# Hilarious putdowns of iconic movie moments **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [February 22, 2009, 4:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hilarious-putdowns-of-iconic-movie-moments/486958 "2009-02-22T16:55:14Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Sir\_T-Cups](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ed655f/32.png) [@Sir\_T-Cups](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sir_T-Cups)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2009, 4:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hilarious-putdowns-of-iconic-movie-moments/486958/41 "2009-02-24T04:31:17Z")
During a showing of The Village my friends and I could tell that the theater crowd wasn’t taking the movie all that seriously. There was a point in the movie where Adrian Brody’s character does something in his characters pseudo-retarded nature which is followed by a sort of dramatic pause. During the dramatic pause my friend says… “…Hahaha…he has an Oscar” We definitely heard some laughs ---
**Author:** ![Scarlett67](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/scarlett67/32/7387_2.png) [@Scarlett67](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scarlett67)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2009, 4:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hilarious-putdowns-of-iconic-movie-moments/486958/42 "2009-02-24T04:31:40Z")
Oh man, I’m still busting a gut over “THANK YOU, THING!” :p:p:p Here’s my contribution: Watching “The Karen Carpenter Story” on TV with Mr. S (my then-boyfriend/fiancé, I forget which) and my rather easily scandalized roommate. It’s early in the movie and the Carpenters are just starting to rise. The scene is the beginning of a concert in a large auditorium. Enter young Karen, coming on stage in a frilly Sunday-go-to-meetin’ dress. Audience: \ Audience member: Karen, I love you! Mr. S: Karen, you look fat! My roommate was not amused. I nearly peed my pants laughing. Yes, I married a sick, sick man. ---
**Author:** ![RobuSensei](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/919ad9/32.png) [@RobuSensei](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RobuSensei)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2009, 5:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hilarious-putdowns-of-iconic-movie-moments/486958/43 "2009-02-24T05:36:11Z")
“We can give you 2,000 now, plus 15 when we get to Alderaan.” “17,000, huh?” _No, you idiot! 2,015! Can’t you do math?_ ---
**Author:** ![Shirley\_Ujest](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/45deac/32.png) [@Shirley\_Ujest](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shirley_Ujest)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2009, 12:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hilarious-putdowns-of-iconic-movie-moments/486958/44 "2009-02-24T12:51:55Z")
> [@want2know](#): > > Related story: > > Many years ago, one of the local “art houses” did a week-long 3-D festival. On this day, the double bill was the aforementioned film plus a gay porn called _Heavy Equipment_. During the latter movie, there’s a scene where the main character goes into a restroom at the beach. Naturally, there’s a big hole in the wall of his stall, and the other guy sticks his schlong through it. As the first guy reaches up and grabs it, my friend next to me yells out, _“THANK YOU, THING!”_. Not just laughter, but actual _applause_ from the audience! There are art-house 3-d Porn Festivals? My god, I’ve led a sheltered life! ---
**Author:** ![willthekittensurvive](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/91b2a8/32.png) [@willthekittensurvive](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/willthekittensurvive)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2009, 1:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hilarious-putdowns-of-iconic-movie-moments/486958/45 "2009-02-24T13:32:33Z")
when LOTR was still in theaters some sent me this list of No No’s > [@](#): > > 1. Stand up halfway through the movie and yell loudly, “Wait… where the hell is Harry Potter?” > > 2. Block the entrance to the theater while screaming: “YOU SHALL NOT PASS!” - After the movie, say “Lucas could have done it better.” > > 3. At some point during the movie, stand up and shout: “I must go! Middle Earth needs me!” and run and try to jump into the screen. After bouncing off, return quietly to your seat. > > 4. Play a drinking game where you have to take a sip every time someone says: “The Ring.” > > 5. Point and laugh whenever someone dies. > > 6. Ask the nearest ring-nut if he thinks Gandalf went to Hogwarts > > 7. Finish off every one of Elrond’'s lines with “Mr. Anderson.” > > 8. When Aragorn is crowned king, stand up and at the top of your lungs sing, “And I did it… MY way…!” > > 9. At the end, complain that Gollum was offensive to Ethiopians > > 10. Talk like Gollum all through the movie. At the end, bite off someone’'s finger and fall down the stairs. > > 11. When Shelob appears, pinch the guy in front of you on the back of the neck. > > 12. Dress up as old ladies and reenact “The Battle of Helms Deep” Monty Python style. > > 13. When