Share any of the funny moments you've run into during the course of the game here. I have a few myself:

The Farmer and the Mudcrab
- I was doing some random questing near Morthal when I see this Dunmer in plain clothes with a dagger walking down the road towards a bridge. He doesn't have a name, just called "Farmer." He tells me he is on his way to Solitude to join the Imperial Legion. I let him go about his way and just as he walks past me, I hear him yell and draw his dagger. He runs towards a mudcrab in the upcoming creek and the mudcrab...kills him in one hit. I don't think this guy would have been a very big asset to the Empire anyway...

The Fleas of Skyrim
- I was doing a quest accompanied by Aela the Huntress of the Companions. We were battling some Silver Hand mooks and as we finish them off, she shouts "LIKE THE BITE OF A FLEA!" Turns out she was shouting it response to taking an arrow to the forehead. I just looked at her as she sheathed her blade, arrow still sticking out of her forehead, and all I can do is wonder just how big Skyrim's fleas really are...

Imperials fear the Dragonborn
- Playing through the Stormcloak side of things, I found myself aiding in the capture of an Imperial Fortress. If you've played these before, you'll know that they display a "counter" of the percentage of Imperials left to kill in order to take the fort. Well, after breaking through a barricade, I ran up a flight of stairs. Four Imperial soldiers were clustered along the top of the fort's outer wall as my greatsword wielding Nord came running up. The were all backing away from me using their bows. One big Fus Ro Dah sent all 4 flying in one shot over the wall. The % counter dropped from around 90% down to about 60% thanks to that one move.

Rorikstead Orphans
- This one is a bit more sad...If you've ever been to Rorikstead, you'll inevitably hear one of the NPCs tell you that if a dragon were to attack, they'd all be dead. The city is defenseless. Well what should happen as I pass through? Not far from town, a named dragon is resurrected and makes a bee line for Rorikstead. After a long epic fight, myself, the guards and the townspeople managed to defeat this dragon, though everyone was pretty busted up. However, the battle music does not end and I see another red dot flying around my compass....this time, it's a frost dragon showing up at the worst possible time. By the time he is slain and I'm taking his soul, the entire populace of the town who was outside at the time is dead except for two little girls. They ran up to one of the dragon skeletons and asked me if I was sure it was dead....yeah, it is dead, but so are your parents....

Feel free to add any tales or hilarity, irony or sadness that you've come across in your travels.

I keep seeing rabbits running underwater when I go fishing! ...and no, I didn't just eat a strange ingredient to learn it's effect...heh heh.

I was talking to that elf barman at the black-briar meadery and while he was saying you should get out of town, maven black-briar came and stood next to him lol.

Was hanging out in Riften some time after cleaning out Mercer's house for the TG. Mercer's lackey (whom I did not kill, but snuck pas) is waiting for me outside of a shop and charges at me with a weapon. I take off running, not wanting to start trouble in downtown, and decide to let the guards take care of him. I sprint off a distance and turn around to look. The goon runs by the blacksmith's shop where the Blacksmith is sitting at his grindstone. As the guy runs by the blacksmith the dude gets off the wheel, one-shots the lackey with a sword to the chest as he runs by, then sits right back down and continues sharpening the sword. Not a word was said.

I had a mission to kill some bandit leader in his gangs hideout. I found the spot and went into sneak mode. As I approached a Dragon attacked the gang. I saw the dragon pick up someone with it's mouth and throw them. I got a message that popped up telling me to go back and collect my reward. I just sneaked away and claimed my reward from the stewart.

I was collecting hides and was chasing an elk that I injured. The thing ran right into a giant camp. I was low level and scared to death of giants so I hide outside and waited for the elk to come back out. I heard a pounding noise and looked up to see the elk flying straight upward and out of site. I looked for it's corpse but never did find it.

I didn't know giants were bad or had short tempers. Apparently I got to close to his camp one day when I was level 6.

I was still going towards the sky when the game decided to load my most recent save.

Sometimes getting eaten by a dragon is funny, and sometimes it isn't...

Happened to me, as well. I giggled for the 5 minutes she stood there while he verbally ran her down. I can only imagine his next performance review.

Yeah, I was still afraid to mess with Giants with my level well into the 40s.

The 2nd dragon I ever faced (the one that's part of the MQ was the first) landed in a Giant camp. Having already messed with the Giants at a low level before, I was now afraid I'd have a dragon, 2 giants and some mammoths after me. Instead, the Giants turned on the dragon who still had ~80% health and killed it in one hit.

Then I was left with the sticky situation of getting close enough to loot the dragon and capture it's soul without the Giants coming after me...I sprinted in, looted the corpse as it started disintegrating and I heard the distinct "thud...Thud...THUD" of a Giant coming up behind me. I sprinted until I was out of stamina and never looked back. He couldn't have missed me by much.

LOL, I had to out run a giant once. He was swinging that big club at me and I was running around trees so I couldn't get me. I ended up jumping off a cliff into a river to ditch him. I gave him the bird as I floated away.

