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6->''"They rot, the world rots. Global warming, black plague, bad cell reception, get it?"''
7-->-- '''Proctor''', ''Film/{{RIPD}}''
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10* Our MoralGuardians' attempts to give us a measure of some or other work against their serious verified and absolute morale standards all too often will include funny items:
11** The Website/IMDb parental guides have a lot of these. Laundry lists of terrifying violence and brutality followed by "A man and a woman argue about parking tickets." A great example [[http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0080491/parentalguide is for]] ''Film/{{Caligula}}'', where the Violence section has, along with gems such as "A man is suffocated with a cloth and he dies." and "A machine with huge blades cuts peoples heads off lots of blood and heads roll"... "A woman is slapped."
12** Critics have fun with this when writing good reviews:
13---> This was a brilliant film, one of my all time favourites as it had everything, rebellion, violence, horror, adventure, religion, death, slavery '''and bad language'''.
14** Nothing can beat [[http://www.capalert.com/ CAP-Alert]] for this: "This film contains murder, blasphemy, and bare male chests."
15** The MPAA is similarly ridiculous when rating films.
16*** ''Sydney White'' is rated PG-13 for "some language, sexual humor and partying." ''17 Again'' lists similar reasons.
17*** [[http://screenit.com/all_titles.html Screenit.com]] also judges whether films are family-friendly using categories like Sex/Nudity, Violence, Blood/Gore, and Suspenseful Music. They also consider an unclothed female mannequin to belong in the Sex/Nudity section.
18*** Their rating of ''Film/StarTrek2009'' had the last entry under imitative behavior, including swearing and driving a car over a cliff, as:
19--->"Some kids might imitate the Vulcan hand gesture of spreading apart the two adjacent fingers on each side of the hand."
20*** Tim Burton's ''Film/AliceInWonderland2010'' could give it a run for its money. Its official MPAA rating is PG, for "fantasy action/violence involving scary images and situations, and for a smoking caterpillar. " Well, alright then. They might get in even more of an uproar if they knew what he was smoking. Give you a hint: [[spoiler: It's not tobacco.]] Despite mixed reviews, The Dove Foundation took an image of Alice (holding the White Rabbit), added a few ideas and VOLIA! A FAMILY-APPROVED CLASSIC!
21*** The rating of ''[[Film/{{My Spy}} My Spy: The Eternal City]]'' tops Alice in Wonderland. The film was rated PG-13 for "violence/action, some strong language, suggestive references, teen drinking, and a nude sculpture." Apparently, sculptures now get an automatic PG-13 rating.
22* The ''42nd Street Forever'' ExploitationFilm trailer compilation [=DVD=]s are prone to this due to featuring trailers from all kinds of movies. ''42nd Street Forever Volume 2: The Deuce'' includes trailers for ''Film/{{The Texas Chainsaw Massacre|1974}}'', ''Film/{{Ms 45}}'' and...''[=Skatetown=] USA'', a roller disco movie with Scott Baio, Flip Wilson, Ruth Buzzi, "And Introducing Creator/PatrickSwayze."
23* ''Film/The5000FingersOfDrT'':
24-->"First Floor Dungeon: Assorted simple tortures. Molten lead, chopping blocks, and hot boiling oil.\
25Second Floor Dungeon: Jewelry Department."
26** But subverted with the very next line...
27-->"Leg chains, ankle chains, wrist chains, neck chains, thumb screws and nooses of the very finest rope!"
28* Used and toyed with in ''Film/AddamsFamilyValues'' when the family comes to Debbie's house to visit Fester:
29-->'''Morticia:''' You have gone too far. You have married Fester. You have destroyed his spirit. You have taken him from us. All that I could forgive. But Debbie?\
30'''Debbie:''' What?\
31'''Morticia:''' (''reproachfully, eying the decor'') Pastels?
32* ''Film/TheAdventuresOfBuckarooBanzaiAcrossTheEighthDimension'' has this in the President's response to Buckaroo's briefing on the situation:
33-->''Buckaroo, I don't know what to say. Lectroids. Planet ten. Nuclear extortion. A girl named John?''
34* Creator/GaryOldman's terrorist character in ''Film/AirForceOne'': "When you talk to the President, you might remind him that I am holding his wife, his daughter, his chief of staff, his national security adviser, his classified papers -- ''and his baseball glove!''"
35-->"Dammit! Nobody does this to the United States! The president will get his glove back and play catch with this guy's balls!"
36* Newspaper headlines in ''Film/{{Airplane}}'':
37-->'''Rex Kramer:''' Passengers certain to die!\
38'''Steve [=McCroskey=]:''' Airline negligent.\
39'''Johnny:''' There's a sale at Penney's!
40* In ''Film/AirplaneIITheSequel'', stewardess Elaine makes an announcement to the passengers of the film's Space Shuttle-like spacecraft: they're half a million miles off course, missing a navigational system, and being bombarded by asteroids. The passengers remain calm, until...
41-->'''Passenger''': Miss, are you telling us absolutely everything?\
42'''Elaine''': Not exactly. We're also out of coffee.\
43''[riot breaks out]''
44* ''Film/AmericanGangster'': Frank Lucas wants to get heroin directly from the producers, who live deep in the South Asian jungle. His cousin really doesn't want to go: "There's snakes, [[UsefulNotes/TheVietnamWar Viet Cong]], and ''mosquitoes that'll fuckin' kill yo' ass!''"
45* ''Film/AntManAndTheWasp'': After being shot full of {{Truth Serum|s}} and found by the FBI, [[spoiler: Sonny Burch]] readily confesses to ordering several murders, leading a criminal gang, and committing loads of health code violations in his restaurant, "Some of which would shock you."
46* In ''Film/Aquaman2018'', during the first duel between [[CainAndAbel Arthur and Orm]], Arthur's display describes his cons as being a surface dweller, a half breed... and a drunk.
47* The tagline for ''Film/ArmyOfDarkness'': "Trapped in time. Surrounded by evil. Low on gas."
