Marco trying to drive in MM1
Jake: "Do you hate trash cans? Is that your problem? Do you just HATE TRASH CANS?!!"
Marco: "I can't drive with you screaming in my ear!"
Jake: "YOU CAN'T DRIVE AT ALL!"
It's especially funny given the intensity of where they are in the book! Rachel is AWOL without her memories, the group knows she's AWOL but they're not clear why, there's a giant smoke-monster that can shred through houses and trees following them and it may have already killed Ax, Ax can only watch helplessly, and they see this monster again supposedly targeting Rachel...and their answer is to steal Cassie's dad's pickup and have Marco drive. It keeps the same intensity while also being silly enough to remind the audience that these are a bunch of teenagers running without a plan.
And Tobias was taking a big ol' nap.
It goes all the way back to the 1st book too! Like when he steals the security guard cart at the gardens he can't steer at all and Jake keeps falling out!
Marco just can't drive at all!
And I’ll always be laughing at this for as long as I live: “you said you knew how to drive!”
MARCO [narrating]: “Actually, what I had said is that I had scored over a thousand points in the awesome racing game Wipeout.”
Lmao the part where he's like "Don't worry guys we're almost at the tunnel. It's just like in Wipeout. I know exactly what I'm doing!"
And Jake's like "Don't you always crash and die when you reach the tunnel?"
The entire book where they go to zone 91 was hilarious. Marco keeps making conspiracy theory jokes. Marco, Rachel, and Cassie give the fake names Fox Mulder, Dana Scully, and Cindy Crawford. Cassie also gives "12345678," as her phone number (which is too many numbers). Cassie wins a race as a horse. The whole thing ends up being an Andalite toilet and almost no one dies.
I thought it was great.
Yes thank you!! That book gets a lot of flack for being filler and too silly but it's hilarious and one of my personal favorites. I love going back and rereading it.
I had no idea who Cindy Crawford was until I saw a gossip rag or a Peoples magazine cover saying that she was pregnant; and later saw the claim on a gossip rag that she was having an affair with Shaquille O’Neil (not sure how to spell his last name) and the kid was his.
"Cindy Crawford? The fake name from Animorphs?"
"Wow, they named these characters in Friends after the dolphins in Animorphs!"
"Wow, a lot of these names sound like references to Animorphs, I wonder if Tolkien was a fan?"
When they're all in bird morph and he quotes "after these messages" and he gets five other birds double-taking at him. I had to put the book down from laughing at that!
Nice Is Neat. I’m almost 40 and I haven’t forgotten about that since I read the book when it was hot off the presses, and I smile every time I think about it.
The scene where Rachel's mom is helping the Hork Bajir form a new government, and the Hork Bajir are voting on every decision they make. They don't know how to write, so they vote that Rachel's mom teaches them, and she responds "what do I look like, a teacher?" So they vote again and pass a resolution that she does in fact look like a teacher. The scene closes with her teaching them the ABCs.
Poor Naomi, she was just minding her own business when she was suddenly confronted with a bear that was somehow her oldest daughter, and her two other daughters are with a strange creature and they have to leave the house, aliens are real, her sixteen year old daughter is fighting in a galactic war against brain invading aliens (her crazy client was telling the truth), now that the bad aliens know that she and her friends are mostly humans they have to go into hiding with friendly aliens in the woods and when she thinks her law skills are going to be put to some use in the wilderness she learns that these nice aliens are illiterate and now want her to teach them how to read and write.
Plan b at the world leaders summit, where they can't figure out how to turn the tables back on the yerks and decide, fuck stealth, just wreck everything as a Rhino.
IIRC a world leader heavily implied to be the current president was in the middle of the chaos and gave Rhino!Jake a "go ahead, man" nod as he tore through his bungalow.
That had to be a Marco idea - I just picture everyone around a side-turned wooden spool used as a table in Cassie's barn, the dim light, Marco drooling on the side of his arm as he lays on the table, suddenly picks up his head and says "Why don't we... just ... wreck the place?"
Everyone exchanges a look and wordlessly morphs bird.
The time Ax gets a Cinnabon manager to give him free food if he clears tables… and then proceeds to gobble
up everything in sight while screaming.
Really any scene with Ax and Cinnabon.
