The Fate of the Fa Family Rests in Your Claws

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• Little Brother, Mulan's puppy, smacking headfirst into the wall before running out the door. The slapstick is funny in of itself but that *clonk* noise that information technology causes just adds to it. It basically sounds like wood hitting...well, wood.
• After Mulan is getting ready for visiting the matchmaker, her father prays at the family temple.

  Fa Zhou: Delight help Mulan print the matchmaker today. (Cue Little Blood brother running in effectually him, chasing a os tied to his head, craven feed tied to his back and chickens fluttering into the temple... caused by Mulan.) Please... please help her.

  • "I'1000 going to... pray some more than..."
• This commutation:

  Fa Li: I should have prayed to the ancestors for luck.
  Grandma Fa: How lucky can they be? They're dead!

• Grandmother Fa taking Cri-Kee for a walk in a test of luck. Her appearance causes the traffic to stop up in a road blow disaster, while she remains unscratched.

  Grandmother Fa: Yup, this cricket's a lucky one!

  Cri-Kee, shaking, promptly faints with fright inside his cage

  • Fa Li'due south "Grandma, NO!!!" right before she does this sounds less like she's worried almost Grandma killing herself, and more like she expected that to happen.
• And so there's the Matchmaker scene:

  Matchmaker: Fa Mulan.

  Mulan: (continuing up) Nowadays!

  Grandma Fa: Who spit in her bean curd?

  • When the Matchmaker says the word "dignity", she covers her face with ink.
  • So, Mulan pours tea on the table on accident due to staring at the Matchmaker'southward ink-beard.
  • And when anybody exterior tin can hear the chaos Mulan is causing with the matchmaker, Grandmother Fa says obliviously to Mulan's female parent: "I think it's going well. Don't you lot?"
  • The matchmaker accidentally falling on the fireplace causing her to suffer a Rump Roast then Mulan obliviously making the fire WORSE past fanning it earlier finally putting it out with her tea. Let's merely say that whole scene was hilarious!
• The line "I LIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIVE!"
• And Mushu's ensuing rant, partly for the head ancestor'due south reactions.
• The ancestors all arguing almost Mulan when she runs off to bring together the army:

  Antecedent 1: My children never acquired such problem. They all became acupuncturists!

  Ancestor 2: Well, we tin't all exist acupuncturists!

  Ancestor iii: No! Your great-granddaughter had to be a Cantankerous-DRESSER!

• The last antecedent that Mushu "helped", Fa Deng. He appears for virtually 4 seconds, in military armor, with his head under his arm. "Yeah. Cheers a lot."
  • He throws his head effectually like a volleyball at the end.
• Mushu'south attempt to 'wake the stone dragon', ending with it falling to pieces, followed by the Great Ancestor calling the Stone Dragon and Mushu holds the head upwardly to prove that Stone Dragon awoke. And the Great Ancestor bought it.

  Not bad Ancestor: Great Stone Dragon, have you lot awakened?
  Mushu: [holds up the Corking Stone Dragon'southward caput, which is all that's left of him] Uh, uh, uh, uh... Yes, I just woke up! I'm...I'k the Corking Stone Dragon! Good forenoon! I volition go forth and fetch Mulan! Did...Did I mention that I was the Dandy Stone Dragon?
  Great Ancestor: Go! The fate of the Fa family unit rests in your claws.
  Mushu: Don't even worry nigh it! I will non lose confront! AAAH! [loses his balance and tumbles down the hill; the head of the Great Stone Dragon lands on top of him] Ow, my elbow! Oh, oh, I know I twisted somethin'.

• Mushu: "And all cos Miss Human decided to have her little drag show on the road!"
  • The german dub manages to put some Anachronism Stew in it:

  Mushu: "And all considering our Mulan absolutely has to practise some 'Lara Croft' act!"

• Mulan preparing to enter the army camp.

  Mulan: Alibi me. Where do I sign in? Ah, I encounter y'all have a sword. I take one besides! They're very manly, and tough. *attempts to unsheathe the sword and proceeds to drop it*

• "Lemme hear ya say aaaahhh!" "AAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!" "That'southward close plenty!"
  • A few seconds afterward, Cri-kee's shadow appears and mocks Mushu by holding up his front legs to brand a like-looking shadow to Mushu's. Mushu sees this and kicks him.
• Mushu talks himself up when he first meets Mulan.