48* In ''Film/TheAsphaltJungle'', Commissioner Hardy is dissatisfied with one of his officer's performance on duty and has three options for him: Reduce him to patrolman, bring him up for trial on charges of incompetence or ... give him one more chance to make good on his responsibilities.
49* ''Film/AustinPowers'': When he learns Dr. Evil has hijacked nuclear weapons, Austin says that only two things scare him, and one is nuclear war. When asked what his second fear was, he says "carnies."
50* In ''Film/AvengersAgeOfUltron'', Hawkeye lampshades his role on the team:
51-->'''Hawkeye:''' The city is flying, we're fighting an army of robots... and I have a bow and arrow. None of this makes sense.
52* In ''Film/BadBoys1995'', a convenience store clerk mistakes Detectives Burnett and Lowrey for robbers and holds them at gunpoint. When they turn the tables on the clerk and draw their own guns, they say the following:
53-->'''Mike Lowrey:''' Now back up, put the gun down, and get me a pack of Tropical Fruit Bubblicious.\
54'''Marcus Burnett:''' And some Skittles!
55* In the 1976 version of ''Film/TheBadNewsBears'', Tanner drops this gem when Amanda joins the team:
56-->'''Tanner:''' Jews, spics, niggers, and now a ''girl''?
57* ''Film/BatmanReturns'', the Penguin was furious that he failed to kill Batman when he rigged his car.
58-->'''Penguin:''' He didn't even lose a limb! An eye ball! Bladder control!
59* Rose Ratliff from ''Film/BigBusiness1988'' is prone to this.
60** She complains about all the noise, smog, crowds, muggers, sex fiends and ''politicians'' on the limo ride to Manhattan.
61** She complains during breakfast about Moramax trying to bribe them, then handing them their plans to strip mine Jupiter Hollow and ''overcharging them for pancakes''.
62* Subverted in ''Film/BillyMadison'' (combined with a compressed BrickJoke) by Billy's father after learning that Billy was telling the truth the whole time. He proceeds to describe what happened, and then adds in offhand that Eric's secretary is in a coma,
63-->"First the psycho goes on TV, lies, then retracts it, and now Eric's secretary is in a coma."
64* ''Film/BlackAdam2022'': Amon's first scene has him lecture an Intergang {{Mook}} about all of the terrible things their corrupt colonial forces are doing to ruin the country. He ends this serious recital by noting that Intergang forces the local populace to spend a lot of time waiting in line.
65* ''Film/BlazingSaddles'':
66** Hedley Lamarr gives out a long list of evil people that he wants to recruit as {{mook}}s, topping it off with a triumphant, "...and ''Methodists!''". There's no given reason why Methodists are lumped in with such villains.
67** Later in the film the bigoted people of Rock Ridge face being completely overwhelmed by Lamarr's EvilArmy unless they accept the help of a large group of railroad workers, and in return give some of local land to these workers. (Said workers are mostly black and Chinese.) After a bit of discussion the people announce "Ok, we'll give some land to the niggers and the chinks, but we ''don't want the Irish!''." This is a deliberate attempt to show how meaningless prejudice and racism is, and how what are now seemingly generic groups were once a major target of such prejudice.
68* Combined with InsultBackfire in ''Film/TheBorrowers1997''. [[EvilLawyerJoke Potter]] overhears Arrietty calling him every synonym for "evil" in the book, but only takes offense to being called ugly.
69* In ''Film/{{Brazil}}'', arrested [[spoiler: Sam Lowry]] is presented with a long and painstakingly accurate [[ListOfTransgressions list of his transgressions]], from high treason to overexpenditure of stationery. Because he lives in a dystopia of bureaucracy gone mad, it's actually played for drama.
70* In ''Film/BurkeAndHare'', a woman is executed for "Prostitution, Thievery, Public Drunkeness and a Bad Attitude."
71* From ''Film/{{Caddyshack}}'': "Fooling Around on the Course, Bad Language, Smoking Grass, Poor Caddying."
72* ''Film/{{Caligula}}'', so, ''so'' much. In the June 28, 1976 issue of ''Variety'', an ad announcing the beginning of filming included the words, "What better proof that I am God. I have a husband. And a wife. I am all that is and shall ever be." However, nothing about Caligula's husband or his homosexuality made it into the film. So, you could have Creator/{{Malcolm McDowell}} play a character who engages in rape, torture, murder, incest, bestiality and other horrible acts, but they couldn't say he was ''gay''. The film itself became notorious for scenes of hardcore pornography, graphic violence and...poor editing.
73* ''Film/CheechAndChongsTheCorsicanBrothers'': Fuckaire asks Louis if he would like to say any last words before his public execution.
74--->'''Louis:''' The only thing I wanna say is that you've kept me in a dungeon, and you beat me, and you tortured me, and you even ''kissed'' me. But I want these people to know, the only thing you've really done is made me really, ''really'' hungry.
75* ''Film/{{Clerks}}'': A mother and small child come into the video store to order "Happy Scrappy Hero Pup". Randal phones the distributors and orders a long list of increasingly disturbing porn titles, ending by turning to the mother and saying "Uh, what was that called again?"
76* One of the taglines for the film of ''Film/AClockworkOrange'' was [[InWhichATropeIsDescribed "Being the adventures]] of a young man whose principal interests are rape, ultraviolence and Beethoven."
77* Inverted in ''Film/{{Clue}}'', when the guests locked up the police officer who asked to use the phone.
78-->'''Cop:''' Let me outta here! Let me outta here! You have no right to shut me in! I'll book you for false arrest, and wrongful imprisonment, and obstructing an officer in the course of his duty... and ''murder!''\
79'''Wadsworth:''' (''Wadsworth opens the door, feigning innocence, while other guests gather around'') What do you mean... murder?\
80'''Cop:''' I just said it so you would open the door.
81* Played with in ''Film/ConanTheBarbarian1982''. As far as [[EvilOverlord he]] is concerned, these offenses are in the proper order:
82-->'''Thulsa Doom:''' You broke into my house, stole my property, murdered my servants, and my PETS! And that is what grieves me the most! You killed my snake. Thorgrim is beside himself with grief!\
83(''cut to [[TheBrute Thorgrim]], who is making a little frown'')
84** Conan replies in kind.
