Funny / The Running Man

The film:

• During the labor camp escape, Richards throws a gas mask mook to his death after telling him the one-liner "Give you a lift?". When he's picking the guy up, the actor has been clearly replaced by a dummy, of which limp arms hilariously juxtapose the character's panicking "No! No! Nooo!" for his life.
• The scene where Killian is going through a criminal database for contestants for his show, the Running Man, one of the suspects on the list is a literal baby named Mado "Baby Face" March. The audience was probably thinking "how the hell did a baby make it on this list anyway?".
  Killian: *trying to not laugh* Are you kiddin' me? Next...
• "Hello, get me the Justice Department, Entertainment Division."
  • Then, on second thought: "Get me the President's agent."
• A great comeback if you've ever heard one.
  Richards: Killian! I'll be back!
  Killian: Only in a rerun.
• Arnie's got a lot of great Bond One Liners in this movie.
  • After strangling Sub-Zero with razor wire.
  What a pain in the neck.
  • After Ben cuts Buzzsaw in half with a chain saw.
  Amber: What happened to Buzzsaw?
  Ben: Ah, he had to split.
  • And those nicknames he gives to Dynamo (whose costume is, you know, totally covered with colorful diodes) when trying to get his attention...
  Ben: Hey! Lighthead! Hey, Christmas tree!
  • There's also this magnificent... attempt, also involving Sub-Zero:
  Here is Sub-Zero... now... Plain Zero!
• Buzzsaw actually screams in a falsetto when Richards shoves the saw into his junk.
• Just try to keep a straight face during Richards' Ham and Cheese response to Kilian's proposal of working for him as a stalker:
  Richards: (RIPS Camera out of socket) You cold-blooded bastard! I'll tell you what I think of it! I live to see you eat that contract! But I hope you leave enough room for my *fist* because I'm going to *ram it into your stomach*, and break your goddamn spinnneee!! Yaaaaarrrgh!! (SMASHES Camera)
• Due to the fact a great number of classic shows have been banned by the regime, there's a few nods to the generation gap between people who grew up with them and those who are oblivious.
  • Killian on the phone to a government bigwig, explaining how one of his Stalkers just got killed.
  "Well it was bound to happen sooner or later. Look, I— [Shoos away a page who's trying to freshen his makeup] Well, it is a contact sport, right? [Beat] Look, if you want to people in front of the televisions instead of on the picket lines? Well, you ain't gonna get that with reruns of Gilligan's Island. [Beat] Gilligan's Island. [Killian hums a few bars of the theme from Gilligans Island] Yeah. Yeah, the one with the boat." [Hangs up.]
  • Here's an amusing Shout Out.
  Mic: "Mr. Spock, you have the conn."
  Tech: "Who's Mr. Spock?"
• Hello, cutie pie. One of us is in DEEP trouble.
• The advertisement for the Running Man at the end of the credits.
• Richards signs his contract on the back of his court-appointed theatrical agent and stabs him in the back with the pen, pinning the contract to him.
  "Don't forget to send me a copy."
  • Even better is the reaction from Sven (the security chief) — who just kind of gives a "yep, saw that one coming" smirk.
• "Where did you hide that?" "None of your business."
• When Killian's lies are exposed to the public and he tries to cover them up, an old lady leaps up and shouts "Bullshit!" Killian looks absolutely stunned.
  • And the previous scene when the same Cool Old Lady picks Richards as the next one to make a kill. "That Richards is one mean motherfucker."
• When Dynamo thinks he's about to die, he screams, "Cut! Go to a commercial!"
• When the rebels break into the communications center, guns drawn, their warning to the technicians is a classic line of old TV announcers:
  "Don't touch that dial!"