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The following [[Non Sequitur Scene]]s were producer- and director-approved. One has to wonder just how many takes it took for them to "get it just right"...
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== Animated Film
* [[Trope Namer]]: ''[[All Dogs Go to Heaven]]'' includes a [[Deranged Animation|bizarre and nonsensical]] [[Disney Acid Sequence|musical number]] with [[Exactly What It Says on the Tin|a big lipped alligator]] near the end of the film. The two main characters fall into a cave where they are brought by a [[Wacky Wayside Tribe]] to meet their leader, King Gator, who breaks into an Esther Williams tribute. The scene not only comes out of nowhere with only very little build-up beforehand, but it [[Series Continuity Error|seemingly violates the rules of the movie]]: animals can only speak to members of their own species, with Anne Marie being the only being who can communicate with everyone. Yet the Gator and Charlie can share a cross-species musical number. Although {{spoiler|the alligator [[Androcles' Lion|comes back to save Charlie and kill Carface]]}}, the random, over-the-top ''musical number'' itself is what qualifies this scene as a
▲* [[Trope Namer]]: ''[[All Dogs Go to Heaven]]'' includes a [[Deranged Animation|bizarre and nonsensical]] [[Disney Acid Sequence|musical number]] with [[Exactly What It Says on the Tin|a big lipped alligator]] near the end of the film. The two main characters fall into a cave where they are brought by a [[Wacky Wayside Tribe]] to meet their leader, King Gator, who breaks into an Esther Williams tribute. The scene not only comes out of nowhere with only very little build-up beforehand, but it [[Series Continuity Error|seemingly violates the rules of the movie]]: animals can only speak to members of their own species, with Anne Marie being the only being who can communicate with everyone. Yet the Gator and Charlie can share a cross-species musical number. Although {{spoiler|the alligator [[Androcles' Lion|comes back to save Charlie and kill Carface]]}}, the random, over-the-top ''musical number'' itself is what qualifies this scene as a BLAM.
** 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.
* ''[[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 ''[[Dumbo]]''.
* The infamous animated ''[[Titanic: The Legend Goes On|Titanic]]'' movie has a few of these, but most notably, "[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BxHNztg0X3s IT'S PARTY TIME]!" And considering that it's set on the Titanic in 1912, the infamous rapping dog sequence's bizarreness goes [[Up to Eleven]].
* ''[[The Brave Little Toaster]]'' manages to have a
** 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 on the Tin|GOES TO MARS.]] Isn't that [[Non Sequitur
** 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
{{quote|Mrs. Brisby: What was that?
Mr. Ages: Oh that's just Brutus. }}
* The Death Coach chase scene from Disney's 2009 ''[[A Christmas Carol]]''. Especially jarring considering the rest of the movie is almost faithfully accurate to the book, and then you have this...thing...come out of nowhere, with Scrooge shrinking for no reason, providing an action/comedy scene in the middle of a drama...and then everything continues on as normal.
** The coach ''itself'', by the bye, ''is'' in the book, but in a different place (the stairs of Scrooge's house...yeah, it's kind of a
* In ''[[Tom and Jerry: The Movie]]'', there is a musical number when Tom and Jerry are being threatened by a singing gang of alley cats. After sending the cat gang into a sewer, the titular characters apparently blocked it from their memories, because the cat gang is never mentioned again
* ''[[Rock-a-Doodle]]'' has the main protagonist Edmund ''run into his brain'' (?) and hallucinate the other characters berating him for being a "scaredy-cat", a character flaw only brought up like ''once'' previously. (Cause he got turned into a [[Karmic Transformation|cat]], [[Don't Explain the Joke|get it?]]) As per the usual, it is never mentioned again.
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* ''[[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-of-Character Moment|so antagonistic toward the main character]].
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* 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]]''!
{{quote|"Stella, Stella come back!, I could've been somebody!".}}
** The first
* 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 the Frog]]''. His name's Louis. He's actually nice, plays the trumpet, and isn't a Himself Moment. The frog hunters, however, are this trope incarnate, unless you designate their scene as the first time Tiana and Naveen start getting along (there's actually debate among fans over whether or not it is).
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* [[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 with an "S"|Danny/Denny]]'s drug problem and Chris R. are never brought up again and don't add anything to the plot. The character Claudette tells Lisa that she "definitely has breast cancer," which is never mentioned again. Characters also start playing games of catch for no particular reason. When asked why he included them, the direct said because "catch is fun."
