# Awkward/bizarre moments that must have happened in a movie but were NOT depicted on screen **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Tags:** movies\ **Created:** [June 28, 2023, 3:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/awkward-bizarre-moments-that-must-have-happened-in-a-movie-but-were-not-depicted-on-screen/986202 "2023-06-28T03:31:44Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 19\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![dorvann](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/df705f/32.png) [@dorvann](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dorvann)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2023, 3:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/awkward-bizarre-moments-that-must-have-happened-in-a-movie-but-were-not-depicted-on-screen/986202/1 "2023-06-28T03:31:44Z")
I am here looking for awkward/bizarre moments that must have happened in a movie(or television show) but were **NOT** depicted on screen. For example I was watching _Terminator 2: Judgement Day_ again. In it there was a scene where the naked T-800 Terminator (Arnold) gets in to fight in a biker bar after asking a patron for his bike and clothes. The naked Terminator obviously wins. The movie then cuts to a very famous scene where The Terminator walks OUT of the bar fully clothed in leather while “Bad to the Bone” to plays. This means there had to have been an awkward/bizarre moment IN the bar where the Terminator was just casually putting on the clothes while the other patrons watched. Ditto for a similar scene transition in _Terminator 3_ with the Terminator and a strip club. I am looking for similar awkward/weird moments that **HAD** to have happened between scene transitions in other films/TV shows that were **NOT** actually shown. ---
**Author:** ![Horatius](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/horatius/32/3572_2.png) [@Horatius](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Horatius)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2023, 4:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/awkward-bizarre-moments-that-must-have-happened-in-a-movie-but-were-not-depicted-on-screen/986202/2 "2023-06-28T04:01:08Z")
Many people have noted that movie [Batmen often have eyeshadow on](https://maskofreason.wordpress.com/2012/01/12/batmans-eye-shadow/), to make their masks look better. So every time Bruce Wayne has gotten ready to go out and beat up criminals, he’s taken a bit of time to get his eyeshadow just right. ---
**Author:** ![GESancMan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gesancman/32/2923_2.png) [@GESancMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GESancMan)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2023, 4:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/awkward-bizarre-moments-that-must-have-happened-in-a-movie-but-were-not-depicted-on-screen/986202/3 "2023-06-28T04:48:01Z")
_The Empire Strikes Back_: Many years before _Robot Chicken_ depicted it, I often wondered how the Cloud City “My Dinner with Vader” went. ---
**Author:** ![Loach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/loach/32/350_2.png) [@Loach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Loach)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2023, 6:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/awkward-bizarre-moments-that-must-have-happened-in-a-movie-but-were-not-depicted-on-screen/986202/4 "2023-06-28T06:26:26Z")
> [@GESancMan](#): > > _The Empire Strikes Back_: Many years before _Robot Chicken_ depicted it, I often wondered how the Cloud City “My Dinner with Vader” went. Also how Vader broke the news about the Death Star to the Emperor. [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/3F1d3QWsyk0/hqdefault.jpg "The Emperor's Phone Call | Robot Chicken | Adult Swim") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3F1d3QWsyk0) ---
**Author:** ![Smapti](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/smapti/32/17938_2.png) [@Smapti](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smapti)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2023, 6:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/awkward-bizarre-moments-that-must-have-happened-in-a-movie-but-were-not-depicted-on-screen/986202/5 "2023-06-28T06:37:12Z")
> [@Horatius](#): > > Many people have noted that movie [Batmen often have eyeshadow on](https://maskofreason.wordpress.com/2012/01/12/batmans-eye-shadow/), to make their masks look better. So every time Bruce Wayne has gotten ready to go out and beat up criminals, he’s taken a bit of time to get his eyeshadow just right. _The Batman_ actually shows Bruce maskless with his eyeshadow on, so that’s halfway there. [![](https://variety.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/batman-1.jpg) ](https://variety.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/batman-1.jpg) ---
**Author:** ![ekedolphin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ekedolphin/32/10003_2.png) [@ekedolphin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ekedolphin)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2023, 7:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/awkward-bizarre-moments-that-must-have-happened-in-a-movie-but-were-not-depicted-on-screen/986202/6 "2023-06-28T07:39:38Z")
Trying to make up for the time in _Batman Returns_ when Batman was wearing his eyeshadow while trying to talk down Catwoman, and then suddenly, in the same take in which he takes off his mask, he _wasn’t_ wearing his eyeshadow. [![](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/VcoTMBPJPMc/hqdefault.jpg "The Death of Catwoman | Batman Returns (4k Remastered)") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VcoTMBPJPMc) ---
