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Weekend Discussion Thread: Most Ridiculous SceneAlert reader Trevor suggests:
Me, the scene that comes to mind is the seance scene in WILD WILD WORLD OF BATWOMAN. Everyone involved will have to pay, now or in the afterlife. What’s your pick? 183 Replies to “Weekend Discussion Thread: Most Ridiculous Scene”Commenting at Satellite News
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Yeah, I think the “Hey, that might not be Chinese…” scene in WILD WORLD OF BATWOMAN may be my pick too. Annoying and offensive.
I narrowed it down to about 5 choices, but I can’t choose just one:
-The scene from The Creeping Terror where the monster tries to… *ahem* “attack” some cars in lover’s lane. “You see, when a monster and a car love each other very much…”
-Alien From L.A., the scene with the mob boss, or whatever he’s supposed to be, with the crazy eye makeup halfway across his face. I’ve only seen that once, but I remember being totally dumbfounded by that guy’s appearance. WTF?
-Almost any scene from Angels’ Revenge. “Ok, sound by Hanna Barbera…” That movie is hard to watch.
-The whole last 20 minutes or so of The Undead. “The plot’s totally crashed!” and of course, “STAAAAAY!!!!”
-and finally… “This is where the Fish lives!” :smile:
I’m going to go with the “Schick Out Of Shape” dance number in TISCWSLABMUZ. Every time I see it, I burst into fits of giggling from the sheer staggering incompetence of that dance number. Nobody is in synch with each other, or with the music.
I’m sure I will find myself nodding at many other worthy candidates, though. :)
I’m choosing to see ‘ridiculous’ as unnecessary, pointless, and funny by admission.
Nearly 90% of the scenes in Coleman Francis’ filmography could count, especially the “It’s okay…” auto repair sequence from Red Zone Cuba. The exhaustive cave search scene from Eegah also comes in; and looking all the way back to #101, I always get a kick out of Joel asking, “Where’s the cloud?”
For sheer length, of course, let’s not forget ‘refueling.’
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For sheer length, of course, let’s not forget ‘refueling.’
I don’t know; the attack scene in Invasion of the Neptune Men and “Sandstorm” are strong contenders here!
Then there’s the inexplicable weird guy in the derby at the end of Deadly Bees.
I think there will be many different interpretations of “ridiculous” in this thread, and I say bring it on.
For me, though, it’s the disco club of the “future” scene in Space Mutiny. Embarrassing, creepy, hopelessly dated, and what little dialogue that could be deemed necessary to the “plot” could have easily taken place in a less goofy setting. And the dancing.
Pantyhose are itchy! Itchy itchy itchy!
Oh, just thought of another: the Revolutionary War scenes in Time Chasers. I’ve seen amateur re-enactments that were staged better. It started to make me wonder how America won.
Special effects by Billy! (Danger!! Death Ray)
I’ve got a few
Pod People- recording session
Pod People- the whole stop motion scene
Teenagers from Outer Space- basically anything after the terrible giant lobster effect. I (like a few others I’ve read) didn’t think the movie was that bad until that scene
Manos- the making out teens “subplot”
Six words: Trumpy, you can do STUPID things! ‘Nuff said!
There are so many, but I’ve decided. For me, it’s the rawhide hang glider in Cave Dwellers. Ridiculous. :shock:
The brain swapping between a cat and a human in the atomic brain. Didn’t the writters or director or anyone, realize that a cat and a human have different size brains? Sure they could stuff cotton for the cat brain, but how could they get a human brain in a cat head?
The monster filleting scene in Gamera Vs. Guiron.
The scene in It Conquered the World where Lee Van Cleef has conversations with the alien, and when the carrot monster flops over at the end embracing him.
The ‘costumes’ of the Chicken Men of Krankor.
When the Neptune Men pile on the lipstick to visit Earth; the demolition of the Hitler building.
The pregnant with alien shrimp scene from Night of the Blood Beast.
