# 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:** 4
**Author:** ![Dung\_Beetle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dung_beetle/32/7945_2.png) [@Dung\_Beetle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dung_Beetle)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2021, 5:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hella-goofiest-things-that-were-meant-to-be-serious-shocking-any-medium/939822/61 "2021-04-22T17:40:46Z")
> [@Left\_Hand\_of\_Dorkness](#): > > But when you’re filming the climactic tragedy of a movie, slo-mo cows falling through the air saying MOOOOOOOOO! as they fall to their deaths except you can’t hear them over the soaring orchestral music so you just see them silently MOOOOing, doesn’t have the emotional impact you’re looking for. That’s awful. I hope I never see that movie (then I’ll feel even worse for laughing). I think Pat Benatar’s [Hell is For Children](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NGTv53Y1xS8) was supposed to come off really tough and raise awareness and stuff, but it’s just so corny-sounding to me. ---
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2021, 5:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hella-goofiest-things-that-were-meant-to-be-serious-shocking-any-medium/939822/62 "2021-04-22T17:43:09Z")
There are lots of goofy things in DC comics (there’s an entire issue of **Ambush Bug** devoted to them, in fact), but one of the stupidest, to me, was the villain **Egg Fu** , the nemesis of Wonder Woman. He’s basically a giant egg with a face, a sort of Fu Manvhu version of Humpty Dumpty. It’s impossible to take at all seriously, especially when he speaks in that racist “Chinese” accent. Racist AND Silly. It’s a wonder Wonder Woman didn’t die of embarrassment. Don’t look for him in any upcoming WW movie. > **[Egg Fu](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Egg_Fu)** > > Pages for logged out editors learn more > > Egg Fu is a fictional character appearing in DC Comics publications and related media, commonly as an adversary of the superhero Wonder Woman. Most frequently represented as an enormous sentient egg (and often, inexplicably, of Chinese descent), he was created by Robert Kanigher and Ross Andru in 1965's Wonder Woman #157. Over the years, multiple versions of the character have appeared with varying backstories and alternative names (including Egg ... ---
**Author:** ![Just\_Asking\_Questions](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ba9def/32.png) [@Just\_Asking\_Questions](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Just_Asking_Questions)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2021, 7:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hella-goofiest-things-that-were-meant-to-be-serious-shocking-any-medium/939822/63 "2021-04-22T19:35:47Z")
> [@Dung\_Beetle](#): > > I think Pat Benatar’s [Hell is For Children](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NGTv53Y1xS8) was supposed to come off really tough and raise awareness and stuff, but it’s just so corny-sounding to me. The chorus makes no sense! Why is hell for children? Heaven is for children. Hell is for the abusers of children. It makes no sense! ---
**Author:** ![Dung\_Beetle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dung_beetle/32/7945_2.png) [@Dung\_Beetle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dung_Beetle)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2021, 8:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hella-goofiest-things-that-were-meant-to-be-serious-shocking-any-medium/939822/64 "2021-04-22T20:30:27Z")
Well, Heaven Is For Children doesn’t sound bad-ass at all. ---
**Author:** ![Just\_Asking\_Questions](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ba9def/32.png) [@Just\_Asking\_Questions](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Just_Asking_Questions)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2021, 9:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hella-goofiest-things-that-were-meant-to-be-serious-shocking-any-medium/939822/65 "2021-04-22T21:15:29Z")
Because hell, children are in hell And you know that their little lives\* can become such a mess Hell, don’t put kids in hell And you shouldn’t have to pay for your love With your bones and your flesh Easy peasy! 🙂 \*I always thought the word was “lies”, as in, it’s hard to keep the lies straight. “Tell grandma you fell off the swing.” Makes more sense that way. ---
