This situation (a guy taking some sort of impact – kick or otherwise – to his groin) has been staple of comedy for some years now. When did this start? What movie really “kicked it off” and got the ball rolling for this particular physical comedy stunt?
I dunno…but when Bobby Hill kicked the ol’ man in the 'nads, I laughed my ass off. It’s rarely portrayed as the crippling act it is. I’ve heard that you can end up hospitalized from it. Is that true?
IMHO the all-time classic cinematic swiftie to the nuts is Paul Newman vs. Ted Cassidy in Butch Cassidy & the Sundance Kid.
“Rules? In a knife fight? No rules!”
Comedy? Of all the things that are not funny, that might be one of the not funniest.
And yes, you can be hospitalized. I was kicked by a friend’s little sister–she was wearing wooden clogs–because she thought it would be funny. I was not hospitalized, but I was pretty well out of commission for about a day and a half. This was over 20 years ago, but my eyes water just reminiscing. It took a burst gallbladder to demote that incident from the top of my personal physical-agony chart.
I always thought that trying to describe getting kicked in the balls to my wife was a bit like her trying to describe to me what childbirth is like.
You just have to be there.
This doesn’t answer the OP’s question but…
One of my favorite comedy moments EVER is in the “Bottom: Live 2” DVD (a video of one of their live performances) where Rik Mayall accidentally hits Ade Edmonson in the nads for REAL, live on stage. I rewound it about 10 times when I first saw it (i’m a girl, so it’s FUNNY not painful).
Rik and Ade do SO much physical comedy, and most of their stuff revolves around hitting eachother in the crotch with various implements. They do it so WELL. To see them slip up and completely break down…ah well…brilliant!
I usually don’t laugh at obligatory crotch shots since you can see them coming a mile away. However, the funniest one that caught me completely off guard was the golf shot by Rodney Dangerfield in Caddyshack. He whacks it and it flys right towards Ted Knight. Your waiting for the ball to knock him in the head and knock him out. Instead it nails him right in the crotch (not on a bounce or line drive either). Classic.
But the football…his crotch…!
It works on so many levels!
Jackass did the definitive man-getting-hit-in-crotch sketch, with knoxville gamely getting shot, sledgehammered, and kung-fu kicked in the balls for our entertainment.
Last time I got it, a girl delivered it, and yes, I probably deserved it. If she knew how painfull and incapacitating it was, I’m sure she would have had some remorse. Ah well.
I think the female equivelent is a sharp finger poke right to the nipple until you hit a rib. Usually shuts Hardship(T.M.) up.
Um…ow.
I thought girls had a similar sensation if you kick them in the ovaries. Sure, there’s a lot more padding when compared to a guy’s little friends…but it still hurts all the same.
“THAT"S MY PURSE! I DON"T KNOW YOU!”
Worse still is when a woman’s ‘padding’ tears off in little bits and goes through her like shards of glass in a helium balloon. Ouch.
Best. Episode. Ever.
If you guys have any interest in seeing men (and some young 'uns) kicked in the nuts, have I got the video for you.
The tradition actually goes back to the late 1700s, when colonists were entertained on a weekly basis by America’s Funniest Home Oil Paintings.
You were trying to rape or murder her? :eek:
I’d be curious to know whether you’ve heard this from an actual female, or if you’re just guessing.
I know from personal experience that any blow to the crotch is amusing for all the onlookers.
Years ago when I was surveying I was out with a crew doing road layouts on a farm soon to be a Canberra suburb. I was going over a fence with a theodolite on my shoulder, using the usual method with strand wire fences - pull down the top strands and grab the next strand. At the very moment I threw my leg over the fence the top strand slipped from under my thumb and shot up to “whip” my testicles.
I recall feeling sick and in pain. So did everyone else - their sides aching with laughter as they laughed until they felt sick.
I guess I’ll take the contrary position for the mere sake of it.
I’ve been kicked in the balls a few times… though not in the last 15 years or so…
I always faked it.
I’m 34 years old, plenty manly, am married, have a baby due in two months, and have balls the size of lemons.
Maybe I never got a direct crushing blow but it was never the doubled over gasping for breath thing.
Go figure.
Yeah, that must be like how I think it’s funny when I see a woman getting beat.
How about Clit Eastwood giving Richard Kiel the business end of a sledgehammer?
Now that was an amusing typo.