The ‘confrontation’ with the inexplicable creature near the end of Teenage Caveman- was Corman writing the scene as it was being shot?
The ‘Want some?’ apple scene in Daddy-O.
When the woman gets out of bed to the accompaniment of offscreen dialogue in Beast of Yucca Flats showcasing her cleavage, then she just gets back into bed!
The petting of the invisible guinea pig in the Amazing Transparent Man.
The nurse having her face stolen in Terror From the Year 5000.
The hair fondling scene in Time of the Apes.
I have to run off to work. This list could be endless…
Gamera vs. Zigra, specifically the “fish theater argument” sequence and the scene where Gamera plays Zigra’s spine like a xylophone and dances.
The girl-wrestling scene in Manos also comes to mind.
The faux seduction scene in Space Mutiny, when the woman is trying to escape from the horny moron.
And absolutely, the seance scene from Batwoman.
It’s impossible to choose just one!
I’ve always thought the frog legs restaurant scene in “Red Zone Cuba” was the most bizarre. Why the blind piano player? Why frog legs in the first place? (Where do they even get frog legs in New Mexico or wherever?) Why throw the guy down the well or cellar? What? Why? It’s not just bad or most ridiculous–it’s full-speed ludicrous!
What? No disgusting, leering, infantile, anti-funny, non-plot-advancing Peeping Toms from “Attack of the the Eye Creatures”? I sincerely wonder what the “filmmakers” were thinking when they included these two schmucks. I mean, were their senses of humor that far underdeveloped, that they thought these douchebags were funny? I cringe every time I see them – for them AND for me.
I think one of the more ridiculous ones is one of the many from Track of the Moon Beast.
The whole scene when, out of nowhere, what’s-her-face starts “falling off” the cliff or mountain or hill (whatever they’re supposed to be climbing), and she can’t get up and asks Super Paul for help even though it’s only like a 30 degree slope she’s laying on.
Have to agree with: “This is where the Fish lives!”
Good choices so far, especially the Batwoman sceance scene and the phone “sex” in Hobgoblins.
My choice would be the undeciferable “I have interface!” bit from Overdrawn at the Memorybank. What does that mean? What does he do to achieve interface? Why the swirling Tazmanian Devil-like graphic? And why a duck?
I love the scene in “The Girl in Gold Boots” where the guy suddenly appears out of nowhere in the booth at the restaurant. I know there’s a logical explanation for it (a glitch in the film) but it always makes me laugh.
I think I’ll go with the hang glider in CAVE DWELLERS, too. I’d mention the underwater jazz combo from CATALINA CAPER, but it’s just too short to be what I consider a “scene.”
Another good thread. There are so many individually bad scenes in MST3K’s history, but the few that jump to mind include:
– Space Mutiny, where Thick McLargeHuge there and Kalgon are fighting in the wash-and-wax vehicles, and the beefy one screams for a good five seconds, then jumps out of the moving machine towards Kalgon. Totally bizarre!
– Hobgoblins – well, almost every scene is embarrassing in that film – but the scene where Kevin and dorky Army guy Nick are fighting with garden tools is especially goofy.
– Monster A Go-Go, where they needed someone offscreen to create the sound of a phone ringing. Apparently, the budget was so tight Bill Rebane couldn’t even pay the phone bill!
– Pod People, where Trumpy makes everything in Tommy’s room go beserk. It tries to create a sense of fun in what was somewhat of a dark movie.
This is a tough one! So many to choose from!
My vote would go to the seance scene in Wild World of Batwoman (“Ching Chong Ching Chong!”), but there are many others in that movie alone (the scene in the cafeteria with the soup and the dancing, the scene at Bat Woman’s house where the two girls in the background are fighting over the horseshoe, the makeout scene on the beach between the tall blonde chick in the leopard print outfit and the Junior Buddy Hackett guy, etc.)
Also, there’s the scene in Angels Revenge where a visibly embarrassed Jim Backus gets the pot of garbage dumped on his head, any scene with the plus sized couple in Ring of Terror, the girl getting squishy in A Young Man’s Fancy, the recording studio scene (“It Stinks!”) in Pod People…..
