Fullmetal Alchemist Funny Scenes

Fullmetal Alchemist Funny Scenes

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 Manga/Brotherhood 

• Isaac McDougal, the Freezing Alchemist, finds Ed and Al in the middle of his escape. He dramatically points out all the signs showing he's in the presence of the Fullmetal Alchemist, then the title card shows up. And then...
  Isaac: (pointing to Al) So it's not you?
  Al: (awkwardly) Oh... um... no. I'm his younger brother, Alphonse.
  Isaac: But he's a runt!
  Ed: OH YEAH, CAN A RUNT DO THIS?! (uses alchemy to trap Isaac)
  Isaac: I've heard the stories but still I'd never imagine this. The Fullmetal Alchemist is just a little kid!
  Ed: DON'T CALL ME LITTLE!!! (uses alchemy again to send Isaac flying)
  Al: You know, brother, I don't think he was really talking about your height just now.
  Ed: WELL EVEN IF HE WASN'T, HE STILL PISSED ME OFF!
• When Roy gets a face full of water from McDougal in the same episode, his expression is priceless.

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• A hilarious one is how Cornello did not realize he was publicly confessing his plans to all of Liore until Ed showed the microphone on.
  • Even before that, he goes into a rant on how he'll use his church to raise an army to conquer the country with...and Ed's all "Yeah, sure, whatever. Moving on..."
  • Also the citizens' reactions, including one of his followers facepalming and the coffee guy frozen pouring a river of coffee.
• After Cornello's Humiliation Conga he runs into Lust and Gluttony who are casually sitting around his office. Gluttony, of course, asks if he can eat Cornello but Lust tells him no saying that he'll get a stomach ache from eating someone like him. 
  After Lust kills Cornello she wonders what they will do about Liore and Gluttony proceeds to eat Cornello's corpse while she is distracted. Lust's chiding "Hey, I thought I told you not to eat that" is hilariously dark since it comes off like a mother scolding her naughty child.
  Ed and Pinako Volleying Insults about how short they both are.
• [Ed doesn't want to drink his milk]
  Pinako: Come on, Ed, drink your milk.
  Ed: No. I hate it.
  Pinako: If you don't drink it, you'll stay short forever.
  Ed: [Cross-Popping Veins] You mean like you, ya sawed-off old hag?!
  Pinako: [Cross-Popping Veins] What was that, you little half-pint midget?!
  Ed: SHRUNK-DOWN MINI-WITCH!
  Pinako: MICRO-PEEWEE!
  Ed: BABY ANT BABY!
  Pinako: SUBATOMIC SHRIMP!
  • Then there's Al and Winry, both with an expression of "Here We Go Again!".
• Ed meeting the Truth for the first time:
  Truth: Hello.
  Ed: Who are you?
  Truth: (throws its arms up into the air out of joy) Oh, I'm so glad you asked!
• Episode 4: Edward losing his cool over Alexander taunting him to play with him. More significant in the dub, which is made funnier by Vic Mignogna's terrific voice acting. Word for word, Edward yells this at the retreating dog: "I WILL NOT LOSE THIS TIME! I, EDWARD ELRIC, WILL USE MY CONSIDERABLE POWERS TO VANQUISH YOU! YOU MANGY MUTT!". Alexander's expression as he runs away is priceless, as well.
• During chapter 6 of the manga Envy arrives for the first time disguised, as the recently dead Cornello, where he proceeds to talk about the Homunculus' plans. Lust asks Envy to switch into their normal form, since she finds Envy's current body disgusting, and this exchange occurs:
  Envy: Come on, I'm just setting the mood, that's all. But if I'm going to change shape anyway... why should I be a crusty old geezer... (Envy proceeds to transform back into their preferred form) ... when I can be young and cute?
  Lust: (Laughing) Even though on the inside your the most ruthless of all of us!
  Envy: [Cross-Popping Veins] Are you trying to pick a fight, Lust?
• In the next scene, Brother Cray, one of Cornello's followers, having witnessed Envy's transformation, freaks out and calls them a monster. Envy replies that they are so insulted with some pretty hilarious side eye. Gluttony then asks if he can eat the new arrival. There's a beat panel with Gluttony smiling hungrily... and in the next scene Envy and Lust are talking about the Scar situation while Gluttony can be heard eating in the background.
• Not only do Envy and Lust carry on like nothing's happening, Lust's only reaction when Gluttony's done eating is to tell him to clean up his face. Once again, it comes off as her treating him like her kid, and the fact that everyone's so used to this is hilarious in a dark way.

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• Episode 5: Ed having met Scar for the first time and running for his life "What's this about?! Making enemies is something I've never... really avoided... but that's no reason for someone to try and kill me!" One translation went like this: "I haven't done anything bad! (Beat) Okay maybe I did, BUT not enough to get killed over!"
  • When Mustang tries to confront Scar (while it's raining), he produces no fire. His Oh, Crap! face is a "blink and you'll miss it" gem all by itself. But the real beauty comes when Hawkeye knocks him on his ass and fires at Scar to make him back off. Mustang gets mad at her, but she reminds him of his Weaksauce Weakness.
  Hawkeye: You know as well as I do, you're useless on rainy days! Please stay back!
  (Cue Mustang getting hit in the head by a "Useless" sign!)
  Havoc: Oh, yeah, it's kinda hard to get a spark when it's raining, huh?
• During one of Armstrong's (in)famous shirtless scenes:
  Riza: Did he have to strip?
  Havoc: Are you surprised? He's clearly insane.
  • Even better, if you look closely when Armstrong's shirt comes off the usually stonefaced Scar is seen gaping in the distance, almost like he's thinking to himself "what the hell is this lunatic doing?!"
• At the end of Episode 5 after Scar's bailed, Ed runs over to see if Al's ok. Unexpectedly, Al punches Ed, twice, and starts giving a massive What the Hell, Hero? speech to Ed about putting himself in harm's way. And then his surviving arm falls off.
