# Movies you cannot channel surf past... **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [September 9, 2017, 2:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-cannot-channel-surf-past/795895 "2017-09-09T14:35:10Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![Aspenglow](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aspenglow/32/76_2.png) [@Aspenglow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Aspenglow)\ **Post date:** [September 18, 2017, 12:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-cannot-channel-surf-past/795895/61 "2017-09-18T00:35:48Z")
> [@Eddie The Horrible](#): > > Yeah actually I guess my favourite too. > Actually - by a longshot - the more I think about it. > Funny you mention the ghoulish humour when only last week I posted in another thread one of the awesome scenes where the detective’s wife is serving him yet another one of her much :dubious:beloved:dubious: dishes. > > _IT WAS RUSK! I’M TELLING YOU!..RUSK! WHERE ARE YOU?..ONE OF THESE DAYS, YOU BASTARD!_ LOL, missed your post, but yes – those dinner scenes are hilarious. 😃 They’re both trying so hard!! And the poor police sergeant… “It’s called… a Margarita!” My absolute favorite scene, though, is Rusk wrestling with the recalcitrant corpse in the potato truck as he tries to recover the stick pin. Really brings home the meaning of the phrase about dead weight being like a “sack of potatoes.” As if she’s getting even somehow. And such a young Jean Marsh! Honestly, it’s one of a very few I just can’t surf past if I see it’s on. 🙂 ---
**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:** [September 18, 2017, 2:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-cannot-channel-surf-past/795895/62 "2017-09-18T02:05:09Z")
> [@Aspenglow](#): > > As if she’s getting even somehow. [Recalcitrant,](https://youtu.be/uwaSM8NAD7A?t=4652)indeed. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Bullitt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bullitt/32/5725_2.png) [@Bullitt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bullitt)\ **Post date:** [September 25, 2017, 12:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-cannot-channel-surf-past/795895/63 "2017-09-25T00:50:09Z")
The Last Samurai is another favorite of mine. It is on right now, and I stopped surfing. ---
**Author:** ![cochrane](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cochrane/32/10441_2.png) [@cochrane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cochrane)\ **Post date:** [September 25, 2017, 1:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-cannot-channel-surf-past/795895/64 "2017-09-25T01:20:48Z")
_Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid_ was on This TV yesterday. I came in on the part where Butch and Etta were riding the bicycle. I watched it for a while. And I sang along to _Raindrops Keep Fallin’ on My Head_. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Dag\_Otto](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/439d5e/32.png) [@Dag\_Otto](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dag_Otto)\ **Post date:** [September 25, 2017, 5:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-cannot-channel-surf-past/795895/65 "2017-09-25T05:54:52Z")
Am I the only one who can’t pass up watching\* Cool Hand Luke\*? ---
**Author:** ![jerez](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/c68b51/32.png) [@jerez](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jerez)\ **Post date:** [September 25, 2017, 7:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-cannot-channel-surf-past/795895/66 "2017-09-25T07:33:17Z")
> [@](#): > > Am I the only one who can’t pass up watching\* Cool Hand Luke\*? No, you’re not alone. It’s always made a deep impression on me, especially when I recently realized that Harry Dean Stanton seemed familiar to me because of this film. I’ll throw “Training Day” onto the pile. Channel surfing is how I became aware of it and how I eventually saw nearly all of it. What drew me in the first time was that horrific scene of the card game at Smiley’s house. ---
**Author:** ![Onthefly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/9de053/32.png) [@Onthefly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Onthefly)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2017, 1:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-cannot-channel-surf-past/795895/67 "2017-09-26T01:30:15Z")
Zulu ---
**Author:** ![Scylla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a5b964/32.png) [@Scylla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scylla)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2017, 1:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-cannot-channel-surf-past/795895/68 "2017-09-26T01:49:26Z")
Many have come and gone, but only one has retained its power so than no matter what I am doing or what time it is, when the clicker chances upon Roadhouse everything must stop and I must watch the rest. I have no idea why [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-cannot-channel-surf-past/795895.md?page=3)