My companion Marcurio has been pretty good, but he's always griping about the frigid temperatures in the north. Blah blah blah, on and on - I'd buy him an electric blanket if there were outlets in Skyrim.

While we were were plundering Forsaken Cave he asked, "Do you think it would be a bad idea to stop a for a while and light a fire? I suppose it would."

As he said it, his armor was still smoldering after he had recklessly stomped on three consecutive fire traps within the previous 15 seconds.

Shortly after "finding" Esbern and walking all the way back to Riverwood i lost him somewhere along the way. So i did what i had to do since i was the one to escort him to safety and walked back along the same path/road, but what i found was way too disturbing to even share without a few drinks or rather...alot!

There he was kneeling by some fresly slain creature in the middle of the road, a SPIDER! I was looking at this scene and could not deceide wether i should laugh or feel disgusted!

Esbern on his knees actually hugging this huge dead spider while the drool or venom was still dripping from it's jaws!

I can't be the only person to witness an epic Mudcrab Vs Dragon fight.

I like to look over edges as I'm climbing up or downhill. I was going downhill, I wasn't far from flat terra firma, So i peek over the edge, to look at what is down there, and my son bursts in my room, I jerk the mouse, and my finger is always just above the W button. so I fall off the edge

to land in the middle of a giant walking his mammoth. I was gone in 60 seconds.

A picture says a thousand words:
http://cloud.steampowered.com/ugc/631859755065328748/5A8F4C5ADAFF3023ECCD0743B15782FBE773A9B0/

But in this case, the only words I can find are "What is this, I don't even..."



Edit: if the stupid link'd work... steam seems to be having problems.

I use dragonrend on a frost dragon attacking Winterhold. It flies over to the College's second floor paraqet. Then comes back. I repeat this about 5 times before it finally lands somewhere reachable.

I found out how Mammoths mate one day:

http://cloud.steampowered.com/ugc/630733855149772696/B5E3ADF28ABFB1D9B9EC26EEAD2C1A12355CA2A0/

EDIT:

Lol, I had the same thing, but I was wandering around the mountains and found a Mountain Goat half in the snow head down. Was hilarious, should have screenshotted it in retrospec.

Gosh I miss the Imperial Guards, "FOR THE EMPIRE!!!!!" when they fight Mudcrabs.

I actually find it hilarious how big the mudcrabs are, make the ones in Oblivion look like a joke both size and combat wise.

I had an incident where I was having weight issues and had to drop some items, so I drop a Candlestick on the tavern floor in Riften and Mjoll and some other rich patron fought over it. Mjoll basically split him in two with her battleaxe, all for a measly candlestick and the funny thing is I thought Mjoll was suppose to be a protector, I guess that isn't the case anymore.

Only real funny moment I can think of was when I was starting my second character. The guy who gets shot with an arrow right at the beginning? The arrow sent him flying off screen for some reason in a ragdoll kind of way that was absolutely hysterical. xDD

I feel for you regarding a "controller malfunction."

I was new to the game, low level, and was sent to kill a giant outside of Whiterun. No problem... I stepped into camp, sword, sword, sword, killed the giant, grabbed a toe and went on my way thinking, "hey, those are easy to kill." After I walked back to Whiterun and set down my controller while the screen was loading so I could grab a soda out of the fridge. As I picked it up, I accidentally dragged the R2 switch on the couch and SHOUTED directly into the face of a guard. He freaks out and wants to arrest me. I figure "I have cash" and I'll just pay the fine. Oh no... my companion Lydiot goes into full attack mode and won't give up. I step into Breezehome thinking maybe I can wait it out. Slept for 48 hours but every time I stepped outside the battle was still raging. Finally gave up, reloaded an earlier save, backtracked to the Giant Camp... and couldn't kill the giant to save my life! Must have tried 5 or 6 times before I went to bed angry.

Next day, I stepped into camp, sword, sword, sword, killed the giant, grabbed a toe and went on my way thinking, "hey, those are easy to kill."

My first experience with dropping some loot in a pub (The bannered mare, I think), some random guy shouts something to the effect of, "Damn Barbarians, leaving their trash everywhere!" I laughed.

Also, in my first venture into the Tundra, I witness a Mammoth launch straight into the air for no apparent reason, then die upon impact with the ground.

I cast fury on a bunny and it got pincushioned by like 10 guards.

What the..? Lmao

I remember being like lvl 5 or 6, and running into the giant/mammoths outside Whiterun. Got hit like a golf ball a couple thousand feet up. "Hey! I can see my house from here! "

I found a farmer walking his painted cow to offer it to the giants so they wouldn't mess with him or his livestock. I decided to follow him to this giants camp west of Whiterun and he walked up to the giant and it got pissed at him and just smacked him straight down and he flew up into the sky never to fall back down. It was so hilarious. I reloaded it a few times to watch it again, but after the first time he started running away and just getting knocked over instead of up into space

I'm gonna put it down to one of Arniel's experiment's gone awry... again