I could go on and on. And on. And on.
The first thing that comes to my mind is the scene in ‘Jack Frost’ where the Hunchback Fairy first appears. The spinning house and walking trees made the scene so ridiculous and hallucinatory I couldn’t stop laughing for five minutes afterwards.
The woman taking the baby’s temperature (rectally, of course) in THE CREEPING TERROR. Mike’s commentary pretty much sums it up. (Am I allowed to include the word “rectal” here? Yikes!)
Oh, I also thought of the Rat Fink Hoedown in Batwoman, and the hypnotism scene from Incredibly Strange Creatures, and the dance hall massacre by the monster from Creeping Terror. And the assistant’s death scene in The Brain that Wouldn’t Die.
And I have to agree with all the choices so far…now my mind can reel all day.
* The scene where the model meets Jim Backus and takes a tour of the compound in “Angels Revenge”. I didn’t want to see Jim Backus in thigh-high boots either.
* The early scene in “The Dead Talk Back” where Krasker talks about his work directly to the camera and shows the world what an obnoxious know-it-all he really is.
* Any scene in “Wurwilf” where Natalie tries to talk.
* The shaving scene in “Eegah”.
* The creepy, homoerotic, Soultaker disguised as Mom watching her daughter get undressed to take a bath scene in “Soultaker”.
FUTURE WAR, the guy punches off his own shirt . . .
ANGELS REVENGE is a champ for these moments (that’s why it’s my favorite episode), but the two that stand out for me are the visits to the survivalist compound (oh, Jim Backus, why?) and the fight on the beach (where the women have the mighty power to swing their arms a foot away from the wacky drug dealers’ faces yet still knock them out).
Also, like #5 said, GETYOURTICKETSHERE!GETYOURTICKETSHERE!GETYOURTICKETSHERE! Yikes.
I’m glad Nicolletta mentioned the Eegah shaving scene–both creepy AND ridiculous.
Angels Revenge–the seduction of the guys on the beach (also creepy), and the scene where the teacher lady is going through her purse…”Oh…oh, I know it’s here somewhere…Oh!”
-Any singing scene in Catalina Caper.
-The dancing hall in Creeping Terror. Come on do I really need to see 10 mins. of dancing before the “terror” gets to the damn hall!!!
-Any scene from Skydivers. They were right when they said the skydivers did their own acting. :grin:
How about the whole transformation scene in Werewolf? It begins with establishing the scene of the hospital for, what, a minute? Then Tommy (the Indian) sitting up in his Craftmatic bed…the exchange between nurse and doctor :roll: …”Someone’s trying to start their Plymouth Duster.”
Oh, there are so many. :mrgreen:
Certainly, as justly early mentioned above, the Chinese seance scene in WWW of Batwoman,
or any of the incredably slow and not bright people not only waiting for the Creeping Terror to gobble them but climbing into it.
And what about the “hilarious???” Santa Claus Martian scene with the children attacking the bad guys in the Martian toyroom- with Santa egging them on.
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“and finally… “This is where the Fish lives!”
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Hey, don’t let TS know you attacked creepy Girl! :shock:
BUZZ OFF KID, from Mitchell.
The horny kid (“Is it sexy?”) from Overdrawn at the Memory Bank.
I agree with everything posted so far…so many bad scenes. The Peeping Toms in Attack of the Eye Creatures makes me absolutely cringe…but even worse:
The poop scene in Boggy Creek!
Any time the “Creeping Terror” is seen.
Batwoman’s costume.
The girl werewolf.
That gigantic face dude from “soultaker”.
The severed head recovery scene form “The thing that would not die”
A lot of my picks have already been mentioned, but I’ve got to make sure the “cracker” scene from Night of the Blood Beast gets its due.
“Sociables? Rye Crisps? ANYTHING?!”
My vote would go to Pumaman, specifically when our titular hero “flies.”
