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Funniest scenes?

posted 20 years ago by mrs_cutout
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What does everyone think were the best scenes? For me it was Halfdan the Black conducting business ("Look, I'm not an unreasonable man but this IS the second chance that I've given you...will you behead him please?"). That is classic John Cleese. I also like the Japanese slavemaster ("How I abominate your milk drinking and your failure to eat your lunch out of little boxes!"). That was probably the most Python-y scene. Also I love Ulf the Maddeningly Calm preaching to his son, Sven the Berserk ("I KNOW! I'VE HEARD IT ALL A THOUSAND TIIIIMES! AAAARRGH!").

[–] josephschlegel 19 years ago

I love the invisibility cloak scene is wonderfully funny. Also the island sinking, and the people being all calm like nothing is happening is very funny. Oh, and when he goes to blow the trumpet but has no mouthpiece... I crack up every time (yes, I've seen this more than once...many many times)

Worst scenes: the long ending sequence, and the children. Just horrible (I've only seen this a few times more than once...as I just can't stand it...this is a movie that would have been better with no ending. They should have done a Holy Grail type thing and cut it off with police or something).

[–] MelGrubb 18 years ago

Thorfinn: Are you all right?
Ivar: No, I'm not.
Thorfinn: You don't need to feel bad about being sea-sick, you know.
Ivar: How can you help feeling bad when you're sea-sick?
Throfinn: I mean many of the greatest sailors were.
Ivar: I know. I know.
Throfinn: Olaf Tryggvason used to throw up on every single voyage... the whole time... non-stop... puke... puke... puke.
Ivar: Look! I don't feel BAD about it. I just feel ILL.
Throfinn: He used to puke in his sleep.
Ivar: Bastard.

Funniest thing in the movie to me by far. The way Thorfinn is just so nonchalantly torturing poor Ivar, without having to even put any effort into it.

[–] rottenapplestastethebest 18 years ago

The Invisability Cloak... funniest scene ever.

STAY TROMATIZED!

[–] crais459 17 years ago

Erik, wearing the Cloak Invisible: Now you see me, now you don't!
Halfdan, looking completely confused: What?

Ulf, seeing his father: Dad!
Keital: How can you tell?
Ulf: I'll never forget him. The BASTARD! He drove me MAD! All his "you'll never be a Berserk if you lose your temper"...

[–] bpreley 17 years ago

The scene of Erik righting the men aboard Half dan the blacks ship, half dan says, haven't you seen anyone fight before. No they say, their usually too scared of us. Is one of my favs. Bearing in mind Erik though he was invisible at the time. But yes the puking scene is certainly one of the best.

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[–] persistenceofvision 17 years ago

HALFDAN THE BLACK: Throw down your weapons, or we kill the children and old people!
[Erik throws his weapon down, followed by everyone else]
HALFDAN THE BLACK: Now we kill them anyway.

[–] maggwe87 17 years ago

when the japanese slave-master says: "your big-breasted women give me no pleasure with their cooked fish". Everything that guy say is funny

[–] vance_mccarthy 17 years ago

Heigal: Have you done this before?
Erik: We've pillaged up and down the coast
Heigal: What about the raping?

I don't know what is wrong with the world - but I know how to fix it.

[–] trifilaki_greece 17 years ago

When Thorfen feels fear for the first time faced with Halfdan's ship
Or when the village women don't want the blacksmith to leave (can't say I blame them)

[–] Sofistali 12 years ago

That whole "rape" scene cracks me up. Especially when he says "Scream!" and she opens her mouth and says "Ahh."

[–] weez82 17 years ago

"Should the Sun do that?"

End of story.

[–] rainofwalrus 16 years ago

"lets do the one that goes TumTumTumTeeTumTum. [Awwwww!]"

"[Maybe none will return!] Oh, well that's much more sensible than just Thorfin getting killed. Shall I go and pack now?"

launching tiresome tirades against logic since 2003

[–] jemfin 15 years ago

'Ooh, scary, scary, don't we look mean?!'

[–] NewYorkGrove 15 years ago

Oh Let's see I love the first seen when Erik invades the house and he ends up falling in w/ and the part where she asks him if HE LIKES women and he says OF COURSE

next the invisiable cloak and his taunting now you see me now you don't and then how he has to reasign every seat on the boat

and the muiscal seen tom tee tom tom, Erik was deffinately very pleasent about the whole mess and then tried to cheer them up

[–] Dream_Demon 15 years ago

Both parts with the invisibility cloak (with Aud's father and Halfdan's ship).

Welcome to my Nightmare- Freddy Krueger

[–] Can_a_bitch_get_a_donut 15 years ago

5 year old thread, but what the hell.

My favorite part was Erik futiley rearranging everybody's seating arrangements on the boat to make them all happy.
Then he's informed he has all the big ones on one side, so he must rearrange them again.
Then Snorri tells him he has all the men with beards on one side and all the mustaches on the other, followed by several moments while Erik and everybody look around to check.

"That doesn't matter!"

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\o/ STEVE HOLT!

[–] Arenjee 14 years ago

When the Christian priest offers to convert them when they thought they were going to drown. Then when they finally succumb, then they ask 'what do we have to do?'and he enthusiastically replies 'I simply immerse you in water...'they did't let him finish.

[–] doctorc1970 14 years ago

No love for Sven the Berserk? When he starts foaming at the mouth..... laugh everytime....

[–] ThatDoesntMatter 14 years ago

As you can tell from my nick, I wholeheartedly agree!!!!!!!:-)))))))))))

But all the others quoted here as well:

Now you see me, now you don´t!!

Scary, scary, don´t we look mean!

Should the sun do that?

Go away...!

I don´t want me to go either!

And don´t forget to wash, you know, all over!

Thanks for saving me from a fate worse than death!

Does anyone know any good drowning songs?

But then we´ll have no-one to do the things he does for us...:-)