# What is the silliest scene you've ever seen in a movie? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Tags:** movies\ **Created:** [January 20, 2020, 12:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-silliest-scene-youve-ever-seen-in-a-movie/846698 "2020-01-20T12:54:10Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Two\_Many\_Cats](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/8dc957/32.png) [@Two\_Many\_Cats](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Two_Many_Cats)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2020, 3:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-silliest-scene-youve-ever-seen-in-a-movie/846698/41 "2020-01-21T03:33:06Z")
I offer the closing scenes of _Lisztomania_ where Franz Liszt and his girl backup singers attack Richard Wagner’s Nazi Frankenstein in a pipe organ/fighter jet. I’ve honestly never seen anything top it for sheer lunacy. ---
**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:** [January 21, 2020, 4:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-silliest-scene-youve-ever-seen-in-a-movie/846698/42 "2020-01-21T04:36:51Z")
> [@Chefguy](#): > > The final scene in Blazing Saddles. I came here to vote for the fart scene from that movie. The final scene is over the top silly, yes. ---
**Author:** ![GreenWyvern](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/greenwyvern/32/2834_2.png) [@GreenWyvern](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GreenWyvern)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2020, 6:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-silliest-scene-youve-ever-seen-in-a-movie/846698/43 "2020-01-21T06:11:13Z")
The poker game from the W.C. Fields movie Mississippi (1935). [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/nK_d-Vg495c/hqdefault.jpg "WC Fields Mississipi Poker Game") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nK_d-Vg495c) ---
**Author:** ![Asuka](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/dec6dc/32.png) [@Asuka](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Asuka)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2020, 8:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-silliest-scene-youve-ever-seen-in-a-movie/846698/44 "2020-01-21T08:02:55Z")
[This scene](https://youtu.be/EkvVvHprsZI?t=160) from the opening of The Lost World: Jurassic Park where it cuts to the implied mauling of a young girl by dinosaurs to a shot of Jeff Goldblum yawning in front of a beach setting. The way it cuts is suppose to make you at first think the horrifying scene the mother is screaming at is seeing Goldblum yawning, it’s such a bizarre edit in a relatively serious film especially so early on, when I saw the movie on opening night in a packed theater everybody immediately laughed. ---
**Author:** ![Senegoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/senegoid/32/6606_2.png) [@Senegoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Senegoid)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2020, 9:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-silliest-scene-youve-ever-seen-in-a-movie/846698/45 "2020-01-21T09:50:41Z")
> [@Bullitt](#): > > I came here to vote for the fart scene from that movie. The final scene is over the top silly, yes. Definitely breaking through the third wall. ---
**Author:** ![terentii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terentii/32/212_2.png) [@terentii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/terentii)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2020, 10:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-silliest-scene-youve-ever-seen-in-a-movie/846698/46 "2020-01-21T10:04:29Z")
Intentionally silly: The teenage sex scene in _ **Scary Movie** _ (“That’s very '70s!” followed by “the gusher.”) Unintentionally silly: The mandatory sex scene between Sidney Poitier and Persis Khambatta in _ **The Willoughby Conspiracy** _. The latter was meant to be really hot, but I laughed at it just as hard as I did for the former. ---
**Author:** ![jerez](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/c68b51/32.png) [@jerez](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jerez)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2020, 10:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-silliest-scene-youve-ever-seen-in-a-movie/846698/47 "2020-01-21T10:18:07Z")
In The Blues Brothers, the scene of the bluesmobile malfunction and Jake trying to wipe the windshield clean from the outside and peering in at the camera. YMMV. Well, OP sez “silliest.” How about [this scene](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Q9gQuQ7uTE) of Kirk Douglas singing in Spanish? It’s from “The Last Sunset” (safe for work, but your coworkers may never look at you the same again). Hilariously strange. ---
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> [@Two\_Many\_Cats](#): > > I offer the closing scenes of _Lisztomania_ where Franz Liszt and his girl backup singers attack Richard Wagner’s Nazi Frankenstein in a pipe organ/fighter jet. > > I’ve honestly never seen anything top it for sheer lunacy. Most of Ken Russell’s _Tommy_, but the most absurd image was Sally Simpson’s “rock musician.” ---
**Author:** ![Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/prof.pepperwinkle/32/13627_2.png) [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Prof.Pepperwinkle)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2020, 4:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-silliest-scene-youve-ever-seen-in-a-movie/846698/49 "2020-01-21T16:27:47Z")
In the W. C. Fields vehicle _Million Dollar Legs_ Fields sends his diplomat on an errand, and, to hide his identity, gives him a goat’s head mask to wear. The diplomat takes off at ludicrous speed and outruns a train. It’s practically absurdist humor. ---
**Author:** ![mack](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b19c9b/32.png) [@mack](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mack)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2020, 4:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-silliest-scene-youve-ever-seen-in-a-movie/846698/50 "2020-01-21T16:33:26Z")
From The Cable Guy. Gets me every time. The whole scene is great. [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/jyjDYUfOJu8/maxresdefault.jpg "Jim Carrey Somebody to Love Cable Guy Karaoke Scene") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jyjDYUfOJu8) ---