85-->'''Conan:''' You killed my mother! {{You killed my father}}, [[DoomedHometown you killed my people]]! You TOOK MY [[AncestralWeapon FATHER'S SWORD!!]]."
86* At the end of the training weekend in ''Film/DadsArmy1971'', General Fullard chews out Captain Mainwaring for turning up late, several counts of damage to army property, nearly causing him and his horse to drown... [[BrickJoke and for not cashing his check six months ago]].
87* A wordless example from ''Film/TheDarkKnight'', when Gordon observes of ComicBook/TheJoker that there was "nothing in his pockets but knives and lint", we see a cop laying out [[PsychoKnifeNut various sizes and shapes of knife]] on a table. The last is [[NoodleImplements a potato peeler]], emphasised by a perfect piece of silent comedy as the handler does a brief DoubleTake. Could also double as FridgeHorror.
88* ''Film/DeathBecomesHer'':
89** Helen tells Ernest that Madeline was a homewrecker, a man-eater and a ''bad actress''.
90** Madeline then blackmails Ernest about killing Helen.
91--->'''Madeline''': Do you know what they do to soft, bald, overweight ''Republicans'' in prison, Ernest?
92* When The Collector is trying to tempt Jeryline in ''Film/DemonKnight'':
93-->'''The Collector:''' You know, it doesn't have to be unpleasant. Hell, I'd rather it wasn't! All right, I know what you're thinking. You [[DealWithTheDevil give up your soul]], you turn into a demon, you look like ''shit''. Where's the payoff, right?
94* Not played for comedy in ''Film/DieHard'' when Hans calls out Joe Takagi by listing his sterling business achievements but ending it by saying that Joe is a father of five children.
95* The ''Film/DirtyHarry'' film series:
96** In ''Film/MagnumForce'', Harry, delivering his KirkSummation speech to the [[VigilanteMan vigilante cops]], tells them they will eventually start shooting neighbors for letting their dogs piss on their lawn.
97** In ''Film/SuddenImpact'', Harry delivers a long monologue about all the rotten things he sees as a homicide cop (babies abandoned in dumpsters, etc.) but says the thing that really gets to him, that really makes him sick to his stomach, is the fact that his partner puts ketchup on his hot dog!
98* ''Film/DodgeballATrueUnderdogStory'' has a video store calling to remind a character that the following DVD's are overdue: ''Drunken Hussies 3'', ''Backdoor Patrol 5'', and ''Film/MonaLisaSmile''.
99* ''Film/{{Dogma}}''
100** Rufus the 13th Apostle is talking to Bethany about Jesus Christ, and lists off some of the things being done in his name that he doesn't like. "Wars! Bigotry! Televangelism!"
101** Loki kills a bunch of board members for (among other things) adultery, disowning a gay son, incest, and he tried to kill one woman for not saying "God Bless You" when he sneezed, and he almost shoots her before Bartleby pulls him away.
102* In ''Film/{{Fathom|1967}}'', Ms. Harvill describes her problems as: "Treason, arson, murder and a parking ticket."
103* The {{tagline}} on posters for ''Film/FightClub'' was "Mischief. Mayhem. Soap." [[spoiler:This, however, is a subversion: the soap is made out of discarded fat from liposuctions]]. A straighter example are some of Project Mayhem's antics: among acts of threatening people at gunpoint, massive acts of arson and vandalism, and headlines like "Police Seize Excrement Canon" and "Performance Artist Molested", one simply reads "Power Outage At Local Mall".
104* ''Film/AFishCalledWanda'' was marketed as "a tale of murder, lust, greed, revenge, and seafood."
105* In ''Film/TheFrenchConnection'', after his partner's been stabbed, Popeye Doyle wants to run the suspect in for that, for drug possession, "and for picking your feet in Poughkeepsie!"
106* In ''Film/FreshMeat'', Ritchie Tan's onscreen introduction lists his crimes as murder, kidnapping, and selling fruit without a licence.
107* ''Film/{{Ghostbusters 1984}}'': The warning of the dire consequences of their being incarcerated as Gozer prepares to manifest:
108-->'''Dr. Peter Venkman:''' This city is headed for a disaster of biblical proportions.\
109'''Mayor:''' What do you mean, "biblical"?\
110'''Dr. Ray Stantz:''' What he means is Old Testament, Mr. Mayor, real wrath of God type stuff.\
111'''Dr. Peter Venkman:''' Exactly.\
112'''Dr. Ray Stantz:''' Fire and brimstone coming down from the skies! Rivers and seas boiling!\
113'''Dr. Egon Spengler:''' Forty years of darkness! Earthquakes, volcanoes...\
114'''Winston Zeddemore:''' The dead rising from the grave!\
115'''Dr. Peter Venkman:''' Human sacrifice, dogs and cats living together... mass hysteria!
116* ''Film/GleahanAndTheKnavesOfIndustry:'' Seen toward the end of the movie.
117--> '''Judge''': First degree assault. Seven counts of involuntary manslaughter. Numerous criminal violations of labor laws including wage violation. Failure to maintain a safe work environment. Interfering with the rights of employees to act together. And the city prosecutor would like it noted that if Duluth had laws on jaywalking, [[LampshadeHanging you would be accused of that as well]].
118* Near the end of W. C. Fields' ''Film/TheGolfSpecialist'', we briefly see J. Effingham Bellweather's wanted poster which includes such things as manslaughter and homicide. The next shot is a ten-second pan down a list of his other offenses:
119-->Bigamy,\
120Passing as the Prince of Wales,\
121Eating spaghetti in public,\
122Using hard words in a speakeasy,\
123Trumping partner's ace,\
124Spitting in the Gulf Stream,\
125Jumping board bill in seventeen lunatic asylums,\
126Failure to pay installments on a strait-jacket,\
127Possessing a skunk,\
128Revealing the facts of life to an Indian.
