The Blair Witch Project is a movie with nearly as many funny moments as there are scary ones. Late in the movie, however, the humour often serves at being quickly dashed away by more despair.
- "No redneck is this creative!"
- Heather squishing the camera into a bag of marshmallows at the grocery store.
- Mike eating a dry leaf.
- Heather's very narmy narration for her documentary.
- The various interviews with the people of Burkittsville near the beginning have a few very memorable gems.
- The entire scene with the two fishermen.
- Upon discovering a dead mouse:Heather: (jokingly dramatic) What killed this dead mouse? Witchcraft?Josh: (bluntly) How 'bout God?
- The trio's Gilligan's Island conversation around the campfire.Mike: Let's not call him "the captain," you illiterate TV people. It's the Skipper.
- Mike filming Heather struggling with their equipment.Mike: I could help you but I'd rather stay here and record.
- "Is that the Blair Witch? No, it's Heather taking a piss."
- Some of their campfire banter is pretty funny."Witches in days gone by were roasted just like my Vienna sausage."
- Mike's leaning post.
- Heather asking Josh why she's not allowed to smoke in the tent when Mike is allowed to fart.Josh: I didn't give Mike any fart allowance.
- Josh and Heather making fun of Mike's chest hair.Mike: You should see my ass.
- This exchange (an approximation):Mike: What bothers me is that we're so damn deep in the woods and people are gonna come out here and mess with us...They've gotta have something wrong with them, and I don't wanna play with that.Heather: Well, how do we know it was people?Mike: Well, even if it wasn't, I don't wanna play with that, either!
- And this exchange:Heather: What do you think that was last night?Josh: Honestly... I think someone was fucking with your head.Heather: But who would do that? We're out in the middle of the woods.Josh: Yeah well, have you ever seen Deliverance?
- Shortly after realizing they don't have the map and are lost, Josh rolls around in the leaves and tells them to go on without him and that he'll be under the tree with the vine when they come back with help.
- Mike and Josh sarcastically singing patriotic songs.Mike: (singing) Ameeeeerica, Ameeeeerica... GOD SHARE YOUR GRACE ON THEE!
- After Josh disappears, Heather finds a bundle of twigs outside their tent. While in the movie this and its contents are horrifying, amusingly, Heather's reaction is NOPE and just chucks it away rather than open it. Heather Donahue had to be told by the crew to go back and open it. It's a very realistic reaction in a genre full of people walking into dangerous things because the movies need to get a scare in.
- In the motel the night before heading into the woods, Heather shares a drink with the guys, even asking if they have any weed, apparently because she's nervous about her class project. After she takes a pull from the bottle, she shudders.Heather: I fucking hate Scotch.
- When setting up the tent for the first night, and the guys commenting on how cramped it is, Heather's reply is a loudly sarcastic "Well, I'm not usually out here with two guys, if you know what I mean!"
- Two thirds of the way through the film, Josh finally breaks down crying out of frustration and exhaustion, which is offscreen because Mike refuses to let Heather film it. We see Mike gently reminding Heather that filming Josh at this vulnerable moment is incredibly insensitive and that to get out of this situation they have to take care of each other and show respect. This is interrupted by Josh calling from offscreen to ask, in an exhausted voice, if anyone has any cigarettes left. He's clearly heartbroken when they call back that they're out.
