Quotes / Big-Lipped Alligator Moment

>say yoho
everything spins around and suddenly i'm elsewhere...
i'm on a pirate ship in he middle of he ocean!
a pirate is here! he says:
"yarr me matey! we set sail for the missing caps lock key!"
the pirate runs me through for absolutely no reason whatsoever!
**i can't do anything more, i'm dead!**

— Pick Up the Phone Booth and Aisle

What was that? I feel so overdramatic.

— Mina Beff, Grojband, "Knight To Remember"

Good of you to notice that I was getting bored, Heavy Rain, but this was like splicing a song and dance routine into the middle of Zodiac.

— Yahtzee's review of Heavy Rain, on an odd dream sequence / fight scene

I don't understand what the last five minutes did... I feel like this must be what it's like to have a seizure!

— slowbeef, Retsupurae, Space Adventures!

WHAT THE FUCKING FUUUUUUUUCK? There was no hint of this being a musical, and all of a sudden the dog... the dog here, he comes and starts rapping. Rapping hip-hop! Rapping in a style of music that won't be invented for some 70 years after this scene ends!

—JonTron on the rapping dog in Titanic: The Legend Goes On

Don't look at me; I'm irrelevant.

—Talking matchbox puppet, The Young Ones

This guy literally never shows up again.

—Todd in the Shadows, on a character who shows up only to do what Todd later describes as a "bad Iggy Pop impression" in A Certain Sacrifice.

"Upon freaching the top, I found no boss. No, there wasn't any log cabin with Luigi's corpse in it..."
Jacob: I WASN'T FUCKING EXPECTING THAT! When, in Super Mario, have you ever come across a log cabin with your brother's dead body inside?! Or is this one of those meta moments where they're like, "at no point did I call Nintendo only to have somebody smack me in the mouth"?

— Bad Creepypasta: How I Met a Terrible Fate

WHY DOES DARTH VADER TURN INTO A FUCKING SCORPION?!

—The Angry Video Game Nerd reacting to a shapeshifting scorpion-like creature posing as Darth Vader in the Star Wars game for the Famicom.

JonTron: Well that just sorta happened to me, I mean I didn't even participate in that.
Jacques: It was cool, though.

—JonTron on a skit from his Foodfight! review.

Oh, Susanna, just what is this movie?
Well, it started out as Superman
But now it's Road House 3!

— Kevin Murphy, RiffTrax, upon seeing the strange bar scene fight that really has no bearing in Supersonic Man.

"Well, no time to figure out what the hell that just was, gotta go!"

—Brandon about Get Mean, upon witnessing the protagonist being attacked by a random Screaming Warrior and casually punching him before leaving.

"What does that have to do with anything?!"

— Host of Mysterious Mysteries, "Mysterious Mysteries", Invader Zim

"But while we're on the subject of giant mistakes, the first half of this picture, a 45-minute plot thread about cheating at horse racing, goes absolutely nowhere. Why an international spy would be interested in such frivolous crimes is never adequately explained, nor does the narrative arc ever truly get resolved or even feed into the rest of the picture. It just exists, without enjoyment or purpose."

— Jonathan Paula, on A View to a Kill

Screenwriter: And then he ends the song with a big scream and everyone's sitting there shocked at what they just witnessed!
Producer: Oh, my god.
Screenwriter: So anyway then they head into the next room and—
Producer: Wait, what the hell was that about?
Screenwriter: I dunno! So then in the next room...

—Screen Rant Pitch Meetings, on Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory

"Hey, so... are we seriously not going to talk about that? That was seriously weird."

—Susie, Deltarune

"Wacky dancing skeleton rules. He's a naked, spaghetti-covered toddler strutting into a zoom meeting– just a pointless wrongness commanding everyone's attention. In 1977, getting a girl's fingers to fade into invisible meat chunks was a Herculean effort of animation, and he's back there distracting everyone from it with, 'Rahr rahr rahr, I'M A SKELETON!'"

— Seanbaby, singling out one particularly weird, contextless moment among the many contained in the film Hausu

New Jersey: Why is there a watermelon here?
Reno: I'll tell you later.
(he never does)

—The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension

"like the lore is a straight line and infamous baz is a bump"

—Baz, discussing with Arch_Mage on how to add the Infamous Baz to Deepwoken

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