Funny / Andor

Episode 1: Kassa

• We're introduced to B2EMO wandering around Ferrix when some hounds pass the droid by. Not taking any chances, Bee promptly shuts itself off so that the hounds don't suspect anything. Turns out that worked a lot better than expected, because one of the hounds starts pissing on Bee as if it were a fire hydrant! Cue Bee shocking the hound for its troubles.
• Karn is introduced giving a crisp and professional report to his superior, Chief Inspector Hyne, who clearly could not care less about the two assholes Cassian killed, despite them being his own officers. Within thirty seconds, it's clear that Karn is the only person on the planet who is actually loyal to the company they all work for.
  Hyne: ...have you modified your uniform?
  Karn: Perhaps, slightly... pockets, piping and some light... tailoring.
• Hyne insisting the case get buried. His reasons? The officers were in a brothel, which aren't supposed to exist, the expensive one the officers shouldn't be able to afford, drinking booze that's supposed to be illegal, and were on duty on top of it all. It's hilarious how all these unseemly things are happening with the full awareness of the corporate security who are supposed to stop it, and even funnier that almost everyone's response is a "Well, what can you do?" shrug.
  • The icing on the cake is how he manages to surmise exactly how and why the incident happened at all: two corrupt officers harassed "a human with dark features" as described in the report and promptly ended up dead because they "chose the wrong person to annoy".
• Because of all this, Karn should come off as the one cop interested in actually doing his job, but instead looks like a pedantic, uptight twit who can't function in anything less than a perfectly ordered world.
• Cassian attempts to get B2EMO to help him with an alibi for his trip to Morlana One. Turns out the droid isn't in the best shape anymore and has some trouble with his instructions.
  Cassian: I know it takes a lot of energy, but can you make a lie for me?
  B2EMO: I can lie. I have adequate power reserves.
  Cassian: Don't tell anybody you saw me. Don't tell anybody you know where I am.
  B2EMO: (Beat) That's two lies.
• Cassian gets confronted by one of his creditors who's backed up by a big, intimidating alien named Vetch. Then it turns out Cassian and Vetch are friends, and Vetch reveals that he was just paid to stand there. Cassian quips to Vetch that he should keep doing that, leaving his creditor to look up at Vetch, who just says, "What?"

Episode 2: That Would Be Me

• Mosk's line about "pockets of fomenting" is somewhat chuckle-worthy, especially given the complete conviction with which he says it.
• Syril Karn's failed attempt at a Rousing Speech to the mostly bored, complacent corporate police as they go to arrest Cassian. Sergeant Mosk has to prod them into applauding him, and the camera focuses specifically on one corpo trooper who is giving him an obviously sarcastic Slow Clap. Mosk himself then tells Karn that it was an inspiring speech.
• When Maarva learns that the cops put out a BOLO for a Kenari male, she realizes they're looking for Cassian and starts to essentially slut-shame her son and ask him if he told "one of his women", then proceeds to list them out and state those are only the ones whose names she knows while Cassian ineffectually tries to get her to stop.
• The spaceport on Ferrix employs a droid whose sole purpose is to just be a self-driving set of stairs so passengers can exit the transport, meaning its purpose is literally to be stepped on. And since this is Star Wars, after all, it's probably sentient.

Episode 3: Reckoning

• When the corpos are marching through the city, everyone they pass starts banging on something metal. Mosk dismisses it as an intimidation tactic and advises Karn to ignore it. While he was right, they both miss the even more obvious purpose: To warn people they're coming. Indeed, it gives Cassian and Rael enough time to set a trap and escape.
• Cassian calls B2EMO to remind him of something... right when the corpos are trashing the place. His mom sighs in a way that screams "you had to call now?"
• Cassian pulls a *Click* Hello on Karn, and Karn finally realizes how completely outmatched he is. And then Rael makes it clear that he considers Cassian a soft-hearted idiot, making it even more clear how out of his depth Karn is.
  Rael: Kill him.
  Karn: [flinches]
  Cassian: [ignoring Rael] How many are you?
  Rael: I could kill him.
• We see Cassian's salvager friend walking away from the corpo shuttle, implying he sabotaged it. When the rookie tries to fly off, we find out how: He tied the shuttle to a heavy piece of salvage. That's it. In the high-tech world of Star Wars, it's hilariously simple. The rookie tries to fly with the thing attached, and promptly crashes.
• After watching one of the troop transports fatally crash, Linus Mosk asks on the radio if Andor was onboard it. When he gets an inconclusive answer, Mosk realizes that his men are under siege, and blesses us with the first real utterance of the word "shit" in Star Wars.
  Mosk: Was that them?
  Soldier 2: (On the radio) I don't know. I can't tell from here.
  Mosk: Well, who else could it be?
  Soldier 2: But that would put them behind us.
  Mosk: (Grabs his radio nervously) Shit! We're under siege.

