Non Sequitur Scene/Film

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The following Non Sequitur Scenes were producer- and director-approved. One has to wonder just how many takes it took for them to "get it just right"...

Animated Film Non Sequitur Scenes

  • Trope Namer: All Dogs Go to Heaven includes a bizarre and nonsensical musical number with a big lipped alligator near the end of the film. The two main characters fall into a cave where they are brought by a Wacky Wayside Tribe to meet their leader, King Gator, who breaks into an Esther Williams tribute. The scene not only comes out of nowhere with only very little build-up beforehand, but it seemingly violates the rules of the movie: animals can only speak to members of their own species, with Anne Marie being the only being who can communicate with everyone. Yet the Gator and Charlie can share a cross-species musical number. Although the alligator comes back to save Charlie and kill Carface, the random, over-the-top musical number itself is what qualifies this scene as a Non Sequitur Scene.
  • Fern Gully has the appearance of a big carnivorous lizard who tries to eat Zak while singing a song about vore.
  • Final Fantasy VII: Advent Children seems to start with one of these. After a bit of introductory text, the very first scene is a bunch of strange red furry animals running up a cliff overlooking a ruined city in a scene that seems more at home in the Lion King than this movie. Of course, it's only a Non Sequitur Scene in the context of the movie, since it's a shot-for-shot rerendering of the last cutscene of Final Fantasy VII itself (and in that context it was more of a Gainax Ending). But without that context, a new viewer will have no idea what it has to do with the movie.
    • Presumably, Square Enix assumed that pretty much everyone watching Advent Children would have already played through Final Fantasy VII; given that the game was almost a decade old by the time of the movie's release and considered a Killer App almost from the moment of its release, that was probably a safe assumption.
  • The Disney-esque forest animals that appear when Marge and Homer have sex in The Simpsons Movie.
  • The Pink Elephants scene from Dumbo.
  • The infamous animated Titanic movie has a few of these, but most notably, "IT'S PARTY TIME!" And considering that it's set on the Titanic in 1912, the infamous rapping dog sequence's bizarreness goes Up to Eleven.
  • The Brave Little Toaster manages to have a Non Sequitur Scene within a Non Sequitur Scene. About halfway through the film, the appliances find themselves beside a small pond where they meet some animals, including a singing fish who gives an epic performance on par with the original Big Lipped Alligator. And in the middle of this, the Toaster runs off to be alone and has a very awkward encounter with a lone tulip. Neither incident ever comes up again.
    • But wasn't the tulip what made Toaster start being nicer to Blankey?
    • But far more bizarre and out of place that this double Non Sequitur Scene is a nightmare Toaster has later, in which he is menaced by an Evil Clown who is dressed as a firefighter, and wields a firehose that sprays forks.
      • The nightmare actually makes sense if you look at the symbolism. First smoke and fire, then forks, then an Electrified Bathtub. Aren't those all things that could result in an appliance-related death?
    • In The Brave Little Toaster Goes to Mars, during the characters' flight into outer space, they encounter a cloud of singing balloons that floated away from Earth.
    • Moreover, The Brave Little Toaster to the Rescue has these...vaguely cow-like...things with disc-drives that break down the door, with other stuff trailing behind in order to break into a song about The Information Superhighway. Then they leave and the movie goes back to the plot.
  • The direct-to-video The Secret of NIMH 2: Timmy to the Rescue had this as well, though Don Bluth was not involved in the film. Jeremy the Crow and his new sidekick Cecil the anthropomorphic insect are found running a scam in the woods, with Jeremy disguised as the Great Owl and posing as an oracle giving fortunes for money. The musical number that ensues is over-the-top with bizarre animal dancing. At the end, Jeremy's thin disguise falls off, and the forest animals chase him and Cecil away. Jeremy and Cecil rejoin the main storyline, and the whole sequence is never mentioned again.
    • Although the original Secret of NIMH also has one when Mrs. Brisby enters the rose bush and gets attacked randomly by a random rat with an electric prod. Suddenly Mr. Ages appears and just brushes it off,and the moment is never spoken of again

Mrs. Brisby: What was that?
Mr. Ages: Oh that's just Brutus.

  • The Death Coach chase scene from Disney's 2009 A Christmas Carol. Especially jarring considering the rest of the movie is almost faithfully accurate to the book, and then you have this...thing...come out of nowhere, with Scrooge shrinking for no reason, providing an action/comedy scene in the middle of a drama...and then everything continues on as normal.
    • The coach itself, by the bye, is in the book, but in a different place (the stairs of Scrooge's house...yeah, it's kind of a Non Sequitur Scene all its own) and without the inexplicable shrinking thing going on either.
  • In Tom and Jerry: The Movie, there is a musical number when Tom and Jerry are being threatened by a singing gang of alley cats. After sending the cat gang into a sewer, the titular characters apparently blocked it from their memories, because the cat gang is never mentioned again
  • Rock-a-Doodle has the main protagonist Edmund run into his brain (?) and hallucinate the other characters berating him for being a "scaredy-cat", a character flaw only brought up like once previously. (Cause he got turned into a cat, get it?) As per the usual, it is never mentioned again.
  • The infamous strip tease right before the Bar Brawl in The Great Mouse Detective. Memorable and entertaining? Absolutely. Typical for a nightclub? Yes. Typical for a Disney movie? Uhhh... Any bearing whatsoever on the plot? No -- Basil himself can't seem to wait for the idiocy to be over. Ever spoken of again? No way.
  • An American Tail has one, when Fievel is walking in the sewers. He gets chased by a swarm of creepy cockroaches, and then swings over a chasm, causing the bugs to fall as they attempt to follow Fievel. And at the bottom of this chasm is this... reptilian thing, that eats the bugs as they fall into its mouth. Fridge Logic denotes that such a thing should not exist at the bottom of a sewer. It's never referenced again.
  • In An American Tail: Fievel Goes West
    • There's a scene where Fievel travels across the desert in a bouncing tumbleweed as random animals sing "Raw Hide".
    • There's also a part where Tiger is captured by Native American mice. That works into the plot decently, but what doesn't is the hilariously random dance they do right before they nab him (to the tune of "Puttin' On the Ritz," of all things!).
  • In Grandma Got Run Over by a Reindeer, during a scene in which the grandpa interrupts one of the villain's evil tricks with the song "Grandma's Spending Christmas with the Superstars."
  • An animated version of A Christmas Carol has, near the beginning, a small song sung by Scrooge and his nephew. There are no other songs, and this is actually the only time the nephew appears in this version.
  • Transformers: The Movie -- "Dare to Be Stupid". And it was.
  • The Rugrats Movie
    • The a sequence where the Rugrats briefly visit the hospital's nursery (or as they call it, a "baby store"). The newborns, all of them caricatures of pop artists, then engage in a song titled "This World is Something New to Me", which immediately puts them in a stark contrast with Tommy's non-speaking brother Dil, who is also born in this movie. During the song, they also use their pee to form the image of a rainbow in the middle of the nursery. Eventually, Tommy's grandpa comes in to take the Rugrats out of there, and the scene is never brought up again.
    • The movie has another Non Sequitur Scene, though this scene is cut and can only be seen when the movie airs on TV. One of the scenes is a random nightmare that Stu and Didi have. It's an extremely odd musical number with Lipshitz in diapers talking about how they're bad parents, and it feels like it could have easily been made when the producers were on a substance.
  • About halfway through Beavis and Butthead Do America, Beavis and Butthead are stranded in the middle of the desert. Beavis chomps down on a hallucinogenic peyote cactus, and the next few minutes melt into a nightmarish tribute to the boys, animated and scored (huh huh, "scored") by Rob Zombie.
  • In The Polar Express movie, there is a bizarre scene where the Hobo ghost scares the main character with a discarded marionette puppet. No other scene is scary in such a way, and nowhere else is the Hobo so antagonistic toward the main character.
  • We're Back! A Dinosaur's Story is, to say the least, a Non Sequitur Scene Episode]]. However the climactic scene in which the villain is eaten alive by his own hitherto unmentioned crows is particularly jarring. There was a cut scene, explaining how the crows related to the villain's missing eye, and why he kept them around in terms of 'mastering his fear'. It was considered too disturbing (the villain talks candidly about how a bird plucked his eye out in an accident) and hence cut.
    • There's also a scene where Cecilia's hat lands on a girl who's wishing for an identical hat, but this serves no importance to the plot. The girl does show up again, and her desire for a hat is mildly foreshadowed, but these still don't serve any purpose to the plot.
  • In the Horton Hears a Who! movie there was an over the top anime sequence. And also the cast singing REO Speedwagon's "Can't Fight This Feeling" after Horton saves the speck of Whoville from getting killed.
  • In Brother Bear, Kenai and Koda come across two rams who butt heads to try to impress some girls, and then they start yelling back at their echoes when Kenai tries to ask them for directions. They continue to do it as Kenai and Koda leave, and the rams are never referred to again with the exception of a brief cameo during the end credits.
  • Near the end of Freddie as F.R.O.7 when Freddie is supposed to be rallying his Loch Ness Monster friends together quickly to stop the Big Bad's plot he takes the time to join them in a musical number.
  • In Felix the Cat the movie there are many scenes that could qualify, like the circus, the singing undersea creatures, and when the Duke's henchmen chase the heroes a monster pops up and randomly starts quoting from On The Waterfront and A Streetcar Named Desire!

