The Funniest Moments In The Princess Bride Ranked

We can analyze these moments all we want, but some of them are brilliant precisely because of their childish simplicity. And as anyone stuck with their younger siblings for too long knows, plenty of children have come up with the rhyming game Fezzik and Inigo play on their voyage to Guilder. After both characters endure a round of verbal abuse from Vizzini for daring to point out his evil scheme is kind of, well, evil, Inigo starts the game to lift Fezzik's spirits. Needless to say, Vizzini does not care for all the rhyming.

Nobody does impotent exasperation quite like the tiny Wallace Shawn, and it's almost as fun to watch André and Patinkin needling him as it must have been for their characters. Finally, Vizzini puts his foot down, hollering, "No more rhymes, and I mean it!" And like any child getting told off by an older brother, Fezzik, unfazed, can't resist getting one last kick in, saying, "Anybody want a peanut?" Vizzini's scream echoes across the water, and since it's dark by the time of the next scene, for all we know, Inigo and Fezzik kept it up well into the night.