Despite its heavy subject matter, The Midnight Gang actually has a lot of hilarity.
- Tom screams so loud that it echoes down the corridor, yet Nurse Meese describes his pain as slight.
- When they're trying to figure out what the amnesiac Tom's name is, he says, "T!", which Dr. Luppers initially thinks means he wants a cup of tea. When he clarifies, Luppers begins listing several T-names, including Tina.
- Tom's nicknames for his teachers: Mrs. Rabbit (she has buckteeth), the Dome of Doom (he's bald), Mr. Dead-Squirrel-on-His-Head (he wears a toupee), the Hairy Gnome (he's hairy and short), Mrs. Goggle-Eyes (she wears glasses), Dr. Octopus (his limbs are long), Mr. Clown-Shoes (his shoes are big), the Dinosaur (he's old), Miss Hooter (her nose is big), and Professor Comb-Over (he has combed hair).
- The list of Tom's embarrassing moments, which includes splitting his pants, accidentally hitting his art teacher with clay, farting, getting a toilet roll caught up his butt, landing in a blancmange, playing his violin upside down, playing rugby in his skivvies, playing a lead role in Cats, claiming 2 + 2 = 5 thinking it's a trick question, and sneezing on the headmaster.
- When the Matron asks for "Raj what?"George: "Raj the newsagent."Matron: "I mean what's his surname, you foolish child."
- All of the Signs of Disrepair:
- Entrance & Exit is now "N IT".
- Accident & Emergency is now "CIDE R".
- Reception is now "P O".
- Surgery is now "SU ER".
- Radiology is now "RAD LOG".
- Administration is now "MIN T".
- Theatre is "HEAT".
- Children's ward is now "WAR", which fits with the militant rules enforced there.
- Rehabilitation is now "HAB IT ON".
- Physiotherapy is now "H OTHE AP".
- X-ray is now "RAY", as if it's directions to a man named Ray.
- And finally, Lifts is now "IF S".
- The list of things you're not meant to dob other boys in on at school: putting trifle in your shoes, flushing our homework down the toilet, burying your underpants (illustrated with a gravestone), cramming you into your own locker, putting a spider at the foot of your bed, making you eat a dirty sock, painting your nose blue in your sleep, tying you to a tree by your laces, gluing your racket to your hand, and putting rabbit droppings in your chocolate drops.
- Robin's scatological exclamation:Robin: "Poop! Poop! Double poop! And triple poop with an extra scoop of poop on top with poop sauce!"
- George likens a secret being passed on to nits. Robin points out that it lacks the scratchy heads, special shampoo, combs, and the actual nits, and George defends himself by saying that he's not the Brain of Britain, accidentally saying, "Brian".
- Amber claims she broke all her limbs mountain climbing, but then...Robin: "Well, that isn't strictly true, is it, dear?"Amber: "Well, all right, I was doing mountain-climbing training."Robin': "I wouldn't exactly call it mountain-climbing training."Amber: (snapping) "What would you call it then, clever-clogs?"Robin: "I would call it 'falling off the top bunk'."(the boys laugh, to the chagrin of Amber)
- George pointing out that the porter isn't the lowest of the low—- there's always the bog cleaner.
- George being proud of coming third in the wheelchair race, despite there being only three kids in the race.
- There was a boy named David once, who wanted to be a comedian but told the punchline before the setup. In order to make his aspiration come true, they use laughing gas.
- Robin teases George by saying that it would be quicker to post him the punchline than wait for him to get the joke. George's reply? "That would take too long."
- When Dilly the janitor asks what the kids are doing out of bed, Tom claims that the principal, Sir Quentin Strillers, wanted them to inspect the floor for dust because, being kids, they're shorter and closer to the floor. Dilly points out that Robin is blindfolded, so Tom says that he's the eyes of the group.
- Amber and Robin want to pack Tom on the back for the 'cleaning inspector' lie, but the former has her arms in casts, and the latter, being blindfolded, doesn't know where Tom is.
- Tom sneezing on the matron.
- The matron claims that she wasn't asleep, but that the writing on her form was so small she had to put her face right on it.
- The hospital is short on food, and so serves cornflakes with tea instead of milk.
- Tom recovers from his injury, but wants to stay in the hospital, so he fakes a fever. Dr. Luppers has him drink from a vase. Then, Tom deliberately induces Sequential Symptom Syndrome.Luppers: "Do you have a headache?"Tom: "Ow, yes."Luppers: "Fever?"Tom: "Yes! I am burning up!"Luppers: "Cold sweats?"Tom: "Yes, suddenly I am freezing."Luppers: "Aching joints?"Tom: "Aah, yes."Luppers: "Blurred vision?"Tom: "Yes, but, sorry, who is speaking?"Luppers: "Dry throat?"Tom: "It's hard to answer my throat is so dry."Luppers: "Excessive tiredness?"Tom: "I don't have the energy to answer."Luppers: "Hearing problems?"Tom: "Sorry, can you repeat that?"Luppers: "Pain when you pass water?"Tom: "Yes, it hurt when I walked past a fish tank."Luppers: "Chronic indecisiveness?"Tom: "Yes and no."
- George rejects the idea of jumping from the stairwell, because he, as he puts it, "wants to fly, not die".
- When Raj is ordering food, he orders poppadoms several times.
- There's a section on how many balloons would make a pet fly. It says to ask them first, as some pets would like to stay on the ground.
- The kids accidentally make Nelly instead of George fly with the balloons, and eventually she ends up naked.
- Robin slides down the banister so fast, his bottom catches fire. George puts it out, but gets fire extinguisher stuff on everyone.
- Sir Quentin Strillers, Matron, and Dilly are described as an "unwelcoming committee".
- George denies being involved with the gang and says, "As if I would want to fly through the air with the aid of stolen balloons!".
- When Tom is pretending that he is the doctor and the porter is the patient.Porter: (referring to Tom's voice) "Deeper!"Raj: "Who said that?"Tom: (adult voice) "Oh, just my patient under here! He is saying that the pain in his bottom... is 'deeper' than it was."
- Then, the porter tells Tom to lie, and Tom tries to cover it up by saying that the porter wants to lie down, even though he is already lying down.
- Tom accidentally asks for fifty litres of anaesthetic.Mr. Cod: "What do you need all that for? Are you going to put a hippopotamus to sleep?"Porter: "Millilitres!"Mr. Cod: "Who said that?"Tom: "It was my patient."Mr. Cod: "How come your patient knows more about what he needs than you? You are supposed to be the doctor!"Tom: "Well, my patient is a bit, to use the correct medical term, 'bonkers'. The poor man thinks he's a doctor. He's delusional!"Mr. Cod: "That still doesn't explain why he knew the correct dose."Tom: "Well, he is so delusional, he is actually a brilliant doctor."
- While it's also a Moment Of Heartwarming, the porter's new title ends up being "Doctor of Fun".
