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== Animated Film BLAMs ==

** Note that the name is Big Lipped Alligator ''Moment'', not Big Lipped Alligator. It is the event itself that is considered the reason of the trope, not King Gator.

* ''[[Fern Gully]]'' has the appearance of a big carnivorous lizard who tries to eat Zak while singing a song about vore.

** 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 Brave Little Toaster]]'' manages to have a BLAM within a BLAM. 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 [[All Dogs Go to Heaven|original Big Lipped Alligator]]. And in the middle of ''this'', the Toaster runs off to be alone and has [[Tear Jerker|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?

*** 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 [[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.

* 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 BLAM all its own) and without the inexplicable shrinking thing going on either.

* 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.

** 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!).

* 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.

* ''[[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.

* 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-of-Character Moment|so antagonistic toward the main character]].

** 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.

** 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.

** 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........

* 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'']].

* [[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.

* 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).

{{quote| (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]]''

* 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 BLAM?

** Or they're, as [[Phelous]] refers to them, "Big Crocodile Scene Happenings."

*** The BLAM is tripled when you read the end credits and find out that the Bunny was played by "We'll Never Tell".

** It is important to note that, BLAM 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 [[wikipedia:Everybody Wants Some!!|"Everybody Wants Some!!"]]

** Not many other [[Big Lipped Alligator Moment|BLAMs]] qualify as a [[Crowning Moment of Awesome]], though [[Lampshade Hanging|if there are others]] I'm sure they're listed here.

** The randomness was also [[Lampshade Hanging|lampshaded]]; right after the crash, when Brian stumbles out, a passer-by exclaims, "Oooh, you lucky bastard!"

* ''[[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 BLAM. However, it MIGHT be referenced later in the director's cut {{spoiler|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 {{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...

** 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.

* ''[[Turkish Star Wars]]'', in spite of barely making any sense in the first place, still manages to have a BLAM. 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.

** 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.

*** 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 [[BLAM 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 [[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 BLAM. It doesn't leave viewers reeling with confusion as to how such a scene could possibly relate to the rest of the film.

* 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.

** 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]].

{{quote| '''Servo:''' ...the hell was ''THAT?''}}

** 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 BLAM- 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.

* 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.

** 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.

** 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.

** There was almost a bigger BLAM. 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.

** 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.

* 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.

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

* 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 film version of ''[[Tank Girl]]'' had the musical moment "Let's Do It, Let's Fall in Love".

** "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 [[Looney Tunes|Bugs Bunny]] dream sequence in ''My Dream is Yours''.

* ''[[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.

* 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 ''[[Whats 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.

** ''[[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.

* Because of its [[Troubled Production]], ''[[Casino Royale 1967]]'' is one big series of weird events with little bearing on the rest of the movie.

** 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.

** [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.

* 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]].

* ''[[The Big Lebowski]]'' has two [[BLAM|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.

* George Lucas' old film ''[[THX 1138 (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 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]]'' 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.

** 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 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?

** 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.

{{quote| 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]].

* ''[[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.

{{quote| "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.

* 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.

** 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.

* ''[[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.

** 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.

* ''[[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?

** 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.

* ''[[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.

* 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]].

* 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.

* ''[[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."

* [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.

* 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.

* 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.

** 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]]''.

* In spite of being a psychedelic-era art film, ''Zabriskie Point'' has a coherent enough plot for two very explicit [[BLAM|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 "[[Pink Floyd|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.

* The middle of the Smooth Criminal music video from ''[[Moonwalker]]''. It starts as normal as anything involving [[Michael Jackson]] can, but then about four and a half minutes in...[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RWdGIbZKtmg#t=04m34s this happens.]

* 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-Take Rap|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 [[Book Ends|this final sequence mirrors the theme of the similarly BLAM-y opener]], there was absolutely no reason for it.

* 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.

* 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 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.

* 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.