History FunnyBackgroundEvent / LiveActionFilms

* ''Film/DickTracy:'' During the court-martial where Brackenbury and Heath are on trial for cowardice, there's a constant sound from the chickens that are wandering about outside. With each new piece of testimony that only makes the pair seem more cowardly, the chickens get louder.

* The ''Film/MenInBlack'' movies, most memorably the scene on the main page, with a HumanAlien couple where K talks to Reggie while J struggles to deliver the woman's baby ("Did anything about that seem unusual to you?"). Also, Zed neuralyzing the rejected recruits as J and K walk by.

** In the climactic fight scene between the ''Black Pearl'' and the ''Interceptor'', while Barbossa is looking all dramatic and shouting orders, a pirate can be seen behind him dangling in mid air from a bunch of ropes while his shipmates try to get him down.

** In ''Film/HarryPotterAndTheChamberOfSecrets'', when kids are attending the Dueling Club, [[SadistTeacher Snape]] sets Draco against Harry. As Snape's walking away past him, he gives Malfoy the "slit throat" gesture.

*** As Harry stalks off furiously after blowing up his Aunt Marge, you can see Aunt Marge floating away in the distance.

*** At the end of the film, just as Harry was running out of the castle to try out his new broom the Firebolt, the crowd of students in his wake obviously include Malfoy and his cronies, who only distanced themselves from the rest of the crowd out of pride.
** ''Film/HarryPotterAndTheGobletOfFire'' has something of a Triumphal Background Event that plays off the humor of a Funny Foreground Event: in the second task, after Neville exclaims "[[WesternAnimation/SouthPark I've killed Harry Potter!]]" while facing the area of the camera, Harry leaps out of the water in the distance, disappearing again before Neville turns around.
** In ''Film/HarryPotterAndTheHalfbloodPrince'', Ron is under the effects of a LovePotion. Harry takes him to Slughorn, and while the latter two are talking to each other about Ron's condition, Ron, who was sitting on the sofa, falls on his back.
** In ''Film/HarryPotterAndTheDeathlyHallowsPart2'', after the battle is over and Harry, Ron and Hermione enter the Great Hall, Filch stands behind them, contemplating the enormous pile of rubble before him and then ineffectually sweeping the bit of floor at the bottom of it.

*** When Buckbeak is introduced at Care of Magical Creatures, most of the class backs off as Hagrid asks for a volunteer. [[GotVolunteered except for Harry]]. Neville, still something of a LovableCoward at this point in his character development, abruptly ducks out of sight behind a boulder.

** In ''Film/HarryPotterAndThePhilosophersStone'', Harry and Draco are stuck wandering through the Forbidden Forest together and they stumble upon [[spoiler:Quirrell]] drinking unicorn blood, who menacingly advances on Harry. The scene's rather terrifying... except for the part where you see Draco running across the background [[{{Narm}} screaming like a pansy]].

** In the [[Film/HarryPotterAndTheChamberOfSecrets second film]], when kids are attending the Duel Club, [[SadistTeacher Snape]] sets his pet Draco Malfoy against Harry. As Snape's walking away past him, he gives Malfoy a "kill him" gesture (thumb swipe across the neck).
** In the [[Film/HarryPotterAndThePrisonerOfAzkaban third film]], as Harry stalks off furiously after blowing up his Aunt Marge, you can see Aunt Marge floating away in the distance. Also in the third film, during Buckbeak's first scene: most of the class backs off when Hagrid asks for a volunteer. Neville, still something of a LovableCoward at this point in his character development, abruptly ducks out of sight behind a boulder.
** The [[Film/HarryPotterAndTheGobletOfFire fourth film]] has something of a Triumphal Background Event that plays off the humor of a Funny Foreground Event: after Neville exclaims "I've killed Harry Potter!" while facing the area of the camera, Harry leaps out of the water in the distance, disappearing again before Neville turns around.
** In the [[Film/HarryPotterAndTheHalfbloodPrince sixth film]], Ron was under the effects of a LovePotion. Harry takes him to Slughorn, and while the latter two were talking to each other about Ron's condition, Ron, who was sitting on the sofa, falls on his back.
** In the [[Film/HarryPotterAndTheDeathlyHallowsPart2 final film]], after the battle is over and Harry, Ron and Hermione enter the Great Hall, Filch stands behind them, contemplating the enormous pile of rubble before him and then ineffectually sweeping the bit of floor at the bottom of it.

* ''Film/TheManFromUNCLE2015'' has two examples: The first has Napoleon Solo casually enjoying a purloined snack with wine while [[spoiler: his partner engages on a mayhem filled boat chase]]. The second as Solo and Kuryakin discuss what to do with [[spoiler: Uncle Rudi, blissfully oblivious to the man burning up in his faulty electric torture device]].

* The ''Film/MenInBlack'' movies, most memorably the scene on the main page, with a HumanAlien couple where K talks to the man while J struggles to deliver the woman's baby ("Did anything about that seem unusual to you?"). Also, Zed neuralyzing the rejected recruits as J and K walk by.

* In the Creator/AlfredHitchcock classic ''Film/NorthByNorthwest'', during the scene in the Mount Rushmore cafe, a boy in the background puts his fingers in his ears right before one of the villains fires a gun... because Hitchcock shot eleven takes on that one scene, and the boy was apparently getting bothered by the noise.

