In any show, there's one character who sticks out from the rest. Not because they're the most powerful character in the show or because they have great morals or development that make them amazing characters. No, usually the characters rise is attributed to their stupendously funny quotes that always leave fans holding their sides and stomachs.
Quotes are what make a show and favorite demon, Crowley. Always able to deliver a great one-liner or a spot of dry humor, here are ten of Crowley's sassiest quotes.
Hello, boys.
Sometimes, you don't need long, in-depth bits of dialogue to make a worthwhile and enjoyable quote. There are plenty of quotes that capture the essence of a character in just one or two words, lines that are so simple yet amazing at the same time.
For someone like Crowley, these are the lines that make him. "Hello, boys" is so simple, two words he says whenever he sees the Winchester brothers, and yet, they're lines that define his character in ways a full-blown quote never really could.
Submit or die? What are you, French?
No matter what kind of series a filmmaker is working on, there will be jokes that have been used before, to the extent of being overplayed or overdone. For many, the French have become one such joke, overplayed, and yet, it still ends up being funny.
Leave it to Crowley to understand the hilariousness behind the French and the ability to joke about their constant need for surrendering. It may be an overdone joke but there are ways to make even that kind of joke work.
Maybe you can get it up but you can’t keep it up.
What is it about sex jokes that are so funny? While it goes without saying that these kinds of jokes are the lowest form of humor, they still somehow manage to hit their mark and elicit a giggle or a chuckle from the audience and fans.
Leave it to a demon to make a sex joke work in the best way possible, delivering a one-liner that can leave anyone laughing. It's brief, sassy, and above all else, crude and inappropriate. It's the kind of humor Supernatural fans look forward to.
Well, whenever there's a world-ending crisis at hand, I know where to place my bets. It's on you, you big beautiful lumbering piles of flannel.
The Winchester brothers are the unlikeliest of heroes, a pair of brothers running across the country battling monsters, demons, and even God himself. Yet at the end of the day, they're still simply brothers and suffer from normal issues brothers might, such as an inability to dress.
Every episode, we see the brothers running around, dressed in a variety of flannel shirts. It's the kind of thing fans have just seen as commonplace but hearing someone like Crowley point it out nails the point and reality behind the Winchesters home.
Is this really necessary? I've been inside your brother. We're practically family.
Innuendos are amazing. While technically falling into the same range as sex jokes, they tend to lie in a category of jokes on their own, with an ability to communicate a joke that has not one, but two different meanings within one another.
These jokes within a joke are something many characters like Sam, Dean, and Crowley live for. Since Demons are able to possess people, the humor essentially writes itself, with an innuendo like this all but expected to happen at some point in the show.
Me: Charlie. You: Angels
Pop culture in recent years has begun to drive and become a larger part of films and shows, filling them with references to other movies or shows. It adds to and makes connections to other certain films that the series is inspired by.
It's funny to think of the Winchesters, Castiel, and Crowley working together. Two hunters and angel Charlie's Angels, a hilarious yet surprisingly accurate reference for these strange bedfellows.
We're friends. "YOU TORTURED ME!" ... I torture all my friends. It's how I show love.
Simplicity does wonders for anything. Whether it's for a less complicated plot or a simple plan, the more simple or casual something is, the more it works. As such, quotes that have complexness to yet mixed well with a sense of casual or simplicity delivers the best lines.
Being casual about torture doesn't sound funny (and definitely shouldn't be) yet a conversation carried on as simply as, "I torture all my friends," is the best way to handle that kind of comedy, making an otherwise dark line shine with humor.
What the hell is going on... in hell?
It's difficult to find humor in Hell, for obvious and non-obvious reasons. Part of the reason is that jokes surrounding Hell are difficult to make fresh without going strange or bizarre in them. Many comedies have managed to bungle the jokes while others manage to find originality in lines.
Considering that the usage of Hell in a curse is commonplace, it's interesting to think as to how someone like Crowley would utilize the curse so to hear Crowley use it the way he does adds to his character.
Maybe you should try Plan D for dumbass.
Plans are a factor of not just Hollywood and their worlds but the real world as well. Everyone, fans, audiences, the guy reading this, have plans that they make, from A to Z, that we try to utilize on a daily basis, and yet we never label them past A or Z.
Comedic moments can happen anywhere and anytime, and Plan D for Dumbass is the perfect comedic bit of genius. It allows for a bit of great humor and allows Crowley a moment of his signature sassiness to shine.
No one in the history of torture has ever been tortured with the amount of torture you will be tortured with!
There are moments in most series when quotes come out sounding like lines of poetry or a lyric. It's not intentional, not meant to happen, and yet when they do, their moments of accidental genius that add to the line and the ensuing quote.
"No one in the history of torture has ever been tortured with the amount of torture you will be tortured with!" has the sound and the look of acting like a demonic poem or lyric in a song, sung perfectly by the king of sass himself.