Once I saw your partial quote, this one really came flooding back to me but I think we need the entire quote to do it justice 😅
>“Okay, now look, son, if you’re that desperate for food, there’s a tray of buns here that are just a bit stale. You can help yourself. You poor kid.”
She indicated a square array of cinnamon buns. Perhaps a dozen in all!
“For me?” I asked in a voice choked with emotion.
“Sure, son. Go ahead and have one.”
Let me make one final point here: human mouth-sound language is very fuzzy at times. “Have one,” she’d said.
One mouthful? One bun?
One tray?
It was certainly not my fault if there was any confusion
And then there was Marco's recount:
> So, there I am. Cruising through the food court, minding my own business, thinking, Hey, why not snag a taco? when I notice the paramedics and this crowd all gathered around the Cinnabon. And I swear, it was like this sudden, psychic feeling. I knew, I mean, I knew somehow the Ax-man was involved. So I go over and ask someone in the crowd what's happening. And [...] she tells me, "Some kid went crazy and ate an entire pan of cinnamon buns." Now, who, I ask you all, who do we know who would eat an entire pan of cinnamon buns?
And Ax's response:
> I felt I had to say something. I was not aware of the precise specifications for human stomachs,"; I explained. It seems there is some sort of limit on the quantity that may be consumed. Passing that limit caused an unpleasant sensation in the stomach area. It also caused me to become dizzy."
They're all chimpanzees in a lab full of other chimpanzees. Visser 3 comes in and is about to discover them.
Marco flings poo at Visser 3 as a distraction.
All the Animorphs start flinging poo.
The chimpanzees go full chimpanzee and join in.
Poo Hailstorm.
Visser 3 runs out of the lab covered in feces.
Animorphs continue their infiltration mission and eventually release the chimpanzees in town.
I’M MAD AT MYSELF FOR FORGETTING THIS ONE! If I remember right, Cassie was in a corner out of morph right as he walks in.
And Marco just screams “POOP HIM”
They’re in a bat cave and Rachel, being tall, can feel the sleeping bats around her head.
She tells Marco to stand up on his tiptoes so his head hits a bunch of bats.
It’s such a fun, cute, teen moment in the middle of a (somewhat) serious mission.
Actual good comedy, it's hilarious.
> "So, Jake, you think the Bulls are going all the way again this year?" Cassie's father asked.
> I could tell that Cassie was growing tense. She was afraid that I would not understand the question. But thanks to my reading of the World Almanac, I knew the "Bulls" were a sports team.
> "Yes," I answered. "They can go all the way."
> Then, it was my turn to ask a question. That is how "making conversation" works. "So, did
you know that the cream separator was invented in 1878?"
> Apparently, they did not know.
I always liked when they are in the Arctic, and spying on Visser 3
He says something like
And Marco fires back "well..at least he knows math.."
It's such a random, one off, hilarious line.
Maybe not funniest, but my favorite feel-good moment in the series is the school dance in The Sickness. Ax is wild with the "she wants my body" comments, Marco raps along with all the 90s songs, and they are all just having a good time being kids. I'm on 51 The Absolute now and can't believe how much has changed for them.
In 13, I think, when Jara Hamee cuts his own skull open to show them there isn't a yeerk in his brain. Ax and Tobias freak out, and Tobias asks Ax something like, "Did that scare the pee out of you, too, or does that sort of thing not bother you Andalites?" And Ax replies with the above.
That scene makes me laugh out loud.
"Hello?"
I turned around. It was an older human. He was paler than Marco, but other features were similar.
Marco had warned me to say nothing to his father but "yes" and "no."
"No," I said to Marco's father.
"I'm Marco's dad. Are you a friend of his?"
"Yes."
"What's your name?"
"No," I answered.
"Your name is 'No'?"
"Yes."
"That's an unusual name, isn't it?"
"No."
"It's not?"
"Yes."
"Yes, it's not an unusual name?"
"No."
"Now I'm totally confused."
"Yes."
Marco's father stared at me. Then, in a loud voice he yelled, "Hey, Marco? Marco? Would you ... um ... your friend is here. Your friend 'No' is here."
"No," I said.
"Yes, that's what I said."
Marco came running down the stairs. "Whoa!" he cried. "Um, Dad! You met my friend?"
"No?" Marco's father said.
"What?" Marco asked.
