History BLAM / Film

* Creator/JoelSchumacher's infamous ''Film/BatmanAndRobin'' features a ridiculous 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 rather silly and pointless scene is, in true BLAM fashion, never mentioned again after it's over.

** The {{Minstrel Show|s}} sequence in ''Film/ADayAtTheRaces'' 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.

* ''Film/TheAndersonTapes'': There is a scene near the beginning where Creator/ChristopherWalken [[RetroactiveRecognition (in his first film role)]], upon being released from prison, says [[NonSequiter "America, man. It's so beautiful, ya know? I wanna eat it!"]]

* ''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!"

* ''Film/TheAdventureOfSherlockHolmesSmarterBrother''. The main characters start singing and dancing to "The Kangaroo Hop" song for no apparent reason. Twice.

* ''WesternAnimation/InsideOut'' features the brief trip through the realm of Abstract Thought. Although justified, as it was used as a shortcut for Joy, Sadness, and Bing Bong to reach the Train of Thought faster, it's never really brought up again.

** The sequel ''Film/TopGunMaverick'' has a callback to the infamouse 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.

* In Hollywood films before the 70s, many musical routines featuring minorities come off as big lipped alligator moments. [[ValuesDissonance This was so these scenes could be edited out easily for Southern audiences without affecting the plot]]. The same is done now with some scenes featuring gay characters. ''Film/TheRiseOfSkywalker'', for example, infamously shot a kiss scene between two women so it could be easily edited out in certain markets.

* Early on in ''WesternAnimation/TheSuperMarioBrosMovie'', after finishing their first plumbing job, Mario and Luigi were suddenly attacked by Francis, a dog belonging to their client, after the latter accidentally break his favorite bone.

* At the end of ''Film/{{Zatoichi|2003}}: The Blind Swordsmen'', having finished with a heart-wrenching story of heroes, child prostitution, tragic love and murder... the entire cast, including folks who've been filleted by 'Zatōichi, get up on a stage, apparently in a cheesy Japanese summer theatre and tap-dance.

* ''Film/HoboWithAShotgun'':
** After the Hobo shoots Slick's genitals off, he is taken literally on a bus ride to hell as he dies from his injuries. By the school bus he torched full of children, earlier on in the movie. The scene is never mentioned again.
** Later on in the movie, after the Hobo is captured by The Plague and taken to their hide out, The Plague are seen to be fighting a shrieking creature of some sort, mostly around a corner and off-screen. All that is seen of it are its tentacles. This is never explained.

* early on in ''WesternAnimation/TheSuperMarioBrosMovie'', after finishing their first plumbing job, Mario and Luigi were suddenly attacked by Francis, a dog belonging to their client, after the latter accidentally break his favorite bone.

* ''WesternAnimation/DespicableMe'' 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.

* ''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. Keep in mind that this is a fairly normal AnimatedAdaptation; other than the animals talking, there are no fantasy or sci-fi elements to the story. The mechanical centaur literally has no reason to exist other than just "because", [[SurrealHumor but damn it he is entertaining]].

* The cheesy sci-fi movie ''Film/TwelveToTheMoon'' (as seen on ''Series/MysteryScienceTheater3000'') 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. Companions? Test subjects? [[EatTheDog Snacks?]]

* In the otherwise superb 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 ''literally ONE second'', and when she turns back the cat has vanished into thin air.

** 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 largely 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).

* ''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.

* ''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.

* ''{{WesternAnimation/Shrek}}'' 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.

* 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.