  Mushu: My powers are beyond your mortal imagination. For instance, my eyes tin see straight through your armor. [Mulan gets an indignant look of shock and gives Mushu a skilful slap]

  • As well, right before she slaps him, you see the other hand instinctively covering her chest.
  • In a glimmer-and-y'all'll-miss-it-moment, when Mulan puts her hand on Mushu's mouth and apologizes, Mushu shoves her mitt off and goes into a fighting pose as if he briefly thought Mulan was attacking him.
• Mushu wishing for dishonor on both Mulan and her horse, which he also calls a "cow" to add insult to injury.
• The entire sequence of Mulan's offset visit to an bodily Chinese army camp, with special mentions below.

  Yao: Hmmm...

  (Yao punches unnamed soldier in the tattooed spot.)

  Ling: AH-HA-HA-HA-HA! I hope you tin get your money back!

  • And presently after...

    Mulan: I don't call back I can practise this.

    Mushu: It's all about attitude, being tough, like this guy hither!

    Yao: (hawks a loogie) (to Mulan) What are you looking at?

    Mushu: (to Mulan) Dial him. It's how men say how-do-you-do.

    (Mulan punches Yao, overdoing it, sending him flying over to Chien-Po. Yao is brought to a boundless swoon.)

    Mushu: Now, slap him on the backside. They like that!

    (Mulan does equally told.)

    (Chien-Po carries Yao again.)

    Chien-Po: Yao, relax and chant with me.

    Yao: (stiffening up in red-beet rage) Grrrr!

    (Chien-Po proceeds to swing him softly left and correct as if he were a teddy bear)

    Chien-Po: Nonuamitofudaaaa...

    Yao: Namoo-amee-tofu-dablublubluh.

    Chien-Po: Feel improve...?

    Yao: Yes. (to Mulan) Eh, you ain't worth my time, chicken male child.

    (Mulan walks off just Mushu is insulted.)

    Mushu: Craven Boy?! SAY THAT TO MY Face, Y'all LIMP NOODLE!

    (A military camp brawl ensues.)

• And when Chien-Po eventually bumps the queue in the aforementioned camp ball, sending the soldiers collapsing à la Bookshelf Dominoes.
  • This is, of course, followed by a newly appointed Shang excited that he'll potentially be leading the "greatest troops of all fourth dimension". He opens the tent door to detect the verbal reverse of what he was expecting.
  • And and then when Shang first sees the ball, and Chien-Po is simply randomly eating a bowl of rice while all the fighting happens around him.
  • Let's not forget that when Shang does demand lodge later the fight, Yao still gets i more punch in to the guy he was brawling with.
  • The fish that Ling is swinging around towards the stop is pretty funny for its sheer randomness. Then there's the fact that Mulan, who started the brawl, is cowering in the center of the group, and everyone seems to have forgotten virtually her until Shang comes out.

  The soliders en masse: (pointing at Mulan) He started it!

• Mulan'southward first confrontation with Shang, where information technology turns out she hadn't thought of an alias for herself and Mushu's attempts to whisper ideas in her ear plow the conversation into a Who's on First?.

  Shang: What's your name?

  Mulan: (stumbling) Ahh, I, uhhh, I, uh—

  Chi Fu: Your commanding officer only asked you a question!

  Mushu: Ling, how 'bout Ling?

  Mulan: (nodding in Ling'due south direction): His proper noun is Ling.

  Shang: I didn't inquire for his name, I asked for yours!

  Mushu: Effort, ahhhhh, Chu!

  Mulan: Ah Chu.

  Shang: Ah Chu?

  Mulan: Mushu!

  Shang: (at the end of his patience) Mushu?

  Mulan: No!

  Shang: Then what is it?!

  Mushu: Ping! Ping was my best friend growin' up!

  Mulan: (relieved) ...It's Ping!

  Shang: Ping.

  Mushu: Of course, Ping did steal my girlfr... (Mulan shoves him dorsum into her armor)

  Mulan: Yes. My proper noun is Ping.

  Shang: Let me see your conscription notice. (Mulan hands the coil to him.) Fa Zhou? THE Fa Zhou?

  Chi Fu: I didn't know Fa Zhou had a son.

  Mulan: Er, he ... doesn't talk nearly me much. (She attempts to spit, but fails miserably.)