** In the [[Film/HarryPotterAndTheOrderOfThePhoenix sixth film]], Ron was under the effects of a LovePotion. Harry takes him to Slughorn, and while the latter two were talking to each other about Ron's condition, Ron, who was sitting on the sofa, falls on his back.

* In ''Film/TheHobbit'', Óin's EarTrumpet was stomped on and crushed flat when the Company [[spoiler: were captured by goblins]]. After when [[spoiler: they escaped]], Óin is seen using it, anyways.

** As George is breaking the news to Sue that her teacher Brenda die in the most brutal way possible, Tom is standing in the background wincing, making stop motions with his arms and cringing, then walks out of the room.

* Played with in ''Film/ScaryMovie3''. The news channel where the heroine works only cares about showing sexy, risque, or obscene things, so they intentionally shoot serious news with provocative things going on in the background.

** Later on, Joe gathers some manure from horse-drawn carriages and puts it in a plastic shopping bag, intending to give it to his love interest, Lily, to use for her public garden. On his bus trip there, he's disappointed to see her through the window, embracing a man in a suit. In the background of his reaction shot, his fellow passengers, including a few nuns, are all holding their nose from the stench of the bag.

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** According to the IMDB's trivia page: "Immediately behind actors Michael J. Fox and James Hampton, an extra (in a red sweater) can be seen with an unzipped fly. This incident later resulted in an Internet rumor that the extra is a man exposing himself. However, the unmatted full frame version of the film reveals that the extra is actually a woman".

* In the very first scene of ''Film/{{Spartacus}}'', an extra can be seen slowly sliding backwards down the mountain behind the actors.
* In the film version of ''Film/YouCantTakeItWithYou,'' as the family is [[spoiler:packing up to move away]], Rheba and Donald are having a conversation in the kitchen. Behind them, [[HuskyRusskie Kolenkhov]] is stuffing his pockets with sandwiches.
* In ''Film/TheWaterboy'', while Vicki is talking to a field reporter about her predictions on the outcome of the game, Bobby's mama walks behind them, notices she's on camera, and starts dancing to the marching band music.
* In ''Film/{{Super 8}}'', while Charles is filming Alice and Martin at the train depot, Preston walks up to a pay-phone in the background and silently pretends to be speaking into it, but he's obviously just [[StylisticSuck opening and closing his mouth]].
* ''Film/ThatThingYouDo'' makes a [[http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x2xs6d_that-thing-you-do-1_shortfilms?start=366 parking meter-jumping scene]] both funny and pivotal in the film.
* In Creator/WoodyAllen's ''Film/{{Sleeper}}'', while Woody's character is disguised as a robot butler, he attempts to deal with an out of control, sentient gelatin mold while Luna and one of her party guests have an obliviously-mundane conversation.
* In ''Film/CrankHighVoltage'', when an old lady is being interviewed about Chev Chelios' rampage, a goofy guy in the background smiles, waves, flaunts Eve's panties, and gives a thumb's-up.
* ''WesternAnimation/AMonsterInParis:'' When the commissioner is holding a conversation with Pâté at Lucille's restaurant, a disgruntled waiter can be seen struggling to open a bottle of champagne in the background.
* ''Film/TheCabinInTheWoods:'' [[PlayingWithATrope Inverted]]. During the celebration, we continually see [[spoiler: Dana]] getting brutally savaged in the background on the monitors, while the operators carry on partying in the foreground.
** When the army of monsters [[spoiler: is unleashed on the facility]], quite a few darkly comedic moments can be glimpsed on the monitors: along with a MonsterClown giggling into one of the cameras, we see a monster with a jack-o-lantern for a head breathing fire at fleeing technicians, a huge creature stealthily creeping up behind an oblivious victim, the [[TheFairFolk Sugarplum Fairy]] dancing balletically across a blood-splattered room, a couple of goblins taking one of the facility golf carts for a joyride, one of [[MalevolentMaskedMen the Dolls]] hurling a molotov cocktail at a tied-down victim... and of course, [[MauveShirt Ronald the Intern]] holding up a sign reading "Help me! A [[BatOutOfHell dragonbat]] has my scent."
* Reversed and PlayedForLaughs in ''Film/LoadedWeapon1'', when in the background of one scene a woman is seen being asked by the cops to describe a suspect. She gives a description, and the police sketch artist is assembling a Mr. Potatohead based on the womans description. In a later scene, a person looking like Mr. Potatohead is arrested by the police. (And protests that he's innocent)
* In the Creator/AlfredHitchcock classic ''Film/NorthByNorthwest'', during the scene in the Mount Rushmore cafe, a boy in the background puts his fingers in his ears right before one of the villains fires a gun... because Hitchcock shot eleven takes on that one scene, and the boy was apparently getting bothered by the noise.
* In ''Film/TheAmazingSpiderMan,'' a delightfully aloof librarian carries out his business with noise-cancelling headphones playing classical music in his ear. He walks out of the Midtown High library, never realizing that [[spoiler: Spider-Man and the Lizard have demolished the place mid-brawl, with Spidey even webbing a Lizard-flung desk away from the elderly man, very likely saving his life.]] This scene will likely go down as [[spoiler: Creator/StanLee's best CreatorCameo ever.]]
** Later in the movie, when Spidey is talking to Gwen on the phone, three girls in the background can be seen spotting him, pointing to him, and then taking a selfie.

