Futurama did that well. I don’t know why the image is flipped in this clip, but you’ll get the idea.
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:
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?
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”.
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.
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!
I think he meant that it was a routine maintenance thing that would inadvertently make the rebels’ entire attack scheme pointless.
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”.
The professor fixes the boat. How hard could it be!
Even better - they form a conga line!
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.
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.
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.)
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]
Only he can’t, because he’s already been taken out by the blizzard of bullets and/or flying debris they were fighting through.
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.
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.
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.
*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!