# Creepy scenes in comedies **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [November 8, 2007, 4:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/creepy-scenes-in-comedies/425629 "2007-11-08T04:41:43Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![I\_m\_No\_Saint](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/977dab/32.png) [@I\_m\_No\_Saint](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/I_m_No_Saint)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2007, 12:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/creepy-scenes-in-comedies/425629/21 "2007-11-09T00:55:37Z")
I’ll add the obligatory scene with Large Marge from _Pee Wee’s Big Adventure_. ---
**Author:** ![Der\_Trihs](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/der_trihs/32/233_2.png) [@Der\_Trihs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Der_Trihs)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2007, 2:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/creepy-scenes-in-comedies/425629/22 "2007-11-09T02:26:20Z")
[QUOTE=Miller] _That’s_ your creepy Venture scene? Ahead of half-grown Hank and Dean clowns, Baron Unterbheit’s detachable jaw, or Dr. Venture giving birth to his own parasitic twin? [/QUOTE] Those, especially the last two, were gross not creepy, at least to me. ---
**Author:** ![bbs2k](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e495f1/32.png) [@bbs2k](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bbs2k)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2007, 3:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/creepy-scenes-in-comedies/425629/23 "2007-11-09T03:02:33Z")
[QUOTE=I’m No Saint] I’ll add the obligatory scene with Large Marge from _Pee Wee’s Big Adventure_. [/QUOTE] Dear Og yes! I was a kid back then, and also all the various scenes of bicycle destruction freaked me out. The dinosaur, bike hell, etc.. Also the dream sequence in Cable Guy. ---
**Author:** ![Paul\_in\_Qatar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ccd318/32.png) [@Paul\_in\_Qatar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Paul_in_Qatar)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2007, 3:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/creepy-scenes-in-comedies/425629/24 "2007-11-09T03:48:47Z")
Maybe creepy is not the right word. Still I thought Niles and the rest of them were good people, in eccentric ways. The whole story arc made me very uncomfortable. I stand by the Barbara Bush thing though. ---
**Author:** ![Asimovian](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/asimovian/32/172_2.png) [@Asimovian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Asimovian)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2007, 4:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/creepy-scenes-in-comedies/425629/25 "2007-11-09T04:36:54Z")
I’ll have to go with the Bee Happy music sequence from the Futurama episode where Fry and Leela get stung\*. Creeps me out how everyone sings such a happy song while it’s clear that Leela is going insane. The imagery is disturbing to me, particularly how characters keep morphing into the bee. \*#2 on the list of all-time sad puppy episodes of Futurama! ---
**Author:** ![Der\_Trihs](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/der_trihs/32/233_2.png) [@Der\_Trihs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Der_Trihs)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2007, 4:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/creepy-scenes-in-comedies/425629/26 "2007-11-09T04:42:48Z")
The scene in _Futurerama_ where they are searching for the box that contains an alternate universe through many other alternate universes, and they run into alternate versions of themselves who are facing away from them. “Hey, have you seen a box ?” Alter-Hermes : “We haven’t **seen** anything.” - they turn around, revealing eyeless faces \* Alter-Hermes : “ **Ever**.” ---
**Author:** ![cornflakes](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/9d8465/32.png) [@cornflakes](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cornflakes)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2007, 5:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/creepy-scenes-in-comedies/425629/27 "2007-11-09T05:01:48Z")
The Florence Henderson scene in _Shakes the Clown_. 'Nuff said? ---
**Author:** ![Batsinma\_Belfry](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ea5d25/32.png) [@Batsinma\_Belfry](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Batsinma_Belfry)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2007, 6:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/creepy-scenes-in-comedies/425629/28 "2007-11-09T06:08:10Z")
[QUOTE=I’m No Saint] I’ll add the obligatory scene with Large Marge from _Pee Wee’s Big Adventure_. [/QUOTE] Okay, that’s like the third time someone has made a vague reference to that scene. I never saw the movie, can you fill me in? ---
**Author:** ![bbs2k](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e495f1/32.png) [@bbs2k](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bbs2k)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2007, 6:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/creepy-scenes-in-comedies/425629/29 "2007-11-09T06:17:33Z")
[QUOTE=Batsinma Belfry] Okay, that’s like the third time someone has made a vague reference to that scene. I never saw the movie, can you fill me in? [/QUOTE] [Be sure to tell them…](http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-6020266229199596457) ---
**Author:** ![KGS](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/90ced4/32.png) [@KGS](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KGS)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2007, 6:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/creepy-scenes-in-comedies/425629/30 "2007-11-09T06:18:04Z")
From _Crazy People_: **Charles Drucker:** Harris. Say something honest, no holds barred. **Harris:** I like…small boys. **Charles Drucker:** About the product, you fucking idiot! [QUOTE=Greg Charles] You find that worse than Cartman getting even with a practical joker by having his parents killed, cooking them into chili, and feeding them to him? [/QUOTE] That actually sounds yummy. 🆒 ---