* In ''Film/{{Enchanted}}'', Giselle is staring at fish in an aquarium, and ''[[Disney/TheLittleMermaid Little Mermaid]]'''s "Part of Your World" is playing. (Incidentally, Robert's secretary is played by Jodi Benson, the voice of Ariel)
** In another scene, the poster for Broadway has ''Theatre/{{Wicked}}'' on it, while Edward is riding on a bus.
* There are many in ''Film/PitchPerfect''.
** In one scene, Donald is riding a unicycle and gets hit in the back of the head with a flying object. This causes him to fall off his unicycle and head face-first towards the concrete.
** When the Treble-Makers are all in the hot-tub, the TV is showing a porn movie, with two women in their underwear, one of them is using a feather-duster to dust a lamp.
* In ''Film/CatchTwentyTwo'' two officers are having a conversation near the airfield while a B-25 crash-lands behind them. Neither character notices.
* During Cady's phone call with Regina in ''Film/MeanGirls'', you can see Regina's little sister watching Girls Gone Wild and lifting up her shirt while cheering.
** The two girls making out at the Halloween party. Tina Fey points this out in the commentary, and says she has no idea how they got away with it.
* The wrestling match in ''Film/SixteenCandles'' when Jake is talking to his friend about Sam.
* In ''Film/{{Eurotrip}}'', when Scott it talking to Mieke's father in their home in Berlin, her little brother is seen [[AllGermansAreNazis goose-stepping back and forth]] [[CrossesTheLineTwice with a drawn-on Hitler mustache.]]
* Several in ''Film/TheLordOfTheRings'' movies.
** In ''[[Film/TheLordOfTheRingsTheFellowshipOfTheRing The Fellowship of the Ring]]'', Merry and Pippin can often be seen goofing off in the backgrounds of otherwise serious scenes.
** In ''[[Film/TheLordOfTheRingsTheTwoTowers The Two Towers]]'', after the big flood we can see an Ent extinguishing his burning head in the water. Unusual in that he's actually in the foreground, but it's still easy to miss.
** In ''[[Film/TheLordOfTheRingsTheReturnOfTheKing The Return of the King]]'', Gandalf wryly laments the tragic end of Denethor, the Steward of Gondor, while directly behind him, a maddened Denethor (who has gone mad from grief and guilt) -- who is ''[[ManOnFire on fire]]'' -- runs screaming in slow-motion for a long distance before finally leaping straight off the edge of a high cliff. Doubles as {{Narm}} (especially NarmCharm) and MeaningfulBackgroundEvent. The supposed solemnity of the moment is very much ''not helped'' by the fact that Gandalf says "So passes Denethor, son of Ecthelion" just as the burning Denethor, well, ''passes'' Gandalf and a gaggle of guards as he runs out screaming, making it seem like Gandalf's tribute is an archaic way of saying "heads up, guy on fire coming through!"
** Also from the ''Return'', as Aragorn is taking a breather at the end of the battle near Minas Tirith, we see one of the giant elephant creatures still running around behind him, looking like it might get a little too close to Aragorn if he's not careful.. and then the ghost army that Aragorn enlisted the help of earlier in the film overruns and overwhelms it until it falls over.
** Legolas got [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jpmiqh3_D6w his own montage]] of weird background faces.
* In ''Film/TheBreakfastClub'', when John Bender has a "bender moment", stabbing his knife into the table and giving a long-winded mean-spirited speech, Allison (the weird girl) pulls the knife out of the table and makes off with it while he's talking.
* In ''Film/DonJuanDemarco'', the opening scene shows Don Juan, wearing a mask, going up to a random woman in a hotel restaurant and romantically seducing her, then taking his leave just before her husband arrives. Later in the film, Don Juan goes into the restaurant without his mask. In the background is the woman, looking around longingly.
* In the MTV cult classic ''Joe's Apartment'', when the insane artist Walter Shit talks with Joe about his avant-garde experiment to create a new race of "periwinkle" (which involves dumping cans of paint on random passer-by in front of Joe's apartment building), a guy in a three-piece suit and briefcase is seen walking away in the background, his entire head and shoulders dripping in pink paint.
** Later on, Joe gathers some manure from horse-drawn carriages and puts it in a plastic shopping bag, intending to give it to his love interest, Lily, to use for her public garden. On his bus trip there, he's disappointed to see her through the window, embracing a man in a suit. In the background of his reaction shot, his fellow passengers, including a few nuns, are all holding their nose from the stench of the bag.
* In ''Film/TheWildWorldOfBatwoman'', one long scene of exposition is punctuated by a couple of girls in the background, wrestling over a horseshoe.
* In ''Film/{{ROTOR}}'', the climactic battle between R.O.T.O.R. and Steele takes place in the background while Coldyron helps Sonya to safety in the foreground.
-->'''[[WebVideo/BestOfTheWorst Jay]]:''' This is like a Zucker Brothers gag!
* In ''Film/GoldenEye'' as Q gives Film/JamesBond his latest gadgets, we see a hapless lab assistant try to make a call from a phone booth situated in the lab, only to get squashed against the glass by an airbag that explodes from within the booth. For bonus points, we briefly see the phone booth being wheeled off a minute later, with the whimpering assistant still trapped inside.
** Q scenes were rife with this trope.
** ''Film/YouOnlyLiveTwice'' has an unintentional case of this: as Tanaka's ninjas are [[StormingTheCastle attacking the base]], Blofeld talks to Bond... and his RightHandCat [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H0FcOPb-9rE is dead scared and trying to escape]].
* Played with in ''Film/ScaryMovie3''. The news channel where the heroine works only cares about showing sexy, risque, or obscene things, so they intentionally shoot serious news with provocative things going on in the background.

