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.
Absolutely, I think it was an absurd tribute to another bizarre 60’s movie, though I cannot remember the title now.
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.
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!
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.
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.
What’s Up Doc: “Love means never having to say your sorry”
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.
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.
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.
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.
Unintentional silly scene that ruined an otherwise funny movie:
The musical number towards the end of “The 40 Year Old Virgin.”
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.
…you think… it was “unintentionally” silly?
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.
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 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.
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
As long as we’re talking about Mel Brooks movies, does anybody remember Silent Movie ?
Every scene was silly.
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.