# What non-comedy movie/tv scenes are you embarassed to admit you think are funny? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [September 12, 2005, 5:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-non-comedy-movie-tv-scenes-are-you-embarassed-to-admit-you-think-are-funny/321210 "2005-09-12T05:15:08Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![DeVena](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/dec6dc/32.png) [@DeVena](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DeVena)\ **Post date:** [September 12, 2005, 9:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-non-comedy-movie-tv-scenes-are-you-embarassed-to-admit-you-think-are-funny/321210/21 "2005-09-12T21:24:19Z")
“My daughter” -SLAP!- “My sister” -SLAP!- “My daughter” -SLAP!- “My sister” \*Chinatown \* - I just think it’s hilarious. ---
**Author:** ![Miller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/miller/32/481_2.png) [@Miller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miller)\ **Post date:** [September 12, 2005, 9:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-non-comedy-movie-tv-scenes-are-you-embarassed-to-admit-you-think-are-funny/321210/22 "2005-09-12T21:33:32Z")
> [@Dark Side of the Floyd](#): > > We went on a class trip to see Lord of the Rings (the first two when they came out). In one of the Lord of the Rings movies where Gandalf is fighting with the other wizard, and the other guy spins him around, it looked like breakdancing. Several of the students were chanting “Go Gandalf, Go Gandalf, Go Gandalf, Go! Go!”. I found it hysterical. I’ve never been able to watch that scene without flashing on Will Ferrel’s line in _Zoolander_, “They’re breakdance fighting!” ---
**Author:** ![mobo85](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b19c9b/32.png) [@mobo85](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mobo85)\ **Post date:** [September 12, 2005, 10:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-non-comedy-movie-tv-scenes-are-you-embarassed-to-admit-you-think-are-funny/321210/23 "2005-09-12T22:34:43Z")
In _Titanic_, while the boat is sinking into the ocean, there are scenes of the folks on the boat, running around panicking, dying, etc. In one scene, we scene a man fall off the ship, hit one of the smokestacks which makes a metallic pinging sound, and fall to his death. I know it’s not supposed to be funny, but that “ping!” combined with a soon-to-be-dead body causing it just makes me laugh. ---
**Author:** ![Hey\_It\_s\_That\_Guy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/6f9a4e/32.png) [@Hey\_It\_s\_That\_Guy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hey_It_s_That_Guy)\ **Post date:** [September 12, 2005, 10:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-non-comedy-movie-tv-scenes-are-you-embarassed-to-admit-you-think-are-funny/321210/24 "2005-09-12T22:49:54Z")
> [@DeVena](#): > > “My daughter” -SLAP!- “My sister” -SLAP!- “My daughter” -SLAP!- “My sister” > > \*Chinatown \* - I just think it’s hilarious. Good call. They showed _Chinatown_ in my high school cinematography class, I cracked up first, and before long the entire class couldn’t stop laughing. ---
**Author:** ![Miller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/miller/32/481_2.png) [@Miller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miller)\ **Post date:** [September 12, 2005, 10:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-non-comedy-movie-tv-scenes-are-you-embarassed-to-admit-you-think-are-funny/321210/25 "2005-09-12T22:56:21Z")
> [@mobo85](#): > > In _Titanic_, while the boat is sinking into the ocean, there are scenes of the folks on the boat, running around panicking, dying, etc. In one scene, we scene a man fall off the ship, hit one of the smokestacks which makes a metallic pinging sound, and fall to his death. I know it’s not supposed to be funny, but that “ping!” combined with a soon-to-be-dead body causing it just makes me laugh. Wasn’t that a propellar, not a smokestack? I know I laughed when a guy bounced off a propellar. ---
**Author:** ![mobo85](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b19c9b/32.png) [@mobo85](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mobo85)\ **Post date:** [September 12, 2005, 11:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-non-comedy-movie-tv-scenes-are-you-embarassed-to-admit-you-think-are-funny/321210/26 "2005-09-12T23:00:39Z")
Could’ve been a propellor. Been years since I saw that thing. ---
**Author:** ![Morbo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/morbo/32/389_2.png) [@Morbo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Morbo)\ **Post date:** [September 12, 2005, 11:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-non-comedy-movie-tv-scenes-are-you-embarassed-to-admit-you-think-are-funny/321210/27 "2005-09-12T23:03:52Z")
My friends and I occasionally do the slow-motion deep-voiced “Noooo!!!” (Like when someone drops a glass or is innoecntly about to say something that crosses a line) Any time a serious movie tries to do it now it cracks me up. For example, recently I saw _The Dead Poet’s Society_ and there’s a scene where the father of one character runs up the steps towards his son, in slo-mo, screaming “Nooooo!” High comedy. You can also imagine how hilarious I found Vader’s Frankenstein scene in _Revenge of the Sith_. ---