* ''Film/TheMask'' has a few funny background events.
** During the scene where Stanley arrives late at work after the bank had been robbed and is verbally bullied by his boss. Stanley lets loose on his boss, warning him to back off or he'll tell his boss' father that he's using the bank as his own piggy bank or maybe he'll call the IRS and arrange a trip for his Boss to Club Fed. His boss is shaken and backs off. In the background, two police officers are clearly laughing at scene unfolding.
** During The Mask's faux Oscar speech, the villains do their best to look presentable for the camera.
** When the criminals begin to take hostages in the Coco Bongo, Stanley's cranky landlady scolds the thugs for talking back to the mayor as they're being rounded up.

* The ''Film/MenInBlack'' movies, most memorably the scene on the main page, with a HumanAlien couple where K talks to the man while J struggles to deliver the woman's baby ("Did anything about that seem unusual to you?"). Also, Zed neuralyzing the rejected recruits as J and K walk by.
* ''Film/TheThreeMusketeers1973'' becomes ''much'' funnier when you watch the facial expressions of the random extras reacting to [[UpperClassTwit King Louis']] latest bit of loony behavior.
* Lots of them in ''Franchise/StarWars''.
** ''Film/ReturnOfTheJedi'': the creature in the corner of the Tatooine SceneryPorn shot snagging some prey with its tongue, eating it then belching.
** Also when Luke [[SpecialEffectFailure Force Kicks]] one of the guards during the fight at Jabba's Sail Barge, [[http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/File:Forcekickcomalive.gif you can see an out of control Boba Fett fly through the air.]]
** ''Film/ANewHope'': Stormtrooper in the back [[ThrowItIn (unintentionally)]] bangs his head on the scenery after they cut their way into the control room where 3PO and R2 are hiding. (the DVD even adds a "THUD!" to ensure viewers don't miss it)
*** This also happens when the Stormtroopers are shooting at Luke and Leia over the big chasm and in ''Attack of the Clones'' when Jango Fett is boarding his spaceship on Kamino.
** The Kubaz spy in ''A New Hope''.
** Obi-Wan rolling his eyes at Han Solo's [[DelusionsOfEloquence obvious BS]] about his Kessel run performance.
** An IG unit in the Cloud City furnace in ''Film/TheEmpireStrikesBack''.
*** [[YouHaveFailedMe Admiral Ozzel getting strangled]] while Vader talks to Captain Piett, [[YouAreInCommandNow who is officially promoted to Admiral once Ozzel drops dead]].
*** Luke rolling his eyes after Han says to Leia: "I just think you can't bear to let a gorgeous guy like me out of your sight."
** In ''Film/RevengeOfTheSith'', when Obi-Wan is about to duel General Grievous, there are two droids in the background. One of them is looking away, and then the other droid pokes him. The other droid turns to look at what is happening.
** In ''Film/TheLastJedi'', BB-8 fighting a squad of Stormtroopers in the background while Finn and Phasma are fighting.
* An easy-to-miss one in ''Film/BackToTheFuture'' because the camera goes slightly out of focus in the background: when Doc Brown is asked by a police officer for a permit for his "weather equipment", the camera pans downward to focus on Marty putting the letter in the Doc's coat pocket. Meanwhile, in the background, the Doc reaches into his ''wallet'' to grab the "permit". A deleted scene shows that the "permit" is actually a $50 bill, which in 1955 was worth quite a lot.
* In ''Film/TenThingsIHateAboutYou'', we see one of the main characters in the archery range. Just as she is firing her bow, someone else begins talking to her; she misses the target and instead hits the teacher in charge of the class.
* In the movie ''Film/BottleRocket'', there's a very touching scene outside of a bar between Anthony and Inez. The camera slowly pulls back, and through the massive window, we can see that ''inside'' the bar Anthony's friend Dignan getting completely owned in a bar fight after trying and failing to hustle some guys at pool.
* The Steve Martin movie ''Film/LAStory'' is full of hilarious background moments: During the opening monologue, Harris K. Telemacher is riding an exercise bike in an outdoor park (which has signs clearly stating "No Running"). While the camera is zoomed in on him, in the background a guy on a stationary rowing machine has a heart attack. An ambulance shows up, he's carted off, and another eager exerciser eagerly claims the now-vacant rowing machine. All in the space of 10 seconds, silently in the background.
* In ''Film/Ted2'', John and Ted are fighting in the background while Samantha is on the phone.

* An otherwise dour conversation scene in the (rather insular) Finnish film ''[[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/On_the_Road_to_Emmaus Emmauksen Tiellä]]'' shows two unnamed men in the distance behind the actors, taking turns jumping on an anti-tank mine. The result is predictable.