  Alphonse: OH, GREAT! NOW MY ARM'S FALLEN OFF BECAUSE MY BROTHER'S A BIG FAT IDIOT!
  • Then Maes Hughes has this to say about the altercation between Ed and Al:
  Hughes: Good grief. I've stumbled into an extra-special kind of freak show, huh?
• Episode 6. Armstrong, the Elrics and Dr. Marcoh's first encounter. (Before it went serious, that is.)
  Armstrong: WOULD YOU PLEASE CALM DOWN?! (throws a huge box at his head. Not just ANY box, it's the one where Al is stored in.)
  • In regards to Al, seeing him tucked into that box and in the storage wagon (surrounded by dozens of sheep) was funny as hell.
  • What does it for this is the exchange that immediately follows:
    Armstrong: I thought he might get lonely.
    Ed: MY BROTHER ISN'T SOME KIND OF FARM ANIMAL!
  • In the first anime (and manga), Ed is complaining about being treated like a child by Armstrong, looks to Al support...but Al is gushing about how, for the first time since he became armor, someone is treating him like a child. And then he gets put into the cargo box.
    Al: This is the first time someone's treated me like luggage since I became armor...
  • Armstrong and the Elrics go to the Rockbell household. Hilarity Ensues. Especially when Pinako tells Armstrong about the Elric's backstory, and when Ed returns from checking on Trisha's grave he hugs him in Manly Tears.
• Episode 7 has Ed and Al sneaking into Laboratory 5. They find an entrance by having Ed sneak in through the vents.
  Ed: Damn. It's even tighter in here than I thought. I couldn't through this far if I was regular-sized... Lucky I've got a small body.
  (Beat)
  Ed: OH, NOOOO!!! I JUST CALLED MYSELF A TINY LITTLE PIPSQUEAK!!!
• When Ross and Brosh realize Ed and Al escaped, they frantically chase after them because, if they don't, Major Armstrong will take off his shirt and yell at them.
• Episode 8, when Ed gets ready to fight Lust and Envy after his fight with Slicer. Then his automail arm fails from damage to the elbow joint.
  Lust: Technical difficulties?
  • Envy also takes advantage of the fact that Ed can't transmute to land a cheap shot on him.
    Envy: Lucky me! (knees Ed in the gut)
• Al's confrontation with Barry the Chopper:
  Barry: Fine! But even if you don't know who I am, shouldn't you be at least a little scared [at his Animated Armor]? Shouldn't you be going "Aaaaah!" or "What happened to your body?!" or something!
  [Al silently removes his head]
  Barry: AAAAAH! WHAT HAPPENED TO YOUR BODY, FREAK?!
  Al: Hey, now that's impolite!
• After Ross slaps Ed for being so reckless in the previous episode, she and Brosh try to apologize for their "abusive words and conduct":
  Ross: My punishment for slapping you?
  Ed: Nothing. I had it coming.
  [Ross and Brosh nearly pass out in relief]
  Ed: What's got you two so scared of me?
  Ross: State certified Alchemists carry a military rank equivalent to that of a Major.
  Ed: Don't worry about it. I didn't get my certification so people would kiss up to me. You don't have to talk to me like I'm a high-ranking officer.
  Ross: Really? Oh.
  Brosh: Huh. I guess we were scared of the brat for nothing.
  Ed: [grumbling angrily] They adjust quickly.
  • Followed by Ed asking about Al's whereabouts. Brosh tells him that he gave Al a Dope Slap of his own. Except he forgot that Al is a suit of armor, showing a big red, throbbing hand.
• In the manga, Ed calls Winry to get his automail repaired after a run-in with the Homunculi and Brosh asks him if he's calling his girlfriend. Ed gets so incensed by this proposition that his yelling reopens his wounds. "WHAT GIRLFRIEND!!!!" There a reason that scene is the trope image.
  • Just as funny in the English Dub...
  Denny: Ah, was that your girlfriend?
  Ed: MY GIRLFRIEND?!? NO WAY!!!
• In a manga-only scene, when Winry arrives after the Fifth Lab events to fix Ed's arm due to her forgetting a key piece, she discovers to her shock that Ed is now covered head to toe in bandages. It turns out in between him calling her and her arrival Armstrong discovered what happened and gave him another one of his trademark bearhugs after he was relieved to learn that Ed was alive, which wound up making Ed's injuries worse!
• This particular exchange when Ed refuses to drink milk.
  Winry: You didn't drink your milk.
  Ed [grumbling]: Why should I? I hate it.
  Winry: YOU'RE GOING TO BE SMALL AND STUNTED FOREVER IF YOU KEEP USING THAT STUPID EXCUSE!
  Ed: SHUT UP! I DON'T HAVE TO DRINK IT IF I DON'T WANNA!
  • Made even funnier when Armstrong intervenes...
  Armstrong: (rids himself of his shirt) You sound like a SPOILED LITTLE BRAT, Edward Elric! (manly flex!)

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• In Episode 9, we get this great line from Hughes.
  Hughes: Yo, Ed m'boy! Is it true you invited a pretty blonde girl into your room to service you?"
  • And after Ed tries to correct him...
  Hughes: Oh, I see. So you seduced your mechanic, have you?
  Ed: NOOOO!!! THAT ISN'T WHAT I SAID AT ALL! WERE YOU EVEN LISTENING TO ME?!
  • Then he basically kidnaps Winry into his daughter's birthday party.
  • Minutes later, poor Winry witnesses Hughes pulling a gun on a few of his daughter Elicia's male friends (who are only three years old)!
  Hughes: Listen up, boys. You try anything funny with my daughter, and you will answer to ME.
  Winry: Your actions speak too loudly!
