- Maria comes racing back into the abbey after her opening number, only to suddenly notice the Reverend Mother and several other nuns right next to her. She promptly slows to a walk and gives a brief glance skyward.
- Somewhat "meta" here, but hearing the nuns complain about Maria "singing in the abbey" becomes about five times funnier when you realise that this complaint is expressed through song, while they're in the abbey.
- Reverend Mother calls Maria to her office, Maria thinks she's in trouble yet again. "You know how Sister Berthe always makes me kiss the floor after we've had a disagreement? Well, lately I've taken to kissing the floor when I see her coming just to save time."
- In the film, the Reverend Mother clearly has to resist the urge to Face Palm.
- Maria's reaction to being sent to take care of seven children - her eyes look ready to pop out of her head. Reverend Mother calmly asks "don't you like children, Maria?" - to which Maria says she does "but seven?"
- Maria also shows that despite her naiveté, she's no fool—when the Mother Superior says that the Captain has had a very difficult time finding a governess for the children, Maria warily asks, "Er. . .why so difficult?", no doubt instantly suspecting that the children must be very badly behaved.
- This gets followed up when she meets the Captain:Captain: I trust you'll be an improvement over the last [governess]. She stayed only two hours.
Maria: What's wrong with the children, sir?
Captain: (amused, as if this is a bizarre question) There's nothing wrong with the children. Only the governesses.
- Maria stops in the middle of her own musical number "I Have Confidence" when she sees the size of the house. Julie Andrews' delivery of "Oh, help" is priceless.
- Followed by nearly slipping and falling on her face as she tries to sing some more about how confident she is, an actual flub by Julie Andrews that everyone naturally agreed to keep in the film.
- "Hello! Here I am!"
"..."
"I'm from the convent - I'm the new governess, Captain."
"And I'm the old butler, Fraulein." - After the Captain asks Maria why she still has her dress if all her clothes were given to the poor: "The poor didn't want this one."
- Also, "I won't have to whistle for them, Reverend Captain—I mean—"
- In the same scene after refusing to use his whistle methods:Captain von Trapp: Were you this much trouble at the Abbey?
Maria: Oh, much more, sir. - As the Captain begins to leave her with the children, she blows the whistle, causing him to stop."...Excuse me, sir. I don't know your signal."
- Kurt reprimanding Brigitta for calling Maria's dress the ugliest one they ever saw, since one of their previous governesses wore an even uglier one.
- When Kurt introduces himself as "incorrigible", Maria responds with "Congratulations"...which is funnier when you realise what incorrigible actually means (uncontrollable or firmly fixed in their ways). Moreso, when he asks her what it means, she lies to him that it means "wants to be treated like a boy".
- The children slip a frog in Maria's dress pocket, and Frau Schmidt says she's lucky because the last time that happened to the previous governess, it was a snake.
- When Maria arrives at dinner, she sits on a pinecone the children place in her seat, leading to Captain von Trapp to say this:Captain von Trapp: Enchanting little ritual. Something you learned at the Abbey?Maria: No, it's uh...uh...rheumatism.
- While they're eating dinner, Maria guilt-trips the children for trying to make her first day miserable, causing all of them to lose their appetites. Liesl and the two boys sit in shamefaced silence, and Marta, Louisa, Brigitta, and Gretl start to cry one by one:Captain von Trapp: Uh, Fraulein...is it to be at every meal, or merely at dinnertime, that you intend leading us all through this rare and wonderful new world of... indigestion?
Maria: (Beat) Oh, they're all right, Captain. They're just happy... [cue full-on bawling from the four girls] - When Georg tells the children that Uncle Max will be coming back with him, he is quite clearly rolling his eyes.
- When blessing the Captain and the children during her nightly prayer, she forgets Kurt's name. "Well God bless what's-his-name."
- It comes to her later: "KURT! That's the one I left out! God bless Kurt!" *cue thunder BOOM*
- After Liesl casually mentions that Louisa can make the climb up to the governess' room with a whole jar of spiders in her hand, Maria reacts brilliantly. Despite having a heart-to-heart with Liesl, she spends the rest of the scene sneakily checking under her bedsheets for anything. She later does find something... but it turns out to be a slipper.
- During the thunderstorm, after all the girls arrive Maria's bedroom, Maria remarks "Now all we have to do is wait for the boys", with Brigitta responding "You won't see them, boys are brave", and after another flash of thunder, the boys hurry in, though as they arrive, they try to slow their pace, to make it look as though they were strolling by.Maria: (stifling laughter) You weren't scared, were you?
- The Captain and the Baroness pass by some children up trees dressed in matching outfits. She asks what on earth is going on, to which he replies, "It's nothing. Just some local urchins."