**Author:** ![Crafter\_Man](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/crafter_man/32/458_2.png) [@Crafter\_Man](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Crafter_Man)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2023, 7:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/awkward-bizarre-moments-that-must-have-happened-in-a-movie-but-were-not-depicted-on-screen/986202/7 "2023-06-28T07:59:25Z")
Countless movies with a clean-shaven man, where the story or setting would make it unlikely he had a razor and spent time in the morning to shave. ---
**Author:** ![Peter\_Morris](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/peter_morris/32/359_2.png) [@Peter\_Morris](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Peter_Morris)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2023, 8:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/awkward-bizarre-moments-that-must-have-happened-in-a-movie-but-were-not-depicted-on-screen/986202/8 "2023-06-28T08:32:50Z")
Something from Star Trek. In one episode Q was turned into a human. In another storyline Odo became a solid. They both had to learn for the first time about the human need for food. Gotta wonder, who took responsibility for their potty training. ---
**Author:** ![alovem](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/b38774/32.png) [@alovem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/alovem)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2023, 9:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/awkward-bizarre-moments-that-must-have-happened-in-a-movie-but-were-not-depicted-on-screen/986202/9 "2023-06-28T09:27:26Z")
From the IMDB [trivia section](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0399146/trivia/?ref_=tt_trv_trv) on **A History of Violence** : > During an interview, Viggo Mortensen stated that during the shooting of the first bar scene with Ed Harris he could not stop laughing, and as a result, the scene had to be re-shot several times. Due to Viggo Mortensen’s behavior, Ed Harris completed the scene without pants; he only wore his underwear, yet this cannot be seen as the bar table impedes our view. Thus, Viggo Mortensen had to act seriously while Ed Harris was not wearing any pants, and this is the scene that is used in the movie. ---
**Author:** ![veryfrank](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/87869e/32.png) [@veryfrank](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/veryfrank)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2023, 1:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/awkward-bizarre-moments-that-must-have-happened-in-a-movie-but-were-not-depicted-on-screen/986202/10 "2023-06-28T13:51:18Z")
If TV scenes qualify…there’s an episode of _Cheers_ in which Woody trims Sam’s beloved hair and goofs, buzzing a chunk off. At the end of the episode, after a brief moment of forgiveness, Sam gets his revenge. Woody emerges from the back room with a weird look on his face and someone (Rebecca? Carla? It’s been a while.) tells Woody they thought Sam was going to buzz his hair off, and Woody replies that’s all the hair he has left. So there was an off-camera scene in which Woody’s boss took him into the back room, made him drop trou and then took an electric razor to his junk. Did _Cheers_ ever get darker than that? ---
**Author:** ![Horatius](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/horatius/32/3572_2.png) [@Horatius](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Horatius)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2023, 2:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/awkward-bizarre-moments-that-must-have-happened-in-a-movie-but-were-not-depicted-on-screen/986202/11 "2023-06-28T14:12:49Z")
In The Empire Strikes Back, the Millennium Falcon is trying to evade the Start Destroyers, but their hyperdrive is malfunctioning. Han Solo makes a good fake-out move to hide them, and then waits for the Star Destroyer to dump its garbage, so they can float away with the rest of the trash. Shortly after that, we see that Boba Fett has _also_ disguised his ship as trash, and so figures out where the Falcon is going. Except…The whole point of bringing in the bounty hunters was to find the Falcon. So at some point, Boba Fett had to explain to some Empire officer that he wanted to be dumped with the garbage, for no particular reason, because Fett figured out where the Falcon had been hiding all along. You know, that very thing that he’d been hired to do! He had them, then let them get away so that they had to go for the elaborate Cloud City gambit to catch them again. At some point Fett had to explain to Vader that he was just padding the bill on this cushy government contract, and Vader had to sign off on it, because Vader had always been a government flunky and knows how these things work. ---
**Author:** ![Push\_You\_Down](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/push_you_down/32/9095_2.png) [@Push\_You\_Down](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Push_You_Down)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2023, 8:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/awkward-bizarre-moments-that-must-have-happened-in-a-movie-but-were-not-depicted-on-screen/986202/12 "2023-06-28T20:59:24Z")
> [@Crafter\_Man](#): > > Countless movies with a clean-shaven man, where the story or setting would make it unlikely he had a razor and spent time in the morning to shave. Similar–but there’s a cliche I think in westerns of a character shaving but getting interrupted mid-shave and having to quickly wipe off the shaving cream and go do the thing… I like to imagine that the adventure, the long ride, etc… takes a while and the guy’s facial hair just grows in weird…like a half mustache coming in or a narrow strip down one cheek is shorter than the rest. ---