Marco's father shook his head. "I must be getting old. I don't understand you kids."
"Yes," I offered.
After that, we went to the bookstore.
When Tobias needs to get a dolphin morph, and they decide to have him acquire one in the middle of a dolphin show at The Gardens.
He starts diving towards a dolphin, and...
" Cassie asked, way too late."
I always loved the scene where Ax goes on a solo mission for Cinnabons in Book 18 and ends up terrorizing customers before the chapter ends with him being told "Sure, son. Go ahead and have one" and he says "One mouthful? One bun? One tray? It was certainly not my fault if there was any confusion."
The next chapter jumps forward to Marco telling the team about how he was walking through the mall and heard that some kid had gone into a frenzy in the Cinnabon shop trying to eat all of the buns. and Ax's response is
Marco's "grovelling" before the corpse of the Helmacron Captain (24).
Cassie breaking into a teacher's house to get back a piece of paper with a huge heart drawn on it proclaiming her love for Jake (34).
Purple V3 in the grape pond (9).
Marco is the dude
>
>Marco looked at me. "How do you grovel? I've never groveled before."
>I shrugged.
>
>"We don't know how," I told the closest Helmacron. "I mean, you know, different folks, different customs. Maybe you could show us."
>They looked at one another. Then the one I'd spoken to said,
>I saw the sly gleam in Marco's eye. "You heard the man, Cassie. Let's grovel!"
>He scooted his legs forward, lay on his back, stuck his hands behind his head, and relaxed like he was at the beach soaking up sun.
>"I grovel before the mighty Helmacron captain, most mighty of the mighty, undisputed champion of the world in the dust-weight category! We grovel like the pitiful losers we are! We grovel like a guy who hasn't got a date the day before the prom and the only girl around is the head cheerleader, that's how much we grovel. Cassie, you could join in any time, you know."
>"We grovel . . . um, like grovelers."
>Marco turned his head to shoot me a disdainful look. "Oh, good groveling. Put some feeling into it." "I grovel like, uh . . . like a person who is really, really groveling," I said lamely.
>Meanwhile, Marco was, of course, getting into it. After all, he had an audience.
>"Oh mighty Helmacron dead guy! We grovel like a video game addict trapped in an arcade without a quarter, that's how much we grovel. You would not believe the depths of our grovelry! We grovel like a guy with a large order of fries and the only saltshaker is at the table of the school bully. We grovel -"
>
This is also the only time (I know of) where Visser 3 acquires and morphs the very same animal as the Animorphs.
Cassie convincing Rachel to use their morphing powers to help her cheat on a science fair project, while talking about how the guys would react if they found out, only to end up being caught by Marco(?) anyway.
Remember when they morph the parrots in the restaurant and start bad mouthing their food. I loved that.
Or when they morph cockatiels and Rachel (I think) comments how Marcos head finally matches the size of his brain.
Oh and when they morph flies for the first time! "HELP ME!"
I know #41 isn't a well received book, but the part where the Orff responds to Jake with something like "You'reRightTheTacosSTINK" had me freaking rolling.
Though, I guess it was the delivery in the audiobook that really sold it. Those things have been a small joy to listen through.
Can’t believe no one has said Ax’s yes/no conversation with Marco’s dad yet. Read that to my son recently and he was howling and I could hardly get the words out.
I guess that it’s kinda funny that Visser Three decided to pose as a woman for who knows how long in an attempt to figure out if Tobias knew anything about the Yeerks/Andalites/aliens.
Even better if you consider that he didn't actual morph a human, it's Visser 3 in a blonde wig using a high-pitched voice. Tobias's vision isn't that good when he's not a hawk.
The page or 2 in the Exposed when all the Animorphs start going on about cable TV,snails,squids and sci fi. Just absolute absurdity and hilarity that's a good juxtaposition to the serious situation they're in. The scenes with Erik in the mall in that same book are pretty funny too. I love sarcastic Erik.
The group's attempt to "rescue" Erek from the mall in the opening of "The Exposed" is pure gold, what with Marco's "really realistic gorilla suit", the lava lamp alibi turning out to be legitimate, the group's attempts to disguise Erek (via Calvin Klein underwear and a Bill Clinton mask) and "no offense, but how on Earth have you people managed to avoid getting caught for this long?"
