Funny / The Horse and His Boy

• Whenever the Tisroc is mentioned, the characters from Calormen always add, 'May he live for ever'. Bree pointedly does not.
  "I say," put in Shasta in rather a shocked voice, "oughtn't you to say 'May he live for ever'?"
  "Why?" asked the Horse. "I'm a Free Narnian. And why should I talk slaves' and fools' talk? I don't want him to live for ever, and I know he's not going to live for ever whether I want him to or not."
• The Humiliation Conga that concludes Rabadash's sneak attack on Archenland.
  • While trying to take Castle Anvard, he shouts "The bolt of Tash falls from above!" and leaps from a wall, only for his armor to catch on a hook and leave him dangling.
  • Becomes a Brick Joke during Rabadash's trial, when the captive Rabadash tries using the same line again, and Prince Corin quips "Does it ever get caught on a hook halfway?" (His father immediately rebukes him for picking on someone weaker than himself — itself hilarious because Corin is younger than Rabadash although also justified because Rabadash was a prisoner and Corin was among the captors.)
    • King Lune's admonition comes with an amusing addendum that, if a man is stronger or in a superior position to you, then you can mock him all you like.
  • Aslan turning Rabadash into a donkey. As part of his punishment, Rabadash could only regain human form at his country's biggest religious festival "and the affair could not possibly be hushed up." This resulted in him going down in history as "Rabadash the Ridiculous."
    • Even better — it was the autumn festival, and the story hints that it was early summer when he was transformed. He had to wait a while to become human again.
  • When Aslan first informs Rabadash that there is a way to reverse his transformation, the Narnians and Archenlanders present are described as trying desperately to keep a straight face—but Rabadash, who is of course now a donkey with the attendant huge, mobile ears—had already responded the way a donkey would (that is, he perked up and his massive donkey ears stood straight up and twitched forward) and it's such an inherently funny image that they all break down howling again.
• There is also the mention that Shasta and Aravis fought and made up so much they got married so they could do it more conveniently.
• After Shasta objects to Aravis' method of escaping her family ^note she drugged the maid assigned to watch her, knowing that she would be punished for Aravis' actions, Aravis replies primly:
  "I did not do all this for the sake of pleasing you."
• Bree says Aslan can't possibly be a real lion... unaware that Aslan is standing behind him. Then one of Aslan's whiskers tickles his ear, just as he claims Aslan doesn't have whiskers.
• Lasaraleen's ...In That Order remark really serves to highlight her ditzy nature well. She claims any servants who reveal Aravis will be "beaten to death, burnt alive, and then kept on bread and water for six months." The first two blatantly contradict each other even without adding in the third.

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