# Scenes we'd like to see **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [April 19, 2014, 10:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scenes-wed-like-to-see/686510 "2014-04-19T22:08:25Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Cartoonacy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/848f3c/32.png) [@Cartoonacy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cartoonacy)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2014, 8:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scenes-wed-like-to-see/686510/41 "2014-04-21T20:51:50Z")
> [@nevadaexile](#): > > Let’s see: > > [ol] > [li]Due to a faulty timer or a malevolent opponent, someone defusing a bomb actually has far less time to disarm it than the counter shows.[/li][/ol] Futurama did that well. I don’t know why the image is flipped in [this clip](http://youtu.be/hytLBsGkH14?t=13m49s), but you’ll get the idea. ---
**Author:** ![Flywheel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/eb8c5e/32.png) [@Flywheel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Flywheel)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2014, 8:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scenes-wed-like-to-see/686510/42 "2014-04-21T20:51:59Z")
> [@astorian](#): > > A plucky young female athletes fights/sues her way onto a men’s football team… then immediately takes a big hit, breaks several bones, and is carted off the field. [It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia](http://itsalwayssunny.wikia.com/wiki/The_Gang_Gets_Invincible) did it. ---
**Author:** ![smithsb](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/smithsb/32/12107_2.png) [@smithsb](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/smithsb)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2014, 9:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scenes-wed-like-to-see/686510/43 "2014-04-21T21:30:28Z")
The female lead shakily holds a gun on the approaching villian: “Don’t take another step or I’ll shoot!” “There, there, now sweetie; that’s an awful big gun you’re holding - let me have it.” (takes step) Our damsel (blinking, grimicing, averting her eyes) fires - then calmly walks over puts two kill shots in the bad guys brain case.:eek: ---
**Author:** ![OneCentStamp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/13edae/32.png) [@OneCentStamp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OneCentStamp)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2014, 9:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scenes-wed-like-to-see/686510/44 "2014-04-21T21:57:13Z")
ROMANTIC COMEDY GUY: I’ve got something to tell you. GIRL: I’ve got something to tell you too! GUY: OK, you first. GIRL: The other guy has asked me to marry him! I’m so happy, I needed to tell you, because you’re my best friend. GUY: Oh, that’s…that’s great. I’m happy for you. GIRL: Now, what did you have to tell me? GUY: Well, that guy is actually cheating on you, and has never loved you the way I do. I know you’ve friend zoned me, but I’d actually like to get out of the zone, and if I don’t tell you now, I’ll probably do it 30 minutes of screen time from now, in the form of an ill-advised, dangerous, and/or illegal act. Are you really so vapid and shallow that that’s the only thing that will get your attention? ---
**Author:** ![MaxTheVool](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/9fc29f/32.png) [@MaxTheVool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MaxTheVool)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2014, 11:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scenes-wed-like-to-see/686510/45 "2014-04-21T23:20:29Z")
> [@Ethilrist](#): > > Grand Moff Tarkin: You may fire when ready. And this time, remember to close the blast doors over the exhaust ports on the heat exchanger; we don’t want another blowback like we did when we blew up Alderaan. I… don’t get what your point is. The empire was careless in having not gone over the engineering specs for the death star carefully enough, and had left a vulnerability that they didn’t know about. Which happens in real life all the time (see whatever engineering mistake it was that almost made the Chrysler building fall over in a strong wind). It wasn’t the case that they knew “oh, hey, the death star is vulnerable as long as that little door is open, and we’re so overconfident we’re not going to close that little door”. ---
**Author:** ![Bryan\_Ekers](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bryan_ekers/32/183_2.png) [@Bryan\_Ekers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bryan_Ekers)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2014, 11:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scenes-wed-like-to-see/686510/46 "2014-04-21T23:29:02Z")
> [@Cartoonacy](#): > > Futurama did that well. I don’t know why the image is flipped in [this clip](http://youtu.be/hytLBsGkH14?t=13m49s), but you’ll get the idea. There’s a belief among some people who post to youTube that flipping the image comprises an alteration that evades copyright issues. There are many snippets from animated shows that have thus been flipped. I have no idea if the belief is justified or not. ---
**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:** [April 22, 2014, 3:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scenes-wed-like-to-see/686510/47 "2014-04-22T03:16:43Z")
> [@Octarine](#): > > 1. The detective arrives at the scene of a crime and cleverly collects a few clues: a cigarette butt, a strand of long blonde hair, and a faint small footprint. Although The Incompetent Police assume the dead man killed himself, said Clever Detective suspects the deceased’s blonde, small-footed, smoker wife. He aggressively interviews her, causing her to suffer a nervous breakdown. It’s discovered that the clues were coincidences, and it really was a suicide like literally everyone else said. Clever Detective is sued and loses his job. End of show. > [@furryman](#): > > Reminds me of a Sherlock Holmes parody which appeared in the early Mad comic book. It also reminds me of Clodumbo, MAD’s parody of the TV series Columbo. In it, Clodumbo harasses and badgers the suspected killer, Dr. Robert Culpable (Robert Culp). Culpable, although innocent, confesses to the murder to get away from Clodumbo’s harassment. I would like to see Darth Vader meet Lt. Cmdr. Worf from Star Trek. Vader: Worf, I am your father. Worf: NOOOOOO! You are not my father. I am Worf, son of Mogh! ---
