# Comedies You Thought Sucked, But Did Have One Hilarious Scene **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [August 22, 2007, 6:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/comedies-you-thought-sucked-but-did-have-one-hilarious-scene/416533 "2007-08-22T18:39:01Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Sage\_Rat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sage_rat/32/399_2.png) [@Sage\_Rat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sage_Rat)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2007, 10:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/comedies-you-thought-sucked-but-did-have-one-hilarious-scene/416533/41 "2007-08-22T22:54:39Z")
The movie **Cabin Boy** was boring as hell throughout, except just one once when Chris Elliott comes out from just having had sex and proclaims, “These pipes…ARE CLEAN!” ---
**Author:** ![Sage\_Rat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sage_rat/32/399_2.png) [@Sage\_Rat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sage_Rat)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2007, 10:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/comedies-you-thought-sucked-but-did-have-one-hilarious-scene/416533/42 "2007-08-22T22:55:49Z")
The movie **Cabin Boy** was boring as hell throughout, except just one once when Chris Elliott comes out from just having had sex and proclaims, “These pipes…ARE CLEAN!” (It was essentially the same setup/gag as “I found my special purpose!” from **The Jerk** , though.) ---
**Author:** ![Sarahfeena](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sarahfeena/32/519_2.png) [@Sarahfeena](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sarahfeena)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2007, 11:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/comedies-you-thought-sucked-but-did-have-one-hilarious-scene/416533/43 "2007-08-22T23:14:52Z")
[QUOTE=Diogenes the Cynic] John Ritter was in a forgettable Blake Edwards movie called _Skin Deep_ in the 80’s about which the only thing I can remember is one hilarious scene featuring glow-in-the-dark condoms. Ritter is about to have sex with some chick and she gives him a luminescent condom to wear. The lights go out and the screen goes black. The woman’s boyfriend then returns home unexpectedly and he’s wearing his own glowing condom. a chase and a fight ensues during which all that is visible on the screen is two glowing cocks racing and scrambling and diving and bouncing around in total blackness. It’s a singularly great scene in an otherwise mediocre comedy. [/QUOTE] Oh, my gosh…I have never heard of this movie, but now I have to see it! That sounds hilarious. My question, though…how did they FILM it? :eek: ---
**Author:** ![Liberal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/848f3c/32.png) [@Liberal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Liberal)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2007, 11:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/comedies-you-thought-sucked-but-did-have-one-hilarious-scene/416533/44 "2007-08-22T23:25:53Z")
[QUOTE=KneadToKnow] _Funny Farm_ \> _Caddyshack_? My brain just called in sick. [/QUOTE] Indeed, 'cause that’s not what I said. ---
**Author:** ![Unauthorized\_Cinnamon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/bc8723/32.png) [@Unauthorized\_Cinnamon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Unauthorized_Cinnamon)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2007, 11:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/comedies-you-thought-sucked-but-did-have-one-hilarious-scene/416533/45 "2007-08-22T23:44:06Z")
I didn’t much care for _Borat_. It seemed like he was getting laughs out of making nice, polite people uncomfortable, for the most part, which puts me off. But god damn, the naked wrestling match and chase was so funny I almost fell of the couch, literally. I’ll definitely Tivo it when it comes on DirecTV, and just watch that part again. Oh, and also his new wife feeding the whole town with her breastmilk, because I missed that the first time, but as a lactivist I find it hilarious. My scene from _Dracula: Dead and Loving It_, which is truly dreadful overall, is the scene where they stake Lucy. Steven Weber as Harker follows Van Helsing’s (Mel Brooks) advice on how to set it all up, then Van Helsing quickly steps behind a column and tells him to proceed. Cue ridiculous, preposterous amounts of blood gushing up all over Weber. Then Van Helsing peeks out and says, “Excellent - you’ve almost finished,” or something, and it plays out again. Totally juvenile, but it makes me laugh. (BTW, I like a lot of the films people are listing here - \*Caddyshack \*is a classic, _40 Year Old Virgin_ is a riot, _My Blue Heaven_ is a quirky favorite - “it’s the shoes, right?” I even like _Happy Gilmore_, when I’m in the mood for something dumb.) ---
**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:** [August 23, 2007, 12:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/comedies-you-thought-sucked-but-did-have-one-hilarious-scene/416533/46 "2007-08-23T00:02:24Z")
[QUOTE=Sarahfeena] Oh, my gosh…I have never heard of this movie, but now I have to see it! That sounds hilarious. My question, though…how did they FILM it? :eek: [/QUOTE] They turn off the lights before they strip off, so the screen is all black except for the glowing dicks bouncing around. They don’t really look like dicks, just brightly colored, elongated blobs at roughly crotch level. > [@Liberal](#): > > Indeed, 'cause that’s not what I said. It’s not? 😕 ---