**Author:** ![Dark\_Side\_of\_the\_Floyd](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/bb73d2/32.png) [@Dark\_Side\_of\_the\_Floyd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dark_Side_of_the_Floyd)\ **Post date:** [September 12, 2005, 11:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-non-comedy-movie-tv-scenes-are-you-embarassed-to-admit-you-think-are-funny/321210/28 "2005-09-12T23:15:23Z")
> [@Dooku](#): > > …Any time a serious movie tries to do it now it cracks me up. For example, recently I saw _The Dead Poet’s Society_ and there’s a scene where the father of one character runs up the steps towards his son, in slo-mo, screaming “Nooooo!” High comedy… Agreed. I think this has been parodied so namy times throughout the years that the first response to this is to laugh. I can’t imagine a recent movie that would use this “technique” in a serious manner. ---
**Author:** ![Dark\_Side\_of\_the\_Floyd](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/bb73d2/32.png) [@Dark\_Side\_of\_the\_Floyd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dark_Side_of_the_Floyd)\ **Post date:** [September 12, 2005, 11:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-non-comedy-movie-tv-scenes-are-you-embarassed-to-admit-you-think-are-funny/321210/29 "2005-09-12T23:17:02Z")
Pretend that “namy” actually said “many”. ---
**Author:** ![panamajack](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/47e85d/32.png) [@panamajack](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panamajack)\ **Post date:** [September 12, 2005, 11:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-non-comedy-movie-tv-scenes-are-you-embarassed-to-admit-you-think-are-funny/321210/30 "2005-09-12T23:37:30Z")
> [@amarinth](#): > > **The Lion King** has a touching Simba with his dead father scene. That was ruined for me by a friend whispering “Someday, we will rule the pridelands as father and son” at just the right moment. There must be something about that scene. I was as moved almost as much as anyone, but I still leaned to my friend and said, “What a bad actor. You can clearly see he’s still breathing.” Later in the same movie Mufasa’s floating head appears in the sky telling Simba, “Remember who you are.” It wasn’t just the floating head, but the fact that I used to belong to an organization that used this phrase when members were goofing off in public, that made me laugh. ---
**Author:** ![Scissorjack](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c67d28/32.png) [@Scissorjack](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scissorjack)\ **Post date:** [September 12, 2005, 11:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-non-comedy-movie-tv-scenes-are-you-embarassed-to-admit-you-think-are-funny/321210/31 "2005-09-12T23:52:43Z")
When I saw **RotK** at the theatre, and at the climax of the Battle of the Pelennor Fields. The Witch-King of Angmar has just finished bragging on Eowyn that no man can kill him, and she whips off her helmet: “I am no man!” Cut back to Witchy, and some smartarse yells out “D’oh!” Priceless timing, and the whole theatre cracked up: I’ve never been able to watch that scene with a straight face since. ---
**Author:** ![Hey\_It\_s\_That\_Guy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/6f9a4e/32.png) [@Hey\_It\_s\_That\_Guy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hey_It_s_That_Guy)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2005, 12:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-non-comedy-movie-tv-scenes-are-you-embarassed-to-admit-you-think-are-funny/321210/32 "2005-09-13T00:18:32Z")
> [@Dark Side of the Floyd](#): > > Agreed. I think this has been parodied so namy times throughout the years that the first response to this is to laugh. I can’t imagine a recent movie that would use this “technique” in a serious manner. _Revenge of the Sith_. :rolleyes: ---
**Author:** ![Terrifel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c68b51/32.png) [@Terrifel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Terrifel)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2005, 2:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-non-comedy-movie-tv-scenes-are-you-embarassed-to-admit-you-think-are-funny/321210/33 "2005-09-13T02:31:48Z")
The end of **Jaws**. I pissed off an entire theater full of people by completely cracking up when the shark bought it. The scene just has this wonderful Rube Goldberg-like quality, turning the whole movie on its ear in the last instant; one second it’s a hopeless struggle against an implacable force of nature, and the next second the shark turns into Mr. Creosote. On the down side, I consider this film (even more than **Star Wars** ) to have irrevocably cemented the Hollywood tradition that no summer movie can end without a huge explosion. Thanks a load, Steve. On the opposite end of the cinematic spectrum… I’m not sure whether a CGI animated film named after a series of computer games can be considered a serious movie, but I’m pretty sure at least that \*\*Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within \*\* wasn’t intended as a comedy. Somehow I wound up seeing this movie in the theater, and although I can remember almost nothing about it, I do seem to recall that there is an explosion of some kind at the end. I also remember that the ever-dependable Donald Sutherland voiced one of the characters, and I believe that he may have had the last line. After the explosion that somehow saves the day, there’s a shower of mysterious glittering snowflake-like magic fallout particles or something. One of them alights on Donald, and he exclaims wonderingly in that uniquely fuzzy voice of his: _“It’s warm!”_ I about died laughing at this line, as did a few others who saw the film with me. I have no real explanation for this; however, I will say that it’s an extremely useful catch phrase to break the ice with during conversational lulls. Try it yourself! Touch any random object and cry out, _“It’s warm!”_ Fun, isn’t it? A great opening gambit for any discussion of Donald Sutherland’s many classic film roles. ---
