Funny / They Live!

• Of course, the famous quote, which everyone knows regardless of whether they've seen the movie, is hilarious and awesome. Roddy Piper came up with it himself.
  John Nada: I have come here to chew bubblegum and kick ass. And I'm all out of bubblegum.
  Aliens: [Mass "Oh, Crap!"]
  • The icing on the cake is immediately before speaking, Piper gives a little "Aw, fuck it" shrug.
• The fight between Nada and Frank. The Overly Long Gag aspect of it can be hysterical to some people.
  • "I'm gonna give you two choices... Either put on the glasses, or start eatin' that trash can!"
  • Frank's honest reaction to Nada's attempt at a Groin Attack: "YOU DIRTY MOTHERF—-"
  • Frank's reaction when he turns to see Nada getting back up to fight yet again.
  • About halfway through the fight, Nada picks up a 2x4 to use as a weapon. He swings, Frank dodges, and the force of the strike ends up completely shattering a car’s rear windshield and leaving a huge dent in the frame. Realising he would’ve probably killed Frank had the blow connected, Nada drops the 2x4 and starts apologising profusely. Frank furiously attempts to shatter a bottle to turn into a weapon, but the bottle shatters completely, causing him to angrily curse "FUCK!" while tossing the useless remains of the bottle away. Nada can't help but burst into giggles until Frank jumps back into the melee.
  • And of course, the entire fact that this absurdly long, drag-out brawl is happening because Frank doesn't want to put on a pair of sunglasses. After a while you really have no choice but to bow to the absurdity. (The main point is that Frank suspects the world is fucked but he wants to remain blissfully ignorant.)
• Nada to the alien reporting on him: "Mama don't like tattle tales!"
• Nada's been shambling in a stupor around the city since finding the sunglasses, and is teetering on the brink of Go Mad from the Revelation. After finally seeing a news broadcast and starting to grasp the sheer scope of what's happening around him, he chuckles.
  Nada: It figures it'd be something like this.
• Nada finally having enough after one alien bumps into him, and going off on her in the middle of a store.
  Nada: Y'know, you look like your head fell in the cheese dip back in 1957. [she gasps, Nada points at a human] You? You're okay. [turns and points back at the alien] This one? Real fuckin' ugly!
• Another funny joke at the expense of the aliens is when Nada is confronted by the alien cops and he asks them "Cut yourselves shaving this morning?"
  Alien Cop: You look as shitty to us as we do to you!
  Nada: [Scoffs smugly, takes glasses off] ... Impossible.
• At the end: "What's wrong, baby?" That woman has just realized she's having sex with an alien who resembles a rotting corpse.
  • The Blonde Alien Cop who jumps Nada earlier in the movie tells him "You look as shitty to us as we do to you", to which Nada replies "Impossible." Great, funny line, but it makes one think if alien/human relations are more like colonialism among Earth races where some would never consider sex with different races and others would.
  • Fridge Brilliance kicks in, too, when you remember that earlier in the film, someone described the human race's relationship to the aliens thusly: "We could be pets, we could be food, but all we really are is livestock." Does that mean this alien is committing the alien equivalent of bestiality? (In reality, it's more a case of colonialism, since Carpenter said and the characters say in the film that the Earth is basically a Third World country to the aliens.)
  • Immediately before this, a film critic is seen on television talking about how violent movies have become. One of the directors he mentions is John Carpenter.