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Service Employees International Union
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|Full name
|Service Employees International Union
|1921as BSEIU
|1,893,775 (2014)[1]
|CtW, CLC
|Key people
|Mary Kay Henry, International President
|Office location
|Washington, D.C.
|United States, Canada
Service Employees International Union (SEIU) is a labor union representing almost 1.9 million workers[2] in over 100 occupations in the United States and Canada.[1] SEIU is focused on organizing workers in three sectors: health care (over half of members work in the health care field), including hospital, home care and nursing home workers; public services (local and state government employees); and property services (including janitors, security officers and food service workers).
SEIU has over 150 local branches. It is affiliated with the Change to Win Federation and the Canadian Labour Congress. SEIU's international headquarters is located in Washington, D.C.
The union is known for its strong support for Democratic candidates. It spent $28 million supporting Barack Obama in the 2008 presidential election. In 2012, SEIU was the top outside spender on Democratic campaigns, reporting almost $70 million of campaign donations, television ads and get-out-the-vote efforts in support of President Obama and other Democrats.[3] SEIU is a major supporter of the Affordable Care Act[4] and of increased minimum wage laws, including wage increases for fast food workers.[5][6]
- 1 History
- 2 Composition
- 3 Presidents of SEIU
- 4 Union organizing activities
- 5 Local unions
- 6 In popular culture
- 7 Political action and potential merger with AFSCME
- 8 Controversy
- 9 Archival and historical materials
- 10 References
- 11 Further reading
- 12 External links
The SEIU was founded in 1921 in Chicago as the Building Services Employees Union (BSEU); its first members were janitors, elevator operators, and window washers.[7] The union's membership increased significantly with a 1934 strike in New York City's Garment District.[8] In order to reflect its increasingly diversified membership, in 1968 the union renamed itself Service Employees International Union.[9] In 1980 through 1984, most of the SEIU's growth came from mergers with four other unions, including the International Jewelry Workers Union and the Drug, Hospital, and Health Care Employees Union.[10]
In 1995, SEIU President John Sweeney was elected president of the AFL–CIO, the confederation of labor unions in the United States. After Sweeney's departure, former social worker Andrew Stern was elected president of SEIU. In the first ten years of Stern's administration, the union's membership grew rapidly and the SEIU became the largest union in the AFL-CIO.[11]
In 2003, SEIU was a founding member of the New Unity Partnership, an organization of unions that pushed for a greater commitment to organizing unorganized workers into unions. In 2005, SEIU was a founding member of the Change to Win Coalition, which furthered the reformist agenda, criticizing the AFL-CIO for focusing its attention on electoral politics, instead of taking sufficient action to encourage organizing in the face of decreasing union membership.
In June 2004, SEIU launched a non-union-member affiliate group called Purple Ocean as a mechanism to mobilize non-SEIU members in support of the union's agenda. Purple Ocean members do not have voting rights within the SEIU.[12]
On the eve of the 2005 AFL-CIO convention, SEIU, along with its Change to Win partners, the Teamsters union, and the United Food and Commercial Workers Union, announced that it was disaffiliating from the AFL-CIO after the 50-year-old labor federation declined to pass the Coalition's suggested reforms.[13] The Change to Win Federation held its founding convention in September 2005, where SEIU Secretary-Treasurer Anna Burger was announced as the organizations' Chair.
Campaign contributions[edit]
According to the Center for Responsive Politics, since 1990 the SEIU has been the nation's top organization contributing to federal campaigns, donating $232,694,670, 99% of which went to Democrats.[14] Over that same period, the National Education Association was the second highest organizational political donor, contributing $96,992,506, 97% of which went to Democrats.[14] Since 1998, the SEIU has spent $19,676,660 in additional money on lobbying.[15]
According to SEIU's Department of Labor records since 2005 (when membership classifications were first reported) about 2% of the union's membership are considered retirees, with eligibility to vote in the union. SEIU contracts also cover some non-members, known as agency fee payers, which since 2005 have numbered comparatively about one tenth of the size of the union's membership.[16] As of 2014 this accounts for about 35,000 retirees and about 180,000 non-members paying agency fees, compared to about 1.8 million regular members.[1]
Presidents of SEIU[edit]
- William Quesse (1921–1927)
- Oscar Nelson (1927)
- Jerry Horan (1927–1937)
- George Scalise (1937–1940)
- William McFetridge (1940–1960)
- David Sullivan (1960–1971)
- George Hardy (1971–1980)
- John Sweeney (1980–1995; former president of the AFL–CIO)
- Richard Cordtz (1995–1996)
- Andy Stern (1996–2010)
- Mary Kay Henry (2010–present)
Union organizing activities[edit]
In Missouri in 2010, 12,000 home care attendants in the Consumer Directed Services program voted to unite in the Missouri Home Care Union, a joint local of AFSCME and SEIU.[17] The same year, 5,500 home care providers in Wisconsin were affiliated with the SEIU after a vote.[18] Also in 2010, part-time adjunct faculty members in the Maine Community College System voted to unionize with the SEIU.[19] In 2010 in New York, 30,000 SEIU doormen, handymen and concierges threatened to force residents to haul trash and sort mail. The union cancelled a planned strike after an agreement was reached.[20]
In 2009, the SEIU organized over 800 healthcare workers at St. Elizabeth's Medical Center in Boston.[21] Also in 2009, 13,000 home care attendants in the state's consumer directed home care program voted to join the Missouri Home Care Union, a statewide union of home care attendants.[22]
In 2009, the union launched a nationwide campaign against Sodexo, criticizing the company's labor standards.[23]
Since 2004, the union has seen success organizing workers in Texas, Florida, Nevada, and Arizona in particular. Over 5,000 janitors organized with SEIU in Houston, Texas in 2005, which was especially significant due to the size of the campaign and its location in an area with low union density.[24] In Florida, a high-profile strike at the University of Miami which lasted nine weeks and included a hunger strike, ended with the union winning representation of 425 janitors on campus.[25] This victory was shortly followed by another 600 workers at North Shore Medical Center, also in Miami, voting to join the SEIU in early 2006.[26]
One of the major potential areas of union growth in the United States is organizing workers usually hitherto considered "unorganizable," especially low-wage service sector workers, in what is often called "social movement organizing."[27] Many of these service sector workers are minorities, immigrants, and women.[28]
As an example of this, in 2006 and 2007 Oregon's SEIU Local 503, OPEU (Oregon Public Employees Union) built on its earlier successes in organizing state-paid "long-term care providers", including homecare workers (in-home care providers) and family-child-care providers, by organizing "commercial" adult foster home providers who receive state funding. Commercial providers are licensed to operate foster homes with up to five senior or disabled residents. By forming a union, providers would for the first time be able to collectively bargain a contract with the state over service fees, benefits, regulations, and respect.
In the spring of 2007 the state Employment Relations Board (ERB) verified that a significant majority of the commercial providers across Oregon had signed authorization cards supporting forming a union, and Governor Ted Kulongoski signed an executive order recognizing commercial adult foster care providers as a union, and opening the path to contract bargaining.[29] Following the governor's executive order, the Oregon legislature passed a bill, on June 28, 2007,[30] codifying the executive order and making the adult foster care providers state employees solely for the purpose of collective bargaining. After successfully organizing commercial providers, SEIU 503 continued the campaign and organized "relative" adult foster home providers, who are licensed and paid by the state to provide care for senior or disabled family members.
In November 2007 the Oregon ERB verified that a significant majority of relative providers had signed authorization cards and Governor Kulongoski signed Executive Order No. 07-20 recognizing them as part of the union.[29] With the success of the two stages of this organizing campaign, adult foster care providers were able to form a union for the first time in the United States.[31] In August 2008, the new adult foster care providers in SEIU Local 503 and the State of Oregon completed negotiations on the first adult foster care provider union contract in the US.[32]
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In 2012, news sources reported that SEIU was paying local and non-local workers to campaign against Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney for $11 an hour.[33]
SEIU has played a role in all the fast food strikes from 2012- 2014 and has contributed more than $15 million to workers' centers and community organizations to organize them.[34][35][36] SEIU's motto for the campaign is "$15 and a union," reflecting the call to increase the minimum wage to $15 per hour and the unionization of fast food workers. SEIU has recently begun supporting lawsuits filed by fast food workers to the National Labor Relations Board, calling for McDonald's to be named a joint employer of the restaurants run by its franchisees, a move which would make it substantially easier for SEIU to unionize McDonald's employees.[37]
Local unions[edit]
There is a joint local of SEIU and the New York-based union UNITE HERE called Service Workers United,[38] which represents food service, facilities, and laundry workers.
1199SEIU United Healthcare Workers East[edit]
SEIU's largest local union, 1199SEIU United Healthcare Workers East has a membership of roughly 300,000 and claims to be the largest local union in the world. It represents workers in various parts of New York state, chiefly in New York City, Syracuse, and Buffalo, with additional members located in and around the Canton-Potsdam and Plattsburgh areas of northern New York, as well as Maryland, Washington, D.C., Florida, and Massachusetts.