**Author:** ![Koxinga](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/4af34b/32.png) [@Koxinga](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Koxinga)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2014, 5:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scenes-wed-like-to-see/686510/48 "2014-04-22T05:28:02Z")
> [@MaxTheVool](#): > > I… don’t get what your point is. The empire was careless in having not gone over the engineering specs for the death star carefully enough, and had left a vulnerability that they didn’t know about. Which happens in real life all the time (see whatever engineering mistake it was that almost made the Chrysler building fall over in a strong wind). It wasn’t the case that they knew “oh, hey, the death star is vulnerable as long as that little door is open, and we’re so overconfident we’re not going to close that little door”. I think he meant that it was a routine maintenance thing that would inadvertently make the rebels’ entire attack scheme pointless. ---
**Author:** ![furryman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/furryman/32/99_2.png) [@furryman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/furryman)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2014, 7:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scenes-wed-like-to-see/686510/49 "2014-04-22T07:16:57Z")
> [@Wile\_E](#): > > I saw this in an anime. This particular villain was virtually unkillable, even beheading him wouldn’t take him out unless you kept the pieces apart. So one of the heroes sets a trap, blows him into small pieces that are spaced out in a large pit. Then he fills in the pit with rocks and dirt. Then he sets a guard on the covered pit. That was Naruto. I’d forgotten about that episode. Actually I thought that something similar would be a good alternate ending to the movie “Christine”. ---
**Author:** ![Lukeinva](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lukeinva/32/17872_2.png) [@Lukeinva](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lukeinva)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2014, 7:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scenes-wed-like-to-see/686510/50 "2014-04-22T07:51:40Z")
The professor fixes the boat. How hard could it be! ---
**Author:** ![glee](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/b5a626/32.png) [@glee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/glee)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2014, 11:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scenes-wed-like-to-see/686510/51 "2014-04-22T11:09:56Z")
> [@Boyo\_Jim](#): > > The bomb threat is announced. Nobody screams. Everyone stands and calmly forms a line to exit the room. As time runs down, they begin to trot – in unison. Even better - they form a conga line! ---
**Author:** ![Ethilrist](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ethilrist/32/4604_2.png) [@Ethilrist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ethilrist)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2014, 12:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scenes-wed-like-to-see/686510/52 "2014-04-22T12:17:44Z")
> [@MaxTheVool](#): > > I… don’t get what your point is. The empire was careless in having not gone over the engineering specs for the death star carefully enough, and had left a vulnerability that they didn’t know about. Which happens in real life all the time (see whatever engineering mistake it was that almost made the Chrysler building fall over in a strong wind). It wasn’t the case that they knew “oh, hey, the death star is vulnerable as long as that little door is open, and we’re so overconfident we’re not going to close that little door”. OK, I’ll back it up a line or two… Minion: Sir, we’ve analyzed the rebels’ attack pattern, and we’ve discovered a vulnerability… We should retreat while… Moff: What? Just leave, at our moment of victory? They DID know about the vulnerability. They WERE so overconfident that they didn’t leave when they had the chance. Dude, seriously, they could have hypered out and left all the starfighters behind, put up a big freakin’ steel wall 10’ thick across the trench, then come back. ---
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2014, 2:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scenes-wed-like-to-see/686510/53 "2014-04-22T14:31:19Z")
> [@](#): > > Quoth **Bryan Eckers** : > > There’s a belief among some people who post to youTube that flipping the image comprises an alteration that evades copyright issues. There are many snippets from animated shows that have thus been flipped. I have no idea if the belief is justified or not. I think it’s a technological thing, not a legal thing. The big studios use software to recognize their own clips, and the hope is that by flipping the image, it’ll prevent the software from recognizing it. Which is still probably futile, since it would be really easy to make software that would be wise to that, but it’s at least a little more plausible than the legal argument. ---
**Author:** ![MaxTheVool](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/9fc29f/32.png) [@MaxTheVool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MaxTheVool)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2014, 5:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scenes-wed-like-to-see/686510/54 "2014-04-22T17:16:24Z")
> [@Ethilrist](#): > > OK, I’ll back it up a line or two… > > Minion: Sir, we’ve analyzed the rebels’ attack pattern, and we’ve discovered a vulnerability… We should retreat while… > > Moff: What? Just leave, at our moment of victory? > > They DID know about the vulnerability. They WERE so overconfident that they didn’t leave when they had the chance. Dude, seriously, they could have hypered out and left all the starfighters behind, put up a big freakin’ steel wall 10’ thick across the trench, then come back. The way I’ve always interpreted that whole thing is… they build the death star, and assume it’s awesome and perfect and has no weaknesses. And if it did, it would be versus very large starships, so they build their defenses to defend against very large starships. Then rebels show up in x wings and start flying towards the trench. So the Death Star engineering department gets back out their schematics of the trench and looks around and, oh shit, notices the unshielded exhaust port. At that point, it’s too late to go out and weld some steel onto it, and it’s too late for a mass evacuation, plus Tarkin is still confident that his guys can beat the X-Wings, plus it’s a tiny target, they don’t know Luke has the force, etc. (Granted we’ve wandered way off topic here.) ---