"Stella, Stella come back!, I could've been somebody!".

    • The first Non Sequitur Scene moment in the movie occurs when Felix hides under his bag while a fox family prances about to the musical number "Sly as a Fox." The foxes leave after kicking dust on his bag and are only acknowledged with the waving of Felix's fist. They are not seen or mentioned again and, similarly, the song has no bearing on the plot.
  • In Raggedy Ann and Andy: A Musical Adventure, at one point Ann, Andy, and the Camel fall into a pit and meet a gigantic sentient lake of taffy and candies who can't stop eating himself, called The Greedy. While the other animated characters can easily be explained to be living toys, he is really out of place. After escaping him, he is never brought up again.
  • There actually is a Big Lipped Alligator in The Princess and the Frog. His name's Louis. He's actually nice, plays the trumpet, and isn't a Himself Moment. The frog hunters, however, are this trope incarnate, unless you designate their scene as the first time Tiana and Naveen start getting along (there's actually debate among fans over whether or not it is).
    • To the people on that riverboat, this trope would certainly apply. Think about it: You're on this riverboat having a great time. Then, out of nowhere, an actual big-lipped alligator hops up onto the deck, whips a trumpet out of Hammerspace, and joins right in with the band. You'd never be able to tell anyone about it because it's just too crazy, even by New Orleans standards.
    • The Big Lipped Alligator is a reptilian shout out to the late great "N'awlans" trumpeter Louis Armstrong. Just in case you didn't know........
  • Despicable Me has a particularly ridiculous scene wherein Gru goes to the lab to check on the "cookie robots". Thanks to Dr. Nefario's hearing, he instead gets a dance number performed by "boogie robots". Gru's expression says it all.
  • A Boy Named Charlie Brown is simply loaded with this, mostly as Padding. Their BLAM-levels vary, but some big stand-outs are probably a random Nightmare Sequence for Snoopy as the Red Baron, Schroeder's Disney Acid Sequence piano recital, and a skating fantasy, again for Snoopy. The latter two are beautiful and feature some Crowning Music of Awesome material (one was by Beethoven, after all) but none of them have anything to do with the plot.
  • When Lock, Shock, and Barrel accidentally bring Jack Skellington the Easter Bunny instead of Sandy Claws in The Nightmare Before Christmas. It's hilarious as hell, but has no bearing on the plot. The only thing the scene seems to serve is to show off Jack's roaring [dead link] face thingy.
  • Near the beginning of Disney's Dinosaur, during the scene where Aladar's egg is accidentally dropped into a river by a hungry Oviraptor, just right before the pterodactyl comes to pick it up, a Koolasuchus immediately swims up to the egg, eats it, spits it out, and swims away, never to be seen again.
  • In Rover Dangerfield, Rover sings a song on how he doesn't pee or poop on Christmas trees! And in good ol' BLAM fashion, it is never mentioned again.
  • Heffalumps and Woozles from Winnie the Pooh & the Blustery Day.
  • Bebes Kids features a strange, almost music video sequence inside a tunnel of love.
  • Jetsons: The Movie features a nonsensical and pointless music video, sung by Tiffany, called "You and Me."
  • That car with headlights for eyes from Cars 2.
  • The Incredibles: The old men's "no school like the old school" scene is this for anyone not aware of that they are Frank and Ollie of the Nine Old Men. Even after that, the cameo's still pretty out of nowhere.
  • The Lion King has something along those lines: During the final verses of "Be Prepared", Scar pounces down onto the ground where the hyenas are goosestepping Nazi-style and apparently causes some sort of seismic activity that results in the ground terraforming into various platforms, with Scar at the top (as well as killing a hapless hyena that fell into the cracks), implying that he possessed the ability of terrakinesis or at the very least was unnaturally capable of detecting seismic activity. This event is never highlighted again, not even when Scar gets killed by the Hyenas late in the movie, where, had he had the ability, it would have saved his skin.
  • Asterix and the Big Fight, which already goes to some very surreal places compared to the source comics, has this exceptionally trippy (and admittedly rather cool-looking) scene when the heroes are explaining to their fellow villagers that Obelix accidentally clobbered Getafix the Druid with a very large rock. It's probably supposed to be from Getafix's severely concussed perspective, but still comes off as pretty out of left-field.

Live Action Film Non Sequitur Scenes

  • Amadeus opens with scenes of Salieri being hauled to the insane asylum intercut with scenes of a ball, for little more reason than to have matching imagery with Mozart's Symphony #25 and to show off some Scenery and Costume Porn.
  • In the movie version of Diary of a Wimpy Kid, there is a moment at the mother-son dance when Rowley and his mother do a dance to Intergalactic by the Beastie Boys.
  • In The Room features a few. Danny/Denny's drug problem and Chris R. are never brought up again and don't add anything to the plot. The character Claudette tells Lisa that she "definitely has breast cancer," which is never mentioned again. Characters also start playing games of catch for no particular reason. When asked why he included them, the direct said because "catch is fun."
  • The 2011 prequel to The Thing has a scene that stands out a little more than the others. The film's protagonist, Kate, roams the ship, and uncannily comes across a weird, Tetris like hologram video thing that has very little to do with the story, is never explained and is never mentioned again. Not made better by the fact that it isn't mentioned in the 1982 film.
  • In Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, the movie takes a break from the story of two western outlaws to have a musical interlude with the characters riding around on a bicycle. It wouldn't be that weird except for the music they chose, "Raindrops Keep Falling on my Head", which is cheerful, anachronistic, incredibly out of place, and one of the things everyone remembers about the movie.
  • It's a Wonderful Life has a scene where Mary loses her bathrobe and has to hide naked inside a bush. It's not at all plot-relevant and the next scene is about George's father having died of a stroke. George even lampshades it: "This is a very interesting situation I'm in!"
  • The 2010 Danish movie In A Better World, perhaps best known for winning the Oscar for Best Foreign Film has a mild example. During an argument between Christian and Elias, Christian finishes off the argument by saying "...and stop texting me". We dint see them exchange numbers or using cell phones ever before that line, and take a wild guess as to whether or not you see it after the line (and if it's mentioned).
  • The deranged tunnel scene from Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory qualifies for this trope. The poem Wonka quotes is from the book, but the tone and visuals are way out of left field for the rest of the film. It also serves no plot purpose but to get the characters to the next scene.
  • The Dancing Fire Gang from Labyrinth, though there is a very small reference to them earlier in the film and another in the finale. They still make no major impact on the plot. There's also a scene involving an old man arguing with his talking hat. Both instances feature the main character simply stumbling into some unhelpful creatures and then leaving.
  • The obscure film The Curse of the Cannibal Confederates (a.k.a. The Curse of the Screaming Dead) has an example. To quote The Agony Booth recap:

(After a scene where one character goes ballistic for no reason whatsoever and roughhouses another character) "Wait, how did Bill get over there all of a sudden? Okay, let's consider what we just saw. Mel attacked Bill in a scene which A) had very little motivation, B) made no sense, C) will never be referred to again, D) breaks continuity with the scene immediately following, and E) wasn't even in focus. It appears (Tony) Malanowski didn't realize that just because you film something doesn't mean you have to put it in the movie."

