# WTF moments from otherwise innocuous TV/movies **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [December 18, 2011, 7:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wtf-moments-from-otherwise-innocuous-tv-movies/606628 "2011-12-18T07:48:50Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 14\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![Justin\_Bailey](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/justin_bailey/32/8792_2.png) [@Justin\_Bailey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Justin_Bailey)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2011, 11:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wtf-moments-from-otherwise-innocuous-tv-movies/606628/61 "2011-12-20T23:00:26Z")
> [@mlees](#): > > The guys are shown to be working lots of overtime, catching tons of ghosts. The team is sleeping in the firehouse, Akroyd rolls off his cot during the dream. https://www.youtube.com/embed/Hf-GMMOasRg?feature=oembed&wmode=opaque Holy shit! That thing’s real! I have Ghostbusters practically memorized, but I can’t for the life of me ever remember seeing that scene. ---
**Author:** ![Don\_Draper](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b2d939/32.png) [@Don\_Draper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Don_Draper)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2011, 11:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wtf-moments-from-otherwise-innocuous-tv-movies/606628/62 "2011-12-20T23:26:11Z")
> [@Prelude\_to\_Fascination](#): > > Well, prairie dog shit. Assuming you’re right (and I’m not accusing you of being wrong), then I’ve missed the clues all the times I’ve watched the film. I was never all _that_ big a folkie, but thought I was familiar enough with the genre to get the inside stuff in a relatively major movie. Thanks for clearing it up for me. I’ll just offer one more “possible” clue. I say possible because I freely admit I may be reading a bit too much into it, but the Folksmen (note the name BTW, Folks_men_) have a signature song - “Eat At Joe’s” about a diner whose neon light is shorting out, and so Shearer’s character sings a famous line “Ea- a- -oe’s” making fun of what the neon spells out. But there may be a hidden foreshadowing there - “Joe” had something snipped off… I realize that’s kind of a stretch, but after all this movie isn’t shy about it’s double entendres (“There’s a Mighty Wind…blowin’ from YOU and MEEEEE!”) ---
**Author:** ![Peter\_Morris](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/peter_morris/32/359_2.png) [@Peter\_Morris](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Peter_Morris)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2011, 12:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wtf-moments-from-otherwise-innocuous-tv-movies/606628/63 "2011-12-21T00:08:58Z")
> [@Justin\_Bailey](#): > > Am I the only one that doesn’t remember this scene at all? Let me guess. You’ve only seen this movie on TV, never at the cinema. right? The scene is cut out when it’s shown on TV. At least it is on UK terrestrial TV. I bet you haven’t heard the ‘dickless’ joke either. ---
**Author:** ![Justin\_Bailey](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/justin_bailey/32/8792_2.png) [@Justin\_Bailey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Justin_Bailey)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2011, 12:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wtf-moments-from-otherwise-innocuous-tv-movies/606628/64 "2011-12-21T00:47:46Z")
> [@Peter\_Morris](#): > > Let me guess. You’ve only seen this movie on TV, never at the cinema. right? I was two years old when Ghostbusters was released, so of course I’ve never seen it in the theater. But I own the DVD and have watched it multiple times. That scene has never stuck with me for some reason. Bonus nitpicking: The “dickless” line is in the TV edit. ---
**Author:** ![Peter\_Morris](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/peter_morris/32/359_2.png) [@Peter\_Morris](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Peter_Morris)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2011, 1:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wtf-moments-from-otherwise-innocuous-tv-movies/606628/65 "2011-12-21T01:13:03Z")
> [@Justin\_Bailey](#): > > Bonus nitpicking: The “dickless” line is in the TV edit. Is it? Every time I’ve seen it on (UK) TV the line is changed to this: [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/uDOi034BEJY/hqdefault.jpg "Ghostbusters Alternate Scene - "Wally Wick"") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uDOi034BEJY) ---
**Author:** ![Muffin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/muffin/32/4341_2.png) [@Muffin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Muffin)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2011, 1:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wtf-moments-from-otherwise-innocuous-tv-movies/606628/66 "2011-12-21T01:29:40Z")
A couple of paintings in Magnum P.I.: one showing bare breasts a la Gaugin, and another of non-explicit tentacle porn. ---
**Author:** ![panamajack](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/47e85d/32.png) [@panamajack](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panamajack)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2011, 2:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wtf-moments-from-otherwise-innocuous-tv-movies/606628/67 "2011-12-21T02:31:30Z")
> [@Don\_Draper](#): > > I realize that’s kind of a stretch, but after all this movie isn’t shy about it’s double entendres (“There’s a Mighty Wind…blowin’ from YOU and MEEEEE!”) You do realize that’s not what that line is, right? It’s from a movie I’d rather forget, but Steve Buscemi’s pedophilia in **Armageddon** is a WTF moment. ---
