Funny / The Count of Monte Cristo

• Pretty much every scene with Luigi Vampa and his bandits, and in particular the way they extort millions from Danglars in exchange of food.
• Shortly after coming to Paris, the Count makes a point to buy the best pair of horses in town for his coach, horses that happen to belong to Danglars. The next day he visits Danglars and meets him, his wife, and her lover Lucien Debray... And that's when a servant tells madame Danglars that her favorite horses, that are of the same color of the ones the Count bought from her husband, are missing, and she suspects Danglars sold them. So the Count, suspecting Danglars did indeed sell him his wife's favorite horses, gets Debray to look at his coach... And he confirms. The Count and Debray then beats it and leave Danglars to deal with his irate wife.
• The whole of chapter 55, in which the Count has to spoon-feed Major Cavalcanti the entirety of the made-up story that's been concocted to provide Andrea with a noble background, all the while pretending that he is merely confirming the details of Cavalcanti's actual life story. And all the while the Major clearly has no idea of what he is talking about and has to bumble his way through the entire conversation with the bare-bones version he received from Abbe Bussoni.
  • Just after that scene, the meeting between Cavalcanti Jr. and Sr., where the narration really piles on the sarcasm, as the respectful son hugs his loving father, both secure in the knowledge that they're going to be rich.
• Danglars' conversation with his wife, using a Hurricane of Euphemisms to inform her that while he doesn't care that she's cheating on him with the minister's undersecretary, he does care that it's costing him money.
  • Later, the letter in which Danglars announces to his wife he's leaving Paris to escape his debts, again using a Hurricane of Euphemisms to inform her he knows well she stole from him and now she should use that money to live by herself.

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