  • Godzilla
    • There's a scene in Godzilla vs. The Sea Monster in which a giant condor randomly attacks Godzilla, and Godzilla kills it. It's never mentioned in the film why the condor even attacked in the first place or anything like that. It's just... there.
    • Likewise, there's Hedorah's pointless ten-second cameo in Godzilla: Final Wars. He's just randomly in some city before Godzilla kills him and it's never explained why he's even there in the first place or even if he's being controlled by the evil aliens. The introduction was cut from the final film.
    • Godzilla VS The Smog Monsters is chock full of Non Sequitur Scene. These include a scene where a guy hallucinates everyone has a fish-head, the weird animation sequences, but, by far, the most famous example is when Godzilla uses his own thermonuclear breath to fly... and he never does it again in any other film.
    • In Godzilla Versus The Astro Monster, Godzilla does a ludicrous victory dance. "A happy moment."
  • In Teen Witch, there are several scenes of a group of teenagers who start rapping for no reason. At one point, the main character's best friend raps off against them. Also, the "I like boys!" number. These scenes have no influence on the plot and don't even reference each other within them. They have proven to be a prime cut of Snark Bait, however, thanks to Memetic Mutation.
  • In The Sweetest Thing, a romantic comedy, the three main character have lunch in a Chinese restaurant and promptly burst into a song about how to lie to a man and tell him his penis is amazing. It is set to the beat of "I'm Too Sexy" by Right Said Fred.
  • At the end of the Japanese version of Frankenstein Conquers the World the monster gets randomly attacked by a Oodako, agiant octopus in the forest. The scene was added at the insistence of the American distributor, but left out of the Japanese version.
  • In Earth Girls Are Easy, after Vallerie has sex with Mac, she has a surreal black and white sci-fi dream. This segment served no purpose to the film whatsoever.
  • The infamous Zion rave from The Matrix Reloaded—with Neo and Trinity's sex scene spliced in for an extra dose of incomprehensibility. It was supposedly meant to emphasize the blurring of the lines between man and machine. (See also: the blood flowing over the code on the hovercraft terminal, the Merovingian gettin' it on with a human, half the movie's dialogue, and all that other stuff which... didn't involve a solid five minutes of completely random people dancing and naked Keanu Reeves)
    • The Train Room (And the Train Man) from The Matrix Revolutions—a scene which, while having enough plot ties to make it not completely irrelevant, is nonetheless completely forgotten once Neo has been rescued. The strange train station is never seen or referenced again in the film. The Train Man shows up again very briefly as part of the dozen-plus-way standoff at gunpoint later on in the night club, but that's it.
    • Also; Neo's telekinetic (assumed) powers, which were what caused him to arrive in the Train Room to begin with, no longer cause him any problems when used at the end of the film.
  • In the film Flubber (a remake of The Absent Minded Professor), the Flubber blobs decide to have an impromptu synchronized mambo sequence for no reason. In several "Makings of" for the film, the film makers all but admit the only reason they even made the movie at all was for the mambo sequence. So we guess it served one point...
    • Could it be, then, that the mambo sequence was the plot, and everything before, after or since is the Non Sequitur Scene?
  • Cabin Fever has two; the infamous pancake scene and the weird rabbit surgeon.
    • Or they're, as Phelous refers to them, "Big Crocodile Scene Happenings."
      • The Non Sequitur Scene is tripled when you read the end credits and find out that the Bunny was played by "We'll Never Tell".
  • This occurs in the musical film Sweet Charity when Oscar takes Charity to his "Church of the Month" as a first date. What follows is a bizarre Fosse-choreographed song-and-dance number led by Sammy Davis Jr. called "The Rhythm of Life", which mocks hippie culture and religions like Scientology.
    • It is important to note that, Non Sequitur Scene it may be, "Rhythm of Life" is considered by many to be Sweet Charity‍'‍s best song.
  • Better Off Dead featured a scene of hamburgers and "fraunch" fries dancing to Van Halen's "Everybody Wants Some!!"
  • In Monty Python's Life of Brian, Romans chase Brian up a tower. Cornered, Brian falls off the tower and gets scooped up by a passing alien space ship, which flies around the earth for a few seconds before improbably crash landing right at the foot of the same tower, killing both aliens. Brian stumbles out of the wreckage and the chase resumes. Director Terry Jones, on the Criterion Collection DVD Commentary, states that that the writers were stumped on how to get Brian down from the tower until someone quipped, "What if he gets shanghaied by aliens?"
  • Despite the fact that Monty Python's The Meaning of Life is a series of sketches without a plot, the "Find the Fish" segment still might qualify, since it has nothing to do with the themes that connect the sketches. John Cleese admitted in an interview that it's probably the least sensical joke they've ever done.
  • Blade Runner: Some see the infamous "Unicorn Dream" sequence (a two-second-long clip of a running unicorn spliced into an otherwise normal scene) as a Non Sequitur Scene. However, it MIGHT be referenced later in the director's cut when the main character finds that "someone" has left a tiny origami unicorn in his apartment, which COULD be an indication that this "someone" knew about his dream. Which in turn implies... causing others to see this as a "Han Shot First" moment.
    • This may have been a shout-out to the book Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? which the film is very loosely based on as each character had an assigned animal, Deckard's 'animal' is a unicorn To anyone else not familiar with the books it certainly seems extremely misplaced.
  • Crank: High Voltage is full of random moments, but most of them at least relate to the plot or the hero's backstory. One scene, however, breaks away from a gunfight to show the therapy session of a minor character from the first movie, played by Glenn Howerton. At the end of the session, he's killed by a stray bullet from the gunfight, and the movie continues.
  • In the awful live action City Hunter movie, there is a scene where Jackie Chan and his opponent crash into a Street Fighter II arcade machine and then start turning into characters from the game for the remainder of the fight until someone unplugs the machine. It makes no sense and is never explained or referenced ever again.
    • And it's still better than either of the full-length live action movies in every conceivable way. Well, maybe some people might have a problem with Jackie Chan dressing as Chun-Li...
  • In Red Sonja movie, Big Bad Queen Gedrin summons her wizard to identify the strangers entering her land. The wizard does his mojo on some sort of mystic scrying pool... to reveal five seconds of a naked dancing woman, which fades out to Sonja and her party. No one on-screen reacts to the naked woman, not even in a "Dude, seriously?" manner.
    • The Nostalgia Critic suggests that the wizard just left it turned to the porno channel.
    • Gedrin is a blatant lesbian, so it may have been some kind of sexual magical loading screen that she has there just for kicks.
    • I hate it when I forget to clear the cache and history in my scrying pools.
  • The sequence in Sleepy Hollow where the village people trick Ichabod into thinking the Headless Horseman is coming for him and throw the pumpkin at him is never brought up again and serves no purpose (other than a Shout-Out to the original novel).
  • Turkish Star Wars, in spite of barely making any sense in the first place, still manages to have a Non Sequitur Scene. After the first fight, the scene of the protagonists riding on horseback across the plains is interrupted by several shots of a papier-mache critter sitting on some rocks and shrieking at the camera. The ogre is never explained and never seen again, and it doesn't even interact with any other characters during its brief time in the movie.
  • Even though it's a very brief moment, the Zen Room from The Rocky Horror Picture Show certainly counts. It's only shown for two seconds, has random wipe-out cuts, and is never mentioned again.
  • Although probably half the movie could qualify, the sequence with Plaster of Paris in The Spirit seems particularly out of place. Though longer than a normal Non Sequitur Scene, Plaster appears, does a kooky dance, helps the Spirit escape, stabs him, and runs off singing to herself. Admittedly lampshaded by the Spirit ahead of time by saying that if the silhouette is who he thinks it is, she's the strangest woman he's ever met.
  • The Fame parody in Dance Flick comes out of nowhere and is never mentioned again.
  • Though Xanadu has many weird spots, they usually have some bearing on the plot. But then there's one scene where Sonny and Kira turn into cartoon characters (animated by Don Bluth, no less,) and then chase each other for no real reason.
    • The Nostalgia Chick would like to differ; the movie has no cohesion, and the scenes happening are more often than not never mentioned again, so a mere Non Sequitur Scene won't work here. For this, we're gonna need a Non Sequitur Scene Episode]].
      • But this particular scene stands out above the rest of the movie in terms of ridiculousness. Somehow, the writers managed to create a Big-Lipped Alligator Moment within a Non Sequitur Scene Episode|Big-Lipped Alligator Movie]]. And they are probably the only ones to have ever achieved that.
  • The scene in The Shining where Wendy Torrance walks in on a ghost performing implied oral sex on another ghost in a dog suit and mask. This was an important component of a major historical (and ghost-related) plotline in the original book, but since most of that plotline was excluded from Kubrick's screen adaptation, the scene is left with little meaning apart from general ghostly weirdness.
    • The scene is Wendy's first sighting of hotel ghosts, so it is important, because it suggests the ghosts aren't simply a product of Jack's and Danny's tormented minds.
    • And since the characters coming across 'general ghostly weirdness' is the remit of the film, while the scene might be enigmatic and unsettling, it certainly doesn't qualify as a Non Sequitur Scene. It doesn't leave viewers reeling with confusion as to how such a scene could possibly relate to the rest of the film.
  • Hook has a few awkward moments, but the one Non Sequitur Scene that sticks in most viewers' heads is a scene where Tinkerbell grows to be human-sized, shares a romantic moment with Peter, then returns to normal just as inexplicably. Spielberg wrote the scene simply to appease Julia Roberts, who insisted that she have at least one scene with another actor. At least it had Robin Williams saying this: "You're humongous."
  • A scene in Hellraiser Inferno has Detective Joseph Thorne being brutally beaten up by a pair of kung-fu using Asian cowboys after stumbling through the woods.
  • Averted in the original The Italian Job, which had a surreal scene cut featuring the thieves and the cops chasing them interrupting their frantic car chase to do some choreographed ballet on ice with their cars to The Blue Danube. This is completely out of sorts with the rest of the film and was apparently filmed without the director's knowledge and he promptly cut it when he found out what had been done.
  • When Billy Madison decides to not give up, he expresses it in song. Then other characters, major and minor, join in until the song's rousing end. Otherwise, this movie is not a musical.

"Do you have any more gum?"

Servo: ...the hell was THAT?