**Author:** ![Cat\_Whisperer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cat_whisperer/32/4839_2.png) [@Cat\_Whisperer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cat_Whisperer)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2007, 1:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/comedies-you-thought-sucked-but-did-have-one-hilarious-scene/416533/47 "2007-08-23T01:06:27Z")
[QUOTE=jackelope] [\I laughed for about ten minutes at that pratfall. Then I stopped laughing until the movie was over. To borrow a line from George S. Kaufman, “I heard some laughter in the back of the theater, leading me to believe that someone was telling jokes back there.” [/QUOTE] My husband and I went to see “Kung Pow: Enter the Fist” in the cheap theatres, and I think we were the only ones laughing in there. We were laughing so hard we couldn’t breathe - it was almost embarrassing to be the only people laughing that hard, but hey, WE were having fun. 😃 “Dumb and Dumber” was a comedy like the OP is talking about for me; there is the one scene when they’re riding on the moped, I think it was, through the mountains in the cold, and the two guys get stuck together with frozen pee - heh. ---
**Author:** ![Jophiel](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jophiel/32/66_2.png) [@Jophiel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jophiel)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2007, 1:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/comedies-you-thought-sucked-but-did-have-one-hilarious-scene/416533/48 "2007-08-23T01:51:59Z")
[QUOTE=Unauthorized Cinnamon] I didn’t much care for _Borat_. It seemed like he was getting laughs out of making nice, polite people uncomfortable, for the most part, which puts me off. [/QUOTE] I thought the movie was dull as hell (as I mentioned in the over-hyped movies thread) but I’ll admit that I laughed at the bear & the ice cream truck with the kids. It was a cheap laugh but a laugh none the less 😃 ---
**Author:** ![OneCentStamp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/13edae/32.png) [@OneCentStamp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OneCentStamp)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2007, 1:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/comedies-you-thought-sucked-but-did-have-one-hilarious-scene/416533/49 "2007-08-23T01:56:01Z")
[QUOTE=Liberal] Indeed, 'cause that’s not what I said. [/QUOTE] 😕 You said _Caddyshack_ was “horrible,” and that you “loved” _Funny Farm_. Or am I misreading you? ---
**Author:** ![Sarahfeena](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sarahfeena/32/519_2.png) [@Sarahfeena](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sarahfeena)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2007, 2:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/comedies-you-thought-sucked-but-did-have-one-hilarious-scene/416533/50 "2007-08-23T02:08:34Z")
**Miller** , I was actually picturing two actors running around in the dark, each with a condom-covered dildo on as stick! ---
**Author:** ![KneadToKnow](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kneadtoknow/32/3999_2.png) [@KneadToKnow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KneadToKnow)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2007, 2:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/comedies-you-thought-sucked-but-did-have-one-hilarious-scene/416533/51 "2007-08-23T02:40:00Z")
Glad I’m not the only one! ---
**Author:** ![well\_he\_s\_back](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/3ab097/32.png) [@well\_he\_s\_back](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/well_he_s_back)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2007, 2:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/comedies-you-thought-sucked-but-did-have-one-hilarious-scene/416533/52 "2007-08-23T02:40:06Z")
Got nothin’ to add to this thread, really (My ex and I laughed through most of “Tremors” - which annoyed all the teens in the theatre who were taking it seriously) - but I had to pop in to thank Unauthorized Cinnamon for the term _lactivist_ which she used in her post. I’m one too, just didn’t think of such a great name for it. And that’s why we love the dope. ---
**Author:** ![DeadlyAccurate](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ac91a4/32.png) [@DeadlyAccurate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DeadlyAccurate)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2007, 3:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/comedies-you-thought-sucked-but-did-have-one-hilarious-scene/416533/53 "2007-08-23T03:33:13Z")
[QUOTE=pizzabrat] _40 Year Old Virgin_ - for the most part I didn’t get what all the fuss was about, but the scene where he’s getting waxed and uncontrollably curses and insults the waxer and then apologizes profusely each time is funny. [/QUOTE] I think what makes that scene funny to me is that it truly looks like the \*actors \*are laughing at Steve Carrell. Cracks me up. ---
