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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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how about the horny grandma scene in “The Incredible Melting Man”
Grandma: Look at those oranges
Servo: I’m going to squeeze one and let the juice drip down my body,
honorable mention: when the hero from Laserblast blows up the Star Wars sign off to the side of the road. Priceless!
I’d have to say the most ridiculous scene is the need for the girdle and long-johns in “The Giant Spider Invasion” (of savings at Manards!) That and maybe the entire concept and design of “The Creeping Terror”. It really was one of the worst designs of a monster ever.
The Giant Spider Invasion.
The scene when the “spider posse” heads out and Helga looks up past the camera as if to say “is this scene over?”.
The incredibly high Little Richard in Catalina Caper.
Every scene is so ridiculous, I’d have to pick the entire movie “Hobgoblins”.
The ending of “Monster-A-Go-Go”. “There was no monster.” Sheesh! More like, “We ran out of money and couldn’t shoot the ending”!
Mikey’s confession scene in “Teenage Strangler”. “And he didn’t steal no bike neither!”
The giant go-go dancing ducks from “Village Of The Giants”. An effect achieved with a bad insert shot of two poor ducks being yanked around by wires tied to their bodies. Makes you groan in pain and want to call PETA.
Fred P. #90
Yup. You’re right. But that makes it worse. The guy’s acting career actually devolved.
Generally in both cases he ran the gamut of emotions from A to B.
The two drunk guys Vladimir and Estragon in “Horror of Party Beach”. A totally pointless scene – apparently the director caught their stage act at some cheap lounge and was intoxicated enough to think it was worth adding as filler to his movie. Pointless, moronic, a terrible waste of good celluloid.
For shear lunacy, I nominate the Hunchback Fairy/rotating house scene from “Jack Frost” – at least it is ridiculousness with imagination!
WEREWOLF: “Girl with no pants” falls down staircase, then gets right up unhurt.
in no particular order,
– the older woman who complains about her photos in THE DEAD TALK BACK
– the seance scene in BATWOMAN
– the toy boat and chopper in DANGER! DEATH RAY
– the human telephone in MONSTER A GO-GO
Argh! How could I forget this? The entire dance scene in “The Skydivers” – amazons, skinny shirtless guys, and Scotsmen for no discernible reason!
Hey stan! there happens to be a number of people i work with whose brain would fit in a cats head!!
I know this movie has been mentioned several times, but what about the beach dance scene in The Wild World of Batwoman? There’s teens dancing, a rock band is playing and the Batgirl with long hair is sucking face with the skinny, skinny guy. How embarrassing was that scene to film?
A couple more popped into my head:
In Skydivers, there’s a split-second cut to a staggering drunk when Frankie and Suzy are at the lake, I think. It’s such a disembodied cut, like a drunk in another dimension, that I’m not sure I’m placing him correctly. As if it would matter.
Also, in Bloodwaters of Dr. Z, the sheriff suddenly remembering in detail that old Doc Leopold is the guy they’re looking for after the painfully long scenes of the “heroes” driving around with their geiger counter. Did the sheriff truly forget that he once knew a guy who was trying to turn a man into a fish? Or maybe he just knows so many guys who want to turn men into fish that he just got lost in the shuffle. And now, at just the right moment – ATTACK!
What, no love for Creeping Terror vs the conveniently huddled up and falling over on cue army squad? For me, the most hilarious scene in a movie full of ‘man what’…
The guy at the end of “The Deadly Bees” is one of the guys from the beginning…
Thanks… it’s funny how many times I can see something and not get the joke.
In reference to the “Monster-A-Go-Go” phone scene: Yes, it’s ridiculous as it stands, but not quite as ridiculous in terms of filmmaking as some would think.
Here’s how you ordinarily shoot a phone-ringing sequence:
You mike the actor.
Someone off camera goes “ring ring.”
Actor goes “hello.”
Why? Because no matter how you mike it, a phone ringing in a studio doesn’t sound like a phone in an office, home, whatever. It’s also going to be a different volume from the actor’s voice, so you’d have to adjust the volume in the middle of the shot, which can be awkward, and require re-shoots for sound. On a budget, no way.
After you’re done shooting, in post-production, you are then supposed to Foley in the sound of a phone ringing (any sound FX library has it). This, obviously Did Not Happen Here. My guess is that Bill Rebane gave that sequence pre-edited to HG Lewis, and Lewis never noticed that the post wasn’t finished.
It’s a goof, sure, but it’s an easy one to make when you’re in a rush and on a budget.
Oh, and my vote goes to the “Flying Elves” scene in “Hired!”
Now that’s ridiculous. One really should not film an old man having an episode. Especially when he’s supposed to be dispensing wisdom to his son.
Man, i can’t believe nobody has mentioned Ted Nelson’s death in The Incredible Melting Man. It goes something like this:
Cops: Who are you?
Ted: I’m Doctor Ted Nelson.
Cops: Who?!