129* In ''Film/TheGoodTheBadAndTheUgly'', Tuco's rap sheet goes from murder and rape down to transporting a minor across state lines for immoral purposes, and "contrary to the laws of this state, the accused has been found guilty of using marked cards in a poker game!"
130** "I'm looking for the owner of that horse. He's tall, blond, he smokes a cigar and he's a pig!"
131* ''Film/GodzillaFinalWars'' have this happening in the montage where various kaiju are attacking cities across the world. Rodan in New York, Zilla attacking Sydney, Anguirus trampling over Shanghai, King Seesar destroying Okinawa, Kamacuras slicing across Paris... and Kumonga, the last one in the montage, destroying a tiny cabin in the middle of a desert with nary a skyscraper in sight. Presumably, Kumonga was tasked with attacking Las Vegas, but the Xilliens displaces the GiantSpider a few hundred miles away in the Mojave Desert and decide to just leave him there.
132* In ''Film/GoodWillHunting'', Sean is planning on traveling.
133-->'''Jerald:''' Where will you go?\
134'''Sean:''' India, China... and Baltimore.
135* ''Film/GroundhogDay'' has a scene where Phil exploits his [[GroundhogDayLoop temporal vacuum]] to [[BigEater indulge heretofore inconceivable appetites]]. A (quite rightly) concerned Rita asks, "Don't you worry about cholesterol, lung cancer, love handles?"
136* ''Film/GuardiansOfTheGalaxyVol2'': Right before the final showdown between Peter/Star-Lord and Ego.
137-->'''Peter:''' You shouldn't have [[spoiler: killed my mom and squished my Walkman!]]
138* ''Film/{{Gunless}}'': Sean is introduced being brought into town tied up, with a noose around his neck and a bullet wound in behind, upon finding out he is in Canada, he states he thought it couldn't get any worse.
139* ''Film/LaHaine'': From a window, the guy played by DJ Cut Killer blasts {{sampling}}s of several HardcoreHipHop songs including a 'Nique la police' ('Fuck the Police') lyric by Music/SupremeNTM along with Music/KRSOne's "Sound of da Police", Assassin's "Je Glisse" and... Music/EdithPiaf's "Non, je ne regrette rien".
140* In ''Film/HarryPotterAndThePhilosophersStone'', after meeting the Cerberine Fluffy while wandering after curfew, Hermione chastises Harry and Ron, saying, "We could have been killed... or worse, EXPELLED!" [[SkewedPriorities Ron mentions that Hermione needs to get her priorities straight]].
141* ''Film/HighSchoolMusical2'' has "Fabulous" where Sharpay sings about the high quality stuff that she likes.
142-->"Iced tea imported from England/Lifeguards imported from Spain/Towels imported from Turkey/And turkey imported from ''Maine''"
143* This exchange in ''Film/TheHitchhikersGuideToTheGalaxy2005''.
144-->'''Arthur''' : We can talk about being "normal" till the cows come home, but what's "normal"?
145-->'''Tricia''': What's home?
146-->'''Zaphod''': What are cows?
147* In ''Film/HocusPocus'': As they prepare for battle against the witches, Max and his girlfriend Allison go to get a container of salt. They look at the label on the container and Allison reads that salt protects against "zombies, witches and old boyfriends." (To which Max quips, "What about new boyfriends?")
148* Kent in ''Film/HotShots'' doesn't trust Topper because his father bailed on Kent during flight. Yet offhandedly forgives the other members of the team who were more involved in his death, including one who ate him for dinner after he was mistaken for game and shot.
149* ''Film/HoubaOnTheTrailOfTheMarsupilami'' has this prophecy of TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt:
150-->'''Payan Queen:''' The world will fall into chaos. The birds will sing wrong. The jaguar will be eaten by the rabbit. The tree will cut the lumberjack. And everything will taste like passion fruit.
151* In ''How High'', the black supremacist Reparation Technical Institute offers students a wide variety of courses, such as Hatred Towards the White Devil, ADVANCED Hatred Towards the White Devil, and Volleyball.
152* In ''Film/HowTheGrinchStoleChristmas(2000)'', The Grinch gets invited to celebrate Christmas with the Whos so he takes a look at his schedule and finds there's no time due to other activities.
153-->'''The Grinch''': Four o'clock; wallow in self-pity. Four-thirty; stare into the abyss. Five o'clock; solve world hunger (tell no one). Five-thirty; jazzercise. Six-thirty; dinner with me. I can't cancel that again!
154* In ''Film/{{Hugo}}'', Hugo's crimes are listed as: "Trespass, theft, pilfering, littering... [[EvenTheSubtitlerIsStumped mmmmlering]]... walking about... playing..."
155* ''Film/TheHungerGamesMockingjayPart1'':
156** Katniss has conditions for agreeing to be the mockingjay. They are as such: Peeta, Johanna, and Annie will be rescued at the earliest opportunity; they will receive full pardons for any crimes they have been forced to commit by the Capitol, and Primrose gets to keep her cat.
157** Creator/JoshHutcherson sums up his character Peeta's trials and tribulations as such:
158--->'''Hutcherson:''' I've been captured. The Capitol has me. And I'm being tortured. And I'm blonde.
159* Dramatic example from ''Film/TheIdesOfMarch''. To a man who will likely soon be running for president: "You can lie, you can cheat, you can start a war, you can bankrupt the country, but you can't [[spoiler:fuck the interns]]."
160* A composite quote from the ''Film/InspectorGadget1999'' trailer and the film proper: "Robo-Gadget apparently has gone berserk in the downtown Riverton area. Reports indicate that he's already caused a major traffic accident, destroyed private property... and set fire to an elderly man's beard." (Cue the EvilLaugh from Robo-Gadget.)
161* In ''Film/InstantFamily'': Ellie describes teenagers as "They do drugs, and they masturbate, and they watch people play video games on youtube."
162* In ''Film/IronMan2'', Black Widow taking down various mooks with her martial arts skills, grappling hooks and tasers. The last guy? He got a pepper spray.