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**Batman** (1966) running around the dock trying to find someplace to dispose of a bomb. It’s genuinely hilarious. [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/9pSD26bGy3I/hqdefault.jpg "Batman - Bomb") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9pSD26bGy3I) ---
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[One part of the chase scene](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pUYe6ZYqFVU) in _What’s Up Doc_ (which is likely the silliest chase scene ever): A VW Microbus is repeatedly smashed by cars fishtailing while making U-turns. The VW is eventually reduced to half its width. The owner comes out, opens the passenger side door, and the VW falls over. ---
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> [@WildaBeast](#): > > That scene was pretty silly, but the silliest scenes in that movie were the ones with Johnny. > > “Johnny, what can you make of this?” > “This? Why, I can make a hat or a brooch or a pterodactyl…” “It looks like I picked a bad day to stop sniffing glue.” I think Airplane may hold the record for most silly gags in one film. They just kept throwing and throwing the jokes out there. Makes me wonder what they left on the cutting room floor. Another favorite of mine from that movie was Robert Stack driving to the airport in obviously rear-projected background and “hitting” the cyclist. ---
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> [@Master\_Wang-Ka](#): > > Without doubt, it was Bela Lugosi’s death scene in “Plan Nine from Outer Space.” > > He is seen to wander aimlessly around his front yard, while mourning for his dead wife, with Criswell (I think) providing unintentionally hilarious narration. > > Lugosi then wanders off to the right of the screen. A scream is heard, followed by the sound of car brakes. We then cut to his funeral. Personally I find scene where the guy explains “Plan 9” to be one of the silliest scenes in any movie ever. ---
**Author:** ![Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/prof.pepperwinkle/32/13627_2.png) [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Prof.Pepperwinkle)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2020, 7:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-silliest-scene-youve-ever-seen-in-a-movie/846698/55 "2020-01-21T19:11:20Z")
> [@Marvin\_the\_Martian](#): > > [One part of the chase scene](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pUYe6ZYqFVU) in _What’s Up Doc_ (which is likely the silliest chase scene ever): A VW Microbus is repeatedly smashed by cars fishtailing while making U-turns. The VW is eventually reduced to half its width. The owner comes out, opens the passenger side door, and the VW falls over. I love it. “Well, that’s not much to see really. We’re inside a Chinese dragon.” ---
**Author:** ![Cumberdale](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/8c91f0/32.png) [@Cumberdale](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cumberdale)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2020, 7:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-silliest-scene-youve-ever-seen-in-a-movie/846698/56 "2020-01-21T19:48:20Z")
> [@NDP](#): > > In Mel Brooks’ Hitchcock-spoof, **High Anxiety** , there’s a scene in the mental hospital where Mel and the corrupt administrator (played by Harvey Korman) are doing patient evaluations and come across a man who suffers from unexplained sudden sharp neck pains and hallucinations with werewolves. While Mel’s character interviews him, Harvey (who’s behind Mel’s back) pulls out a rubber band and shoots the patient in the neck triggering the “unexplained” neck pains and then pops a pair of cheap plastic Halloween fangs in his mouth and begins making “scary” hand gestures. The premise of the scene is dumb but it’s also hysterically funny the way it plays out. For me it’s the scene with the camera outside approaching everyone sitting at the table eating. The camera moves in, hits the window, breaking it as everyone turns and stares for several seconds. ---
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[quote=“DCnDC, post:51, topic:846698”] **Batman** (1966) running around the dock trying to find someplace to dispose of a bomb. It’s genuinely hilarious. [/QUOTE] Sometimes you just can’t get rid of a bomb! ---
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[quote=“DCnDC, post:51, topic:846698”] **Batman** (1966) running around the dock trying to find someplace to dispose of a bomb. It’s genuinely hilarious. [/QUOTE] 😃 What I liked the most were the two fat ladies calmly finishing their meal. ---
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> [@Bijou\_Drains](#): > > My fav from LOB is when the other guy in prison says “they must think the sun shines out of your ass!” Don’t have time to read the rest of the thread, but… More of a shot that a scene, but in LOB: Palin’s ex-leper dancing around the pile of donkey shit he’d nearly stepped in. Absolutely kills me every time I see it. ---
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> [@Asuka](#): > > [This scene](https://youtu.be/EkvVvHprsZI?t=160) from the opening of The Lost World: Jurassic Park where it cuts to the implied mauling of a young girl by dinosaurs to a shot of Jeff Goldblum yawning in front of a beach setting. The way it cuts is suppose to make you at first think the horrifying scene the mother is screaming at is seeing Goldblum yawning, it’s such a bizarre edit in a relatively serious film especially so early on, when I saw the movie on opening night in a packed theater everybody immediately laughed. Another scene from that film is when Goldblum’s daughter was doing flips and spins on the bars. That was such a terrible film. I paid $1.50 to see it in a cheap theatre on a Tuesday and still feel that I overpaid. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-silliest-scene-youve-ever-seen-in-a-movie/846698.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-silliest-scene-youve-ever-seen-in-a-movie/846698.md?page=4)