Funny / An Alchemist Abroad

• In chapter 1, after saving Sprig from becoming robot parts, Marcy works on the factory's main computer, describing what she's working on as "... the most important achievement of my life thus far." That achievement?
  Marcy: I got Boom to run on this thing!
• In chapter 4, Sasha - captured by Grime and brought to the Eastern Toad Tower - tries to convince Beatrix who she is by listing her accomplishments, only to stop short at a horrifying realization:
  Sasha: Oh god, I sound like Yunan.
• In chapter 5, when they're captured by pirates, Sprig and Polly are given the choice to swim to shore and leave Marcy behind (since she can't swim very well), or join the crew. Sprig, of course, refuses to abandon Marcy. Polly's response?
  Polly: Of course I wanna be a pirate!
  • In that same scene, while the pirate captain Dia Mond tries to figure out what job to give Polly, she casually chimes in with this:
    Polly: I am willing to enact incredible violence.
• In chapter 13, Marcy and Polly successfully test the latter's wind-potion-powered blimp at Newtopia University when they're distracted by Professor Herringbone. After a short conversation, Herringbone points out that the blimp had somehow caught on fire, and they watch it crash down into a group of students.
  Polly: I think this is a good time to mention that Marcy was the one who really executed on my designs...
  • Later in the chapter, while exploring the ruins under Newtopia University, Marcy and Polly come across a room with mostly dilapidated equipment - and a big red button. The two talk about how fortunate it was Sprig wasn't there, as he would've pressed it without a thought, and that they were too smart to press a button with an unknown function. After a brief silence, they both hit the button at the same time.
• In this AU, Sasha came up with the scare-dares and all-nighters for sleepovers because Anne's snoring kept her up all night.
• Chapter 19 covers the events of "The Ballad of Hopediah Plantar", including the obvious western motif - something that annoys Sasha to no end.
  • In the same chapter, Marcy discovers the little boy Bailey had become possessed when he flubbed a Dark Arts spell. She performs a successful exorcism - by slapping him repeatedly with his dad's glove.
  • We also get this exchange:
    Gup: These two giant rats-
    Marcy: Humans. We're called humans.
    Gup: Sorry. These human rats...
• In chapter 23, Hop Pop, Sprig, Polly, and Frobo hear what sounds like Marcy's voice coming from outside their house, but when they look out the window, they could only see a bird-shaped shadow with some figures riding on its back. How do they confirm it really is Marcy? They see one of the figures stumble trying to dismount the bird, falling flat on their face.
• In chapter 25, Anne, Sasha, and Marcy wake up cuddled together on the same sleeping mat, unclothed. Anne and Sasha take this is awkward stride. Marcy, on the other hand, panics when she realizes she spent the night in-between her ex-girlfriend^note Whom she still has feelings for and her best friend^note Whom she's developed feelings for. The whole thing is as cute as it is funny.
  • The skull. It makes an intimidating entrance, rising from a hot spring in the middle of a cave full of skeletons, announcing in a booming voice that the girls are trespassing and will be killed unless they prove themselves... Until it starts to malfunction. In a scene that could've come from the show, the skull behaves like a stereotypical animatronic from a children's restaurant: its mouth moving out of sync with what it says; its message corrupted with whole sections missing; and it keeps interpreting the girls's honest questions and statements as lies. The whole interaction - before things get dramatic - is capped off with this exchange:
  Anne: I'm a lesbian!
  Skull: LIE!