History FunnyBackgroundEvent / LiveActionFilms

* 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/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.

* ''Film/CitizenKane'' has a scene of Kane and his friends enjoying a beach party. Because the scene was shot on a sound stage, the Florida wetlands in the background are represented by rear-projected stock footage of the jungles of [[LostWorld Skull Island]] taken from ''Film/TheSonOfKong''. It's a quick scene, so it's easy to miss that those things flying around the treetops ''are not birds''. So yes, technically there are [[PteroSoarer pterodactyles]] in ''Citizen Kane''.

* 'Film/RuthlessPeople'':

** 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.

* ''Film/{{Godzilla|2014}}'': After the soldiers managed to successfully steal the Nuke away from MUTO's nest, 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.

** Giselle is staring at fish in an aquarium, and ''[[WesternAnimation/TheLittleMermaid Little Mermaid]]'''s "Part of Your World" is playing. (Incidentally, Robert's secretary is played by Jodi Benson, the voice of Ariel)

'''Rocket:''' Or we could just get it ''first'' and improvise!

** 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."

** Two characters are trying to have an exposition-filled conversation in a pizza place. The conversation quickly gets overtaken by two people struggling with an incredibly cheesy pizza in the background.

* The ''Film/MenInBlack'' movies, most memorably the scene on the main page, with a {{Human Alien|s}} 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 Film/TheFlintstones, while Wilma and Betty are chatting in the foreground, Bamm-Bamm pushes Pebbles on the swings so hard she goes [[ThreeSixtyDegreeSwingSetSwing a full 360-degree around the bar]]. ''Twice''.

** ''Film/GuardiansOfTheGalaxy'': Rocket is explaining the tools he needs for his escape plan and they momentarily argue over the difficulty of obtaining the quarnex battery before Rocket continues his explanation. Meanwhile, Groot in the background casually walks up to the battery and starts tearing it out of the wall, inadvertently knocking out another inmate in the process. Drax also wanders into the background and watches Groot, then glances around, clearly wondering why no-one is stopping him.

* 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/{{Godzilla|2014}}'': 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.

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

* ''Film/AdvanceToTheRear:'' 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.
* ''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.

* ''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.

* 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.

* ''Film/Godzilla2014'': 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.
* In ''Film/{{Gremlins}}'', when Billy's dad in on the phone at his inventor's convention, in the background is a time machine (like the one used in the 1960 film, ''[[Film/TheTimeMachine1960 The Time Machine]]'', also seen on ''Series/TheBigBangTheory''). The time machine disappears (having gone back in time) and people start feeling the air around where it was, looking for it.

* 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.

* 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...

* In ''Film/JurassicPark'', in his scene with Dennis, Dodgson exits his car he's being driven around in, and neglects to shut his car door. His driver has to get out and shut it for him, throwing him a dirty look and gesture from behind him.
* ''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.

** 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.

* ''Film/TheManFromUNCLE2015'':

-->'''Kuryakin:''' Huh. [[BondOneLiner He fixed the glitch.]]\\
'''Solo''': Damn. [[ComicallyMissingThePoint I left my jacket in there.]]

* ''Franchise/MarvelCinematicUniverse'':
** ''Film/GuardiansOfTheGalaxy'': Rocket is explaining the tools he needs for his escape plan and they momentarily argue over the difficulty of obtaining the quarnex battery before Rocket continues his explanation. Meanwhile, Groot in the background casually walks up to the battery and starts tearing it out of the wall, inadvertently knocking out another inmate in the process. Drax also wanders into the background and watches Groot, then glances around, clearly wondering why no one is stopping him.
--->'''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!

* ''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 ''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!]]

*** Obi-Wan rolling his eyes at Han Solo's [[DelusionsOfEloquence obvious BS]] about his Kessel run performance.

* ''Film/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtles2014'':

** When Splinter is lamenting April's involvement during the Turtles' ''hashi'' punishment, Mikey's hand can be seen reaching for the [[spoiler: pizza slice Splinter used to break his concentration. At the end of the scene he can be seen happily munching away on it]].
* 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."

* ''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.

* ''Film/WarCraft2016'' has a few:

** When Medivh absent-mindedly gives his staff to Khadgar and starts casting teleportation, Khadgar can be seen in the back looking at it with something approaching religious reverence. The same happens again when Medivh plants his staff in the ground and Khadgar picks it up and looks at it in awe.

* 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).

** ''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.

In the beginning of ''Film/IndependenceDay'', there's a scene where Will Smith's character and his buddy have a conversation in a locker room about the former's desire to propose to his girlfriend. The other fellow is like, it's easy, man, and even proceeds to kneel to half-jokingly "demonstrate" how to do it. At that moment, some other soldier shows up in the background, notices the scene, raises his hands in a "didn't mean to interrupt" gesture and backs out without a word.

** 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.

** ''Film/TopSecret'' has a scene where two characters are trying to have an exposition-filled conversation in a pizza place. The conversation quickly gets overtaken by two people struggling with an incredibly cheesy pizza in the background.
*** ''Film/TopSecret'' has another when Nick, having been told a jacket and tie are required to enter the club, is led away. A foreground conversation then ensues between two minor characters; in the background Nick is seen being measured and fitted with a custom-made suit.

*** 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.

*** [[YouHaveFailedMe Admiral Ozzel getting strangled]] while Vader talks to Captain Piett, [[YouAreInCommandNow who is officially promoted to Admiral once Ozzel drops dead]].

* 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 ''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 the MTV cult classic ''Joe's Apartment'':

* 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.