Funny / Troy Rising

• During the Maple Syrup War, an Army Captain is being interviewed by a reporter, and getting increasingly irate at her veiled jabs that he might be incompetent, or worse, a collaborator...until she asks if the wood they are burning to make maple syrup will produce greenhouse gases. He finally snaps and goes on a raging tirade, and the reporter mentally notes that, if not for how much she is intimidated by him, this breakdown would be newsroom gold.
• Perhaps it helps if one is actually in the military, but the scene in The Hot Gates where Comet is flying within a thousand kilometers of the enemy fleet (point-blank in space terms) to pick up an envoy while giving their equivalent pilot a lesson in insults to Task, Conditions, and Standards (yes, the actual format for a military lesson). Doubles as a Stealth Pun, as she literally schooled him in an insult war.
• A dark-haired female scientist's reaction to learning that blondes are about to start going into heat every month as a result of a Horvath retrovirus, making it sound as if it's every brunette's worst nightmare.