Funny / WALL•E

"You look gorgeous!"

• WALL•E starts with "Put On Your Sunday Clothes" from Hello, Dolly! intercut with gorgeous images of space, which fits in just fine with the music. Then we descend into Earth's atmosphere, overly cheery music and all.
• Basically everything that happens on Earth in the beginning of the movie is either heartwarming or hilarious.
• WALL•E struggles to sort a spork into his collection of utensils, suggesting that in the centuries he's been sorting trash, he's somehow never found a spork before. He eventually figures out to just put it between the spoon and fork pots.
• When WALL•E goes to clear the dust from his cooler, he notices a sandstorm approaching, then adorably panics and rapidly slams the dust free before retreating back into his home... And the heavy wind blows the dust back inside anyway.
• When WALL•E wakes up in the morning with low power, it's like he hasn't had his coffee yet. This weary, floppy stumbling is capped off when he comes to his hung-up treads and pathetically moves his wheels on them as if to put them on. Somehow, he gets it together enough to wheel out for a charge.
• WALL•E exploring the trash and finding trinkets.
  • When he finds a ring box containing a diamond ring—he tosses the ring away but keeps the box, being fascinated by the clicking sound that the box makes when he opens and closes it.
  • WALL•E finds a bra, and not knowing what it's for, places the cups over his eyes. He gives an mind-blown "whoa" that's hilarious especially because we have no idea what he has gotten from this (possibly fascinated by the way the world looks through the tiny holes in the lace).
  • WALL•E is so determined to get into a fridge that he has to laser the doors off.
• WALL•E chasing the dot of red light with the same body language as a cat or child chasing a laser pointer.
• When EVE's ship first lands and WALL•E tries to hide himself by simply putting a rock on his head and folding into a cube. Later, EVE tries another pathetically simple disguise by slamming a stack of towels on WALL•E's head and hoping he can blend into the shelves that way.
• "At laaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaast, my love— " [explosion] As well as WALL•E's reaction to it. You can't blame the guy, another inch and this would've been a much shorter movie.
• During the "La Vie en Rose" montage, EVE startles WALL•E in a shopping mall, and he bumps into some grocery carts at the top of an incline. They start to move towards him very quickly. He makes a run for it and tries in vain to open the door, but the grocery carts catch up to him and bury him. The door opens moments later. You can literally hear him saying: "No! No! Noooooooo!!!! [crash bang wallop]" EVE just floats off, shaking her head.
• EVE's little tantrum during her hunt for plant life after getting stuck to a ship's magnet. Resulting in another mini-nuke explosion and a domino rally with beached ships. And EVE is too busy feeling sorry for herself to notice or care.
• WALL•E's attempted nonchalant whistling as he sidles up to EVE and then "clears his throat" to get her attention. At least this time, it actually initiates a proper conversation (inasmuch as their limited vocabularies allow such a thing).
  • And the fact that he decides that a few seconds after EVE blows up an entire line of ships is a perfect time to shoot his shot.
    EVE: [her eyes flip down as though scrolling through a language menu]^note Respectively German, Japanese, and Swahili before settling on English. Weisung? [and again] 命令 (Meirei)? [and again] Ayimonkos? [and one final time] Directive?
    WALL•E: [finally understanding] Oh!
    EVE: Directive?
    WALL•E: [grabs a nearby pile of dirt and garbage and compacts it into a cube; as he spits it out of his midsection, it partially deflates] TA-DA!
    EVE: [appreciative] Ooh!
    WALL•E: Dir... ect... ive?
    EVE: [points to herself] Directive? [WALL•E nods; EVE turns away and recites a prerecorded, automated response] Classified.
    WALL•E: [disappointed] Oh.
• WALL•E bringing EVE to his home and showing off his collection is an extended exercise in hilarity. Highlights include:
  • EVE meets a Big Mouth Billy Bass. She is startled when the Billy Bass starts singing, and goes to blow it up. WALL•E stops her and begins to move her along...only for EVE to suddenly aim at the Billy Bass again as if she's still not sure it's not a threat.