United Healthcare Workers West[edit]
SEIU United Healthcare Workers West (UHW West) is a large (150,000 member) local union based in Oakland, California. In August 2008, the international union announced plans for a hearing to consider trusteeing UHW West. On January 27, 2009, SEIU placed UHW West under trusteeship and dismissed 70 of the local's executives, including president Sal Rosselli.[39][40] Rosselli and other ousted leaders reformed under the name National Union of Healthcare Workers and pushed for UHW West members at 60 facilities to vote to decertify SEIU.[41] As of 2012, NUHW only represents 6 former SEIU-UHW facilities.[42]
In early 2013, NUHW affiliated with the California Nurses Association. Also, in early 2013, the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) ordered that the results of the 2010 Kaiser Permanente union election (a vote by nearly 45,000 Kaiser-Permanente employees choosing between NUHW and SEIU-UHW) be over-turned based on evidence of collusion between SEIU-UHW and the employer. The new election will take place in April 2013.
Local 32BJ[edit]
SEIU 32BJ is a politically outspoken building services local based in New York. 32BJ represents 120,000 property service workers,[43] and is part of SEIU Justice for Janitors, Stand for Security[44] and Multi Service Workers campaigns.
Recently, SEIU 32BJ's Thomas Shortman Training Fund was awarded a $2.8 million grant[45] by the Department of Labor, as part of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act aiming to create jobs in expanding green industries over the next two years. The program (1,000 Green Supers)[46] will help train 2,200 NYC building superintendents in energy efficiency.
Local 1000[edit]
SEIU Local 1000 (Union of California State Workers) is affiliated with the California State Employees Association (CSEA) with one other union, the California State University Employees Union, SEIU Local 2579, a non-union affiliate of managers, confidential and supervisory employees who are excluded from collective bargaining, and an affiliate of retired state employees. Yvonne Walker has been president since 2008.[47] It is the exclusive legal representative for 95,000 California state employees. Local 1000 deals with issues of concern to current rank-and-file state employees, such as salaries, benefits, working conditions and contract negotiations. Local 1000 has nine bargaining units and represents a variety of state workers, including DMV employees, prison support staff (excluding uniformed guards), information technology workers, nurses and administrative staff.
In Knox v. Service Employees International Union, Local 1000, the U.S. Supreme Court found Local 1000 had used illegal fundraising during the 2005 California Special Election.[48] Negotiations for a new contract between the state and Local 1000 bogged down in 2005-6.[49][50] On June 12, union members voted to authorize a strike in the event negotiations failed.[51][52][53] This would have been the first strike by state employees in California history.[54] However, a deal was reached on June 17.[55] The new contract was approved by union members in July,[54] and signed into law on September 6.[56]
Local 1000 played a prominent role in opposing Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger's response to the budget crisis of 2008-9, much of which focused on cutting public services such as home care and education in order to reduce the deficit.
In 2012, Local 1000 won many victories while representing members in grievances, arbitrations, unfair practice charges and other proceedings. This included passing Proposition 30 to raise revenue for schools and public safety, and defeating Proposition 32.
Local 87[edit]
One of the first SEIU locals was Local 87, a local union that traces its origins back to the 1920s,[57] when it was known as Local 9 of the Building Service Employees International Union (BSEIU). It was originally led by George Hardy[58]
Local 1 Canada[edit]
The largest local in Canada is SEIU Local 1 Canada. It represents over 50,000 health care and community services workers in Ontario and British Columbia. Its members work in hospitals, home care, nursing and retirement homes and community services.
In popular culture[edit]
SEIU's Los Angeles Justice for Janitors campaign was portrayed in the motion picture Bread and Roses.[citation needed]
On the television show ER, the service employee Jerry Markovic (played by Abraham Benrubi) often wears an SEIU T-shirt.[citation needed]
SEIU's Popular Media Organizing Program is an initiative[59] to connect popular culture and the labor movement's platform with support from the creative arts. In 2008, SEIU partnered with Manifest Hope: DC, MoveOn PAC and Obey Giant to launch a nationwide online contest[60] to gather the best artwork celebrating the grassroots campaign that helped elect Barack Obama as president. The winning artwork[61] was displayed to DC area residents and millions of people expected to gather in Washington for Barack Obama's inauguration. SEIU has also produced a "Social Justice" calendar featuring the work of Manifest Hope artists in 2009[62] and 2010.[63]
The non-profit 501c3 Bread and Roses program started by 1199 SEIU was founded in 1978 as a cultural resource[64] for union members and students in New York who, for the most part, are not reached by traditional arts institutions and programs. Since that time, the Bread and Roses program has spread widely beyond the New York City area. In 2006, "Unseen America"—a book of photography taken by 1199SEIU members and other workers—was published,[65] with New York's Guggenheim Museum hosting a party to celebrate Bread and Roses' "Unseen America" project,[66] which was one of dozens of events held in cities around the U.S.
Since Sliced Bread[edit]
Since Sliced Bread was an online contest sponsored by SEIU. People were asked to submit their best new economic idea to help working families. Of the thousands of ideas that were submitted, 21 were chosen as finalists. Of these 21, a winner was selected to receive a grand prize of $100,000 and SEIU's commitment to work to make the idea a reality. The two runners-up won $50,000.[67] All 21 finalist ideas were featured in a book published in 2006.[citation needed]
Political action and potential merger with AFSCME[edit]
In August, 2016, SEIU and AFSCME announced a partnership and a potential merger, which would aggregate over 4 million members.[68]
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In April 2010, The National Labor Relations Board regional office in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, issued a federal complaint against a local SEIU chapter for maintaining an "annual objection" policy designed to force nursing home workers into full union dues payments against their will.[69]
In June 2003 SEIU was found guilty of violating security workers' rights and ordered to pay back dues and fees to over 400 workers.[70]
In December 2010, SEIU agreed in a settlement to stop trying to prevent workers who do not support its activities from coming to work at Morehouse College dining venues operated by Sodexo. The settlement also forces SEIU to post notice that it will not "restrain or coerce" Sodexo employees.[71]
In Knox v. Service Employees International Union, Local 1000 the U.S. Supreme Court found SEIU had used illegal campaign fundraising during the 2005 California Special Election.[72]
Sodexo USA filed a civil lawsuit against SEIU under the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act on March 17, 2011. In the complaint, Sodexo alleges that SEIU engaged in blackmail, vandalism, trespassing, harassment, and lobbying law violations, referring to the "Clean Up Sodexo" campaign as "old-fashioned, strongarm tactics" and SEIU behavior as "egregious" and "illegal."[73][74] During the trial, it was revealed that the SEIU had written and distributed a manual to its staff detailing how "outside pressure can involve jeopardizing relationships between the employer and lenders, investors, stockholders, customers, clients, patients, tenants, politicians, or others on whom the employer depends for funds." Tactics recommended include references to blackmail and extortion, accusations of racism and sexism, targeting the homes and neighborhoods of business leaders for demonstrations, and also explicitly stated that at times it is necessary to "disobey the law."[75][76] Following the court discovery of this document, a settlement was reached where Sodexo withdrew the lawsuit and SEIU terminated its public campaign focused on Sodexo.[77]
During a drive to organize 10,000 healthcare workers in November 2009, SEIU was accused of ballot rigging and using intimidation to persuade workers to vote in SEIU instead of the National Union of Healthcare Workers as their representative.[78][79]
Aramark employees from Johns Hopkins University, Towson University, Morgan State University and Coppin State University, as well as students from all four universities, participated in a protest alleging SEIU was acting to prevent a fair employee representation by the union of their choice.[80]
The SEIU's tactics were featured in a book written by an Indiana-based businessman which chronicles his 3-year battle to thwart the union's organizing attempts.[81]
Architect of the Justice for Janitors campaign, Steven Lerner was allegedly forced to resign from the union in 2011 after advocating more organizing efforts be placed against wall street and bank power in the United States with popular direct action.[82][83]
The union has been criticized for instituting top-down structures without approval of worker members.[84]
Archival and historical materials[edit]
The official repository of SEIU is the Walter P. Reuther Library of Labor and Urban Affairs at Wayne State University in Detroit.[85] The Reuther Library, the largest labor archives in North America,[86] holds the most complete collection of primary source materials regarding SEIU with over 1,000 linear square feet of the union's records covering 105 years of history (1905-2010). The SEIU Collections include a variety of organizational, executive, photographic, and publicity materials along with many other additional record types. The relationship between SEIU and the Reuther Library began officially in 1992 and the collections have since been maintained by a dedicated SEIU Archivist on staff at the archives. Notable collections include SEIU Executive Office: John Sweeney Records, the District 925 Records,[87] and materials documenting the Justice for Janitors campaign from SEIU's numerous local affiliates.