• When the Elrics first met Izumi, she was bedridden after vomiting blood, making small talk with the villagers. Then the boys called Izumi "Granny" and she threw the bed she was laying in at them.
  • "I'M A HOUSEWIFE!!"
  • Then when she threatened one of the thugs outside the bar:
  Izumi: If you don't tell me where they are...
  Thug: So? What happens if I don't tell you?!
  Izumi: I'll give you this. (pukes blood on his face)
  Thug: NO YEEAKH UGH AAAH!!!!
  • Then when a crocodile chimera appears, he said something about "I love women! I got you now, little girl!" Then her HUGE husband Sig appears, and shows him who the real monster was.
  Sig: HOW DARE YOU MESS WITH MY WOMAN!! TAKE THIS!!!
  Izumi: Oh dear, don't get too rough with him....
• During the flashback to Roy and Riza scouting out the Elric brothers in the manga, Roy is talking to the carriage driver about how the desperate need for alchemists is what's drawn him out to the countryside. The driver responds that "those Elric kids will be thrilled" to hear that they good enough to draw out a State Alchemist. This statement confuses Roy... because the Elrics are listed as being about 30 years old on the Military's report. A clerical screw-up is directly responsible for Ed becoming a State Alchemist.
• The best part is that with so many things that happen later in the series being revealed as part of either Van Hoenheim's or Father's Long Game, this could have easily been retconned as one of their doings. It's never touched on again in the entire series. Literally everything that happens, from Ed becoming a State Alchemist to figuring out The Conspiracy to saving the entire world, is the result of some pencil pusher in Central messing up the Elric's ages on a completely mundane government report.
• Alternately, one could assume that Ed deliberately lied about his age on his application so he wouldn't get ignored for being Just a Kid. Which is funny on its own, and even more since the long-term effects are still there.
• For bonus points, upon learning about the error, Roy's reaction is to stick his face right in his documents as though glaring at Ed's listed age is going to somehow make it less wrong.

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• In the manga during the chapters involving Greed, Ed has to go to Southern HQ for his annual State Alchemist report. Fuhrer Bradley happens to be there and despite Ed having to do a bunch of paperwork because it's late, he just stamps it straight away and laughs.
• When Martel explains the Chimeras to Al, she tells him that Dolcetto "lifts up one leg to pee". In the manga, Dolcetto yells that he doesn't do that. In Brotherhood...
  Dolcetto: It was only that one time!
• Fuhrer King Bradley, hoping to recruit Izumi Curtis as a state Alchemist, visits her butcher shop. When her husband, Sig, suspicious of the pair, refuses to reveal her location to them, Major Armstrong takes matters into his own hands and initiates a flexing competition with Mister Curtis, which leads to a manly handshake.
  • The Curtis' assistant calls it "a friendship born of solid muscle!"
  • Made even funnier by Bradley's amused expression during the flex-off, followed by one of comical relief once the tension abates. Of course, this is before we find out that he's a Homunculus, more specifically, Wrath.
  • This scene is also in the first anime. And this is literally how they befriend or instill respect for each other.
  • The joke is continued much later during the fight with Sloth. Armstrong delivers an iconic line in the dub - Incredible Valor, Respectable Muscles!
• Episode 13, where Izumi and Ed tell Al about... that thing.
  • Then later, once Al remembers, he does the same wavy-arm gesture that they do. It really has to be seen to appreciate just how hysterical it is.
• Then there's the scene where Armstrong fights one of Greed's subordinates, who attacks him with a giant hammer. He counters the hammer with a punch, using Alchemy to turn the hammerhead into a small statue of himself in a body building pose.
• When Greed gets captured, he insults Envy by calling them ugly (which promptly pisses them off as much as you'd expect). He then tells Lust that she can "pierce [him] with her Ultimate Lance" any time. It basically comes across as Greed being a gigantic Troll.
• Almost all of Episode 15:
  • The instant we get a focus on May's Head Pet Shao May, Scar... reaches out to pet her, temporarily overcome by how damn cute she is.
  • May Chang Mind Theater.
  • When Barry The Chopper tries to stalk Riza, Riza's reaction... is to fire a revolver to him. Several times. When protesting about "why didn't you freak out?!", she responds that she's already used to seeing someone like him (Al). In no time, he falls in love with her.
  • Mustang's reaction when seeing Barry harassing Riza is to snap on his gloves and threaten to Kill It with Fire. Of course, we thought it just for extra comedy, until we saw him fight Envy, and it isn't funny at all.
    Barry: Hey, toots, who's the chump?
    Riza: Quiet, you!
    Roy: (Glowing Eyes of Doom) Move aside, Lieutenant. There's going to be a FIRE tonight.
• The image of Winry right before she clobbers Ed for breaking his arm again.
  Winry: ...WHAT HAPPENED TO YOUR ARM?!? (A loud crash is heard next, and Ed screaming!)
  • In the manga, we have a imagined chainsaw rampage when he detaches it!
• Ling's excuse for destroying a good portion of a city (while doing a little shrug type dance).

  Ling: (in a heavier accent than normal) So sorry, I no understand much language of this country! Okay, bye-bye now~!
  Ed: HEY! YOU GET THE HELL BACK HERE!

  • Ed losing his older brother's dignity when Al learns to transmute without a circle.
  • Ed, after being thoroughly beaten up by Ling's bodyguards and breaking off his automail arm to finally beat Lan Fan, goes back to Garfiel's place to get patched up. When he discovers Ling sitting at the table (eating again), Ed stares at him for a beat, then uses his own broken-off arm as a club to hit Ling.
• Falman is voluntold to watch over Barry by Mustang and Hawkeye.
  Barry: (putting his arm over Falman's shoulder) "You don't look like you'd be much fun to chop up anyway. Wanna be friends instead?"
