# Hella goofiest things that were meant to be serious/shocking - any medium **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [April 11, 2021, 11:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hella-goofiest-things-that-were-meant-to-be-serious-shocking-any-medium/939822 "2021-04-11T23:04:41Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Guest-starring\_Id](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guest-starring_id/32/21736_2.png) [@Guest-starring\_Id](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guest-starring_Id)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2021, 12:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hella-goofiest-things-that-were-meant-to-be-serious-shocking-any-medium/939822/21 "2021-04-19T00:29:33Z")
There might have been the [odd, virtuosic](https://youtu.be/iO_UM3rmzJc?t=155) Quincy episode, like the infamous, đŸ˜±punk-addled đŸ˜± “Next Stop, Nowhere”, that could’ve been too serious, _TOO HARSH_, for its own good. ---
**Author:** ![DrDeth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b487fb/32.png) [@DrDeth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrDeth)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2021, 12:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hella-goofiest-things-that-were-meant-to-be-serious-shocking-any-medium/939822/22 "2021-04-19T00:35:54Z")
Doc Savage:_Mona, you’re a brick!_ ---
**Author:** ![Andy\_L](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/c67d28/32.png) [@Andy\_L](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Andy_L)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2021, 12:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hella-goofiest-things-that-were-meant-to-be-serious-shocking-any-medium/939822/23 "2021-04-19T00:47:23Z")
Heh. I didn’t realize that. ---
**Author:** ![Andy\_L](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/c67d28/32.png) [@Andy\_L](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Andy_L)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2021, 12:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hella-goofiest-things-that-were-meant-to-be-serious-shocking-any-medium/939822/24 "2021-04-19T00:47:56Z")
I remember watching that episode - I still remember some of the lyrics of the punk anthem
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**Author:** ![Guest-starring\_Id](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guest-starring_id/32/21736_2.png) [@Guest-starring\_Id](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guest-starring_Id)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2021, 1:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hella-goofiest-things-that-were-meant-to-be-serious-shocking-any-medium/939822/25 "2021-04-19T01:23:29Z")
> [@Andy\_L](#): > > I still remember some of the lyrics of the punk anthem
 Lay some on us. All I recall from it was one of the anemic punk gals snarling about getting some tofu like she was about go acquire some sort of contraband. ---
**Author:** ![Andy\_L](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/c67d28/32.png) [@Andy\_L](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Andy_L)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2021, 1:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hella-goofiest-things-that-were-meant-to-be-serious-shocking-any-medium/939822/26 "2021-04-19T01:36:39Z")
“Saw a blind man the other day, stole his pencils and I ran away.” “
something something something 
 face, The only garbage is the human race!” “I wanna see you choke, choke, choke!..” ---
**Author:** ![Guest-starring\_Id](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guest-starring_id/32/21736_2.png) [@Guest-starring\_Id](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guest-starring_Id)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2021, 2:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hella-goofiest-things-that-were-meant-to-be-serious-shocking-any-medium/939822/27 "2021-04-19T02:01:08Z")
😌 And then of course the 90’s band Quincy Punx came from that. About 99.9% Quinn Martin productions might not have elicited the same
gravitas? as they would today. ---
**Author:** ![Andy\_L](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/c67d28/32.png) [@Andy\_L](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Andy_L)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2021, 10:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hella-goofiest-things-that-were-meant-to-be-serious-shocking-any-medium/939822/28 "2021-04-19T10:48:32Z")
Video here > **[Punk rock hysteria on TV show ‘Quincy’](https://dangerousminds.net/comments/punk_rock_hysteria_on_tv_show_quincy)** > >   > Punk hysteria on TV. Faux punkers Mayhem play ‘Choke’ on Quincy episode Next Stop, Nowhere. > > This Quincy episode aired on December 1, 1982. Some actual albums that were released in 1982: Black Flag - ‘Damaged’  Bad Brains - ‘Bad Brains’... my memory held up pretty well. ---
**Author:** ![Sparky812](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/eb9ed0/32.png) [@Sparky812](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sparky812)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2021, 11:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hella-goofiest-things-that-were-meant-to-be-serious-shocking-any-medium/939822/29 "2021-04-19T11:14:42Z")
> [@Guest-starring\_Id](#): > > Really difficult to ‘swallow’ all the artsy erotica of _8 1/2 Weeks._ You needed to stick around for the last week when all the real crazy shit really happened! ---
**Author:** ![dorvann](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/df705f/32.png) [@dorvann](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dorvann)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2021, 12:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hella-goofiest-things-that-were-meant-to-be-serious-shocking-any-medium/939822/30 "2021-04-19T12:14:16Z")
Back in 1993 WCW decided to debut a new wrestler–The Shockmaster!!! (He wrestled previous in the WWF as Tugboat and Typhoon.) Even considered the botch of him falling on his butt the costume is just to ridiculous to take seriously. [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/p7Q4EVpIFIk/maxresdefault.jpg "The Shockmaster") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p7Q4EVpIFIk) ---