Additional archival collections can be found at the Special Collections Library of the University of Washington (Building Service Employees' International Union, Local 6 Records[88] and Service Employees International Union, Local 120 Records[89]). The records of SEIU's United Service Workers West, including the Justice for Janitors campaign are held by the UCLA Library Department of Special Collections.[90]
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The program aims to support the home-based caregiving -- a lower-cost alternative to institutional care that has lost many providers in recent years due to low rates and tough working conditions.
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- ^ "Building Service Employees' International Union, Local 6 records - Special Collections, UW Libraries". horizontal tab character in
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- ^ "Service Employees International Union, Local 120 records - Special Collections, UW Libraries". horizontal tab character in
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- ^ "Service Employees International Union, United Service Workers West records, ca. 1935-2008".
Further reading[edit]
- Fink, Leon, and Brian Greenberg. Upheaval in the Quiet Zone: 1199/SEIU and the Politics of Healthcare Unionism (2nd ed. 2009)
- Fletcher, Bill, and Fernando Gapasin. Solidarity Divided: The Crisis in Organized Labor and a New Path toward Social Justice (2009)
- Lopez, Steven Henry. Reorganizing the Rust Belt: An Inside Study of the American Labor Movement (2004), focus on SEIU in Pittsburgh
- Plumer, Bradford. "Labor's Love Lost," New Republic, April 23, 2008, Vol. 238, Issue 7 online in Academic Search Premier, focus on conflict between Stern and Rosselli
- George E. Flood Papers 1933-1960. .25 cubic feet (1 box).
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The Famous Fox Musicals
With the beginning of "Talkies", musicals became a major part of the motion picture history. They reached their peak from the 1930s through the 1950s. Each major studio had their own special type of musical: MGM had the musical extraganzas and operettas, Paramount had the contempory comedy with Crosby & Hope, Warner Bros. had the Busbey Berkeley productions, RKO had the Rogers & Astaire dance spectaculars, and Universial reigned supreme with the Deanna Durbin musical hits. 20th Century Fox had what we call the "girly musicals". Each musical featured a bouncy vivacious blonde gal, with the exception of that Brazilian bombshell Carmen Miranda. Darryl F. Zanuck, head of the studio, had his "string of blondes". To ensure that each new star would be a success, he would cast the latest discovery in a film starring the reigning blonde! Thus, Alice Faye co-starred with Shirley Temple. Betty Grable was put into a Faye film. June Harver starred with Grable in The Dolly Sisters (September 7th). Finally, Marilyn Monroe was cast in a June Harver film. Another success of the Fox Musical is Technicolor! Fox was the first studio to profusely use Technicolor in both musicals and adventure films. By 1942, Fox was the second most successful studio, only behind the giant MGM. We invite you to see some of the most popular Fox musicals – the musicals that made Fox the great studio that is still is!
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KiKi Moore recorded her first double-double for Pacific and Erin Butler nearly accomplished the same feat as the Tigers defeated USF 80-67 on Thursday at War Memorial Gym.
Moore finished with 20 and a season-high 11 rebounds to go with six assists. Butler scored 16 points and had a career-high nine rebounds. Madison Parrish had 12 points and three assists, and Hailie Eackles and Marjorie Heard each had nine points with six rebounds. Kendall Kenyon grabbed 11 rebounds in 17 minutes while fighting foul trouble.
The Tigers (7-8, 2-3 West Coast Conference) made nine first-half 3-pointers and led by as many as 22 points.
Taylor Proctor scored a game-high 29 points and grabbed 10 rebounds for the Dons (7-8, 2-2).
Pacific shot 44 percent (17 of 39) in the first half and was 9 of 18 from 3-point range. The Tigers committed just four first-half turnovers, while forcing eight USF turnovers.
Proctor made two free throws to trim Pacific's lead to 61-49, but Parrish made a 3-pointer from the corner to help stem USF's momentum.
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While most of the time, Jojo's Bizarre adventure is a serious battle manga, most of the cast is completely insane. Half the fun is watching them pull out incredibly zany schemes, hurt each other in increasingly ridiculous ways, or play off each other, with their own brands of Insane Troll Logic.
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Part 1 - Phantom Blood
- Speedwagon's reaction to Jonathan and Erina sharing a tender moment. "Speedwagon withdraws coolly."
- Or, as one fansub of the 2012 anime put it, Speedwagon serenely skedaddles.
- There's something funny about how when Speedwagon appears in the Joestar manner he lights a match, speaks, then puts it out all in a second.
- Speedwagon begs Zeppeli to teach him the Ripple power as well. Zeppeli finally capitulates and hits Speedwagon in the torso with a pinkie just like he did with Jonathan...only Speedwagon merely doubles over in pain, causing Zeppeli to wonder if he hit the wrong spot in frustration.
- One hilarious but often forgotten moment is immediately after Zeppeli and Jonathan first clash with Dio. Zeppeli's arm has been frozen, and he's in serious danger of dying if his hand doesn't get heated up quickly, and how is this solved? Why, by Speedwagon pulling up his shirt and revealing flaming hot abs. This is never brought up again.
- This line from the dub of the 2012 anime:
Speedwagon: I can read people like a book, and these two [Tarukus and Bluford] are full of stories Speedwagon don't wanna hear, thank you kindly!
- Jonathan rescuing Poco's sister from a zombie; he makes an entrance after dropping an anvil on its head. Seriously.
- Upon Zepelli healing Jonathon's arm, Jonathon loudly exclaims his disbelief, stating that he can "even pick up this rock!", holding up a large rock about the size of his head, as Erina reacts in similar wonder... despite the fact that they are standing in the middle of a dirt road and there are no rocks that size anywhere around, implying that Jonathon just happened to be carrying a giant stone around while severely crippled. Nobody reacts to the event apart from the afforementioned wonder, the rock disappears within the next few frames, and it is never brought up again.
Part 2 - Battle Tendency
- Take note: Young and old, whenever Joseph utters Gratuitous English (be it "OH NO!" or "OH MY GOD!"), it's always going to be hilarious.
- During the opening, when the characters are silhouetted and doing fighting poses and moves, it ends with Joseph wielding the clackers, spinning them around, and tying himself up with them before falling over offscreen.
- Joseph's Establishing Character Moment when a Corrupt Cop puts a booger on his cheek. Joseph calmly asks for the reason:
Corrupt Cop: There is no reason! We do it because it feels good, dumbass! When someone put s a booger on one cheek, then you should offer the other- (PUNCH)
Joseph: Don't push your luck, you corrupt bastard!
- Joseph attempts to infiltrate a Nazi base in Mexico by crossdressing. The Nazis immediately see right through his Paper-Thin Disguise, which Joseph can't believe at all.
- "Ha-ppy~! Joy-ppy~! Nice to meet you-ppy~!"
- Made funnier in the anime. Santana's really not amused.
- Since this joke isn't exactly translatable into English, the dub decided to go with this masterpiece. Ben Diskin is certainly at his finest.
- After Joseph was hit for the first time by Wamuu's Divine Wub- errr... Sandstorm. Due to being badly injured he decides to play dead, it somehow manages to fool Wamuu twice! Mind you that Joseph's body is in different positions every time he looks. For a guy with super intelligence he sure isn't bright...
Wamuu:I must be imagining things...
- Hell, ANYTHING that Joseph trolls at his enemies.
- Esidisi's reaction to Joseph severing his arm. "HEEEEEEY!"
- The English dub of the same scene.
- The Joestar Family's Secret Technique: RUN AWAY!
- Made better because Jonathan never used that, and he refers to it as if it was passed down the family line.
- After his Training from Hell, Joseph shows off his new abilities by challenging a mugger to stab him. When he tries to do so, he stops the blade with one finger, and then pulls out a container of mustard and squirts it all over the mugger's head. After about a page or two of suspense, Joseph admits that that last part was just to mess with him.
- Everything after Santana's slip and fall with Stroheim is hilarious, if only for the fact that in the anime his voice actor screams every single line in varying degrees of pitch.
- Similarly, after Kars is defeated and Joseph is presumed dead, Stroheim relays this information back to Speedwagon and co. Keep in mind, at this point he's a torso. On an island. And the plane they rode in on is busted.
- At the end of the Hell Pillar Climb, Joseph is about to slip off the wall. Caesar grabs his wrist... only to remember that he's exhausted, too. "26 seconds later, after Joseph said 'Don't let go!' thirteen times..."
- In the anime, Joseph peeks in on Lisa Lisa while she's bathing. Later, in Lisa Lisa's epilogue, after a mention of her being his mother, he can be seen with an utterly disgusted look on his face.
Joseph: Niiiiice!
- Kars playing with an unconscious Lisa Lisa's legs like a guitar.
Kars: Ween ween ween!
- Better when you realize he didn't do that in the manga, and in the anime his lip flaps don't match up to the actor's recording. That wasn't in the script.
- The english dub managed to make it even funnier! Somehow making it sound like a electric guitar works.