• Barry the Chopper telephones Roy with information about Maria Ross, not realizing that Roy's office phone is tapped. Roy avoids suspicion by pretending that "Bunny" is one of his many girlfriends. Barry catches on and starts acting like the most Sickeningly Sweet girlfriend imaginable, with lines like "your widdle Bunnykins just had to talk to you" and "I wuv yuuuu!" Then Roy hangs up so he can continue the conversation from the phone booth outside, and Barry just stares at the phone waiting while Falman just looks on in horror. What sells the scene is that Barry never changes his expression from a goofy grin, though the following dialogue makes it clear he was annoyed at having to act like that.
  Barry: Don't you ever make me do something like that again, you ass.
  • And the following bit:
    Roy: We'll say that Falman has been taken hostage by a manic psycho. (SMASH) Hey, what was that?
    Barry: I didn't want to explain everything to him, so I K-O ed him.
    Roy: Huh.
• During the attack on Barry the Chopper, Envy is having problems with Lan Fan, so he retreats to a tower and calls out for Gluttony. Too bad Gluttony is busy being blasted out of said tower and falling right on the catwalk Envy is on right now. Envy makes an hilarious Oh, Crap! face right before being smashed.
  • Even better in the Italian version, because the phrase "give me a hand" translates into "dammi una mano". So the scene goes:
  Envy: GLUTTONY! Dove sei finito? Vieni qui a dammi una ma- (notices Gluttony falling towards him) ...no. NOOOOO—! (they smash through three catwalks)
• Barry the Chopper's questions "How many people get to cut up their own bodies", laughs manically, and, when he is refused permission to do so, says something like "Hey, it's my body! I can do what I want with it!"
• Havoc dramatically admitting that he likes women with large racks in Episode 19, shortly after finding out that his girlfriend "Solaris" is the Homunculus Lust. The "boing" effect echoes in the Japanese version!
  Lust: Quit staring, it's not very polite.
  Mustang: Well, I can see how she tricked you so easily. You've always been a sucker for big boobs.
  Havoc: (with Ocular Gushers) I can't help it, sir! I love 'em! (is suddenly illuminated with a sparkly golden spotlight from nowhere)
  • It was supposed to be dramatic, but when Lust makes it so Mustang can't make fire, Mustang and Havoc running and screaming in fear is a hilarious sight.
  • Made only funnier in the anime, because after Mustang thinks he's killed Lust the first time, the following happens. Mustang's facial expression is PRICELESS.
    Havoc: Hey, Colonel? Ya mind giving me a light, here [since you wrecked my lighter]? (He pauses for a second, then) Oh, right, you're all wet.
    Mustang: [defensive] YEAH?! WELL THOSE THINGS'LL KILL YOU, YOU KNOW THAT?!
  • The French translation ups the ante by having Mustang yell : "DON'T TREAT ME LIKE A LIGHTER NOW!"
• Ed and Armstrong find out that Maria Ross is still alive... What would've been a Heartwarming Moment or slight Tear Jerker is instead hilarious thanks to Armstrong's reaction. He strips his shirt and attempts to glomp Ross, and she spends the page running around screaming and trying to avoid him.
• The first glimpse we get of Hohenheim in the manga: he arrives suddenly in Pinako's house after God knows how many years...
  Hohenheim (mildly confused): Pinako. My house is gone.
• When Ed comes back to the hotel after Al fought with Lust.
  Ed: WHAT THE HELLLLLLL?!?
  Al: I'm, sorry, brother.
  Ed: You...! What...?! How are you this beat up?! AAAH! (notices Ling and Lan Fan) And YOU! WHAT THE HELL ARE YOU DOING HERE?!
  Ling: [mouth full of food] Eating a delicious dinner.
  And Lan Fan is eating too!
  • Ed promptly throws them out of the apartment after that exchange. On a related note, any time Ed literally kicks Ling and Lan Fan out of the hotel room. It only happens a few times, but it's golden when it does. Then, there's Ed's face when he sees Ling's room service bill...
  Ed: Is this... the room service?!?
  Ling: Uh... heh-heh!
  (A slight Beat...)
  Ed: ...YOU'RE DAMN RIGHT YOU OWE ME!!!
  (Ling and Lan Fan are sent hurling out the window!)
• Al has to put Ed's soul back in his body after Winry hits Ed in the head with her wrench.
  Ed: Well, you see... there's... always a chance my arm could get broken... or even... (small voice) destroyed...
  (CLANG!)
  Winry: (holding a bloody wrench) Are you planning on destroying it?!?
  (Ed's soul begins to leave his body, but Al grabs it.)
  Al: I've got your soul, brother! (places Ed's soul back in his body)
  • Then later, this spectacular conversation:
    Ed: Well.. Uh, Winry... Do, um... Uh... Do you remember when Al and I got in a fight when we were kids about... who'd marry you?
    Al: Huh? The fight we were talking about on the roof?
    Ed: Yeah, that one. Al told me you turned him down.
    Winry: Mm-hmm. Turned you both down.
    Ed: Whatever, so the question's for both of you then... What was your reasoning?
    Al: She said...
    Al and Winry: "I just don't like men who are shorter than me."
    [Ed lets out a high pitched shriek in horror.]
    [Flashback to show that Ed and Al were indeed shorter than her at that age]
    Ed: [sobbing] YOU CAN'T JUDGE A MAN FOR SOMETHING HE CAN'T HELP!
  • Ed's high-pitched shriek was absolutely marvelous. Makes you wonder how many times Vic had to pull it off without laughing.
• Ed's Bishie Sparkle-laden attempts to draw Scar out in episode 21. He's just having altogether too much fun. It's even funnier in the anime, since it breaks out the Art Shift, adds even more Bishie Sparkle, and has both "wacky hijinks" music and scene cuts featuring Super-Deformed, dancing Al with Japanese fans.
  • He badassified a baby stroller by adding DRILLS.