A close second is the incredibly action-packed chase sequence in Space Mutiny. “If we go any faster I’ll have to drop the waxing compound!”
The ones that spring to mind:
* ANY scene from ‘Robot Monster’ involing that Bubble Machine.
* The stop-motion scene from ‘Pop People’
* The dreadfuly-edited climax to ‘Bride of the Monster’- did Ed Wood EVER stop to look at what he was making?
* Torgo takig forever to walk to the car and back in ‘Manos’- shown in full and vivid detail and with the most ridiculous incidental score you’ve ever heard
* The infamous Baby Oil scene in ‘Mitchell.’ No. Just No
* The toy-and-helicopter-in-a-bathtub scene in ‘Danger! Death Ray!’
* Pretty much any scene with a plane in it frm ‘Skydivers.’ Totally redundant.
* Lieutenant Lamont pulls a Lazarus on us, thanks to some Ed Wood-esque editing in ‘Space Mutiny.’
I’ve got to go with the Skydivers refueling scene as the winner. Most of the other scenes I’ve mentioned had a point to them- this one didn’t. Did the redundancy factor conern then even a litle?
It’s the seance scene in “Wild World of Batwoman”.
Angels’ Revenge, the whole purse searching routinue each time the team meets a new member. It makes me ashamed to be a woman. The Brain That Wouldn’t Die scenes where the assistant doctor gets mangled is a bit nauseating, until you realize the man’s arm is just strapped to his body and the monster’s mask is justed laced up in back. (I know this is weird, but I used to worry that someday one of the parrots I worked with might take off an earlobe. It could happen.)
Warrior of the Lost World. The entire movie is just a series of ridiculous nonsensical scenes.
So many hurtful scenes, so much pain. Here’s some I’ve been thinking about:
HellCats: biker clubhouse party, especially when Six Pack’s beer gets “over-excited”.
Riding with Death: the barhouse fight is really stupid, and worse is Buffalo Bill’s drunk ramblings in the can afterward.
Skydivers: Well, just most of the film,I guess, but mainly the John Waters-like jump party.
And now my fave…
Hobgoblins: Club Scum is the crappiest place on earth. Kevin chasing the hobgoblin while the extra tips his own table over three times.
The peeping tom scenes and the guy in the dress from Attack of the Eye Creatures
The seance scene in the Wild World of Batwoman along side the Jimmy Bryant Band in Skydivers
The dancing gay couple in Mixed Up Zombies
Ator’s Hangglider in Cavedwellers
Trumpy you do stupid things
Attack Of The The Eye Creatures – the “monsters” swarm in, but not all of them felt like wearing their monster costumes
Manos – pretty much the whole movie
Angels Revenge – that god-awful “private beach” schtick
Mitchell – the “I am not a lousy butler” scene (tho it was probably the strongest acting effort of Merlin Olsen’s “career”)
Star Fighters – the endless refueling sequence
Bride Of The Monster – Bela Lugosi’s soft core porn scene with the octopuss
…Mixed Up Zombies – take your pick
Prince Of Space – the bad guy’s disturbingly tight costume in all of his scenes
I have many more, but no time to list them all
Although just a brief snippet of a scene, I can’t wrap my head around the moment in “The Incredible Melting Man” when our moist antagonist is in a parking lot chasing after the portly, squeamish nurse (soon to be half a nurse), and his point of view appears to be…gliding? I believe the riff is, “He’s on rollerblades.” Deliciously ridiculous.
When middle aged people horse around, from The Sinister Urge.
The repeated telephone “prank”, from The Starfighters.
Oh, and the “I just found out that Count Dracula was a f*****t” scene in Werewolf.
Actually, pretty much any scene with Sam the Keeper in Werewolf.
His “Oh my God! What’s happening!” is second only to “This can’t be! You’re invisible!” in MST3ked line reading.
And a mention has to be made of the whole transition sequence between the two episodes of Riding With Death. (“You’re as elusive as Robert Denby!” “Leonard, I hear you’ve grown quite a mustache!”)