  • EVE's experience with the eggbeater, where she goes from mild curiosity, to glee as she plays with it, to shock at breaking it, to innocently humming after hiding the evidence...all in the span of ten seconds.
  • EVE popping a piece of bubble wrap at machine gun speed.
  • EVE solving the Rubik's cube in the few seconds it takes WALL•E to retrieve his Betamax copy of Hello, Dolly! (which EVE's first instinct is to start unspooling, to WALL•E's alarm).
  • WALL•E's dance with the hubcap once he restores his Betamax tape and shows it off to EVE. Followed by EVE trying to imitate it, resulting in her bouncing up and down, SHAKING WALL•E's house. WALL•E hastily stops her and applauds, as though wordlessly saying: "Yes! That's good! Please don't do it again."
  • Having apparently not learned from EVE's first attempt to mimic the Hello, Dolly! dancers, WALL•E tries a pirouette; EVE starts pirouetting at lightning speed, and WALL•E's body language as she unwittingly drifts closer to him practically screams "This Is Gonna Suck" until she finally launches him into the wall, creating a WALL•E-shaped indentation. The funniest part comes when he goes to his collection of odds and ends for a replacement eye, hits the switch to rotate the shelves - and the ever trigger-happy EVE immediately trains her gun on the shelves.
• WALL•E's "dates" with EVE, as she's completely unresponsive to him. Specifically the bit where he pries her arm out from her body so he can hold her hand...only for her arm to snap back into place, trapping his fingers. He tries to pull his arm out and knocks his head against a long-dead lamppost, causing the bulb to drop out of its socket onto him.
• When EVE's ship comes back to pick her up and takes off, WALL•E clings to the outside as the ship rockets into space, breaking through the field of satellites and debris surrounding Earth. Poor WALL•E briefly catches several satellites with his body, most of which quickly float away into space but one tiny satellite (the famous Sputnik 1) clings to his eyes like a piece of paper, giving him a comical appearance.
• After EVE's ship passes by the Sun, WALL•E gets an instant solar recharge.
• That voice that says "FOREIGN CONTAMINANT." The best part of that is the realization that they all end up on a place made of "FOREIGN CONTAMINANT".
• 100% foreign contaminant!? "WHOA-WHOA-WHOA-WHOA-WHOA-WHOA-WHOA. Whoa." Love that M-O.
• M-O yanking himself loose from the electronic trail the cleaning robots are supposed to follow. There's nothing actually stopping any of them from leaving, but they're programmed to follow it... but there's dirt outside of it, damnit!
• WALL•E getting impatient with M-O's incessant cleaning, so he deliberately spreads some muck from his treads on M-O's face, much to M-O's outrage. M-O's scream of horror before frantically scrubbing his own face is the icing on the cake.
  • Even funnier when you see it more like he "booped" M-O's face with his foot.
  • Or it was less out of impatience and more Innocently Insensitive curiosity; "What would he do if the dirt was on himself?"
• When GO-4 shows up to scan the EVE probes that have returned from Earth, his epaulettes pop up slightly after each scan finishes. He scans one probe, then another, then WALL•E posing as a probe, then..."wha??" He goes back to the third "probe", but WALL•E has moved to a new hiding spot behind his EVE. GO-4 pops up his epaulettes again as if shrugging it off.
• M-O jumping off his guide line, just so he can get to do his job. He prepares for it like he will blow up if he leaves the line, but all he gets is a little buzzer. It's his little evil-like laugh that sells this moment.
• Mary arrives on the lido deck after WALL•E accidentally shuts off her viewscreen, allowing her to actually take in her surroundings for the first time in years. "I didn't know we had a pool!" Echoed when she shuts off John's viewscreen and they go to the pool together after watching WALL•E and EVE "dancing" in space.
• The fact that a robot made for the sole purpose of typing uses hunt-and-peck. The keyboard's also all 0s and 1s. And then WALL•E waves to him. The typing robot instinctively waves back... then, as the doors close, he waves to himself, as if to say, "Huh. Didn't know I could do that..."
  • When WALL•E and EVE are being sent to maintenance, the typing robot has become quite enthusiastic about waving and waves at WALL•E the whole time he sees WALL•E.