  • The scene after that, when Serious!Roy tells them to get in the car...cue Roy being totally squished in the backseat by Al. "On second thought, let's get out of the car."
  • Not long after, Ed tells the Colonel that he plans to fight Scar and that there's nothing he can do about it. Of course, the Colonel reminds him that the last time he did that didn't turn out so well. What happens next is Ed epically trolling Mustang, complete with alligator face.
    Ed: OOOH, SOUNDS LIKE THE COLONEL'S SCARED OF BIG, BAD SCAR! I'M NOT SURPRISED CONSIDERING HOW USELESS YOU WERE AGAINST HIM! HA HA HA!
    Mustang: [extremely defensive] THAT WASN'T MY FAULT! IT WAS RAINING THAT DAY!
    Ed: Was it raining when you got beat up and sent to the hospital?! Ha! You're still useless!
    Mustang: Shut your mouth, Fullme-!
  • Speaking of someone having way too much fun, Mustang distracting the other soldiers over the radio in the same episode. Riza reacts with some pretty hilarious side-eye.
• Wrath and Gluttony are pursuing Ling and Lan Fan. Wrath orders Gluttony to go take care of Scar; Gluttony complains, saying that he "likes the girl more". Wrath is obviously surprised... and then Gluttony explains that he considers girls a delicacy. Wrath's answer is an irritated "Move and go search for Scar".
• Shao May's pyramid of importance after realizing Al isn't bothered by her teeth. At the top: Al. The next level: Shao May and May Chang. Then: Scar. Next: Amoebae and other single cell organisms. At the bottom: Ed and Yoki.
• Gluttony's One-Winged Angel form manages to eat Mustang's fire blast attack, complete with a little belch. His reaction, along with the Elric's, is priceless.
  Ed: (deadpan) He swallowed it?
  Al: Uh-Oh.
  (Gluttony resumes tearing up the surroundings, and everyone runs for their lives)
  Ed: HEY, THAT WORKED WELL!
  Roy: THINK YOU CAN DO BETTER?! BE MY GUEST!
  Al: Or we could just leave you behind, Colonel! You're the one he really wants!
• "AAAAAAAAHHHHH! CONVENIENTLY AWAKEN, TELEPATHIC POWERS! ELRIC BROTHER TELEPATHY! AAH! LOVING BROTHER, COME IN!" Especially considering it comes right after Ed worrying Al freaking out about him being missing.
  Ling: Yeah, good luck with that.
  • Ling's reaction makes it funnier. He doesn't even try to tell Ed to stop, or point out how ridiculous his little "plan" is. His tone and expression just scream "I am so done."
  • And in the manga Omake, it turns out he reached Pinako. Must be the hairdo.
  • In the animated 4-koma Theater, he reached Mr. Garfiel... who is turned on by the call, much to Ed's horror!
• In Episode 26, May is searching for Shao May. When she finds out Al has it, she imagines evil versions of Ed and Al laughing evilly.
• The exchange between Greed and Ling, as the latter is about to become the former.
  Greed: BWHAHAHAHAHAHA~ What the hell is a brat doing here? Oh well. Let me have your body. I'll put it to good use.
  Ling: Fine... it's all yours!
  Greed: ...what?
  Ling: I'm saying that I'll accept you!
  Greed: Wouldn't people normally be against it?
• The encounter between Father and the Elric brothers throughout Episode 28. He gets to be a snarker too.
  Father: This is somewhat surprising. People emerging from his (Gluttony's) stomach.
  • Also when Father was surprised that Hohenheim had kids.
    Father: This is indeed surprising! I had no idea he had children!
• May Chang's dream is shattered once she meets the real Edward, finds out that he's not tall, and won't take her away from her father. She then calls him short.
  May: HOW DARE YOU TOY WITH THE FEELINGS OF A MAIDEN, YOU HUMAN MICROBE!!!
  Ed: WHAT'D YOU CALL ME, MICRO-GIRL?!
  • The animated version is even more wonderful due to expert direction.
    May: YOU TOYED WITH MY PURE HEART, YOU MIDGET!
    Ed: SPEAK FOR YOURSELF, MIDGET!
• In episode 29, Ed takes a shower before being escorted to Wrath, and has just gotten out when Envy decides that he's been taking too long. Envy bursts in to yell at him...and gets a full view of Ed's naked body. There's stunned silence for a second - and then both of them scream at the top of their lungs.
• Dr. Knox curbstomping both May Chang and Lan Fan when they are about to fight each other: a fight that Al wasn't able to break up!
  Dr. Knox: WHAT THE HELL DO YOU TWO THINK YOU'RE DOING?!! (slams a bowl of food each on Lan Fan's and May's heads) You're supposed to be resting in bed!
  May (whimpering while clutching her noggin): Quit trying to interfere with the affairs of our countr—
  Dr. Knox: I DON'T CARE ABOUT THE AFFAIRS OF YOUR COUNTRY, DUMBASS!!!
• Just after the second Greed has possessed Ling, he and Wrath have a conversation. Wrath makes a derisive comment toward humanity, and Ling suddenly regains control of his body for a second and shouts "DO NOT UNDERESTIMATE HUMANS!" This on its own is not funny. What is funny is Wrath's 0_0 expression right afterward, which lasts for a beat even after Greed speaks up again (becoming a Funny Background Event in the manga). For someone who's usually pretty serious, that was golden.
• Ed's spectacular Spit Take at Hawkeye's suggestion that he loves Winry nearly drowns poor Hayate.
• Mustang's expression in Episode 31 after Edward tells him "Don't you go worrying the lieutenant either!" Yes, Roy - Everyone Can See It!
• Episode 32 has this little gem: Selim Bradley pushing Ed's buttons like a pro.
• Pretty much anything General Grumman is involved in. Most notably when he crossdresses as an old woman to meet Mustang in secret. The look on Roy's face as he tries to hold in his laughter when he realizes who it is is absolutely priceless.