Episode 4: Aldhani

• After two episodes of Luthen as this grizzled, dour Rebel, it is entertaining to see him completely flip his personality to adopt this foppish, flamboyant and smiling persona to blend in on Coruscant. Of particular note is noticing how his phony smile instantly fades away into his trademark scowl whenever he's alone.
• While Blevin is chewing out Hyne, Karn and Mosk for their failure on Ferrix, Mosk raises his hand to try ask a question like if they're at kindergarten.
  Blevin: Seriously?
• Pre-Mor Security is so incompetent that they misspelled "Ferrix" in their report.
• It can be funny in a sort of sad way to see Karn traveling home with his tail between his legs, going through public transportation with his suitcases, and shamefully having to move back in with his mother, who then promptly slaps him in front of her neighbor.
• When Cassian's left on Luthen's ship alone, he eyes the ship's controls like he's thinking about hijacking it, only for the ship's integrated droid to pipe up and ask him if there's anything it can help him with. He silently looks away.
• When Vel is explaining their plan, Nemik insists he move the elaborate models of the dam and surrounding valley on the table because the glue is fragile.
• The mere fact that Mon Mothma's husband describes Sly Moore as "fun".

Episode 5: The Axe Forgets

• Nemik goes on a long political rant about the Empire and shows off the manifesto he's writing to a mostly bored Cassian.
• Vel and Taramyn go over the escape plans with Cassian and he finds that after months of planning this heist, they still don't know how to actually launch their getaway craft and get themselves out. His expression shifts from confusion to disbelief, in a way that anyone who has been stuck in a school group project with the slackers will know, and he quickly insists on piloting the thing himself "if it's [his] ass on the line", even letting Vel take credit for the change of plans if she wants. No wonder Luthen was concerned about them...
• In a moment of pure Cringe Comedy, one of the Imperial officers under Gorn's command thinks it's a good idea to make a racist joke about Aldhani people smelling bad right to Gorn's face, apparently unaware that his boss used to be in love with an Aldhani woman. Gorn isn't in the mood to yell so he settles for just shooting the man a nasty look and telling him not to let Gorn catch him slacking off again.
• Early in the episode, Mon Mothma's jerkass husband insists stridently that he knows the names of his drivers. Towards the end of the episode, when he and his wife are heading to a formal event, he has to ask her what the name of their driver is.

Episode 6: The Eye

• Our first introduction to Imperial Commandant Jayhold Beehaz is him struggling to close his belt, which he insists is because the belt shrank in the planet's climate, not because he's put on some weight. Said commandant later dies of a heart attack in the middle of the heist, implicitly because of being so out of shape. "Fat and satisfied," indeed.
  • Beehaz is later already overwhelmed from the hard, rapid manual labor of loading the credits. But then he discovers Gorn is part of the rebels and is in fact spearheading the operation, and has done so completely under his nose. He is in complete shock at the betrayal, and it's implied that the shock also played a part in his fatal heart attack.
  • When Beehaz demands his wife's attention, she says she's busy helping their son get dressed. He snaps at her that he's 12 and can dress himself, and once again demands she come and help him get dressed instead.
• The Aldhani elder's greeting to Gorn is "May The Eye stay open long enough to find some good within you." Later, the Elder greets the higher-ranking Imperials with a veiled threat, Gorn "translates" this into Basic, and the elder, betraying that he understands Basic, does a double-take.
  Elder: Tell him our ghosts have strong hands and long memories.
  Gorn: He says, 'May the Eye find the good in all of us.'
  Elder: (looks at Gorn like 'dafuq? That's not what I said.')
• The Imperial skeleton crew who are minding the base inside while the bulk of their forces are watching the Eye are playing sabaac, like a bunch of students who are being allowed to play video games as a treat during schooltime. When Beehaz is brought into the hangar, he dramatically announces that it is not an inspection, but a robbery.