• Apparently, if you're the Captain of the Axiom, you can turn back the hands of time. You have to see it to believe it. It's 12:30pm? No excuse to skip morning announcements (after all, as the Captain grumbles to himself, it's the one thing he gets to do on the ship); just turn the clock back a few hours. Lunch dispensers switch to breakfast, umbrellas close with no midday sun to deflect, and monorails switch direction and head back the way they came.
• The Captain looking at the manual and calling it "Manuel." Or the fact he doesn't know what a book is. AUTO even looks put upon as he lifts the cover, and the Captain lifts another page with a fascinated "Would you look at that?"
  • When the computer fails to identify the plant, the captain can be heard telling AUTO "Maybe we missed a step". Identifying the plant was step one!
• This exchange between the Captain and the ship's computer: "Voice authorization required." "Uhhh..." "Accepted."
• When EVE is on the bridge and about to present the plant to the captain, WALL•E approaches her and taps her on the shoulder. She shoos him away...and then realizes he is there. You can almost hear her saying "Not now, WALL•E. Wait a minute, what are you doing here?!" EVE tries to say something to WALL•E (most likely telling him why he shouldn't be here). But he's so enamoured by her that all he hears is a vague "Blah, Blah, Blah."
  • Later on, when they can't find the plant, the captain comments that she must be defective. EVE is quite clearly displeased with this assessment.
• Look closely at the scene when the Captain learns for the first time that his ship has a jogging track; AUTO appears to shrug as if to say "This is news to me, too."
• WALL•E kicking and wiggling his feet and hands as he's being carried to a pen in the defective robots ward.
• The Fashion Robots. The one in the defective ward, which is filled with dangerously faulty robots, only suffers from extremely gaudy taste.
• The Steward bots saying "HALT." to the defective robots 2-3 seconds after they all stopped. Soon after, as WALL•E's cowering, one of the defective robots pushes him forward as if to say "A'right boy, show 'em who's boss!".
• The way the Steward robot says the word "wrong." Possibly not coincidentally, it sounds like a Speak & Spell gently but firmly telling a user they've misspelled a word.
  "WRONG."
• During a brief elevator ride to the escape pods, WALL•E eagerly points out a warning on the screen cautioning all on board about himself and EVE as if to say "Look! We're on TV!". The latter promptly shoots the screen. WALL•E quietly backs up, scrunching up.
• WALL•E, in the escape pod, patting the seat next to him as an invitation to EVE.
• WALL•E's exploits trying to get the pod to stop. The thing looks absolutely ridiculous as a result of all the buttons he pushed. The pod's control mast, communication satellite and the windscreen wipers are all activated, a parachute, flares and inflatable raft are deployed (with the parachute flying away), the pod's horn is sounded and it even pulls off a full barrel roll. All this in less than ten seconds.
• While John and Mary are splashing around the pool, a lifeguard robot tells them "No splashing, no diving." They respond by splashing it with water, and it promptly shorts out. There's something hilarious that comes with the irony that the lifeguard robot was not designed to be waterproof.
• Although there's a tinge of sadness and heartwarming in this scene, WALL•E tries to come up with ways to apologize to EVE, then eventually remarks sadly to himself "pathetic." It's rather funny that someone as sweet and innocent as WALL•E is savvy enough to know the word "pathetic."
• GO-4 takes the plant from the Captain, then gets him to back off by hissing at him. The fact that he’s also raised his claw things while he does it makes him seem an awful lot like a cat.
• Though the scene isn't too happy, when EVE wakes up in the trash, we see that the pests are computer mice. And their model name is REM-E!
• M-O is so determined to clean that, once he finds WALL•E in the trash, his first instinct is to charge, completely ignoring the fact that the WALL•As had just put them into the airlock. Not only does he get jammed in the door with the outer doors opening, EVE has to hold onto him so she and WALL•E don't get sucked out. Once the WALL•As close the outer doors, M-O seems to finally show a bit of regret for his determination, as the experience has left him shaking and wide-eyed in utter fright.