- What caps off his reply is his face when he says it, which screams an internal monologue of "wait a second, but they look like... Nah, my children are far too disciplined and sensible to be climbing trees. Aren't they..? Oh god, please let it not be my children...".
- Georg introducing Baroness Schraeder to his children...right after witnessing them fall off their rowboat into the lake."...and THESE... are my children."
- Her trying to stifle her laughter at the scene is the icing on the cake.
- When Maria explains that the children's play clothes are the reused drapes from her room:Captain: [with barely restrained anger] You mean to tell me my children have been running around Salzburg dressed in nothing but some old drapes?!?
Maria: [grinning from ear-to-ear] Mmhmm! And having a marvelous time! - "I am not finished, Captain—" "Oh, yes, YOU ARE, CAPTAIN— Fraulein."
- When the children and Maria discuss who should sing next, Maria then presents her guitar to the Captain. The look on his face is utterly priceless.
- Brigitta's blunt honesty throughout the film is priceless.Brigitta: (to Maria after the dance with the Captain) Your face is all red.
- Liesl's verse in "So Long, Farewell" and her father's response:So long! Farewell! Au revoir! Auf Wiedersehen!
Liesl: I'd like to stay and taste my first champagne! Yes?
Captain von Trapp: No.- Liesl's pouting face afterwards.
- Becomes more hilarious when you learn that Christopher Plummer (Captain von Trapp) taught Charmian Carr (Liesl) how to drink.
- When the von Trapp kids play catch with the Baroness, the Baroness gets hit in the crotch with a ball.
- After Maria leaves and the children aren't in the mood for singing, Gretl claims she can't sing because she hurt her finger. What really makes the gag is that Max doesn't question it at all.
- When the Captain points out a hole in the children's blueberry-picking story - namely, that blueberries aren't in season yet - Friedrich tries to cover with, "They were strawberries! It's been so cold lately they turned blue."
- Then the "Did I really just say that?" look on Friedrich's face directly afterwards.
- Captain von Trapp's face is just hilarious as his children's lie get more outlandish. He's visibly Corpsing.
- The Captain's Deadpan Snarker personality is out in full force during this scene as he continuously acts as though he's playing along with his children's Blatant Lies only to keep pulling the rug out from under them. In contrast to his earlier stern self, it's clear that he's not even remotely angry with the children for being late for dinner or not telling him where they were going; he just finds the whole thing incredibly amusing. Which is then topped off by the children (having apparently managed to talk themselves out of having any dinner at all) realising that there was no real reason to not just tell him the truth in the first place.
- Remember how Maria said nuns' worldly clothes are given to the poor when they join the convent? At the opening of the scene where Reverend Mother convinces Maria to return to the von Trapps, she has just finished admitting a new postulant, and sends her to change into her robes. In the next scene, when Maria returns to the Von Trapps, she's wearing the dress that new postulant gave up!
- When Maria asks Gretl how she hurt her finger: "It got caught!" "Caught in what?" "Friedrich's teeth!"
- Brigitta has some questions after Max enters the children into the festival while the Captain and Maria are on their honeymoon.Brigitta: Uncle Max, will father approve of us singing at the festival?
Max: Oh, he'll be pleased and proud.
Brigitta: Liesl, do you think so?
Max: Don't you trust me?
Brigitta: No!
Max: You're a very intelligent girl. - When they get caught trying to flee the house, Georg quickly claims that their car wouldn't start. Herr Zeller sends an officer to fix it, which of course he does, because there's nothing wrong with it. Georg can only make a sheepish expression at having been caught in a lie.
- Fraulein Schweiger, the third prize-winner at the festival, who won't stop bowing. Max plays along with this for laughs and isn't in a rush to get her off the stage, because her antics buy the von Trapp family a bit of extra time to escape before their names are called as the winners.
- When the family hides from the Nazis, Gretl epitomizes Children Are Innocent when she blithely asks Maria, "Would it help if we sang about our favorite things?" (Maria had taught them the song as a means of feeling better or allaying their fears) Maria quickly tells her, "No, darling, this time it would not help." and tells her to be very quiet.
- Two nuns come up to the Mother Superior while she watches the Nazis struggle with starting their cars:Sister Margaretha: Reverend Mother, I have sinned.
Sister Berthe: I too, Reverend Mother.
Mother Superior: What is this sin, my children?
[both nuns look at each other, then produce engine parts from the Nazis' cars from under their robes] - The Salzburg Marionette Theatre premiered a puppet version of The Sound of Music in 2007. Among other changes, "The Lonely Goatherd" plays during the curtain call...in which the puppeteers operate marionettes of the von Trapps operating marionettes of the characters in the song.
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