# Most Hilarious Unintentional (Emphasis on Unintentional) Movie Move **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [November 20, 2017, 9:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-hilarious-unintentional-emphasis-on-unintentional-movie-move/802218 "2017-11-20T21:23:17Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 10\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![TPWombat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/bbce88/32.png) [@TPWombat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TPWombat)\ **Post date:** [November 29, 2017, 10:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-hilarious-unintentional-emphasis-on-unintentional-movie-move/802218/21 "2017-11-29T10:55:44Z")
In the 1984 **Splash** , there’s a brilliant scene where a very hung over John Candy is playing squash with Tom Hanks. Candy serves the ball which comes straight back at him and smacks him in the head, knocking him down. I wondered how many takes that took and then years later, listening to a commentary track heard that a) he really was hung over b) that was a complete fluke but, pro that he was, he went with it and they kept the scene. It was no doubt intended to be funny but not THAT funny so I think this counts. ---
**Author:** ![Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/prof.pepperwinkle/32/13627_2.png) [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Prof.Pepperwinkle)\ **Post date:** [November 29, 2017, 4:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-hilarious-unintentional-emphasis-on-unintentional-movie-move/802218/22 "2017-11-29T16:15:26Z")
> [@golffan1963](#): > > Once happened to be watching “White Christmas” with Bing Crosby and Rosemary Clooney. If you have it, or next time you see it, watch closely in the final scene. After breaking up with Bing and then making up…Clooney gives Bing a fairly ornate and expensive looking small horse (not sure what it was made of). > > So what does Bing do? He opens the gift, looks at it, then he just tosses it into the Christmas tree so he can kiss her. If you watch it closely, it’s laugh out loud hilarious! It’s as if he doesn’t give two hoots about the gift. > > Anything similar come to mind? Anything from any movie is fair game! The horse itself didn’t matter. It was Rosemary’s character’s way of telling him that he was her “knight in shining armor” again (referencing earlier dialogue when they were falling in love), and that she loved him. ---
**Author:** ![xizor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/xizor/32/102_2.png) [@xizor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/xizor)\ **Post date:** [November 29, 2017, 4:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-hilarious-unintentional-emphasis-on-unintentional-movie-move/802218/23 "2017-11-29T16:59:37Z")
[I’m walking! I’m walking here!](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uOLaKY39eF0) Dustin Hoffman when a taxi accidentally drove onto the set. ---
**Author:** ![buddha\_david](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ee7513/32.png) [@buddha\_david](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/buddha_david)\ **Post date:** [November 29, 2017, 5:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-hilarious-unintentional-emphasis-on-unintentional-movie-move/802218/24 "2017-11-29T17:06:49Z")
In _When Harry Met Sally,_ the [“Waiter, there is too much pepper in my paprikash”](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E6CtAauWe1U) scene was completely ad-libbed by Billy Crystal, with Meg Ryan following along as best she could. At one point she actually breaks character, laughs and looks off-screen towards director Rob Reiner, who motioned for her to keep going. ---
**Author:** ![Yllaria](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/yllaria/32/3452_2.png) [@Yllaria](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yllaria)\ **Post date:** [November 29, 2017, 7:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-hilarious-unintentional-emphasis-on-unintentional-movie-move/802218/25 "2017-11-29T19:00:38Z")
> [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#): > > The horse itself didn’t matter. It was Rosemary’s character’s way of telling him that he was her “knight in shining armor” again (referencing earlier dialogue when they were falling in love), and that she loved him. Exactly. Once the message was delivered, the messenger was immaterial. ---
