| 1 | The following {{Big Lipped Alligator Moment}}s were producer- and director-approved. |
| 2 | |
| 3 | ---- |
| 4 | [[foldercontrol]] |
| 5 | |
| 6 | [[folder:Films -- Animation]] |
| 7 | * {{Trope Namer|s}}: ''WesternAnimation/AllDogsGoToHeaven'' includes a [[DerangedAnimation bizarre and nonsensical]] [[DisneyAcidSequence musical number]] with [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin a big lipped alligator]] near the end of the film. Two of the three protagonists fall into a cave where they are brought by a WackyWaysideTribe to meet their leader, King Gator, who breaks into an Esther Williams tribute. The scene not only comes out of nowhere with only very little build-up beforehand, but it [[BeyondTheImpossible violates the rules of the movie]]: animals can only speak to members of their own species, with Anne-Marie being the only person who can communicate with ''all'' animals. Yet the Gator and Charlie can share a cross-species musical number. Ironically, the trope namer is [[ThisIndexIsNotAnExample not an example]]: while it certainly comes out of nowhere and is strange even in-context, it actually sets up a couple important plot elements - Anne Marie gets sick as a result of being in the water for too long, and Charlie's musical-sounding howl that makes King Gator fond of him (and kicks off the musical number) ends up coming back in the ending, his pained howl summoning back the alligator at the end [[spoiler: [[AndroclesLion to save Charlie and kill Carface]]]]. It is more of a RandomEventsPlot moment than this trope. |
| 8 | ** [[http://www.cataroo.com/DBdogs.html In an interview with Don Bluth]] on ''All Dogs'', he uses this song as an example of his principle that "No song could be just stuck in without a purpose. Every one had to advance the plot or enlighten the audience in some way." |
| 9 | * ''WesternAnimation/AnAmericanTail'' has one, when Fievel is walking in the sewers. He gets chased by a swarm of creepy cockroaches, and then swings over a chasm, causing the bugs to fall as they attempt to follow Fievel. And at the bottom of this chasm is this... huge fish, that eats the bugs as they fall into its mouth. FridgeLogic denotes that such a thing should not exist at the bottom of a sewer (unless it's a nod to the whole "[[SewerGator alligators in the sewers]]" {{Urban Legend|s}}). It's never referenced again. |
| 10 | * In ''WesternAnimation/AnAmericanTailFievelGoesWest'' |
| 11 | ** There's a scene where Fievel travels across the desert in a bouncing tumbleweed as random animals sing "Raw Hide". |
| 12 | ** There's also a part where Tiger is captured by Native American mice. That works into the plot decently, but what doesn't is the [[SugarWiki/FunnyMoments hilariously random]] dance they do right before they nab him (to the tune of "Puttin' On the Ritz," of all things!). A possible example of a BLAM being used as something between a BatmanGambit and CassandraTruth. "Dancing buffalo bones... nah!" *Tiger turns his back* |
| 13 | * ''WesternAnimation/TheAngryBirdsMovie2'': Chuck, Silver and Bomb performing an opera piece during their descent in the pig's submarine. The scene comes out of nowhere and is not mentioned again afterwards, and seems to only be in the film so that Creator/JoshGad and Creator/RachelBloom can [[TheCastShowoff display their well-renowned singing talent]]. |
| 14 | * ''Franchise/{{Asterix}}'': |
| 15 | ** ''WesternAnimation/AsterixAndCleopatra" has a really weird (and long) musical number. Obelix has big problems with the Egyptian cuisine, becomes hungry and starts having hallucinations about "real food". Among many other things, we get to see dancing wildboar roasts and singing cheese! In the Dutch dubbed version of the film this entire sequence is even cut and it doesn't hurt the story at all. |
| 16 | ** In ''WesternAnimation/AsterixAndTheBigFight'', Getafix has been hit on the head with a menhir and lost his memory. Suddenly, Cacofonix declares he's going to sing a song to jog his memory (he figures that Getafix must remember his musical talent), twirls his cape, and sucks the film into a DisneyAcidSequence in which he morphs into a modern rock-star appearance with an electric guitar and psychedelic, twirling limbs, then performs a strange 1980s pop-rock songs about Getafix being knocked on the head. The song is particularly weird because the whole concept of Cacofonix is that he is a DreadfulMusician and his voice in the song is not that bad - also because Fulliautomatix is in his backing choir, despite his character's raison d'être being to hit Cacofonix whenever he tries to sing. So in the end, the concept of '80s rock existing in Roman-occupied Gaul becomes the least strange part of this music video. This goes on for a while until Fulliautomatix hits Cacofonix (transforming his neck into a jack-in-the-box concertina within the song-world), and we go back to reality where Asterix and Obelix simply take Getafix away. ItMakesSenseInContext (sort of) when you consider it's taking place from [[ThroughTheEyesOfMadness the viewpoint of Getafix himself]], who is severely concussed and apparently [[ConcussionsGetYouHigh delirious and/or hallucinating.]] But it's still completely off-the-wall (even by the standards of a film that goes some ''very'' weird places compared to the source material) and does nothing whatsoever to advance the plot. Looks pretty cool though. |
| 17 | * One scene of ''WesternAnimation/BandsOnTheRun'' is set on a paperboy's computer desk. The paperboy leaves the room to eat dinner, and then the main character use random items on the desk to play music (except Roxy, who plays her own guitar, and Cathode Ray, who just sings as part of the group) and "sing" about the fact that they're rubber bands. Then the paperboy returns, and the music just stops without having accomplished anything. |
| 18 | * ''WesternAnimation/BebesKids'' features a strange, almost music video sequence inside a tunnel of love. |
| 19 | * ''WesternAnimation/TheBraveLittleToaster'' |
| 20 | ** It's a BLAM within a BLAM. About halfway through the film, the appliances find themselves beside a small pond where they meet some animals, including a singing fish who gives an ''epic'' performance on par with the [[WesternAnimation/AllDogsGoToHeaven original Big Lipped Alligator]]. |
| 21 | ** In ''WesternAnimation/TheBraveLittleToasterGoesToMars'', during the characters' flight into outer space, they encounter a cloud of singing balloons that floated away from Earth. |
| 22 | ** Moreover, ''WesternAnimation/TheBraveLittleToasterToTheRescue'' has these... vaguely cow-like...things with disc-drives that break down the door, with other stuff trailing behind in order to break into a song about [[TechnologyMarchesOn The Information Superhighway]]. Then they leave and the movie goes back to the plot. |
| 23 | * In ''WesternAnimation/BrotherBear'', Kenai and Koda come across two rams who butt heads to try to impress some girls, and then they start yelling back at their echoes when Kenai tries to ask them for directions. They continue to do it as Kenai and Koda leave, and the rams are never referred to again with the exception of a brief cameo during the end credits. |
| 24 | * That car with eyes in her headlights from ''WesternAnimation/Cars2''. WordOfGod says this is something they decided not to do to differ themselves from other shows featuring anthropomorphic cars. That scene was a nod to how bad an idea it would have been. |
| 25 | * An animated version of ''Literature/AChristmasCarol'' has, near the beginning, a small song sung by Scrooge and his nephew. There are no other songs, and this is actually the only time the nephew appears in this version. |
| 26 | * The Death Coach chase scene from ''WesternAnimation/AChristmasCarol2009''. Especially jarring considering the rest of the movie is very accurate to the book, and then you have the Ghost of Christmas Yet to Come chasing Scrooge around the city, with Scrooge shrinking for no reason, providing an action/comedy scene in the middle of a drama, and then everything continues on as normal. |
| 27 | * ''WesternAnimation/DespicableMe1'' has a particularly ridiculous scene wherein Gru goes to the lab to check on the "[[ItMakesSenseInContext cookie robots]]". Thanks to Dr. Nefario's hearing, he instead gets a dance number performed by "boogie robots". To be fair, it ''is'' mentioned again later on, albeit briefly and more subtly, when Nefario makes the actual cookie robots. |
| 28 | --> '''Gru''': Now ''those'' are cookie robots! |
| 29 | ** There is also another after Gru steals the moon, where a werewolf turns back to normal. This is the only supernatural element in any of the three films, by the way, and doesn't really fit in other than being PlayedForLaughs. |
| 30 | * Near the beginning of Disney's ''WesternAnimation/{{Dinosaur}}'', during the scene where Aladar's egg is accidentally dropped into a river by a hungry Oviraptor, just right before the pterodactyl comes to pick it up, a Koolasuchus immediately swims up to the egg, eats it, spits it out, and swims away, never to be seen again. |
| 31 | * ''WesternAnimation/{{Dumbo}}'' has a rather infamous scene where Timothy and Dumbo get drunk. Dumbo starts blowing bubbles with his trunk, and one of them changes into a Pink Elephant. What ensues is nonsensical and terrifying, with the Pink Elephants antics getting wilder and more erratic as the scene continues, until the climax, when they turn into vehicles for some reason, and all crash into each other. The scene is never referred to for the rest of the film, and is arguably the most famous example of a BLAM, even when compared to the Trope Namer. [[spoiler:Dumbo’s drunkenness does serve a purpose in the plot, as it’s how he learns of his ability to fly.]] |
| 32 | * ''WesternAnimation/TheFearlessFour'' as a whole takes some ''immense'' liberties from its [[Literature/TheBremenTownMusicians source material]], but nothing in the movie prepares the viewer for the donkey's establishing scene. It plays out fairly normally - musical number showing his hardships, a demonstration of his owner's cruelty and finally him being deemed too old and useless to live -, but then it concludes with the owner calling [[AcmeProducts Mix Max]] for ''something'' to replace the donkey. This something, mind you, is a '''''gigantic mechanical [[OurCentaursAreDifferent centaur]]''''', who then proceeds to sing a rock VillainSong about how superior it is to organic creatures while running around aimlessly and playing basket ball with flour sacks, before throwing the donkey into the same truck that unloaded him there. The mechanical centaur literally has no reason to exist other than just "because", [[SurrealHumor but damn it he is entertaining]]. |
| 33 | * In ''WesternAnimation/FelixTheCatTheMovie'', numerous scenes could qualify...the circus, the singing undersea creatures, and when a monster randomly pops up during a chase scene and starts quoting from ''Film/OnTheWaterfront'' and ''Theatre/AStreetcarNamedDesire''! |
| 34 | -->"Stella, Stella come back! I could've been somebody!" |
| 35 | ** The first BLAM moment in the movie occurs when Felix hides under his bag, all while a fox family prances about to the musical number "Sly as a Fox." The foxes leave after kicking dust on his bag and are only acknowledged by Felix's waving fist. They are never seen or mentioned again and, similarly, the song has no bearing on the plot. |
| 36 | * ''WesternAnimation/FernGullyTheLastRainforest'' has the appearance of a big carnivorous lizard who tries to eat Zak while singing an extended song about eating him in various ways (and voiced by incredibly deep-voiced rapper Tone Loc). The Nostalgia Critic's crossover review of this film with the Nostalgia Chick coined the term when it was compared to ''All Dogs Go To Heaven.'' |
| 37 | * Near the end of ''WesternAnimation/FreddieAsFRO7'' when Freddie is supposed to be [[MakesJustAsMuchSenseInContext rallying his Loch Ness Monster friends together quickly to stop the]] BigBad's [[MakesJustAsMuchSenseInContext plot he takes the time to join them in a musical number.]] |
| 38 | * There's a notorious scene in ''WesternAnimation/TheGoodDinosaur'', where Arlo and Spot eat some fruit which has fermented, and get drunk. This was probably done (1) as an homage to the ''Dumbo'' scene above, and (2) to give them somewhere to slip in the [[RunningGag Luxo Ball]]. |
| 39 | * In ''WesternAnimation/GrandmaGotRunOverByAReindeer'', during a scene in which the grandpa interrupts one of the villain's evil tricks with the song "Grandma's Spending Christmas with the Superstars." There's also a BIGGER one where the villainess and her lawyer dress in Carmen Miranda outfits and sing "Grandpa's Gonna Sue the Pants Off of Santa" to a Latin rhythm. |
| 40 | * In the ''WesternAnimation/{{Horton Hears a Who|2008}}!'' movie there was an over the top [[ArtShift anime sequence]]. And also the cast singing REO Speedwagon's "Can't Fight This Feeling" after Horton saves the speck of Whoville from getting killed. |
| 41 | * ''WesternAnimation/JetsonsTheMovie'' features a scene where Judy Jetson and her BoyOfTheWeek explore a holographic garden that ends up turning into a surreal and largely pointless music video of a {{Silly Love Song|s}} by Tiffany called "You and Me". Of note is that Judy was recast as Tiffany specifically to allow this scene, so in a meta sense it impacts the rest of the movie, but certainly not in terms of plot. |
| 42 | * Early on in ''WesternAnimation/TheLastUnicorn'', Schmendrick attempts to use his magic to free himself from the tree he’s tied to, but instead he ends up bringing the tree to life, whereupon it begins to lust over him—moaning with pleasure, caressing him, squeezing him between her large breasts, and saying things like, "There is no immortality, but a tree is love"—much to his horror and chagrin, as he bemoans the fact that he’s "engaged to a Douglas fir". The titular Unicorn comes to his rescue and turns the tree back to normal, and the incident is never mentioned again. |
| 43 | * ''WesternAnimation/TheManCalledFlintstone'' has two random musical numbers involving Pebbles and Bam-Bam called "Tickle Toddle" and "Someday." The latter at least ties somewhat into the plot (Fred thinking about their future if he doesn't continue with spy-work), but the former seems to be purely for {{Padding}}. |
| 44 | * When [[TerribleTrio Lock, Shock, and Barrel]] accidentally bring Jack Skellington the Easter Bunny instead of Sandy Claws in ''WesternAnimation/TheNightmareBeforeChristmas''. [[Funny/TheNightmareBeforeChristmas It's hilarious as hell]], but has no bearing on the plot. The only thing the scene seems to serve is to show off Jack's [[http://mrwgifs.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/Jack-Skellington-Puts-On-His-Scariest-Face-For-Halloween-In-Nightmare-Before-Christmas.gif roaring]] [[BuffySpeak face thingy]]. |
| 45 | * In Nutcracker Fantasy, a stop motion film from Creator/{{Sanrio}}, during the scene where Clara travels through the grandfather clock to the Land of Dolls, midway through her journey a nearly five minute sequence of a live action ballerina dancing occurs, with Clara occasionally interacting with her and mimicking her dancing, it seems to exist for no reason other than {{Padding}}, and it’s not brought up again. |
| 46 | * {{Downplayed|Trope}} in ''WesternAnimation/TheNutJob''. One scene cues up "[[Music/{{PSY}} Gangnam Style]]" when two of the squirrels happen upon a nut shop, but only a portion of the song is used, and they don't dance to it for very long. It still manages to be a minor BLAM due to the film being set in TheFifties. |
