The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee/Funny

"Leaf: I like my hair/Really, it is pleasant to the touch/I toss my hair/A bit too much/It doesn't move/It simply sits/I make a part/I'm not that smart"
 * "Leaf Coneybear has cats!"
 * In some shows, it was "Leaf Coneybear wrote cats!"
 * Referenced in a MySpace video where he showed off a cat cape he designed.
 * One speller is given the word Cow to spell. She asks for a definition and sentence.
 * "...IT'S A COW"
 * "Can you use that in a sentence?" "Please. Spell. COW!
 * This is, actually, Truth in Television; in the final rounds, occasionally the judges will throw a straightforward word at a contestant in order to make them second-guess themselves. Most spellers will ask for a definition and a sentence, just in case.
 * Audience participants are told to ask for a definition and a sentence, regardless of whether they feel they need one.
 * The sentence given for the word fandango is "I see a little silhouetto of a man; Scaramouch, Scaramouch, will you do the fandango?"
 * Generally, the definition and/or sentence for every word will lead to laughter:
 * Mexican: "Someone from Mexico, OR an American slang term for anyone from Puerto Rico, Brazil, the Dominican Republic, or Spain." "Guacamole, the Mexican pudding."
 * "In the schoolyard, Billy protested that he wasn't cockeyed. 'I suffer from strabismus!' he said, whereupon the bullies beat him harder."
 * "Billy, put down that phylactery! We're Episcopalians!"
 * Halfway through "I'm Not That Smart" the singer totally derails from the topic (promptly forgetting the word he's supposed to spell):

"Chip: Anyone for buying the shit that I'm selling/Because my stiffy has ruined my spelling?"
 * The Serious Business attitude with which everyone approaches the titular bee is inherently funny, but for this troper the highlight has to be "My Unfortunate Erection" wherein Chip laments making a fatal technical error while being distracted by the onset of puberty:

"Logainne: I don't have a
 * My favorite moment would be when Not only does he treat it like Serious Business, but Barfee also tries to put Rona's hand sanitizer on his foot.
 * The conversation she has with her father is cruelly funny, bordering on a Black Comedy Burst

Carl Dad: Or a mother."