163* ''Film/JamesBond'':
164** ''Film/GoldenEye'' has this funny little exchange:
165--->'''Q:''' Need I remind you, 007, that you have a license to kill, not to break traffic laws.
166** In ''Film/TheWorldIsNotEnough'', "R" concludes his run-down of the features of Bond's car with "six beverage cup holders".
167* In ''Film/JourneyToTheCenterOfTheEarth2008'', the trio encounters a volcanic pipe filled with minerals.[[note]]Slightly averted in that feldspar is used in [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Feldspar#Production_and_uses many products]], so a source of it would be enriching.[[/note]]
168--> '''Sean:''' Rubies!\
169'''Hannah:''' Emeralds!\
170'''Trevor:''' Feldspar!
171* In ''Film/KarateAMuerteEnTorremolinos'', Orloff describes Malvadades as mysterious, evil, Argentinean and megalomaniac.
172* ''Film/TheKentuckyFriedMovie''
173** Segment "United Appeal for the Dead".
174--->'''Henry Gibson:''' ...everyone can acquaint himself with the three early warning signs of death: one, rigor mortis; two, a rotting smell; three, occasional drowsiness.
175** Segment "A Fistful of Yen"
176--->'''Pennington:''' Klahn has been connected with every sort of nefarious activity. You name it: opium, weapons traffic, assassination, motion picture distribution...
177* ''Film/TheKingsSpeech'' has one which doubles as a SugarWiki/{{Funny Moment|s}}:
178-->'''Albert:''' Fuck. FUCK! Fuck, fuck, fuck AND FUCK! Fuck, fuck AND BUGGER! Bugger, bugger, BUGGERTY BUGGERTY BUGGERTY, fuck, fuck, ARSE! Balls, balls, FUCKITY, shit, shit, FUCK AND WILLY. WILLY, SHIT AND FUCK AND... tits.
179* Somewhat {{lampshaded}} in ''Film/LastActionHero'': Jack Slater, upon rescuing his daughter from thugs and escaping several attempts on his life, including the destruction of a good part of his ex-wife's house, breaks into the antagonist Mr. Benedict's mansion, and begins kicking him around, [[AndThisIsFor listing a reason for every blow he lands]], with the ''exception'' of his ex-wife's house, during which, he stands Mr. Benedict up, straightens out his suit, takes his hand, and gently slaps him on the wrist.
180* ''Film/TheLostWorldJurassicPark'':
181-->'''Sarah:''' ''[to Ian]'' I've worked around predators since I was 20 years old. Lions, jackals, hyenas... you.
182* In the made-for-TV film ''Love Strikes Twice'', when Maggie Turner finds herself fifteen years in her own past, she takes the opportunity to save the old town library, choose whether she wants to be with her old boyfriend or her future husband, and helps her brother find a girlfriend (while also guiding him to avoid a relationship that destroyed his self-confidence because someone was playing a bad joke). These essentials dealt with, Maggie also destroys her father’s old ladder before he can suffer an accident on it that will leave him with serious spinal damage in the future.
183* In ''Film/MacGruber'', Piper gives a long and detailed list of the title hero's accomplishments, noting his distinguished military service and the astonishing number of medals he has been awarded, and ends it with "...and starting Tight End for the University of Texas-El Paso." That must've been some team.
184* In ''Film/TheManWithTwoBrains'', Dr. Hfuhruhurr is the only person who can perform surgery at the start of the film, because of Dr. Beckermann's murder. In Europe.
185--> '''Dr. Hfuhruhurr:''' Exactly! Not only is he dead, he's 6,000 miles away.
186* ''Film/MarsAttacks'': The Martians. They commit arson, murder, shoplifting and even spying on people having sex.
187* ''Film/MenInBlack'':
188** Agents Jay and Kay are accosting an alien pawnbroker/armsdealer about dealing illegal alien weapons and tech, and some stolen Rolexes.
189-->'''Kay:''' All right... That's confiscated. All of it. And I want you on the next transport off this rock or I'm gonna shoot you where it don't grow back.\
190'''Jay:''' Yeah and... and... and I'm gonna be back to talk about them Rolexes.
191** Later, when Zed is listing off the professions of the candidates: "Marines, Navy SEALS, Army Rangers... NYPD."
192* Ivan Ooze in ''Film/MightyMorphinPowerRangersTheMovie'' announces the evil things he'd missed while he was SealedEvilInACan: "'''''The Black Plague! The Spanish Inquisition!''''' ''Series/TheBradyBunch reunion!''" This was an [[ThrowItIn ad-lib]].
193* In the Disney Channel movie ''Minutemen'', several government officials run in flashing badges and screaming the name of their respective organizations. "FBI!" "CIA!" "Bureau of Weights and Measures." They tell the last guy that he should go in first next time.
194* In ''Film/{{Mirrormask}}'', a trio of {{Mooks}} ask the Dark Queen what they should do with their new prisoner:
195-->'''Mook 1:''' Shall we lock her up?\
196'''Mook 2:''' Extort a confession?\
197'''Mook 3:''' ''Deny her ice cream?''
198* ''Film/MissPeregrinesHomeForPeculiarChildren'': Barron is not going to give up on his big plan. He spent years hunting down Peculiars. He has dedicated his life to searching for Ymbrynes. He even spent two - no, three! - three days in ''Wales'' pretending to look at ''birds''.
199* ''Film/MollysGame:'' Molly is convicted of running illegal poker games. She avoids jail, but she's a convicted felon, it will be hard for her to get a good job, she won't be able to vote, "and, for some reason, I can't go to Canada."
200* In ''Film/MontyPythonsLifeOfBrian'', during Pilate's address in Jerusalem, the people were mocking his [[ElmuhFuddSyndwome speech impediment]]. When he questioned one of the fake prisoners they requested to be set free:
201-->"He's a wobber!"\
202"And a wapist!"\
203"[[ComicallyMissingThePoint And a pickpocket]]!" (''the one saying it being shouted down'')
204* A classic from ''Film/{{Moonstruck}}'':
205-->I took the name of the Lord in vain, I slept with the brother of my fiance, and I bounced a check at the liquor store.
