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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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While I haven’t had a chance to read everybody’s post yet, I’d have to say that the most ridiculous scene has got to be the first appearance of Samson from Samson vs. the Vampire Women. What would be anyone’s reaction be to a masked wrestler suddenly walking in through the living room door? Hysterical!
All the fights in the set of boxes in Future Wars. The fight in the church, too. While we’re at it, the scenes where they fight the dinosaurs, and the hero’s inability to speak were pretty bad. Let’s just say that Future War was in itself a very ridiculous scene.
The beachcraft scene in Girl in Gold Boots was strange as well.
Shooting the Star Wars sign in Laserblast.
The scene of the red-haired hillbilly in his longjohns in Giant Spider Invasion.
Santa banging out stereotypical music on his organ in Santa Claus.
Mitchell: Buzz off kid!
Lastly, just about any dancing scene that has been shown on MST3K. Think Space Mutiny, The Creeping Terror, TISCWSLABMUZ, Teen-Age Strangler, Outlaw (the unsynchronized dancing girls), Sky Divers, Girl in Gold Boots, &c.
Dvey when he flies off in the private plane in SF International, Ok it’s not really ridiculous, but Davey is such a pathetic character, I would have loved to see him crash into theolden Gate Bridge.
Also Zombie Nightmare where our buff hero gets hit by a car, the good samaritans bring him to his mother’s home, what no hospitals nearby? Anybody think of 911? I know they have it up there in Canada…
I would have to go with the archaeologists fighting in “Flagstaff” scene in “Werewolf.” First of all, Flagstaff, AZ, is forested, not just dirt…the movie was filmed in New Mexico and L.A. Second of all, archaeologists do not use artifacts to beat each other up. Fighting in the field…yeah, I could see that. Maybe it’s just so amusing because I’m an archaeologist living in Flagstaff.
I also like the scene of Miles O’Keefe lifting the stone weights in “Cave Dwellers.” My friends were asking how he got to be so muscular at the beginning of the movie and I told them just to wait.
There’s the great scene where the security guard transforms into a werewolf while driving in WEREWOLF…
Or if you want really bizarre, inexplicable, and unnecessary, how about when the picture suddenly changes to half-naked women wrestling in the middle of a dialogue scene in RACKET GIRLS?
So many great (ridiculous) scenes. So many that scanning the first 155 entries, I see no mention of Mr. B Natural’s visit to Buzz’s room.
At 156, it’s still the iceberg’s tip.
I didn’t see anybody else bring this up. . . So I must: Wrestling!
Samson fighting the Devil-Vampire-uhhhhhh-Werewolf guy in Samson vs. the Vampire Women.
And how can anyone forget the middle aged “Racket Girls” Clara Mortensen and Rita Martinez battling it out while Charlie Watts looks on.
The again on the other hand…
I have no problem with the wives of “The Master” scraping it out in Manos.
That should be: Then agian on the other hand.
(I doubt if it would throw anyone off..it looks like my “n” key is sticking)
I’m laughing while reading these ridiculous moments. For me, the cardboard box fighting scene of “the guys who peaked in high school” in Future Wars was totally ridiculous. As was the forced perspective scenes of the dinosaurs.
rediculous moments in MST3K movies???
Jack frost is full of them.
The scene in “Incredible Melting Man” where TED NELSON and the other doctor (You know–“There’s a black guy in my office”) are on some sort of transporter, discussing Ted’s wife being pregnant and whatnot. You can barely hear what their saying, it looks strange, and Mike and the bots deliver some KILLER riffs to top it off!
In Gunslinger, when Beverly Garland is being attacked by the can-can girls and she’s about to be strung up with a noose, along comes her savior and scares the girls away. Beverly, under diress, tells them to leave town and never come back. One of the girls then asks “what about our clothes?”. Classic.
“Teenagers From Outer Space”
Giant. Space. Lobsters.
I’m going to have to break these down by season as there are far too many to just choose one.
1. Women of the Prehistoric Planet – The “acid pool” scene.
2. Godzilla vs. Megalon – Godzilla’s “flying kicks.”
3. Cave Dwellers – Ator’s hang gliding scene.
4. The Day the Earth Froze – Lemminkainen vs Lohki’s cloak.
5. Wild Wild World of Batwoman – Tie between the seance scene, the stolen footage from Mole People, and chasing Rat Fink around the table.
6. Girls Town – The “hands-off” drag racing.
7. Night of the Blood Beast – The cartoon taking over dead Steve’s body.
8. Overdrawn at the Memory Bank – Two words: “I’M INTERFACED!!!”
9. Pumaman – Any and all flying scenes.
10. Future War – Mike sums it up with, “So when you edit it it’ll look like I stabbed him, right?”
Next weekend should follow this theme and go with Most Ridiculous Host Segment. For that my vote is definitely Segment 2 of The Sword and the Dragon with Gypsy’s singing and the guys prancing about like animals.
“You guys are so weird.”
“B-but, I’m a bunny. Hop… hop…”
“This is the most humiliating thing I’ve ever done!”