| 47 | * In ''WesternAnimation/OnceUponAForest'', the heroes encounter a group of birds mourning the loss of one of their young, who is stuck in some tar. After the heroes use clever tactics to save him, all the birds sing a gospel song about how glad they are that he's been saved. This scene comes out of nowhere and is never mentioned again in the film. |
| 48 | * ''ComicStrip/{{Peanuts}}'': |
| 49 | ** ''WesternAnimation/ABoyNamedCharlieBrown'' is simply loaded with this, mostly as {{Padding}}. Their BLAM-levels vary, but some big stand-outs are probably a random NightmareSequence for Snoopy as the Red Baron, Schroeder's DisneyAcidSequence piano recital, and a skating fantasy, again for Snoopy. The latter two are beautiful and feature some SugarWiki/AwesomeMusic material (one was by [[Music/LudwigVanBeethoven Beethoven]], after all) but none of them have anything to do with the plot. |
| 50 | ** ''WesternAnimation/SnoopyComeHome'' has a bizarre sequence where, after Snoopy and Woodstock go to sleep for the night, their spirits rise from their bodies and [[StockFootage repeat all the walking they've done]] amongst psychedelic backgrounds. It's either a dream or a creative montage of the rest of their journey - either way, it's bizarre. |
| 51 | * In ''WesternAnimation/ThePolarExpress'' movie, there is a bizarre scene where the Hobo ghost scares the [[NoNameGiven main character]] with a discarded marionette puppet. No other scene is scary in such a way, and nowhere else is the Hobo [[OutOfCharacterMoment so antagonistic toward the main character]]. |
| 52 | * The frog hunters, of ''WesternAnimation/ThePrincessAndTheFrog'', unless you designate their scene as the first time Tiana and Naveen start getting along (there's actually debate among fans over whether or not it is). |
| 53 | ** To the people on that riverboat, this trope would certainly apply. Think about it: You're on this riverboat having a great time. Then, out of nowhere, an ''actual'' big-lipped alligator hops up onto the deck, whips a trumpet out of {{hammerspace}}, and joins right in with the band. [[LetUsNeverSpeakOfThisAgain You'd never be able to tell anyone about it]] because it's just too crazy, even by New Orleans standards. |
| 54 | * In ''WesternAnimation/RaggedyAnnAndAndyAMusicalAdventure'', at one point Ann, Andy, and the Camel fall into a pit and meet a gigantic sentient lake of taffy and candies who can't stop eating himself, called The Greedy. While the other animated characters can easily be explained to be living toys, he is really out of place. After escaping him, he is never brought up again. |
| 55 | * ''WesternAnimation/RockADoodle'' has the main protagonist Edmund ''run into his brain'' (?) and hallucinate the other characters berating him for being a "scaredy-cat", a character flaw only brought up like ''once'' previously. (Cause he got turned into a [[KarmicTransformation cat]], [[DontExplainTheJoke get it?]]) As per the usual, it is never mentioned again. |
| 56 | * In ''WesternAnimation/RoverDangerfield'', Rover sings a song on how he '''''doesn't pee or poop on Christmas trees!''''' And in good ol' BLAM fashion, it is never mentioned again. |
| 57 | * ''WesternAnimation/TheRugratsMovie'': |
| 58 | ** The sequence where the Rugrats briefly visit the hospital's nursery (or as they call it, a "baby store"). The newborns, all of them caricatures of pop artists, then engage in a song titled "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YO9I7DsMwew This World is Something New to Me]]", which immediately puts them in a stark contrast with Tommy's non-speaking brother Dil, who is also born in this movie. During the song, they also use their pee to form the image of a rainbow in the middle of the nursery. Eventually, Tommy's grandpa comes in to take the Rugrats out of there, and the scene is never brought up again. |
| 59 | ** This scene is then '''immediately''' followed up by yet another [=BLAM=] where during Dil's birth, [[ArtShift we suddenly see a [=CGI=] animated montage of the history of the universe from the big bang, to Stonehenge, to the Pyramids]] which ends in a bright white flash followed by a close-up of Didi, Stu and the hospital staff's faces from Dil's perspective. |
| 60 | ** The movie has another [=BLAM=], though this scene is cut and can only be seen when the movie airs on [=TV=]. One of the scenes is a random nightmare that Stu and Didi have. It's an extremely odd musical number with Lipschitz in diapers talking about how they're bad parents, and it feels like it could have easily been made when the producers were on a substance. |
| 61 | * Near the end of ''WesternAnimation/SausageParty'', all the characters in the film decide to celebrate their success against fighting off the humans by having a massive orgy. Keep in mind that the main characters are all ''food products''. |
| 62 | * The direct-to-video ''WesternAnimation/TheSecretOfNIMH2TimmyToTheRescue'' had this as well, though Creator/DonBluth was not involved in the film. Jeremy the Crow and his new sidekick Cecil the anthropomorphic insect are found running a scam in the woods, with Jeremy disguised as the Great Owl and posing as an oracle giving fortunes for money. The musical number that ensues is over-the-top with bizarre animal dancing. At the end, Jeremy's PaperThinDisguise falls off, and the forest animals chase him and Cecil away. Jeremy and Cecil rejoin the main storyline, and the whole sequence is never mentioned again. |
| 63 | * ''WesternAnimation/Shrek1'' has a scene in which Robin Hood and his merry men appear out of nowhere, kidnap Princess Fiona, and attempt to kill the title character. But Fiona fights the men and Shrek gets off with only an arrow in his rear end. When the arrow is removed, the whole thing is never mentioned again. However, some may argue that this led to a RescueRomance, as the montage of Shrek and Fiona falling in love follows immediately afterwards. Also, Robin Hood has a French accent for some inexplicable reason. |
| 64 | * ''WesternAnimation/ShrekTheThird'' has the scene where Gingy's [[MyLifeFlashedBeforeMyEyes life flashes before his own eyes]] when Hook tries to interrogate him, and then the scene suddenly cuts to Gingy singing "The Good Ship Lollipop". |
| 65 | * ''WesternAnimation/TheSpongeBobMovieSpongeOutOfWater'': |
| 66 | ** The [[spoiler:epic rap battle between Bubbles and the seagulls]] at the end of the movie is a GainaxEnding if ever there was one. Counts in-universe too, as [[spoiler:Bubbles rewinds time to allow the seagulls to sing the rest of the [=SpongeBob=] theme]]. |
| 67 | ** The scene in [=SpongeBob=]'s brain, subverted in that it is referenced in a gag late on. It still doesn't have anything to do with the plot though. |
| 68 | * ''WesternAnimation/{{Storks}}'': Pigeon Toady singing "How You Like Me Now" with a music video sequence accompanying him in the background. It immediately segues into him [[spoiler: blabbing to Hunter what Junior and Tulip are doing]], but even so... |
| 69 | * The infamous animated Titanic movie, ''WesternAnimation/TitanicTheLegendGoesOn'', has a few of these. The most notable is "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BxHNztg0X3s Party Time]]", a sequence where a dog appears from seemingly nowhere and starts singing Brooklyn-style rap, complete with a basketball uniform and a boombox. Considering that the film is set on the ''Titanic'', in 1912, the bizarreness goes [[ExaggeratedTrope Up to Eleven]]. |
| 70 | * In ''WesternAnimation/TomAndJerryTheMovie'', there is a musical number when Tom and Jerry are being threatened by a singing gang of alley cats. After sending the cat gang into a sewer, Tom and Jerry apparently blocked it from their memories, because the cat gang is never mentioned again. |
| 71 | * In ''[[WesternAnimation/TomSawyer2000 Tom Sawyer]]'' there is "Friends for Life", a colorful, trippy musical number where Tom and Huck celebrate their friendship while stranded on an island. They ride on giant bees, are swallowed by sentient water before being spat out onto a shore, and are lifted up on the heart-shaped leaf of a huge smiling plant... among other weird, surreal things. It has no relation to the plot, and nothing from it is ever mentioned again. |
| 72 | * ''WesternAnimation/TopCatBegins'' has an angry mob chasing Fancy who is pretending to be Top Cat into Mr. Big's casino. One of those in the mob is a kid who gave an EvilLaugh [[BreakingTheFourthWall in front of the camera]] while holding a knife. That kid never appears in the rest of the movie and had no relations to the main characters. |
| 73 | * ''WesternAnimation/TransformersTheMovie'' -- "[[Music/WeirdAlYankovic Dare to Be Stupid]]". And it was. |
| 74 | ** The first part of the song is used during the fight between the Autobots and the Junkions, who see the Autobots only as unknown invaders at that time. As the Junkions' society is built upon [[AliensStealCable what they learn from TV broadcasts]], the song is a fitting theme for them. What makes the [=BLAM=] is what follows; after Kup and Hot Rod show up (with the Dinobots and [[KidAppealCharacter Wheelie]] in tow), they make nice with the Junkions, which results in an ''utterly random dance number'' set to the ending of the song, and Grimlock getting kissed by a random Junkion. |
| 75 | * ''WesternAnimation/TrollsBandTogether'': The Hustle Button. Pressing it leads to an absolutely ''surreal'' scene in 2D animation. [[spoiler:Amusingly, it becomes a ChekhovsGun during the climax, where Branch, Poppy, and Tiny Diamond use it to reach Velvet and Veneer's boat.]] |
| 76 | -->'''Poppy:''' Wow. Too much hustle is a thing. |
| 77 | * ''WesternAnimation/{{Uglydolls}}'': There is a [[DownplayedTrope Downplayed]] moment were Moxie is scanned by a camera, which starts to malfuction after scanning Moxie, and randomly says [[IfIDoNotReturn "Tell my family I love them..."]] before shutting down. |
| 78 | * ''WesternAnimation/WereBackADinosaursStory'' is, to say the least, a bizarre film all round. However the climactic scene in which the villain is eaten alive by his own hitherto unmentioned crows is particularly jarring. There was a cut scene, explaining how the crows related to the villain's missing eye, and why he kept them around in terms of 'mastering his fear'. It was considered too disturbing (the villain talks candidly about how a bird plucked his eye out in an accident) and hence cut. |
| 79 | * In ''WesternAnimation/TheWindInTheWillows1983'', Ratty's "Ducks' Ditty" song has an orchestral interlude where the ducks launch into a [[DisneyAcidSequence trippy]] [[BusbyBerkeleyNumber water ballet number]] completely irrelevant to the story, and neither Ratty nor Mole acknowledge the performance afterwards. |
| 80 | * ''WesternAnimation/TheManyAdventuresOfWinnieThePooh'' has the horrifying [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CLnADKgurvc "Heffalumps and Woozles" song]], in the "Winnie the Pooh and the Blustery Day" section. Pooh wakes up afterwards, and the torrential rain and ensuing flood become the main focus; with no further reference to the dream, or even of Heffalumps and Woozles' existence in general. |
| 81 | ** Before the dream, Tigger mentions the Heffalumps and Woozles and says they like to steal honey, then he leaves Pooh's house and the dream kicks in after a few minutes or so. However, this still qualifies as a BLAM since Pooh never refers to it again after it's over. |
| 82 | *** While played straight for the film alone, it's inverted for the ''Winnie the Pooh'' series as a whole, where later features would show Heffalumps and Woozles as RealAfterAll. |
| 83 | |
| 84 | [[/folder]] |
| 85 | |
| 86 | [[folder:Films -- Live-Action]] |
| 87 | * The sci-fi movie ''Film/TwelveToTheMoon'' has a strange moment where, after kicking the Earthmen off the moon, the moonmen insist that they leave the expedition's cats behind, as the moonmen find them intriguing. The Earthers leave the cats' cages behind, and we're treated to a shot of shadows approaching the cats, and then... nothing. The cats are never mentioned again, and there was no build up to why the moonmen were so taken by the cats. |
| 88 | * ''Film/AWedding1978'': Dino's BourgeoisBohemian great-aunt presents a nude portrait of the bride as a wedding present. The bride's sister gets naked in the middle of the room to make a pose similar to the portrait (which is never mentioned again). Both moments stand out as particularly shocking and absurd. |
| 89 | * ''Film/TheAdventureOfSherlockHolmesSmarterBrother'': The main characters start singing and dancing to "The Kangaroo Hop" song for no apparent reason. Twice. |
| 90 | * [[http://www.screenit.com/ourtake/2007/alvin_and_the_chipmunks.html This review]] of ''Film/AlvinAndTheChipmunks'' states that the two appearances of the opening theme to ''WesternAnimation/SpongeBobSquarePants'' were this because those parts were put in unintentionally. They were wrong because it was a [[ActorAllusion Director Allusion]], being that Tim Hill worked on [=SpongeBob=] in the past. |
| 91 | * ''Film/TheAndersonTapes'': There is a scene near the beginning where Creator/ChristopherWalken [[RetroactiveRecognition (in his first film role)]], upon being released from prison, says "America, man. It's so beautiful, ya know? I wanna eat it!" |
| 92 | * ''Film/Armageddon1998'' has a scene where Creator/BenAffleck sings "Leaving on a Jet Plane" to his girlfriend only for some of his co-workers to join in. This scene only lasts for a few seconds and then they never mention it again. |
| 93 | * Creator/PaulReubens (in character as [[Series/ThePeeWeeHermanShow Pee-Wee Herman]]) has a brief and bizarre cameo in ''Film/BackToTheBeach'' in which he sings "Surfin' Bird" and then flies into the sky on a glowing surf board. |
| 94 | * ''Film/BackToTheFuturePartII'' features a BLAM wherein a holographic billboard for ''JustForFun/Jaws19'' attacks Marty. He then says "The shark still looks fake", then he goes on his way. The scene is never brought up again and adds nothing to the plot other than acting as a TakeThat to the SeasonalRot of the ''Franchise/{{Jaws}}'' franchise. (Since the executive producer to the ''Back to the Future'' films is Creator/StevenSpielberg, who directed the original ''Jaws'', this could be interpreted either as SelfDeprecation or as a knock at the directors who handled the sequels.) |
| 95 | * ''Film/BatmanAndRobin'' features a scene where Mr. Freeze (Arnold Schwarzenegger) is seen at his hideout, wearing a robe and bedroom slippers, conducting, or rather demanding his thugs to sing along to the song, "Snow Miser" from the 1974 Christmas special, ''The Year Without a Santa Claus''. This scene is never mentioned again after it's over. |
| 96 | * ''Film/TheBeastOfYuccaFlats'' opens with [[RRatedOpening a gratuitous]] [[FanService topless scene]], as an unnamed woman gets ready for bed. And then is [[SurprisinglySuddenDeath immediately strangled]] by an unknown assailant (with hints that the killer [[ILoveTheDead wasn't quite done with her]].) This has nothing to do with the main plot and is never mentioned again. |
| 97 | * In the Australian film ''Beneath Clouds'', one scene shows our female lead, Leia, trip and fall over in a corn field. Getting up she sees a black cat. As she stares at it intently, dramatic music plays. She then turns to look at where she is, for one second, and when she turns back the cat has vanished into thin air. |
| 98 | * ''Film/BetterOffDead'' featured a scene of hamburgers and "fraunch" fries dancing to Music/VanHalen's [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Everybody_Wants_Some!! "Everybody Wants Some!!"]] |
| 99 | * In ''Film/BeverlyHillsCopIII'', there is a scene where some carjacking mechanics dance to Music/TheSupremes. |