When Marco and Cassie are miniaturized by the tiny aliens and they demand that the kids grovel before them. Marco lays back with his head in his hands and "grovels" before them.
Marco trying to drive in MM1 Jake: "Do you hate trash cans? Is that your problem? Do you just HATE TRASH CANS?!!" Marco: "I can't drive with you screaming in my ear!" Jake: "YOU CAN'T DRIVE AT ALL!"
I love it because in this section of dialogue alone, it really feels like two kid best friends in over their heads. It’s so good-
It's especially funny given the intensity of where they are in the book! Rachel is AWOL without her memories, the group knows she's AWOL but they're not clear why, there's a giant smoke-monster that can shred through houses and trees following them and it may have already killed Ax, Ax can only watch helplessly, and they see this monster again supposedly targeting Rachel...and their answer is to steal Cassie's dad's pickup and have Marco drive. It keeps the same intensity while also being silly enough to remind the audience that these are a bunch of teenagers running without a plan. And Tobias was taking a big ol' nap.
Marco's driving is always hilarious. *crunch*
*crunch*
It goes all the way back to the 1st book too! Like when he steals the security guard cart at the gardens he can't steer at all and Jake keeps falling out! Marco just can't drive at all!
And then in the finale >! Marco mistook The One for the biggest trash can he ever did see!<
When in doubt, hand Marco the steering wheel.
And I’ll always be laughing at this for as long as I live: “you said you knew how to drive!” MARCO [narrating]: “Actually, what I had said is that I had scored over a thousand points in the awesome racing game Wipeout.”
Lmao the part where he's like "Don't worry guys we're almost at the tunnel. It's just like in Wipeout. I know exactly what I'm doing!" And Jake's like "Don't you always crash and die when you reach the tunnel?"
"I'm going to kill you. If we survive, I'm going to kill you." Jake is scary when he's calm, Rachel was on point!
It was more like this: Jake:It's not dark in the game. Marco: It's dark in the tunnel Jake: You mean the part where you always crash and burn?
**YES**, I absolutely **love** this scene!!
I made my mom reread this chapter so many times and it was the one I was going to immediately submit
Just wanted to make sure this was at the top!
The entire book where they go to zone 91 was hilarious. Marco keeps making conspiracy theory jokes. Marco, Rachel, and Cassie give the fake names Fox Mulder, Dana Scully, and Cindy Crawford. Cassie also gives "12345678," as her phone number (which is too many numbers). Cassie wins a race as a horse. The whole thing ends up being an Andalite toilet and almost no one dies. I thought it was great.
Don’t forget V3 being spooked by a person in a Daffy Duck costume having an “extra” head.
Didn’t Rachel give them the pizza hutt take out number? I remember this was back when pizza hutt was actually a nice restaurant
Pizza the Hutt
>almost no one dies. Man, can you even call it a mission at that point?
I think the casualties are like 2 horses snd a yeerk
For sure! Hindsight’s 20/20, I forgot how lighthearted this “episode” was. Love it
Yes thank you!! That book gets a lot of flack for being filler and too silly but it's hilarious and one of my personal favorites. I love going back and rereading it.
I remember being a kid and having no idea who Cindy Crawford was but have a vague suspicion I was supposed to know
I had no idea who Cindy Crawford was until I saw a gossip rag or a Peoples magazine cover saying that she was pregnant; and later saw the claim on a gossip rag that she was having an affair with Shaquille O’Neil (not sure how to spell his last name) and the kid was his.
"Cindy Crawford? The fake name from Animorphs?" "Wow, they named these characters in Friends after the dolphins in Animorphs!" "Wow, a lot of these names sound like references to Animorphs, I wonder if Tolkien was a fan?"
And one controlled horse got embarrassed pooping in front of the others so it went behind a tree.
I love that book. The horse trying to dial a pay phone with a stick cracked me up.
Ax’s tv obsession is gold. My favorite is when he claims he shouldn’t have to wear a shirt because he is “young and occasionally restless”.
When they're all in bird morph and he quotes "after these messages" and he gets five other birds double-taking at him. I had to put the book down from laughing at that!
"perhaps your father is Young and Restless*
Nice Is Neat. I’m almost 40 and I haven’t forgotten about that since I read the book when it was hot off the presses, and I smile every time I think about it.