  • Even better after the brawl, when Shang addresses the recruits he says that thanks to "Ping", they volition spend the nighttime picking every unmarried grain of rice spilled in the brawl. Yao and Ling requite Mulan a searing Expiry Glare in response.
• Mulan's false proper name would be pronounced Fa Ping; no doubt you can fill in the missing alphabetic character. In addition, Fa Ping in Chinese ways "vase", and is a slang term used for particularly effeminate gay men, making it doubly hilarious.
• Mushu: (nigh seeing Mulan'southward endeavour at a "state of war face up," which looks more like she'due south about to do a spit-take) "Oh, I remember my bunny slippers just ran for cover."
  • In all fairness, though, her mouth was full in that moment.
  • Mushu throwing Cri-Kee out of Mulan'southward porridge. "Hey, get out of at that place! Y'all gonna brand people sick!"
  • And Mulan with her oral cavity full of porridge, Mushu maxim "then you gotta kick the other kid'due south butt" and Mulan maxim with her oral fissure full "Simply I don't want to kicking the other kid'southward butt."
    • Mushu telling her that she's belatedly. When she rushes out:

      Mushu: Await, you forgot your sword! *sniffs* My fiddling baby, off to destroy people...

• Shang gets a Shirtless Scene in one scene and fires an arrow at the top of a pole for his warriors in training to get. Yao's turn comes upward and he mutters to himself, "I'll become that arrow, pretty boy. And I'll do information technology with my shirt on."
  • And Yao'due south expression equally Shang puts the weights on his wrists.
  • Mulan's expression when Shang takes his shirt off.
• During "I'll Make a Man Out of Y'all", when the soldiers are shooting arrows at targets while simultaneously skewering pomegranates, Mushu sticks a fruit on Mulan's arrow to make things easier. When Shang sees this (not seeing Mushu and thinking that Mulan is cheating), Mulan's face up is PRICELESS.
  • During the initial play of the song, the troops are supposed to catch fish with their bare easily and Mulan pulls Yao's foot instead, dragging him into the river, but what actually sells it is her gingerly pushing the foot underwater, trying to pretend nothing happened.
    • And right after that, Mushu gives Mulan a fish that he defenseless with snorkeling gear.
  • The sheer irony at the beginning of the vocal is priceless.
  • At the commencement of the song, Ling drops a beetle down Mulan's dorsum, which causes her to swing her stick around and ends up knocking all the other soldiers over (including Ling) while Mushu Face Palms. As well, Shang comes over to retrieve the stick and gets whacked in the tum.
• The bathing scene is arguably the funniest scene in the entire movie — to go into great(er) item nigh information technology: Mulan decides to finally breast-stroke herself (quite peradventure her showtime fourth dimension bathing since starting boot camp), her (paraphrased) reasoning beingness, "Merely considering I'm pretending to exist a human being, that doesn't mean I have to smell like one." Mushu tries but fails to talk her out of it, equally he's worried that someone might see Mulan and notice that "Ping" is actually a woman. Mulan's non worried at starting time, but Mushu's eventually proven right when Ling, Yao, and Chien-Po get the same idea as Mulan and come to breast-stroke in that same swimming (Mushu even exclaims to Cri-Kee, "At that place'south couple of things I KNOW they're bound to notice," before rushing off to save Mulan). Some other things that happen:
  • As Ling, Yao, and Chien-Po are coming into the pond, Mulan'south sinking as far downwardly into the h2o as she tin can while maintaining her male disguise and making a hasty exit — she even uses a lily pad to cover her girly bits while trying to go away from the three guys, who're guilelessly trying to befriend "Ping" with a little good-natured water fight (which counts as a Heartwarming Moment since the three do feel bad near how they treated Mulan before and want to be friends with her).
  • In that location'south too the office where Yao'due south standing naked as he declares himself Male monarch of the Rock — Mulan's face as she realizes what she's averting her gaze from is priceless. Also funny considering, fifty-fifty if they don't evidence any nudity, information technology's notwithstanding pretty risqué for Disney, considering we're presumably supposed to imagine Yao continuing at that place with his hands on his hips.
  • And so afterwards Ling grabs Mulan'due south correct arm (she's using her left arm to encompass her chest), Mushu bites Ling on the butt, and he and the other ii guys start freaking out because they think Mushu'southward a snake. Ling, Yao and Chien-Po then climb upwards on the rock and this substitution happens:

    Ling: Some Male monarch of the Rock. [Yao pushes him into the supposedly snake-infested water]

  • Afterward finally getting out of the water, Mushu'southward furiously brushing his teeth (even putting a big glob of toothpaste on his tongue) and claims that Mulan owes him "big" for what he did to save her back there.
  • This exchange betwixt Mulan, Mushu, and Khan (Mulan's equus caballus):

    Mushu: Hey, don't wait at me, I ain't bitin' no more butts.