- It gets better - as someone pointed out in the comments, that's the opening bars of "Roundabout". Kars knows the ending theme of his own series.
- The squirrel.
- Joseph showing up at his own funeral at the tail end of the saga. The sheer length of time it takes him to realize just drives the gag on home.
Joseph: Suzie Q, what the hell?! You had one job, woman! ONE JOB!
- And the reason he showed up? 'Cause Suzie Q forgot to send the telegram informing everyone that he wasn't dead.
Joseph: GAAAHH!!! OH NO!! I can't believe this! What the hell was that woman thinking!? Wait!!
- The Japanese version, while using a more generic dialogue, also manages to deliver the funny... because of Joseph is, again, using Gratuitous English.
- Esidisi putting out a dynamite stick by eating it is funny enough, but then you realize - AC/DC had a song named T.N.T.. Not every reference has to be on the nose.
- After Joseph knocks Kars down into the crystal spikes, it suddenly gives us a closeup of his face (with glowing red eyes) and he leaps into the air, startling everyone present, only to land on his face a few feet away.
Stroheim:...He's trying to spook us.
- After failing to get the Stone during his attack, Kars falls down a deep ravine and stands up...only to suddenly start laughing. It comes out of left field with no reason, and it's glorious.
- And just before he lands, he fires off a blast of light, which pinballs him around the canyon walls until he hits the ground. Why'd he do it? Because he was about to land on a patch of flowers.
- What terrifying weapon does Joseph use against Wamuu the vampiric Physical God? Why, the toy known as Clackers. As the cherry on top, it is thought of as completely silly and hilarious in-universe which is really saying something.
- When Joseph finally manages to defeat Kars, Kars demands to know if Joseph somehow planned all this out, like he has every other stunt he's pulled up to now. Joseph replies that of course he did, then thinks to himself "That's a total lie, but it'll drive Kars crazy!"
Part 3 - Stardust Crusaders
- For the anime adaptation, what song did David Production choose to serve as the outro to Part 3's episodes? Walk Like An Egyptian, of course.
- Any time Joseph swears in English. Especially funny in the anime, thanks to Unshou Ishizuka's hamtastic delivery. It's often a Running Gag for comments to note how the memetic old man beat the ultimate life form.
- Jotaro's first appearance, when Holly goes to pick him up from jail.
Holly: "Jotaro! Jotaro! Jotaro!"Holly: "Okay!"
- Jotaro repeatedly stealing various objects with his Stand while locked in a jail cell at the very start of the arc, somehow managing to snag RC cars, weights, motorcycle helmets, and an exercise bike. Some fridge humor comes into play when you realize that Star Platinum is a short range Stand.
- When Holly went to pick up Jotaro from jail, the two police officers relay the events of the fight. Apparently it was a group of thugs against only Jotaro, they were armed with knives and nunchakus, one of the fighters was a former boxer, all in all in the group fifteen bones were broken and all of them had their balls crushed. Understandably, all of the thugs he's sharing a cell with are terrified of him.
- The Joestar family share a touching moment after Jotaro is released from jail.
Jotaro: "Why are you such an annoying bitch?"
Holly: "Okay~, I dunno~!"
Joseph: "HEY! How dare you address your mother that way?! And what kind of language is that?! And stop smiling, Holly! You'll only encourage it!"
Holly: "Okay~!"
- Anime related, but the "Rero rero rero rero" moments were translated so well it's outright hilarious to watch.
- Furthermore, when the first "Rero rero rero rero" was shown, it was actually Rubber Soul impersonating Kakyoin and was a tip off that this isn't what Kakyoin would be doing. Cut to the end of the episode, the real Kakyoin requests a cherry and does the "Rero rero rero rero" again for real, creeping the hell out of Jotaro until a flock of flamingo and Kakyoin admiring it finally convincing Jotaro that they're not dealing with yet another imposter.
- Polnareff nonchalantly offering Joseph some gum after the battle with Strength.
- The anime adds a couple scenes that are pretty funny.
- After the Tower of Gray fight, Avdol can only stare in disbelief at how easily the flight attendants fall for Jotaro and Kakyoin.
- After Joseph defeats the Empress Stand, revealing the true form of its user (a very Gonk woman who was wearing the skin of a much younger, prettier lady), Polnareff (whom she had been trying to seduce) basically retreats into a Corner of Woe until they leave. The others try throwing the car keys at him to snap him out of it...and they get stuck in his hair.
- Polnareff's first experience with an Indian toilet. A pig pokes its head up from the bowl. The bellhop hands Polnareff a stick with which to fend it off. And then the bellhop recommends letting the pig lick Polnareff's butt clean!
- Even better in the anime, where a shot of the toilet◊ is accompanied with the standard GOGOGOGO (Menacing) Unsound Effect.
- When Polnareff ends up at an inn being run, unbeknownst to him, by J. Geil's mother (who plans on killing him horribly after he killed him for killing his sister.) He keeps trying to make friendly conversation with her while inadvertently pushing her Berserk Button over and over until she's struggling to keep the facade up.
- Joseph's constant poking at Polnareff's misfortune of having licked a dirty toilet while under Justice's influence.
- The Doner Kebab seller's English is hilarious. Especially if you already know that's Steely Dan under that hood.
- The English translation's clever copyright-avoiding, by changing Steely Dan's name to Dan of Steel.
- When Jotaro was forced to scratch Steely Dan's back, the sensation is amplified on Joseph, causing him to scream in discomfort. Unfortunately, it drew a crowd, much to Kakyoin and Polnareff's embarrassment. Some of the crowd even took pity on them, mistaking the two men for "having a crazy old man in the family".
- On their way out of India, the heroes pick up the runaway girl from earlier, who's hitchhiking. She tries to get Kakyoin's attention by talking about how she'll have to wear a bra soon. The reaction?
Caption box pointing at the heroes: NO ONE CARES.
- The ending to the Wheel of Fortune chapter. Especially ZZ thinking he's killed Jotaro and proclaiming "I did it! I ended Part 3 early!" and Jotaro asking him who the main character's gonna be now ("And you better not say you.") Then the big reveal about ZZ...he's just a scrawny little guy with comically huge muscley arms. Cue the group bursting out laughing at his ridiculous appearance... and then laughing AGAIN when his Wheel of Fortune car Stand goes from a big muscle car to a smaller one which Joseph compares to a sheep losing its fur.
- When Polnareff runs into a still-living Avdol after he apparently died, he enthusiastically brings him back to the others, only for them to act completely nonchalant about it. They were all in on a plot to fake Avdol's death (with Hol Horse and J. Geil's unintentional help) and didn't tell poor Polnareff because they feared he had a loose tongue.
- Joseph is forced to land a jet.
Joseph: Hey, Jotaro. This'll be my third crash landing. Heh, have you ever known anyone who's ever crash landed a plane three times in their life?
Jotaro: I will never fly with you again!
- Before taking the camel, Joseph suggests crossing the desert by helicopter. Jotaro reluctantly says that he's not flying with a guy who has crashed three times in his life.
- And then the incident with Mannish Boy marks the fourth time Joseph crashes a plane. At that time, Jotaro had to fly with his grandfather again. And yes, the plane crashes. Jotaro mutters "I just knew it" as it happens.
- The whole "I'll show you how to tame a camel!" scene. Joseph claims he can teach the others how to ride a camel since he learned it from watching Lawrence of Arabia, but it soon becomes clear that he doesn't know what he's doing and he admits that he slept through most of the movie anyway. Once everything is over, Joseph is covered in comical bandages. And when the camel slobbers all over him, he tries to pass it off as sunscreen.
- The gang's battle with Arabia Fats and his Sun stand. Especially when Kakyoin, Polnareff, and even Jotaro burst out laughing causing Joseph to think they've gone insane from the heat...then said tense moment becomes hilarious when it turns out they're laughing because they spotted a ridiculously obvious flaw in Arabia Fats' otherwise perfect concealment. Cue Jotaro taking the poor guy down with a single stone. It's almost worth it just to see Jotaro Kujo, hardass extraordinaire, laughing his head off. Arguably funnier in the anime version, where during the scene when Kakyoin points out the flaw in the disguise and subsequent stone throw a sped up version of the music that normally plays when the tables are turned on the enemy runs in the background.
- As the gang attempts to escape their submarine from Midler's High Priestess Stand, Joseph quickly trains them in underwater handsigns since they'll be wearing scuba masks. Polnareff shows off some signs he knows... which Kakyoin immediately figures out means "I can see your underwear." Polnareff bursts out laughing thanks to the mostly sensible Kakyoin getting it in one shot. Then they high-five and fist bump even as Joseph tells them off for messing about with the enemy right behind them.
- The Part 3 Anime has a unexpected one: The ending for the Oingo Boingo episode is animated entirely in the weird cartoon style of Thoth, instead of the traditional ending.