* ''Film/KickAss'': When Red Mist is trying to load the video from the "nanny-cam," take a look at the ''other'' videos saved on it...
* In one scene in ''Film/LoveAndDeath'', while one of Napoleon's advisers plots treachery, in the background, Napoleon is teaching his BodyDouble how to walk like him, and the two of them get in an argument that ends with a fistfight.

* In the Creator/BillMurray movie ''Larger than Life'', one scene shows Bill Murray talking to the elephant while Matthew [=McConaughey=] is on the phone with his boss and he discovers that Bill Murray betrayed him. Watching [=McConaughey=]'s exaggerated poses with the juxtaposition of the heartfelt speech from Murray is but one of the funny moments of this film.
* ''Film/YoungDoctorsInLove'', a 1982 Garry Marshall comedy has quite a few. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wQSF3eCZJfc The best one:]] A midget attempting to hang up a wall phone placed '''very high'''. Also the announcements like "Dr. Pepper, Dr. Pepper, please report to the diabetes ward" deserve mention.
* In ''Film/FightClub'', the Narrator is talking to Marla on the phone as Tyler dicks around with nunchucks in the back ground.
** The unforgettable "Lovemaking Scenes" between Marla and Tyler, which are not on camera but HIGHLY audible when The Narrator is going about his daily life.
* ''Film/ScottPilgrimVsTheWorld'' features several of these, two of the best being Scott diving ''through the window of his apartment'' to escape when Knives comes ringing (and then reaching back in to get his jacket), and the other being the Vegan Police doing a jumping high-five and shouting "YEAH!" when they leave after depowering Todd.
** In the climax, one of the side characters remarks, "[[ComicBook/ScottPilgrim The comic]] is ''always'' better than the movie." In the pre-climax, the line was "Yeah, their first album was definitely better than their first album."
** At various times, Young Neil will do small, but weird things in the background. His very last moment is probably the strangest. In fact, in the cast commentary on the DVD, the cast basically tell the viewers to watch Young Neil every time he's in the background of a scene, because he's always doing something really weird and funny. [[ThrowItIn Most of these "moments" were just Johnny Simmons messing around while remaining (semi) in character]].
* In ''Film/CloseEncountersOfTheThirdKind'' during the 'communication' scene near the end, when the mothership finally, and quite forcibly, answers the human communication attempts in kind, you see some random guy suddenly deciding that it would be safer to be in the Porta-Potty.
** That might be more of a BringMyBrownPants moment.
* Jaques Tati's ''Playtime'' is entirely built on {{Funny Background Event}}s. Tati wanted to make a comedy without a central character to focus on, so all of the humor comes from stuff in the background. And there are so many of them that you have to watch the movie over to catch all the visual humor.
* In ''Film/TeenWolf'', one of the extras in the basketball game scene exposed himself. This was part of the reason this movie was rented so much.
** According to the IMDB's trivia page: "Immediately behind actors Michael J. Fox and James Hampton, an extra (in a red sweater) can be seen with an unzipped fly. This incident later resulted in an Internet rumor that the extra is a man exposing himself. However, the unmatted full frame version of the film reveals that the extra is actually a woman".
* In ''Jekyll and Hyde... Together Again'', Dr. Lanyon hooks his patient Mrs. Simpson to a device that would enlarge her breasts. Lanyon then leaves her unattended as Dr. Jekyll comes in to tell him about his transformation into Mr. Hyde, in fact transforming again while explaining the situation. [[BreastExpansion Meanwhile...]]
* In ''Film/{{Idiocracy}}'', when Joe goes to the hospital, the 'doctor' insults him for his low intelligence, then tells him that "There's lots of tards out there livin' really kick-ass lives. My first wife was tarded - she's a pilot now." Not ten minutes later, while Joe and Co are being chased by the police, a plane simply drops out of the air and crashes. Later in the movie, in Costco, the crashed plane is seen still stuck in Costco, where it crashed.
** Even better, when in later viewings you realize the plane didn't just crash, but one of the cops fired their rocket launcher backwards and shot the plane down...