Denethor lights the fire, shout “Barbecue!” > > 14. Ask people around you who they think is the next “Terminator” sent from the Middle Earth of the future to assassinate Frodo Baggins > > 15. In TTT when the Ents decide to march to war, stand up and shout “RUN FOREST, RUN!” > > 16. Every time someone kills an Orc, yell: “That’‘s what I’'m Tolkien about!” See how long it takes before you get kicked out of the theatre. > > 17. During a wide shot of a battle, inquire, “Where’'s Waldo?” > > 18. Talk loudly about how you heard that there is a single frame of a nude Elf hidden somewhere in the movie. > > 19. Start an Orc sing-a-long. > > 20. Come to the premiere dressed as Frankenfurter and wander around looking terribly confused. > > 21. When you see Sauron’'s eye, stand up and yell, “It looks like a flaming vagina. I hear penecillin is good for that”. ---
**Author:** ![FriarTed](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/friarted/32/1052_2.png) [@FriarTed](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FriarTed)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2009, 1:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hilarious-putdowns-of-iconic-movie-moments/486958/46 "2009-02-24T13:44:41Z")
Early '70’s, our local theater is having a special showing of Heston’s THE TEN COMMANDMENTS. Moses delivers his first “Let my people go” speech to Pharoah. Pharoah Jr. goes up & kicks Moses in the shin. From the audience- “Little fucker!” Theater was too crowded & dark for the usher to find the offender, and the audience was too into the movie to want to disrupt it by ratting him out. Anyway, the little… scamp got his when the Tenth Plague rolled around. Yeah, try kicking the Angel of Death! ---
**Author:** ![miss\_elizabeth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/838e76/32.png) [@miss\_elizabeth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/miss_elizabeth)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2009, 3:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hilarious-putdowns-of-iconic-movie-moments/486958/47 "2009-02-24T15:07:48Z")
> [@Miss\_Woodhouse](#): > > My husband is a talker during movies so we don’t go to the theater very often (you’re welcome.) I broke my rule for the Lord of the Ring movies. We were sitting watching the end of The Return of the King. Sam and Frodo on the side of the mountain, they didn’t think the would make it and then Sam’s big moment! he stands up and says his famous line. (I would tell this better, but I haven’t the slightest clue how to do a spoiler quote.) > > And my husband bursts out “Rudy! Rudy! Rudy!” to cheer him on. At least three rows started laughing. > > It completely ruined the scene for me. I still can’t watch it without giggling. This _ **killed** _ me! I think it’s ruined the scene for me too. Wonderful! ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2009, 3:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hilarious-putdowns-of-iconic-movie-moments/486958/48 "2009-02-24T15:22:20Z")
> [@Zeldar](#): > > “Hey, diddle diddle, the cat and the fiddle, the cow jumped over the moon…” The little dog stood in the field as a sentry But alas, the poor cow burned up on reentry. – Ed Bluestone (I think) ---
**Author:** ![BlinkingDuck](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/eada6e/32.png) [@BlinkingDuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BlinkingDuck)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2009, 3:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hilarious-putdowns-of-iconic-movie-moments/486958/49 "2009-02-24T15:32:49Z")
In the movie Clash of the Titans (yes…it was in theaters at one time you whippersnappers} In the ending scene when the Krakin (pronounced Crack-in in the movie) was defeated…turned to stone and started to fall apart…My fried says in a crowded theater… “So THAT’S why they call him the Krackin” The whole theater laughed for quite awhile. ---
**Author:** ![Zeldar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/b77776/32.png) [@Zeldar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeldar)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2009, 4:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hilarious-putdowns-of-iconic-movie-moments/486958/50 "2009-02-24T16:28:04Z")
> [@Johnny\_L.A](#): > > The little dog stood in the field as a sentry > But alas, the poor cow burned up on reentry. > > – Ed Bluestone (I think) Fun stuff! It prompted me to try again to locate an online version of that cartoon I mentioned in the OP. Still no luck, but if you want a few minutes of entertainment, do a Yahoo! Image Search on “hey diddle” and let your mind be blown. ---
**Author:** ![Yumblie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/76d3ee/32.png) [@Yumblie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yumblie)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2009, 4:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hilarious-putdowns-of-iconic-movie-moments/486958/51 "2009-02-24T16:36:19Z")
One great Simpsons moment is when Homer finds a pair of glasses in a bathroom stall and puts them on. He immediately recites the line the Scarecrow says after receiving his brain from the Wizard of Oz, “The sum of the squares of an isosceles triangle is equal to the square of the remaining side!” The man in the stall next to him shouts “That’s a _right_ triangle, you idiot!” and Homer responds “Do’h!” ---