• The portrait of Chi Fu with the Emperor in his tent ◊ — Chi Fu is shaking the Emperor'due south hand with an absolutely gleeful smiling, while the Emperor is being his usual stern, dignified self. Fridge Logic makes this even funnier: How long would they have held that pose for the painter to draw them?!
• Mushu and Cri-Kee conspire to become the ground forces in activeness by writing a fake bulletin:
• Chi Fu being laughed out of the bathing pond by the soldiers:

  Chi Fu: Insubordinate ruffians. You men owe me a new pair of slippers! ...And I exercise not squeal similar a girl! (panda eats his remaining slipper, he squeals like a girl)

• Mushu and Cri-Kee deliver a bulletin dressed as a General... mounted on a panda (because Khan the horse refused to cooperate).
• Mushu's Paper-Thin Disguise as a military messenger when confronting Chi-Fu. Made more than hilarious as he was mounted on a panda.
• These lines from "A Girl Worth Fighting For."

  Chi Fu: I've a girl dorsum home who's unlike whatever other.

  Yao (to Mulan, under his breath) Yeah, the merely girl who'd dear him is his mother.

  • Mulan's response also counts.
  • After Mushu does a wolf whistle at some of the rice farmers, Mulan looks at Mushu confused, before she sees the farmers looking at her flirtatiously, and she can only face palm before moving on in embarrassment.
  • Subsequently, when the other 3 ask "Ping" for "his" stance on women...

    Yao: My daughter volition think I have no faults!
    Chien Po: That I'm a major find!
    Mulan: Uh...how about a girl who's got a encephalon...who e'er speaks her listen?
    Yao, Ling, and Chien Po: (bravado her off) NAAAAH!

    • Lea Salonga manages to make her gorgeous singing voice sound painfully awkward and uncomfortable as she gives them Mulan'due south opinion.
• As the army is marching subsequently the discovering the Tung Shao village, a rocket suddenly shoots out of the cart. Mulan immediately gives Mushu a dirty look, prompting Mushu to feebly point at the cricket, who gives Mushu an utterly priceless Death Glare.
• Shang every bit his army is facing near a hundred yard Huns: "If we die, nosotros dice with honor!" What does he hateful, if we die?
• Mulan uses Mushu to ignite the last cannon then changes her aim at the last second, sending the cannon (with Mushu on information technology) straight towards the mountain.
• Afterwards Mulan creates an avalanche during the snowy battle war, we see Ling, Chien Po and Yao charging into the fray...only to run away upon seeing the avalanche (which works perfectly as a metaphor for writer'south cake).
  • Plus, the way Ling's helmet bounces off his head when he turns around to run away.
• Mushu Shield Surfing on the mount and searching for Mulan. The scene itself was pretty funny.

  Mushu: Mulaaaaaaan! Mulan? (pulls a head out of the snow)

  Hun: RAAAAAAAAAAA-

  Mushu: (casually puts head back in) Nope.

• Yao fires an arrow with rope to save Mulan & Shang.

  Yao: "Now, I'll just pull them to safe-" (rope runs out before Yao tin grab it) "-ty..."

  • And then..

  Yao: (sobbing) "I let them sideslip through my fingers!" (arrow with rope attached to information technology lands in his hands, pulling him to the border of the cliff)

  • Followed every man jumping to add their strength and pull Mulan and Shang on Khan dorsum upward, with Chien-Po casually walking to them and picking them up effortlessly.
    • Not to mention the faces of the rest of the army when Chien-Po picks them up.
• Mushu keeps calling Khan, Mulan's horse, a cow. When Mulan'south secret is blown wide open, and Cri-Kee finally admits to Mushu that he'southward non lucky:

  Mushu: WHAT?! Whaddya mean "you're not lucky"?! You...lied to me? (turns to Khan) And what are you lot, a sheep?!