* George also does it in ''Film/AHardDaysNight'' during "If I Fell," when he accidentally knocks over an amp. Most likely a case of ThrowItIn.
* ''Film/BillAndTedsExcellentAdventure'' has sort of a Funny ''Foreground Event. In a scene where UsefulNotes/NapoleonBonaparte is in the car next to Missy, he begins to sidle closer (likely intending to hit on her) while Bill and Ted make their way back to it. Napoleon promptly pulls back when they appear beside the passenger's side window.
* The second ''Film/RevengeOfTheNerds'' movie combines this with an OverlyLongGag. In one scene, the Alpha Betas are meeting at their local frat house, discussing their scheme to get rid of the Tri-Lambs, and during the whole meeting (which takes about five or so minutes), Ogre, the big, muscular member of the group, is in the bathroom behind them, peeing ''the entire time'', only stopping at the end of the scene.
* In ''Film/{{Zombieland}},'' when Tallahassee is smashing up the minivan the building behind him has several posters in the window related to the plague including one showing a grenade and the phrase "Solve It." It's even funnier when you see it's a bridal store.
* In ''Film/WhoFramedRogerRabbit'', at the end, [[spoiler:just after the wall into Toontown is broken]], a train zooms across the field of view. If you pause and go frame by frame, you'll find a different crime being committed in each car (murder, etc).
* In the very first scene of ''Film/{{Spartacus}}'', an extra can be seen slowly sliding backwards down the mountain behind the actors.
* In the film version of ''Film/YouCantTakeItWithYou,'' as the family is [[spoiler:packing up to move away]], Rheba and Donald are having a conversation in the kitchen. Behind them, [[HuskyRusskie Kolenkhov]] is stuffing his pockets with sandwiches.
* In ''Film/TheWaterboy'', while Vicki is talking to a field reporter about her predictions on the outcome of the game, Bobby's mama walks behind them, notices she's on camera, and starts dancing to the marching band music.
* In ''Film/{{Super 8}}'', while Charles is filming Alice and Martin at the train depot, Preston walks up to a pay-phone in the background and silently pretends to be speaking into it, but he's obviously just [[StylisticSuck opening and closing his mouth]].
* ''Film/ThatThingYouDo'' makes a [[http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x2xs6d_that-thing-you-do-1_shortfilms?start=366 parking meter-jumping scene]] both funny and pivotal in the film.
* In Creator/WoodyAllen's ''Film/{{Sleeper}}'', while Woody's character is disguised as a robot butler, he attempts to deal with an out of control, sentient gelatin mold while Luna and one of her party guests have an obliviously-mundane conversation.
* In ''Film/CrankHighVoltage'', when an old lady is being interviewed about Chev Chelios' rampage, a goofy guy in the background smiles, waves, flaunts Eve's panties, and gives a thumb's-up.
* ''WesternAnimation/AMonsterInParis:'' When the commissioner is holding a conversation with Pâté at Lucille's restaurant, a disgruntled waiter can be seen struggling to open a bottle of champagne in the background.
* ''Film/TheCabinInTheWoods:'' [[PlayingWithATrope Inverted]]. During the celebration, we continually see [[spoiler: Dana]] getting brutally savaged in the background on the monitors, while the operators carry on partying in the foreground.
** When the army of monsters [[spoiler: is unleashed on the facility]], quite a few darkly comedic moments can be glimpsed on the monitors: along with a MonsterClown giggling into one of the cameras, we see a monster with a jack-o-lantern for a head breathing fire at fleeing technicians, a huge creature stealthily creeping up behind an oblivious victim, the [[TheFairFolk Sugarplum Fairy]] dancing balletically across a blood-splattered room, a couple of goblins taking one of the facility golf carts for a joyride, one of [[MalevolentMaskedMen the Dolls]] hurling a molotov cocktail at a tied-down victim... and of course, [[MauveShirt Ronald the Intern]] holding up a sign reading "Help me! A [[BatOutOfHell dragonbat]] has my scent."
* Reversed and PlayedForLaughs in ''Film/LoadedWeapon1'', when in the background of one scene a woman is seen being asked by the cops to describe a suspect. She gives a description, and the police sketch artist is assembling a Mr. Potatohead based on the womans description. In a later scene, a person looking like Mr. Potatohead is arrested by the police. (And protests that he's innocent)
* In the Creator/AlfredHitchcock classic ''Film/NorthByNorthwest'', during the scene in the Mount Rushmore cafe, a boy in the background puts his fingers in his ears right before one of the villains fires a gun... because Hitchcock shot eleven takes on that one scene, and the boy was apparently getting bothered by the noise.
* In ''Film/TheAmazingSpiderMan,'' a delightfully aloof librarian carries out his business with noise-cancelling headphones playing classical music in his ear. He walks out of the Midtown High library, never realizing that [[spoiler: Spider-Man and the Lizard have demolished the place mid-brawl, with Spidey even webbing a Lizard-flung desk away from the elderly man, very likely saving his life.]] This scene will likely go down as [[spoiler: Creator/StanLee's best CreatorCameo ever.]]
** Later in the movie, when Spidey is talking to Gwen on the phone, three girls in the background can be seen spotting him, pointing to him, and then taking a selfie.
* In the beginning of ''Film/DumbAndDumber'' when Lloyd chauffeurs Mary to the airport, he turns his head and tells Mary not to worry about anything while he runs a red light followed by an explosion behind the rear window.
** When Harry and Lloyd run from the two criminals near the beginning a bum can be seen in the background pissing on a wall.
* In ''Film/DumbAndDumberTo'', Harry's cat is seen swinging on a chandelier after eating off the roommate's meth tray.
* ''Film/PiratesOfTheCaribbeanTheCurseOfTheBlackPearl''
** In the climactic fight scene between the ''Black Pearl'' and the ''Interceptor'', while Barbossa is looking all dramatic and shouting orders, a pirate can be seen behind him dangling in mid air from a bunch of ropes while his shipmates try to get him down.
** When Murtogg and Mullroy begin arguing about how just because a ship has black sails ''doesn't'' make it the ''Black Pearl'', we see Jack slowly slide out of frame, then appear in the background walking across the gangplank to the ''Interceptor'' and happily positioning himself behind the wheel. It's only then they realise he's no longer standing next to them.