- Hell, the whole Oingo and Boingo chapter probably counts. Oingo disguising himself as Jotaro, only to get put in one silly situation after another where he has to prevent his identity from being exposed to Polnareff and Joseph seems like a send-up to the kind of humor you'd see in a Looney Tunes cartoon.
- The Thoth-style ED sequence makes its triumphant returns when Boingo ends up teaming up with Hol Horse.
- Anubis on being at the bottom of a river: "I'm so lonely!"
- Jotaro breaks Anubis in half and mocks him for claiming that he'll "shred him to pieces". Not really funny - until you notice that Star Platinum is putting his hand to his ear... but Jotaro isn't, because that's how many fucks he gives.
- Not to mention that each time it looks like he's going to be able to halt his out-of-control flight, Murphy's Law kicks in over and over again!
- Joseph and Avdol's bizarre adventure while battling Mariah. Especially when they get into a spot of trouble in the ladies' bathroom.
Avdol: "Disasters in the bathroom" is Polnareff's department!
Avdol: Mr. Joestar...! Can you move away from me? I can't run with you stuck to me like this!Avdol: Wh... what are you talking about? You're the one who's running next to me...!Joseph: Two... magnets... stick to each other! Agggh!
- And then it gets worse:
Avdol: Uhh...Joseph: Wh... what's wrong, Avdol?Avdol: Is... isn't this position a bit... No... Not just a bit This position is very awkward. If people saw us they'd get the wrong idea...Joseph: N... no one's looking, so hurry up and slide off my...
- Then they try to unstick themselves from the magnetic attraction that Mariah's Bast Stand afflicted them with. Unfortunately, it requires Joseph to stand up straight with his back to a fence while Avdol slowly slides downward off of him, causing no end of embarrassment when some bystanders catch the two... with Avdol's face at Joseph's groin level.
Joseph: AIEEEE!!!!
- And then, when it looks like they've finally gotten loose from one another... Bast's magnetism re-asserts itself, and they end up up re-attached in such a way that it looks like Avdol is vigorously humping Joseph!
- Taken Up to Eleven in the anime, where this version of the scene is taken to absolutely ridiculous levels of innuendo. It just has to be seen to be believed.
Joseph Joestar: (while getting pummeled by the old lady) HELP ME! OH MY GOD!!
- Not to mention when an old lady sees this, for she had been earlier smitten with Joseph's "daring" nature (It was Bast's magnetism flipping her skirt) but switches gears and goes apeshit on the poor guys.
- Also, while Joestar and Avdol are trying to catch Mariah, they keep running past things that can't help but be attracted to them, including some cans, an engagement ring, dentures, a bike, and a car.
- Well speaking of Mariah, when she revealed that she was storing her weapons inside her bra and it reacted well to his Hermit Purple... it's played like she suddenly got Breast Expansion. Joseph has the most... titillating glare
- Kid!Polnareff's reaction while taking a bath with the Egyptian woman. Finally a good experience in a foreign bathroom! (At least until Alessi sneaks in.)
- Alessi thinks he has the advantage over Jotaro when he uses his stand to de-age Jotaro to approximately seven-years-old. Then little Jotaro socks him square in the face before proceeding to "ora ora" the crap out of him without even using his stand. Becomes Hilarious in Hindsight when you recall Holly remembering Jotaro as a polite and mild-mannered child: she's so doting that she never realizes how brash and rude he was as a kid.
- After Alessi regains consciousness, he finds the re-aged Jotaro and Polnareff looming over him, ready for payback. Cue both of their Stands manifesting at once. And in the 2014 anime, this is preceded by Star Platinum—up to this point, as unflappable as Jotaro himself—flashing one hell of a manic grin. (Silver Chariot may be doing the same, but its helmet makes it hard to tell).
- In the anime, Alessi gets launched into the sky like he auditioned for Team Rocket, yelling "Very good!" the whole time!
- From the Capcom fighter, one of the secret characters asks the question, what would happen if Alessi tried to use his stand on Joseph? The answer: de-age Joseph until he was about 18, during the events of Part 2 when he was in his physical prime and an expert in Hamon. OOPS!
- It get's better, one of the 2012 Animators drew a picture of Young Joseph using Clackers on Alessi as an April Fools Joke. (while carrying a child Kakyoin for some reason) Here's (colored) a picture of it◊
- During Jotaro's poker game Batman Gambit against D'Arby, he maintains his award-winning poker face whilst D'Arby steadily goes insane from the tension. After the game is won, Avdol checks Jotaro's hand, only to find that rather than having a hand that could beat D'Arby's four of a kind with kings, Jotaro had one of the worst hands possible: worthless cards to the last. Cue Avdol and the kid dealer nearly face faulting and said kid letting slip that he had been dealing Jotaro a bum hand on D'Arby's orders. When Jotaro asks said kid about it, the kid runs for the hills.
D'Arby: R-R-R-R-R-R-R-R-R-R-Raise?!
- D'Arby's Villainous Breakdown during his card game with Jotaro is hilarious. After the first winning hand, D'Arby is somewhat perturbed to see Jotaro isn't even looking at his cards. Jotaro proceeds to use Star Platinum to sneak him a cigarette and a drink, making D'Arby think he's switching his cards. What really starts doing D'Arby in is when Jotaro starts making outrageous raises, starting with all of his remaining chips (including the chips for his soul), then more chips for Avdol's soul (Avdol volunteered since he couldn't maintain a poker face and would've lost to D'Arby if he challenged him), then more chips for Kakyoin's soul (to Avdol's astonishment), then even more chips still for his mother's soul! And to top it all off, he demands D'Arby call his raise with the secret to DIO's stand. D'Arby ends up having a complete and total breakdown, the stress driving him mouth-frothingly crazy!
- Not to mention when Jotaro asks to raise his bet, D'Arby's reaction to be seen to be believed.
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- The TV series does the climax of D'Arby's Villainous Breakdown justice: he gets so freaked out, Color Failure kicks in!
- In addition, the title of the clip and its description are worth a good chuckle:
- In the 1993 OVA's English dub (as well as the 2015 anime), we have D'Arby's insane ramblings as the souls of all the victims he cheated are released following his defeat.
D'Arby: "Hey, everyone! Let's play mahjong! Backgammon is a lot of fun! Dice is thrilling, too!"
- Hol Horse and Boingo's team up. When they're in an Egyptian taxi, Hol Horse is about to let Boingo out of the suitcase he was held captive in. Bear in mind, Boingo was on a plane, too, AND Bound and Gagged. The very first thing Boingo does when Hol Horse removes his gag? Puke all over him.
Hol Horse: Still a little airsick, are we?
- How about the conclusion to the competition with Terrence D'Arby, whose Stand powers let him know exactly how Jotaro's going to deal with him?
D'Arby: Please hit me quickly with your right hand.
Jotaro: (No. No. No. No. No.)
D'Arby: Y-your left?
Jotaro: (No. No. No. No. No.)
D'Arby: T-Then, are you going to use both hands?
Jotaro: (Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes.)
D'Arby: Are you going to do your "Ora Ora"?!
Joseph: YES! YES! YES! OH MY GOD!
[Asskicking ensues]
- Once Fridge Logic sets in, the scene where Polnareff is unable to advance up the stairs towards Dio, you imagine how Dio is Activating The World, quickly running down the stairs, picking Polnareff up, moving him a couple of stairs down, then running back into position every time Polnareff takes a step. In five seconds. You can just imagine the little giggle Dio's having each time he does it.
- This animation◊ captures it pretty well.
- In a darkly comical way, the way Dio bluntly told Senator Wilson Phillips (who Dio was forcing to drive him around Cairo after the escaping Joseph and Kakyoin) that he wasn't going to let him go alive. Dio was so blunt with the poor guy, it's hard not to laugh.
- The last two episodes of the Stardust Crusaders TV anime has a moment that is both funny and Awesome in the form of Dio using "Za Warudo" during the opening credits sequence.
- On a related note, the Part III Capcom game: DIO's time over lose animation has him rapidly backdash off screen. Couple this with Mariah's Noblewoman's Laugh pose and...
- And Joseph AGAIN in the epilogue to Part 3, when he fakes a Grand Theft Me with his best Dio impression immediately after being brought Back from the Dead by Dio's blood. Thankfully, he cut it out when Jotaro is about to smash him and manages to correctly answer questions about music and films that Joseph likes.
- Even better in the 2015 anime. A dark purple aura radiates around Joseph, who sports a Slasher Smile and imitates Dio's voice almost perfectly. Just seeing Joseph's sudden shift from menacing to silly is just gut-bustingly funny.
- It even shows that he was using Hermit Purple to create the aura.
- Even better in the 2015 anime. A dark purple aura radiates around Joseph, who sports a Slasher Smile and imitates Dio's voice almost perfectly. Just seeing Joseph's sudden shift from menacing to silly is just gut-bustingly funny.
- Extremely morbid, but episode 46 of the 2015 anime, in which Dio kills Kakyoin by punching a hole through his abdomen was released on National Donut Day in the United States.