**Author:** ![E-Sabbath](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/e19adc/32.png) [@E-Sabbath](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/E-Sabbath)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2009, 5:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hilarious-putdowns-of-iconic-movie-moments/486958/52 "2009-02-24T17:45:48Z")
The Scarecrow line actually works appropriately. The brains don’t make the Scarecrow smarter, they just make him think he’s smarter. ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2009, 6:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hilarious-putdowns-of-iconic-movie-moments/486958/53 "2009-02-24T18:08:01Z")
> [@Annie-Xmas](#): > > … They are in the attic. This was shouted to the Nazis by an unhappy audience member during a particularly bad community-theater production of _The Diary of Anne Frank_, according to a NYT article awhile back. **Jack Batty** , at the college-campus movie series I go to, there’s always a reel shown before the movie starts in which a 1950s-era announcer brags, "This picture is presented in… _Wide-Screen Stereo!"_ The hipsters in the audience always shout the italicized words in unison. I once went to a big-screen showing of _The Sound of Music_. When Maria comes out from behind the monastery screen in her wedding dress and the gate’s locked behind her, someone shouted, “Dead nun walking!” I about busted a gut. ---
**Author:** ![Intergalactic\_Gladiator](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/intergalactic_gladiator/32/112_2.png) [@Intergalactic\_Gladiator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Intergalactic_Gladiator)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2009, 6:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hilarious-putdowns-of-iconic-movie-moments/486958/54 "2009-02-24T18:17:42Z")
In 1989, I saw Batman on opening night in a crowded theater. There was one scene where Robert Whul and Vikki Vale are looking up old news paper stories of Bruce Wayne. Robert’s character says something to the effect of “Wow, his parents were murdered when he was a child. Can you imagine what that did to him?” I responded “It drove him batty.” I got some good laughs from everyone around me though I felt compelled to appologize for the remark. ---
**Author:** ![Chef\_Troy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/85f322/32.png) [@Chef\_Troy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chef_Troy)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2009, 6:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hilarious-putdowns-of-iconic-movie-moments/486958/55 "2009-02-24T18:33:11Z")
My wife and I went to see _Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull_. Near the beginning, the commies pull Indy out of the trunk of a car and he’s brought before Cate Blanchette’s Col. Irina Spalko. At a dramatic moment, I leaned over and said in my best faux-Russian accent, “Now, doktor Jyonz, hyu vill tell us vhere to find moose and SQUEER-ell.” She kept hitting me until she stopped laughing, which took a while. Ow. ---
**Author:** ![postcards](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/8e8cbc/32.png) [@postcards](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/postcards)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2009, 6:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hilarious-putdowns-of-iconic-movie-moments/486958/56 "2009-02-24T18:44:16Z")
> [@Annie-Xmas](#): > > The Diary of Anne Frank: They are in the attic. Nope, nobody can say that, during the stage production at least. No Nazis. [Snopes](http://www.snopes.com/movies/actors/zadora.asp) backs me up. (Not to mention I just a production of this show last year.) ---
**Author:** ![warmark](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/58f4c7/32.png) [@warmark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/warmark)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2009, 8:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hilarious-putdowns-of-iconic-movie-moments/486958/57 "2009-02-24T20:01:37Z")
Not an iconic moment, but it was funny, nonetheless: Went to see Iron Man with my wife, my cousin, cousin’s wife, and their 7-year old son. During the scene showing what a suave playboy Stark is, where he’s seducing the reporter, my cousin’s son stood up, turned around, slapped his hands to his face and said, “Argh! I came to watch Iron Man, not this crap!” ---
**Author:** ![Chanteuse](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/9de053/32.png) [@Chanteuse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chanteuse)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2009, 10:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hilarious-putdowns-of-iconic-movie-moments/486958/58 "2009-02-24T22:34:11Z")
This one was told to me by my sister, so I’m paraphrasing here! She went to see _The Sixth Sense_ with some of her in-laws. The scene came up where a boy asks HJO if he wants to see where his Dad keeps the guns and as he turns away, you can see that the back of his head is blown away. My sister’s SIL muttered, “Well, we know where he keeps the bullets!” Everyone within earshot cracked up! ---