**Author:** ![Hung\_Mung](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/a88e4f/32.png) [@Hung\_Mung](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hung_Mung)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2007, 3:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/comedies-you-thought-sucked-but-did-have-one-hilarious-scene/416533/54 "2007-08-23T03:41:13Z")
Napoleon Dynamite. That movie was almost complete shit. I stopped it after twenty minutes because I hated it so much. Luckily, a friend of mine made me watch the dance scene at the end, which was quite funny. ---
**Author:** ![stolichnaya](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bcef8e/32.png) [@stolichnaya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/stolichnaya)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2007, 3:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/comedies-you-thought-sucked-but-did-have-one-hilarious-scene/416533/55 "2007-08-23T03:45:36Z")
Speaking of Steve Carrell, he absolutely ran away with the otherwise unremarkable Bruce Almighty in the scene where, as a news anchor, Jim Carrey is forcing him to read nonsense from the teleprompter. His “anchor” demeanor, the lines, his delivery, t’s all great, but what gets me every time is the absolutely authentic panic in his eyes as he realizes he is making a fool of himself but is unable to stop. [![]( " - YouTube") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fU-u-OUbEBk) ---
**Author:** ![Oslo\_Ostragoth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/a9a28c/32.png) [@Oslo\_Ostragoth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Oslo_Ostragoth)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2007, 4:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/comedies-you-thought-sucked-but-did-have-one-hilarious-scene/416533/56 "2007-08-23T04:27:50Z")
[QUOTE=DeadlyAccurate] I think what makes that scene funny to me is that it truly looks like the \*actors \*are laughing at Steve Carrell. Cracks me up. [/QUOTE] You two need to rent the DVD just for the outtakes of that scene. It was **live** , and they had extra cameras recording the reactions of the crew, which could generally be described as **ROTFLMFAO**. ---
**Author:** ![bbs2k](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e495f1/32.png) [@bbs2k](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bbs2k)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2007, 5:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/comedies-you-thought-sucked-but-did-have-one-hilarious-scene/416533/57 "2007-08-23T05:12:37Z")
I’m just going to swoop in and win the award for most obscure reference. **[Drop Dead Fred](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0101775/)**, which came out in 91’ had a ridiculous premise: a girl’s childhood imaginary friend returns when she’s in her 30’s. Nonhilarity ensues. For some reason when I first saw it though, there was this one dinner scene where fred (the imaginary friend whom only she could see), was making her do all sorts of goofy things while on a date with this guy. Stupid things like throwing forks, and jerking her arms. Sounds pretty silly, but when I first saw this it was the funniest thing I had ever seen. I caught the movie again years later. It doesn’t really improve on repeat viewing. ---
**Author:** ![sinjin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ebca7d/32.png) [@sinjin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sinjin)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2007, 5:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/comedies-you-thought-sucked-but-did-have-one-hilarious-scene/416533/58 "2007-08-23T05:17:33Z")
No, no, the funny part in Dracula: Dead and Loving It is when Renfield is eating the bugs. ---
**Author:** ![Fern\_Forest](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/71c47a/32.png) [@Fern\_Forest](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fern_Forest)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2007, 6:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/comedies-you-thought-sucked-but-did-have-one-hilarious-scene/416533/59 "2007-08-23T06:03:31Z")
[QUOTE=Miller] They turn off the lights before they strip off, so the screen is all black except for the glowing dicks bouncing around. They don’t really look like dicks, just brightly colored, elongated blobs at roughly crotch level. [/QUOTE] Didn’t they make a Star Wars joke too? ---
**Author:** ![Sarahfeena](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sarahfeena/32/519_2.png) [@Sarahfeena](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sarahfeena)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2007, 12:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/comedies-you-thought-sucked-but-did-have-one-hilarious-scene/416533/60 "2007-08-23T12:43:32Z")
[QUOTE=Fern Forest] Didn’t they make a Star Wars joke too? [/QUOTE] Apparently, my husband has seen this, and he remembered the whole thing as being a take-off on light sabers. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/comedies-you-thought-sucked-but-did-have-one-hilarious-scene/416533.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/comedies-you-thought-sucked-but-did-have-one-hilarious-scene/416533.md?page=4)