  • There's also the scene in which he interferes with Second Lieutenant Rebecca Catalina's target practice to deliver an important message to her. Grumman makes his presence known by groping her butt, causing her to miss her target downrange a few times.
• When Ed gets pelted in the face by a snowball that Al throws, in a flashback.
• Ed and Al's reaction to meeting Sloth, who, after breaking into the Northern Fortress of Briggs. He stands in front of a whole contingent of Briggs Soldiers, Ed and Al, all ready to fight... and then Sloth actually falls asleep before the fighting even starts.
  Ed and Al: YOU'RE SLEEPIIIIING?!?!
• When Ed and Al find Scar in Briggs, Scar is being attacked by Kimblee's chimera soldiers, Jerso and Zampano. Luckily, said soldiers have shifted into beast-mode, so the Elric Brothers just shout, "AHHH! TALKING MONSTERS!" so they can save Scar without looking suspicious.
  Chimera: We're your allies—!
  Alphonse: (With Glowing Eyes of Doom) Our allies aren't freaks like you! (Uppercuts him)
• One that comes across even funnier in the anime: Ed is in a hospital bed trying to tell Winry that despite his seeming affability, she shouldn't trust Kimblee. So, he starts saying that during his conversation with Hawkeye, he learned of the terrible things Kimblee did in Ishval. The funny part comes in because Ed then remembers the other thing that came out during that conversation-Riza commenting on his love for Winry. So, Ed gets distracted and to steady his mind, starts randomly spouting the periodic table of elements like the Black Speech.
  • What Riza said: "You love her, don't you?" which translates to: "You care deeply about Winry, right?". What Edward heard: "Speaking of Winry, you're in love with her, aren't you?"
  • Winry's reaction. She basically goes, "Why do I love this weirdo?"
• We find out about Izumi's training from Olivier.
  Olivier: Several years ago, before I came here, there was rumor of a strange woman stealing food from the fortress...
  • And we see exactly what went on as an OVA! "The Chronicle of Teacher" is a CMOF from start to finish: where the Elric brothers went through a fairly traditional Robinson Crusoe experience, Izumi spent her days chasing down rabbits on foot, harassing wolf packs, and beating up bears in unarmed combat. After the credit we get "Teacher's First Love", a pink-and-pastel-tinged retelling of Izumi's return to town, this time in a Girly Run which crashes her right into a large, bearded man. They pick themselves up, he returns her belongings, their hands touch, their eyes meet... it was Love at First Sight.
  "Just a moment, young lady! You, uh, you dropped your dead bear."
  "Ooohh! What a silly thing to forget!!"
• In the flashback episode, when we're finally shown the full Elric family photo, Hohenheim has tears running down his face, as if on the verge of bawling outright. While this is primarily a Heartwarming Moment and also a Tear Jerker, it can still be thought of to some people as laughworthy.
• In the manga, after Winry leaves Briggs to go along with Ed and Al, we cut to the soldiers of Briggs, who are less than happy about her being gone:
  Soldier 1: Winry's gone...
  Soldier 2: Our precious female resource...
  Soldier 3: I miss her charms...
  Soldier 4: She was the flower of our fort...
  Briggs Doctor: Our boss is female too, remember?
  Soldier 5: She's too scary to be a woman!
• A subordinate is getting reprimanded by Kimblee for losing track of Winry. He turns towards the camera and sticks his tongue out after apologizing.
• Speaking of Kimblee and Briggs, at one point, Winry sees Buccaneer's new automail arm, which comes complete with diamond-tipped claws. She starts gushing over it and wants to make one for Ed. Ed immediately rejects the idea, and what really sells it is that Kimblee agrees with him. That's right, Buccaneer and Winry's taste in automail is so over the top that even Kimblee thinks it's ridiculous.
• In the anime, apparently Yoki had a few adventures before stumbling onto the Ishvalan camp. The black and white silent film reel style was funny enough, but the funniest is that he tried to rob the Armstrong mansion. He first runs into Alex's two hulking sisters, running away from them in fright before coming across Katherine, the cutesy moe one - fans who watched Episode 37 of the first anime know what's coming. He goes all 'awww' before she shrieks and hurls a piano at him!
  • Even funnier is his reaction to the fact that not only does nobody remember the part of his story that involves the Elrics, but nobody is even listening to him as he tells his heart-wrenching story.
  • The fact that Brotherhood glossed over the Youswell incident is hilarious in a meta way. Since the Elric brothers forgot about him, and Yoki wasn't shown to the audience before then (barring a cameo or two on reports and wanted posters), now the audience can feel the same way as Ed and Al.
• In Chapter 76, Ed transmutes a suit of armor identical to Al's to disguise one of the Briggs soldiers in order to keep Kimblee from finding out Al is missing. Said soldier's painfully awkward attempts to move around in the clunky suit make Kimblee more than a little suspicious. Episode 41 of the anime takes it a step further thanks to the soldier's Larynx Dissonance while trying to mimic Al's voice, which is only stated (but not heard) in the manga.
• The look on Darius and Heinkel's faces when they realize that Ed is about to transmute a huge cloud of ammonia to block their super-sensitive noses. The evil look on Ed's face is even better, especially with his own nose plugged up.
• After the commander from Drachma realizes he gets a quick Oh, Crap! face before being hit by artillery. His hat floats to the ground, only to be hit by another shell.
• Episode 43: Envy reacting to the "Landmines that only respond to Homunculi" ^note  with all the spikes, fists, and giant pointed fingers. It's awesome and hilarious.
  Envy: (being flung up into the air) WHAT the HELL?!
  • Pretty much everything involving Envy in that episode, especially when his true TRUE form comes out. And Zampano shaking the jar with a tiny Envy in it. Jerso's reaction really sells it.
    Jerso: YEAH! GET HIM, ZAMPANO!