**Author:** ![thirdname](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/d07c76/32.png) [@thirdname](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/thirdname)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2005, 2:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-non-comedy-movie-tv-scenes-are-you-embarassed-to-admit-you-think-are-funny/321210/34 "2005-09-13T02:40:17Z")
> [@Hampshire](#): > > Either Patrick Swayze or Kevin Bacon dancing in **Dirty Dancing** or **Footloose**. > The moves just look so funny to me and it’s made even worse by the serious looks on their faces. I find it funny in the same way it’s supposed to be funny when Will Smith would dance on the Fresh Prince of BelAir with the serious look on his face. Don’t forget how Swayze does those dainty little kicks to uproot the post to smash the window with. ---
**Author:** ![Rilchiam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/2bfe46/32.png) [@Rilchiam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rilchiam)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2005, 5:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-non-comedy-movie-tv-scenes-are-you-embarassed-to-admit-you-think-are-funny/321210/35 "2005-09-13T05:27:15Z")
> [@Otto](#): > > Let’s see, one I find funny that I’m probably not supposed to is from _Blue Velvet_, when Jeffrey asks Sandi what she’s heard about the cut-off ear and she responds “just bits and pieces.” Or earlier on, when Jeffrey **gravely** tells the detective that he was walking in a field and “I found an ear.” Detective opens the paper bag, looks inside and says briskly, “Yep, that’s a human ear all right.” I’m fairly certain that **was** supposed to be funny. ---
**Author:** ![Marley23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2005, 5:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-non-comedy-movie-tv-scenes-are-you-embarassed-to-admit-you-think-are-funny/321210/36 "2005-09-13T05:31:45Z")
> [@mobo85](#): > > In _Titanic_, while the boat is sinking into the ocean, there are scenes of the folks on the boat, running around panicking, dying, etc. In one scene, we scene a man fall off the ship, hit one of the smokestacks which makes a metallic pinging sound, and fall to his death. I know it’s not supposed to be funny, but that “ping!” combined with a soon-to-be-dead body causing it just makes me laugh. Yeah… I laughed at that in the theatre, which didn’t go over well. I think I actually yelled “ping!” Too bad. It was funny. Having the guy hit the propeller was just begging for laughter. > [@Dooku](#): > > You can also imagine how hilarious I found Vader’s Frankenstein scene in _Revenge of the Sith_. Oh, the whole theatre laughed at that when I saw it. And that was on opening day. ---
**Author:** ![SolGrundy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bbce88/32.png) [@SolGrundy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SolGrundy)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2005, 6:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-non-comedy-movie-tv-scenes-are-you-embarassed-to-admit-you-think-are-funny/321210/37 "2005-09-13T06:50:06Z")
Was the scene of flaming Denethor taking a running screaming flying leap off the top of Minas Tirith in _Return of the King_ already mentioned, and I just missed it? Because that was laffs with 2 f’s. ---
**Author:** ![Scissorjack](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c67d28/32.png) [@Scissorjack](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scissorjack)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2005, 11:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-non-comedy-movie-tv-scenes-are-you-embarassed-to-admit-you-think-are-funny/321210/38 "2005-09-13T11:34:22Z")
> [@SolGrundy](#): > > Was the scene of flaming Denethor taking a running screaming flying leap off the top of Minas Tirith in _Return of the King_ already mentioned, and I just missed it? Because that was laffs with 2 f’s. And that’s a 9.8 from the Bulgarian judges. ---
**Author:** ![Leaffan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/leaffan/32/299_2.png) [@Leaffan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leaffan)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2005, 2:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-non-comedy-movie-tv-scenes-are-you-embarassed-to-admit-you-think-are-funny/321210/39 "2005-09-13T14:16:40Z")
Hmmm… I don’t even find most things that are supposed to be funny, funny: let alone finding humour in non-funny items. ---
**Author:** ![Silentgoldfish](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e36b37/32.png) [@Silentgoldfish](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Silentgoldfish)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2005, 3:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-non-comedy-movie-tv-scenes-are-you-embarassed-to-admit-you-think-are-funny/321210/40 "2005-09-13T15:13:00Z")
> [@Leaffan](#): > > Hmmm… > > I don’t even find most things that are supposed to be funny, funny: let alone finding humour in non-funny items. That’s kinda sad. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-non-comedy-movie-tv-scenes-are-you-embarassed-to-admit-you-think-are-funny/321210.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-non-comedy-movie-tv-scenes-are-you-embarassed-to-admit-you-think-are-funny/321210.md?page=3)