FYI, No. 54 was *The Bad Seed. p
That was one of the opening credit sequences for “Everybody Loves Raymond” early on.
Here, I’ll toss in another one -
- A man looks around for his wife - who was there just a second ago - just as a cat leaps into his arms.
I’m surprised that nobody has guessed the following yet:
-
Batman (1960s series)
-
All in the Family
-
This was one of the Marx brothers’ movies - IIRC it was “Horse Feathers”
Okay, even more -
NIS 1 - A woman stuns a packed apartment of decadent arty New Yorkers by killing a man “with her c***.”
NIS 2 - A jovial old coot praises the kids who visited his farm during the summer as “wonderful!”
NIS 3 - Three women - wrongfully accused of drug possession - are brought to jail where they are forced to shower and then get deloused.
My #2 must be more difficult that I first thought. Another hint:
DY2. There’s an unidentifiable war in a unidentifiable forest.
Later, a man first imagines himself as a general, then as a fish.
But before that, a sub-group’s plans for reuniting with the main group are sidetracked when they happen upon a lightly defended enemy general.
And some more hints for my recent batch:
DY6. A man with an afro assures us his knife is the same as ours, his is just spray-painted black so it doesn’t shine.
“Let’s go up here.”
DY7. A woman turns down a trapeze act for a part in a musical revue.
Later, when someone pulls the fire alarm, she escapes during the spectators’ confused rush out.
DY8. A maid doesn’t recall the lights flickering.
A man accuses a woman of hiding a small painting.
DY9. The laser eye surgeon’s anaesthetics are in pill form and his dosing guidelines are “whatever can fit in your fist”.
Later, it seems a man’s recent blindness has given him psychic abilities.
DY10. A man is hit by a woman driving two white horses while going to work.
Later, a learned individual pronounces his poems as being good amateur work, but not publishing quality.
Wallace And Gromit: The Wrong Trousers?
That was a guess for JT1.
An angry woman turns a friendly greeting into something more diabolical.
That’s the animated opening footage for Bewitched, with the likenesses of Dick York and Elizabeth Montgomery.
(Footnote: My younger brother was about two years old when Bewitched went on the air. The short animated bit near the end of the episodes–in which Samantha smiled and twitched her nose–scared him every time he saw it. (That was then. His daughter got married last year.)
JT1 - The dog does his impression of a penguin.
I have seen snoopy doing this but I dont’ know which Peanuts movie it was in.
Liquid Sky
I would argue that it doesn’t qualify as a “minor occurrence” as described by the OP. Then again, a lot of these don’t.
- The two men were Bud Abbott and Lou Costello, in their last movie, Dance with Me, Henry.
- Ensign O’Toole, with Dean Jones.
- Roaring Twenties, on Tuesday night 1960-62.
- The Man with the X-Ray Eyes (Ray Milland).
- Yes, this was Horsefeathers.
Some more: - In a women’s prison, several inmates keep a kitten–until there’s a fight and the poor thing is found crushed.
- A man leaves for work and bowls the postman over.
- As a message is recorded on an answering machine, we see a picture of Noah Beery.
- At a baseball game, a young man in the outfield suddenly turns into an older man.
- A huge lizard plunges into a pool of lava as several humans are propelled out of the ground on a large flat stone.
- At a funeral, a woman listening to the eulogy is suddenly overcome with an irresistible urge to bust out laughing.
- A man is ambushed at a toll booth and riddled with bullets.
- Two cops are disgusted with their situation and stand at the surf, where they throw their badges into the water.
- Two girls at a boarding school are forced to walk in a circle in the rain–and one dies of pneumonia.
- A man puts the cat out for the night–but the cat runs back inside and puts HIM out for the night!
-
Any Blondie movie.
-
The opening to “The Rockford Files.”
-
Field of Dreams
-
The Lost World
-
The “Chuckles Bites the Dust” ep of “The Mary Tyler Moore Show.”
-
The Godfather
… -
Jane Eyre
-
The closing credits to “The Flintstones.”
Here are a few more:
NDP 12 - A man buys $100 worth of tacos.
NDP 13 - A man complains that the newer car models look like electric razors.
NDP 14 - While trying to seduce a woman, a Frenchman admits that the family wine he’s serving her is of poor quality.
The Simpsons.
Ril1: A man drives home from work while enjoying a fine cigar.
Ril2: A young woman lights a cigarette at lunchtime.
Ril3: Several young men buy cigarettes, then pelt the seller with them.
Ril4: A man on a ship throws an expensive cigar overboard.
Ril5: A teenage boy succumbs to peer pressure and accepts a cigarette, to the horror of his sister.
Sorry, NDP, I couldn’t guess these.
My own:
61. Caged
64. Damn Yankees
65. Journey to the center of the Earth
68. Starsky & Hutch
Some more:
71. The man of the house is sleeping on the couch when his wife comes in with the maid, who snaps, “That miserable little creep! That slimy little toad!” and the husband wakes up and asks, “What did I do now?”
72. The house owner’s mother-in-law comes face-to-face–so to speak–with an ostrich and thinks she’s found a giant chicken.
73. Lena Horne appears at the door and a young man says, “This is my first one! I’m comin’ for you, Ma!”
74. Two policeman speak to a Catholic priest as a little boy walks into the church pulling a wagon with a statue of “child” Jesus in it.
75. A playwright tosses an envelope containing a short piece of recording tape into the fireplace–and the show’s host vanishes.
76. An American news correspondent observes panic and destruction wrought in a populous foreign city–and comments that the rest of the world may be doomed.
77. A large sheepdog crosses the screen just as the flush of a toilet, off-screen, is heard.
78. A little girl cuddles her doll, muses about something, and finally writes a letter, gets a stamp, and drops the letter into a nearby mailbox.
79. A monstrous creature confronts a man in uniform, tears off the man’s right arm, and reacts with puzzlement when the man does not writhe in agony.
80. A carelessly mishandled electric saw lands on the floor and cuts a hole in a support beam.
Dragnet
Married With Children?
After all this time, I think it’s safe to assume nobody is going to get my #2:
The answer was Fear and Desire, Kubrick’s first (and often laughably bad) feature film.
My others, I’ll leave open, since they’re really quite easy. The DY10 title is a little obscure, but I’ve given a fairly major minor occurrence as a hint to make up for that.
It was an episode of Charlie’s Angels.
Nope. It was the movie The Shaggy Dog, from 1958 (believe it or not!)
Could this be The Jeffersons?
“With a mustache!” Lamont Sanford, from Sanford and Son.
Well, Rod Serling shouldn’t have claimed that Keenan Wynn was fictional on The Twilight Zone.
Guessing again, but I’m sure it’s Godzilla.