**Author:** ![Miller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/miller/32/481_2.png) [@Miller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miller)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2023, 9:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/awkward-bizarre-moments-that-must-have-happened-in-a-movie-but-were-not-depicted-on-screen/986202/13 "2023-06-28T21:06:47Z")
> [@Peter\_Morris](#): > > Something from Star Trek. In one episode Q was turned into a human. In another storyline Odo became a solid. They both had to learn for the first time about the human need for food. Gotta wonder, who took responsibility for their potty training. In the '80s comic series _Secret Wars II_, the Q-like omnipotent being The Beyonder decides to become human to better understand us, leading to this scene: [![](https://preview.redd.it/z43c2iskd8i31.jpg?auto=webp&s=a3fcdcf75bb4470d401a8044d3a6ad63a1a8faed) ](https://preview.redd.it/z43c2iskd8i31.jpg?auto=webp&s=a3fcdcf75bb4470d401a8044d3a6ad63a1a8faed) [![](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58c35f74d1758e424ee76710/1551396265397-UXM8KQSBH72Y6VOCUCH7/Beyonder+poops+2.jpg?format=1500w) ](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58c35f74d1758e424ee76710/1551396265397-UXM8KQSBH72Y6VOCUCH7/Beyonder+poops+2.jpg?format=1500w) ---
**Author:** ![slicedalone](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/slicedalone/32/12515_2.png) [@slicedalone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/slicedalone)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2023, 9:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/awkward-bizarre-moments-that-must-have-happened-in-a-movie-but-were-not-depicted-on-screen/986202/14 "2023-06-28T21:18:14Z")
A lot of scenes where a woman in the wilderness for weeks has her armpits neatly shaven. I’m thinking: “Clamshell, maybe? Or has she found a very, very sharp rock somewhere?” ---
**Author:** ![Chez\_Guevara](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/aeb1de/32.png) [@Chez\_Guevara](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chez_Guevara)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2023, 9:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/awkward-bizarre-moments-that-must-have-happened-in-a-movie-but-were-not-depicted-on-screen/986202/15 "2023-06-29T21:37:03Z")
From the IMDB trivia section on Straw Dogs: “In the scene where David Sumner (Dustin Hoffman) first enters the local pub, director Sam Peckinpah was unhappy with the other actors’ reaction to this stranger entering their world. Eventually, he decided to do one take where Hoffman entered the scene without his trousers on. He got his reaction, and these are the shots shown in the final film.” It makes me wonder how many other films feature characters apparently wearing pants but in fact not wearing them. Mortensen and Hoffman are probably just the tip of the iceberg. ---
**Author:** ![Two\_Many\_Cats2](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/779978/32.png) [@Two\_Many\_Cats2](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Two_Many_Cats2)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2023, 9:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/awkward-bizarre-moments-that-must-have-happened-in-a-movie-but-were-not-depicted-on-screen/986202/16 "2023-06-29T21:55:53Z")
Not an off-screen scene, but on an episode of _The Untouchables_, Hobson comes into a darkened federal office and snaps on the light. And sitting at the table are Rico and Rossman. Hobson just says hello, like he’s coming in for a normal day of work. Why were his two co-workers just sitting in the dark together? (Shudder) ---
**Author:** ![joebuck20](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/74df32/32.png) [@joebuck20](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/joebuck20)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2023, 2:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/awkward-bizarre-moments-that-must-have-happened-in-a-movie-but-were-not-depicted-on-screen/986202/17 "2023-07-01T14:02:02Z")
> [@Chez\_Guevara](#): > > From the IMDB trivia section on Straw Dogs: > > “In the scene where David Sumner (Dustin Hoffman) first enters the local pub, director Sam Peckinpah was unhappy with the other actors’ reaction to this stranger entering their world. Eventually, he decided to do one take where Hoffman entered the scene without his trousers on. He got his reaction, and these are the shots shown in the final film.” > > It makes me wonder how many other films feature characters apparently wearing pants but in fact not wearing them. Mortensen and Hoffman are probably just the tip of the iceberg. Didn’t Marlon Brando film a lot of scenes pantsless in “The Godfather”? ---
**Author:** ![slicedalone](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/slicedalone/32/12515_2.png) [@slicedalone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/slicedalone)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2023, 2:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/awkward-bizarre-moments-that-must-have-happened-in-a-movie-but-were-not-depicted-on-screen/986202/18 "2023-07-01T14:19:38Z")
> [@Two\_Many\_Cats2](#): > > an episode of _The Untouchables_, In the movie version of the Untouchables, Andy Garcia tells a story about Sean Connery filming certain scenes from the waist up wearing his golf outfits from the waist down. ---
**Author:** ![dorvann](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/df705f/32.png) [@dorvann](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dorvann)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2023, 2:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/awkward-bizarre-moments-that-must-have-happened-in-a-movie-but-were-not-depicted-on-screen/986202/19 "2023-07-01T14:52:27Z")
I believe Peter Cushing filmed a lot of his scenes as Grand Mof Tarkin wearing slippers because he found the boots with the uniform to be so uncomfortable. Also there is a video of going around on Twitter of Peter Mayhew as Chewbacca actually speaking his lines in English with Harrison Ford responding to them.