**Author:** ![Grrr](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/grrr/32/146_2.png) [@Grrr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Grrr)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2021, 9:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hella-goofiest-things-that-were-meant-to-be-serious-shocking-any-medium/939822/66 "2021-04-22T21:41:50Z")
There’s an early episode of STNG where the bridge crew is looking at a sun. Picard or somebody says pull up the “eclipse” protector wherein a black circle comes up on screen and blots out the sun to keep the bridge crew from being blinded from LOOKING AT A SCREEN MONITOR! ---
**Author:** ![Enjoy\_Slurm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/enjoy_slurm/32/3937_2.png) [@Enjoy\_Slurm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Enjoy_Slurm)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2021, 11:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hella-goofiest-things-that-were-meant-to-be-serious-shocking-any-medium/939822/67 "2021-04-22T23:44:22Z")
You wouldn’t want the home viewer to get a sunburn would you? 🤨 ---
**Author:** ![River\_Hippie](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/river_hippie/32/26_2.png) [@River\_Hippie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/River_Hippie)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2021, 1:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hella-goofiest-things-that-were-meant-to-be-serious-shocking-any-medium/939822/68 "2021-04-23T01:46:41Z")
Thank you! ---
**Author:** ![Smapti](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/smapti/32/17938_2.png) [@Smapti](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smapti)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2021, 3:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hella-goofiest-things-that-were-meant-to-be-serious-shocking-any-medium/939822/69 "2021-04-23T03:40:33Z")
> [@What\_Exit](#): > > It was awesome in a cheesy way. Kind of like the 60s Batman Show. A fitting comparison - the screenplay was written by [Lorenzo Semple](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lorenzo_Semple_Jr.), who was a writer/editor for Batman. ---
**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 23, 2021, 3:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hella-goofiest-things-that-were-meant-to-be-serious-shocking-any-medium/939822/70 "2021-04-23T03:59:06Z")
Oh good - I’ve got the correct thread this time, and not posting this in the Post-CF and Outgoing Trump Outrages thread… So’s, I was apologizing to Robert, but - your _Great Santini_ was way too insufferably, tediously, face-punchingly ass-face\*-ish to take seriously. Jesus. Poor Blythe. \<\<\<\<\<\< second time mentioning Bythe Danner in same thread!!! Somehow! \*totally obscure CSC reference. 🕶 ---
**Author:** ![Robot\_Arm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/robot_arm/32/18280_2.png) [@Robot\_Arm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Robot_Arm)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2021, 6:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hella-goofiest-things-that-were-meant-to-be-serious-shocking-any-medium/939822/71 "2021-04-23T18:38:02Z")
> [@Guest-starring\_Id](#): > > Poor Blythe. \<\<\<\<\<\< second time mentioning Bythe Danner in same thread!!! Somehow! A thread can never have too much Blythe Danner. If that’s not in the SDMB rules, it should be. ---
**Author:** ![Gatopescado](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gatopescado/32/5711_2.png) [@Gatopescado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gatopescado)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2021, 7:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hella-goofiest-things-that-were-meant-to-be-serious-shocking-any-medium/939822/72 "2021-04-23T19:03:30Z")
> [@Dropo](#): > > Not really meant to be serious or shocking, but definitely “hella goofiest”: Well, its Official. I’ve seen it all. > [@Dung\_Beetle](#): > > I think Pat Benatar’s [Hell is For Children](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NGTv53Y1xS8) was supposed to come off really tough and raise awareness and stuff, but it’s just so corny-sounding to me. Most of Pat Benatar’s videos were ‘Cheese Level: Wisconsin’. ---
**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 23, 2021, 10:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hella-goofiest-things-that-were-meant-to-be-serious-shocking-any-medium/939822/73 "2021-04-23T22:20:13Z")
Cher’s “Bang Bang (My Baby Shot Me Down)”, if anything, detracted from the gravity of firearm homicide. (If it even _was_ actual homicide in this song, or just a goofy metaphor for either desertion or abuse or something.) ---
