# 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:** 11\ **Page:** 5
**Author:** ![P-man](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/p-man/32/3606_2.png) [@P-man](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/P-man)\ **Post date:** [February 2, 2020, 6:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-silliest-scene-youve-ever-seen-in-a-movie/846698/81 "2020-02-02T18:04:38Z")
The scene toward the end of Animal House where the guys from the Delta House are wreaking havoc on the parade. A girl on one of the floats is thrown into the air during an explosion, and she flies through an open window and onto the bed of a kid who’s looking at a Playboy. The kid says “Thank you, God!” ---
**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:** [February 3, 2020, 6:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-silliest-scene-youve-ever-seen-in-a-movie/846698/82 "2020-02-03T18:17:28Z")
> [@Senegoid](#): > > As long as we’re talking about Mel Brooks movies, does anybody remember _Silent Movie_ ? > > Every scene was silly. _ **Non!** _ ---
**Author:** ![Sam\_Stone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ecccb3/32.png) [@Sam\_Stone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sam_Stone)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2020, 11:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-silliest-scene-youve-ever-seen-in-a-movie/846698/83 "2020-02-03T23:44:02Z")
Of the many very silly scenes in ‘Body of Evidence’, the one where Willem Dafoe and Madonna are so hot for each other that they make love on a car hood covered in broken glass may top the list. And the movie wasn’t even supposed to be a comedy or a parody… I think. ---
**Author:** ![Son\_of\_a\_Rich](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/son_of_a_rich/32/5439_2.png) [@Son\_of\_a\_Rich](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Son_of_a_Rich)\ **Post date:** [November 13, 2020, 8:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-silliest-scene-youve-ever-seen-in-a-movie/846698/84 "2020-11-13T20:41:37Z")
Towards the beginning of the execrable Kong Skull Island, Kong is attacked by Army(?) helicopters the pilots of which don’t pause for a second to take into consideration Kong’s height and arm reach. Similar to the original King Kong where the idiot biplane pilots fly close enough to the Empire State Building to be swatted down. That’s not smart even without a giant ape. ---
**Author:** ![burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/burpo_the_wonder_mutt/32/365_2.png) [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/burpo_the_wonder_mutt)\ **Post date:** [November 13, 2020, 11:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-silliest-scene-youve-ever-seen-in-a-movie/846698/85 "2020-11-13T23:46:50Z")
Back to Woody Allen: In **Radio Days** , a band of burglars break into a family’s house; they’re all wearing masks, black gloves, striped shirts, black pants and black newsboy caps. As they begin to clean out the house, the phone rings and it’s Don Pardo on “Name That Tune.” He says **If you can name that tune, you will win an entire houseful of prizes**. The orchestra plays the tune and the thug that answered the phone gives the correct answer and hangs up. The crooks empty the house of every last item. Next day, the family is sitting, forlornly, on the stoop when a HUGE truck rolls up and fills their house with everything that was stolen. Woody and Mia Farrow are being pursued by a gangster in **Broadway Danny Rose** when they duck into a warehouse that contains the Macy’s Parade balloons. The thug fires his pistol at them and pierces a balloon, spraying helium all over the place. For the next two minutes, everyone sounds like Minnie Mouse: “Look out, he’s got a gun!” six octaves higher. ---
**Author:** ![XOldiesJock](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/x/ec9cab/32.png) [@XOldiesJock](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/XOldiesJock)\ **Post date:** [November 14, 2020, 3:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-silliest-scene-youve-ever-seen-in-a-movie/846698/86 "2020-11-14T03:03:45Z")
The cowpokes-round-the-campfire scene in “Blazing Saddles.” No explanation required. In Woody Allen’s slapstick sci-fi masterpiece “Sleeper,” the scene where Woody is being chased through a farm growing King Kong-size fruit. Of course, there are giant bananas, and everyone slips on giant banana peels. ---
**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:** [November 14, 2020, 7:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-silliest-scene-youve-ever-seen-in-a-movie/846698/87 "2020-11-14T19:04:59Z")
I didn’t notice until the second time I watched _Blazing Saddles_ that in the bar fight scene a bunch of non explosive props are blowing up left and right. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/the_other_waldo_pepper/32/12370_2.png) [@The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Other_Waldo_Pepper)\ **Post date:** [November 14, 2020, 7:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-silliest-scene-youve-ever-seen-in-a-movie/846698/88 "2020-11-14T19:20:21Z")
Just wanted to mention that _even Mel Brooks_ figured that, no, a scene where Frankenstein’s monster dons a top hat for a song-and-dance number, that’d be too much for this parody. ---
**Author:** ![Rocketeer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rocketeer/32/4437_2.png) [@Rocketeer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rocketeer)\ **Post date:** [November 15, 2020, 6:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-silliest-scene-youve-ever-seen-in-a-movie/846698/89 "2020-11-15T18:42:12Z")
My happy silly scene is the incomprehensible drinking game the two heroes of _Shanghai Noon_ play while taking a bath. ---
**Author:** ![TreacherousCretin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/treacherouscretin/32/476_2.png) [@TreacherousCretin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TreacherousCretin)\ **Post date:** [November 15, 2020, 9:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-silliest-scene-youve-ever-seen-in-a-movie/846698/90 "2020-11-15T21:56:52Z")
Steve Martin pouring coffee into the pot in _Dead Men Don’t Wear Plaid_. ---
**Author:** ![kaylasdad99](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kaylasdad99/32/3398_2.png) [@kaylasdad99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kaylasdad99)\ **Post date:** [November 16, 2020, 2:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-silliest-scene-youve-ever-seen-in-a-movie/846698/91 "2020-11-16T02:03:31Z")
> [@Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](#): > > The “Stateroom Scene” in the Marx Brothers’ _A Night At The Opera_. > > [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PFu0KyrNAAA](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PFu0KyrNAAA) I never miss an opportunity to brag that the girl looking for Aunt Minnie was **kaylasmom** ’s aunt Marion. She just happened to be on the lot for an audition, when someone grabbed her and brought her onto the sound stage. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-silliest-scene-youve-ever-seen-in-a-movie/846698.md?page=4)