**Author:** ![expectopatronum](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/expectopatronum/32/173_2.png) [@expectopatronum](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/expectopatronum)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2011, 3:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wtf-moments-from-otherwise-innocuous-tv-movies/606628/68 "2011-12-21T03:00:26Z")
> [@DCnDC](#): > > In _Attack of the Clones_, instead of finishing him off and letting his (former) friend die with some dignity, or at least putting him out of his misery, Obi-wan just leaves Anakin to burn to death. At the very least he could have waited for him to die before taking off, lest that come back to bite him in the ass, somehow. first of all, the aforementioned scene happened in _Revenge of the Sith._ it’s been pointed out above that the prequels don’t really qualify for this thread since they were such a hot mess, but i had to address this. i hardly think this scene qualifies as a WTF moment. to me such a moment is something that comes the fuck out of nowhere and takes you out of the movie/show/etc. every star wars fan knew this scene was coming. the entire prequel trilogy built up this scene. as for the decision he ultimately makes, he knows whatever he chooses, it’s wrong, but i think when it came down to it he just couldn’t bring himself to kill anakin, but he knew he couldn’t save him, either. ---
**Author:** ![Kamino\_Neko](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kamino_neko/32/34_2.png) [@Kamino\_Neko](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kamino_Neko)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2011, 3:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wtf-moments-from-otherwise-innocuous-tv-movies/606628/69 "2011-12-21T03:09:01Z")
> [@panamajack](#): > > It’s from a movie I’d rather forget, but Steve Buscemi’s pedophilia in **Armageddon** is a WTF moment. ??? I’ve only seen that movie once, not long after it came out…and don’t remember anything of the sort. ---
**Author:** ![Justin\_Bailey](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/justin_bailey/32/8792_2.png) [@Justin\_Bailey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Justin_Bailey)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2011, 5:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wtf-moments-from-otherwise-innocuous-tv-movies/606628/70 "2011-12-21T05:07:55Z")
> [@Tengu](#): > > ??? I’ve only seen that movie once, not long after it came out…and don’t remember anything of the sort. I believe he’s referring to this exchange: **Rockhound:** Harry! **Harry Stamper:** What? **Rockhound:** Man, I swear to God, she never told me her age. So he’s not so much a pedophile. It’s more likely he slept with a girl who he later found out was 17. ---
**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:** [December 21, 2011, 5:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wtf-moments-from-otherwise-innocuous-tv-movies/606628/71 "2011-12-21T05:39:29Z")
I thought he was conflating Armageddon and Con-Air. Wasn’t Buscemi a pedophile who actually gets away in the movie? ---
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2011, 12:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wtf-moments-from-otherwise-innocuous-tv-movies/606628/72 "2011-12-21T12:41:31Z")
I’d missed this one, but Pepper Mill pointed it out to me. In the very first season of the original _Star Trek_, in the e[pisode [i\]The Naked Time\*, where everyone catches the virus that makes them act uninhibited, and Sulu runs around bare-chested with an epee\*, he goes over to Uhura and says “I’ll protect you, fair maiden.” To which Uhura answers, “Sorry. Neither.” \*George Takei was reportedly too much in love with swashbuckling with that epee, and was a danger on the set. Years later he co-authored _Mirror Friend, Mirror Foe_ with Robert Lynn Asprin, about a future ninja with a sword that seems to be based on Takei’s obsession with swordplay. No double entendre intended. ---
**Author:** ![Gyrate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gyrate/32/3588_2.png) [@Gyrate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gyrate)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2011, 1:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wtf-moments-from-otherwise-innocuous-tv-movies/606628/73 "2011-12-21T13:18:49Z")
> [@RikWriter](#): > > Well, the scene where Gary Busey is on deck when the main guns fire and wanders around in a daze with his ears bleeding is pretty good, too. Tommy Lee Jones. Busey was on the receiving end of the guns at the time. ---
**Author:** ![bouv](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bc8723/32.png) [@bouv](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bouv)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2011, 1:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wtf-moments-from-otherwise-innocuous-tv-movies/606628/74 "2011-12-21T13:23:37Z")
> [@Push\_You\_Down](#): > > I thought he was conflating Armageddon and Con-Air. Wasn’t Buscemi a pedophile who actually gets away in the movie? He was a serial killer, possibly cannibal, but not a pedophile or rapist, IIRC. I only say this because at one point in the movie, John Malkovich’s character is talking to Danny Trejo’s about how he thinks rapists are the scum of the earth…yeah, way to act all high and mighty there, multiple-murderer. :rolleyes: But he also talks about how much he love’s Steve’s character, which I doubt he’d do if he was a pedophile. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wtf-moments-from-otherwise-innocuous-tv-movies/606628.md?page=3)