| 100 | * ''Film/TheBigLebowski'' has two {{B|igLippedAlligatorMoment}}LAMs in the form of dream sequences. Both are a little indulgent, a lot strange, and don't really have much to do with the rest of the story apart from referencing things the Dude encountered earlier. Creator/TheCoenBrothers admitted in an interview that The Dude's "liberal drug use" allowed them to get away with it. |
| 101 | * ''Film/BillyMadison'': |
| 102 | ** When Billy decides to not give up, he expresses it in song. Then other characters, major and minor, join in until the song's rousing end. Otherwise, this movie is not a musical. |
| 103 | -->"Do you have any more '''gum'''?" |
| 104 | * ''Film/BluesBrothers2000'' was arguably more BLAM than actual plot, though some were more sort of {{Wacky Wayside Tribe}}s. The most blatant was the sequence where the new Brothers and their band end up in an incredibly fake-looking Louisiana bayou where after refusing the voodoo Queen Mousette's command to play something Caribbean, the Brothers are magically turned into green-skinned zombies to play something Caribbean anyway. |
| 105 | * Creator/TedDanson's famous [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=piypunZitE8 tap dance]] in ''Film/BodyHeat''. It's visually appealing and surreal, and set up earlier by his walking into the diner doing his dance moves, but has no relevance to the plot and is never mentioned after that scene. |
| 106 | * The dance montage late in ''Film/TheBreakfastClub''. Nothing suggests that any of the characters have any interest in, or ability to, dance, and it comes out of nowhere and is never mentioned afterwards. Adding to the oddness of this sequence, one of the students smashes a glass door despite the fact that they're all trying to stay under the radar of the anal retentive principal. Neither the principal nor anyone else ever mentions this act of vandalism later. |
| 107 | * ''Film/BuffyTheVampireSlayer'' [[PilotMovie (the 1992 movie version)]] |
| 108 | ** An example occurs when Buffy is being lectured in the counselor's office (a scene that itself serves little purpose, with the counselor mostly just rambling about himself) and spits out a pushpin she's slipped into her mouth; the pushpin flies across the room and spears a fly on the wall, causing the counselor to stop talking and stare in shock. There was no reason to kill the fly and Buffy never does anything like this again, even though [[ChekhovsSkill it could conceivably have proven useful to her]]; apparently, it's just supposed to illustrate that Buffy's abilities and responsibilities make high school problems look trivial. |
| 109 | ** Later on, when Buffy is battling some vampires in the school parking lot, she passes a convertible and notices that one of her friends is in there, and the other girl is...well, let's just say [[ComingAndGoing she's doing something that strains the film's PG-13 rating quite a bit]]. The two stare awkwardly at each other for a moment, and then Buffy runs off and the plot starts up again. |
| 110 | * In the porn/cop film ''Busty Cops'' a group of failure under cover cops are trying to solve a murder. To make a long story short, half way through they head back to base and a talking llama told them who did it. Oddly enough he's never mentioned again and the rest of the film is the cops trying to proof of the suspect. |
| 111 | * In ''Film/ButchCassidyAndTheSundanceKid'', the movie takes a break from the story of two western outlaws to have a musical interlude with the characters riding around on a bicycle. It wouldn't be ''that'' weird except for the music they chose, "Raindrops Keep Falling on my Head", which is cheerful, anachronistic, incredibly out of place, and one of the things everyone remembers about the movie. Probably because it was written for the film. |
| 112 | * ''Film/CabinFever'': |
| 113 | ** When Burt gets infected, he stops by the local shop for help. The kid Dennis (who had previously been established to bite people) bites him, gets infected and prompts the workers to hunt Burt down. The part that isn't plot relevant? Dennis randomly screaming "pancakes!" at Burt and doing some weird karate moves before biting him. Apparently Eli Roth saw the young actor practising between takes and added it in. |
| 114 | ** Later when Dennis is in the hospital, you can see someone in a giant rabbit costume giving him balloons. Possibly meant to be surreal as Paul is led through the hospital, but still bizarre. And in the credits, "We'll Never Tell" is listed beside the rabbit. |
| 115 | ** When the kids first go into the shop, the shopkeeper says the gun on the wall is "for niggers" - implying he's a racist. At the very end of the film, a gang of black youths go into the shop to collect the gun and exchange banter with the shopkeeper. Beyond a minor gag, this contributes nothing to the plot. |
| 116 | * Because of its TroubledProduction, ''Film/CasinoRoyale1967'' is one big series of weird events with little bearing on the rest of the movie. |
| 117 | * In the 1995 film ''Film/{{Casper}}'', there is a particularly odd scene where the Ghostly Trio goes inside Dr. Harvey and changes him into Creator/ClintEastwood, Creator/RodneyDangerfield, Creator/MelGibson, and [[Series/TalesFromTheCrypt the Crypt Keeper]], and then reverting him back to normal. This scene is never mentioned again throughout the rest of the film, nor do the trio ever use their apparent morphing-abilities again. |
| 118 | * ''Film/TheCatInTheHat'': |
| 119 | ** The matador scene from the song near the beginning has absolutely nothing to do with the rest of the song or the rest of the movie. Arguably the entire song could count as this, but that bit especially. [[WhatCouldHaveBeen Originally]], the matador scene was the setup for a [[DeletedScene deleted verse]] which can be heard on the soundtrack CD and accessed on the "Deleted Scenes" feature on the DVD. Needless to say, this BLAM could have been averted if the verse was left in the final cut. Thank goodness that was cut. |
| 120 | ** There's also the Cat's HappyPlace sequence after getting [[GroinAttack hit in the crotch]]. |
| 121 | ** The whole "Rave" scene as the group are running away from Lawrence - featuring a cameo from Creator/ParisHilton of all people. |
| 122 | ** The scene where Mrs. Kwan watches a brawl break out in the ''Taiwanese parliament''. [[MindScrew What the hell?]] |
| 123 | ** The Cat pausing the film to advertise Ride/UniversalStudios. |
| 124 | * Creator/CharlieChaplin's silent movies include some of what are perhaps the earliest examples of Big Lipped Alligator Moments. One example is in ''[[Film/TheKid1921 The Kid]]'' when Charlie falls asleep and has a dream where he's suddenly an angel, and dances with a lot of women dressed as angels until people dressed as demons come in and tempt everyone to evil. It comes out of nowhere and has nothing to do with the actual plot, and of course, sealing the deal, he wakes up and the movie continues as normal. A similar sequence occurs in his short film ''Film/{{Sunnyside}}'' as well. Chaplin's longer films often did randomly insert nonsensical dream sequences. |
| 125 | ** There is a minor one in ''Film/TheGreatDictator'' as well. After the Barber and Hannah escape to the roof while running away from the soldiers, there is a short scene of the Dictator playing the piano, after which it goes back to the Barber and Hannah on the roof. The piano shot serves no purpose (except maybe for Charlie to show off) and is just kind of there. |
| 126 | * About two thirds into the movie ''[[Literature/FlowersForAlgernon Charly]]'', Charlie tries to kiss Miss Kinnian. She rejects him and, hurt, he runs away. We could have just been told that he avoided contact with Miss Kinnian or the institute, but no, we get to watch him ride a bike in the middle of nowhere, make out with two dozen girls, grow a beard, and do power squats to swinging 60's music in a hipster art gallery. When he returns to the institute (and the plot), he looks exactly the way he did before he ran off. A doctor asks him where he's been for two weeks, and he just smiles and gives the doctor champagne. |
| 127 | * The opening scene to the 2022 biographical drama, ''Chevalier'', in which the title character challenges Mozart to a violin duel. Not only is it unknown if such an event transpired, but it serves no relevance whatsoever to the plot. |
| 128 | * ''Film/CheyenneAutumn''. Creator/JohnFord understandably felt that this downbeat Western, a grim depiction of the Cheyenne exodus from Oklahoma to the Dakotas, needed some comic relief. Less understandable is the result: a 15-minute, self-contained sequence showing Dodge City's white citizens panicking at the Cheyennes' approach. It features none of the main characters, focusing instead on Creator/JimmyStewart as a corrupt, card-playing Wyatt Earp, has nothing to do with the main story and plays as broad slapstick. Indeed, it's so jarringly dissonant that most theaters removed the entire scene. |
| 129 | * The [[TheRemake remake]] of ''Film/ChildrenOfTheCorn2009'' features a sex scene that seems to be nothing more than blatant FanService. While their troublesome enemy wanders unchecked around their town, the [[CreepyChild Children of the Corn]] take time out to attend a bizarre ritual in the crumbling church in which all of the children, young and old, gather around to watch a teenage boy and girl having [[TheImmodestOrgasm wild sex]] on the altar. Nothing about the sex scene ties in with anything else in the plot, and the couple having sex have no names, no speaking lines '''at all''' in the movie, and are never noticably seen in '''any''' other scene in the entire movie. |
| 130 | * At one point in the somewhat obscure Canadian film ''Film/ChristmasInWonderland'', the child protagonists encounter a red door in the basement of a mall allegedly leading to the "North Pole". When one of them opens it, [[SpecialEffectFailure terribly fake and badly done CGI]] ChristmasElves can be seen behind it, which look like they were taken straight from an extremely low-budget animation film. This is the only scene in the entire film that's completely CG, it only lasts for a few seconds and the elves are never brought up again, nor do they bear any relevance to the plot. |
| 131 | * In ''Film/CityHunter'', there is a scene where Creator/JackieChan and his opponent crash into a ''VideoGame/StreetFighterII'' arcade machine and then start turning into characters from the game for the remainder of the fight until someone unplugs the machine. It makes no sense and is never explained or referenced ever again. |
| 132 | * ''Film/ClerksII'' includes a deliberate BLAM when Becky is teaching Dante to dance and the entire cast and extras break out into a lip synced rendition of "ABC" by the Jackson Five accompanied by a complete change in directorial style, cinematography, and colour saturation. Though you do get to see Creator/RosarioDawson bounce around on a roof. |
| 133 | * ''Film/ClownKill'': After [[TheProtagonist Jenny]] manages to escape from [[MonsterClown Charlie Boy]]'s [[spoiler:party with the corpses of Jenny's coworkers]], we see a few-seconds-long stop-motion-animated bit about Charlie Boy's doll, Charlie Boy Jr. It adds nothing to the plot, and is never brought up again. |
| 134 | * Steiner's hallucinations in the middle of ''Film/CrossOfIron'' come out of left field and create the impression that his mind has been shattered. But after he abruptly returns to active duty he's pretty much exactly the man he was before, and that plot thread isn't mentioned again. His affair with the nurse (which was apparently real?) also occurs for no reason, and never comes up again. |
| 135 | * The obscure film ''The Curse of the Cannibal Confederates'' (a.k.a. ''The Curse of the Screaming Dead'') has an example. To quote Website/TheAgonyBooth recap: |
| 136 | -->(After a scene where one character goes ballistic for no reason whatsoever and roughhouses another character) "Wait, how did Bill get over there all of a sudden? Okay, let's consider what we just saw. Mel attacked Bill in a scene which A) had very little motivation, B) made no sense, C) will never be referred to again, D) breaks continuity with the scene immediately following, and E) wasn't even in focus. It appears (director Tony) Malanowski didn't realize that just because you ''film'' something doesn't mean you have to put it in the movie." |
| 137 | * The ''Fame'' parody in ''Dance Flick'' comes out of nowhere and is never mentioned again. |
| 138 | * ''Film/DarlingLili'' has a brief moment where after Lili discovers Bill hasn't been lying to her - she hurries to the front door to catch him. She goes through a bedroom and briefly finds her chauffeur and maid in bed together. This is completely random, adds nothing to the story and the two never give a hint of being a couple elsewhere in the film. |
| 139 | * In ''Film/DraculaDeadAndLovingIt'', Dracula has a "daymare," where he believes his vampirism is cured and goes out to enjoy the beauty of the light. Then he bursts into flame and wakes up screaming and running. The dream is never mentioned again, and neither is Dracula's apparent desire to be cured of his vampirism. |
| 140 | * In the UsefulNotes/{{Bollywood}} movie ''Film/DariyaDil'', a camera pans to two costumes: Franchise/{{Superman}} and ComicBook/SpiderWoman. The lead couple is then shown dancing and flying around town in their costumes, singing "Too Mera Superman". The song ends with "Superman" in jail. |
| 141 | * In ''Film/DemolitionMan'', John Spartan sits in his apartment when a young naked woman appears suddenly on a video screen in front of him says "Sorry, wrong number." and then disappears into WTF obscurity. Doubly WTF as this comes after a scene where Spartan learns the hard way in the future, you don't disrobe to have sex. |
| 142 | * In the movie version of ''Film/DiaryOfAWimpyKid'', there is [[ThatRemindsMeOfASong a moment]] at the mother-son dance when Rowley and his mother do a dance to "Intergalactic" by the Beastie Boys. |
| 143 | * When Hannah (Creator/JudyGarland) and Johnny (Peter Lawford) order a salad at a fancy restaurant in ''Film/EasterParade'', their waiter launches into an extended description of his family's special salad, demonstrating how he cuts the onions, rubs the garlic, squeezes the lemon, etc. and cutting into GratuitousFrench and GratuitousItalian when discussing the cheese he includes. It's probably the most elaborate description of a salad you'll ever see. Then he walks off and Hannah and Johnny just continue with their conversation. (TheStinger? We never even ''see'' this legendary salad -- [[TheyWastedAPerfectlyGoodSandwich Hannah and Johnny leave before their food comes.]]) |
| 144 | * The adult film ''Emmanuelle'' has a few of these, the most notorious being a scene where a stripper does some, erm... ''impressive'' tricks with a cigarette. Elsewhere, there's a scene where one of the house staff rapes a maid. Neither of these are ever commented upon by the characters. The sequel also features a long scene where Emmanuelle and her husband watch some sort of dance performance, which wouldn't seem like a BLAM on its face (they are, after all, cultured French expats who like that sort of thing)... except that the camera frequently cuts away to shots of apparently frightened locals. |
| 145 | * ''Film/EmpireRecords'': Mark eats some pot brownies and watches a Music/{{GWAR}} video. He then hallucinates Dave Brockie speaking out of the television, asking him to join the band. He then sees himself onstage playing guitar for a few moments before the singer announces, "Aw, man, you play a mean guitar, man! It's really a shame that you must die!" And he's eaten by a giant bug monster. This scene has literally no plot or character relevance at all except to remind us that Mark likes to get high. |