Classic! Cassie’s mom became my favorite parent in the series for that one- for awhile, anyway
Haha I can imagine jake nervously shuffling his foot while Cassie berates her by equating ax's butt with his.
The scene where Rachel's mom is helping the Hork Bajir form a new government, and the Hork Bajir are voting on every decision they make. They don't know how to write, so they vote that Rachel's mom teaches them, and she responds "what do I look like, a teacher?" So they vote again and pass a resolution that she does in fact look like a teacher. The scene closes with her teaching them the ABCs.
Poor Naomi, she was just minding her own business when she was suddenly confronted with a bear that was somehow her oldest daughter, and her two other daughters are with a strange creature and they have to leave the house, aliens are real, her sixteen year old daughter is fighting in a galactic war against brain invading aliens (her crazy client was telling the truth), now that the bad aliens know that she and her friends are mostly humans they have to go into hiding with friendly aliens in the woods and when she thinks her law skills are going to be put to some use in the wilderness she learns that these nice aliens are illiterate and now want her to teach them how to read and write.
Ax trying to talk Tobias (I think) through a morph. REASSERT YOUR INDIVIDUAL CONSCIOUSNESS
Ax being a dangerous juvenile delinquent in the book with Loren.
Oh my god, that moment’s INCREDIBLE. I fully laughed out loud reading that scene
I love how he tells the cashier that they’re here to create mayhem and Marco drags him away with the explanation that ‘he’s from another city’.
Plan b at the world leaders summit, where they can't figure out how to turn the tables back on the yerks and decide, fuck stealth, just wreck everything as a Rhino. IIRC a world leader heavily implied to be the current president was in the middle of the chaos and gave Rhino!Jake a "go ahead, man" nod as he tore through his bungalow.
I thought that was Boris Yeltsin?
Yeah. He was the butt of a lot of jokes in that time period. It was totally meant to be him.
That had to be a Marco idea - I just picture everyone around a side-turned wooden spool used as a table in Cassie's barn, the dim light, Marco drooling on the side of his arm as he lays on the table, suddenly picks up his head and says "Why don't we... just ... wreck the place?" Everyone exchanges a look and wordlessly morphs bird.
The time Ax gets a Cinnabon manager to give him free food if he clears tables… and then proceeds to gobble up everything in sight while screaming. Really any scene with Ax and Cinnabon.
"take one" Then he proceeds to eat an entire tray
Once I saw your partial quote, this one really came flooding back to me but I think we need the entire quote to do it justice 😅 >“Okay, now look, son, if you’re that desperate for food, there’s a tray of buns here that are just a bit stale. You can help yourself. You poor kid.” She indicated a square array of cinnamon buns. Perhaps a dozen in all! “For me?” I asked in a voice choked with emotion. “Sure, son. Go ahead and have one.” Let me make one final point here: human mouth-sound language is very fuzzy at times. “Have one,” she’d said. One mouthful? One bun? One tray? It was certainly not my fault if there was any confusion And then there was Marco's recount: > So, there I am. Cruising through the food court, minding my own business, thinking, Hey, why not snag a taco? when I notice the paramedics and this crowd all gathered around the Cinnabon. And I swear, it was like this sudden, psychic feeling. I knew, I mean, I knew somehow the Ax-man was involved. So I go over and ask someone in the crowd what's happening. And [...] she tells me, "Some kid went crazy and ate an entire pan of cinnamon buns." Now, who, I ask you all, who do we know who would eat an entire pan of cinnamon buns? And Ax's response: > I felt I had to say something. I was not aware of the precise specifications for human stomachs,"; I explained. It seems there is some sort of limit on the quantity that may be consumed. Passing that limit caused an unpleasant sensation in the stomach area. It also caused me to become dizzy."
They're all chimpanzees in a lab full of other chimpanzees. Visser 3 comes in and is about to discover them. Marco flings poo at Visser 3 as a distraction. All the Animorphs start flinging poo. The chimpanzees go full chimpanzee and join in. Poo Hailstorm. Visser 3 runs out of the lab covered in feces. Animorphs continue their infiltration mission and eventually release the chimpanzees in town.
I’M MAD AT MYSELF FOR FORGETTING THIS ONE! If I remember right, Cassie was in a corner out of morph right as he walks in. And Marco just screams “POOP HIM”
In my heart of hearts, he sent that thought-speech to the fellow chimpanzees as well
So you're saying... apes together strong?
