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* 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

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.

** 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]]''!

** The first BLAM 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|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.

* The [[Wacky Wayside Tribe|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:

* ''[[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.

* 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.

** 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.

*** 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 ''[[Operation Double 007]]'' for ''[[Mystery Science Theater 3000]]'' fans) has a scene where the [[Big Bad]]'s [[Amazon Brigade]] applies [[The Schlub Pub Seduction Deduction]] to an Army convoy carrying a load of Phlebotinum, while dressed as Wild West burlesque dancers stranded in the desert. They then change into... skunk(?!?) outfits and disguise the truck they need as a float promoting a casino (to a [[Suspiciously Similar Song]] version of "Yes, Jesus Loves Me") before escaping. The first riff after a hard cut to the [[Omniscient Council of Vagueness]]:

* ''[[Pieces (film)|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.

* ''[[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 (film)|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".

* 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 on Him|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.

* 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 Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans|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 [http://www.avclub.com/articles/peewees-big-adventure,36018/ 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.

* 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 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.

* 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 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.

* 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!|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.