Ted: I’M DOCTOR TED NELSON!
(Cops shoot Ted in the head)
Awesome. Also, the old man in The Brute Man is pretty ridiculous. “Creeper, creeper, creeper! You give me the creeps!”
I’d have to say the guy screaming “I’m coming!!!” in ‘Quest of the Delta Knights’, and any scene with Merlin and his wife in ‘Merlin’s Shop of Mystical Wonders’.
“The guy at the end of “The Deadly Bees” is one of the guys from the beginning…
Thanks… it’s funny how many times I can see something and not get the joke.”
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I got the impression Mike and the bots didn’t understand it either.
I’ve two additions that nobody has mentioned ywt.:
1 – Moon Zero Two – The music and the dancing girls at the bar. Any time they are dancing, but specially when our hero turns off the artificial gravity. His rules? Bah!
2 – Any of Jack Palance’s scenes in Outlaw. What a disgusting worm.
Oh, and not to forget “Cabot, Cabot, Cabot, Cabot… ad nasuem.
From ‘The Creeping Terror’:
“Hey, if you could help me out by climbing in…”
Honorable mention:
Puma Man “flying.”
The Creeping Terror – ” let me just crab-walk outta here..” + the jealous fight seen, while a “crafty” monster sneaks into the room!!
WEREWOLF: the chase scene – girl gets out of jeep screaming – her boyfriend(?) does nothing – werewolf catches up to her crawling on all fours.
ONCE UPON A HONEYMOON short: nothing needs to be said here!
Remember the part in Hercules Unchained where that one guy( I cant remember what he was doing or what he looked liked )had this abrupt, bizarre, outburst. I was like “what the heck??!!!” That’s my vote, it was just really weird.
How about this:
“That’s a Number 9!”
Soul-destroying, even to just type it.
Didnt read all the comments but hads down the worst for me is Lost Continent. Why WHY WHYYY all the rock climbing????
Also, any scene with the coroner or voodoo lady in Zombie Nightmare. two weird as hell acting styles and accents!
I just remembered something. The scene in “The Thing That Couldn’t Die” where the sleazy handyman tries to steal the box out of the closet. He enters Aunt Flavia’s room and loudly gouges open her purse to get the key. Shes sleeping right next to him doing this and she doesn’t wake up! Then, when he’s back downstairs, he and the big dumb guy make a minor noise trying to open the door. Flavia is out of bed and downstairs in 10 seconds! Then, when sleazy handyman and dumb guy fight and make tons of noise, Flavia takes 5 minutes to get out of bed!!
So, lets see…
– Sleazy handyman, instead of unsnapping the clasp on her purse, rips it to shreds to get it open.
– He apparently didn’t think Flavia would notice the huge, jagged gash in her purse (actually, she didn’t!)
– Flavia is stone deaf when loud noises are made right next to her head, but is out of bed like a shot when the slightest, inaudible bump is made on the other side of the house.
– When real danger rears its head, Flavia takes her sweet ol’ time to react.
They just didn’t think out the timing on this scene or the implausibilities.
Sand storm.
Deep hurting.
I always thought the end of Killer Shrews was dumb. Was that barrel-tank escape plan really the best the writers could think of?
I’ll also vote for the Zamboni-er-ENFORCER joust for the finale of ‘Space Mutiny’. We all love how any tension, Reb’s scream, and the huge explosion are undermined by fact that it’s just 2 electric carts that can’t even match the speed of certain Power Wheels (TM), but I also factor in subtler things that M&TB didn’t even bother commenting on:
1. Whenever the ENFORCERS connect during a sideswipe, unbelievably cartoonish sparks are drawn in. Perhaps it was just so stupid that words failed the Brains. In the earlier chase, a similar cartoon effect was used to make at least one rifle mounted on the side of an ENFORCER fire a completely ineffective beam, despite it clearly being a hand-weapon stored there with no apparent means of firing it from the scrubber’s controls.
2. As in the first scene with Kalgon and Lobster Johnson-er-Boy-ummm-the Pringle guy, long shots clearly show SUNLIGHT streaming in thought the factory windows of this ship in deep space. Was naming the vessel “The Southern Sun” just supposed to lead the audience to assume that it was known for having a unique array of sunlamps that perfectly simulate sunlight on Earth? Should we also assume that ‘Battlestar Galactica’ wasn’t broadcast in South Africa until the ’90s?
Well, that’s my case for climax of ‘Space Mutiny’ having the most layers of goofiness, even if dozens of other experiments had scenes that were less explicable.
RE:#129 – I think Aunt Flavia might be having cocktails with Grampa from Teenagers from Outer Space – Those Nyquilatas pack a punch!!!
The Killer Shrews- the man being killed by falling out of the tree and being eaten by the shrews is the ugliest most disturbing scene i’ve ever seen in MST3K.
Agent For H.A.R.M.- The hero of the “movie” cops-a-feel.