**Author:** ![Ethilrist](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ethilrist/32/4604_2.png) [@Ethilrist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ethilrist)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2014, 5:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scenes-wed-like-to-see/686510/55 "2014-04-22T17:43:19Z")
Okay, I’ll make it simpler: Minion: Sir, we’ve analyzed the rebels’ attack pattern, and we’ve discovered a vulnerability… We should retreat while… Moff: Okay. [exeunt Death Star, Galactic north] ---
**Author:** ![cher3](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/da6949/32.png) [@cher3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cher3)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2014, 6:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scenes-wed-like-to-see/686510/56 "2014-04-22T18:42:31Z")
> [@Diceman](#): > > Along these lines, the plucky young female heroine fights the big burly brute… and gets beaten badly, requiring the (larger) male hero to intervene to save her. Only he can’t, because he’s already been taken out by the blizzard of bullets and/or flying debris they were fighting through. ---
**Author:** ![Steve\_MB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/steve_mb/32/5339_2.png) [@Steve\_MB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Steve_MB)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2014, 6:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scenes-wed-like-to-see/686510/57 "2014-04-22T18:52:17Z")
> [@](#): > > 1. I will never employ any device with a digital countdown. If I find that such a device is absolutely unavoidable, I will set it to activate when the counter reaches 1:17 and the hero is just putting his plan into operation. **Dr. Drakken:** While Shego keeps you busy, I shall launch my hypertronic devastator drone! _(pushes the button)_ **Kim Possible:** Wait, no countdown? **Shego:** No – he’s actually learning. **Dr. Drakken:** During the time it takes the computer voice to count backwards from ten, you always manage to defeat me. ---
**Author:** ![Ethilrist](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ethilrist/32/4604_2.png) [@Ethilrist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ethilrist)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2014, 7:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scenes-wed-like-to-see/686510/58 "2014-04-22T19:09:58Z")
Adrian Veidt: I’m not a comic book villain. Do you seriously think I would explain my master stroke to you if there were even the slightest possibility you could affect the outcome? I triggered it 35 minutes ago. ---
**Author:** ![Don\_Draper](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b2d939/32.png) [@Don\_Draper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Don_Draper)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2014, 8:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scenes-wed-like-to-see/686510/59 "2014-04-22T20:07:43Z")
> [@Miller](#): > > Villain, to hero who’s just grabbed a gun: “What do you think you’re doing with that? You don’t have the courage to pull the-” > > Hero: BANG! I couldn’t find a youtube clip, but **Orphan Black** did this on the season premiere last Saturday. My addition - Character A has unintentionally done something that will adversely effect Character B, but Character B doesn’t know it yet. There is always an exchange that goes like this. Character A: “Look, there’s something I have to tell you.” Character B: “Yes, what is it?” Character A: (Long pause) “Nothing.” Character B walks away blissfully unaware of what went down, until it all blows up in her/his face. * * * Just once I’d like to see this variation on the scene: Character A: “Look, there’s something I have to tell you.” Character B: “Yes, what is it?” Character A: (Long pause - then Character A fully comes clean about everything she/he did and apologizes for her/his actions.) Character B: "Shit. Well that sucks. You really shouldn’t have done that, and I am not going to say I’m not upset. But…you had enough integrity and respect for me to tell me face to face what you did, and in enough time that I can cancel my plans, which would’ve only made this situation worse for me. Thank you for telling me. Just help me fix this mess and I’m sure we can past this soon enough. ---
**Author:** ![BrotherCadfael](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/977dab/32.png) [@BrotherCadfael](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrotherCadfael)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2014, 8:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scenes-wed-like-to-see/686510/60 "2014-04-22T20:20:20Z")
> [@Wile\_E](#): > > This particular villain was virtually unkillable, even beheading him wouldn’t take him out unless you kept the pieces apart. So one of the heroes sets a trap, blows him into small pieces that are spaced out in a large pit. Then he fills in the pit with rocks and dirt. Then he sets a guard on the covered pit. \*Buffy \*did that one, also. “No weapon forged” could defeat the Judge. Buffy blew his ass to smitherinies with a bazooka. **Buffy:** We can’t be sure. Pick up the pieces and keep them separate. **Cordelia:** Pieces? We get the pieces? Our job sucks! [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scenes-wed-like-to-see/686510.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scenes-wed-like-to-see/686510.md?page=4)