Funny / The Cat from Outer Space

• Jake's communication to the "Mother Ship" at the start of the movie: Gallows Humor? Check.
  Mother You'll have to effect emergency repairs yourself, and rendezvous with us at grid section 8304 at 69 hours minus 17.
  Jake: That's an awfully tight squeeze, Mother!
  Mother: Unavoidable Zunar, next mission to this galaxy due in 115...
  Jake: Days?
  Mother: Years. Good luck, Zunar-J-5.
  Jake: Yeah, so long Mother.
• When Stallwood uses his codename to contact Mr. Olympus. You'll notice Mr. Olympus only uses his far more dignified name.
  Stallwood: Jellyfish calling Olympus, Jellyfish calling Olympus.
  • Military codenames for surveillance:
    "Dydee-1 calling Big Cheese, come in Big Cheese."
    "Oh, here comes General Cheese... I mean, Stilton!"
  • As if that weren't funny enough, Stilton actually is a type of cheese, so the codename is rather apt!
• General Stilton's one and only deliberate joke in the movie:
  Stilton: And who is Dr Wilson?
  Liz: He's in my carpool... that is, we live in the same building.
  Stilton: [deadpan] That certainly qualifies him. [nearby soldier can't help but chuckle]
• When Dr. Wilson is brought in to observe the strange gadget:
  Stilton: Do you have any observations?
  Frank: Only that it looks like an artichoke, sir.
  Stilton: We know it looks like an artichoke, Wilson. What makes it tick?
  Frank: Mayonnaise?
  Stilton: [long pause]...negative.
• So what's the first thing an alien from another planet says to a human?
  Jake: I think she digs ya!
• When Frank uses Jake's spare collar to fly around the hanger. You can tell he's having a blast when he starts to fly around, he's like a kid.
• Anytime some poor shmuck gets frozen by Jake, moral implications aside.
  • Especially when Frank uses the opportunity to steal General Stilton's uniform.
  • When they unfreeze, the colonel can't hold in a snicker at Stilton's state of undress. The general slowly turns to him and addresses him like a quietly disappointed parent.
    Stilton: Colonel.
    Colonel: (nervous smile) Yessir.
  • The next time we see them, the general is wearing the colonel's uniform, and the colonel is in a bathrobe.
• I ask you "Would a crook have a name like Honest Harry?" ...Uh, YES!
  • Ironically enough, Honest Harry really ''is'' the most honest guy in the place. Go figure.
• When Jake puts Link "through the wringer" in order to get his help, from making his beer jump from one glass to another to wrapping him up in paper towels. Link remains unconvinced, and angrily plugs his ears as Frank keeps trying to convince him... then Jake levitates him bodily across the room. And makes him pull his fingers out of his ears.
  Link: (wide-eyed and just a little frightened) ...What kind of a spaceship?
• The fiasco at the Pool Hall when Liz first tried to play a pool game without Jake's help.
  • Of course, it gets better after Jake wakes up... which doubles as a CMoA.
• The scene where the General gets mad at the computer for telling him that the alien pilot is a Felis Catus. Basically... A CAT!
  Stilton: This machine is having a nervous breakdown! (hits the computer)
  • Then the computer reassess the data and comes up with this:
    Confirm Prior Readout.
    No Alternative Explanation.
    Absolute I. D. ...
    Definitely A Cat ...
• Once the army catches up to the group at the run-down airport. Stilton and his men start to interrogate Link in Russian, German...and French.
  "Parlez-vous français?"
• After Mr. Olympus and his men bale out of the helicopter, and leave Liz and Lucy-Belle behind. Liz watches after them and sighs.
  Liz: (rolls eyes) Swell!
  • Just how Liz's whole demeanor while in such an extremely perilous situation is really more frustrated than terrified.
• Jake wolf whistles when he first meets Lucy-Belle.

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