Well, I pride myself in my vocabulary, and even *I* was having a hard time in a couple of cases. When I have to think to get a joke, I usually only laugh if the joke was subtly hidden within the text, not because I had to strain myself to remember obscure vocabulary.
Proabably the funniest moment of the series was when Rich A. Texan described himself, and the robot screamed "Squee! It's a monster!"
(Oh yeah, and it was an Albatross that the sailor shot, not a gull. j00 aRe St00pid!)