**Author:** ![Ludovic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ab992/32.png) [@Ludovic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ludovic)\ **Post date:** [November 29, 2017, 7:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-hilarious-unintentional-emphasis-on-unintentional-movie-move/802218/26 "2017-11-29T19:11:00Z")
> [@Annoying\_Buzz](#): > > In the 1966 Batman movie, there’s a scene where Catwoman, in her non-villain persona of Ms. Kitka, is attempting to seduce Bruce Wayne. Just as Wayne is leaning in for a kiss, the other villains burst into the room. Wayne leaps up in surprise and action ensues. > > The hilarious part is that either Adam West badly jumped his cue, or the sound editing was way off, because well before the sound of the villains bursting in, he pulls his head away from Lee Meriwether with a horrified look on his face. It left him looking like he _really_ didn’t want to kiss her. > > [sub]_I may be misremembering who burst in and why, but the end result was still the same._[/sub] There are a few of these with Gandalf in the LotR movies, the two I remember are when his eyes light up slightly both before Frodo sees the writing on The Ring after it’s been in a fire, and when the party hears drums in the deep. ---
**Author:** ![Rick\_Kitchen](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rick_kitchen/32/522_2.png) [@Rick\_Kitchen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rick_Kitchen)\ **Post date:** [November 29, 2017, 7:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-hilarious-unintentional-emphasis-on-unintentional-movie-move/802218/27 "2017-11-29T19:54:46Z")
Indiana Jones in Raiders of the Lost Ark, when he shot the bad guy twirling the scimitar. He was supposed to use his whip, but Harrison Ford had dysentery and needed to run to the bathroom and was disgusted with the long shooting time of the scene, so he pulled out his gun and “shot” the guy. Not a spur of the moment thing, but a change to the shooting schedule based on need. > **[Raiders of the Lost Ark](https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/runs-of-luck/)** > > Did a case of the runs lead to one of 'Raiders of the Lost Ark's most memorable scenes? ---
**Author:** ![DrDeth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b487fb/32.png) [@DrDeth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrDeth)\ **Post date:** [November 29, 2017, 8:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-hilarious-unintentional-emphasis-on-unintentional-movie-move/802218/28 "2017-11-29T20:00:39Z")
> [@Rick\_Kitchen](#): > > Indiana Jones in Raiders of the Lost Ark, when he shot the bad guy twirling the scimitar. He was supposed to use his whip, but Harrison Ford had dysentery and needed to run to the bathroom and was disgusted with the long shooting time of the scene, so he pulled out his gun and “shot” the guy. Not a spur of the moment thing, but a change to the shooting schedule based on need. > [Raiders of the Lost Ark | Snopes.com](https://www.snopes.com/movies/films/raiders.asp) Hmm, a little bit like post 15, maybe.😛 ---
**Author:** ![beowulff](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beowulff/32/542_2.png) [@beowulff](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/beowulff)\ **Post date:** [November 30, 2017, 3:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-hilarious-unintentional-emphasis-on-unintentional-movie-move/802218/29 "2017-11-30T03:16:06Z")
In The Usual Suspects, there’s a scene where the usual suspects meet with some sleazy fences in a parking garage. At the conclusion of their conversation, the lead sleazebag (Peter Greene) [flicks his cigarette](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IiqLNL6KYM8) at McManus (Stephen Baldwin), and hits him in the eye. Baldwin goes to take a swing at him, and gets restrained by the rest of the team. The director’s commentary says that they had filmed this scene a number of times, and each time Greene hit Baldwin in the chest with the cigarette, and it was pissing him off. On the last take, Greene unintentionally hit him in the eye, and that was the last straw for Baldwin, who honestly wanted to punch him out. ---
**Author:** ![buddha\_david](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ee7513/32.png) [@buddha\_david](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/buddha_david)\ **Post date:** [November 30, 2017, 4:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-hilarious-unintentional-emphasis-on-unintentional-movie-move/802218/30 "2017-11-30T04:25:31Z")
> [@Ludovic](#): > > There are a few of these with Gandalf in the LotR movies, the two I remember are when his eyes light up slightly both before Frodo sees the writing on The Ring after it’s been in a fire, and when the party hears drums in the deep. The first example makes sense. Gandalf is already 99% certain that Bilbo’s ring is The One Ring, and as soon as Frodo notices the writing, his worst fears are confirmed. I don’t recall the drums in the deep scene. Perhaps it’s Gandalf’s spidey-sense? He _is_ a freakin’ wizard, after all… [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-hilarious-unintentional-emphasis-on-unintentional-movie-move/802218.md?page=1)