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    12 Jokes From ‘Back to the Outback’ Ranked by How Hard I Laughed

    “I’ve never been more aroused in my life.”

    By Casey Suglia
    Nov. 29, 2021

The new kids film Back to the Outback has a stellar cast, a soundtrack you can jam out to, and enough talking animals to make you want to take a trip to the nearest zoo. But it’s also filled with jokes that had us laughing out loud during our first and second watch of the animated flick. In case you missed some of the quips in Back to the Outback the first time that you watched, here are the 12 silliest jokes from the film, in order of how hard they made us laugh. 

 12. “Sweet. Like a tiny cloud filled with hate” is the way that the scorpion Nigel refers to the koala Pretty Boy once he’s passed out, and Nigel isn’t wrong. Pretty Boy may be a cuddly koala, but he is not a nice marsupial. 

 11. Pretty Boy has a therapist on speed dial who apparently has a helicopter, too. 

 10. Nigel has a “horror of beige.” Some people are afraid of his stinger, he’s afraid of the lack of color. 

 9. Pretty Boy’s ability to drive. After he successfully overtakes a firetruck and drives it through the outback, a firefighter says, “I knew we should have never taught him to drive.” 

 8. Frank the spider can’t get a date. It’s not his fault he’s alone! He’s single by choice, or the fact that he’s the only spider at the zoo. Poor guy. 

 7. The creatures not knowing the proper name for stars. “What are all of those twinkly dots?” Nigel asks. “I think they’re called dandruff,” Frank replies. “It floats up into the sky and shines at night.” Sure?

 6. Astronauts in space watching the zoo’s Pretty Boy livestream. If everyone all over the world can get excited about whether or not it’s a “bones day” or “no bones day,” then watching a livestream of a koala playing with his blankie at the zoo all day is pretty realistic. You’ll LOL at how spot-on it is.

 5. Pretty Boy following astrology. “I’m a Capricorn, I hate everybody.” Sounds about right.

 4. The creatures disguising themselves as dung to get to the Outback. Even grown-ups have to admit that poop humor is just a little funny. 

 3. Pretty Boy’s “rabies face.” Every time the movie shows the security footage of Pretty Boy foaming from the mouth after getting stung by Nigel, you’ll laugh out loud. Trust. 

 2. “Against All Odds” by Phil Collins playing during the Pretty Boy Tribute scene. Sure, it’s a love song written in the wake of Collins’ divorce from his first wife, but it can also apply to a beloved national treasure who might have died of rabies. 

 1. Frank the spider saying, “I’ve never been more aroused in my life” after meeting spider Legs Luciano. Yeah, that one might go over your kid’s head but it also made us spit out our lime Lacroix the first time we watched.

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