* In ''Film/JayAndSilentBobStrikeBack'' Jay and Silent Bob attempt to leave the film shoot, as Ben Affleck and Matt Damon are filming ''Goodwill Hunting 2''. A crew member is then seen escorting them back to their spot.
** In the same film, Jay notices an attractive reporter doing a story about the two of them and makes crude gestures and body movements behind her on camera without her even noticing.
* An odd, possibly unintentional one occurs in Wrestling/HulkHogan vehicle ''Film/MrNanny''. During a short montage of Hogan's character riding his motorcycle, he passes by the ocean - behind him, a man can be seen throwing a dog in the water.
* In ''{{Film/Dogma}}'' while Loki and Bartleby are discussing their plan to get back into heaven, a nun who was earlier taking collections is seen stumbling drunkenly out of a bar.
* Even documentaries aren't immune. One of the ''Series/{{Up}}'' movies has the now-famous scene where one of the subjects' dog kills a rabbit in the bushes behind her during the interview.
* During the finale of the Music/ElvisPresley film ''Fun in Acapulco'', Raoul can be seen dancing on a hat!
* In ''Film/StarTrekIntoDarkness'', when the experimental torpedoes are delivered to the ''Enterprise'', Keenser is seen in the background sitting on one and looking rather taken with it while Scotty is pitching a fit at Kirk.
-->'''Scotty:''' [[CatchPhrase Get down!]]
** At the end of the ColdOpen, the native casually dropping the sacred scroll as they start worshipping the ''Enterprise'' instead.
** When Kirk and Scotty meet up with [=McCoy=] in sickbay after [[spoiler: Spock detonates the torpedoes]], Scotty glances down at [=McCoy=]'s arm and goes wide-eyed. [[spoiler: The doctor rearmed all the torpedoes the same way he armed the first one, getting his arm repeatedly caught by the sliding panels]].

* In ''Film/PacificRim'', as Gottlieb rattles off his predictions to Pentecost and Herc, Geiszler can be seen making "blah blah blah" motions with his hand. Likewise, in an earlier scene, when Geiszler gushes about how much he loves Kaiju to Raleigh, Gottlieb is shaking his head.

* Similarly to the page image, ''Film/HellboyIITheGoldenArmy'' has an early scene where the main characters are just strolling past BPRD agents wrestling with some kind of tentacle monster.
* ''Film/XMenFilmSeries''
** ''Film/XMen1'':
*** Magneto is giving out orders in his barren cave-office as a Newton's Cradle clicks back and forth on his desk. As he turns to leave, the little metal balls clatter to the floor, revealing that there were no wires and it was just him mentally fidgeting.
*** The audio of the news broadcast at the end of the movie is quite amusing in a dark way.
--->"In a related story, the body of Senator Kelly's longtime aide, Henry Guyrich, was found today. Preliminary coroner reports seem to indicate that Guyrich was mauled by a bear."
** ''Film/XMenFirstClass'': Combined with a BrickJoke, Amy (the first woman that Charles tries to pick up at the beginning of the movie) shows up at his graduation party and smiles at him--then Moira [=MacTaggert=] cuts in front to talk with Charles. Behind them, Amy leaves in a huff because she's annoyed that Xavier would rather chat with Moira than with her.
** ''Film/{{Deadpool 2016}}'': When Colossus and Deadpool are on the bridge arguing about Deadpool's recklessness, a dead mook falls off an overhead sign onto a car.
--->'''Deadpool:''' [[BlatantLies That guy was up there before I got here.]]
** ''Film/XMenApocalypse'':
*** When the scantily-clad lady who holds up the "Kampf 11" sign passes by the cage, Angel wolf-whistles at her.
*** After Jean Grey dismisses Scott Summers as an airhead when he's rude to her for reading his mind ("Don't worry, Scott, there's not much to see"), Alex can be seen laughing at her joke.

--->'''Rocket''': Now, this is important. Once the battery is removed, everything is gonna slam into emergency mode. Once we have it, we gotta move quickly, so you definitely need to get that last.
--->'''Groot''': ''[removes the battery and the alarms go off]''
--->'''Rocket''': Or we could just get it ''first'' and improvise!

* All over the place in Abel Gance's ''Austerlitz''. For instance, one scene has the Austrian and Russian generals discussing their strategy for the eponymous battle... while one of them is petting a kitten in the background.

* In ''[[{{Film/Godzilla 2014}} Godzilla]]'' after the soldiers managed to successfully steal the Nuke away from MUTO's layer. The next scene shows them running like hell, carrying the nuke like it's a Sofa they stole, while the Titular Monsters are kicking the crap out of each other in the background.
* Isaac [[spoiler:beating the crap out of Gus' trophies and egging Monica's car, both of which happen during Gus and Hazel's heart-to-hearts]] in ''Film/TheFaultInOurStars''.
* ''Film/FatalInstinct'': At a murder scene the cops in the background keep falling over each other due to the amount of blood on the floor.
* ''Film/JurassicWorld'': As Zach and Gray are about to enter the Restricted Area of the titular park in the Gyrosphere, a pair of ''Parasaurolophus'' get into a brief fight in the background.
* ''Film/TheManFromUNCLE2015'' has two examples: The first has Napoleon Solo casually enjoying a purloined snack with wine while [[spoiler: his partner engages on a mayhem filled boat chase]]. The second as Solo and Kuryakin discuss what to do with [[spoiler: Uncle Rudi, blissfully oblivious to the man burning up in his faulty electric torture device]].
-->'''Kuryakin:''' Huh. [[BondOneLiner He fixed the glitch.]]
-->'''Solo''': Damn. [[ComicallyMissingThePoint I left my jacket in there]].