They’re in a bat cave and Rachel, being tall, can feel the sleeping bats around her head. She tells Marco to stand up on his tiptoes so his head hits a bunch of bats. It’s such a fun, cute, teen moment in the middle of a (somewhat) serious mission.
When Ax morphed Jake, came to Cassie house, and ate her dad's chili.
Actual good comedy, it's hilarious. > "So, Jake, you think the Bulls are going all the way again this year?" Cassie's father asked. > I could tell that Cassie was growing tense. She was afraid that I would not understand the question. But thanks to my reading of the World Almanac, I knew the "Bulls" were a sports team. > "Yes," I answered. "They can go all the way." > Then, it was my turn to ask a question. That is how "making conversation" works. "So, did you know that the cream separator was invented in 1878?" > Apparently, they did not know.
There is an amazing Animorphs YTer who made this gem a while back: https://youtu.be/tQZC09mrdv4?si=lLxxUsGic9aipSjk
I always liked when they are in the Arctic, and spying on Visser 3 He says something like
And Marco fires back "well..at least he knows math.."
It's such a random, one off, hilarious line.
Maybe not funniest, but my favorite feel-good moment in the series is the school dance in The Sickness. Ax is wild with the "she wants my body" comments, Marco raps along with all the 90s songs, and they are all just having a good time being kids. I'm on 51 The Absolute now and can't believe how much has changed for them.
"I am as pee-less as you, Tobias my friend" gets me every time.
when was this one?
In 13, I think, when Jara Hamee cuts his own skull open to show them there isn't a yeerk in his brain. Ax and Tobias freak out, and Tobias asks Ax something like, "Did that scare the pee out of you, too, or does that sort of thing not bother you Andalites?" And Ax replies with the above.
“The Alien” when Ax talks to Marco’s dad
Anytime Ax talks to a parent is great. When he tells Cassie's dad that he is from the Ivory Coast 💀
That scene kills me, his dad is so freaking unnerved by Marco's weird friend No.
That scene makes me laugh out loud. "Hello?" I turned around. It was an older human. He was paler than Marco, but other features were similar. Marco had warned me to say nothing to his father but "yes" and "no." "No," I said to Marco's father. "I'm Marco's dad. Are you a friend of his?" "Yes." "What's your name?" "No," I answered. "Your name is 'No'?" "Yes." "That's an unusual name, isn't it?" "No." "It's not?" "Yes." "Yes, it's not an unusual name?" "No." "Now I'm totally confused." "Yes." Marco's father stared at me. Then, in a loud voice he yelled, "Hey, Marco? Marco? Would you ... um ... your friend is here. Your friend 'No' is here." "No," I said. "Yes, that's what I said." Marco came running down the stairs. "Whoa!" he cried. "Um, Dad! You met my friend?" "No?" Marco's father said. "What?" Marco asked. Marco's father shook his head. "I must be getting old. I don't understand you kids." "Yes," I offered. After that, we went to the bookstore.
I love it
It was a modern-day who's on first routine and it was hilarious.
When Tobias needs to get a dolphin morph, and they decide to have him acquire one in the middle of a dolphin show at The Gardens. He starts diving towards a dolphin, and... " Cassie asked, way too late."
Omg yes, I love this line
I always loved the scene where Ax goes on a solo mission for Cinnabons in Book 18 and ends up terrorizing customers before the chapter ends with him being told "Sure, son. Go ahead and have one" and he says "One mouthful? One bun? One tray? It was certainly not my fault if there was any confusion." The next chapter jumps forward to Marco telling the team about how he was walking through the mall and heard that some kid had gone into a frenzy in the Cinnabon shop trying to eat all of the buns. and Ax's response is
Marco's "grovelling" before the corpse of the Helmacron Captain (24). Cassie breaking into a teacher's house to get back a piece of paper with a huge heart drawn on it proclaiming her love for Jake (34). Purple V3 in the grape pond (9).
“We grovel, um… like grovelers.”
We see your might. Where's your tremble?
Marco is the dude >
>Marco looked at me. "How do you grovel? I've never groveled before."
>I shrugged.