Usually the most ridiculous scene involves bad, cringing attempt at humor with very bad acting. Case in point, the infra-red scope operators in “Attack of the Eye Creatures”. I guess that they just didn’t care.
I could pick a scene in Hobgoblins, but like the majority here, that whole movie was ridiculous.
So I’ll have to go with Beast of Yucca Flats.
During opening car chase, scenery changes from desert to forest to mountains repeatedly.
the “teen” fight scene from the Sinister Urge.
i get that it was spliced in from another ed woods movie but cmon… what guy fights by slapping himself and the other guy?
There’s no wrong answer here–as people have pointed out, whole movies can be named as ‘the most ridiculous scene’. Here’s another short one, though, from “Future War”: the hooker nun looking grimly up at the vaguely Hispanic gang members surrounding her and solemnly intoning, “Monsters in the hood”. I was very disappointed that Mike and the ‘bots let that one pass–although, really, what could they have added?
Deadly Bees, guy in the bowler hat at the end. All the other ridiculous scenes I can almost understand, but that one went right over my head. What could that possibly mean??
looking back, the “Pumaman” flying/falling/??? scenes were pretty ridiculous too.
Food Man Chu – see post 95. It seems that the joke was just too funny for it’s own good.
Also, I was thinking about how infuriatingly awful Alan Hale’s jokes are running through the Giant Spider Invasion. Do you think those were in the script, or did he just ad-lib them in? Either way, it gives his performance in Angel’s Revenge a quiet dignity by comparison.
The triple shot of cameos in Angel’s Revenge by Mr. Haney, Mr. Magoo and Arthur Godfried all should be mentioned in this thread. Terrible, awful and wastes of time, all.
There’s alot of stupid scenes, but for ‘Zombie Nightmare,’ the scene of the one idiot taking a handful of pasta, eating some before flinging the rest at his Mom.
Just got through watching Village of the Giants last night, so these are fresh in my mind:
1) The giants delinquents “dancing”
2) The prop of Beau Bridges’ “giant legs”
3) Tommy Kirk in short shorts
4) The guy dangling in the huge cleavage of one of the female giants
1. The “down, down, down” guy in The Mole People”
2. The over extended sidehacking racing stuff in “Sidehackers”
3. The entire short “Young Man’s Fancy”- what is that all about?
4- The entire short “The Selling Wizard”
5- Finally, the endless shots of Joe Don Baker leaving his jail cell in Malta in “Final Justice”- we got the point the first time.
Great answers, all. I’d like to toss in the “Jonathan Cooper practices magic in his basement” scene from Merlin’s Shop of Mystical Wonders. Hijinks, hilarity, cat-roasting, and a cameo by the film’s largest backer (Satan). Also:
Tor Johnson chases children in the desert in Beast of Yucca Flats.
Any scene where Ro-man and the Great Guidance Ro-man argue in Robot Monster.
“Rowsdower…Zapp Rowsdower.”
Master Ninja 1 (I think) >> our hero picks up Demi Moore on the highway. She says she was assaulted and nearly raped. BUT in the next breath, she has the piece of mind to tell our hero not to turn off the radio because she likes the classical music playing.
A true WTF-was-that moment.
Crossing the deadly lake in WOMEN OF THE PREHISTORIC PLANET.
For me “Most ridiculous scene” would be a scene that literally stops the movie because of it’s overall impact. If it has nothing to do with the greater plot – better. If it embarrasses a vast amount of people participating – best!
I’ve got a top three, but I can’t decide which is the worst.
Pod People – The entire recording session. The singers are really horrible at acting like they are singing. The dub artists are horrible at singing, and the crew in the booth are doing thier best to enjoy the song. I think everyone involved in that scenes feels shame to this day.
Wild World of Batwoman – The soup of happiness scene. You can feel the shame coming off of the cast in waves here. Its supposed to be funny but it only hurts us more with each passing second. I even get the feeling that the woman playing Batwoman is thinking “I’m getting paid enough to do this”.
Angel’s Revenge – The beach scene is probably the worst offender in the movie – but seriously the whole movie breaks the shame-o-meter with gig-Lawfords pouring off in waves. But that beach scene, the image of the girls latched onto the fisherman’s ears. The “fight”. The dialogue. It’s truely wretched.
Oops – correction. Batwoman is NOT getting paid enough.
In “The Horrors of Spider Island,” when the two assistants to the professor are explaining to the dancers that they are doing research on the island, the giant blonde says, “Oh, researching researchers…” Priceless.
The “diamond broker” scene in “Giant Spider Invasion.”
“…I wish I had my pretty mind back…” from “Girl in Gold boots.”
The frequent and disturbing ultra-close-up shots of Lon Chaney Jr’s eyes in “Indestructable Man.”
The ridiculous “hip” chatter of Joe Turkel in “Tormented.” She owes me a fin, you dig?
The death scene of the deaf guy in “The Beginning of the End.” Apparently, his sense of sight was impaired too. And his ability to run.