  • Pieces, a movie most noticeable for its Take That at The Texas Chainsaw Massacre in its Tagline, has a sequence where a female character is randomly ambushed by a karate teacher. This means absolutely nothing in terms of the plot and is brushed off with a throwaway line later on before vanishing from the story.
    • Dick Randall, the director, was also filming a Kung Fu movie nearby and he decided to insert a spare extra into the plot.
  • Saw 3D had the car trap. A total Non Sequitur Scene - it is not explained why it is there, we don't know who Chester Bennington's character is at all, the two people in the trap with him have no relevance at all, and not to mention it is not mentioned at all later in the film.
    • This is a case of simply not paying attention, unless I'm misremembering the film. The car trap was initiated to lure to the police to where the bomb was detonated near the end of the film, when Hoffman went on his rampage.
  • The infamous "Atheist Fight" from Jesus Christ Vampire Hunter, weird even for such a film. Jesus is walking back to his apartment after buying some wood to make stakes, when a Jeep Wrangler pulls up, and a group of atheists attack him. About thirty people come out of the Jeep in waves, like a clown car, but he schools them all.
  • The already weird nightmare sequence in Glen or Glenda had a completely random bondage and rape scene added into it. This was Executive Meddling for the sake of Padding the movie and increasing its exploitation quotient.
  • Charlie Chaplin's silent movies include some of what are perhaps the earliest examples of Non Sequitur Scenes. One example is in The Kid when Charlie falls asleep and has a dream where he's suddenly an angel, and dances with a lot of women dressed as angels until people dressed as demons come in and tempt everyone to evil. It comes out of nowhere and has nothing to do with the actual plot, and of course, sealing the deal, he wakes up and the movie continues as normal. A similar sequence occurs in his short film Sunnyside as well. Chaplin's longer films often did randomly insert nonsensical dream sequences.
  • At one point of Kazaam, Max suddenly shoots out of a glass of water the genie was about to drink. This is never explained, let alone ever mentioned again.
  • In Warriors of Virtue: after Warrior of Water Yun returns from his self-imposed exile, the entire village is in Celebration Mode. Cut to a female... kangaroo-person (The movie didn't seem to give the Warriors' race an actual name) emerging from platform, singing some odd Asian-style warbling song, looking like we're gearing up for a musical breather scene... then after three seconds of singing, we jump back to Komodo's lair. When we finally get back to the village? Celebration? Over. Warriors? Nowhere. Sense? None.
  • The scene in the film version of The Wall where old ladies steal televisions from a storefront. Pink isn't present, it has no connection to anything that happens before or since, and it's unclear if it's real or imagined.
  • There's a scene in Friday the 13th (film): The Final Friday where Jason (in the body of a coroner he had earlier possessed) kills the girlfriend of a cop named Josh before forcibly taking Josh to the old abandoned Voorhees house. There Jason strips Josh naked, straps him down and shaves his moustache off before possessing him. Why Jason bothered abducting, stripping, restraining and shaving Josh before possessing him is never explained in the film or by the crew; every other possession just has Jason lunge at someone, force their mouths open and have his disembodied soul squirm down their throat and that's it, no grooming scenes or anything.
  • In the 2005 remake of King Kong, we are treated to a monologue by Captain Hayes, who compares the events of the film (somewhat breaking the Fourth Wall) to Heart of Darkness. Neither the book nor its similarities to the film are ever mentioned again. In fact the character who prompted Hayes to even talk about the book in the first place was Jimmy, a character whose unresolved storyline mysteriously ends without warning once the film moves back to New York.
  • In Across the Universe, the characters are stranded in some grassy field, where they come across some crazy carnival (that looks suspiciously Dave McKean-esque) and watch giant "blue people" on stilts dance around Eddie Izzard, apparently channeling Papa Lazarou, who screams out a somehow more nonsensical version of the Beatles song, "Being for the Benefit of Mr. Kite". Plus, Prudence, the lesbian cheerleader, shows up out of nowhere in a horse suit and dances among a crazy background of cutout tigers and moving dummies and disappears just as suddenly. The characters' reaction is "Oh, so that's where Prudence went!" They then go out into the now normal-looking field with her. They never comment on the carnival afterward. It has no relevance or plot in the story other than making reference to a crazy Beatles song - still doesn't make it any less awesome though.
    • The fact that they were all high on LSD at the time might have had something to do with it.
    • There's also the "Let It Be" scene, where a character who never appears again and isn't even shown with the other characters sings the song with notable riots in 1968 as a backdrop. The scene is also completely anachronistic, as "Let It Be" came out in 1970.
  • The Japanese film Suicide Club is about police struggling to figure out what is causing teenagers to spontaneously kill themselves. Eventually, a serial killer calling himself Genesis claims responsibility for the suicides and abducts a few girls into his bowling alley lair. After stomping an animal to death, he sings a rock song while his mooks rape and kill a few of the girls. Soon afterwards, he's arrested and revealed to have nothing to do with the suicides. He's never mentioned again.
  • The indie romantic comedy Gigantic (not to be confused with the identically-named They Might Be Giants film) has a recurring Non Sequitur Scene throughout it. At random points in the plot the male lead is attacked by a strange homeless man, with no explanation given. This has no bearing on the rest of the plot, and he does not admit it to anyone else, thinking up excuses for his visible injuries. In the last encounter he is able to kill the attacker... and then the body mysteriously vanishes. There is never any explanation given for it, and the incidents are never mentioned again in the film.
  • The special edition of Return of the Jedi adds one of these in the form of a randomly inserted musical sequence involving a big-lipped alien chick in a bikini who looks rather similar to an alligator. (She's in the original edition too, along with a different, shorter musical number.)
    • As seen here: "Lapti Nek", the original musical number in the 1983 version.
  • When the Boys Meet the Girls from 1965 is not quite a Non Sequitur Scene Episode]]. Most of it actually makes sense, even if it also prompts "lolwut" when you describe it. Since the best way to describe the movie is that somebody mixed the scripts for a season of a melodramatic soap opera with that of a variety show & the shooting script of a music video, and then pared it down to movie length...
  • In Superman IV: The Quest for Peace, there is a pointless scene of Lex Luthor dancing with a woman who is dressed as Marie Antoinette. Sad to say, this is one of the movie's lesser problems...
    • There was almost a bigger Non Sequitur Scene. On the DVD you can watch a bizarre subplot about the first version of Nuclear Man, which was cut from the final film. Say what you will about Superman IV, the deleted scenes show that it could have been much worse.
    • Superman III starts off with a completely out-of-place Chaplin-style slapstick sequence behind the opening credits.
  • Halloween: The Curse of Michael Myers. Tommy Doyle gets a pipe and beats Michael with it so hard, green ooze starts leaking out of his mask. When the mask is found on the floor, it's completely clean and it's never explained why the ooze was leaking out of Michael.
    • To add to the over-the-topness, the entire beatdown scene has a crazy flashing strobe light effect going.
    • Several of Michael and Laurie's fantasy sequences in Halloween 2 (2009) border on this, especially the one with the pumpkinheaded aristocrats.
  • Gremlins 2 has two of these, even given the context of the film.
    • Firstly, we have the scene where Leonard Maltin appears in a broadcasting TV studio, reviewing the first Gremlins film. He criticizes its Comedic Sociopathy (specifically, how it makes light of people being horribly killed by Gremlins). He is then eaten by a pack of the creatures and from there on the movie continues along its merry, messed up way.
    • Next, during a talking scene a pair of Gremlins actually take control of the movie, tearing out the film and doing shadow animals with the projector light. And then there's a weird scene of the manager of a movie theatre pulling Hulk Hogan out of the audience and persuading him to intimidate the Gremlins into returning the film to its original plot. For the VHS version, the whole thing was swapped with Gremlins breaking your VCR, and then a redubbed John Wayne shooting at the Gremlins until they fixed it for you and resumed the movie. The novelization has the Brain Gremlin lock the author in a room for a bit and start writing his own text!
  • In Beverly Hills Cop III, there is a scene where some carjacking mechanics dance to The Supremes.
  • In the otherwise superb Australian film Beneath Clouds, one scene shows our female lead, Leia, trip and fall over in a corn field. Getting up she sees a black cat. As she stares at it intently, dramatic music plays. She then turns to look at where she is, for literally ONE second, and when she turns back the cat has vanished into thin air.
  • Mad Monster Party, the stop-motion animation film, has this in the "Stay One Step Ahead" musical number. As Boris Karloff's character Baron von Frankenstein sings the song to his nephew Felix, a gang of really weird creatures, unlike any of the beings seen elsewhere in the film, pop out of a television set and sing the chorus. At the conclusion of the sequence, they pop back into the TV. Neither Felix nor the Baron (nor anyone else) ever mentions this again afterward.
  • In the sequel The Neverending Story III, the Rock Biter, whose home now contains a TV for his kid to watch music videos on (?!), takes off on his bike and sings "Born To Be Wild".

"That sound you heard was your inner child being punched in the face." -- Everything is Terrible

  • In "Spy Kids III", toward the end the other players with Juni in the virtual world begin to doubt he really is "The Guy". Then someone played by Elijah Wood appears claiming that he is the real "Guy". He makes an inspiring speech, walks into the last level... and is killed instantly. Immediately Juni is told "OK, you're the Guy again", and nothing more is ever made of this.
  • In Demolition Man, John Spartan sits in his apartment when a young naked woman appears suddenly on a video screen in front of him says "Sorry, wrong number." and then disappears into WTF obscurity.
  • Silk Stockings has "The Ritz Roll and Rock," a rock 'n' roll Dance Sensation too bizarre to be true, written by Cole Porter and performed by a fifty-something Fred Astaire.
  • The House of Mirrors scene in Yor, the Hunter from the Future.
  • The film version of Tank Girl had the musical moment "Let's Do It, Let's Fall in Love".