3. Godzilla sliding on his back/tail into Megalon in Godzilla vs. Megalon (which I don’t believe anybody has mentioned yet :shock: )
2. Peeping Toms in Attack of the the Eye Creatures
1. Just about any part of Wild World of Batwoman would qualify, but I’ll agree with Sampo here; the seance scene has my final vote.
So many…
pretty much ANY scence from those 1960’ish Japanese monster/sci fi movies. From any Gamera to Prince of Space. little kids declareing martial law…”Those kids must have level 5 security clearance!” “Its Space Cheif!” etc etc.
Has anyone mentioned the “cheapskate scene” from Girl in Gold Boots where the icky elf magically appears? That one cracks me up every time. Actually, while I was typing that, I was reminded of the incessant bongo party scene, the dune buggy scene, the beer on the bike scene…quite a lot of ridiculous, insignificant stuff in that film. And for that matter, was there any reason on the face of the earth for the bumper-hitch debate scene? Ugh.
Beginning of the End—the locusts climbing on the postcard (I mean, scaling the building) to attack a graduate of the University of Minnesota. Oh, and Peter Grave’s character’s obliviousness to his being responsible for the giant locusts.
Another scene for this list, just typical of E.W.
In Sinister Urge, the girl changes into a LESS revealing outfit for her “porn picture” shoot.
Not complaining, but it did strike me as odd.
Nothing comes close to WWBW, though. That whole thing is hilarious WITHOUT the riffs just because it it so wacked! I agree that you can feel the cast’s shame during the soup scene (and a few others).
The horseshoe subplot. Batwoman gives here organ recital. The Mole People visit. The German scientist with the Indian accent. Heathcliff. The Happy Pill that makes you stand in one spot and boogie. The love story between the kidnapper (Jonny 2-time) and the batgirl he kidnapped. 37 Ratfinks running around the room being chased by the rest of the cast.
The horror. The HORROR.
I was going to say that the best scenes had been mentioned — which largely they have, especially the security guard/lycanthrope motor trip in “Werewolf” — but I think we’ve missed two obvious ones from Season Six:
1) The “criminal assault” in “The Violent Years;”
2) “She’s hiding, behind, a window!” from “Zombie Nightmare”
Okay last one.
In Cave Dwellers when Ator and his companion were fighting the invisible bad guys. The budget was so low, they had to pretend they were fighting people!
Kilsch – Good one!!! I’d forgotten about that – until now! They must’ve blown the budget on the ancient hang glider and fog machine! :grin:
Wait, wait, I’ve got a winner!
Not sure whether it’s from THE CREEPING TERROR or BEGINNING OF THE END, but the scene where a truckload of soldiers is driving down a dirt road. There’s a log in the way, so the truck stops, the army guys get out in unison, move the log, then get back on the truck and continue on their way.
What? Why?
#173 – Flying Saucers Over Oz
That’s “The Creeping Terror.”
Mike: “We push more logs before 9 AM than most people do all day!”
The opening to The Blood Waters of Dr Z: no music, an odd monologue, and then the villain confessing his love to a fish.
And all of The Castle of Fu Manchu…. all of it.
And lest we forget, the kid becoming one of Manos’s wives.
And much much more!
Man this thread keeps going. Speaking of Bloodwaters of Dr Z, even though I suppose it is integral to the plot, the scene of Dr Z injecting himself and going through the whole damn process of becoming a “fish” or green donkey (whatever the crap he’s supposed to be) is soooooo long and just a bunch of dials and lights and noises. It makes me mad for some reason. Fish-loving bastard…Zat!
It HAS to be the uhh…sweaty, greasy love scene in MITCHELL. :mad: That unfortunately is 2 minutes worth of worthless film that is permanently etched into my brain and makes obtrusive occurrences in my idle thoughts before I scream and force my mind on something pleasant like…flowers.
How about the chief twiddling his parakeet from Bride of the Monster?
Topping them all still has to be the carpet monster humping the car in Creeping Terror.
Voyager G – if it helps at all, during the lovemaking scene in Mitchell I like to think that Hoyt Axton is playing a guitar and singing the song in a corner of Mitchell’s bedroom, watching the whole thing. And he’s covered in baby oil. :twisted:
The many slow scenes in Manos where Torgo is just standing there twitching.
#179 – “I like to think that Hoyt Axton is playing a guitar and singing the song in a corner of Mitchell’s bedroom, watching the whole thing. And he’s covered in baby oil.” oh, dear god in heaven!! I will never experience joy or love in my life ever again. To sum up, it would be easier and less time consuming (and less fun), to list the scenes in MST movies that are NOT ridiculous. So here are my picks in alphbetical order:
#1. uhhhhhh……
#2. ummmm……
or forget it.
#179 – “I like to think that Hoyt Axton is playing a guitar and singing the song in a corner of Mitchell’s bedroom, watching the whole thing. And he’s covered in baby oil.” oh, dear god in heaven!! I will never experience joy or love in my life ever again. To sum up, it would be easier and less time consuming (and less fun), to list the scenes in MST movies that are NOT ridiculous. So here are my picks in alphbetical order:
#1. uhhhhhh……
#2. ummmm……
oh forget it.
Sorry, twitchy trigger finger.