* ''Film/TheLastSamurai'' has an unintentional example: in a scene where Nathan Algren meets up with his troops, [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w-AO3Zoce-8 a horse can be seeing kicking one of the soldiers]] [[GroinAttack in the nuts]].

** During "Pure Imagination," Veruca and Violet elbow and claw at each other as they descend the stairs into the Chocolate Room. This was actually [[ThrowItIn thrown in]] by Julie Dawn Cole and Creator/DeniseNickerson, as the cast's only direction was that they could not stand in front of Creator/GeneWilder.

* Bong Joon-ho has [[AuthorAppeal an affinity]] for the Funny Background Event. In ''Film/TheHost'', while the Park family is writhing on the floor and crying hysterically over Gang-du's daughter Hyun-seo's death, a man in the background chides a woman for not parking properly.
** In ''Film/MemoriesOfMurder'', the two detectives are arguing while a third makes out with a hostess in the background.
* There are quite a few of these in ''Film/LooneyTunesBackInAction'':
** While Bugs and Kate are talking in the studio commissary, Ralph Wolf is seen about eat a sheep before inevitably getting beaten up by Sam Sheepdog. Later in that same scene, the man from "One Froggy Evening" steals Michigan J. Frog and dashes away.
** While the main characters wandering the desert, Wile E. Coyote tries to blow them up with an Acme missile, only for it to misfire and land right next to him. The scene then cuts to an unrelated scene of the gang while a huge explosion can be seen in the background.
** Bugs and Daffy usually make a couple visual gags when the live-action humans are talking.
* In ''Film/BlindsidedTheGame'', the paintings in the house of the blind protagonist, Walter, are all hung upside-down.
* In ''Film/SuperMarioBros'', after Koopa's defeat, Mario, Luigi, and Daisy can be seen dancing with Bertha and the old lady that stole the rock earlier.
* ''Film/LocalHero'': After talking with Reverend [=McPherson=], Mac and Danny discuss their opinions of the reverend and how the deal is going so far; as they do, half the village's population is sneaking out of the church hall where they were eavesdropping.
* ''{{Film/Vamps}}'': A man on a hospital gurney checking his cell phone when Goody runs into her old boyfriend from the sixties.

* ''Film/LocalHero'': After talking with Reverend McPherson, Mac and Danny discuss their opinions of the reverend and how the deal is going so far; as they do, half the village's population is sneaking out of the church hall where they were eavesdropping.

** In ''The Fellowship of The Ring'', Merry and Pippin can often be seen goofing off in the backgrounds of otherwise serious scenes.
** In ''The Two Towers'', after the big flood we can see an Ent extinguishing his burning head in the water. Unusual in that he's actually in the foreground, but it's still easy to miss.
** In ''Return of The King'', Gandalf wryly laments the tragic end of Denethor, the Steward of Gondor, while directly behind him, a maddened Denethor (who has gone mad from grief and guilt) -- who is ''[[ManOnFire on fire]]'' -- runs screaming in slow-motion for a long distance before finally leaping straight off the edge of a high cliff. Doubles as {{Narm}} (especially NarmCharm) and MeaningfulBackgroundEvent. The supposed solemnity of the moment is very much ''not helped'' by the fact that Gandalf says "So passes Denethor, son of Ecthelion" just as the burning Denethor, well, ''passes'' Gandalf and a gaggle of guards as he runs out screaming, making it seem like Gandalf's tribute is an archaic way of saying "heads up, guy on fire coming through!"
** Also from the third, as Aragorn is taking a breather at the end of the battle near Minas Tirith, we see one of the giant elephant creatures still running around behind him, looking like it might get a little too close to Aragorn if he's not careful.. and then the ghost army that Aragorn enlisted the help of earlier in the film overruns and overwhelms it until it falls over.

* An odd, possibly unintentional one occurs in HulkHogan vehicle ''Mr. Nanny''. During a short montage of Hogan's character riding his motorcycle, he passes by the ocean - behind him, a man can be seen throwing a dog in the water.

* In ''Film/FightClub'', the Narrator is talking to Marla on the phone as Tyler dicks around with nun chucks in the back ground.

* In ''Film/{{Eurotrip}}'', when Scott it talking to Mieke's father in their home in Berlin, her little brother is seen [[AllGermansAreNazis goose-stepping back and forth]] [[CrossingTheLineTwice with a drawn-on Hitler mustache.]]

* An otherwise dour conversation scene in the (rather insular) Finnish movie ''[[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/On_the_Road_to_Emmaus Emmauksen Tiellä]]'' shows two unnamed men in the distance behind the actors, taking turns jumping on an anti-tank mine. The result is predictable.

-->'''Rocket''': Now, this is important. Once the battery is removed, everything is gonna slam into emergency mode. Once we have it, we gotta move quickly, so you definitely need to get that last.
-->'''Groot''': ''[removes the battery and the alarms go off]''
-->'''Rocket''': Or we could just get it ''first'' and improvise!

* In ''Film/DonJuanDemarco'', the opening scene shows Don Juan, wearing a mask, going up to a random woman in a hotel restaurant and romantically seducing her, then taking his leave just before his husband arrives. Later in the film, Don Juan goes into the restaurant without his mask. In the background is the woman, looking around longingly.