The Nostalgia Critic: And welcome to the bottom of the barrel people: an action film with a horrible music number.

  • Bad Lieutenant Port of Call New Orleans features a BLAM in which two iguanas are filmed up close, bright and blurry while a love song plays for quite a while. One iguana shows up later crawling between the bodies of some dead men but is not noticed. The iguanas may also be a product of the title character's seemingly perpetual drug addled state.
  • And then, there is this little slice of Nightmare Fuel from Pee-wee's Big Adventure. Tropers of a certain age probably know exactly what scene it is before clicking that link (thankfully, looking at her Game Face is optional.) The writer of the article admits that seeing the scene out of context, since it is so unexpected in what is otherwise an offbeat but funny kid's film, doesn't really have the same impact.
    • "Is there something you'd like to share with the rest of us, Amazing Larry!?!" This one has an explanation: Amazing Larry was supposed to be a magician in the beginning of the film who asked Pee Wee for advice on what new hairstyle he should get. The setup was cut out but the payoff—him settling on a ridiculous mohawk—was left in. So we're just left with a guy named Amazing Larry with a crazy haircut.
  • Armageddon has a scene where Ben Affleck sings "Leaving on a Jet Plane" to his girlfriend only for some of his co-workers to join in. This scene only lasts for a few seconds and then they never mention it again.
  • The Bugs Bunny dream sequence in My Dream is Yours.
  • Permanent Midnight had an in-universe example; Jerry Stahl (Ben Stiller) is pitching an idea for an episode of a sitcom (while hyped up on cocaine) in which the main character blasts into a musical number with a pool that opens out of the set and afterward no one mentions it. He is immediately fired afterward.
  • Shark Attack 3: Megalodon actually has one scene that makes even less sense than the rest of the movie. Two people speaking bad Spanish make out, wander into what appears to be a closed amusement park, fall down an oddly-placed water slide and get eaten by a shark (or, to be more specific given the quality of this film, eaten by Stock Footage of a shark). A woman takes off a clown mask and looks surprised. These two casualties are never recognized by the rest of the cast, and this scene never comes up again.
  • Zardoz has the scene where Friend walks into a kitchen and suddenly starts speaking backwards to a group of women there. They start clapping and laughing, he leaves, and no explanation is given as to what just happened. It's a Mind Screw of a movie to begin with, mind you, but most of the other surreal elements at least try to tie into the plot.
  • Arguably a Non Sequitur Scene Episode|Big Lipped Alligator Movie]], or at very least a deliberately surreal Anachronism Stew, Julie Taymor's Titus—a modern adaptation of Shakespeare's Titus Andronicus—features a scene in which one of the villains, played by Jonathan Rhys Meyers, dances terrifyingly on a pool table to loud techno music, trussed up in red leather and with his hair in pigtails. It isn't the strangest scene in the movie by a long way, and it certainly isn't the most disturbing, but it's notable in that it contains no dialogue, has absolutely no basis in the original play (obviously), does nothing to further the plot, is never referenced again, and serves no purpose beyond making the audience just a little bit more amused/baffled/emotionally scarred than they already were.
  • The "horror" movie Spookies starts with a boy named Billy running away from home on his thirteenth birthday because his parents ignore him. He wanders into a scary house, receives a scary birthday present and is buried alive(?). Then the main characters, who have never met or heard of Billy, show up and the rest of the movie happens with Billy never being mentioned again.
  • Woody Allen's Gag Dub film What's Up, Tiger Lily? has several. During a club scene, the film cuts to a music video of sorts for the band that supplies the dub's soundtrack, which was a case of Executive Meddling to pad out the length. Later, the film freezes so that the projectionist can have a conversation with his mistress. During the climax, the film suddenly cuts away to an interviewer, who comments that the plot is getting complicated and asks Woody Allen if he'd like to explain it. Allen deadpans, "No," and the film continues.
  • Pretty much every Marx Brothers film contains these. For no reason whatsoever, most of the movies have a 10-15 minute scene in which we watch Chico play the piano with his one finger routine and Harpo move incredibly out of character to play a lovely melody on a harp.
    • These were positive examples, seeing as they were beautiful and a major part of Harpo and Chico's characters, precisely because they're so OOC. The other musical numbers and romantic subplots on the other hand... but even those are explained by the fact that the studios felt that no- one would watch a movie that didn't have romance.
    • Animal Crackers has the famous "Excuse me while I have a strange interlude" scene in which Groucho says just that, the other actors freeze in place as if time has stopped, and he approaches the camera to make a strange, non-sequitur filled speech that has no bearing on anything. A couple of minutes later he does it again. Probably seemed less out of place on stage, which is where the story originates, particularly since he's actually parodying a Eugene O'Neill play called Strange Interlude, which apparently had a lot of this sort of thing.
    • The dialogue, at the very least, hardly ever makes sense in Marx Brothers movies. Most of the actions - especially Harpo's - don't make much sense either, but that's part of their charm.
    • The minstrel sequence in A Day at the Races may have been quite progressive at the time, giving exposure to dozens of black performers who might otherwise not get work in Hollywood at all. At least, one certainly hopes so, since the whole thing, down to the Marx Brothers in Blackface, is squirmingly embarrassing three quarters of a century on.
  • Because of its Troubled Production, Casino Royale 1967 is one big series of weird events with little bearing on the rest of the movie.
  • Mortal Kombat: Annihilation tries to squeeze in as many characters as it can from the second and third games with little to no explanation. However, there is one moment that stands out above all the rest. After Sonya beats Mileena, a monster that is not from the games appears. Jax suddenly throws a few punches and it disappears. Seen around 3:16.
    • Speaking of Reptile, though his was one of the better fight scenes in the original film, it also made little sense. Liu Kang grabs Reptile, who had appeared throughout the movie as a bad CGI lizard monster, and throws him into a statue. The statue and Reptile fuse together, forming the classic ninja version of Reptile... for some unexplained reason. Cue martial arts.
  • About two thirds into the movie Charly, Charlie tries to kiss Miss Kinnian. She rejects him and, hurt, he runs away. We could have just been told that he avoided contact with Miss Kinnian or the institute, but no, we get to watch him ride a bike in the middle of nowhere, make out with two dozen girls, grow a beard, and do power squats to swinging 60's music in a hipster art gallery. When he returns to the institute (and the plot), he looks exactly the way he did before he ran off. A doctor asks him where he's been for two weeks, and he just smiles and gives the doctor champagne.
    • Here it is. Skip to 7:50 to see the 60s burn into the film.
    • The cat-woman witch sex scene in Conan the Barbarian could also count, although IIRC a later scene follows it up (sort of).
  • Partway through The Mummy Tomb Of The Dragon Emperor, there is a series of scenes illustrating the romantic connections. Then one character seems as if he's about to have an Anguished Declaration of Love with a yak. Although the yak had appeared once before in the film with no real explanation for its presence, it then disappears entirely and is never mentioned again.
  • In Hot Rod, at one point near the end of the film, two characters break into a beat-box session using the phrase "Cool beans". This is never referred to again.
  • The Big Lebowski has two Non Sequitur Scene|BLAMs]] in the form of dream sequences. Both are a little indulgent, a lot strange, and don't really have much to do with the rest of the story apart from referencing things the Dude encountered earlier.
  • Steiner's hallucinations in the middle of The Cross of Iron come out of left field and create the impression that his mind has been shattered. But after he abruptly returns to active duty he's pretty much exactly the man he was before, and that plot thread isn't mentioned again. His affair with the nurse (which was apparently real?) also occurs for no reason, and never comes up again.
  • The cheesy sci-fi movie 12 to the Moon (as seen on Mystery Science Theater 3000) has a strange moment where, after kicking the earthmen off the moon, the moonmen insist that they leave the expedition's cats behind, as the moonmen find them intriguing. The Earthers leave the cats' cages behind, and we're treated to a shot of shadows approaching the cats, and then... nothing. The cats are never mentioned again, and there was no build up to why the moonmen were so taken by the cats. Companions? Test subjects? Snacks?
  • In Ed Wood's The Sinister Urge (also seen on MST3K) there is a fist fight between two young men in a diner which turns out to have nothing to do with the film's plot and involves no characters from the rest of the film. One of the young men in the fight is none other than Ed Wood himself.