| 146 | * ''Film/EvilDead2'': Ash sees everything in the cabin living room laughing their heads off. He joins in the objects' laughter as he goes insane. After being interrupted by a knock at the door, the laughing scene wasn't brought up for the rest of the movie. |
| 147 | * ''Film/{{Fallen}}'' has the "Hobbes don't take no Cream" scene in the bar. This scene establishes that: 1. Hobbes is a good, honest cop (something the rest of the movie already does). 2. However, he's not judgmental against other cops who do take "cream" (implied to bribes and/or kickbacks) 3. Hobbes is a known exception to this by his reputation, which kind of means that virtually all other cops out there are ''corrupt''. 4. Despite being corrupt, almost all of these cops are still the "chosen people" who make the world a better place (a questionable assertion in the TheNineties, and HarsherinHindsight today). 5. James Gandolfini's Lou is a somewhat creepy DirtyCop. 6. It's apparently not unusual to order a dozen or so different beers for your group in advance (wouldn't they get warm?). 7.[[ProductPlacement It's better to drink Budweiser than a bunch of micro-brews or imports]]. Absolutely none of these details are relevant to the rest of the film. Even when Azazel starts implicating Hobbes to make him look like he's dirty, the fact that he's such a straight shooter is never touched upon. |
| 148 | * ''Film/TheFastestGunAlive'': The scene where one of George's neighbors does an acrobatic show at a dance (with a highlight being when he treats a shovel like a pogo stick) is fun to watch but is rather abrupt and unrelated to the main plot. |
| 149 | * ''Film/FatalDeviation'' has one scene in which, as ''Website/{{Cracked}}'' so eloquently said it: "[[http://www.cracked.com/article_18632_irelands-only-kung-fu-movie-is-worst-film-ever-made.html This man turns up with no reason, no lines and does nothing but show his ass.]]" |
| 150 | * In the Creator/WCFields short ''The Fatal Glass of Beer'', Mr. Snavely sees two Indians sitting on the floor of his cabin when he enters. After greeting salutations, Snavely shoos the Indians out of the cabin. Although it's apparent that the Indians and Mr. Snavely know each other (one Indian greets him by name, and Snavely is not startled by their presence), whatever relationship they have is never established, nor does it have any bearing on the plot. The Indians just leave, and they are never even mentioned during the rest of the short. |
| 151 | * The 1954 Spanish film ''Felices pascuas'' is a quite nice Christmas movie about an impoverished family who win a lamb in the lottery and, being unable to raise the courage to kill it for Christmas Eve dinner, they end up keeping it as a pet. Then, the lamb gets stolen, and the BLAM comes in the form of a scene set in a Gypsy camp where the thieves take it. The Gypsies talk in a sort of gibberish language that's achieved via reversed dialogue track, complete with subtitles that indicate they're actually having profound philosophical discussions. Also most if not all of the scene, unintentionally predating the bookstore from ''Film/TopSecret'', is reverse footage, complete with a steam locomotive running backwards. |
| 152 | * In the 1978 film ''The Fantastic Journey to the Centre of the Earth'', an adaptation of ''Literature/JourneyToTheCenterOfTheEarth'', a scene which did not happen in the book occurs when Axel, Grauben and [[CanonForeigner Orson]] go into a tunnel to avoid a giant ape. Orson proceeds to show the two a futuristic, white city where everyone inside looks exactly like Orson and wearing white labcoats, the only difference being that each of them is wearing a different hat. This scene lasts only a minute or so but is still very strange, though there is at least the excuse that Axel and Grauben didn't tell Professor Liedenbrock because they thought he'd never leave if he saw the place (though even they seem to have forgotten the scene when they are distressed near the end that Orson chooses to stay underground). We never get an explanation for this city, though it is heavily implied that Orson is a time traveller, which is a BLAM all on its own. |
| 153 | * The 1994 live-action remake of ''Film/TheFlintstones'' feels the need to stop the movie for a minute, just to include a pointless, disgusting and unfunny scene where a giant pterodactyl flies overhead, terrifies everyone and then proceeds to take a massive dump on a car. |
| 154 | * In ''Film/{{Flubber}}'' (a remake of ''The Absent Minded Professor''), the Flubber blobs decide to have an impromptu synchronized mambo sequence for no reason. In several "Makings of" for the film, the film makers all but admit ''the only reason they even made the movie at all'' was for the mambo sequence. So we guess it served one point... |
| 155 | * ''Film/FollowMeBoys'' is about a Scoutmaster and his pack of Scouts in the quaint little town of Hickory. Right in the middle of the film comes a random subplot about the US army mistaking the Scout troop for a rival military and [[MoreDakka bombing them with aircraft and tanks]]. It stars [[RememberTheNewGuy a bunch of new scouts we've only just met]], makes a wacky comedy of [[ArmiesAreEvil the military trying to slaughter a pack of kids]], is filled with StockFootage from UsefulNotes/TheVietnamWar, and has no bearing on the rest of the plot at all. After it's over the subplot gets one passing mention ([[NoodleIncident "This wouldn't have anything to do with the time we captured that tank?"]]) and then is never brought up again. |
| 156 | * The Film/HammerHorror film ''Frankenstein Must Be Destroyed'' features... Christ alive... a ''Big Lipped Alligator rape scene''. This was added by the [[ExecutiveMeddling mandate of the American distributors]] over the objections of both actors involved, cuts immediately to a scene where the victim is making coffee and is never mentioned or hinted at again. |
| 157 | * The helicopter ride featuring a [[AxCrazy triggerhappy]] door gunner taking pot shots at Vietnamese civilians in ''Film/FullMetalJacket'' is never brought up again, other than to show [[WarIsHell the cruelty of war]]. |
| 158 | * ''Film/GettTheTrialOfVivianeAmsalem'': The minute-and-a-half-long scene around the late-middle of the film, when there is a long close-up shot on Vivane's face as it gradually turns from serious with flashes of being about to cry to a faint smile, with the somber theme music in the background. It's completely unexplained and unrelated to the rest of the plot, albeit it is a very poignant piece of acting by Creator/RonitElkabetz in her final film role. |
| 159 | * ''Film/{{Ghostbusters 1984}}'' has one with Ray dreaming about being fellated by a beautiful female ghost who turns invisible as she unbuttons his trousers. The scene comes out of nowhere during a montage of the protagonists' success and is never mentioned afterward. It was part of a DeletedScene that they found funny enough to re-insert into the movie. The context is that Ray was investigating a haunting at an old military fort and he fell asleep there. |
| 160 | * ''Film/GlenOrGlenda'': |
| 161 | ** The already weird nightmare sequence had a completely random bondage and rape scene added into it. This was ExecutiveMeddling for the sake of {{padding}} the movie and increasing its exploitation quotient. |
| 162 | ** "Pull the string! PULL THE STRING!!" |
| 163 | * ''Franchise/{{Godzilla}}'': |
| 164 | ** At the end of the Japanese version of ''Film/FrankensteinConquersTheWorld '' the monster gets randomly attacked by a Oodako, a [[MisplacedWildlife giant octopus in the forest]]. The scene was added [[ExecutiveMeddling at the insistence of the American distributor]], but left out of the Japanese version. |
| 165 | ** The film ''Film/{{Gorath}}'' revolves around the construction of massive engines at the South Pole to push the Earth out of the way of an approaching rogue planetoid. During construction of the engines, a giant walrus monster known as Maguma appears for a few minutes, and is as relevant to the stated plot as you can imagine. Maguma's inclusion was the result of ExecutiveMeddling who felt a production involving Eiji Tsuburaya ''required'' a {{kaiju}}. The American dub understandably cut out the scene. |
| 166 | ** In ''[[Film/InvasionOfAstroMonster Godzilla Vs. The Astro Monster]]'', Godzilla does a ludicrous victory dance. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TTwH5nqRvOo "A happy moment."]] |
| 167 | ** There's a scene in ''[[Film/EbirahHorrorOfTheDeep Godzilla vs. The Sea Monster]]'' in which a giant condor randomly attacks Godzilla, and Godzilla kills it. It's never mentioned in the film ''why'' the condor even attacked in the first place or anything like that. It's just... there. |
| 168 | ** ''[[Film/GodzillaVsHedorah Godzilla Vs. The Smog Monster]]'' is chock full of BLAM. These include a scene where a guy hallucinates everyone has a fish-head, the weird animation sequences, but, by far, '''the''' most famous example is when Godzilla uses his own thermonuclear breath to [[{{Flight}} fly]]... and he ''never'' does it again in any other film. |
| 169 | ** Likewise, there's Hedorah's pointless ten-second cameo in ''Film/GodzillaFinalWars''. He's just randomly in some city before Godzilla kills him and it's never explained why he's even there in the first place or even if he's being controlled by the evil aliens. The introduction was cut from the final film (some of the deleted clips can be seen during the credits). |
| 170 | ** ''Film/GodzillaVsKong'' has a brief scene where Kong is searching for his home in the Hollow Earth. As he runs by a patch of rocks, they suddenly reveal themselves to be crab-like crustaceans in disguise and scurry away, before one is caught and eaten by a large lizard-like creature that snorts and burps at the camera. While they never appear afterwards, the lizard has become bit of an EnsembleDarkhorse among the fandom for its UglyCute appearance. |
| 171 | * The AllJustADream opening of ''Film/GoodBurger'', where Ed starts flying around with little googly-eyed hamburgers that ''talk to him''. |
| 172 | * ''Film/GorillaInterrupted'': At a random point late into the film, it cuts to one of the aliens who presents a can of Crystal Pepsi to the audience, then proceeds to dowse its face with the stuff, applying it like it's a combination of soap, aftershave and eyedrops. The scene references nothing else and is never referenced again. Shot by director Mike Stoklasa, the scene appears to be a covert dig at one of the actors, Garrett Gilchrist, who insisted on filming a number of new scenes that Stoklasa found pointless, including one where Gilchrist's character gets soda dumped on his head. ''That'' scene didn't make it to the final cut. |
| 173 | * One quick scene in ''Film/GroundhogDay'' has Phil wearing a cowboy costume and taking an unnamed woman --credited only as "Phil's Movie Date"-- dressed as a French maid (whom he insists refer to him as "Film/BroncoBilly") to see the [fictional] movie ''Literature/{{Heidi}} II''. It's very random, is never properly set up (we never see this woman in ''any'' other scenes), nor is it ever brought up again. |
| 174 | * ''Franchise/{{Halloween}}'' films |
| 175 | ** ''Film/HalloweenTheCurseOfMichaelMyers''. Tommy Doyle gets a pipe and beats Michael with it so hard, green ooze starts leaking out of his mask. When the mask is found on the floor, it's completely clean and it's never explained why the ooze was leaking out of Michael. To add to the over-the-topness, the entire beatdown scene has a crazy flashing strobe light effect going. |
| 176 | ** Several of Michael and Laurie's fantasy sequences in ''Film/HalloweenII2009'' border on this, especially the one with the pumpkinheaded aristocrats. |
| 177 | * ''Film/TheHangoverPartIII'': The scene when the Wolfpack accidentally let out the cockfighting chickens and they attack them, causing them to run around screaming and that prompts Chow to nearly shoot Stu while shooting at the chickens. It has no point other than to try to elicit laughs from an audience for how ridiculous and over-the-top it is. Even by Hangover standards, this really did nothing for anyone. |
| 178 | * ''Harold & Kumar'': |
| 179 | ** ''Film/HaroldAndKumarGoToWhiteCastle'' features a hilarious, but nonetheless pointless BLAM. As Kumar tries to break Harold out of jail, he suddenly smells a bag of weed and then has a bizarre fantasy involving marrying the bag of weed, complete with "Crazy on You" by Heart playing in the background. This fantasy scene comes out of nowhere, adds nothing to the plot and is never mentioned again. |
| 180 | ** ''Film/AVeryHaroldAndKumar3DChristmas'' has a scene where they get high and imagine themselves in claymation, then get chased by a monster Christmas tree. |
| 181 | * ''Film/HarryPotter'': |
| 182 | ** ''[[Film/HarryPotterAndThePrisonerOfAzkaban Prisoner of Azkaban]]''. Shortly after arriving at Hogwarts, the students proceed to the dormitory, but are unable to get in because the Fat Lady is too busy trying to break a wine glass by singing to accept the password. It also had the [[FanNickname frog choir]] singing Shakespeare's "Something Wicked This Way Comes" lyric from ''Theatre/{{Macbeth}}'' ([[SugarWiki/AwesomeMusic but it's a kick-ass song]], so [[strike:we'll]] [[BrokenBase some of us]] forgive them). |
| 183 | ** Also in ''Prisoner of Azkaban'' there's also two different scenes of an incessantly twittering bluebird flying around as a scene transition that serve absolutely no purpose. Deleted scenes reveal the sequence was even longer - with the bird spending a good minute bothering Hagrid by buzzing around his head. |
| 184 | ** ''[[Film/HarryPotterAndTheGobletofFire Goblet of Fire]]'' has a number of these, thanks to a lot of the subplots from the book being cut out, but leaving certain scenes intact from the book in the film, and in some cases, actually filmed why something was plot-relevant but cut it from the final movie. The best example, though, is probably [[spoiler: Crouch Sr's death]]. Comes totally out of nowhere after one of the tasks, doesn't fit in with the atmosphere or even the scene (the Trio and Hagrid are walking through the Forest of their own volition, something nobody does. All but Harry are singing the school song, and Harry has wandered off from the group in the forest that nobody should go in alone. On finding the body, instead of telling Hagrid who's very near, he goes to Dumbledore's office), and thanks to leading into the Penseive scene goes nowhere and doesn't matter at all, and is literally never brought up again, since Harry doesn't tell Dumbledore why he came to his office (possibly because the scenes take place at two different parts of the book). Harry also displays [[AngstWhatAngst zero angst afterwards]] about finding a dead body in the woods. |
| 185 | ** The movie adaptation for ''Film/HarryPotterAndTheHalfBloodPrince'' added a scene that was not present in the book, in which the Burrow is attacked by Death Eaters, when Harry is staying there for Christmas. Bellatrix goads Harry into chasing her, so he will be easy prey. The scene ends with the Death Eaters setting the Weasley's house on fire. One would expect that the destruction of Ron's house would affect the characters heavily, but apart from Hermione criticizing Harry for being provoked too easily, the scene has no further impact on the plot whatsoever. In fact, the house is fully intact in the next film, without so much as a comment on it having been repaired. |
