# 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:** 4
**Author:** ![Mr\_Downtown](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/8e8cbc/32.png) [@Mr\_Downtown](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr_Downtown)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2020, 5:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-silliest-scene-youve-ever-seen-in-a-movie/846698/61 "2020-01-22T05:09:55Z")
I wish to mention the scene in _Love, Actually_ where Rowan Atkinson plays an unctuous department store clerk wrapping—with no end of ruffles and flourishes—a small Christmas gift. ---
**Author:** ![Sitnam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/6a8cbe/32.png) [@Sitnam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sitnam)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2020, 5:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-silliest-scene-youve-ever-seen-in-a-movie/846698/62 "2020-01-22T05:51:20Z")
> [@Treppenwitz](#): > > I always thought the bicycle scene (Raindrops Keep falling On My head) in Butch Cassidy And The Sundance Kid was absurdly at odds with the tone of the rest of the movie. > > j Absolutely, I think it was an absurd tribute to another bizarre 60’s movie, though I cannot remember the title now. ---
**Author:** ![epbrown01](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7ba0ec/32.png) [@epbrown01](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/epbrown01)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2020, 6:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-silliest-scene-youve-ever-seen-in-a-movie/846698/63 "2020-01-22T06:34:46Z")
The fight with Matthew Patel (the first Evil Ex) in Scott Pilgrim. The whole thing (“Why is he dressed like a pirate?” “_Are_ you a pirate?” “…pirates are _in_ this year.”) but especially the Bollywood sequence. ---
**Author:** ![Snake\_Plissken\_1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bc79bd/32.png) [@Snake\_Plissken\_1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snake_Plissken_1)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2020, 7:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-silliest-scene-youve-ever-seen-in-a-movie/846698/64 "2020-01-22T19:23:37Z")
From ‘The Bank Dick’ Elsie Mae Adele Brunch Sousé: What’s the matter, Pop? Don’t you love me? Egbert Sousé: [raising his hand in anger] Certainly I love you! Agatha Sousé: Don’t you dare strike that child! Egbert Sousé: She’s not gonna tell ME I don’t love her! ---
**Author:** ![TimfromNapa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/d26b3c/32.png) [@TimfromNapa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TimfromNapa)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2020, 10:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-silliest-scene-youve-ever-seen-in-a-movie/846698/65 "2020-01-22T22:36:23Z")
> [@Charlie\_Wayne](#): > > I’ve always been a little dismayed that most people seem to strongly dislike my fave Woody Allen movies. For example, I know that most people seem to count Annie Hall and Manhattan among their most favorite. They were fine films - to be sure. But my two faves are Small Time Crooks (2000) and Everyone Says I Love You (1996). > > IMO, Small Time Crooks mixes physical and cerebral comedy in the perfect proportion. I have never laughed longer or harder at any scene as I did when they were in the basement and began to drill the tunnel and immediately hit a water main - comedy gold (again, just IMO). Everyone Says I Love You begins with a wonderful song and dance number. I have never seen anything like that in any other W.A. film and I loved it. > > Interestingly enough, IMO, Annie Hall also has one of the funniest scenes ever and that is when Alvy and Annie are standing in line at a movie theater and a college teacher who is standing behind Alvy starts to loudly express his opinions on several media related topics. The man seems to be a real boor and he eventually criticizes Marshall McLuhan. Alvy (Woody Allen), then says, “Well, I just happen to have Mr. McLuhan right here” and he walks behind some sign and comes back arm-in-arm with Marshall McLuhan who tells the teacher, “You know nothing of my work. It is beyond me how you ever got a job teaching anything.” Woody then breaks the third wall by looking into the camera and wistfully explaiining, “If only life was like that”! That might have been the funniest thing I have ever seen in a movie. > > But Everyone Says I Love You also has the silliest scene I’ve ever seen in just about any film. It comes near the end of the movie where we travel to a contest where everyone dresses up as Groucho Marx and imitates Groucho in any kind of routine they like (usually a song or dance). I couldn’t believe that. It was one of the most ridiculous things I’ve ever seen in a quality film. Or perhaps the reason is that I’ve never found Groucho funny - just a real pain in the neck. > > But how about you? I’d really like to know what you consider to be the silliest scene you’ve ever seen in an otherwise quality film. I would hope the scene would be completely out of place and there is no good explanation for why it appears in that film. But any reason you have for feeling the scene is silly will do. Okay, this may be a bit obscure but one of my favorite silly scenes from film is from “The Dark Backward”. Bill Paxton plays a garbage man. While he and his partner are making a delivery at the dump, he finds a lunch box on a garbage pile. He opens it up and eats the sandwich inside. It is one of several scenes in that movie that make you want to laugh and throw up at the same time. ---
