I’ll add the obligatory scene with Large Marge from Pee Wee’s Big Adventure.
Those, especially the last two, were gross not creepy, at least to me.
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.
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.
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!
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.”
The Florence Henderson scene in Shakes the Clown. 'Nuff said?
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?
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!
That actually sounds yummy.
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…
Michael Milton getting his genitalia bitten off in The World According to Garp.
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?
Was that a play on Event Horizon?
< shrugs > Could be; I never saw the movie.
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.
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?
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!
All the video stores seem to think so.
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.