Most unintentionally funny campy moments in TV/film/other (with video if possible)

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Few things are funnier for longer periods of time than scenes intended to be really powerful and dramatic but come across as just way over the top.

Several gold standards were all found in one place, the film Mommy Dearest, for convenience:

Tina… bring me the axe!

I’m not one of your fans!and of course

No Wire Hangers

All compiled into the Momma Mia Dearest Mix

But there’s plenty of camp (in the failed seriousness sense) to go around.

A favorite from TV:

Jessie (Elizabeth Berkley) becoming addicted to drugs for 24 minutes on Saved By the Bell. Finally she has to come to terms with her addictions when she freaks out while rehearsing for a song, and we all learn something about drugs.
The drugs, in this case, being… caffeine pills. The gateway to Frappucino.

Jessie’s So Excited
What are some other great unintentionally funny moments caught on film?

Feel free to share if they’re not easily available on YouTube- just tell us about them.

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Many, many moments in Tommy Wiseau’s masterpiece of badness, The Room.

Ewe are tearing me apaht, Lisa!!

I’m fed up with this world (someone he manages to make “world” into two words).

I did naaaaht…oh hai, Mark.

So anyway, how’s your sex life?

Seriously, go watch this movie.

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Ah, The Wicker Man remake has so, so many of these moments. I’ll only link to two.

Not the bees!

and my favorite:

Nic Cage punches a woman while wearing a bear suit

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Ryan O’Neal’s character in Tough Guys Don’t Dance learns his wife is unfaithful— Oh God.

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Garbage Day - from Silent Night, Deadly Night

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Mark Almond in this Tainted Love video clip…campy and creepy all rolled into one.

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TVTropes has, of course, troped this for your convenience: Narm

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Troll 2:

Oh my goooooooood!

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George Lucas’s writing at his dramatic one-word best.

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I can’t link at work, but Hawkeye’s “It was a baby!” scene in the final MAS*H provokes mirth in me.

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Can somebody find the scene in John Huston’s ***The Bible ***where Richard Harris roars arrogantly, “AM I NOT NIMROD???”

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Elizabeth Berkley ain’t got nothin’ on Academy Award winner Helen Hunt in the bad trip department.

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Is this because I’m a lesbian?

And speaking of drugs, the famous Dragnet Blue Boy acid scene. (The one that formed a certain poster’s lifelong interpretation of what LSD usage is actually like, as if it were a documentary)

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That admittedly awesome video was intentionally campy, and is hence disqualified.

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You know, someone compiled all the best scenes from this movie here. Love this.
In books the best unintentionally hilarious scene comes in the first chapter of Stephen King’s Cell. The scene with the duckboat is priceless if you’ve ever seen one of the boats and all the idiots quacking at you in real life. Zombies hanging out of it while everyone screams instead of quacks…:smiley:

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Here’s the Six Feet Under scene for which it’s named. (Fans of the series are divided in whether it was dramatic, funny, or both; I never watched that series after the second season but I do know that the character ultimately dies from what happened in this scene [embolism? aneurysm? brain tumor? don’t remember offhand though I know it had been a major plot point throughout the series]

I’ve wondered if it was supposed to be intentionally semi-funny, since sometimes things do seem that ridiculous or over the top in medical emergencies in real life.

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Brain and brain! What is brain?

Of course you can’t use the phrase “over the top” without at least one clip of William Shatner!

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I found the birth of Ishmael scene in Richard Harris’s movie about Abraham unintentionally funny, but with an asterix. Hagar is sitting on Sarah’s lap as she has the child so that Sarah can simulate giving birth; Genesis quotes Sarah as saying “Abram, knock up the maid that I might have a baby upon my knees” and I think that’s what they’re going for. However, when I watched this for some reason I had an image in my head of Alice doing this while serving as a surrogate mom for Carol Brady.

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<tangent> Have you ever read The Handmaiden’s Tale? I only know the bible story your referencing from the sanitized kids’ version of the story that didn’t include what you’ve described, but I now find it interesting that an important scene in a sci-fi story clearly was inspired by something out of the bible. </tangent>

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My memory failed me. Richard Harris IS in The Bible, but it was Stephen Boyd who played Nimrod, during the Tower of Babel segment.

Still can’t find the scene.