| 186 | ** Early in ''Half Blood Prince'', Harry is in a restaurant when a young muggle waitress makes a pass at him and he scores a date, only to have it interrupted by Dumbledore appearing and whisking him away. The incident, which was not in the book, is never mentioned again and seems out of character for Harry, who almost entirely avoids the muggle social scene and is shy around girls anyway (he only dates two girls in the course of the series, both fellow Hogwarts students, the second of whom eventually becomes his wife). |
| 187 | ** In ''[[Film/HarryPotterAndTheDeathlyHallowsPart2 Deathly Hallows Part 2]]'', when Voldemort gives his ultimatum to the school, some random little girl we've never seen before starts screaming. And screaming. It served no relevance and no one really reacted as you would expect. And then there's [[http://media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m60grmlOdH1qcoq6r.gif Voldy hugging Draco out of nowhere]]. It was totally ad-libbed and Tom Felton was thrown for the same loop as Draco and every audience who saw it. |
| 188 | * A scene in ''Film/HellraiserInferno'' has [[DirtyCop Detective Joseph Thorne]] being brutally beaten up by a pair of kung-fu using Asian cowboys after stumbling through the woods. |
| 189 | * ''Film/{{Help}}'': |
| 190 | ** "The Exciting Adventure of Paul on the Floor", in which Paul shrinks to a minuscule size and [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin has a brief exciting adventure on the floor]]. |
| 191 | ** Intermission. Seven seconds of pure "what the heck was that?" |
| 192 | ** The film's dedication to Elias Howe, inventor of the sewing machine. |
| 193 | * ''Film/HighSchoolMusical2'': The deleted "Humahumanukanukaapua'a" musical number. While the song does get a couple references later on, the scene itself does not. It ends up being pretty inconsequential to the plot and whether the extended version with the song scene is the one you saw first, seeing the original version without it, you wouldn’t be likely to notice it was gone. |
| 194 | ** The "I Don’t Dance" scene (though an absurd DisneyAcidSequence) actually subverts this. While the scene itself isn’t really referred to, it holds relevance and weight towards Chad at first declining and shutting down any attempts Ryan will take to get him to get involved in helping the Wildcats with their performance in the show, but after Ryan shows how good a baseball player he is because he gave it a chance rather than sitting it out, Chad hints to him that he’ll be a little more open than he was before. |
| 195 | ** The scene in which Sharpay coaxes Troy into singing an annoyingly more upbeat version of "You Are the Music in Me". It’s sort of meant to play towards the plotline involving Sharpay trying to win Troy over and how she makes him uncomfortable too with all her affection (and how much of a sharp contrast she is to Gabriella). Despite that and that it could be seen as a DarkReprise, it doesn’t hold any other bearing on the plot and didn’t really need to be there. It’s not helped that Troy imagines her in a wedding dress right after for no real reason. It’s easy to see why this was the last scene in the movie filmed. |
| 196 | * The part in the American film version of ''Film/TheHitchhikersGuideToTheGalaxy2005'' where flyswatters come out of the sand to smack the protagonists. Though since this is the Vogons' home planet and the flyswatters hit you whenever you have an idea, it does nicely explain the Vogons' personalities of refusing to ever take any initiative without a ton of paperwork. |
| 197 | * ''Film/{{Hook}}'' has a few awkward moments, but the one [=BLAM=] that sticks in most viewers' heads is a scene where Tinkerbell grows to be human-sized, shares a romantic moment with Peter, then returns to normal just as inexplicably. Spielberg wrote the scene simply to appease Creator/JuliaRoberts, who insisted that she have at least one scene with another actor. At least it had Creator/RobinWilliams saying this: "[[DullSurprise You're humongous]]." |
| 198 | * ''Film/HotFuzz'': In-universe. The already terrible rendition of ''Romeo & Juliet'' includes a completely random dance by the entire cast set to "Love Me, Love Me," seconds after Juliet's suicide. Angel's horrified expression has to be seen to be believed. |
| 199 | * In ''Film/HotRod'', at one point near the end of the film, two characters break into a beat-box session using the phrase "Cool beans". This is never referred to again. |
| 200 | * In ''Film/HotTubTimeMachine'', Jacob is running to find his companions. Suddenly he is dancing with a girl and asking if he can text her. The girl is never seen or mentioned again. However she does show up in a deleted scene, in which she asks Jacob about his snowboard. |
| 201 | * The 2010 Danish movie ''Film/InABetterWorld'', perhaps best known for winning the Oscar for Best Foreign Film has a mild example. During an argument between Christian and Elias, Christian finishes off the argument by saying "...and stop texting me". We didn't see them exchange numbers or using cell phones ever before that line, and take a wild guess as to whether or not you see it after the line (and if it's mentioned). |
| 202 | * ''Film/IntolerableCruelty'' briefly jumps into a BLAM at the midway point. After many witty rom-com and/or legal scenes, protagonist Miles Massey (George Clooney) is told that Herb Myerson, the senior partner, wants to see him. We cut to him waiting outside Herb's office, appalled and frightened to find one of the magazines on offer is titled ''Living Without Intestines''. A sinister choir sings a haunting dirge, horror-movie style, as Miles slowly walks towards Herb's badly-lit desk, where the blind, octogenarian attorney is gleefully going over recent profits made by Miles in his landmark cases between desperate wheezes. As Miles gets close, Herb aggressively grasps his hand and turns to tell him "Counselor, YOU are the ENGINE that drives this firm!". We then cut to Miles, traumatised, staring blankly in his own well-lit modern office. The story then resumes. |
| 203 | * There's a scene in ''Film/JasonGoesToHellTheFinalFriday'' where Jason (in the body of a coroner he had earlier possessed) kills the girlfriend of a cop named Josh before forcibly taking Josh to the old abandoned Voorhees house. There Jason [[HoYay strips Josh naked, straps him down]] and shaves his moustache off before possessing him. Why Jason bothered abducting, stripping, restraining and shaving Josh before possessing him is never explained in the film or by the crew; every other possession just has Jason lunge at someone, force their mouths open and have his disembodied soul squirm down their throat and that's it, no grooming scenes or anything. In a documentary interview special about the series (''His Name Was Jason''), the director said [[TheWalrusWasPaul he deliberately did it to confuse people and get them talking about the scene]]. |
| 204 | * The early films of Creator/JeanLucGodard tend to be made of [=BLAMs=] because he would often come up with new scenes on the spot just because he thought they'd be cool, but the outstanding example is the "Madison" scene in ''Bande á Part'', in which the three main characters (who are in a tentative LoveTriangle) are sitting in a café having a drink when they get up and start dancing. What makes it a [=BLAM=] is that the music doesn't actually start until they ''begin'' dancing; that the music is clearly not diegetic but on the soundtrack, because the actors keep in sync by clicking their fingers; that they clearly aren't trained dancers; and that their supposedly spontaneous dance is a simple choreographed routine which they repeat over and over again. At one point, the music even cuts out but they keep dancing, and then the music starts up again. The whole scene is fantastically cool (it's hard to say why, exactly, but one reason is that Sami Frey's character Franz takes off his hat at the start and puts it on Anna Karina's head) and it inspired the name of Creator/QuentinTarantino's production company (and the dance contest scene in ''Film/PulpFiction'') and the entire career of Hal Hartley. |
| 205 | * The infamous "Atheist Fight" from ''Film/JesusChristVampireHunter'', weird even for such a film. Jesus is walking back to his apartment after buying some wood to make stakes, when a Jeep Wrangler pulls up, and a group of [[FlatEarthAtheist atheists]] attack him. About thirty people come out of the Jeep in waves, like a clown car, but he [[KungFuJesus schools them all]]. |
| 206 | * At one point of ''Film/{{Kazaam}}'', Max suddenly shoots out of a glass of water the genie was about to drink. This is never explained, let alone ever mentioned again. |
| 207 | * In ''Film/KingKong2005'', we are treated to a monologue by Captain Hayes, who compares the events of the film ([[LeaningOnTheFourthWall somewhat breaking the Fourth Wall]]) to ''Literature/HeartOfDarkness''. Neither the book nor its similarities to the film are ever mentioned again. In fact the character who prompted Hayes to even talk about the book in the first place was Jimmy, a character whose unresolved storyline mysteriously ends without warning once the film moves back to New York. |
| 208 | * ''Krakatoa: East of Java'' has a scene where two characters pause in the middle of the disaster-movie build-up to have a single romantic musical number. |
| 209 | * ''The Ladies Man'' starred Creator/JerryLewis working in an all-girl boarding house. It's a series of goofy vignettes, typical of his movies, but then there's a scene where he enters a room he's told to avoid - it's completely furnished in white, occupied by a startling-looking woman in kabuki makeup; she initiates a dance when Harry James' big band abruptly appears to play a number...then it's over, never mentioned again. |
| 210 | * ''Film/TheLairOfTheWhiteWorm'', like most Creator/KenRussell movies, has a lot of inexplicable moments. |
| 211 | ** One of the main characters often has hallucinations of nuns engaging in an orgy and a scene in which Hugh Grant chops an old vampire woman in half. |
| 212 | ** The random blasphemous hallucinations, though that's just Creator/KenRussell being, well, Ken Russell (seriously, that kind of stuff is as iconic for him as Hitchcock's cameos, JJ Abrams's obsession with lens flare, and Spielberg's shots of people looking at things). |
| 213 | * In Gus Van Sant's ''Film/LastDays'', there's a good two-minute shot that consists solely of the Boyz II Men "On Bended Knee" video playing on a television. |
| 214 | * ''Film/TheLastWitchHunter'' has the scene where Belial attempts to kidnap Chloe. He's displaying level of magic nowhere to be seen in later or previous scenes, the scene isn't introduced anyhow and when Chloe is taken into the teleportation pit, she stands face to face with something strange and her own head starts to stretch oddly. It takes a long time of staring into the fridge to figure this one out. |
| 215 | * Travis Crabtree's song in ''Film/TheLegendOfBoggyCreek'', completely random number for a ''very'' minor character in the tune of the main theme. |
| 216 | * The super nova scene in the ''Series/{{Lexx}}'' telefilm "Super Nova." Two stars suddenly start speaking to the main characters in English, explaining that it's time to dance. |
| 217 | * The Irish indie film ''Life's A Breeze'' is mostly a SliceOfLife about a girl trying to help her grandmother find a mattress that her relatives had thrown out (that contained all her life savings). That plot gets put on hold for two scenes that serve no purpose: first is the grandmother's birthday party where her children reveal they've hired a stripper. Second is a lengthy sequence where grandmother and granddaughter trick her slob of a son into thinking they've won the lottery - with a pre-recorded video on the TV. This sequence lasts five minutes and also appears rather out of character for the two - as the mean-spirited prank is completely at odds with their previous characterizations. It's not mentioned again. |
| 218 | * The 2000 movie adaptation of ''Theatre/LovesLaboursLost'' had a scene where Costard interrupts a croquet match to claim that he has a letter, but he pulls a rubber chicken from his pocket. Costard also used a hand puppet to talk to Berowne during the movie. |
| 219 | * ''Film/TheLordOfTheRingsTheFellowshipOfTheRing'' has the scene with the Watcher in the Water. In a world established to have orcs, elves and wizards, with even the demonic Balrog getting some foreshadowing, the party is randomly attacked by a ''giant squid'' (or something resembling one) which chases them into the mines of Moria. And not a single member of the party gives it a moment's thought once it's gone. It's not much better in the book, but at least one of the Hobbits stops to ask Gandalf "what was that?!" |
| 220 | * ''WesternAnimation/MadMonsterParty'', the stop-motion animation film, has this in the "Stay One Step Ahead" musical number. As Creator/BorisKarloff's character Baron von Frankenstein sings the song to his nephew Felix, a gang of really weird creatures, unlike any of the beings seen elsewhere in the film, pop out of a television set and sing the chorus. At the conclusion of the sequence, they pop back into the TV. Neither Felix nor the Baron (nor anyone else) ever mentions this again afterward. |
| 221 | * ''Film/TheManWhoSavesTheWorld'', in spite of barely making any sense in the first place, still manages to have a BLAM. After the first fight, the scene of the protagonists riding on horseback across the plains is interrupted by several shots of a papier-mache critter sitting on some rocks and shrieking at the camera. The ogre is never explained and never seen again, and it doesn't even interact with any other characters during its brief time in the movie. |
| 222 | * Pretty much every Creator/MarxBrothers film contains these, either as a gag or for one of the brothers to show off his musical chops, a relic of their vaudeville days. |
| 223 | ** The very first Marx Brothers movie, [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Cocoanuts "The Cocoanuts"]] (1929), had a BLAM right at the beginning. Mr. Hammer, played by Groucho, who runs the Hotel de Cocoanut, has just fired all of the hotel's bellhops, who happen to all be female. Upon Mr. Hammer's departure from the hotel lobby, the ex-bellhops all perform a happy, energetic, leg-kick chorus line dance that lasts for several seconds, then disperses. |
| 224 | ** ''Theatre/AnimalCrackers'' has the famous "[[LampshadeHanging Excuse me while I have a strange interlude]]" scene in which Groucho says just that, the other actors freeze in place as if time has stopped, and he approaches the camera to make a strange, non-sequitur filled speech that has no bearing on anything. A couple of minutes later he does it again. Probably seemed less out of place on stage, which is where the story originates, particularly since he's actually parodying a Eugene O'Neill play ''called'' Strange Interlude, which apparently had a lot of this sort of thing. |
| 225 | ** The {{Minstrel Show|s}} sequence in ''Film/ADayAtTheRaces1937'' may have been [[FairForItsDay quite progressive at the time]], giving exposure to dozens of black performers who might otherwise not get work in Hollywood at all. At least, one certainly hopes so, since the whole thing, down to the Creator/MarxBrothers in {{blackface}}, is squirmingly embarrassing three quarters of a century on. |
| 226 | * In ''Film/MenInBlackII'', Zed (Creator/RipTorn) unleashes a gravity-defying juggling kick to the BigBad. The movie gives no explanation to how he does this and feels jarring considering every other human character is treated realistically. The villain [[NoSell No Sells]] it, so Zed gets captured regardless. |