Episode 7: Announcement

• Blevin clearly thinks he's outed Meero's maverick antics and has her dead to rights at the ISB meeting, only to immediately and visibly eat shit when Major Partagaz instead promotes Meero to the Morlana sector and boots Blevin from it.
  • Partagaz seems to know that Blevin's plan was going to backfire as he gives him a couple of very obvious off-ramps for him to pull back and save face.
• In a darkly humorous bit, when Cassian is accosted by a Shoretrooper on Niamos, the trooper leaves a KX security droid to "hang onto" Cassian, at which point Cassian's face visibly falls and he gives up on trying to talk his way out with the trooper. The droid somewhat innocently says "He said 'hang'?", at which point Cassian starts trying to reason with it and begs it not to, clearly knowing what's going to happen next, before it hoists Cassian up off the ground by his neck and pins him against a wall.
  Cassian: (strangled, trying to talk to the Shore Trooper) Tell. . . him. . . you. . . meant. . . watch. . .
• In a moment of Mood Whiplash, the show cuts from Cassian being unfairly imprisoned for six years for a crime that he didn't even commit, to Syril Karn at his new job - which is a Soul-Crushing Desk Job.
  • Syril spills his entire tragic backstory to his new supervisor, pontificates about the importance of law, complains about his corrupt superiors, and vows to clear his name as if he's the hero in a Cowboy Cop movie... right before he's dumped in one of millions of identical cubicles.
• The beach resort planet Niamos is introduced with an upbeat synthwave track, sounding more like something out of Miami Vice or Daft Punk than the series's usual grand orchestral themes. What's more, the theme makes a return with a club remix... over the credits, right after witnessing Cassian's dreams crushed as he is thrown in prison.
• There's something darkly humorous about Cassian escaping notice for involvement in a large-scale crime against the Empire only to get nicked and chucked into prison simply for walking down the street near where something shady was happening..............and said nicking comes with a sentence newly extended to six years due to a system-wide crackdown caused by said large-scale crime.

Episode 8: Narkina 5

• Dedra and the ISB step up their manhunt for Cassian big-time, all the while Cassian is already detained by the Empire for a completely different reason! Ironically, Imperial prison, and its evidently slapdash booking procedures where they don't even take basic measures to verify inmates' identities, might be the safest place in the entire galaxy for Cassian to be right now.
• During the meeting between the ISB officers, Dedra is giving her report to Colonel Yularen. There's a prolonged Beat when she stops speaking and Yularen, without even looking up from his datapad, replies "I'm listening." in the most bored tone imaginable.
• How does Syril get the Empire's attention? File report after report accusing Cassian of whatever crime he can think of.
  Dedra: In the past month, you've filed five false reports on Cassian Andor.
  Syril: ...six.
  Dedra: I wasn't counting the one from this morning.
• Luthen and Saw both playing at accusing each other for pulling off the Aldhani job.

Episode 9: Nobody's Listening!

• Syril cuts off his mom's nagging at breakfast by loudly slurping the blue milk out of his bowl of cereal.
  • In the same scene, Syril complaining about his mother's snooping with the most incriminatingly Freudian phrasing possible.
  Syril: You've been in my private box. I have ways of knowing.
• Mon Mothma has Vel over for supper, during which Perrin makes a few "unmarried spinster" jokes at Vel's expense. Mon flashes a subtle smirk at his remarks, with the assumption that she's very much aware Vel prefers women. The best part is that it's unclear how public Vel is about her preferences. Perrin is so oblivious that it's entirely possible he just never noticed a well-known fact about his wife's favorite cousin.