206* ''Film/MorningGlory'' plays this straight when star reporter Mike Pomeroy enters the set and declares: "I've won eight Peabodies, a Pulitzer, sixteen Emmys, I was shot through the forearm in Bosnia, pulled Colin Powell from a burning jeep, laid a cool washcloth on Mother Teresa's forehead during a cholera epidemic, had lunch with Dick Cheney." Becky takes him down a peg by responding "You're here for the money."
207* ''Film/MouthToMouth'' as summarized by the crew: ''"How Sherry loses her virginity, her illusions and her lip ring in one trippy road trip across Europe."''
208* From ''Film/TheMuppetChristmasCarol'':
209-->'''Emily Cratchit:''' I suppose that on the blessed day of Christmas one must drink to the health of Mr Scrooge. Even though he is odious...\
210'''The twins:''' Mm-hm!\
211'''Emily Cratchit:''' ...and stingy...\
212'''The twins:''' Mm-hm!\
213'''Emily Cratchit:''' ...and wicked...\
214'''The twins:''' Mm-hm!\
215'''Emily Cratchit:''' ...and unfeeling...\
216'''The twins:''' Mm-hm!\
217'''Emily Cratchit:''' ...and ''badly dressed''...\
218(''the twins gasp in horror'')
219* ''Film/TheNakedGun'':
220** "Burglary, arson... and sexual assault with a concrete dildo?!" (In the Italian dub, it's: "Burglary, arson... and sexual harassment to a concrete statue?!") Normally this wouldn't be a jaywalking type example, but the previous scene made it obvious that Drebin had no intention of committing rape and was merely [[AccidentalPervert mistaken for pervert]] by a complicated series of hijinks.
221** In ''The Naked Gun 2 1/2'', a depressed Frank hangs out at a bar after seeing Jane again. The walls have pictures of history's greatest disasters such as the San Francisco earthquake, the Hindenburg crash, the Titanic sinking and ''Mike Dukakis'' (who had lost the presidential election a year prior).
222** Also from ''2 1/2'', the villain Quentin Hapsburg reveals his evil plan to Drebin by having him introduced to Dr. Meinheimer, Earl Hacker (the imposter who is impersonating Meinheimer) and the Redman family (Quentin's friends from out of town).
223* In ''Film/NapoleonDynamite'', Napoleon angrily orders Uncle Rico to get out of their house because, "You've been ruining all our lives and eating all our steak!"
224* In ''Film/NationalTreasure'', the film's antagonist is arrested on the charges of "kidnapping, attempted murder, and trespassing on government property."
225* ''Film/TheNewGuy'' has Principal Undine confront the protagonist with the consequences of his showboating at the football field:
226-->'''Principal Undine:''' It's a bill for manure clean-up, resodding the football field, and to top it all off ''somebody'' urinated all over Mrs Campanella's rose garden!
227* A running gag in ''Film/ANightAtTheOpera'', during the stateroom scene:
228-->'''Otis:''' Now, some roast beef, I'll have rare, medium, well done and overdone...\
229'''Fiorello:''' And two hard-boiled eggs.\
230'''Otis:''' And two hard-boiled eggs. (''Tomasso honks his horn'') Make that three hard-boiled eggs. And I'll have eight pieces of French pastry.\
231'''Fiorello:''' And two hard-boiled eggs.\
232'''Otis:''' And two hard-boiled eggs. (''Tomasso honks his horn'') Make that three hard-boiled eggs. (''honk'') And one duck egg.
233* ''Film/TheOddAngryShot'': When Bung tells the boys he is joining Patrol 22, Rogers responds with:
234-->''Welcome to Patrol Two-Two. Specialists in arson, murder and drinking.''
235* Dr. Pax from the Danish film ''Film/OperationLovebirds'' only has three interests in life: money, power and pigeons.
236* From ''Orgy Of The Dead'':
237-->'''Shirley:''' "There're so many wonderful things to write about."
238-->'''Bob:''' Sure there are--and I've tried them all. Plays, love stories, westerns, dog stories.
239** Possibly not deliberate of this trope since the film was written by Creator/EdWood.
240* ''Franchise/PiratesOfTheCaribbean'':
241** At the end of ''Film/PiratesOfTheCaribbeanTheCurseOfTheBlackPearl'', the bailiff is reading out the [[LongList (long) list]] of [[ListOfTransgressions charges that Jack Sparrow has been found guilty of]], including "impersonating a cleric of the Church of England", which prompts a fond little smile of remembrance from Jack.
242** In ''Film/PiratesOfTheCaribbeanAtWorldsEnd'', Jack has a suggestion of what to do with Barbossa that starts as BreadEggsBreadedEggs and then becomes ArsonMurderAndJaywalking. "Shoot him ''AND'' cut out his tongue! Then shoot his tongue! And trim that scraggly beard."
243** In ''Film/PiratesOfTheCaribbeanOnStrangerTides'', Barbossa lists out his charges against Blackbeard
244-->"Such crimes do include but are not limited to piracy, treason, murder, torture of the most heinous sort, including the brutal theft of one used, twisted, hairy right-leg."
245* ''Film/PlanesTrainsAndAutomobiles'': [[TheReasonYouSuckSpeech Neal's hissy fit in Wichita]] [[JerkassHasAPoint enumerates several things]] Del has done to tick him off: dousing half the only bed in their hotel room in beer, [[GoodSmokingEvilSmoking smoking]], creating a mess in the bathroom, not paying for his share of the stay ... and talking nonstop on the plane from [[UsefulNotes/NewYorkCity New York]].
246* In ''Film/PootieTang'', the title character's dying father, mauled to near death by a gorilla, tells his son about the horrors of the world: Drugs, crime, and gorillas.
247* In the opening scene of ''Film/RawDeal1986'', Creator/ArnoldSchwarzenegger is seen chasing an apparent motorcycle cop, who turns out to be a crook dressed up as one so he can shake down speeders. The man claims to be on his way to a fancy dress party and merely stopping the motorist to ask for directions. Arnie charges him with extortion, resisting arrest, reckless driving, impersonating a police officer, and lying to the sheriff.