• Envy, reduced to Sleep-Mode Size, tries to get away by fusing with Yoki and using him as hostage. Nobody is impressed, but Scar's reaction is the best:
  Yoki: Please, Mr. Scar! You won't stand back and let this thing kill me? Right? (Scar looks the other way) HOW COULD YOU TURN YOUR BACK ON ME?!
  • In the dub:
    May Chang: Poor Yoki. I'm sorry I didn't get to know you better.
    Al: [waving handkerchief] We'll never forget your sacrifice.
• Alphonse meets Hohenheim for the first time in years:
  Al: Father?!
  Hohenheim: My vintage armor!!
  Al: What?!!!!
  Hohenheim: Oh... Er, Sorry.
• Darius and Heinkel pretending to take Ed "hostage" when their hiding place at a local clinic is unexpectedly found by soldiers, in an attempt to bluff their way past the other group. Ed spends the entire time blankly chewing on a piece of bread while the chimeras haul him around like a slab of meat. In the manga, one of the soldiers starts to cry when he thinks that they've taken an innocent kid hostage.
  • What's even funnier is that while Darius is holding a gun to Edward's head, Heinkel is pointing finger guns at him.
• In episode 44, Ed transforming a car into what looks like a Chinese New Years dragon to hide from the military. What makes it funnier is that Ed thinks it looks fashionable and inconspicuous!
  Ed: And you doubted me.
  Heinkel: Yeah, well can you change it back into a normal car now?
  Ed: And why's that? I think this car looks cool as hell!
  Darius: Just change it back. Please, we're begging you.
  Ed: Oh, yeah?! You guys got a problem with my sense of style?!
  Darius and Heinkel: You don't have any!

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• The fight between Alex and Olivier in Episode 45, which is already hilariously over the top, is made even funnier by the epic orchestral music score usually reserved for scenes like the Mustang/Lust fight.
  • In the dub, the elder Armstrong sibling channels her inner Scorpion during her No-Holds-Barred Beatdown of her younger brother.
  • While the rest of the family cheerfully discusses where they're going on vacation and what they'll get Olivier and Alex as souvenirs:
    Father Armstrong: How about statues? They're big and strong!
    * Olivier throws Alex bodily into the fountain they're walking past, half-drowning him, before pulling him out and dragging him behind her back up the stairs into the house*
    Alex: *NOOO!!!*
    Catherine: (completely ignoring it) If they get statues, I want one too~!
  • And there's this:
    Alex: Please! Mercy!
    Olivier: No take-backs, Alex!
    Alex: Are you really trying to kill me?
    Olivier: What tipped you off, moron?
• The English dub of Episode 45 has this little gem, where Ed agrees to work for Greed, to the chagrin of Darius and Heinkel.
  Greed: I don't wanna hear any regrets.
  Ed: Gimme a break! I've already got a million regrets! What's one more?
  Darius & Heinkel: (deadpan) A million and one.
• Izumi's attacking a group, and a control group tries to contact them. This happens:
  Mission Control: Who's attacking you!?
  Izumi: (snatches the phone) A HOUSEWIFE!
• In Episode 46, Winry returns home and begins changing, and, once she pulls her shirt off up to the underboob, she realizes there's a paralyzed from shock Ed in the corner of the room. Her reaction, and the scene that follows, is priceless.
  Winry: EYAAAAAAAAH!
  Briggs Men: (burst in with guns) Hey! What's the matter here?
  (Ed freaks out, almost trying to say "IT'S NOT WHAT IT LOOKS LIKE!")
  Briggs Soldier: When did Edward Elric get here?
  Darius: (appear with guns) Drop your guns!
  (Den bites Darius on the ass, making him scream in pain with tears in his eyes)
  Greed: (pulls Den away) What the hell's going on up here?
  Winry: Eh-Ling?
  Briggs Soldier: Wait, you guys are Kimblee's men, aren't you?!
  Darius: Hey, I know you guys. You're from Briggs!
  Briggs Soldier: You two have been following us this whole time?!
  (Den continues to bark at Greed, whose face is screaming FML)
  Heinkel: Everyone, calm down! Lower your guns!
  Winry: Okay, Ed. You wanna tell me what's going on here?
  Ed: Looks like a cautionary tale about guns.
  Winry: Don't be a smartass, tell me why you're in my room!
  Ed: (visibly embarrassed) I just wanted someplace private to eat my sandwich!
  (argument continues in background)
  Winry: (twitching) GET OUT OF MY ROOM!!! (smashes everybody, barring Ed, out the door with a wrench)
  • And Greed crossing his arms even as he's flying out of the room, with that expression still on his face, with his arms crossed.
  • Keep in mind: Four large grown men, (two of them are chimeras), and a Homunculus, and it took Winry one swing with her wrench to knock all of them out of her room.
• Episode 46: After a double-meaning conversation about how "you could hide a whole battalion here", Roy uses some flowers given to Olivier to conceal a note telling her that Selim Bradley is a homunculus. This leads to this exchange:
  Olivier: Hyacinths.
  Roy: You know what they represent? Those hyacinths-know what they mean?
  Olivier: I don't.
  Roy: (giant dorky smile) They represent ladylike charm~!
  Olivier: GET OFF MY PROPERTY!
  Roy: (laughing) I thought you'd like them...
• Pride is in control of Al's armor and moves in on Ed and the gang. Then we get this exchange:
  Ed: Heinkel! You guys should run for cover-
  (Heinkel and Darius are already hiding behind a tree.)
  Ed: What the?! You didn't waste any time!!
• Darius transform into gorilla and attacks Gluttony on the cover of darkness. Things are going smoothly and he's delivering the final blow... except he gut-checks Ed instead.
  Ed: (On the ground clutching his stomach in pain) Why, Mr. Gorilla? Weren't we staying close to avoid attacking each other?