**Author:** ![Sublight](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/439d5e/32.png) [@Sublight](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sublight)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2007, 6:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/creepy-scenes-in-comedies/425629/31 "2007-11-09T06:21:07Z")
> [@Batsinma Belfry](#): > > Okay, that’s like the third time someone has made a vague reference to that scene. I never saw the movie, can you fill me in? Pee Wee is hitch-hiking late at night when an 18-wheeler stops to give him a lift. The driver (a woman in her 50’s) proceeds to tell a story about a horrific crash that occurred on this very stretch of road, on a foggy night just like this one. She finishes with, "and when they finally pulled the driver’s body from the twisted, burning wreck… It looked just… like… [THIS!](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rHO3wuNHFFc) ---
**Author:** ![Sublight](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/439d5e/32.png) [@Sublight](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sublight)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2007, 6:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/creepy-scenes-in-comedies/425629/32 "2007-11-09T06:26:10Z")
Michael Milton getting his genitalia bitten off in _The World According to Garp._ ---
**Author:** ![Freudian\_Slit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/5daacb/32.png) [@Freudian\_Slit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Freudian_Slit)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2007, 7:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/creepy-scenes-in-comedies/425629/33 "2007-11-09T07:17:01Z")
You mean the darkest part of South Park wasn’t Butters almost getting killed by his mom and both his parents blaming it on some Puerto Rican guy? Or him being chained up in his basement and being given some random woman’s corpse to feast upon? ---
**Author:** ![Poysyn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/f4b2a3/32.png) [@Poysyn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Poysyn)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2007, 5:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/creepy-scenes-in-comedies/425629/34 "2007-11-09T17:43:26Z")
[QUOTE=Der Trihs] The scene in _Futurerama_ where they are searching for the box that contains an alternate universe through many other alternate universes, and they run into alternate versions of themselves who are facing away from them. “Hey, have you seen a box ?” Alter-Hermes : “We haven’t **seen** anything.” - they turn around, revealing eyeless faces \* Alter-Hermes : “ **Ever**.” [/QUOTE] Was that a play on Event Horizon? ---
**Author:** ![Der\_Trihs](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/der_trihs/32/233_2.png) [@Der\_Trihs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Der_Trihs)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2007, 8:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/creepy-scenes-in-comedies/425629/35 "2007-11-09T20:01:19Z")
[QUOTE=Poysyn] Was that a play on Event Horizon? [/QUOTE] \< shrugs \> Could be; I never saw the movie. ---
**Author:** ![Sitnam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/6a8cbe/32.png) [@Sitnam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sitnam)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2007, 8:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/creepy-scenes-in-comedies/425629/36 "2007-11-09T20:20:49Z")
Evelyn Mulwray: She’s my daughter. [Gittes slaps Evelyn] Jake Gittes: I said I want the truth! Evelyn Mulwray: She’s my sister… [slap] Evelyn Mulwray: She’s my daughter… [slap] Evelyn Mulwray: My sister, my daughter. [More slaps] Jake Gittes: I said I want the truth! Evelyn Mulwray: She’s my sister AND my daughter! The most bizarre combination of funny, horrifying and uncomfortable I’ve ever seen. ---
**Author:** ![Anaamika](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/5f9b8f/32.png) [@Anaamika](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anaamika)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2007, 8:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/creepy-scenes-in-comedies/425629/37 "2007-11-09T20:29:33Z")
Speaking of Airplane… The whole scene where the guy is talking to the kid. “Ever been in a Turkish prison? Ever watched gladiators wrestle?” Or whatever it is. I mean, it’s funny, and I laughed, but at the same time it’s this grown man basically coming onto a kid. Ick. ETA: World According to Garp was a comedy? ---
**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:** [November 9, 2007, 8:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/creepy-scenes-in-comedies/425629/38 "2007-11-09T20:29:36Z")
The end of _Nurse Betty_, when… Chris Rock gets shot in the stomach, and he’s crawling around on the ground, screaming for him mother. Cut to the bedroom where his father, Morgan Freeman, is sitting with their hostage, and there’s another gunshot… and no more screaming. I know it’s supposed to be a dark comedy, but god damn! ---
**Author:** ![Sublight](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/439d5e/32.png) [@Sublight](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sublight)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2007, 1:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/creepy-scenes-in-comedies/425629/39 "2007-11-10T01:05:13Z")
[QUOTE=Anaamika] ETA: World According to Garp was a comedy? [/QUOTE] All the video stores seem to think so. ---
**Author:** ![Freudian\_Slit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/5daacb/32.png) [@Freudian\_Slit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Freudian_Slit)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2007, 4:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/creepy-scenes-in-comedies/425629/40 "2007-11-10T04:23:55Z")
[QUOTE=Sublight] All the video stores seem to think so. [/QUOTE] I’d say dark comedy, but that feels wrong. The book felt a lot more comedic than the movie. Somehow reading about those terrible things didn’t feel _so_ bleak because John Irving has a way of…well…putting things. I mean, the book had awful, bleak moments but as a work, it was entertaining. Actually seeing it play out in a movie, you realize that actually being there wouldn’t be so funny. ETA: Also…maybe they’re operating on the assumption that John Lithgow in drag = comedy gold. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/creepy-scenes-in-comedies/425629.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/creepy-scenes-in-comedies/425629.md?page=3)