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== Animated Film
* [[Trope Namer]]: ''[[
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* ''[[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
** 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]]''.
* [[Disney Acid Sequence|The Pink Elephants scene]] from ''[[
* The infamous animated ''[[Titanic:
* ''[[The Brave Little Toaster]]'' manages to have a
** But wasn't the tulip what made Toaster start being nicer to Blankey?
** But far more bizarre and out of place that this double
*** 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.
*** Also, [[The Brave Little Toaster]] [[Exactly What It Says
** 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 [[Tech Marches On|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 [[Nightmare Fuel|random rat]] with an electric prod. Suddenly Mr. Ages appears and just brushes it off,and the moment is never spoken of again
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* 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
* 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
* The [[Everybody Remembers the Stripper|infamous]] [[Fetish Fuel|strip tease]] right before the [[Bar Brawl]] in ''[[The Great Mouse Detective]]''. Memorable and entertaining? [[Parent Service|Absolutely]]. Typical for a nightclub? Yes. Typical for a Disney movie? Uhhh... Any bearing whatsoever on the plot? No -- [[Face Palm|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.
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** 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 [[Crowning Moment of Funny|hilariously random]] [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zDeYMFuIkBg dance] they do right before they nab him (to the tune of "Puttin' On the Ritz," of all things!).
* In ''[[Grandma Got Run Over
* 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 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
* About halfway through ''[[Beavis and Butthead]] [[The Movie|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 [[Mushroom Samba|a nightmarish tribute to the boys]], animated and scored ([[Heh Heh, You Said "X"|huh huh, "scored"]]) by Rob Zombie.
* In ''[[The Polar Express]]'' movie, there is a bizarre scene where the Hobo ghost scares the [[No Name Given|main character]] with a discarded marionette puppet. No other scene is scary in such a way, and nowhere else is the Hobo [[Out
* ''[[
** 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 [[Art Shift|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
** Also, everything involving the [[Unfortunate Implications|sort of racially-insensitive]] crows.
* 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]]''!
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* In ''[[Raggedy Ann and Andy A Musical Adventure|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
** 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. [[Let Us Never Speak of This Again|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]] [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bXOjSzJ4YKQ piano recital], and a [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2FL2tAyHFWo&feature=related skating fantasy], again for Snoopy. The latter two are beautiful and feature some [[Crowning Music of Awesome]] material (one was by [[Ludwig Van Beethoven|Beethoven]], after all) but none of them have anything to do with the plot.
* When [[Terrible Trio|Lock, Shock, and Barrel]] accidentally bring Jack Skellington the Easter Bunny instead of Sandy Claws in ''[[The Nightmare Before Christmas]]''. [[Crowning Moment of Funny|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 [http://necaonline.com/nbctcg/cardlist/characters/jack2.jpg roaring]{{Dead link}} [[Buffy
* 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.
* [[Disney Acid Sequence|Heffalumps and Woozles]] from ''Winnie the Pooh & the Blustery Day''.
* ''[[
* ''[[The Jetsons|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|''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 [
* [[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 {{spoiler|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 [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lGNHjgWsA04 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 [[Through the Eyes of Madness|severely concussed perspective]], but still comes off as pretty out of left-field.
== Live Action Film BLAMs ==▼
* ''[[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 [[Public Domain Soundtrack|Mozart's Symphony #25]] and to show off some [[Scenery Porn|Scenery]] and [[Costume Porn]].
* In the movie version of ''[[Diary of a Wimpy Kid]]'', there is [[That Reminds Me of a Song|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. [[Spell My Name
* The 2011 prequel to ''[[The Thing (
* In ''[[Butch Cassidy and
* ''[[
* 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 [[Nightmare Fuel|deranged]] tunnel scene from ''[[Charlie and
* The [[Wacky Wayside Tribe|Dancing Fire Gang]] from ''[[
* The obscure film ''The Curse of the Cannibal Confederates'' (a.k.a. ''The Curse of the Screaming Dead'') has an example. To quote [[
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* ''[[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
** In ''[[Godzilla]] Versus The Astro Monster'', Godzilla does a ludicrous victory dance. [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TTwH5nqRvOo "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 [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=inV-sJ2aL5E 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, a[[Naughty Tentacles|giant octopus]] [[Misplaced Wildlife|in the forest]]. The scene was added [[Executive Meddling|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''
** The Train Room (And the Train Man) from ''[[The Matrix]] Revolutions''
** 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
* ''[[Cabin Fever (
** Or they're, as [[Phelous]] refers to them, "Big Crocodile Scene Happenings."
*** The
* 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 [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vmKxgRzc3f0 "The Rhythm of Life"], which mocks [[New Age Retro Hippie|hippie culture]] and [[Church of Happyology|religions like Scientology]].