  • George Lucas' old film THX 1138 has a scene in the middle of the main character watching holo-television. Unfortunately, it seems to be a bizarre porno: a holographic, overweight person dancing violently, jiggling everywhere. For about five minutes. Did we mention that this is apparently the focus of the scene for five minutes?
    • Nowhere near as random as the moment, near the beginning, when the view inside the tape recorder machine reveals an iguana with moth wings growing out of its back. Was that what was controlling the machine? Was it a pest? How did it get in there? How does it even exist?
      • The reptile inside the machine reveals that nobody keeps the said machine clean; nobody controls the machines. They function on their own. The entire system functions on its own. There is no Big Brother; humanity is simply auto-restraining, auto-censoring, auto-oppressing.
        • That could explain why it's in the machine, but why are there lizards running around with insect wings?
    • The holo porn scene did have a purpose. After they pan back to the viewer you can see some contraption heading back into the ceiling. This troper assumed it was collecting his sperm and, mixed with the themes of the film, it explains how the society was reproducing.
      • The contraption was a CG add in the DVD release 2004. In the original version, it seems THX is simply doing... what you do when you watch this genre of show. The add suggests that machines actually do it in place of yourself; you're not even authorized of that. Plus, the other holo shows are policemen beating some people or "experts" meaningless deblatering.
  • The 1998 version of The Parent Trap has that bronze statue that waves at Hallie as Annie's butler drives her to meet her estranged mother for the first time.
  • Hausu. Full stop.
  • In the movie North after North meets his first set of potential adoptive parents from Texas near the end of his visit they randomly break out in a big musical number sung to the tune of the Bonanza theme song with backup singers and dancers accompanying them, other than that one scene this is not a musical.
  • The Broadway Melody number in Singin in The Rain is a double example. It's not only a BLAM in the real film, but is one in the film-within-a-film it's being pitched for too!
    • Even better? It's lampshaded by the studio head saying "I can't quite picture it".
    • Then, within "Broadway Melody", we have the sudden replacement of the stage with a surrealist backdrop, and Don Lockwood suddenly ballet dancing with the Mobster's girl, who has different hair than she had outside the surrealist dance sequence. It then cuts back to the scene. That is to say, a Big Lipped Alligator which has itself been eaten by a larger one.
  • The Gamers: Dorkness Rising has a scene that involves ninjas delivering pizzas, while fighting pirates, in an office.
    • Although this is soon de-BLAMed when it turns out to be a Crazy Awesome board game played by two characters.
  • The film The Wild World of Batwoman (covered on Mystery Science Theater 3000) has, among other WTF, a scene where the titular Batwoman and her Batgirls hold a séance to get advice from the spirit world on where the MacGuffin is. Has there been supernatural content thus far? Save for another BLAM about how the Batgirls are "synthetic vampires," no. Does the scene result in anything of value? Unless you count a blatantly racist portrayal of Chinese people, nope. Is it ever mentioned again? What do you think?
    • The worst example, by far, has to be when the movie cuts to the villain lair. The lair is located in cave... inhabited by mole people. Specifically, they're mole people from Stock Footage of the film The Mole People, natch. Is there any point to establishing that fucking mole people live in this movie? Is it all relevant to anything else in the movie? Do they ever bring it up again, such as when the villain's lair explodes? What do you think?
  • An interesting version in Revenge of the Fallen, in which the Twins adopt a Big Lipped Alligator Mode—that is, a 1930's ice cream truck. The bizarreness of this vehicle mode is never explained and is only seen for about two minutes (in all it's scenes combined) before they decide to change vehicle modes again. Their odd choice of form is never mentioned again.
    • Want a real "moment"? Try the scene where Sam drops the fragment of the All Spark, his kitchen appliances come to life, and start attacking everyone in sight, and after the house is destroyed... Nobody mentions this encounter again, it was likely meant to establish the All Spark fragment's power, but the entire scene was not mentioned again.
      • A serious BLAM occurs near the end of the film, as the Decepticon combiner known as Devastator is seen climbing the pyramids in Gaza. Simmons looks up and sees 2 wrecking balls hanging from the robot's crotch, meant to look like testicles. This is also particularly strange as none of the construction vehicles that combined into Devastator, have wrecking balls. Simmons simply says, "I am directly below... the enemy's scrotum." The scene is never mentioned again.
  • The Hammer Horror film Frankenstein Must Be Destroyed features... Christ alive... a Big Lipped Alligator rape scene. This was added by the mandate of the American distributors over the objections of both actors involved, cuts immediately to a scene where the victim is making coffee and is never mentioned or hinted at again.
  • Fatal Deviation has one scene in which, as Cracked.com so eloquently said it: "This man turns up with no reason, no lines and does nothing but show his ass."
  • Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince has one of these right in the middle of the movie. Harry goes to the Burrow for Christmas, which happens in both the book and the movie. However, in the movie, Bellatrix and Greyback show up for no apparent reason, Ginny chases after them for some reason, Harry quite understandably chases after Ginny, and then Bellatrix sets the Burrow on fire. Big non sequitur moment, as nothing about the scene makes sense anyway. It really didn't help that afterward, Ron and Ginny never mention the Burrow or even act like their house just burned down. Uhh....
    • Actually Harry is the one who chases after Bellatrix first, because she killed his godfather, Sirius Black. Then Ginny chases after him, because she's in love with him. The film makers included it to show the Death Eaters causing havoc in the Wizarding world which is referred to in the book. There's one good reason that explains why Bellatrix would burn down the Burrow on Christmas. She's a BITCH.
      • Oddly, when Harry and company are hiding out in the Burrow in the next film, the house is back to normal with no explanation. It's even used for Bill and Fleur's wedding. (This may be one of the few times where "A Wizard Did It" would suffice as an acceptable explanation, too.)
    • Except for the fact that they clearly used a controlled Feindfyre, which it's stated that things can't be fixed if Dark Magic did it.
      • One way to analyze it is to say the scene foreshadows the loss they will experience in the following two movies.
    • Prisoner of Azkaban had one as well. Shortly after arriving at Hogwarts, the students proceed to the dormitory, but are unable to get in because the Fat Lady is too busy trying to break a wine glass by singing to accept the password.
  • Don't forget Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows - Part 1 and that dance scene with Harry and Hermione. Comes out of absolutely nowhere and adds UST between the two that was completely (well, almost) absent from the books. 'Y know, what with the whole she's like my sister speech he gave Ron in the book to get precisely that clearly out of the way...
    • I didn't see any sexual tension in that scene, just Harry trying to cheer up his friend, which didn't work either way. The scene actually really drives the hopelessness of their situation close to home.
    • Agreed. And made all the more poignant and unsettling by the song they dance to... yeah, the two of them bouncing around like little kids to the dirge-like gospel-choir-accented "O Children" by Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds is just a little bit... I don't even know the word. This troper wasn't sure whether to laugh or cry at it.
      • It has been suggested that this was thrown in by screenwriter Steve Kloves, who wrote all but the 5th movie, as one last Harry/Hermione shipping moment before he was forced to go with the official pairing. Kloves has stated that when he started writing the movies he had assumed Harry and Hermione would end up together, had written the first few films under this assumption -playing up their relationship- and was surprised when J.K. Rowling did not go this way.
    • In Deathly Hallows - Part 2, when Voldemort gives his ultimatum to the school, some random little girl we've never seen before starts screaming. And screaming. It served no relevance and no one really reacted as you would expect.
  • However, the biggest out of all mentioned may be when Voldemort gloats to Hogwarts that he has killed Harry. The scene is heartwrenching, dramatic, and you're waiting for Harry to spring his trap. But then Voldemort suddenly laughs this weird laugh, and breaks all the tension. And later he hugs Draco. Awkwardly.
    • What really makes this priceless is the look on Draco's face - as if he weren't embarrassed enough by his parents.