• Mushu'south "Well, let's go kick some hunny-buns!"
  • The line is turned into a Stealth Pun on the movie's original VHS release, where it is used to innovate a trailer for Sing a Song with Pooh Bear.
• When the trio are first shown in drag with "I'll Make A Human Out of You" playing. Zippo says manly like Wholesome Crossdressing!
  • When Mulan and the others expect around the corner to distract the Hun guards.
  • When they're advancing towards Shan-Yu's guards to have them out (complete with giggling), one of the guards is waving at them and grin!
  • Yao still has his mustache and friendly chops. "Ugly concubines" indeed!
  • Yao's piffling stumble correct off the bat. Perfection.
  • Ling'southward the loudest with his giggling and flirting!
  • Not to mention their using contrasted pieces of fruit every bit boobs. When the apple tree falls out of Ling's apparel, he subtly covers his (missing) right puppet; this gets a Face Palm from Shang. And then, when he and Chien-Po take out the rest of their breast-fruit (watermelons and apples), Yao pulls out an orangish and a banana; Ling gives him a very odd expect.
  • Look closely and you'll discover his apple tree moves down to his armpit. ◊
  • And the apple has a bite out of it, for some reason. Looks like Ling didn't put much endeavor into his nutrient-breasts, either.
• One word to the Emperor well-nigh the end: "Boo." What makes it funny is that Shan-Yu says it while hanging upside-down.
• Mushu with the kite strapped to his back. He looks absolutely terrifying to the guards. Also doubles equally a Moment of Awesome.

  Mushu: (flies onto tower) Citizens, I need firepower.
  Baby-sit: (gasps and turns around) Who are you?
  Mushu: (spreads out fake wings and says in a deep Batman voice) Your worst nightmare! (cue the guards jumping out of the belfry to get abroad from him)

  • The moment is even funnier in the film's Swedish dub, where instead of "Your worst nightmare", he asks them, "Who do y'all think? Batman?" in his normal voice.
  • Even funnier? Cri-Kee side by side to Mushu impersonating him!
• "Go off the roof, get off the roof, get off the roof..."
  • Funnier if you consider this a G-rated style of saying "Oh shit! Oh Shit! Oh shit!"
• Subsequently everyone has finished bowing before Mulan, the Emperor calls for Chi Fu and asks for him to help install Mulan as a member of his court.

  Chi Fu: What?! A member? Merely, there are no council positions open up, your majesty.

  Emperor: Very well... (to Mulan) You tin can have his job.

  Chi Fu: What? My- my- (faints)

• When the Emperor rewards Mulan with his crest and Shan Yu's sword, she gives him a slap-up big hug.

  Yao: Is she allowed to do that?

  Shang, Ling and Chien Po: (Group shrug.)

Well... not exactly, as that's to be expected since the story is set in Ancient China. At least the Emperor took it well.

• When Shang tells Mulan that "[she] fight[s] good." Even the Emperor is pretty much saying a more than eloquent version of 'You're stupid.' Besides, the fact that Mulan a few minutes previous kind of nailed Shang in the caput while falling from the roof. Ouch.
  • Some other incident:

  Mulan: (to Shang) Would y'all similar to stay for dinner?

• Well-nigh the stop:

  Emperor: The flower that blooms in adversity, is the nearly rare and cute of all.

  Shang: ...Sir?

  Emperor: You lot don't come across a girl similar that every dynasty! *puts on his lid*

  • Especially since the Emperor drops his kindly old man attitude and gives Shang the prototype of a "I can't believe I take to spell this out to yous" look.
• When Grandmother Fa sees Captain Shang at the cease of the movie, information technology'south between this and Squick.

  Grandmother Fa, griping to Fa Li: Great, she brings home a sword. If yous ask me, she should have brought home a ma—

  Shang: Excuse me, does Fa Mulan live here?

  [the 2 women silently point him through the gate, he thanks them every bit he passes]

  Grandmother Fa: Woo! Sign me upward for the next war!

  • Aye, Disney has had an older woman hit on a younger man.
  • So he tries to talk to Mulan.

  Shang: Mulan! Um... y'all forgot your helmet! Oh, well, actually, [to Mulan's father] it's your helmet, isn't it?

  • What actually sells it is her begetter's face up as he motions for Mulan to have the helmet.
  • A few moments later, Mulan asks Shang if he'd like to stay for dinner. Her grandmother shouts "Would you like to stay forever?"
    • Shang later marries Mulan in the sequel, and then he does, indeed, "stay forever".
• The exasperated wait on the Chief Ancestor's face equally he says that Mushu can be a guardian again.
• In the PC game Mulan Animated StoryBook, when you select Yao, Mushu breaks out some wisecracking lines, such every bit:

  Mushu: I've heard of black-eyed peas, but this is ridiculous!

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