**Author:** ![carrps](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carrps/32/2957_2.png) [@carrps](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carrps)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2020, 10:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-silliest-scene-youve-ever-seen-in-a-movie/846698/66 "2020-01-22T22:51:17Z")
> [@salinqmind](#): > > Joan Crawford in ‘Torch Song’. An interminable time is spent showing her bored as F, lolling around in her bedroom, looking at the clock, smoking, looking out the window. ENOUGH! you want to yell…of course, her ridiculous ‘blackface’ dance number, where she takes off her wig at the end revealing carrot orange hair, that makes up for it. Yeah, I think that scene is the only reason to watch that movie. I can still remember she had some iconic MCM chairs in her apartment…but they were upholstered in white plush that looked like bathmat material. ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2020, 10:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-silliest-scene-youve-ever-seen-in-a-movie/846698/67 "2020-01-22T22:55:52Z")
_What’s Up Doc_: [“Love means never having to say your sorry”](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BzWzPWwSnA8) ---
**Author:** ![Dark\_Sponge](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dark_sponge/32/121_2.png) [@Dark\_Sponge](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dark_Sponge)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2020, 11:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-silliest-scene-youve-ever-seen-in-a-movie/846698/68 "2020-01-22T23:04:28Z")
Not a movie but ‘Disorder in the Court’ by the 3 Stooges would be my pick. The ‘onesies, twosies, fivesies’ part is my favorite but the entire short is over the top. ---
**Author:** ![Capn\_Carl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/838e76/32.png) [@Capn\_Carl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Capn_Carl)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2020, 2:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-silliest-scene-youve-ever-seen-in-a-movie/846698/69 "2020-01-23T02:55:10Z")
Some of you Pythoners were so close, but you missed. It’s Sir Lancelot’s assault on the castle, especially the way he deceived the 2 guards at the door. ---
**Author:** ![Limmin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/f04885/32.png) [@Limmin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Limmin)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2020, 4:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-silliest-scene-youve-ever-seen-in-a-movie/846698/70 "2020-01-23T16:08:09Z")
> [@dorvann](#): > > “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. Always liked “Airplane!” I had the luck to see it in Greece, way back when it came out, in I think 1981. They did not cut out the “nude lady” scene that was gratuitously thrown in during one of the many sequences showing silly passenger panic. When her voluptuous torso moved across the screen (we don’t see her face) the audience all went “Woo!” Watching this movie in the US on TV in subsequent years, this bit was of course cut out. ---
**Author:** ![Limmin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/f04885/32.png) [@Limmin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Limmin)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2020, 4:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-silliest-scene-youve-ever-seen-in-a-movie/846698/71 "2020-01-23T16:15:10Z")
Regarding such silly scenes, I heard somewhere that it’s common for French movie directors to insert a silly interlude into an otherwise serious movie. From reading through this thread, this practice may be followed by more than just French movie makers. Can’t recall what this is called, though…anyone? Here’s an example. In the otherwise serious movie “Leon” aka “The Professional,” starring Jean Reno and a very young Natalie Portman, there is a scene where the two of them hold some kind of costume game. They take turns dressing up as someone famous and the other tries to guess who it is. Memorably, the young girl isn’t able to guess “John Wayne” despite Leon’s creditable imitation. Then the movie returns to its violent story, with much shooting and killing, etc. ---
