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  • A subtle moment. After he & Eddie Guerrero are KO'd by Kurt Angle, Chyna checks on them and Triple H is shown, from the looks of it, trying to unzip her shorts.
  • His response to the hypothetical question of "what if the Montreal Screwjob had happened to Shawn instead of Bret?"
    Triple H: Nothing. We're not that stupid.
  • Before the renewal of the wedding vows ceremony between Trips and Stephanie, Trips found out that Stephanie had been lying to him about being pregnant and had even hired an actor disguised as a doctor to sell the story. Fast forward to the ceremony itself, and after Stephanie has given her (extremely sappy) vows, the minister invites Triple H to give his. Hunter turns to the camera with a sly little smile that just screams "Watch this."
    • Made even funnier by the crowd going crazy and by JR and the King on commentary.
      Jerry "The King" Lawler: Uh-oh.
      Jim Ross: Yep.
  • A few weeks later, after that wedding, Stephanie's fake pregnancy was brought up, and she went on to say that in the bedroom, Triple H had always come up a little bit short. Hunter would retaliate by delivering this hilarious insult:
    Triple H: You see Steph, even a 747 looks small when you're flying into the Grand Canyon.
  • Done in a flashback sequence, where he confirms to Stephanie that her father, due to an attack on Nexus, is still brain dead...as pillow talk.
  • Trips is eventually put on a Survivor Series team with Kane, Jeff Hardy, and Rey Mysterio Jr.. When they confront him for the crap he's pulled, he gives a sheepish "my bad" reaction to both Kane (for the Katie Vick incident, wincing and facepalming while it's described) and Jeff Hardy (who brought up that Hunter put him in the hospital once).
  • This appearance on MAD TV, where Trips is Playing Against Type. Kind of.
  • Actually saying Zack Ryder's Catchphrase on Raw. Especially because you can see how painful it apparently was for him to put Ryder over. Just before that, responding to Christian complaining about Sheamus throwing him back into the ring & costing him the World Heavyweight Championship with "It was a Lumberjack match, dumbass!"
  • He's the only reason the "McMahon Family Reunion" segment from the 15th Anniversary Raw is even watchable. It's just one CMOF after another for him:
    "For some reason, Vince, I feel like I'm part of your family. What's up, Steph?"
    "Abe Knuckleball Schwartz? What, was the Brooklyn Brawler sick?"
    "Pat Patterson - well, no one's shocked to see you out here."
    "Heh, Steph, see you at home... I mean, your brother's a gnome!"
  • While most agree that the "Katie Vick" angle is about as tasteless as it gets, Triple H's account of what went on behind the scenes is, arguably, another story.
  • Convinced that Hornswoggle was Mr. McMahon's son, Triple H asks him questions about him. This one is a shining example of funny:
    "About his mom... was she magically delicious?"
    • When Hornswoggle was revealed to indeed be McMahon's son, Triple H proceeded to laugh so hard it looked like he was going to pop a blood vessel.
  • Back in 2000, a backstage segment featuring Triple H and Trish Stratus involved the former attempting to stretch out the latter from behind. Cue Stephanie McMahon (then his manager and on-screen wife at the time) walking in on the both of them as it happens.
    • Then Steph asks him to teach her the move he was showing Trish, which goes fine until he calls Steph Trish.
    • Flash Forward to RAW 1000, where Trish is now a guest on the show and attempting to teach Triple H yoga. Inversely, it's Trish from behind this time. Cue the rest of D-Generation X walking in on them.
    • And the ending of an intergender match between HHH and Trish against The Rock and Lita... well, see for yourself.
  • After the Raw taping for October 28, 2013 ended, Triple H informed the booing fans that he was ejecting them from the building (after having just done the same to Big Show). They refused, so he decided to hire the whole audience into WWE. Immediately after, "You're fired! Get the hell out of my building!"
  • Although it was followed by a brutal and hard-to-watch No-Holds-Barred Beatdown, his fourth-wall-busting quip about the policemen arresting Daniel Bryan (who have been somewhat a Running Gag in very personal WWE feuds over the decades) not being real cops was still funny.
  • Trips parodying Teddy Long's Running Gag of making Tag Team Matches during his tenure as Smackdown General Manager on the 9/5/2014 edition of Smackdown. Even complete with Long's old theme music and his 'Holla!" Catchphrase. Watch it here.
  • While it never made it to air, we have this gem from "Best of Raw After the Show", where Triple H's attempted rope maneuver is countered by a kick to the chin... prompting him to wobble in place for a full minute. Meanwhile, Shawn Michaels can be seen trying to literally blow him over from one corner using a few different methods, while Ric Flair shouts "No! No champ, no!" in the most pathetic voice ever. After recovering, Trips promptly pulls a Face Plant while facing Ric Flair, the premiere user of that particular sell in modern wrestling.
  • During the contract signing between John Cena and Daniel Bryan for the infamous Summerslam '13 match, tensions escalate as usual and Cena flips over a table and tries to antagonize Bryan into hitting him. Cue Triple H coming out to restore order. Before he gets between them, Triple H jokingly tosses the table around again, taking all the piss out of the situation.
  • After Hunter gets a concussion against Curtis Axel, Vince refuses to let him compete at all. So Triple H books himself in a rematch against Axel, and sure enough, Vince comes to stop it, ordering the bell to be rung and making Justin Roberts announce that Curtis Axel has won as a result of a DQ. An angry Trips then orders the match restarted on his authority as COO, and just as they get going again, Vince returns, rings the bell again, and rules that Triple H has lost by forfeit. Now Triple H is really pissed, so he gets in Justin Roberts's face and orders him to announce that the match will restart once again... as a 60 minute Iron Man match! Vince, after a hilarious stunned expression, counters by ordering Axel out of the ring, then stealing the ring bell and the ring announcer's microphone!
  • It's pretty amusing to see that WWE's PG rating is still somewhat of a foreign concept to Triple H. During the 2016 Royal Rumble after eliminating Roman Reigns, HHH very clearly is shouting "FUCK YOU, MOTHERFUCKER!!!" while crotch-chopping like crazy.
  • Triple H temporarily replaces Roman Reigns's spot in The Shield during a house show in the UK because Reigns had a bad case of meningitis. Some of the best moments from HHH's brief Shield tenure include:
  • And here's Trips after Survivor Series 2017, where he got powerslammed by Braun Strowman, looking like last call at the bar.
  • Hunter steals Lip Sync Battle right out from under his wife, The New Day, and Jimmy Fallon. By singing "How Far I'll Go" from Moana.
  • Here's Hunter backstage secretly taking photos of Ronda Rousey following her WWE debut at the 2018 Royal Rumble.
  • On an episode of SmackDown in 2002, in his match with Kurt Angle, Triple H pulls down Kurt's tights to expose his thong. And then, at the announcer's table, HHH looked at the crowd for a bit before slapping Angle's bare butt cheeks.
  • At Wrestlemania 25, Undertaker and Shawn Michaels had one of the best matches in Mania history, both go backstage and collapse, no doubt tired from the work they put in. For context, Taker vs. Shawn was not the main event, it was third to last, meaning both world title matches had an uphill battle to surpass it. Triple H walks in, tosses the WWE title aside and yells "How the fuck am I supposed to follow that?".
  • At King of the Ring '98 Hunter joined the commentary while Chyna joined the Spanish commentary. Lawler notes that Chyna is bilingual and asks if Hunter is, too.
    Jim Ross: Probably not, but we're live.
  • What was Triple H's caption on the photo shaking CM Punk's hand and welcoming him back to WWE?
    Triple H: Mighty cold day in hell.

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