**Author:** ![Dung\_Beetle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dung_beetle/32/7945_2.png) [@Dung\_Beetle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dung_Beetle)\ **Post date:** [May 17, 2021, 1:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hella-goofiest-things-that-were-meant-to-be-serious-shocking-any-medium/939822/74 "2021-05-17T13:37:37Z")
I caught this song on the 70s Sirius XM station this morning. I’d never heard it before, but I think it might fit here. > **[Think – Once You Understand](https://genius.com/Think-once-you-understand-lyrics)** > > (Things get a little easier, once you understand) / \[repeated in background over and over and over until the end of the song\] / \[spoken dialog\] / \[Dad\] / I'll be expecting you to Now _that_ is the kind of embarrassing cheez I like to hear! ---
**Author:** ![Uncle\_Jocko](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/uncle_jocko/32/2932_2.png) [@Uncle\_Jocko](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Uncle_Jocko)\ **Post date:** [May 17, 2021, 2:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hella-goofiest-things-that-were-meant-to-be-serious-shocking-any-medium/939822/75 "2021-05-17T14:06:35Z")
> [@Gatopescado](#): > > Most of Pat Benatar’s videos were ‘Cheese Level: Wisconsin’. Hey, now, don’t you be dissing _Love Is A Battlefield_ and that awesome scene of the escort/prostitutes scaring off their pimp with sassy shoulder shimmies and an epic dance break. ---
**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:** [May 18, 2021, 12:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hella-goofiest-things-that-were-meant-to-be-serious-shocking-any-medium/939822/76 "2021-05-18T00:36:46Z")
…or the pimp’s [freaked-out _sneer_.](https://youtu.be/IGVZOLV9SPo?t=243) ---
**Author:** ![Gatopescado](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gatopescado/32/5711_2.png) [@Gatopescado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gatopescado)\ **Post date:** [May 18, 2021, 5:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hella-goofiest-things-that-were-meant-to-be-serious-shocking-any-medium/939822/77 "2021-05-18T05:36:24Z")
Should we discuss _Shadows of the Night?_ No, probably not. ---
**Author:** ![WOOKINPANUBv.2](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wookinpanubv.2/32/3260_2.png) [@WOOKINPANUBv.2](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WOOKINPANUBv.2)\ **Post date:** [May 18, 2021, 12:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hella-goofiest-things-that-were-meant-to-be-serious-shocking-any-medium/939822/78 "2021-05-18T12:17:19Z")
As long as we’re taking a stroll down 80s memory lane, how many remember a cheesy little miniseries call _Lace_ which featured Phoebe Cates delivering the saucy line [“Which one of you bitches is my mother?”](https://www.dailymotion.com/video/xrt96o) It was meant to be scandalous(“the word"bitch” wasn’t thrown around quite so freely on tv in 1984) and dramatic but it made people - at least in my school- laugh , and people were gleefully mocking it all week. ---
**Author:** ![madsircool](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/madsircool/32/3432_2.png) [@madsircool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/madsircool)\ **Post date:** [May 18, 2021, 3:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hella-goofiest-things-that-were-meant-to-be-serious-shocking-any-medium/939822/79 "2021-05-18T15:41:24Z")
[![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/mDLS12_a-fk/maxresdefault.jpg "Planet of the Apes (5/5) Movie CLIP - Statue of Liberty (1968) HD") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mDLS12_a-fk) ---
**Author:** ![Slithy\_Tove](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/slithy_tove/32/18248_2.png) [@Slithy\_Tove](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Slithy_Tove)\ **Post date:** [May 18, 2021, 4:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hella-goofiest-things-that-were-meant-to-be-serious-shocking-any-medium/939822/80 "2021-05-18T16:09:42Z")
The masterful camerawork that ends [Reflections in a Golden Eye](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5U2NssXWO5Y) [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hella-goofiest-things-that-were-meant-to-be-serious-shocking-any-medium/939822.md?page=3)