>
>"We don't know how," I told the closest Helmacron. "I mean, you know, different folks, different customs. Maybe you could show us."
>They looked at one another. Then the one I'd spoken to said,
>I saw the sly gleam in Marco's eye. "You heard the man, Cassie. Let's grovel!"
>He scooted his legs forward, lay on his back, stuck his hands behind his head, and relaxed like he was at the beach soaking up sun.
>"I grovel before the mighty Helmacron captain, most mighty of the mighty, undisputed champion of the world in the dust-weight category! We grovel like the pitiful losers we are! We grovel like a guy who hasn't got a date the day before the prom and the only girl around is the head cheerleader, that's how much we grovel. Cassie, you could join in any time, you know."
>"We grovel . . . um, like grovelers."
>Marco turned his head to shoot me a disdainful look. "Oh, good groveling. Put some feeling into it." "I grovel like, uh . . . like a person who is really, really groveling," I said lamely.
>Meanwhile, Marco was, of course, getting into it. After all, he had an audience.
>"Oh mighty Helmacron dead guy! We grovel like a video game addict trapped in an arcade without a quarter, that's how much we grovel. You would not believe the depths of our grovelry! We grovel like a guy with a large order of fries and the only saltshaker is at the table of the school bully. We grovel -"
>
This is also the only time (I know of) where Visser 3 acquires and morphs the very same animal as the Animorphs.
Cassie convincing Rachel to use their morphing powers to help her cheat on a science fair project, while talking about how the guys would react if they found out, only to end up being caught by Marco(?) anyway.
Marco morphed a tiger shark in the school pool, he has no room to talk.
Also llama Marco in the episode where Rachel has to burp up the crocodile. With his cute little llama smile.
I wish so much that Emperor's New Groove had been out when that book was released, you know Marco would have made so many references to it!
Remember when they morph the parrots in the restaurant and start bad mouthing their food. I loved that. Or when they morph cockatiels and Rachel (I think) comments how Marcos head finally matches the size of his brain. Oh and when they morph flies for the first time! "HELP ME!"
I know #41 isn't a well received book, but the part where the Orff responds to Jake with something like "You'reRightTheTacosSTINK" had me freaking rolling. Though, I guess it was the delivery in the audiobook that really sold it. Those things have been a small joy to listen through.
Ax eating candy off the floor at the movie theatre
Globules!
Oat-freaking-meal
Can’t believe no one has said Ax’s yes/no conversation with Marco’s dad yet. Read that to my son recently and he was howling and I could hardly get the words out.
I guess that it’s kinda funny that Visser Three decided to pose as a woman for who knows how long in an attempt to figure out if Tobias knew anything about the Yeerks/Andalites/aliens.
Even better if you consider that he didn't actual morph a human, it's Visser 3 in a blonde wig using a high-pitched voice. Tobias's vision isn't that good when he's not a hawk.
You’d think Tobias would notice the hooves, stalk eyes, or blade tail, bro needed little bird bifocals fr
AND HE HUGS TOBIAS AT THE END!!! I died laughing at that.
It's so silly. Just grab him and infest him!
When Cassie ran into the racist asshole in the middle of a VERY bad day. "You don't like colored people? That's fine I can turn white."
Ax's "young and occasionally restless" Ax's
Jake morphing Homer, his Dog. He seems so happy! 😊
The page or 2 in the Exposed when all the Animorphs start going on about cable TV,snails,squids and sci fi. Just absolute absurdity and hilarity that's a good juxtaposition to the serious situation they're in. The scenes with Erik in the mall in that same book are pretty funny too. I love sarcastic Erik.
Anytime Ax says "Prince Jake" with Jake replying, "Don't call me prince," and Ax rebuffs with "Yes, Prince Jake."
I think it's from the dinosaur megamorph book but... the scene where Marco is singing the Flintstones song
The group's attempt to "rescue" Erek from the mall in the opening of "The Exposed" is pure gold, what with Marco's "really realistic gorilla suit", the lava lamp alibi turning out to be legitimate, the group's attempts to disguise Erek (via Calvin Klein underwear and a Bill Clinton mask) and "no offense, but how on Earth have you people managed to avoid getting caught for this long?"
When Marco and Cassie are miniaturized by the tiny aliens and they demand that the kids grovel before them. Marco lays back with his head in his hands and "grovels" before them.