| 227 | * ''Film/MerlinsShopOfMysticalWonders'': |
| 228 | ** At the beginning of the first story-within-a-story, a Troll hiding behind some plants spies on the couple while they're in the magic shop. It doesn't appear again, and serves no purpose. |
| 229 | ** And we can't go without mentioning the kid in the second story banging the monkey's cymbals together while wearing google-eyed glasses and singing something about a "rock and roll Martian." As the [[Series/MysteryScienceTheater3000 MST3K]] episode guide put it, "It seems like such a pure 'kid' moment. How did they ever get it on film?" |
| 230 | * ''Film/ModestyBlaise'' has its two leads, out of nowhere, profess their love for each other while driving on a country road and then enter into a musical number. Which would be fine if ''Modesty Blaise'' was a musical, but it isn't, and the musical interlude is the only such moment in the film. (The love confession, despite violating the canon of the characters, is not a BLAM as it's referenced again later in the movie; it's how the scene is presented that is a BLAM.) |
| 231 | * Creator/MontyPython films: |
| 232 | ** Despite the fact that ''Film/MontyPythonsTheMeaningOfLife'' is a series of sketches without a plot, the "Find the Fish" segment still might qualify, since it has nothing to do with the themes that connect the sketches. And it makes no goddamn sense. [[WordOfGod John Cleese]] admitted in an interview that it's probably the least sensical joke they've ever done. Supposedly it was about dreams. |
| 233 | ** In ''Film/MontyPythonsLifeOfBrian'', Romans chase Brian up a tower. Cornered, Brian falls off the tower and gets scooped up by a passing ''alien space ship'', which flies around the Earth for a few seconds before improbably crash landing right at the foot of the same tower, killing both aliens. Brian stumbles out of the wreckage and the chase resumes. [[UnusuallyUninterestingSight The Romans pay no heed to the spaceship.]] [[WordofGod Director Terry Jones]], on the Creator/CriterionCollection DVDCommentary, states that that the writers were stumped on how to get Brian down from the tower until someone quipped, "What if he gets shanghaied by aliens?" The randomness was also [[LampshadeHanging lampshaded]]; right after the crash, when Brian stumbles out, a passer-by exclaims, "Oooh, you lucky bastard!" |
| 234 | * ''Franchise/MortalKombat'': |
| 235 | ** In ''Film/MortalKombatTheMovie'', Liu Kang grabs Reptile, who had appeared throughout the movie as a bad CGI lizard monster, and throws him into a statue. The statue and Reptile fuse together, forming the classic ninja version of Reptile... for some unexplained reason. Cue martial arts. |
| 236 | ** ''Film/MortalKombatAnnihilation'' tries to squeeze in as many characters as it can from the second and third games with [[AllThereIntheManual little to no explanation]]. However, there is one moment that stands out above all the rest. After Sonya beats Mileena, [[DiabolusExNihilo a monster that is not from the games]] appears. [[http://rq87.flyingomelette.com/RQ/C/MKA/3/3.html Jax suddenly throws a few punches and it disappears.]] |
| 237 | * [[Franchise/TheMuppets Kermit the Frog]]'s surprise appearance in ''Film/MrMagoriumsWonderEmporium'' counts as this. There's very little setup to it, and once he exits the scene the whole encounter is never mentioned again. On a side note, this [=BLAM=] was also notable for being his first theatrical appearance since 1999 at the time of the movie's release. |
| 238 | * In Creator/JohnWaters' 1970 film ''Film/MultipleManiacs'', the main character Lady Divine is suddenly and inexplicably set upon near the end of the film by a giant lobster (named Lobstora, according to the credits) and savagely raped by it. The lobster departs afterwards, and is never seen again. |
| 239 | * Partway through ''Film/TheMummyTombOfTheDragonEmperor'', there is a series of scenes illustrating the romantic connections. Then one character seems as if he's about to have an AnguishedDeclarationOfLove with a yak. Although the yak had appeared once before in the film with no real explanation for its presence, it then disappears entirely and is never mentioned again. For some people, this resulted in an [[EnsembleDarkhorse Ensemble Darkyak]]. |
| 240 | * ''Franchise/TheMuppets'': |
| 241 | ** ''Film/MuppetTreasureIsland'', like many Muppet films, doesn't take itself too seriously and has plenty of anachronistic jokes and BreakingTheFourthWall. But the 'Cabin Fever' musical number in the middle of the film particularly stands out as being off the wall even in context. The scene starts off quietly with sailors looking weary from several days at sea, and then one says he's got cabin fever. The sailors start to shake, and then most of the supporting cast and background players join in as a wild musical number begins as they all sing about going mad. The number itself even randomly changes genres at times, incorporating a square dance and a Carmen Miranda homage into it at points. After the number ends, everyone seems to come to their senses. One of the characters who missed the number due to being locked in the hold asks 'What was that song? Cabin Fever'. As Clueless Morgan is a bit of a CloudCuckooLander, his companions ignore him and the whole thing is never mentioned again as the plot resumes. Admittedly, Cabin Fever is essentially a form of [[OceanMadness madness]], so having a random moment of absolute crazyness that you don't remember afterwards wouldn't be that unusual for someone in that position. |
| 242 | ** ''Film/MuppetsFromSpace'' allows Wrestling/HulkHogan [[SpecialGuest as himself]] to walk on and promote himself [[BreakingTheFourthWall directly to the camera]] for a minute. To say this is out of left field is an understatement. |
| 243 | ** ''Film/{{The Muppets|2011}}'' includes an impromptu hip-hop dance number from Chris Cooper's brooding character, Tex Richman, that is promptly never mentioned again. The scene with Mary singing and dancing alone in a diner feels pretty random and irrelevant as well. The former is lampshaded directly afterwards. In this case, though, it's sort of a BLAM-by-deleted scene. A verse in the middle of the hip-hop number originally had Richman suddenly switch to an Operetta tone ([=BLAM=]ish in and of itself) and explain the reason he hates the Muppets is because during their performance at a childhood birthday party, he discovered he was unable to laugh. Including that scene would have explained the character's strangest habit ("maniacal laaaaaaugh...") as well as the actual conclusion to the plot. |
| 244 | ---> '''Tex Richman:''' The answer is no.\ |
| 245 | '''Kermit the Frog:''' Well, you could have just said that. |
| 246 | * The [[WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes Bugs Bunny]] dream sequence in ''My Dream Is Yours''. |
| 247 | * ''Film/MyLifeWithoutMe'': Ann is drinking at a bar when an unnamed Spanish-Canadian hairdresser sits down next to her, tells her quite a bizarrely lengthly story story of the downfall of Milli Vanilli, and then gets up onstage and dances to a song by said band. Never spoken of again or explained, except for Ann at one point describing the world briefly as "Milli Vanilli everywhere". |
| 248 | * ''Film/MysteryMen'' has The Spleen getting his leg humped by a skunk (a pretty obvious puppet), a very short scene that is at odds with the style of humor of the rest of the film. |
| 249 | * In ''Film/TheNeverendingStoryIIIEscapeFromFantasia'', the Rock Biter, whose home now contains a TV for his kid to watch music videos on (?!), takes off on his bike and sings "Born To Be Wild". To make it worse, the scene gets replayed over the end credits in lieu of the [[SugarWiki/AwesomeMusic classic theme song]]. |
| 250 | -->"That sound you heard was your inner child being punched in the face." - Everything is Terrible |
| 251 | * ''Film/{{North}}'' has two definitive examples, [[spoiler:both of which can be justified since the events of the film were AllJustADream]]. |
| 252 | ** After North meets his first set of potential adoptive parents from Texas, near the end of his visit the parents randomly break out in a big musical number sung to the tune of the ''{{Series/Bonanza}}'' theme song with backup singers and dancers accompanying them; other than that one scene this is not a musical and Bonanza itself was set in Nevada. |
| 253 | ** Before that, when North's dad gets a call at work in a jeans factory, for some reason there are a bunch of strange characters in the background wearing all sorts of costumes, such as a golfer and a lumberjack. No one even seems to acknowledge this. |
| 254 | * ''Franchise/ANightmareOnElmStreet'': |
| 255 | ** In the original ''Film/ANightmareOnElmStreet1984'' a goat randomly runs through the room during the first nightmare sequence. The script explicitly states, "There is no reason for this." According to the DVD commentary, it was a lamb that had to be kicked to get it to run. |
| 256 | ** The franchise in general lends itself to this with so much time spent in the dream world. And yet [[Film/ANightmareOnElmStreetPart2FreddysRevenge its immediate sequel,]] being the BizarroEpisode of the series rushed to capitalize on the first movie's popularity, takes the cake for crazy, plot-irrelevant moments; featuring exploding parakeets, dogs with deformed human faces, and most memorably, [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=977jBCk5qBM Jesse's ass-bumping, pelvic-thrusting dance number.]] Note that none of these events happen during a dream. |
| 257 | * SpyFiction {{Mockbuster}} ''Operation Kid Brother'' (or ''Film/OperationDouble007'' for ''Series/MysteryScienceTheater3000'' fans) has a scene where the BigBad's AmazonBrigade applies TheSchlubPubSeductionDeduction to an Army convoy carrying a load of Phlebotinum, while dressed as Wild West burlesque dancers stranded in the desert. They then change into... skunk(?!?) outfits and disguise the truck they need as a float promoting a casino (to a SuspiciouslySimilarSong version of "Yes, Jesus Loves Me") before escaping. The first riff after a hard cut to TheOmniscientCouncilOfVagueness: |
| 258 | -->'''Servo:''' ...the hell was ''THAT?'' |
| 259 | * ''Film/PeeWeesBigAdventure'': |
| 260 | ** "Is there something you'd like to share with the rest of us, Amazing Larry!?!" This one has an explanation: Amazing Larry was supposed to be a magician in the beginning of the film who asked Pee Wee for advice on what new hairstyle he should get. The setup was cut out but the payoff - him settling on a ridiculous mohawk - was left in. So we're just left with a guy named Amazing Larry with a crazy haircut. |
| 261 | ** And then, there is [[http://www.avclub.com/articles/peewees-big-adventure,36018/ this little slice of]] terror. Tropers of a certain age probably know exactly what scene it is before clicking that link (thankfully, looking at her GameFace is optional.) The writer of the article admits that seeing the scene out of context, since it is so unexpected in what is otherwise an offbeat but funny kid's film, doesn't really have the same impact. |
| 262 | * ''Film/PermanentMidnight'' had an in-universe example; Jerry Stahl (Creator/BenStiller) is pitching an idea for an episode of a sitcom (while [[ThisIsYourPremiseOnDrugs hyped up on cocaine]]) in which the main character blasts into a musical number with a pool that opens out of the set and afterward no one mentions it. He is immediately fired afterward. |
| 263 | * The Creator/JohnLeguizamo film ''Film/ThePest'' has a scene where Pestario and his friend Chubbs drive up to a few punks outside of a private nightclub, who start blasting rock music on their car stereo, then Pest pushes a button in his car, and it transforms into a ''gigantic ghetto blaster'' and ends up destroying the punk's car, there's no point to this scene whatsoever and it's never mentioned again. The scene is never mentioned again, but it did have a point: The bass from the music destroys the punks' car, as well as causing them to faint. Then Pest and Chubbs steal their [=IDs=] to get into the club. |
| 264 | * In ''Film/PetSematary1989'', Louis is carrying Gage's body to the Indian burial ground and hallucinates that a mound of rocks turns into an angry face that screams at him. It's probably supposed to represent the malevolent influence that the ground has on people, but the sequence lasts a couple of seconds, feels weird and adds nothing to the story. |
| 265 | * Dick Randall, the producer of ''Film/{{Pieces}}'' (a movie most noticeable for its TakeThat at ''Film/TheTexasChainsawMassacre'' in its TagLine), had a Kung Fu movie being filmed nearby and he decided to insert a spare extra into the film's plot. The result is a sequence where a female character is randomly ambushed by a karate teacher. This means absolutely nothing in terms of the plot and is brushed off with a throwaway line about "bad chop suey" later on before vanishing from the story. |
| 266 | * In ''Film/RedHill''; in the middle of the story after Shane has been handcuffed to a barn and Barlow is lying in a chair dead a panther comes into the barn, takes Barlow's dead body and drags it outside, the panther is never seen or mentioned again for the rest of the film until the middle of the end credits. |
| 267 | * In ''Film/RedSonja'' movie, BigBad Queen Gedrin summons her wizard to identify the strangers entering her land. The wizard does his mojo on some sort of mystic scrying pool... to reveal five seconds of [[SexSells a naked dancing woman]], which fades out to Sonja and her party. No one on-screen reacts to the naked woman, not even in a "Dude, seriously?" manner. Since Gedrin is a blatant lesbian, it may have been some kind of sexual magical loading screen that she has there just for kicks, but still, it isn't brought up again. |
| 268 | * The 1968 film ''Ring of Bright Water'' opens, without any warning at all, with an image of a Lady Godiva-looking woman riding a horse in the nude through the streets of London. What makes this even stranger is that most of the film is set in the Scottish countryside. What makes it stranger still is that this is supposed to be a ''family film''. |
| 269 | * ''Film/RoboCop2'' has a notable scene early on where he first infiltrates the villain's hideout and discovers a huge shrine dedicated to Elvis with numerous memorabilia placed around as well as the dug up corpse of the King himself. This takes up a few minutes and has no relevance to the story whatsoever, and the second Robocop leaves the room it is never brought up again for the rest of the film. |
| 270 | * ''Film/RoboCop3'': When Robocop reboots, he sees an image of his wife morphing into his partner Anne Lewis, then into Dr Lazarus. The significance of this is never explained upon. |
| 271 | * The presentation scene in ''[[Film/{{ROTOR}} R.O.T.O.R.]]''. It's there to exposit on the titular robot, and in that sense it's an entirely plausible scene of the "tell don't show" variety. But why, ''why'', is the dialogue saturated with Beach Boys references?! |
| 272 | * A cut scene from the first film ''Film/ScoobyDoo'' had Velma get drunk from a tiki drink and then break out into the song atop a piano, serenading ([[AmbiguouslyBi presumably both her crushes]]) Fred and Daphne with "Can't Take My Eyes Off of You" for no reason. |