Voldemort: Heh-heh-heeeeeeh!

  • The fun, but pointless "At The Ball That's All" Musical Number from the Laurel and Hardy vehicle, Way Out West literally comes out of nowhere and does little more than pad the film. However, it ties with Trail of the Lonesome Pine as the movie's definitive Crowning Music of Awesome.
  • The Adventure of Sherlock Holmes Smarter Brother. "The Kangaroo Hop" song and dance. Twice.
  • An American Werewolf in London has a scene where the main character is at home with his family, and then they're attacked by machine-gun wielding Nazi werewolves. It was all a dream—but what does this have to do with the rest of the movie? Nothing whatsoever, that's what.
  • In Wedding Crashers Jane Seymore's characters comes into Owen Wilson's room, exposes her breasts, and asks Owen to touch them. He obliges and she storms off, calling him a pervert. This is never brought up again and on top of that, the scene is followed by Owen Wilson telling Rachel McAdams how much he likes her family.

"Did you motorboat them? You motorboated them. You motorboatin' sonofabitch!"

  • In Piranha, when Paul and Maggie search the laboratory for information about the mutant piranha, at one point a fish/lizard hybrid creature scurries by and it's never seen again.
  • Three Amigos has a brief sub-plot about tracking down a singing bush and an invisible warrior; it has ultimately no bearing on the plot, which has no other fantasy elements.
  • At the beginning of the first story-within-a-story in Merlin's Shop of Mystical Wonders, a Troll hiding behind some plants spies on the couple while they're in the magic shop. It doesn't appear again, and serves no purpose.
    • And we can't go without mentioning the kid in the second story banging the monkey's cymbals together while wearing google-eyed glasses and singing something about a "rock and roll Martian." As the Mystery Science Theater 3000 episode guide put it, "It seems like such a pure 'kid' moment. How did they ever get it on film?"
  • Just about everything about the film Krakatoa: East of Java is mind-blowingly awful (including the title; Krakatoa is northwest of Java (as a bonus, the word Krakatoa was actually a misspelling in the original transmission to England; it's actually Krakatau)). However, the thing that sets it over the top is when two characters pause in the middle of the disaster-movie build-up to have a single romantic musical number.
  • At one point in Groundhog Day, Phil goes to a late showing of "Heidi II" dressed as the titular character from Bronco Billy, along with a woman dressed as Ms. Lily. Who she is, how she knows Phil, and why they're showing up for a movie wearing costumes from a different movie are never explained.
    • The scene occurs right after Phil's seduction of Nancy. The implication is that he's going around town using his time-looping powers to seduce other attractive women, though the specific situation in which they play dressup outside a theater is mostly done for laughs (with a slightly pedophilic overtone as he's unsure if the girl he's with is an adult).
    • A real example of a scene that has no direct relevance to the plot is the one where he's watching Jeopardy with some old folks and knows all the answers in advance.
  • In the Cher film Mermaids Mrs. Flax's youngest daughter stumbles through the hallway with a pumpkin on her head, banging into things and eventually falling to the kitchen floor saying that she's a monster shark. It's adorable, and a BLAM.
  • The drug-fuelled orgy in Zoolander.
  • Clerks II includes a deliberate BLAM when Becky is teaching Dante to dance and the entire cast and extras break out into a lip synced rendition of ABC by the Jackson Five accompanied by a complete change in directorial style, cinematography, and colour saturation.
  • Spider-Man 3: That scene in the jazz club just stands out a little bit more than all of the rest...
    • And his bizarre emo dance after breaking up with Mary Jane.
  • Anchorman has plenty of odd moments, but nothing prepares one for the news team gang fight, complete with horses, gladiator nets, and tridents.
    • Not quite a BLAM as the main characters talk about it afterward, and the next time we see Luke Wilson's character his arm is still missing.
  • The super nova scene in the Lexx telefilm "Supernova". Sure, you may think a scene where a supernova occurs is supposed to be epic...but not when the two planets involved in said event suddenly start speaking. In English. To the main characters. Explaining that it's time to dance. What...the...fuck?
  • Legally Blonde: Bend and snap!
    • Wasn't the Bend and snap the reason the hairdresser got with her delivery man later on in the movie?
  • The part in the American film version of The Hitchhikers Guide to The Galaxy where flyswatters come out of the sand to smack the protagonists.
    • Though since this is the Vogons' home planet and the flyswatters hit you whenever you have an idea, it does nicely explain the Vogons' personalities of refusing to ever take any initiative without a ton of paperwork.
  • At one point in the somewhat obscure Canadian film Christmas In Wonderland, the child protagonists encounter a red door in the basement of a mall allegedly leading to the "North Pole". When one of them opens it, terribly fake and badly done CGI Christmas Elves can be seen behind it, which look like they were taken straight from an extremely low-budget animation film. This is the only scene in the entire film that's completely CG, it only lasts for a few seconds and the elves are never brought up again, nor do they bear any relevance to the plot.
  • In Way of the Dragon Bruce Lee's character is almost seduced by a random Italian woman, he runs away and the entire scene is never mentioned again.
  • In Red Hill; in the middle of the story after Shane has been handcuffed to a barn and Barlow is lying in a chair dead a panther comes into the barn, takes Barlow's dead body and drags it outside, the panther is never seen or mentioned again for the rest of the film.
    • Well, OK, there is one more scene of it in the middle of the end credits but the film's already over and it doesn't do anything.
  • Muppet Treasure Island, like many Muppet films, doesn't take itself too seriously and has plenty of anachronistic jokes and Breaking the Fourth Wall. But the 'Cabin Fever' musical number in the middle of the film particularly stands out as being off the wall even in context. The scene starts off quietly with sailors looking weary from several days at sea, and then one says he's got cabin fever. The sailors start to shake, and then most of the supporting cast and background players join in as a wild musical number begins as they all sing about going mad. The number itself even randomly changes genres at times, incorporating a square dance and a Carmen Miranda homage into it at points. After the number ends, everyone seems to come to their senses. One of the characters who missed the number due to being locked in the hold asks 'What was that song? Cabin Fever'. As Clueless Morgan is a bit of a Cloudcuckoolander, his companions ignore him and the whole thing is never mentioned again as the plot resumes.
    • Admittedly, Cabin Fever is essentially a form of Madness, so having a random moment of absolute Crazyness that you don't remember afterwards wouldn't be that unusual for someone in that position.
  • Muppets from Space allows Hulk Hogan as himself to walk on and promote himself directly to the camera for a minute. To say this is out of left field is an understatement.
  • The Muppets includes an impromptu hip-hop dance number from Chris Cooper's brooding character, Tex Richman, that is promptly never mentioned again. The scene with Mary singing and dancing alone in a diner feels pretty random and irrelevant as well.
  • In Scott Pilgrim vs. the World, Ramona's first evil ex, Matthew Patel suddenly starts singing a Bollywood number in the middle of his fight with Scott. This is never mentioned again, even though Stacey is the only one who notices how strange it is.
  • At the end of Zatoichi: The Blind Swordsmen, having finished with a heart-wrenching story of heroes, child prostitution, tragic love and murder... the entire cast, including folks who've been filleted by 'Zatōichi, get up on a stage, apparently in a cheesy Japanese summer theatre and tap-dance.
  • The infamous Cruising has a scene where Al Pacino's character is being interrogated by the other cops because he was seen getting rather close to one of the suspects. In the middle of the interrogation, one of the cops opens the door... and in walks a black man wearing a cowboy hat and an orange jock strap, who slaps Al Pacino's character across the face before walking out. No reference is ever made to this again.
    • Due to the MPAA's homophobia, 40 minutes had to be cut from the film and it is pretty disjointed as a result, with scenes frequently ending very abruptly and things like that. This might explain why the appearance of that character is never explained or referenced again.
  • In Hollywood films before the 70s, many musical routines featuring minorities come off as Non Sequitur Scenes. This was so these scenes could be edited out easily for Southern audiences without affecting the plot.
  • Most of Magnolia is a straightforward character study with a few handy coincidences. Except for when toads rain from the sky or the entire cast stops what they're doing to sing an Aimee Mann song.
    • Except that there are numerous references to frogs and Exodus throughout the movie. The "Wise Up" number emphasizes the connections between the characters in a way that the characters themselves probably don't fully understand. The prologue sets us up for coincidences, and it requires a few of a cosmic nature to work.
  • Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby has a scene interrupted by a commercial for Applebee's.
  • In the original A Nightmare on Elm Street a sheep randomly runs through the room during the first nightmare sequence. The script explicitly states, "There is no reason for this."
  • Glen or Glenda: "Pull the string! PULL THE STRING!!"
  • The famous "trip to town" sequence in Wet Hot American Summer. Not only does it double as a Crowning Moment of Funny, but significantly sets a new bar in insanity for the rest of the film to keep up with.
  • Lair of the White Worm, like most Ken Russel movies, has a lot of inexplicable moments. One of the main characters often has hallucinations of nuns engaging in an orgy and a scene in which Hugh Grant chops an old vampire woman in half.
  • A Very Brady Sequel has a scene with Mike, Alice, and the kids flying a plane to Hawaii so they can rescue Carol. To forget about the guilt they felt after failing to prevent her from getting kidnapped, Greg pulls a guitar from Hammerspace, and all the kids start dancing in the aisles and singing "Good Time Music."
  • In Dracula: Dead and Loving It, Dracula has a "daymare," where he believes his vampirism is cured and goes out to enjoy the beauty of the light. Then he bursts into flame and wakes up screaming and running. The dream is never mentioned again, and neither is Dracula's apparent desire to be cured of his vampirism.
  • Travis Crabtree's song in The Legend of Boggy Creek, completely random number for a very minor character in the tune of the main theme.