248* The ''Film/ReeferMadness'' movie musical has this trope at the start of the song "Mary Jane/Mary Lane".
249-->''There's blood on my hands\
250And mud on my name\
251My Id threw a party and everyone came\
252My innocence ravaged\
253My virtue devoured\
254I can't count the strangers with whom I have showered!''
255* The head of the ''Film/{{RIPD}}'' states that the dead remaining on Earth are the cause of "global warming, the Black Plague, and bad cellphone reception."
256* ''Film/RobinHoodPrinceOfThieves'': Back then, it certainly counted as this trope, as Christmas as we now view it [[AnachronismStew didn't come to England until Victorian times]]. If the story took place in modern times, though, then it would be justified.
257-->'''Sheriff of Nottingham:''' Cancel the kitchen scraps for lepers and orphans, no more merciful beheadings, and call off Christmas!
258* The opening scene of ''Film/RomancingTheStone'' comes from the romance novel that Kathleen Turner's character is writing:
259-->That was the end of Grogan... the man who killed my father, raped and murdered my sister, burned my ranch, shot my dog, and stole my Bible!
260* Creator/AlfredHitchcock's ''Film/{{Rope}}'':
261-->'''Janet:''' Well, now, you don't really approve of murder, Rupert? If I may?\
262'''Rupert:''' You may... and I do. Think of the problems it would solve: unemployment, poverty, standing in line for theatre tickets...
263* In ''Film/RPM1970'', Coach [=McCurdy=] (Norman Burton) tells Perez, "They have no values, these kids. No ethics, no morals, and no decency. And no school spirit."
264* Film/RunawayBride: Ike holds Maggie responsible for his life going downhill. He lost his job, his reputation was ruined, and her friends messed up his hair!
265* ''Film/{{Saw IV}}'' was rated R for "sequences of grisly bloody violence and torture throughout, and for language."
266* ''Film/ScaryMovie 3'': The Architect is discussing with Cindy the evil of his daughter Tabitha. "We loved our daughter but she was evil. Made the horses crazy. Killed our puppies. Hid the remote. Really sick shit."
267* The rules of a horror movie, as laid down in ''Film/{{Scream}}'':
268## [[SexSignalsDeath You can never have sex]];
269## [[DrugsAreBad You can never drink or do drugs]]; and
270## [[TemptingFate Never, ever, under any circumstance, say "I'll be right back"]], because you ''won't'' be.
271* ''Film/SesameStreetPresentsFollowThatBird'' has it when the Sleaze Brothers are pulled over while trying to escape after kidnapping Big Bird (who they realized had escaped thanks to Big Bird jumping off the truck onto Gordon and Olivia's car... [[ItMakesSenseInContext just watch the movie]]):
272-->'''Sam Sleaze:''' What seems to be the problem, officer? What's the charge?\
273'''State Trooper:''' (''looks through his notebook'') What about counterfeiting, extortion, fraud, impersonating a dentist, ''stealing an apple from a kid''? (''the latter occurred earlier in the movie'')\
274'''Sam Sleaze:''' Oh, about that apple, officer, I can explain that. We was just holding it for a friend.\
275'''Sid Sleaze:''' Yeah, for a friend.\
276'''State Trooper:''' You can tell that to the judge.
277* From ''Film/SevenSeconds'', an officer who's just been kidnapped:
278-->"All right, you're in a heap of trouble now: armed robbery, kidnapping of an army officer, and ''speeding''!"
279* In ''Film/TheSevenYearItch'', Richard Sherman, the main character, berates himself for his behavior with Creator/MarilynMonroe's character
280-->"You're running amok: Smoking, drinking, picking up girls... ''playing Chopsticks.''"
281* This gem from ''Film/{{Slither}}'':
282-->'''[[MayorPain Jack]]:''' Where is the Mr. Pibb...? I told your secretary to pack Mr. Pibb, it's the only coke I like! ... Goddamn Brenda [[BodyHorror explodin' like a water balloon]], worms [[ParasiteZombie drivin' my friends around like they're goddamn skin-cars]], people [[AcidAttack spittin' acid at me, turnin' you into cottage cheese]], and now there's ''[[PunctuatedForEmphasis NO! FUCKIN'! GOD!! DAMN!!]]'' '''''[[PunctuatedForEmphasis MR!!! PIBB!!!!]]'''''
283* One of the taglines for the movie ''Film/{{Sneakers}}'' was;
284-->"A burglar, a spy, a fugitive, a delinquent, a hacker, and a ''piano teacher''... and these are the good guys."
285* In ''Film/SonicTheHedgehog2020'', Rachel confronts Tom upon hearing he's wanted by the government, threatening to call the FBI, the CIA and his mother.
286* In the Spice Girls' movie ''Film/SpiceWorld'', the group is about to be late for their first major live show. Their driver is nowhere to be found, so Posh Spice frantically drives their tour bus across London and jumps across Tower Bridge as it is rising to let a boat through. When they arrive at the venue, they are confronted by a policeman who wants to arrest them for "dangerous driving, criminal damage, flying a bus without a license ... and frightening the pigeons!"
287* ''Film/StrangerThanFiction'' has one with just two items after Prof Hilbert tells Harold that he should accept that he will die soon and he should do what he wants in the meantime, like eat nothing but pancakes:
288-->'''Harold:''' I want to live! I mean, who in their right mind in a choice between pancakes and living chooses pancakes?\
289'''Professor Hilbert:''' Harold, if you pause to think, you'd realize that that answer is inextricably contingent upon the type of life being led... and, of course, the quality of the pancakes.
290* Inverted in ''Film/{{Super}}'': "You don't butt in line! You don't sell drugs! You don't molest little children! You don't profit off the misery of others! The rules were set a long time ago! They don't change!"