- The infamous "ROAD ROLLER DA!" scene is hilarious for how completely out of the blue it is if you don't know it's coming. Hell, it's pretty funny even if you do know it's coming.
- The scene where Avdol and Polnareff are screwing with the currently hidden Cameo.
Part 4 - Diamond is Unbreakable
- The Duwang scans. Any possibly dramatic or fairly serious moment is ruined by some of the most slapdash translation seen on a manga. Some of them have become outright memes in the community, with the more improved Part 4 scanlations retaining the more famous ones such as Koichi's "Get a feeling so complicated" as well as Kira's infamous "What a beautiful Duwang!"
Josuke: KOICHI REALLY STEALS? NO DIGNITY
Josuke: Remember what I told you? YOU are the super retard!
Surface: "you OK reatard? i am wood. stupid."
Kira: "I AM THE FUCKING STRONG!"
- It is worthy to note that Duwang really does improve towards the end, with sentences being legible and actually translated fairly well. Still hilarious, though.
- Josuke's mother leaping onto Jotaro, thinking that he's Joseph, hugging him and telling him how much she missed "him." While still amusing, what made it hilarious was how stoically he reacted to having such a cheerful and cute young lady hugging onto him.
(Flatly and lifelessly as usual): My apologies, Miss Higashikata; I'm Mister Joestar's Grandson.
- Their identical appearance is actually pointed out by Josuke at the beginning of the part. Upon seeing Jotaro, he thinks to himself "hey, that guy sorta looks like me!"
- Josuke and Okuyasu eating at Trussardi's restaurant. Seriously, the entire thing! Especially the end where, even after ascertaining that Trussardi's not a bad guy, he still forces Josuke to stay behind and clean his kitchen top to bottom all because he busted into said kitchen without observing proper hygiene.
(Crazy Diamond punches the plate of spaghetti)
- Old Joseph mishearing everything.
Okuyasu: 'Red Hot Chili Peppers'!Old Joseph: 'Pop pop pop the popper'?
Okuyasu: I was planning on punching the both of you. 'Cos I'm not too smart, ya know?
- A minute later, Akira disguises himself as a SPW worker and attempts to assassinate Joseph. When caught, he fingers another worker as the assassin, only to get punched out straight away by Okuyasu. And when Akira asks how Okuyasu figured it out so quick...
- Okuyasu's tips for making a girl hate you (he's trying to help Koichi shake off a very obsessed Yukako Yamagishi):
Okuyasu: Koichi! Starting today, don't take baths! And don't brush your teeth, and wear the same underwear everyday! And breed lice in your hair! And fart all the time too!
- Also comedic in a rather dark manner is all the shit that Kira goes through in order to get back his 'girlfriend'. It almost seems like something from a Three Stooges show. What it leads to, however...
- Echoes Act Three has disabled Sheer Heart Attack by increasing its weight. Sheer Heart Attack is linked to Kira's left hand. Which leads to the very satisfying sight of better-than-you jackass Yoshikage Kira being yanked to the ground by his suddenly-50-kilogram left hand.
Kira: By the way, do you have a tissue? Or a napkin, perhaps?Koichi: I don't... Why do you ask?Kira: I see... Well, you can use mine.[Kira punches Koichi in the face]Kira: Nosebleeds make a big mess, so I thought you might need one.
- Not just that, but what follows is a hilarious Humiliation Conga for Kira as he unintentionally causes property damage with his left hand, is forced to pay for it, and then gets beat up by some random thugs.
- What's even funnier is Koichi sticking the sound effect for heat sizzle in front of Sheer Heart Attack and allowed to run around the room while he was thinking.
- Kira's revenge for this:
- Jotaro makes a really silly one-liner once he finally confronts Kira.
Jotaro: Nice watch. Too bad you won't be able to tell time after I break it. Break your face that is.
Jotaro: Yare yare. Now that I look at it up close, your watch looks like crap. But you dont have to worry about that. After all, I am about to make it look much worse. Your face that is.
- Then after kicking the shit out of him he gets closer to the astonished Kira and delivers the line again.
- Another from Kira which has fast become a meme itself:
Kira: When I was a kid, I saw the Mona Lisa from my grammar school art book. The first time I saw her, with hands on her knee... How do I say this... I had a boner.
- Even funnier is that despite coming from the above Duwang translation, it's actually completely accurate, down to the use of the word "boner" (the page has the kanji for "erection" in it).
- The entirety of the arc, "I Am An Alien!", definitely deserves mention. Especially Mikitaka turning into a pair of dice and landing a perfect roll... while making Bruce Lee noises which even Josuke calls him out on.
Josuke: Uh, sorry about yesterday. The fire was, um, pretty bad, right?Rohan: Yeah. I had a complete replica of the Drexel Heritage furniture used in the movie "Pretty Woman" valued at 2.5 million, which was damaged beyond repair. Not that I care or anything.
- The subsequent dice game scam that Josuke tries on Rohan afterward. There's something darkly hilarious about Rohan and Josuke laughing with each other during their game, then Rohan slamming a knife into his own hand and cutting his finger off to show he's not fucking around. And Rohan's house burning down yet Rohan not giving a damn about it because he's obsessed with trying to uncover Josuke's act of cheating.
Tamami: I've figured it out! The sirens were coming here! Your house is on fire!
- The reveal of the latter part; Rohan and Tamami (called in as an impartial judge) are carefully studying the dice. Just when you think the sirens of passing fire trucks have given Mikitaka away (sirens make him break out in a rash in any form)...
- During the aftermath of Rohan's house burning down (which he's convinced was caused by Josuke), Rohan keeps his cool.
- The subsequent dice game scam that Josuke tries on Rohan afterward. There's something darkly hilarious about Rohan and Josuke laughing with each other during their game, then Rohan slamming a knife into his own hand and cutting his finger off to show he's not fucking around. And Rohan's house burning down yet Rohan not giving a damn about it because he's obsessed with trying to uncover Josuke's act of cheating.
- When Josuke finally catches up to Yuuya Fungami, the user of the Highway Star Stand that nearly killed him and Rohan in the town's hospital, he finds that Fungami is merely a bed-ridden invalid, who tries to appeal to Josuke's good nature by asking whether he would really bully a weak and helpless cripple. To this, Josuke responds by healing his injuries with Crazy Diamond, and THEN while Yuuya is estatic about his recovery.
- Josuke: "Yup you're all better now...it's a fair fight, now right?"Yuuya: "Oh. Crap."
- Also from the Highway Star arc, we have Josuke snatching a cell phone from a stranger while speeding up at 60kps on Rohan's motorscycle, it broke unfortunately....so he had to snatch another phone shortly after.
- The beginning of the fight between Rohan and Ken Oyanagi (the RPS Kid). Before Rohan starts taking it seriously, he's just annoyed by Ken constantly appearing in his way and challenging him to rock-paper-scissors. So much so that he hauls off and punches him in the face.
Rohan: "There, I chose rock."
- As terrifying as Cheap Trick really is, some of the lengths its carriers go to avoid showing their back to people can get pretty silly.
- Certainly an unintentional one, but some people on the net clarified some of Josuke's claims...
- At the beginning of the rat-hunting chapters Jotaro comes up to Josuke and tells him they need to hunt a Stand-using rat. Josuke's reaction however is so random, one cannot help to chuckle:
Josuke: "A rat...? LIKE MICKEY MOUSE?!"
- And during the hunt when Josuke is really feeling the pressure of getting the rat he makes some rather amusing faces. The really funny part comes from when Crazy Diamond does the same.
- The fact that, after all of his cunning and running victory laps around the heroes, Yoshikage Kira was ultimately done in by something as mundane and ironic as being run over by an ambulance.
- The Part 4 anime opening is awesome, but there's something funny about seeing a JoJo cast actually grooving and dancing to their own opening tune (including Tonio walking with sass, shaking his hips!). It really reflects Part 4 starting in a much more light-hearted direction but still reflecting JoJo's usual seriousness and badassery.
- Also, in a vein of dark comedy, the Part 4 anime ending showcases many characters we'd see in the first act, even Angelo! Only this time...it's as the Angelo Stone. He was never featured normally in the ending sequence!
- After it was previously established that people who lack a stand can still see the damage caused by them, and in Josuke's case, feel and acknowledge the fact that they briefly had a fist-sized hole in their chest, Josuke uses a similar approach to his handling of the prior hostage situation in order to remove Aqua Necklace from his mother. She barely acknowledges it, and instead asks Josuke to repeat what kind of coffee he wanted, implying that this is regular occurrence.
- Yukako crossing the street while the walk light is red during the Cinderella arc, causing a massive car crash behind her.
Driver: "You fucking bitch! Do you wanna die?! Light's red, moron!"Yukako: "Shut up! It's the light's fault for being the wrong color!"
- The comedic value of the battle with Rohan gets amped to unspeakably high levels of farce due to some well-timed directing and sound direction in the animated adaptation.