  • In UHF Weird Al's character, George is seen watching an old rerun of "The Beverly Hillbillies" as he dozes off at his desk, which leads to an odd dream sequence with Weird Al's parody of Dire Strait's "Money for Nothing" simply titled "Beverly Hillbillies," complete with a computer generated music video. While there are several other dream and musical sequences in this movie, this scene is the most out of nowhere. It also adds nothing to the plot and afterward, George awakens and the scene is never mentioned again.
  • John Lee Hooker's song in The Blues Brothers. OK, it's a musical, and any musical could be reasonably described as a series of BLAMs strung together, but what makes the John Lee Hooker scene stand out is that 1) It didn't advance the plot, and 2) None of the major characters appeared on screen during the number. It fits with the definition of a BLAM because it could be cut out from the movie and no-one would notice anything missing.
    • It provided atmosphere at least. Very few BLA Ms contribute that much.
  • Harold & Kumar Go to White Castle Go to White Castle features a hilarious, but nonetheless pointless BLAM. As Kumar tries to break Harold out of jail, he suddenly smells a bag of weed and then has a bizarre fantasy involving marrying the bag of weed, complete with "Crazy on You" by Heart playing in the background. This fantasy scene comes out of nowhere, adds nothing to the plot and is never mentioned again.
    • A Very Harold & Kumar 3D Christmas, claymation! 'Nuff said.
  • Joel Schumacher's infamous Batman and Robin features a ridiculous scene where Mr. Freeze (Arnold Schwarzenegger) is seen at his hideout, wearing a robe and bedroom slippers, conducting, or rather demanding his thugs to sing along to the song, "Snow Miser" from the 1974 Christmas special, The Year Without a Santa Claus. This rather silly and pointless scene is, in true BLAM fashion, never mentioned again after it's over.
  • The 2006 Adam Sandler movie, Click features a completely random scene where an unnamed man, played by Terry Crews, is seen sitting in a car and singing along to the song "Working for the Weekend" by Loverboy on the radio. Sandler's character, Michael uses his magical remote to mute the singing driver and the movie goes on without another mention of this scene.
    • With the exception of the remote briefly showing up again right at the end of the movie, the entire remote control aspect of the movie is a dream. Once it's over, it's never referred to again, so most of the movie can be considered one giant BLAM.
  • Although it makes sense culturally, the Bollywood dance scene at the end of Slumdog Millionaire has no relevance to the rest of the rather disturbing and sad movie.
    • Danny Boyle jumped up and down upon receiving the Academy Award for best director. His explanation of "my kids made me promise to do so" doesn't really help in making sense.
  • At one point in Wayne's World, Wayne and Garth drive to Milwaukee to attend an Alice Cooper concert. Aside from meeting a suspiciously informative security guard there, little of this sequence has any bearing on the overall plot, but one scene in particular stands out. On the way, one of them notices that they're passing Shotz Brewery, and suddenly the two are reenacting scenes from the opening of Laverne and Shirley. Even they realize in the middle that what they're doing is odd, so they abandon the scene and never speak of it again.
    • In addition, later on during the movie, Wayne is pulled over by a police officer and the cop turns out to be the T-1000 from Terminator 2: Judgment Day. Wayne screams upon realizing this and speeds away. The scene is never brought up again, adds nothing to the plot and goes nowhere.
  • Wayne's World 2 features a completely random spoof of Jurassic Park.
  • Hobo with a Shotgun has two Non Sequitur Scene|BLAMs]], the first being after the Hobo shoots Slick's genitals off, he is taken literally on a bus ride to hell as he dies from his injuries. By the school bus he torched full of children, earlier on in the movie. The scene is never mentioned again. Then later on in the movie, after the Hobo is captured by The Plague and taken to their hide out, The Plague are seen to be fighting a shrieking creature of some sort, mostly around a corner and off-screen. All that is seen of it are it's tentacles. This is never explained.
  • In spite of being a psychedelic-era art film, Zabriskie Point has a coherent enough plot for two very explicit Non Sequitur Scene|BLAMs]] to be seen. First, after viewing the titular landmark from a viewpoint on an otherwise deserted highway, the two leads Mark and Daria hurry down a desert slope and com mence making out. Guitar music plays. Then it starts showing other people making out in that desert - first couples, then groups. BLAM. Second, there's the Stuff Blowing Up montage (set to "Careful With That Axe, Eugene"), just before Daria drives away into the sunset and the film ends.
  • Walkabout has a number of these, particularly the non-sequitur scene with the scientists launching a weather balloon, and all the sequences where the view cuts to a brick wall and then pans out onto a landscape.
  • During the third segment of Twilight Zone the Movie, the child with powers, Anthony, makes a strange, shape-shifting creature emerge from the television. It is both terrifying and pointless. It is also never mentioned again.
  • In the porn/cop film Busty Cops a group of failure under cover cops are trying to solve a murder. To make a long story short, half way through they head back to base and a talking llama told them who did it. Oddly enough he's never mentioned again and the rest of the film is the cops trying to proof of the suspect.
  • The middle of the "Smooth Criminal" sequence from Moonwalker. It starts as a normal Michael Jackson music video, but then about four and a half minutes in...this happens.
  • The video for Black and White actually begins with a BLAM. Macaulay Culkin guest-stars as a "cool" young boy whose Straw Loser father keeps demanding that he turn down his rock music. The kid responds by using The Power of Rock to blast his dad clear through the roof and several miles up into the sky, only for him to come crashing down on a plain in Africa surrounded by lions, whereupon some Masai tribesmen begin dancing and Michael Jackson launches into the lyrics. The dumb father is never seen or heard from again (and no, it's never implied that the lions ate him). Culkin does reappear later in the video, but only to lip-sync some rap lyrics. And as if all that weren't bizarre enough, the video eventually ends with a BLAM: following a violent, orgiastic, rain-soaked street scene that ends with Michael tearing his shirt off and transforming into a black leopard, we have major Mood Whiplash as we cut immediately to a scene right out of The Simpsons, with Homer angrily barking "BART!" and Bart retorting with "Don't have a cow, man!" or something of the sort. Other than the fact that this final sequence mirrors the theme of the similarly BLAM-y opener, there was absolutely no reason for it.
  • Disney's The Haunted Mansion resolves its plot using a Big Lipped Aligator Moment via the Fireplace Dragon
  • Independent film/Star Wars fan-fest Fanboys features a scene where, after escaping the gay bar, the Fanboys meet Danny Trejo (no one seems to remember his character's name, not even remember if they ever mention his name) and takes them to a campfire weed smoking extravaganza, full with hallucinations and deliriousness. The morning after, Trejo hands them more weed, leaves them (and never comes back) and they set on their way again, without ever mentioning what happened.
  • The midi-chlorian scene in The Phantom Menace. If only Star Wars fans treated it as such...
    • Well, midi-chlorians come up several times later in the movie, and they explain why Anikin is so important to the plot, so it doesn't exactly have no relevance.
  • The 2009 remake of Children of the Corn features a sex scene that seems to be nothing more than blatant Fan Service. While their troublesome enemy wanders unchecked around their town, the Children of the Corn take time out to attend a bizzarre ritual in the crumbling church in which all of the children, young and old, gather around to watch a teenage boy and girl having wild sex on the alter. Nothing about the sex scene ties in with anything else in the plot, and the couple having sex have no names, no speaking lines at all in the movie, and are never noticably seen in any other scene in the entire movie.
  • Repo! The Genetic Opera has a scene where, after an argument with her father, demure, innocent, and sickly Shilo Wallace suddenly launches into a punk rock number, complete with Joan Jett randomly appearing in her room. This scene is such a BLAM that there's no indication it even takes place in reality at all!
  • The John Leguizamo film The Pest has a scene where Pestario encounteres a punk who starts blasting his stereo, then Pest pushes a button in his car, and it transforms into a gigantic ghetto blaster and ends up destroying the punk's car, there's no point to this scene whatsoever and it's never mentioned again.
  • RoboCop 2 has a notable scene early on where he first infiltrates the villain's hideout and discovers a huge shrine dedicated to Elvis with numerous memorabilia placed around as well as the dug up corpse of the King himself. This takes up a few minutes and has no relevance to the story whatsoever, and the second Robocop leaves the room it is never brought up again for the rest of the film.
  • The failed big screen adaptation of Spawn has a scene with the violator in his clown form wearing a cheerleading costume doing a dance number which comes out of nowhere, serves no purpose and which the protagonist doesn't even see happening. The devil himself ends the moment by dragging the clown back to hell to tell him to quit fucking around.
  • Ghostbusters of all movies has one with Ray dreaming about being fellated by a beautiful female ghost who turns invisible as she unbuttons his trousers. The scene comes out of nowhere during a montage of the protagonists' success, it makes no sense whatsoever and is never mentioned afterward.
    • It was part of a deleted scene that they found funny enough to re-insert into the movie; the context being that Ray was investigating a haunting at an old military fort and he fell asleep there. Yeah, we know.
  • The 1994 live-action remake of The Flintstones feels the need to stop the movie for a minute, just to include a pointless, disgusting and unfunny scene where a giant pterodactyl flies overhead, terrifies everyone and then proceeds to take a massive dump on a car.
  • In Dr. Seuss' The Cat in the Hat, The Cat poses as a piñata at a birthday party at one point and in the process is hit in the crotch with a large baseball bat. And then, well... this happens!
  • In John Waters' 1970 film Multiple Maniacs, the main character Lady Divine is suddenly and inexplicably set upon near the end of the film by a giant lobster (named Lobstora, according to the credits) and savagely raped by said creature. The lobster departs afterwards, and is never seen again.
  • A cut scene from the Scooby-Doo live action movie had Velma break out into song (Can't Take My Eyes Off of You) for no reason.
  • In the 2002 film adaptation of The Time Machine, Dr Alexander Hartdegan travels to the future and enters a library where he consults a holographic artificial intelligence librarian. He explains about the HG Wells story "The Time Machine" and the famous 60s film adaptation and then sings a line from the made-up Andrew Lloyd Webber stage musical. He even duplicates himself across other screens in the library to form backup singers to harmonise with.
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