| 273 | * ''Film/SharkAttack3Megalodon'' actually has one scene that makes even less sense than the rest of the movie. Two people speaking bad Spanish make out, wander into what appears to be a closed amusement park, fall down an oddly-placed water slide and get eaten by a shark (or, to be more specific given the quality of this film, eaten by StockFootage of a shark). A woman takes off a clown mask and looks surprised. These two casualties are never recognized by the rest of the cast, and this scene never comes up again. |
| 274 | * In ''Film/Shazam2019'', Billy/Shazam and the kids from his foster family are stuck at the Rock of Eternity and try to find the exit to go back home. They find a bunch of interdimensional doors; behind the first one they find... a few crocodile men playing poker. The scene is also made to look like those kitschy "Art/DogsPlayingPoker" {{paintings}}. As soon as one of those crocodile men is lunging towards them, they slam the door on its face and the whole brief scene is never mentioned again. |
| 275 | * ''Silk Stockings'' has "The Ritz Roll and Rock," a rock 'n' roll DanceSensation too bizarre to be true, written by Cole Porter and performed by a fifty-something Fred Astaire. |
| 276 | * The Broadway Melody number in ''Film/SinginInTheRain'' is a double example. It's not only a BLAM in the real film, but is one in the film-within-a-film it's being pitched for too! Even better? It's [[LampshadeHanging lampshaded]] by the studio head saying "I can't quite picture it". Then, within "Broadway Melody", we have the sudden replacement of the stage with a surrealist backdrop, and Don Lockwood suddenly ballet dancing with the Mobster's girl, who has different hair than she had outside the surrealist dance sequence. It then cuts back to the scene. That is to say, a Big Lipped Alligator which has itself been eaten by a larger one. |
| 277 | ** The film also includes an entirely irrelevant number, "Beautiful Girl", which can be skipped through without affecting the plot; while looking for Kathy, Don finds her as an extra in this number, in which the singer is extolling the various moods and fashions of his "beautiful girl", represented by a number of actresses including Kathy. The number adds nothing to the story, tells us nothing about Kathy (like the other actresses, she spends the entire thing either in a slow conga line with the singer or posing awkwardly like a fashion mannequin), and is never brought up again. |
| 278 | * The sequence in ''Film/SleepyHollow1999'' where the village people trick Ichabod into thinking the Headless Horseman is coming for him and throw the pumpkin at him is never brought up again and serves no purpose (other than a ShoutOut to the original novel). It is however quite clearly a prank, so Ichabod at least might not want to talk about it. Why the others didn't bring it up again to tease him is another matter. |
| 279 | * In Creator/EdWood's ''Film/TheSinisterUrge'' (also seen on [[Series/MysteryScienceTheater3000 MST3K]]) there is a fist fight between two young men in a diner which turns out to have nothing to do with the film's plot and involves no characters from the rest of the film. One of the young men in the fight is none other than Ed Wood himself. |
| 280 | * ''Film/SnowWhiteAndTheHuntsman'' has a scene where the evil queen Ravenna turns into a flock of crows. The characters are not shocked or surprised by this and just start slashing at the crows with their swords. Nobody questions it and it is never explained. |
| 281 | * Even though ''Film/{{Spaceballs}}'' is a parody of ''[[Film/ANewHope Star Wars: A New Hope]]'', it has a cohesive plot. Well, at least until the bar scene, where [[spoiler: a chest burster appears out of a customer's chest and performs a small musical before walking off "stage."]] It is never mentioned again. According to Creator/MelBrooks it was basically just an excuse for a Creator/JohnHurt cameo. In essence the scene sets up Lone Star and Barf's inability to eat before heading out and thus leading to Lone Star giving Barf the fortune cookie containing Yogurt's message to tide him over. |
| 282 | * ''Film/SpaceJamANewLegacy'' has, in the midst of the big basketball game, a "Rap Bonus Round" where Porky delivers a rap verse, does a MicDrop, and aside from a brief discussion by the color commentators immediately afterwards this is never brought up again. |
| 283 | * ''Film/Spawn1997'' has a scene with the Violator in his clown form [[NauseaFuel wearing a cheerleading costume]] doing a dance number which comes out of nowhere, serves no purpose and which the protagonist doesn't even see happening. The devil himself ends the moment by dragging the clown back to hell to tell him to quit fucking around. |
| 284 | * ''Film/SpiderMan3'': That scene in the jazz club and his bizarre emo dance after [[spoiler: breaking up with Mary Jane]] just stand out a little bit more than all of the rest... |
| 285 | * Although probably half the movie could qualify, the sequence with Plaster of Paris in ''Film/TheSpirit'' seems particularly out of place. Though longer than a normal BLAM, Plaster appears, does a kooky dance, helps the Spirit escape, stabs him, and runs off singing to herself. Admittedly lampshaded by the Spirit ahead of time by saying that if the silhouette is who he thinks it is, she's the strangest woman he's ever met. Really, the movie was just plain damn weird. |
| 286 | * The "horror" movie ''Spookies'' starts with a boy named Billy running away from home on his thirteenth birthday because his parents ignore him. He wanders into a scary house, receives a scary birthday present and is buried alive(?). Then the main characters, who have never met or heard of Billy, show up and the rest of the movie happens with Billy never being mentioned again. There are plenty of other pointless, confusing moments throughout the film caused by the producers shooting loads of unrelated footage to pad out the runtime, hence why the supposed BigBad and his weird werewolf/usher lackey just seem to pop in randomly and never interact with the main characters. |
| 287 | * Toward the end of ''Film/SpyKids3DGameOver'', the other players with Juni in the virtual world begin to doubt he really is "[[TheChosenOne The Guy]]". Then someone played by Creator/ElijahWood appears claiming that ''he'' is the real "Guy". He makes an inspiring speech, walks into the last level… [[DroppedABridgeOnHim and is killed instantly.]] Immediately Juni is told "OK, you're the Guy again.", and nothing more is ever made of this. |
| 288 | * ''Franchise/StarWars'': |
| 289 | ** Ever since the scene introducing Jabba the Hutt was reinserted into ''Film/ANewHope'', its ending has put a strange moment in the film when Han Solo casually walks over Jabba's rear end (this was necessary because the character was a human when they filmed it and Harrison Ford walked around him). Apparently Jabba, while irate that Han had dumped his cargo, is forgiving when it comes to people literally stepping on his tail. |
| 290 | ** In ''Film/TheEmpireStrikesBack'', there's a moment where the door closes on C-3PO, and he turns to the camera and says, "[[DeadpanSnarker How typical]]." This is the only moment in any Star Wars film to [[BreakingTheFourthWall break the fourth wall]] and blatantly acknowledge the audience--something rarely seen in movies outside of whimsical comedies. |
| 291 | ** The special edition of ''Film/ReturnOfTheJedi'' has the infamous "Jedi Rocks" scene, a randomly inserted musical sequence involving a big-lipped alien chick in a bikini who looks rather similar to an alligator (She's in the original edition too, along with a different, shorter musical number). As seen here: [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dV0LD-QAzg0 "Lapti Nek"]], the original musical number in the 1983 version. Although it can be argued that the musical sequence provides the background for Oola's rejection of Jabba's advances, which leads directly to the (off-screen) introduction of the Rancor. The foreshadowing of the giant monster in the pit makes the later scene with Luke all the more successful. |
| 292 | ** In ''Film/TheLastJedi'', Luke milking the green milk could have been cut because the audience had already seen scenes of Luke going through his daily routine on the island, including how he sustained himself when he was fishing with a harpoon. |
| 293 | ** ''Film/TheRiseOfSkywalker'' has a brief scene where, when Rey is on the ruins of the Second Death Star, she comes across an evil version of herself with a double lightsaber that shows off her sharp teeth. She then stumbles upon Kylo Ren and this is never mentioned again. Most likely it was just trailer fodder. |
| 294 | * The extended version of ''Film/{{Stripes}}'' includes a scene where John and Russell attempt to desert during basic training. They take a plane to South America, wander off, find some rebels, accidentally dump a bunch of LSD into the rebels' stew, and almost get killed before starting a musical number and escaping back to the plane during it to return to the army base. Never mentioned again, not even in the theatrical version of the film. |
| 295 | * The Japanese film ''Film/SuicideClub'' is about police struggling to figure out what is causing teenagers to spontaneously kill themselves. Eventually, a serial killer calling himself Genesis claims responsibility for the suicides and abducts a few girls into his bowling alley lair. After stomping an animal to death, he sings a rock song while his mooks rape and kill a few of the girls. Soon afterwards, he's arrested and revealed to have nothing to do with the suicides. He's never mentioned again. |
| 296 | * ''Film/SummerMagic'' has one. "The Ugly Bug Ball" starts off with Peter finding a caterpillar, then Osh breaks into this song, which is followed by the two of them singing the song together while watching a variety of bugs playing around. The whole segment has no bearing to the plot of the film whatsoever and is never referred to again afterward, so it bore absolutely no purpose other than to hear a catchy song written by the Sherman Brothers. |
| 297 | * ''Franchise/{{Superman}}'' films |
| 298 | ** In the [[Film/SupermanTheMovie initial film]], Lois famously gets the first-ever interview with Superman, which includes her being flown by him over the city. This is totally fine, except that out of nowhere we get Lois's thoughts in voice-over, which for some reason take the form of a ''poem'' about her wondering whether he can read her mind! The poem does not serve the plot or characters in any way, nor does it deepen the meaning of the flying scene. It doesn't even make sense, because the obvious answer is "No, Superman cannot read minds." Also, at no point elsewhere in the film does it imply that Lois has a poetic bone in her body. Turns out the poem was meant to be an entire song, the music for which is heard in the movie and which the poem's lyrics would fit perfectly into the meter. As a romantic ballad of sorts, it might have been about the same level of BLAM, but a more commonplace one (it became a spoken-word poem when the producers learned too late that Creator/MargotKidder couldn't really sing, and dubbing in a professional vocalist wasn't an option because they were already over budget). |
| 299 | ** ''Film/SupermanIII'' starts off with a completely out-of-place Chaplin-style slapstick sequence behind the opening credits. |
| 300 | ** ''Film/SupermanIVTheQuestForPeace'' has a scene of [[Characters/SupermanLexLuthor Lex Luthor]] dancing with a woman who is dressed as UsefulNotes/MarieAntoinette (with no reason given), and on the DVD release, you can watch a bizarre subplot about the first version of Nuclear Man, which was cut from the final film. |
| 301 | * ''Film/SuperMarioBros1993'' has a sequence in a nightclub where female villain Lena drinks a cocktail with a worm in it, ultimately swallowing the worm... as it ''pleads for mercy before letting out a dying scream''. It comes from nowhere, is surprisingly creepy, and never gets mentioned again. |
| 302 | * This occurs in the musical film ''Theatre/SweetCharity'' when Oscar takes Charity to his "Church of the Month" as a first date. What follows is a bizarre Fosse-choreographed song-and-dance number led by Music/SammyDavisJr called "The Rhythm of Life", which mocks [[NewAgeRetroHippie hippie culture]] and [[ChurchOfHappyology religions like Scientology]]. BLAM it may be, "Rhythm of Life" is considered by many to be ''Sweet Charity'''s best song. |
| 303 | * In ''Film/TheSweetestThing'', a romantic comedy, the three main character have lunch in a Chinese restaurant and promptly burst into a song about how to lie to a man and tell him his penis is amazing. It is set to the beat of "I'm Too Sexy" by Right Said Fred. |
| 304 | * ''Film/TalladegaNightsTheBalladOfRickyBobby'' has a scene interrupted by a commercial for Applebee's. This scene was actually a TakeThat towards the quality of NBC's NASCAR broadcasts, since the commercial occurred during an overly-long crash. |
| 305 | * ''Film/TankGirl'' had the musical moment "Let's Do It, Let's Fall in Love". |
| 306 | * In ''Film/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtles2014'', the turtles get into an elevator after fighting for a while. On their way up to continue the fight, they beatbox out of nowhere. |
| 307 | * The Australian film ''Three Dollars'', an otherwise restrained character study, features a tribute to the crop duster scene from ''Film/NorthByNorthwest''. It is subsequently mentioned only once. |
| 308 | * The weird MushroomSamba sasquatch scene from ''Film/TenaciousDInThePickOfDestiny'' seems to be in the movie for only reason: to add the ''Sasqatch Song'' to the score somehow. It adds nothing to the plot and the event is immediately forgotten as soon as it ends. |
| 309 | * ''Film/ThunderbirdsAreGo'' stops the plot for a good five minutes to incorporate a dream sequence in which Alan Tracy imagines that he goes on a date with [[MrsRobinson Lady Penelope]]. They arrive at a nightclub where marionette recreations of the pop group Cliff Richard and the Shadows perform a pop song, "Shooting Star" which is presented as a (pre-period) music video. Alan eventually wakes up and the plot continues; the interlude is never referenced again. Made even more bizarre considering the TV series tended to imply a relationship between Alan and another character entirely (Tin Tin). |
| 310 | * ''Film/TheTimeMachine2002'': |
| 311 | ** Dr Alexander Hartdegan travels to the future and enters a library where he consults a holographic artificial intelligence librarian. He explains about [[CelebrityParadox the HG Wells story "The Time Machine" and the famous 60s film adaptation]] and then sings a line from the made-up Creator/AndrewLloydWebber stage musical. He even duplicates himself across other screens in the library to form backup singers to harmonise with. |
| 312 | ** Sadly, the climax of the movie is also an example. All of a sudden, we have a lead Morlock who is far more humanoid than the others, inexplicably has psychic powers, speaks almost entirely in exposition (and on some subjects he couldn't possibly know about), and even hints that Hartdegan's adventures in time travel somehow created the Morlocks, without explaining further. His presence makes some sense from a meta perspective - the film obviously wants an [[TheReasonYouSuckSpeech intelligent]] adversary for Hartdegan, something the other, more feral Morlocks can't provide - but it's still jarring. |
| 313 | * Arguably a Big Lipped Alligator Movie, or at very least a deliberately surreal AnachronismStew, Julie Taymor's ''Film/{{Titus}}'' - a [[ThisIsYourPremiseOnDrugs modern adaptation]] of Shakespeare's ''Theatre/TitusAndronicus'' - features a scene in which one of the villains, played by Creator/JonathanRhysMeyers, dances terrifyingly on a pool table to loud techno music, trussed up in red leather and with his hair in pigtails. It isn't the ''strangest'' scene in the movie by a long way, and it certainly isn't the most disturbing, but it's notable in that it contains no dialogue, has absolutely no basis in the original play (obviously), does nothing to further the plot, is never referenced again, and serves no purpose beyond making the audience just a little bit more amused/baffled/emotionally scarred than they already were. |