Episode 10: One Way Out

• When Kino and Andor demand that the prison supervisor "turn it off" (meaning the electric floor), he tries to stall by saying that could mean "so many things." Kino immediately shoots one of his two assistants. The other one says he'll turn it off.
• The sight of the once high-and-mighty Narkina 5 wardens cowering on the floor in a random room as thousands of now freed prisoners swarm past just outside the door is pure schadenfreude.
• Dramatic Irony strikes again; despite their exhaustive search for Cassian, the ISB never found out he was Right Under Their Noses the whole time, and he escapes Narkina 5 before they even learn the truth.

Episode 11: Daughter of Ferrix

• Cassian and Melshi spot a ship with the owners outside of it; they figure if they run, they can get in and take off before the owners run back. They take off running... and the owners just watch in bemusement. Cue some mines catching the pair in webbing.
  • Said owners then make a big performance out of how much the Empire is willing to pay them if they turn in the two escaped prisoners..........then release them and offer a way offplanet just to stick it to the Empire. Not for massacring their people, not for enslaving and wrecking their planet, but for the cardinal sin of............killing all the "squigglies" (fish) that they catch for a living. It merits a chuckle on realizing that Rogue One gained two of its most crucial members and the Empire was ultimately brought down because two stereotypically hick alien fishermen were pissed off at losing all their fish.
• Luthen's ship gets tractor-beamed by a patrolling Imperial cruiser, forcing him to use the Fondor Haulcraft's badass array of Hidden Weapons to smash the beam emitter and swat aside a TIE detachment. The amusing part is the reaction of the Imperial captain, who is left goggling in astonishment as Luthen escapes, and starts slowly shaking his head as the scene fades out.
• The phone conversation between Syril and Sergeant Mosk. Mosk calls Syril late from his new factory workplace to inform him about Maarva's upcoming funeral and the possibility of Cassian being there, but despite noting that "brevity is encouraged", he keeps going off on unnecessary tangents, and the two of them can barely hear each other due to the constant noise of heavy machinery in the background, to Syril's increasing frustration.
  Syril: So, are you saying he's there?
  Mosk: No! I'm on Morlana!
  Syril: Where is Andor?
• A minor one; Saw demands to know if his every action was all according to Luthen's plan. Luthen flatly says "I don't know what you'll do." One gets the impression that he's a little exasperated with Saw's Wild Card nature at this point.
• Luthen tells Saw that he has eyes and ears everywhere, which Saw incorrectly interprets as a threat from Luthen that he has a spy in the Partisans. Rather than correct Saw, however, Luthen instead lies and says it is Benthic "Two Tubes" - who is astounded and outraged by the accusation.

Episode 12: Rix Road

• Partagaz tells Dedra that the ISB has had to work hard to "wipe the taste of Aldhani from the Emperor's mouth." Millions of credits and many lives lost, and the ISB's top priority is to satisfy its tyrannical, petty ruler. Partagaz all but says he knows it's ridiculous but his hands are tied.
  • In a Black Comedy sort of foreshadowing, the ISB considers its' mission accomplished thanks to the complete wipeout of Kreegyr's forces when both Dedra and Partagaz agree they regret no prisoners being taken for interrogation. This sort of bullheaded bloodlust championed by Palpatine and Tarkin will culminate in the destruction of Alderaan which will be paid back with their lives and the loss of the galaxy's support.
• While on the shuttle to Ferrix, Syril and Mosk try to "sneakily" swap hats as if it'll help change their appearance.
• It's a pretty awesome moment as well, but there's something rather amusing about the Time Grappler barely even pausing his anvil strikes to kick an unfortunate Storm Trooper off his tower.
• After all she's done, Dedra getting pelted in the head with a brick and scrabbling in the dirt as the Ferrixians dogpile her is immensely satisfying.
• In a sort of off-beat way, it's both funny and satisfying to see Brasso clock an Imperial soldier over the head with Maarva's funeral stone; knowing her rebel attitude, she'd likely completely approve of her remains being used in such a manner.
• Cassian gives explicit instructions for the shuttle escaping Ferrix to stay low to the ground until they reached the sea before ascending to orbit to avoid detection, yet when they lift-off they immediately fly off into orbit, completely ignoring Cassian's instructions.
• They had to go in and do a second audio record of Maarva's speech because Disney told them to get rid of "Fuck the Empire!", but you can still see that's what she said in the video recording.