**Author:** ![Typo\_Knig](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/cdc98d/32.png) [@Typo\_Knig](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Typo_Knig)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2009, 3:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hilarious-putdowns-of-iconic-movie-moments/486958/59 "2009-02-25T03:35:24Z")
Not iconic, but a good third hand story. A guy talks his buddies into seeing a crummy kung-fu exploitation movie. As I recall it was entitled “The Five Fingers of Death”. “C’mon” he says, “I’ve seen it. It’s terrible. You’ll love it!” So the collegians go, albeit with an extra large order of dubious. The guy smuggled in a cassette player (that’s like a big, clunky MP3 player for you whipper-snappers) into the theater. There’s one scene where a fighter plucks out the eyes of his opponent. At this shocking turn, the first guy hits the play button and out of the recorder’s speaker comes “I can see clearly now the rain is gone!” They got thrown out of the theater, laughing all the way! Another non-iconic moment, since it was for a remake. Well, it was a remake of an iconic movie. I was watching the [1973 remake](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0070337/) of [Lost Horizon](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lost_Horizon_(1973_film)) in a theater. This must have been right when it opened, and before ANY reviews came out, because the place was packed. Every seat in the house filled. As I recall it was a big christmas opening. This was a bad movie. Very bad. [Leonard Pinth-Garnell](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saturday_Night_Live_TV_show_sketches#Leonard_Pinth-Garnell) bad. So bad it set [Michael Medved](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Fifty_Worst_Films_of_All_Time) loose on the world, and recalling this movie, I kinda think we deserve it. Adding to the badness of this cinematic experience was a little boy a few rows away from me. He must have been three or four. Every time anything happened on the screen, he would ask his mother about it. He was young enough that the idea of limiting the volume on his voice was clearly beyond his ken. “Mommy, why are they getting in an airplane?” “Mommy, why are people chasing an airplane?” “Mommy why are they flying over mountains?” This went on for every scene. Every. Single. Scene. “Mommy, why did the plane crash?” “Mommy, why is it snowing?” “Mommy, why isn’t it snowing anymore?” “Mommy, why are they singing?” (Well, THAT was a good question!) There’s a dramatic scene late in the move where a sherpa party is climbing away from Shangi-La, and gets caught in an avalanche. One second you see this thin, lonely string of climbers, then comes the avalanche. Half the snow on the mountain falls on them, wipes them off its face utterly, and then … nothing. No movement, no wreckage, no bodies, no sign anyone or anything has even been there, just the sound on the eternal mountain winds. A hush fell over the theater. . . . . . . . . “Mommy - are they dead?” Everyone within earshot cracked up. It was the best thing about the movie! ---
**Author:** ![Patch](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/a183cd/32.png) [@Patch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Patch)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2009, 3:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hilarious-putdowns-of-iconic-movie-moments/486958/60 "2009-02-25T03:58:48Z")
I was at a theater watching some horrible Jackie Chan film, only it wasn’t really a Jackie Chan film as I didn’t see him for some time after the film started. It took place in a prison, and all these cliche prison movie moments were going on, and I was bored out of my mind. Anyway, the guards were trying to knock this prison kingpin down a peg or two, so at mealtime they put this huge vat of rice in front of him and commanded he eat the whole thing. Defiantly, he stood up, took the serving spoon, and stuffed a mound of rice into his mouth. Without missing a beat, I said, “One!”. The dozen or so people around me who heard it howled with laughter. * * * I watched _Mortal Kombat_ in a theater with a predominately black audience. Towards the end, there’s a bit where the whiny hero Liu Kang faces off against the Big Bad Guy[sup]TM[/sup], and announces that he’s not afraid because “I know who I am”. At that point, a male voice booms through the theater (and I quote exactly) “Uh-oh! You in trouble now! He know who he is!” The entire audience lost it. I don’t think I would have laughed so hard if it hadn’t been in that ebonics English. It somehow made the comment **so** much better. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hilarious-putdowns-of-iconic-movie-moments/486958.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hilarious-putdowns-of-iconic-movie-moments/486958.md?page=4)