  Darius: (Sheepishly rubbing his head) Sorry.
• Ed sets up an ambush by prancing around in front of some soldiers going "Help me! Please! I need you to help me! SCAR IS TRYING TO KILL ME!"
  • Even funnier is how Scar's just standing there almost like he's got no clue what's going on.
  • And then made even better when Ed (behind the soldiers' back) gets an absolutely demonic look on his face, then takes them out while cackling "AAHH-HAHAHAHAHAAAAA!"
  • Hohenheim' reaction is priceless: "That was a mean thing to do."
• Just this line from Mustang's coup de etat, said totally seriously: "Colonel Mustang's fleeing in an ice cream truck!"
• A surprisingly funny if not gory moment when Sloth squashes one of the treacherous generals into the floor with his hand, and Olivier thanks him for it because she didn't have to use her priceless family heirloom to off the guy.

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• Episode 52: Alphonse has been trapped by Pride, who launches a shadow spear at Marcoh. Who comes to the rescue by ramming Pride with a car? Yoki, who is sobbing in fear.
  Yoki: I did something! I did something!
• A bunch of guys working at Central Radio pretending to be hostages for the benefit of Central Command so that Mustang and company can broadcast an interview with Mrs. Bradley. Their boss is sitting at his desk, twirling the phone cord around his finger, saying how "They have guns to our heads and said they're going to shoot us if we try to stop the broadcast" while his entire staff stands around and cracks up. And when they ask to speak to Roy, he yells, "No, no! Please, don't hurt me!" before hanging up.
• Episode 53: The Briggs soldiers are invading Central Command. One of the higher-ups inside says it would be impossible for them to break through; "They'd have to have a tank!" Then large weapons fire is heard. He looks through a telescope; cue tank.
• One almost immediately before Mustang vs. Envy: Envy is chasing May through the Homunculus base, and May throws down a bunch of kunai to create an alkahestry circle. Envy tries to stop but can't, and he's blasted through the floor.
• Episode 55: Alex and Olivier's reactions to Izumi throwing Sloth like it was nothing. Especially Olivier's reaction.
• In the dub of Episode 56, there's this little exchange between Greed and Fu after the latter's Big Damn Heroes moment:
  Greed: Thanks for the help. Really saved my ass.
  Fu: I wasn't trying to "save your ass." I was saving the body of the young lord.
  Greed: Well, it's the same ass.

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• Wrath's pre-battle speech to Scar in Episode 60.
  Wrath: Feels good, man.
• Perhaps it's only funny because of how tense the situation is, but when Father drags the sacrifices into his lair, he starts complaining about how their attempts to fight him are wrecking up his house in a hilariously passive aggressive fashion.
  • It's also somewhat grimly amusing, under the circumstances, that Father makes a big deal about how those who attempt human transmutation are punished for their hubris with grimly ironic punishments...and Ed, as soon as he finds out the situation, yells at Father for being full of shit, because Roy didn't even exhibit the hubris that Father is gloating about and only ended up in front of the Gate of Truth because Pride, essentially, threw him there. The fate of the world is at stake, and Ed's highest priority is yelling at the Big Bad for coming up with a Broken Aesop.
• The way Mustang avoids getting hit in the manga after he goes blind. The other characters literally pick him up and throw him out of the way.
• Ed's Wacky Marriage Proposal to Winry in episode 64 is adorably hilarious. The total alchemy nerd he is, he tries to use Equivalent Exchange to propose to her. He used Magi Babble to propose to his girlfriend. Winry's expression when she realizes this is priceless.
  Ed: Equivalent Exchange! I'll give half of my life to you... if you give half of yours to me!
  • Winry's reaction when she realizes that she has very sappily accepted his proposal is no less hilarious. She babbles for about thirty seconds about all the possible percentages of her life she could give Ed.
• Pretty much anytime Armstrong isn't fighting. You gotta love his bishounen sparkles. Armstrong's catch phrase "This has been passed down through the Armstrong family!" is funny every time.
  • It becomes even more hilarious when General Olivier Armstrong says the catch phrase. The scene is also quite badass, but the fact that even the catchphrase is apparently passed down in the family is amazing.
  • Alex is also not the only one of the Armstrong family who has Bishie Sparkles. During the scene where Olivier is trying to convince her parents and Catherine to leave Central City, all of them are sitting around the dining table and silently sparkling at each other.
• The final episode includes the reveal that Olivier saved Scar because she wanted him to teach her men Alkahestry... But also because she wants to mess with Roy. Who, as far as she knows at this point, is still blind.
  • The scene manages to be even funnier in the manga as Scar immediately complains about how the Rockbells, and now Olivier, just won't let him just die, followed by him realizing that Olivier could be court-martialed for this, and her saying that she's gotten away with much worse.
• Almost all of the second OVA. Ed and Al really don't want to visit Winry with busted automail, but then Ed sees a jewelry shop...
  Winry: How could you ruin it so much in such short amount of time?
  Ed: Hehehe...
  Winry: (Disappointed) Don't you "hahaha" me. (Charging with wrench) And you never even give us even a single phone call!
  Ed: (Full counter attack face and holding out the earrings) They're gifts, take them!
  Winry: (Stops in her tracks) Well, I guess you can't help it.
  Ed & Al: (Wide evil grin) The souvenir plan is a success!

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• During the final battle in chapter 107, the Briggs soldiers are told to cease fire and run for cover because the Flame Alchemist is coming. Understandably all of them are nervous. Except for one soldier, whose expression is somewhere between "Excited" and "Incredibly aroused".
• During Ed's battle with Father, the usually calm Hawkeye shouts at him, "Kick his ass, Ed!"
• Literally any time Al gets nervous/scared after becoming armor. Instead of his usual detailed face, he gets more emotive, and he makes an expression that looks almost exactly like "OwO," complete with sweatdrops.

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