**Author:** ![JRDelirious](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jrdelirious/32/9531_2.png) [@JRDelirious](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JRDelirious)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2021, 1:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hella-goofiest-things-that-were-meant-to-be-serious-shocking-any-medium/939822/31 "2021-04-19T13:45:44Z")
> [@Sparky812](#): > > > [@Guest-starring\_Id](#): > > > > Really difficult to ‘swallow’ all the artsy erotica of _8 1/2 Weeks._ > > You needed to stick around for the last week when all the real crazy shit really happened! 😆 Yeah, really. For those playing the home game: “8 and 1/2” = 60’s Fellini film about the creative artist’s struggle “_ **9** _ and 1/2 _Weeks_” = 1980s forebear to 50 Shades(\*), Kim Basinger eats jalapeños blindfolded and keeps her hat on. (\* really, how come _Shades_ got celebrated and _Weeks_ got derided? It was because Mickey Rourke, wasn’t it? Or was it Twilight fangirls having grown up with internet porn?) ---
**Author:** ![Guest-starring\_Id](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guest-starring_id/32/21736_2.png) [@Guest-starring\_Id](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guest-starring_Id)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2021, 2:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hella-goofiest-things-that-were-meant-to-be-serious-shocking-any-medium/939822/32 "2021-04-19T14:05:04Z")
đŸ€Šâ€â™‚ïž I’m sure Mr. Mastroianni knew his way around a good chocolate-dipped strawberry getting eaten _slooooowly_, oh-so-delectably. ---
**Author:** ![Mijin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mijin/32/9369_2.png) [@Mijin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mijin)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2021, 2:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hella-goofiest-things-that-were-meant-to-be-serious-shocking-any-medium/939822/33 "2021-04-19T14:28:39Z")
I was going to say that nothing could stand out as ridiculous in WCW, but after watching the video, I stand corrected. ---
**Author:** ![hogarth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hogarth/32/1773_2.png) [@hogarth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hogarth)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2021, 3:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hella-goofiest-things-that-were-meant-to-be-serious-shocking-any-medium/939822/34 "2021-04-19T15:12:01Z")
> [@Guest-starring\_Id](#): > > Some people might like this film, but
 > > At some point in the 80s I rented the George C Scott romp _Hardcore_ and just couldn’t make it all the way through the melodramatic sloggings of that hammy curmudgeon belly-aching his way through the seamier side of things. Similarly, I know a lot of people were blown away by the movie _Requiem for a Dream_, but I found the last 15 minutes about as serious and upsetting as a cartoon anvil falling on Wile E. Coyote’s head. “Ass to ass!!!” ---
**Author:** ![Joey\_P](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/919ad9/32.png) [@Joey\_P](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Joey_P)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2021, 3:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hella-goofiest-things-that-were-meant-to-be-serious-shocking-any-medium/939822/35 "2021-04-19T15:18:10Z")
While I didn’t think anything of it at the time, and still don’t really see why it gets so much ridicule, Six Feet Under gets a lot of jokes about this for the “narm” scene. I’m not going to link to it because it’s an enormous spoiler, but for those that have seen Six Feet Under if you google ‘six feet under narm’, it’ll pop right up. ---
**Author:** ![MrAtoz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@MrAtoz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MrAtoz)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2021, 3:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hella-goofiest-things-that-were-meant-to-be-serious-shocking-any-medium/939822/36 "2021-04-19T15:38:25Z")
That _is_ a Star Wars Stormtrooper helmet covered in glitter, isn’t it? ---
**Author:** ![dorvann](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/df705f/32.png) [@dorvann](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dorvann)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2021, 3:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hella-goofiest-things-that-were-meant-to-be-serious-shocking-any-medium/939822/37 "2021-04-19T15:46:04Z")
It appears to be so; I guess they were to cheap to make something themselves. ---
**Author:** ![Dropo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ce7236/32.png) [@Dropo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dropo)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2021, 6:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hella-goofiest-things-that-were-meant-to-be-serious-shocking-any-medium/939822/38 "2021-04-19T18:10:55Z")
Not really meant to be serious or shocking, but definitely “hella goofiest”: [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/_O88SYdd0Ks/hqdefault.jpg "Taoism Drunkard fight") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_O88SYdd0Ks) ---
**Author:** ![Guest-starring\_Id](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guest-starring_id/32/21736_2.png) [@Guest-starring\_Id](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guest-starring_Id)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2021, 12:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hella-goofiest-things-that-were-meant-to-be-serious-shocking-any-medium/939822/39 "2021-04-20T00:32:00Z")
> [@hogarth](#): > > “Ass to ass!!!” Yes, I remember the “ass to ass!” And that absolutely grating-as-eff, URGENT!!! violin score. ---
**Author:** ![MrDibble](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mrdibble/32/114_2.png) [@MrDibble](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MrDibble)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2021, 8:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hella-goofiest-things-that-were-meant-to-be-serious-shocking-any-medium/939822/40 "2021-04-20T08:56:45Z")
I would characterize crotch-biting Blackface Kung-fu Pac-Man as the goofiest, yes. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hella-goofiest-things-that-were-meant-to-be-serious-shocking-any-medium/939822.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hella-goofiest-things-that-were-meant-to-be-serious-shocking-any-medium/939822.md?page=3)