**Author:** ![SykoSkotty](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c0e974/32.png) [@SykoSkotty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SykoSkotty)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2020, 4:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-silliest-scene-youve-ever-seen-in-a-movie/846698/72 "2020-01-23T16:28:52Z")
Unintentional silly scene that ruined an otherwise funny movie: The musical number towards the end of “The 40 Year Old Virgin.” ---
**Author:** ![Annie-Xmas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecc23a/32.png) [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2020, 4:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-silliest-scene-youve-ever-seen-in-a-movie/846698/73 "2020-01-23T16:53:35Z")
Peter Sellers’s The Party is the best silly movie I have ever seen. Especially the scene where he is looking for a bathroom. And ALL of Steve Martin’s work in All Of Me. Oscar worthy and laugh out loud hysterical. ---
**Author:** ![Push\_You\_Down](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/push_you_down/32/9095_2.png) [@Push\_You\_Down](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Push_You_Down)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2020, 6:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-silliest-scene-youve-ever-seen-in-a-movie/846698/74 "2020-01-23T18:44:56Z")
> [@SykoSkotty](#): > > Unintentional silly scene that ruined an otherwise funny movie: > > The musical number towards the end of “The 40 Year Old Virgin.” …you think… it was “unintentionally” silly? ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2020, 6:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-silliest-scene-youve-ever-seen-in-a-movie/846698/75 "2020-01-23T18:56:17Z")
The two morons in _Dumb and Dumber_ trying to squirt and drink ketchup in midair to quench the fire of the extremely hot peppers they’ve eaten. I just about peed myself when I first saw that. ---
**Author:** ![squidfood](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a87d85/32.png) [@squidfood](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/squidfood)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2020, 6:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-silliest-scene-youve-ever-seen-in-a-movie/846698/76 "2020-01-23T18:59:59Z")
The restaurant scene in _The Emperor’s New Groove_ - the overall movie is the peak silliness to be found in Disney movie animation. I went to that moving thinking “sigh another Disney ‘princess’ story with maybe a little humor from the side-characters” and didn’t stop laughing from beginning to end. ---
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> [@NDP](#): > > In Mel Brooks’ Hitchcock-spoof, **High Anxiety** … I had the HUGEST crush on the subtly ample Cloris Leachman character in that one. Ending up on the cutting room floor, the War Room pie-throwing fight at the end of \*Dr. Strangelove \*probably would’ve made for quite the silly scene. At the end of _Sexy Beast_, we see some kind of Monstrous Humanoid Death Rabbit (sorta like the _Donnie Darko_ one) in the underworld - or under the protagonist’s swimming pool - thrashing and destroying a coffin, only to discover it occupied by none other than the ever-lovable (and recently deceased) Don Logan, non-chalantly smoking away. The Rabbit has one or two earlier cameos. At the beginnning of Wim Wenders’ _Goalie’s Anxiety at the Penalty Kick_, the strange goalie protagonist just idly stands stock still as a soccer ball rolls past him and into the net. The rather trippy dream sequences in _Altered States_ and Polanski’s _MacBeth_. (dead?) Grampas’ bloodsucking in _Texas Chainsaw Massacre_. Shlong guest shot near beginning of Bergman’s _Persona_. ---
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The first “Naked Gun” film has too many to mention. Reggie Jackson programmed to kill the Queen of England O.J. Simpson as an accident prone cop (with gloves and a ski mask) Leslie Nielsen taking a leak while miked up …belting out the national anthem with no idea of the lyrics …admiring Priscilla Presley’s beaver. …tackling the Queen …getting walked in on after stripping an umpire naked and many more ---
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As long as we’re talking about Mel Brooks movies, does anybody remember _Silent Movie_ ? Every scene was silly. ---
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> [@squidfood](#): > > The restaurant scene in _The Emperor’s New Groove_ - the overall movie is the peak silliness to be found in Disney movie animation. I went to that moving thinking “sigh another Disney ‘princess’ story with maybe a little humor from the side-characters” and didn’t stop laughing from beginning to end. I just about bust a gut when our two heroes end up tied to a log, drifting downstream towards a waterfall. When the llama discovers their imminent death, he gets this look of preposterous llama determination and says, “Bring it on,” in this preposterous determined-llama voice, and I damn near fell out fo my chair laughing. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-silliest-scene-youve-ever-seen-in-a-movie/846698.md?page=3) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-silliest-scene-youve-ever-seen-in-a-movie/846698.md?page=5)