- When Josuke begins talking about the abilities of Red Hot Chili Pepper to the rest of the cast in the middle of a field, Koichi freaks out and starts yelling about how his homework disappeared. Keep it mind, as far as the reader knows, only Jotaro knows that its user is a student, as he heard them talking about exams over the phone, and called the meeting in the field specifically so that RHCP couldn't eavesdrop.
- Because some things never change, when Grandpa!Joseph lets out his trademark "OH MY GOD!" even as a geezer, it's going to bring a smile to your face.
- When Koichi informs Josuke that he kissed Yukako, Josuke is sitting on a windowsill, drinking out of a carton. He just nonchalantly tips back out of shock to the point where he actually needs Crazy Diamond to grab him when he's about to fall off, before he climbs back onto the window and freaks out.
Part 5 - Vento Aureo
- Koichi arriving in Italy and Giorno's first appearance. Giorno kindly offers Koichi a ride to a hotel... and drives off with Koichi's luggage before he could get on. Koichi easily stops the car with Act 3 and allows Giorno to leave, since he only wants his luggage back. Giorno complies and leaves Koichi with his luggage... which turn into a frog that hops back to him later.
- Koichi being offered something to eat at a pastry shop, and declines since he has no money thanks to a certain somebody... who's right behind Koichi being fawned over by girls at a table. Giorno busts a smile when he sees him.
- "I turned your gun into a banana. Treat it as your last meal." What better way to kill off Polpo than with Black Comedy.
- Buccelati's gang's Establishing Character Moment.
- Mista making a fuss over being served four cakes. Fugo tells him to just not eat them anyway, but Mista insists that he still wants to.
- 16 X 55 = 28. Fugo makes Narancia solve a math problem. 28 is the answer Narancia gives, even after getting halfway to solving it (As in after correctly writing down 5 X 6 = 30.) Fugo's response? Stab Narancia in the face with a fork.
- Before Narancia and Fugo can start a fight, Buccelati arrives to introduce Giorno to the group. They all shoot a Death Glare at Giorno for a moment before immediately going back to acting normal as if they weren't trying to kill each other moments ago.
- After defeating Zucchero, Narancia, Mista, and Fugo start dancing◊. Even better, it made it into All-Star Battle◊!
- They were doing this while Zucchero, as disembodied head, was hanged up by Mista on a fishing hook by his eyelid, and having his eyes cooked by a magnifying glass.
- The scene where Giorno and Mista share a "moment", to Narancia's horror.
- And by a moment, Giorno was restoring the wounds Mista suffered from their fight with White Album, and it hurt like hell for Mista, lead him to say some insinuating stuff.
- To mend a gun wound sustained during Mista's fight with Sale, Narancia and Fugo, in a grand display of ingenuity, staple his wound shut.
- Mista is horrified for a moment, but then he says that he likes how it looks.
- After the above, two janitors arrive at the bathroom they were hiding in. Narancia steps out to stop them, only for one of the Janitors to pull a I don't see your name on it and goes in anyway. Narancia pulls a knife on him and immediately gets his ass kicked. Then we find out that was Trish and an escort in disguise who were there to hand her off to Buccelati and the group.
- Then when Trish changes out of her disguise, she asks Fugo to give her his coat and searches it for a handkerchief:
Trish:I don't have a handkerchief with me, so go buy one for me. Buy some stockings and pink shirts too. And this week's edition of vogue. And I only drink french mineral water, nothing else. Or I'd rather die of thirst. I'm bored of this place. Let's go.
- Then when Trish changes out of her disguise, she asks Fugo to give her his coat and searches it for a handkerchief:
- After finally defeating Proscuitto and Pesci and discovering that Trish is a Stand User Buccelati spends a moment in shock with a tiny bubble in the corner of the page with Sex Pistols mentioning that he had completely forgotten about Mista, who is pictured lying on the ground in a pool of his own blood.
- Mista musing on how human flesh probably doesn't taste that good.
- The whole body-swap thing. But Mista and Trish reactions to it take the cake.
- The group is eating, then Narancia accidentally stains some dude's clothes. The man gets angry and shouts and Narancia who, being Narancia, almost mechanically hits the man to unconsciousness. Then the rest of the group all gather around the unconscious man to wonder about whether the stain can be cleaned and how to do it. While the man is unconscious. Seemingly not noticing such unconsciousness. Comedic sociopathy, thy name is Jojo.
- Before that, Giorno noted the food could have been poisoned by Passione after they defected. So Abbachio tests it on the unconscious man.
- Narancia's antics in trying to warn the gang of danger while under the effects of Tizziano's stand, Talking Head, which attaches itself to the victims tongue and makes them say the opposite of he's actually thinking.
Narancia: Yes, I'm alright. (No! That's not it!)
- Every time one of the group asks if he's okay. To which he shakes his head yes and..
The water can't move, but my ass can.
- He comes with another solution to telling them about the other stand attacking them, Squalo's Clash, by writing down "The water is his weapon! There's a stand on my tongue!'' on his arm. Instead:
- Doppio's antics of swinging back and forth between funny and downright creepy.
Part 6 - Stone Ocean
- Jolyne's first appearance... Banging her head against a bed within a prison cell and wishing to die after a guard that looked like Tom Cruise saw her on A Date with Rosie Palms.
- During a full cavity search, Jolyne begins to pose like a model. The two female cops don't seem to mind.
- Ermes tries to cheer up Xander.
Ermes: Whenever someone says "This Monday was a bad day," they'll say to themselves that "Saturday will be better." That's how we continue to live! No one lives a life of only Mondays!Xander: I was arrested on a Saturday.Ermes: ...
- Even funnier: before that, Ermes offered Xander her panties. And he was actually interested, too (if only for a moment)!
- How does F.F. hide the Star Platinum disc? Enlarge her breasts and hide it in the cleavage.
- While under the effects Jumpin' Jack Flash, Jolyne and Weather Report encounter another more trouble.
Jolyne: I... I don't know why this happened so suddenly, but, uh, You know it could happen to anyone! Even the pope probably doesn't have control over this!
Weather Report: What are you talking about?
Jolyne: You know, There's that thing, "number 1" and "number 2", has to do with bowel movements, the one that starts with a p!! I might do it in my pants! I'm really glad it's not "number 2", but it's still a natural urge! It must have something to do with zero-gravity. If we don't solve this, it's gonna be bad, in a different sense!
Pucci: 23, 28... no, it was 29... 29, 31, 37. Shit! There are frogs on my 800 dollar pants!
- Atfer beating the hell out of Lang Ranger, Jolyne dumps him in a clothing bin. The fact that she did this so the guards wouldn't sound the alarm at the sight of a bloody, unconscious dude doesn't negate this.
- When Jolyne gets shot, an injured Weather Report calls down a rain of poisonous frogs to save her. Pucci gets caught in the middle of it while locked outside a gate in the courtyard and starts counting prime numbers to calm himself.
- Jolyne giving Foo Fighters advice on how to deal with the other prisoners cutting her in line during lunch.
Jolyne: Just say "Don't cut me, Bitch!!"
F.F. What's the opposite of coffee? Something's that's not coffee...
- FF disagrees and just decides changing herself would cause others to accept her. So she decides to do the opposite of what she's been doing. This extends contemplating on the opposites of certain food is. Jolyne's not even phased.
Jolyne: (Beat) ..Tea?
F.F. Right! Tea! Etro's body says it wants to drink coffee, so i'm gonna ask for tea.
Lunch Lady: Opposite of pork is salmon. A pig lives lazily, but a salmon opposes the river's current and conquers it!
- Then the lunch lady gets on it.
F.F.: I like it!!!
Jolyne: Oh hey, open line! Keep on going!
- As for the cutting in line thing: F.F. does the opposite of Jolyne's advice (Say "Don't fuck with me!!" It's faster!) and gives more prisoners permission to cut her... which leads to them cutting each other in line and starting a brawl.
- Sports Maxx becomes an invisible zombie after being killing by Ermes. Something he doens't notice when a tries to bribe a guard and hits on a female prisoner. Speaking of her, she kicked a another male prisoner in the gut for touching her... which Sports is guilty of.
Girl: Whoa! Why the hell are you stripping!? You mean you wanna do it with me here!? Right here, right now!? Hey, hey! You know there's a cemetery back there right!?(...) H-hey! Stop spreading you legs! Gimme a break! I'm not into weird fetishes like that!
- Believing that the prisoner did touch her (without paying) and still not figuring out that he's invisible, Sports decides to be a gentleman and drags his body out into the cemetery to take any cash he kept hidden.
- The girl's complete obliviousness to an invisible force magically taking out money from the conscious man's sleeve and stripping him naked, believing that he's the one doing it despite not using his hands to do so!
- Pucci uses Whitesnake to put a normal CD in Guccio, turning the latter into a human loudspeaker. Pucci's response? Close his eyes reverently and open his arms wide in praise.
