastes Good and Talks Like a Simile tendencies.
  Mustard of Doom (After losing): Be off, awful person...
  • Rolling Thwomp's final line after the encounter with Count Bleck in Chapter 6-1 makes for a great Mood Whiplash:
  Rolling Thwomp: WORLD GOES SQUISH SOON! MUST TELL KING SAMMER! MUST NOT ACCIDENTALLY SQUISH KING AGAIN...
  • Having Tippi/Tiptron scan them can lead to other amusing facts about the guys in their off time. A yelling Sammer Guy apparently likes quietly reading the newspaper. A chef Sammer Guy makes brownies for the rest of the Sammer Guys, every day. And more, one for each guy, often completely unrelated to their characters.
• Whenever Bowser Jaw Drops, it's pretty funny, but never moreso in the intro after Peach is compelled by Count Bleck into saying "yes" to marrying him, because it stays dropped. Then, the universe implodes.
• Bowser's spinning arms. Just look at how fast they go!
  • What makes it even funnier is the fact that Dimentio actually references it later in the game:
    Dimentio: You seem to be missing the ravishing princess and the arm-flailer.
    • He also references it if your character is Bowser before the first fight with him in Chapter 3-3.
      Dimentio: You must be Bowser. I knew the moment I saw the flailing nubbins you call arms.
• Attempting to buy goods from Flimm with a full inventory gives us this gem:
  Flimm: Here's a little business tip from a pro: try not to carry YOUR ENTIRE HOUSE.
• The 66th Annual "That's My Merlee!" show. It implies that this same scenario has occurred sixty-five times.
  • The solution to the puzzle: Because the information you get from both Merlees is given without the context of what the original Merlee would say, you are left to use the fly buzzing around the real Merlee because she was hiding from Mimi in the toilet as the marker for which is the real one.
• Squirps' reaction to being fed chocolate. No matter which kind you give him, they're all pretty funny.
  "CHOCO-BATTLE OF JUSTICE!"
• It's still really annoying, but the Chapter 5-1 password is funny in its setup. The first password is three directions long, but for the second one, the password giver warns you that this one is longer and you might need pen and paper. Most players above a certain age will think "what, it's going to be six or seven directions long? Try me." Then the password goes on. And on. And on. For twenty-five directions.
• The D-Men's incredulous response to Mario offering to help them defeat what they think to be the monster that escaped the Underwhere, which they've managed to lock in a room along Underwhere Road.
  D-Man: Tell you what... You head on in... and I'll mail your moustache to your next of kin!
• The fact that all Francis wants is a single offline friend, given the reveal that an embodiment of trust and friendship was sealed within the walls of his fortress the entire time he lived there... only to be released by someone else.
• The Void is not this by a long shot, but the way it's formed is, in a dark kind of way. The prophecy states that the union between a "fair and lovely princess" and a "furious monster king" would bring about the end of all worlds. Translation: making Peach and Bowser marry ends the universe.
• The battle with Mimi in Chapter 6-2 is designed to be a long, annoying battle, which Mimi gloats about after you win. However, if you go into the fight with Bowser as your active PC, you can get in two Fire Breath hits on her as soon as it begins, which, if your level (and by extension, your attack power) is high enough, can reduce her as low as 1 HP or even take her out right then. Either way, you can win the battle in less than 15 seconds, and Mimi will still gloat that she got you to waste a lot of time.
• Right after you gain Cudge the Pixl, you can scan your active PC and get this from Tippi (for context, the chapter you recruit Cudge in also features an O'Chunks battle):
  Cudge should be makin' chunks out o' these yellow blocks, teh be sure!
  ...Yuck. I think we've been spending too much time around that big oaf...
• The Three Hags in the Underwhere ask you for favours and if you refuse, they go into long-winded rants about the current generation.
  "Eh?! Youngsters these days don't respect their elders, no, they don't... Why, back in my day...we used to do nice things for the elderly, yes... When did times changes so? This younger generation... Such entitled brats!"
  "I blame video games! Kids live in virtual worlds! They can't relate to real people! Rotten like cavities, these kids...and speaking of cavities, take care of your teeth. Once you lose them, that is IT for your favorite foods. Dentures only go so far!"
  "You know what I blame? The cellular telephone devices! Everything is too convenient! In my day, we had to work hard all the time, yes, rain or shine... But do folks remember those days? No! They just flit about going la di da di da... I want to go la di da, too! It's unfair! I want to "chill"! I want to "hang out"!"
  • The third hag Hagnes begins to complain about today's youth only to realize that she was just as bad, giving her elders "nothing but grief".
• How about the fact that in chapter 7-3, after you've given a Red Apple to a sentient cloud named Cyrrus, he grows so big that when you jump on him, you fly all the way into outer space before crashing back down to Earth? It's so unexpected that it's hilarious!
• In Chapter 8-2, you come across Merlon, who's Mimi in disguise, and she tells you to hit a totally unsuspicious block to get to Count Bleck. If you keep talking to her, she gets increasingly frustrated before shouting in rage. Then she outright breaks the fourth wall to explain to the player that they need to do this to proceed before resorting to begging for the player to just hit the block already. It has to be seen to be believed.
  Mimi (as Merlon, first time): Why, what seems to be the problem, hero? Better get to bashing that block!
  Mimi (as Merlon, second time): There's simply no time to dawdle! Hurry up and hit that block!
  Mimi (as Merlon, third time): Perhaps you had better do less thinking and more bashing!
  Mimi (as Merlon, fourth time): Urgent bashing is required! You must believe me!
  Mimi (as Merlon, fifth time): You don't believe me?! Look at this beard! Has this beard ever lied to you?!
  Mimi (as Merlon, sixth time): HIT THE STUPID BLOCK!!!!!!!!!! HIT THE STUPID BLOCK!!!!!!!!!! HIT THE STUPID BLOCK!!!!!!!!!!
  Mimi (as Merlon, seventh time): HIT THE BLOCK, STUPID!!!!!!!!!! HIT THE BLOCK, STUPID!!!!!!!!!! HIT THE BLOCK, STUPID!!!!!!!!!!
  Mimi (as Merlon, eighth time): ..............................................just hit it.
  Mimi (as Merlon, ninth time): Let's just stop and talk hypothetically. Say there's these things called 'flags.' Say you want to eat some ice cream, but you haven't hit the ice-cream 'flag' yet. Well, you'd NEVER get so much as a lick of ice cream until you hit that 'flag.' This is one of those times. NOW JUST BASH IT!
  Mimi (as Merlon, tenth time onwards): Please just bash it…

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