Funny / 12 Angry Men

• Jurors #3 and #8 have spent most of the movie at each others' throats. When #3 wants someone to help him reenact a knife attack, #8 goes along with it because he's the only one standing up. Given their previous interactions, as soon as #3 raises the knife, everybody else in the room jumps up thinking #8 is about to get stabbed. #3 and #8, for their part, are relatively cool-headed about it, but #3 is clearly trying not to give into his anger.
• When Juror #9 gets interrupted, Juror #6, who thinks people ought to be more respectful to the elderly, sharply rebukes the guy who interrupted him, and then tells Juror #9 in a very gentle voice that he can go ahead and say whatever he wants. It's well-intentioned, but #9 gives him a brief look like "Gee, pal, thanks for not being patronising in any way."
• Watching poor Juror #10 get caught in some Hypocritical Humor:
  Juror #10: He's a common, ignorant slob. He don't even speak good English.
  Juror #11: He doesn't even speak good English.
  • Should be worth mentioning that Juror #11 is the only foreigner out of the group.
• While just chatting, Juror #7 talks with Juror #5 about baseball teams. Seems Juror #7 doesn't have a very high opinion of Baltimore's team.
  Juror #7: You a Yankee fan?
  Juror #5: No, Baltimore.
  Juror #7: Baltimore? That's like being hit in the head with a crow bar once a day.
  • Changed to the Milwaukee Brewers in the new version. Justified since the Baltimore Orioles were consistent playoff contenders in the late 90s.
• At one point, #7 starts whistling obnoxiously, prompting a rare burst of assertiveness from #2 (a very small, timid bank teller):
  Juror #2: Come on, knock it off!
  Juror #7: Okay… Okay, okay, killer! Yeah…
  • Juror #7 then calls him "killer" for the rest of the film.
• The Oh, Crap! expression Juror #3 has when he accidentally contradicts his own statement, asking how the old man (whose testimony he's been using as evidence) could be sure about anything. Especially funny if you see a staged version, as some productions will have #4 give him a "You idiot" sort of look while everyone else just stares at him.
• Following yet another argument, cue poor Juror #2 trying to defuse the tension. "...Does anybody want a cough drop?"
  • Becomes a Brick Joke a little later on:
  Juror #10: Who's got those cough drops?
  Juror #2: They're all gone, my friend.
• Juror #8 arguing that the defendant's lawyer did an inadequate job.
  Juror #8: It is possible for a lawyer to be just stupid. It is possible.
  Juror #7: You sound like you've met my brother-in-law.
  [#8 looks at #7, amused]
• #3 picks up the knife as he tries to make a point about the boy "ramming this into his father!" #9 then reminds him that that's actually the one #8 bought, rather than the murder weapon (which was handed back to the guard outside).
  Juror #3: Oh, brilliant! (drops the knife back onto the table)

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