| 314 | * The film version of ''Music/{{Tommy}}'' includes a scene involving Creator/AnnMargret singing and writhing around in a huge pile of canned beans in tomato sauce. In an already surrealistic film, this scene still managed to be completely out of place, with nothing in it or the song relating to the rest of the film. It seems to exist solely to give director Creator/KenRussell the opportunity to insert his own particular brand of non sequitor weirdness. |
| 315 | * [[https://youtu.be/HNR_HofJ_Fs The infamous volleyball scene]] from ''Film/TopGun''. Drops in out of nowhere, goes on for roughly two minutes without a point, and then just ends, never to be referenced again. Other than the [[FanService beefcake]] and including a song that isn't "Danger Zone" or "Take My Breath Away", the scene serves no purpose and could be removed wihtout changing the movie at all. |
| 316 | ** The sequel ''Film/TopGunMaverick'' has a callback to the infamous volleyball scene in the form of a shirtless football game on the beach. The in-universe explanation is that Maverick is using it as a team building exercise. The real life reason, as admitted by Tom Cruise, is that the filmmakers simply wanted to give the actors a chance to show off their bodies. |
| 317 | * Gilbert in ''Film/TopsyTurvy'' gets accosted by an insane homeless woman in an alley late in the film. The scene is considerably darker and more menacing than any other scene in the film, goes absolutely nowhere, and, unlike every other scene in the film, was shot outdoors, just to emphasize the strangeness of it all. |
| 318 | * ''Film/TransformersRevengeOfTheFallen'' |
| 319 | ** An interesting version in which the Twins adopt a Big Lipped Alligator Mode - that is, a 1930's ice cream truck. The bizarreness of this vehicle mode is never explained and is only seen for about two minutes (in all its scenes combined) before they decide to change vehicle modes again. Their odd choice of form is never mentioned again. |
| 320 | ** Want a real "moment"? Try the scene where Sam drops the fragment of the All Spark, his kitchen appliances come to life, and start attacking everyone in sight, and after the house is destroyed... Nobody mentions this encounter again; it was likely meant to establish the All Spark fragment's power, but ''the entire scene was not mentioned again''. |
| 321 | ** Also the scene near the beginning when he first gets to college: His mom eats a pot brownie and loses her mind. It has no bearing on the plot, adds nothing to the characters' development, is out of place in a sci-fi film about space-traveling sentient robots, and is never mentioned again. Even its mood and pacing are at odds with the rest of the movie. |
| 322 | * The 1970 B movie ''Film/{{Trog}}'' has a scene where the titular Trog (a human-ape hybrid) is put under hypnotism and 'remembers' seeing a fight between two dinosaurs. The film literally stops so this dinosaur fight can go on for ten minutes. Its very existence in the movie results in ArtisticLicenceHistory; if Trog is the missing link between man and ape then he wouldn't have been around at the same time as the dinosaurs. |
| 323 | * The [[http://tron.wikia.com/wiki/Gridbug grid bugs]] from ''Film/{{TRON}}'', supposedly dangerous digital creatures which appear for a few scant seconds, do nothing, and are never even mentioned again. |
| 324 | * The 2010 Coen brothers' adaptation of ''Film/TrueGrit'' has the Bear Man scene. Mattie and Rooster, believing they will meet [=LaBoeuf=] on the road, wait ages in the falling snow until they see... what appears to be a bear riding a horse. It turns our it is just a very large man wearing a complete bearskin, but he isn't much less strange, as he is carrying the corpse of a hanged man in his lap, claims to be a dentist, and offers sincerely to sell them the hanged man's teeth. Mattie and Rooster are nonplussed, the film moves on, and the corpse-nabbing bear-man dentist is never seen again. [[Administrivia/TropesAreTools In other words, a quintessential Coens moment.]] |
| 325 | * During the third segment of ''Film/TwilightZoneTheMovie'', the child with powers, Anthony, makes a strange, shape-shifting creature emerge from the television. It is both [[strike:terrifying]] [[{{Narm}} accidentally hilarious]] and pointless. It is also never mentioned again. |
| 326 | * ''Film/AVeryBradySequel'' has a scene with Mike, Alice, and the kids flying a plane to Hawaii so they can rescue Carol. To forget about the guilt they felt after failing to prevent her from getting kidnapped, Greg pulls a guitar from {{Hammerspace}}, and all the kids start dancing in the aisles and singing "Good Time Music." |
| 327 | * ''Film/VoyageOfTheRockAliens'': While spying on the planet Acirema in search of the source of rock and roll, 1359 sees members of rival gangs in elaborate costumes (Creator/PiaZadora and Music/JermaineJackson) falling in love through an elaborate song and dance routine while the gangs fight. Bizarrely, 1359 rejects that planet as the source of rock, even though the song used is featured again late in the movie, and moves on to Planet Earth instead. |
| 328 | * ''Film/{{Walkabout}}'' has a number of these, particularly the non-sequitur scene with the scientists launching a weather balloon, and all the sequences where the view cuts to a brick wall and then pans out onto a landscape. |
| 329 | * The scene in the film version of ''Film/TheWall'' where old ladies steal televisions from a storefront. Pink isn't present, it has no connection to anything that happens before or since, and it's unclear if it's real or imagined. |
| 330 | * The flaming train scene in ''Film/WarOfTheWorlds2005'' is probably one of the most famous modern examples of this trope. As our heroes and a crowd of people are walking through a town, they are stopped by a railroad crossing activating. When the train comes through, it is on fire. It leaves the crossing, then the gates go up and our heroes continue on their way, and the whole matter is never mentioned again. |
| 331 | * In ''Film/WarriorsOfVirtue'': after Warrior of Water Yun returns from his self-imposed exile, the entire village is in Celebration Mode. Cut to a female... [[BeastMan kangaroo-person]] (The movie didn't seem to give the Warriors' race an actual name) emerging from platform, singing some odd Asian-style warbling song, looking like we're gearing up for a musical breather scene... then after three seconds of singing, we jump back to [[BigBad Komodo's]] lair. When we finally get back to the village? Celebration? Over. Warriors? Nowhere. Sense? None. |
| 332 | * In ''Film/WayOfTheDragon'' Creator/BruceLee's character is almost seduced by a random Italian woman, he runs away and the entire scene is never mentioned again. |
| 333 | * The fun, but pointless "At The Ball That's All" Musical Number from the Creator/LaurelAndHardy vehicle, ''Way Out West'' literally comes out of nowhere and does little more than pad the film. However, it ties with ''Trail of the Lonesome Pine'' as the movie's definitive [[SugarWiki/AwesomeMusic Crowning Music of Awesome]]. |
| 334 | * In ''Film/WeddingCrashers'' Jane Seymour's character comes into Owen Wilson's room, exposes her breasts, and asks Owen to touch them. He obliges and she storms off, calling him a pervert. This is only brought up again only once, and in a non-plot relevant way, when Vince Vaughn's character is told about it and seems to be proud of him for it ("Did you motorboat them? You motorboated them. You motorboatin' sonofabitch!") and on top of that, the scene is followed by Owen Wilson telling Creator/RachelMcAdams how much he likes her family. |
| 335 | * In the fourth video in the Wee Sing Video Series ''Wee Sing in Sillyville'', Sillywhim, Laurie, and Scott start to go to Pasha's house and Scott steps on an acorn's nose. The acorn then sings a song called "I'm a Nut" and then rolls away. Sillywhim says, "That's Sillyville for ya. Anything can happen." They continue to go to Pasha's house, and the scene is never mentioned again. |
| 336 | * The famous "trip to town" sequence in ''Film/WetHotAmericanSummer''. Not only does it double as a [[SugarWiki/FunnyMoments Crowning Moment of Funny]], but significantly sets a new bar in insanity for the rest of the film to keep up with. |
| 337 | * In ''Film/WhatHappenedToSantiago'', a nun in full habit carrying a lamb walks through the scene. She does not interact with the characters and has no lines. She appears ''five times''. What does it mean? Who knows? |
| 338 | * Creator/WoodyAllen's GagDub film ''Film/WhatsUpTigerLily'' has several. During a club scene, the film cuts to a music video of sorts for the band that supplies the dub's soundtrack, which was a case of ExecutiveMeddling to pad out the length. Later, the film freezes so that the projectionist can have a conversation with his mistress. During the climax, the film suddenly cuts away to an interviewer, who comments that the plot is getting complicated and asks Woody Allen if he'd like to explain it. Allen deadpans, "No," and the film continues. |
| 339 | * ''Film/WhiteWolves'': The appearance of the White Wolf, with its supernatural powers, in the first movie, because it wasn't in ''Hatchet'' and provides an unexpectedly supernatural element to the story. By the sequels, this feels less jarring now that the wolf and its brethren have made further appearances. |
| 340 | * ''Film/TheWildWorldOfBatwoman'' (as covered on ''Series/MysteryScienceTheater3000'') |
| 341 | ** The film has, among other [=WTF=], a scene where Batwoman and her Batgirls hold a ''séance'' to get advice from the spirit world on where the [=MacGuffin=] is. Has there been supernatural content thus far? Save for another [=BLAM=] about how the Batgirls are "synthetic vampires," no. Does the scene result in anything of value? Unless you count a blatantly racist portrayal of Chinese people, nope. Is it ever mentioned again? What do you think? |
| 342 | ** The worst example, by far, has to be when the movie cuts to the villain lair. The lair is located in cave... ''inhabited by mole people.'' Specifically, they're mole people from StockFootage of the film ''The Mole People'', natch. Is there ''any'' point to establishing that fucking mole people live in this movie? Is it all relevant to anything else in the movie? Do they ever bring it up again, such as when the villain's lair explodes? What do you think? |
| 343 | ** Yet another BLAM comes after the credits. A pair of bat-girls witness a man get mugged and murdered. The girls call it in to Batwoman, and the incident is never mentioned again. |
| 344 | * The deranged tunnel scene from ''Film/WillyWonkaAndTheChocolateFactory'' qualifies for this trope. The poem Wonka quotes is from the book, but the tone and visuals are way out of left field for the rest of the film. It also serves no plot purpose but to get the characters to the next scene. |
| 345 | * In ''Film/TheWizardOfOz'', as Dorothy's house is being carried by the tornado, she sees several bizarre sights from her window--a coop of clucking chickens; an old lady in a rocking chair; a mooing cow; and two men in a rowboat. The people all exchange friendly waves with Dorothy and seem curiously blasé about being suspended in the sky. None of these people or animals are identified or ever mentioned again, and the entire sequence veers into absurd, borderline cartoonish territory that goes beyond even the fantastical elements of her later Oz experiences. It's actually the most truly dreamlike sequence in the movie. |
| 346 | * Though ''Film/{{Xanadu|1980}}'' has many weird spots, they usually have some bearing on the plot. But then there's one scene where Sonny and Kira turn into cartoon characters (animated by Creator/DonBluth, no less,) and then chase each other for no real reason. This particular scene stands out above the rest of the movie in terms of ridiculousness. |
| 347 | * The House of Mirrors scene in ''Film/YorTheHunterFromTheFuture''. |
| 348 | * In spite of being a psychedelic-era art film, ''Film/ZabriskiePoint'' has a coherent enough plot for two very explicit {{B|igLippedAlligatorMoment}}LAMs to be seen. |
| 349 | ** After viewing Zabriskie Point from a viewpoint on an otherwise deserted highway, the two leads Mark and Daria hurry down a desert slope and commence making out. Guitar music plays. Then it starts showing other people making out in that desert - first couples, then groups. It was a, uh, memorable desert orgy scene in the middle. Yes, it's supposed to symbolize rebirth, renewal and revolution since it takes place at the eponymous location (the lowest point in the United States—[[RuleOfSymbolism get it? Get it?]]) But it goes on for way too long, and since 1969 it's been impossible to sit through that scene without the audience starting to break down laughing. |
| 350 | ** There's the StuffBlowingUp montage (set to "[[Music/PinkFloyd Careful With That Axe, Eugene]]"), just before Daria drives away into the sunset and the film ends. |
| 351 | * The comedy ''Film/Zapped1982'' has two: |
| 352 | ** Early in the film after Barney gets his powers, he gets grounded by his parents for insubordination. After he goes to his room, he decides to use his powers to cause his model spaceship (which looks like an Enterprise/Millenium Falcon mashup) THROUGH his aquarium, managing to not cause it to break or leak (for unexplained reasons). Then as the ship flies closer to Barney's pet dog, we get an Imagine Spot of some Star Trek expys discussing that the ship appears about to be devoured by a giant (to them) sheepdog. After the spot, Barney decides he's hungry and decides to sneak out, after retrieving the ship from his dog's mouth, asking the dog what he was doing with it, implying he'd already forgotten about the whole previous sequence. |
| 353 | ** Midway through the film, Barney's coach has a dream sequence after accidentally inhaling a blast of marijuana smoke. He dreams first about Barney having started working with Albert Einstein...then he goes with Einstein on a bike ride through the countryside...which turns nightmarish when his ill-tempered wife shows up wearing a Viking helmet and shoots at him with a bazooka full of giant salamis. Although the wife reappears later in the film, the actual events of the dream aren't remarked upon after the coach wakes up. |
| 354 | * ''Film/{{Zardoz}}'' has the scene where Friend walks into a kitchen and suddenly starts speaking backwards to a group of women there. They start clapping and laughing, he leaves, and no explanation is given as to what just happened. It's a MindScrew of a movie to begin with, mind you, but most of the other surreal elements at least try to tie into the plot. |
| 355 | * The drug-fuelled orgy in ''Film/{{Zoolander}}''. |
| 356 | * ''Film/TheBigStore'': In the song "Sing While You Sell", there is a part where a woman sings a swing-rendition of "Rockabye Baby". What makes it weird is that the camera holds as she sings the whole song with a vacant stare. The most she does is lightly rock a bassinet, and Groucho, who was leading the song, just disappears in this part. |
| 357 | [[/folder]] |
http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/context.php
FollowingContext BLAM / Film
Go To
- Show Spoilers
- Night Vision
- Sticky Header
- Wide Load
