Made even worse Episode 14: Gamekujira is defeated when the military shoots a missile directly up the monster's rectum (though it does allow Ultraman to colide with it head on, killing it).
Ultraman fights with Jirass, a monster that is very obviously an old Godzilla costume repainted with a large frill around its neck. Said frill is ripped off by Ultraman almost as soon as the fight begins, as if the writers knew they weren't fooling anybody, and Ultraman uses it to taunt Jirass like a matador with his cape. After Ultraman wins, he respectfully lays the frill over the body before leaving.
The entirety of Ultraman's battle with Gyango in episode 11, featuring absurd slapstick such as Gyango sitting on Ultraman, Ultraman splashing water on Gyango and kicking the monster into the pool. Before that, there's also a human-sized Gyango terrorising the hotel staff the thief who stole the wishing stone was staying in.
When discussing how to deal with Gavadon, Ide suggests erasing the Non-Malicious Monster while it's still in graffiti form. In one of the most self-aware and meta moments in the series, Muramatsu turns the idea down, citing that it would be too dull and wouldn't be a fair fight if they did so.
There's something funny about Dada #271 being this creepy, actually kinda scary presence in the first part of the episode... and then just getting a thoroughly undignified beating from both Muramatsu and Ultraman. (The kicker being that he tries to run, but his superior orders him to fight.)
Episode 34:
Captain Muramatsu was taking the day off downtown but discovered that he'd forgotten his umbrella when it began raining. What does he do? He calls HQ and instructs someone to drop off his umbrella. Hayata took the VTOL out and airdropped the brolly. (The narrator takes this in stride, noting that sometimes it rains rain, sometimes it rains umbrellas...)
...and sometimes it rains people. (A suicide jumper that Ide happens to be present for. Played for very dark Crosses the Line Twice humor.)
Later in the same episode, the team has to respond to an alert in the middle of the night. Everyone shows up in their pajamas - Ide's even clutching his pillow - and Captain Muramatsu calmly gives everyone orders. He scolds Ide for bringing his pillow along, then the camera pulls back to show that Captain Muramatsu has his uniform on backwards. Ide points it out, and Cap simply tries to look dignified.
When the SSSP receives word that Skydon is falling back to Earth again, Hayata tries to transform with a spoon, having run up to the roof in a hurry while in the middle of a delicious bowl of curry. The kicker? It's not the curry spoon. (He clearly drops the spoon he was using and pulls another one out of his uniform pocket.)
The entire episode. Skydon is a seriously overweight monster who just refuses to leave and wants to nap on Earth, and even Ultraman is having a hard time moving him.
Meta example: apparently, Hiroko Sakurai (Fuji) was not too happy that Alien Mefilas turned her into a Giant Woman, jokingly complaining that she's embarrassed that she got listed in kaiju encyclopedias as a 40 meter-tall kaiju weighing 10,000 tons. This prompted the alien to publicly apologise to her◊ in a 2015 event with a Pose of Supplication, after which she seems to have forgiven him.
2019 Anime
This exchange between Ide and Edo in episode 9.
Ide: I just hope this doesn't cause any trouble for us.
Edo: [Beat] Impressive. You are learning to read my emotions. You must have seen it in my face.
After what happened in Episode 8, Shiraishi is telling Rena she must make a public apology and cancel appearances, but is also worried that she went to the Giant of Light Memorial all by herself in light of what is happening, worried that she was seen, kicking off this exchange:
Shiraishi: ... but then you yourself went to some Ultraman place before the scandal passes! What if someone found out?
Rena: Don't worry! I was wearing a disguise!
Shiraishi: ... Don't tell me it was fake glasses and a hat.
Comes up again in Chapter 81 when the Leo Brothers make their Heel–Face Turn:
Leo: Are you with us, bro?
Moroboshi: Are… are you saying we're brothers now?
Shinjiro: Uh, I don't think they were being that literal.
Chapter 85: The Leo Brothers butting in on a quiet moment between Shinjiro and Rena, seemingly completely oblivious to The Masquerade, as well as Shinjiro's awkward attempts to cover it up.
Valky quickly ends her fight with Taro when his Hot-Blooded nature gets too much for her and she kisses him. Meanwhile, Shinjiro and Moroboshi are watching from a nearby rooftop, and their reactions are as if they just caught two classmates making out under the bleachers:
Shinjiro: Whoa! they're kissing! Moroboshi: That's not what you should be looking at.
Speaking of The Comically Serious, Bemular is usually able to make anything seem dark and foreboding just by entering a room, but once he contends with Rena…
Rena:My power is… the ability to make everyone smile as an idol! Right?!
Concerned for her safety, Bemular and Endo give Rena an emergency device that will give her an Ultraman suit as protection. When her father refuses to explain what the device does initially, Rena wastes no time activating it and begins admiring herself and posing in front of the mirror after she suits up. Bemular watches from outside:
Dan is tasked to keep an eye on Rena after she knows of the SSSP. He freaks out, not just because she's an alien human, but because he doesn't talk to a lot of women except for those who work in the SSSP.
, featuring absurd slapstick such as Gyango sitting on Ultraman, Ultraman splashing water on Gyango and kicking the monster into the pool. Before that, there's also a human-sized Gyango terrorising the hotel staff the thief who stole the wishing stone was staying in.
