S.T.A.L.K.E.R. (series)/Funny

• Crowning Moment of Funny: Plenty, if you speak Russian. Much of the conversations around campfires will consist entirely of Stalkers taking turns telling jokes to each other, many of which are hilarious.
  • The Zone Survival Guide used to have a bunch of translations for said jokes before it shut down, but luckily the internet archive saved the page. View them here.
  • The A-Life system, asides from creating random and memorable encounters between entities of the zone, can also result in some rather strange and hilarious circumstances. Surviving stalkers will drag the bodies of the dead off to the side or into the brush, but on occasion the player can come across said bodies piled in the campfires scattered about the zone. Artificial Stupidity? Desperate measures for desperate times? Viking funeral? One guess is as good as any, though there's something to be said for arriving at a camp to find a favorite NPC being roasted like a pig by his surviving friends.
    • Sometimes the result appears to be a fatal attempt to re-enact a certain scene from Blazing Saddles.
• From the film:
  • Professor decides to go back for his rucksack. Stalker and Writer are worried he will get lost and die, but decide to press forward through the tunnel. They exit the tunnel and find Professor sitting on a rock, enjoying coffee and sandwiches.
  • The dry tunnel is not actually a dry tunnel.
  • Professor is a constant source of hilarious situation. But his most hilarious moment is when he's ranting at the stalker when they approach the Room... a phone near them starts ringing, professor denies the call and continues shouting at his now-totally-shocked companions. Only several seconds later he also realizes this phone is in the abandoned building several kilometers into the zone, with everything completely wiped out. Followed by his Crowning Moment of Awesome, when he decides to make a call.
• The PA announcements at the Freedom base in Clear Sky will occasionally be interrupted by arguments between the camp trader, Ashot, and the technician, Yar. Listen for yourselves.
• "Marked One? What the HELL!?"