Pucci: Yes...praise this phenomenon...
- Anytime Anasui tries to get a sweet moment with Jolyne; they're either just happenstance that he interprets as romantic opportunities or absurdly contrived set-ups by the man himself (such as getting FF to trip Jolyne just so she'll fall into his arms); either way, they usually end at his expense.
- Anasui attempts to propose to Jolyne in the car while they're driving away from the prison. It's interrupted when Ermes and Jolyne notice the crocodiles on the side of the road and start yelling at them, and Jolyne chucks the ring Anasui was about to give her out the window thinking it was a rock. The best part is she doesn't even realize what Anasui was trying to do and the poor dude is heartbroken.
- Even moreso when Anasui reveals he's going to rescue Jolyne from the maximum-security building because he fell in love with her, FF gives us this amazing dumbfounded expression.
- Jolyne flipping off Kenzo in four different languages.
Dragon's Dream: Above your left ear. Right now, this spot is the ultimate red warning sign... Also, your lucky color is yellow and a picture of gold fish will bring you luck ...not that you have one at hand, but...
- When F.F. fights Kenzo, Kenzo's stand "Dragon's Dream" tells F.F. her weak points because he's neutral and wants a "fair fight". Of course, since his power is about Feng Shui, he also included mundane info, such as:
Kenzo: Look, Dragon's Dream! It's because you talked too much that they understand now!!
- Before that, The lovely sight of a stand user and his stand arguing with each other when Jolyne figures out his ability.
Dragon's Dream: Shut up, old man! I'm not your lackey! Shouldn't everyone know about Feng Shui?!
- Jolyne, after regaining her memory, sees she wrote a note to herself that says "Don't forget to wear your panties". Her realization is priceless.
Gwess: She's got really pale skin, bright blonde, ratty hair. She's a whitey girly pig. She's about 175cm tall... She was wearing fishnets. And she just walked by!
- At the time Jolyne wrote that (along with a bunch of other notes) on her body because the effects of Miu Miu's stand. She asks Gwess if she knows who she is, and was told that she just passed, and waiting by their cell staring at Jolyne ominously. Then Jolyne turns back to Gwess and tells her to describe what she looks like.
Jolyne: (Looks back at Miu Miu, who looks exactly how Gwess described)
Part 7 - Steel Ball Run
- Any dramatic tension is ruined whenever Gyro shows his carved/grilled set of teeth.
- Stephen makes a horrible joke after going into a speech about a large block of ice holding the SBR trophy:
Stephen: Well, I think those comments broke the ice, don't you think?Everyone: [Collective Groan]Lucy: [Supportive clapping]
- The president of the United States shotgunning a beer.
- Johnny screaming "What the hell are you?!" at his stand, this positively tiny, cute-looking fairy creature with a metal beak and shiny Black Bead Eyes. It actually looks sad afterwards.
- Diego's joke about the cougars and rattle-snakes was pretty funny, if not cringeworthy.
- Johnny the reincarnation of archaeologist Jonathan Joestar somehow doesn't know what a dinosaur is.
"Dino-sore? What's a dinosore?"
- After getting lost a few times, Johnny and Gyro meet Hot Pants, who moments ago tried to kill them. Hot Pants asks for cooperation. Their response?
Gyro: Tell him to eat shit, Johnny!Johnny: Tell him yourselfGyro: EAT SHIT, ASSHOLE! FALL OFF YOUR HORSE!
- Gyro's out-of-nowhere song about cheeses. Best part? Johnny likes it. Maybe. Although, later on he's shown singing the song with Gyro, and suggests that they should start a band together.
- Scarlet is chock-full of them:
Lucy: Scarlet!Scarlet: Ohhhhh!Scarlet: On my face, Lucy! I want you to squish me with that cute little butt!
- Scarlet just playing with Lucy's nose, lips, and cheeks.
- Magenta Magenta and Wekapipo's introduction. It starts off with Magenta Magenta licking his hands clean of the phlegm he coughs up, then turning to show Wekapipo his 'Tears of the Himalayan Yeti' joke (which involves him pretending to cry chunks of ice). When Wekapipo ignores him, he's mildly offended...only to start babbling about airplanes. Wekapipo complains that with the invention of airplanes other people will take their jobs (as assassins...?) and Magenta Magenta pulls the most offended face◊ and asks if he ever has fun.
- Gyro's bad joke in "7 Days A Week." Or rather, the thrashing about he does during it.
- On a meta level, the fact the joke got its own mini-chapter.
- The "Like a winter catfish" guy.
- When Valentine belts out a "DOJYAAA~N!"
- Also worthy of mention is the Napkin Speech Valentine delivers in order to explain his motivations. It's just as brilliant and enlightening as it is absurd and ludicrously thought-out.
Part 8 - Jojolion
- Yasuho's reaction when she remembers Josuke's "2x2 testicles".
- Yasuho being innocent enough to fall for Josuke's distraction so he doesn't have to beat the ever-loving shit out of Oujirou in front of her.
- Josuke's Genre Savvy comment on how everyone who goes to the second floor in a horror movie dies; and thus applying the logic to his situation.
- Josuke "shaving", when he's really just using his bubbles to get rid of the hair and making them fall on Joushuu and Hato.
- Josuke and Joushuu's reaction to good-looking woman.
- Yasuho, for no good reason, licking her elbow.
- Josuke needs to send Yasuho a text with Joushuu's phone, but Yasuho hates Joushuu. How he starts his text?
This isn't Joushuu.Guess who~
- He also signs off as "4 Balls", which Yasuho interprets as how much Dango he wants to eat at the restaurant he texted her to meet him at.
- Norisuke on Stands:
Your Stand is like your asshole. You can't go around showing it off to other people.
- Norisuke again on examining Yotsuyu's body:
The dick is very important.
- Josuke's dramatic declaration of love towards Yasuho.
Norisuke: I see, so it's unrequited love...Josuke: Urgh... That's also kind of... Um... Well... I guess we can go with that.
- Tsurugi, after convincing Norisuke of keeping the strange-rock-skinned-wild dog (that Yotsuyu "healed"), ended up naming it as "Iwasuke" ("Iwa" means "rock"). Tsurugi, being a kid that likes to use puns, it's no wonder why his grandpa and Josuke were not amused at it
- Josuke's idea of a song for your crush: "I like large fries, I like large fries, I like large fries, but not fried chicken. Not fried chicken, not fried chicken, I just want those crunchies. I like large fries."
- Even better is Yasuho's awe at the melody, not understanding the lyrics.
- In trying to keep up with the facade of being Karera's friend, Josuke sees her lead an old man into another room. While he is content to simply wait at first, he hears noises and goes to investigate out of concern for her. What he is greeted with and his reaction are just hilarious.
- To add to this theme of joke, afterward she tells him that she wasn't being paid to have sex with him and shows exactly where she'd be if that was the case....complete with what appears to be Josuke flustering and nursing a semi.
- Damo's introduction is one big moment of funny, not even considering the general awkwardness of a father meeting his daughter's boyfriend. First everyone is dumbfounded that Hato is dating a Gonk, the first one to appear is several years of publication at that, the near blind Dayia repeatedly asks if Damo is handsome while Joshu cannot resist laughing. Further awkwarness in Damo's deadpan reaction to everything around him, such a Hato fixing his combover, then Damo breaking a chair trying to fit in since he's fat, and Hato casually talking about the fact that they had sex in front of her father.
- At the end of Chapter 55, when Vitamin C's effects wear off and everyone is shown to be okay, Joshuu is seen climbing out of a manhole. The funny bit about this is the fact that this is the last page we see of this chapter, after a lot of Mood Whiplash and Wham Episode moments, as if Araki is saying "Oh yeah, we almost forgot about Joshuu!".


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Definición de creepy-crawly en inglés:
sustantivo (plural creepy-crawlies)
A spider, worm, or other small, flightless creature, especially when considered unpleasant or frightening.
Oraciones de ejemplo
- Over and over again he regales the reader with proof that snakes, spiders, crocodiles and creepy-crawlies have acquired a taste for tourist blood.
- One of the reservations in my mind about going out to the tropics was the number of insects and other creepy-crawlies which were bound to predominate in these parts.
- It is a basic British prejudice about 'abroad' that it abounds with dangerous insects and creepy-crawlies.
Causing an unpleasant feeling of fear or unease: creepy-crawly stories
Más ejemplos en oraciones
- The creepy-crawly factor is really big - and knowing how many of those creepy-crawly things are poisonous adds to it.
- The transformation of the frequently ugly, bizarre, creepy-crawly caterpillar into an elegant butterfly is one of the regularly performed miracles of nature.
- And the strong cast make James's creepy-crawly companions more appealing than insects have any right to be.
Palabras que riman con creepy-crawlyBengali, Cawley, crawly, Macaulay, Morley, Nepali, poorly, rawly, scrawly, squally
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División en sílabas: creep·y-crawl·y
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