* The 2011 prequel to ''[[The Thing (film)|The Thing]]'' has a scene that stands out a little more than the others. The film's protagonist, Kate, roams the ship, and uncannily comes across a weird, Tetris like hologram video thing that has very little to do with the story, is never explained and is never mentioned again. Not made better by the fact that it isn't mentioned in the 1982 film.
* In ''[[Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid]]'', the movie takes a break from the story of two western outlaws to have [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P_5l6rIUu4A a musical interlude] with the characters riding around on a bicycle. It wouldn't be ''that'' weird except for the music they chose, "Raindrops Keep Falling on my Head", which is cheerful, anachronistic, incredibly out of place, and one of the things everyone remembers about the movie.
* ''[[It's
* 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 Chocolate Factory (film)|Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory]]'' qualifies for this trope. The poem Wonka quotes is from the book, but the tone and visuals are way out of left field for the rest of the film. It also serves no plot purpose but to get the characters to the next scene.
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** 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]].
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** 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 (film)|Cabin Fever]]'' has two; [[Narm|the infamous pancake scene]] and the weird rabbit surgeon.
** 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 [[wikipedia:Everybody Wants Some!!|"Everybody Wants Some!!"]]
* In ''[[Monty Python's Life of Brian]]'', Romans chase Brian up a tower. Cornered, Brian falls off the tower and gets scooped up by a passing ''alien space ship'', which flies around the earth for a few seconds before improbably crash landing right at the foot of the same tower, killing both aliens. Brian stumbles out of the wreckage and the chase resumes. [[Word of God|Director Terry Jones]], on the [[Criterion Collection]] [[DVD Commentary]], states that that the writers were stumped on how to get Brian down from the tower until someone quipped, "What if he gets shanghaied by aliens?"
** 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 Python's The Meaning of Life]]'' is a series of sketches without a plot, the "Find the Fish" segment still might qualify, since it has nothing to do with the themes that connect the sketches. [[Word of God|John Cleese]] admitted in an interview that it's probably the least sensical joke they've ever done.
* ''[[Blade Runner]]'': Some see the infamous "Unicorn Dream" sequence (a two-second-long clip of a running unicorn spliced into an otherwise normal scene) as a
** 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.
* ''[[Crank]]: High Voltage'' is full of random moments, but most of them at least relate to the plot or the hero's backstory. One scene, however, breaks away from a gunfight to show the therapy session of a minor character from the first movie, played by [[It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia|Glenn Howerton]]. At the end of the session, he's killed by a stray bullet from the gunfight, and the movie continues.
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** 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-Out]] to the original novel).
* ''[[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 (film)|The Spirit]]'' seems particularly out of place. Though longer than a normal
** 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 ''[[Xanadu]]'' has many weird spots, they usually have some bearing on the plot. But then there's one scene where Sonny and Kira turn into cartoon characters (animated by [[Don Bluth]], no less,) and then chase each other for no real reason.
** [[The Nostalgia Chick]] would like to differ; the movie has no cohesion, and the scenes happening are more often than not never mentioned again, so a mere
*** But this particular scene stands out above the rest of the movie in terms of ridiculousness. Somehow, the writers managed to create a Big-Lipped Alligator Moment ''within'' a Non Sequitur Scene Episode|Big-Lipped Alligator Movie]]. And they are probably the only ones to have ever achieved that.
* The scene in ''[[The Shining]]'' where Wendy Torrance walks in on a ghost performing implied oral sex on another ghost in a dog suit and mask. This was an important component of a major historical (and ghost-related) plotline in the original book, but since most of that plotline was excluded from [[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
* ''[[Hook]]'' has a few awkward moments, but the one
* 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.
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* ''[[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.
* [[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]].
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** 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 Non Sequitur Scene Episode]]. Most of it actually makes sense, even if it also prompts "lolwut" when you describe it. Since the best way to describe the movie is that somebody mixed the scripts for a season of a melodramatic soap opera with that of a variety show & the shooting script of a music video, and then pared it down to movie length...
* In ''[[Superman IV]]: The Quest for Peace'', there is a pointless scene of [[Lex Luthor]] dancing with a woman who is dressed as [[Marie Antoinette]]. Sad to say, this is one of the movie's lesser problems...
** There was almost a bigger
** ''[[Superman III]]'' starts off with a completely out-of-place Chaplin-style slapstick sequence behind the opening credits.
* ''[[Halloween (film)|Halloween: The Curse of Michael Myers]]''. Tommy Doyle gets a pipe and beats Michael with it so hard, green ooze starts leaking out of his mask. When the mask is found on the floor, it's completely clean and it's never explained why the ooze was leaking out of Michael.
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