291* ''Film/TakeTheMoneyAndRun'' uses this trope twice in the same way. At the beginning, the narrator says that Virgil is wanted for robbery, attempted murder, and illegal possession of a wart. Later, as Virgil assembles a gang to rob a bank, the narrator reveals what each of them has served time for. One was "bank robbery, assault with a deadly weapon, murder, and '''getting naked in front of his in-laws'''," another was just "'''dancing with a mailman'''," and the third was "arson, robbery, assault with intent to kill, and '''marrying a horse'''."
292* ''Film/TankGirl''.
293-->'''Tank Girl:''' The Rippers are a demonic army of bloodthirsty, human-eating, purse-snatchin', mutant creatures.
294* In a DeletedScene of ''Film/TenaciousDInThePickOfDestiny'', Jack Black and Kyle Gass are checking out at an army/navy supply store with a grocery cart full of items that make it increasingly apparent that they intend to do some Hollywood-style breaking and entering, including walkie-talkies, grappling hooks, smoke bombs, a pair of {{Spy Catsuit}}s, poison darts... and a bag of Funyuns. The Funyuns are actually the second-to-last item though.
295* At the beginning of ''Film/ThisIsSpinalTap'', Marty [=DiBergi=], describing the eponymous band, says: "I remember being knocked out by their, their exuberance, their raw power... and their punctuality."
296* In one scene in ''Film/TimesSquare'', the protagonists perform an angry punk song on the air in which Pamela calls her father out and accuses him of calling her some very offensive names before projecting that very image onto him via the airwaves:
297-->''Spic! Nigger! Faggot! Bum!''\
298''Your daughter is one!''
299* ''Film/ThorRagnarok:'' In the Asgardian play that Loki commissioned (and, judging from his knowledge of the script, wrote) himself, the in-universe actor who portrays him apologizes for his attempt to [[TakeOverTheWorld subjugate Earth]], for stealing the [[MacGuffin Tesseract]] to open a portal and bring in the army of [[AlienInvasion alien invaders]].. and for [[NoodleIncident turning his brother Thor into a frog]].
300* In ''Film/TopGunMaverick'', the plaque on the Hard Deck Bar reads:[[spoiler: "Disrespect a lady, the Navy, or put your cell phone on my bar, [[ARoundOfDrinksForTheHouse you buy a round]]."]] Extra hilarious in this case, as Maverick kinda broke all three in rapid succession [[spoiler:when he flirted with his old flame Penny in the bar (who turns out owns the said bar;) when he revealed that he pissed off another Admiral, which resulted in him getting re-assigned to [=TOPGUN=] as an instructor; AND when placed his phone on top of the bar while Penny was present.]]
301* ''Film/TradingPlaces'':
302** Winthorpe's descent into criminality is summarized as: "pilfering in our club, embezzling funds, selling drugs, and now he's dressing up like Santa Claus."
303** Also, when Valentine gets Winthorp's job, exiles him from his house, and basically takes over his life, Winthorpe seems most upset by Valentine wearing Winthorpe's Harvard tie.
304* ''Film/UndercoverBrother'': Smart Brother's description of his interrogation of White She-Devil. He starts by analyzing her brainwaves, then unlocks her subconscious with hypnosis, gently brushes her hair, and finally finds the information on a list in her pockets.
305* ''Film/TooFatTooFurious'' (''Vet Hard''): Has a literal case: Koen is in prison for murder, ([[ILoveTheDead necrophiliac]]) rape, and unpaid parking tickets. Becomes a BrickJoke when other characters later see his face broadcast on the T.V. news:
306-->'''Martin:''' ...Jesus. I thought the dude was in prison for ''unpaid parking tickets''.
307-->'''Bennie:''' Yeah, right, ''[[DeadpanSnarker that as well]]''.
308* In ''[[Film/WalkHard Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story]]'', Dewey's bandmates of 20 years finally had enough of his ego trip and told him about all the things they hate about him. Sam just keeps repeating the same line no matter what they are talking about.
309-->'''Dave''': Fuck nobility! Fuck ancient Egypt!
310-->'''Theo''': Fuck cats!
311-->'''Sam''': And you never paid for drugs. Not once.
312-->'''Dave''': You slept with my wife!
313-->'''Theo''': You slept with me, too, and I've had confused feelings about that for ten years now!
314-->'''Sam''': And you never once paid for drugs! Not once.
315* The ''Film/{{Watchmen}}'' movie has the line "Toys, lunchboxes, genetic engineering."
316* Nick's crimes in "Film/WhatWeDoInTheShadows" include exposing vampires' existence to humans, getting a fellow vampire killed as a result...and stealing Deacon's fashion sense. Played with in that the last thing is mentioned before the second, and the vampires [[LampshadeHanging acknowledge that they probably should have built up from tamest crime to most heinous]].
317* From ''Film/WhatsUpTigerLily'':
318-->"Gangsters have [[FelonyMIsdemeanor stolen my secret recipe for egg salad]]. And not only that, they kill, they maim, and they call Information for numbers they could easily look up in the phone book."
319* This shows up in ''[[http://www.lovehkfilm.com/reviews/whos_the_woman_whos_the_man.htm Who's the Woman, Who's the Man]]'' in the form of a tirade directed by Fish against a woman whom O, the lesbian he has a crush on, is flirting with:
320-->'''Fish:''' If you go with a lesbian, you'll break your parents' hearts, and your grandparents'; your friends will look down on you, relatives will avoid you, society will give up on you, you can't have children... and you won't be able to find a seat on the subway!
321* In ''Film/{{Yellowbeard}}'', the eponymous pirate has committed a long list of [[FelonyMisdemeanor heinous]] [[ListOfTransgressions crimes]], but he was finally convicted for tax evasion. This is almost certainly a reference to Al Capone.
322* After giving Derek a long list of what he's supposed to do as an assassin in ''Film/{{Zoolander}}'', Mugatu adds: "Obey my dog!"
323* ''Film/ZorroTheGayBlade'' features the hero reading his late father's request to take up his mission, with "this sword, with which to fight injustice; this mask, with which to deceive tyranny; and this hat, which needs reblocking".
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