• In a deleted arc, EVE was the one to get initially shocked by AUTO, and WALL•E saves her from being sucked out of the ship. We also get interaction between WALL•E and the two WALL•As that's genuinely hilarious. After getting their attention, WALL•E uses his trash compacting ability in an attempt to get them to let go of EVE. One of them picks up the resultant cube, and their headlights suddenly take on a "D'awwwww" expression. Then one of them gently pats WALL•E's head as though to say, "No worries, kiddo; you'll get to our level someday."
• The bit where M-O and WALL•E first meet, including their odd handshake. WALL•E extends his hands and M-O cleans it very quickly while saying his name. The best part is that after he cleans the hand, he still shakes it.
• EVE points her gun at the Steward as it takes a picture of her to broadcast before locking it in a room. You can see that the Steward is shaking from the experience. There's also the implication that EVE was intentionally posing trying to send a warning to the rest of the ship that she'll decimate anyone who tries to get in her way.
• The Captain trying to send a message specifically to WALL•E and EVE. While he succeeds, he also manages to unintentionally send a message to everyone watching their screens. One passenger has this uneasy look on his face like he's wondering "Why is this guy telling me all this?"
• HAN-S going absolutely medieval on the Stewards, who all say "Halt!" before he smashes into them as even EVE winces while averting her eyes. Then, after he's done...
  Steward: (HAN-S is panting, standing on a pile of destroyed Stewards) Halt! (HAN-S promptly smashes it)
• The Captain tricking AUTO into thinking he has the plant: "You want it? Come and get it, blinky!" (Also counts as Moment of Awesome.)
• Even AUTO has his moments of funny. Whenever he says "NOT POSSIBLE" or "NO" is just hilarious. When WALL•E tries to hold up the scanning module, AUTO hits the "Retract" button. Then he hits it again. Then he hammers it so many times the button breaks. Also, the fact that he is being all frantic here, but does not show any emotion, makes it all the more hilarious.
  • Another funny thing about AUTO is that he's the only robot in the entire movie that is actually voiced by a robotic automated voice^note  MacInTalk's "Ralph" voice, mind you, every other robot in the movie either doesn't speak or is voiced by a human.
• GO-4 getting kicked through the window during the Captain's fight with AUTO—and landing just short of the pool. (Not that that would have helped.)
• As all of the passengers are sliding out of their chairs due to AUTO rolling the ship, one of them tries to help stop another by giving them something to grab onto. The only problem? That something is the straw of a cup. It works about as well as it sounds.
• Mary sees the Axiom's toddlers sliding helplessly down the angled floor...and swings her new paramour into position to catch them as she shouts, "John! Get ready to have some kids!"
• At the end when WALL•E "wakes up," he notices that he's holding hands with EVE. He looks back and forth between EVE and their hands in confusion, having no idea how to process this.
• M-O bursting out with a joyful cry of "WALL•E!", seeing them holding hands, and then hurriedly shooing the other robots behind a rock saying "go, go, go!" BRL-A tries to sneak back to watch before M-O pushes him away.

BURN-E

• BURN-E getting locked out of the ship and banging pathetically on the door.
• The times BURN-E sheepishly has to go back to his 'boss' to get a new light fixture after they keep getting lost or destroyed. Which culminates in BURN-E finally giving up and collapsing, and his 'boss' mechanically patting him on the head to comfort him.
  "THERE. THERE."

Meta

• In the trailer: "Seven hundred years into the future, mankind will leave our planet, leaving Earth's cleanup in the hands of one incredible machine." Cut to WALL•E smacking himself in the face with a paddle ball. Watch it here. Be warned though, Never Trust a Trailer.
• A series of small shorts were made for the movie, which consisted of WALL•E playing with random objects. Of note is the headphones one, where he clamps them on his body, opens his front so the music comes out of there, and then starts dancing.

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