** It is important to note that,
* ''[[Better Off Dead]]'' featured a scene of hamburgers and "fraunch" fries dancing to Van Halen's [
* In ''[[Monty
** Not many other
** The randomness was also [[Lampshade Hanging|lampshaded]]; right after the crash, when Brian stumbles out, a passer-by exclaims, "Oooh, you lucky bastard!"
* Despite the fact that ''[[Monty
* ''[[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
** This may have been a shout-out to the book ''[[Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?]]'' which the film is very loosely based on {{spoiler|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.
* ''[[
* 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 ''[[
** 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 (Film)|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
* ''[[Turkish Star Wars]]'', in spite of barely making any sense in the first place, still manages to have a
* 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 (
** Really, the movie was just plain [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-5xWXJpSvzM damn weird].
* The ''Fame'' parody in ''Dance Flick'' comes out of nowhere and is never mentioned again.
* Though ''[[
** [[
*** 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
* 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 [[Stanley Kubrick|Kubrick's]] screen [[Pragmatic Adaptation|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
* ''[[
* A scene in ''[[Hellraiser Inferno]]'' has [[Bad Cop, Incompetent Cop|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.
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** On the other hand, earlier in the movie, a stilt-walking clown at one of Billy's "graduation" parties falls over to the cement and presumably dies (cue laughter). Then during the musical number, he gets up (was his body really lying there for weeks?) and says he's alright.
*** His exact lines are, "Hey kids, it's me/ you probably thought that I was dead./ But when I fell down I just broke my leg/ and got a hemorrhage in my head! Ha-ha!" So either he's totally screwed, or he heals like Wolverine circa 1982.
** Oh, and there's also that scene where Billy starts dancing to Culture Club's "I'll Tumble 4 Ya" outta nowhere. It's an odd movie.
*** And then [[It Makes Just As Much Sense in Context|the bus driver kisses the penguin and the cross-eyed lipstick-wearing revenge-killer kisses the creepy lunch lady]].
* [[Spy Fiction]] [[Mockbuster]] ''Operation Kid Brother'' (or ''[[
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* ''[[Pieces (
** 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
** 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 [[Flat Earth Atheist|atheists]] attack him. About thirty people come out of the Jeep in waves, like a clown car, but he [[Kung Fu Jesus|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
* 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... [[Petting Zoo People|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 [[Big Bad Evil Guy|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 ''[[
** In a documentary interview special about the series (''His Name Was Jason''), the director said [[The Walrus Was Paul|he deliberately did it to confuse people and get them talking about the scene]].
* 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 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
* 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: [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dV0LD-QAzg0 "Lapti Nek"], the original musical number in the 1983 version.
* ''When the Boys Meet the Girls'' from 1965 is not quite a
* 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
** ''[[Superman III]]'' starts off with a completely out-of-place Chaplin-style slapstick sequence behind the opening credits.
* ''[[Halloween (
** 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.
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* 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.
* ''[[
* In the sequel ''[[The Neverending Story (
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* 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... [[Dropped a Bridge
* 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
* The film version of ''[[Tank Girl]]'' had the musical moment "Let's Do It, Let's Fall in Love".
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* ''[[Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans
* And then, there is [http://www.avclub.com/articles/peewees-big-adventure,36018/ this little slice of] [[Nightmare Fuel]] from ''[[Pee
** "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
* ''[[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 [[Looney Tunes|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 [[This Is Your Premise
* ''[[
* ''[[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
* 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 ''[[
* 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 [[Viewers
** ''[[Animal Crackers]]'' has the famous "[[Lampshade Hanging|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
* 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 (
** 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 ''[[Flowers for Algernon
** [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A3hO1ehnwCs&feature=related#movie_player Here it is.] Skip to 7:50 to see the 60s burn into the film.
