Wednesday’s 10 Funniest Scenes, Ranked (Part 2)
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Wednesday Decides To Stay At Nevermore
Season 1, Episode 1: “Wednesday’s Child Is Full Of Woe”
Like the dance seen, Wednesday episode 1’s ending also lands somewhere between funny and oddly empowering, in the sense of being perfectly dramatic. When her parents call to eagerly ask how school is going, Wednesday thinks back to all the disastrous events that happened within her first week. She then delivers the comedy-through-contrast line in her characteristic deadpan tone “As much as it pains me to admit, you were right Mother. I think I’m going to love it here,” before smirking while looking directly at the camera. The discordant music is the finishing touch.
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Enid Shouts At Ajax
Season 1, Episode 3: “Friend Or Woe”
The scene has plenty of mildly amusing but cringey moments of Enid awkwardly flirting, so this is a very satisfying conclusion to the sequence.
The only character who comes anywhere close to being as funny as Wednesday is her friend and roommate Enid. Enid spends a day of volunteering at a grotesque antique store hinting around for a date, before losing her cool and shouting that’s what she wants at Ajax (Georgie Farmer). The scene has plenty of mildly amusing but cringey moments of Enid awkwardly flirting, so this is a very satisfying conclusion to the sequence. It turns out to be adorably funny when Ajax is only happy to hear the clarification and accepts the invitation to meet up.
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Wednesday Meets Enid
Season 1, Episode 1: “Wednesday’s Child Is Full Of Woe”
Right away it is clear that now small amount of the show’s humor will come from the contrast between Wednesday and her bubbly roommate, and Morticia informs Enid that Wednesday is “allergic to color.” The scene gets a continuation when Enid comes back later to find that Wednesday has stripped all color from her half of the room, and the girls throw some more hilarious, biting remarks at each other. The scene is extra funny because Enid makes it clear that she will not be pushed around, making their dynamic even more tense.
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Wednesday Meets Weems
Season 1, Episode 1: “Wednesday’s Child Is Full Of Woe”
Wednesday also gets a lot of deadpan, macabre lines that show off her brand of comedy when Wednesday’s Gomez (Luis Guzmán) and Morticia (Catherine Zeta-Jones) introduce her to their old classmate Larissa Weems (Gwendoline Christie), now Nevermore Academy’s principal. The highlights include Wednesday’s clarification that she was born on Friday the 13th and her assertion that “they haven’t built [a school] strong enough to hold” her. The scene also gets some laughs out of the obvious tension between Weems and Morticia, with Wednesday only adding fuel to the fire. Overall, it is a well-written moment with many different funny moments.
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Wednesday Turns Down The Nightshades
Season 1, Episode 3: “Friend Or Woe”
Episode 3’s first scene uses some trope subversion: After the cliffhanger of Wednesday being “kidnapped” at the end of the previous episode, her captors turn out to be some of her classmates forming the secret Nightshade Society. Wednesday piles on with her usual comedic superiority, bluntly turning down any possible invitation to join, freeing herself from her bindings, and critiquing the Nightshades’ kidnapping abilities. The scary-turned-funny sequence is characteristic of Wednesday and one of the show’s best moments — until it is surpassed by something in season 2.