** The cat-woman witch sex scene in ''[[
* 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.
** For some people, this resulted in an [[Ensemble Darkhorse|Ensemble Darkyak]].
* 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
* 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 ''[[
* In [[Ed Wood (
* George Lucas' old film ''[[
** 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 [[Does This Remind You of Anything?|policemen beating some people]] [[Truth in Television|or "experts" meaningless deblatering]].
* The 1998 version of ''[[The Parent Trap (1961 film)|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.
* ''[[
* 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 Nostalgia Critic
** Before that, when North's dad gets a call at work in a jeans factory, for some reason there are a bunch of strange characters in the background wearing all sorts of costumes, such as a golfer and a lumberjack. No one even seems to acknowledge this. To quote [[
* The Broadway Melody number in ''[[Singin' in
** Even better? It's [[Lampshade Hanging|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|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 [[Unfortunate Implications|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 ''[[Transformers (
** 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 [[Executive Meddling|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: "[http://www.cracked.com/article_18632_irelands-only-kung-fu-movie-is-worst-film-ever-made.html This man turns up with no reason, no lines and does nothing but show his ass.]"
* ''[[Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (
** Actually Harry is the one who chases after Bellatrix first, because she killed {{spoiler|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.
** ''[[
*** It also had the [[Fan Nickname|frog choir]] singing Shakespeare's "Something Wicked This Way Comes" lyric from ''Macbeth'' ([[Crowning Music of Awesome|but it's a kick-ass song]], so <s>we'll</s> [[Broken Base|some of us]] forgive them) and Harry seeing Sirius's face in a crystal ball.
* Don't forget ''[[
** 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 {{spoiler|killed Harry}}. The scene is heartwrenching, dramatic, and you're waiting for Harry to spring his trap. [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MLKzJtjyc0E But then Voldemort suddenly laughs this
** What really makes this priceless is the look on Draco's face - as if he weren't embarrassed enough by his parents.
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* 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
* ''[[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
* In ''[[
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* 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
* At the beginning of the first story-within-a-story in ''[[
** 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 [[
* 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 ''[[
** 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.
** Though you do get to see [[Rosario Dawson]] bounce around on a roof.
* ''[[Spider-Man (
** And his bizarre emo dance after {{spoiler|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
** 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, [[Special Effect Failure|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.
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* ''[[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 [[Ocean Madness|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
* ''[[The Muppets (
* In ''[[Scott Pilgrim vs. the World]]'', Ramona's first evil ex, Matthew Patel suddenly starts singing a [[Villain Song|Bollywood number]] in the middle of his fight with Scott. This is never mentioned again, even though [[Lampshade Hanging|Stacey is the only one who notices how strange it is.]]
** Any mention of Subspace in the film might be a better example of this due to [[Adaptation Explanation Extrication]].
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* 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
* 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:
* In the original ''[[A Nightmare
* ''[[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.
* [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5bSQBVlrEYU 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 ''[[
* 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
** ''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.
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** With the exception of the remote briefly showing up again right at the end of the movie, {{spoiler|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 ''[[
** 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
* In spite of being a psychedelic-era art film, ''Zabriskie Point'' has a coherent enough plot for two very explicit
* ''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"
* The video for ''Black and White'' actually ''begins'' with a BLAM. Macaulay Culkin guest-stars as a [[Cool People Rebel Against Authority|"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 [[Piss
* Disney's ''[[The Haunted Mansion (
* Independent film/Star Wars fan-fest ''[[
* The midi-chlorian scene in ''[[The Phantom Menace]]''. If only ''[[Star Wars]]'' fans [[Serious Business|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 [[The Remake|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 [[Creepy Child|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 [[Immodest Orgasm|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 [[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.
* ''[[
* The failed big screen adaptation of ''[[Spawn]]'' has a scene with the violator in his clown form [[Nausea Fuel|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. [[It Makes Just As Much Sense in Context|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
* 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 [
* 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 [[Celebrity Paradox|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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