Comically Missing The Point / Live-Action Films

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Comically Missing the Point in Films — Live-Action.

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• Abbott and Costello in Hollywood: When Buzz tells Abercrombie to call him a cab, Abercrombie replies "You're a cab."
• Done constantly in Airplane!.
  • The most comical example might be this exchange:
    Dr. Rumack: Captain, how soon can you land?
    Captain Oveur: I can't tell.
    Rumack: You can tell me. I'm a doctor.
    Oveur: No. I mean I'm just not sure.
    Rumack: Well, can't you take a guess?
    Oveur: Well, not for another two hours.
    Rumack: You can't take a guess for another two hours?
  • There's this exchange between Ted and Elaine:
    Elaine: You have a telegram from headquarters.
    Ted: Headquarters? What is it?
    Elaine: Well it's a big building with lots of generals, but that's not important right now.
  • Johnny is this trope. He's constantly asked to get coffee, as in "Johnny, some coffee?" to which he always replies "No, thank you!" He also is asked what kind of plane it is that's in trouble (meaning model, passenger complement, etc.) but describes the plane's physical look. When handed a print-out of the plane's flight pattern, he's asked "What do you make of this?" to which he replies that he can make a hat, a brooch, a pterodactyl, etc.
    • It's suggested, given the ways he intentionally messes with and insults other people, that he may just be fucking with everyone.
• From The A List:
  Lacey: Hannah, you do have beautiful hair, however, I sense that you have some deep-rooted insecurities, therefore you like to emphasize superficial things in fear that people might notice you aren't as perfect as you look.
  Hannah: Aw, you think I have beautiful hair?
• Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy has this little gem:
  Veronica: I'm good at three things: fighting, screwing, and reading the news. I've already done one of those today, so what's the other one gonna be? Huh?
  Ed: [hopefully] Uh...screwing?
  Veronica: [smacks him across the face]
  • Brick: "I would like to extend to you an invitation to the pants party."
• In Are You Being Served?, when Mrs. Slocombe hears the dinner specialty at the Don Bernardo Palace Hotel is "big octopussy":
  Mrs. Slocombe: They've never boiled their cat?
• Dr. Evil of the Austin Powers films misses the point when Frau Farbissina tries telling him that she's pregnant.
  Frau Farbissina: Herr Doktor, I'm late.
  Dr. Evil: No, you got here right on time.
  Frau Farbissina: No, I mean, I'm late.
  • The first film Lampshades this trope with a memorable exchange:
    Vanessa Kensington: Mr. Powers...let me be perfectly clear with you, perhaps to the point of being insulting. I will never have sex with you, ever. If you were the last man on Earth and I was the last woman on Earth, and the future of the human race depended on our having sex simply for procreation, I still would not have sex with you.
    [Beat]
    Austin Powers: What's your point, Vanessa?
  • And later, in the same film:
    Vanessa: You know, I sometimes forget you’ve missed out on the last thirty years: the fall of the Berlin Wall, the first female British prime minister, the end of apartheid...
    Austin: Yeah, and I can't believe Liberace was gay. I mean, women loved him! I didn’t see that one coming!
  • And twice in a row in this gem:
    Vanessa: Did you at least have protection?
    Austin: Of course, I had my 9mm with me.
    Vanessa: No, I mean did you use a condom?
    Austin: Only sailors use condoms.
    Vanessa: Not in the nineties, Austin.
    Austin: Well they should, the filthy buggers, they're going from port to port.
• Back to the Future:
  • Perhaps the trope's aversion was Subverted, resulting in playing the trope straight. After the first testing of the newly built time machine, Marty McFly understandably freaks out, and asks Doc Brown this iconic question, where he initially sounds dumbfounded that Doc managed to build a working time machine - but then expresses shock as to what kind of car he built it out of:
    Marty: Wait a minute. Wait a minute, Doc. Ah... Are you tellin' me you built a TIME MACHINE... [Beat] out of a DeLOREAN?!
  • Doc tries to read Marty's mind, and Marty tries to tell Doc in 1955 that he came in a time machine that Doc invented.
    Doc Brown: My God, do you know what this means? It means that this damn thing [the mind-reading device] doesn't work at all!
• The baker in The Baker's Wife doesn't pick up on the fact that the shepherd is flirting with his wife, thinking instead that he is complementing his bread-baking skills.
• In Bertie and Elizabeth Edward the Eighth complains about the annoyances of "tradition". Whereupon his father growls "Monarchy is tradition". Well, duh!
• In Bringing Up Baby, David tells Susan she has to leave her apartment after he finds out there's a leopard in it. She says she can't, because she has a lease.
• This frequently occurs in Burn After Reading; especially notable is this exchange:
  Osbourne: If you ever carried out your proposed threat you would experience such a shitstorm of consequences my friend your empty little head would be spinning faster than the wheels of your Schwinn bicycle back there.
  Chad: [laughing] You think that's a Schwinn?
• In Canadian Bacon, Sherriff Boomer, Kabral, and Roy Boy steal a truck and paint anti-Canadian graffiti on it. They later get pulled over by a Canadian highway patrolman because of it. However, it's not because the graffiti is anti-Canadian. It's because it's only in English and not also in French. He then helpfully provides translations and the spray-can to do them with. Aren't Canadians just the nicest people?
• Carry On Behind: Daphne's reaction when Arthur treads in his breakfast.
  Arthur: [howls loudly after putting his breakfast tray on the floor, then treading in it]
  Daphne: Arthur, what are you doing?
  Arthur: I've just trodden in my breakfast.
  Daphne: Well, I wish you'd do it more quietly.
• The Chuck E. Cheese movie Chuck E. Cheese in the Galaxy 5000 does this twice in a row during the diner scene in the beginning. When Pasqually tells Chuck E. and the others that their friend Charlie Rockit needs dough (as in cash), Jasper misinterprets it as pizza dough before Chuck E. corrects him. Then both Jasper and Munch misinterpret it as a female deer (doe), which initiates a brief lapse into "Do-Re-Mi" before Pasqually tells the real deal.
• In one of the endings of Clue, after Mrs. Peacock is arrested as the murderer:
  Wadsworth: You see, like the Mounties, we always get our man!
  Mr. Green: Mrs. Peacock was a man?! [gets slapped repeatedly by the others]
• At the end of Death Becomes Her, Helen and Madeline gloat about how Ernest gave up his chance for eternal life and is now dead, while they're alive. They don't seem to consider that he passed away surrounded by a loving family after having found true love and happiness, while they're two functionally dead and broken corpses only held together with magic and thick layers of paint and spend all their time hating each other.
• In the 1913 silent film Cousins Of Sherlocko, the female lead presents her hand to her boyfriend to be kissed, but his response is to count her fingers and assure her that they're all still there.
• From Diamonds Are Forever, after Shady Tree gets James Bond out of the retort for questioning concerning the phony diamonds:
  James Bond: Now don't tell me... you're St. Peter?
• Doctor... Series:
  • Doctor in the House (1954): When Sir Lancelot asks about the "bleeding time" (time before a patient's blood clots), Simon checks his watch:
    Sir Lancelot: You cut a patient, he bleeds, until the processes of nature form a clot and stop it. This interval is known scientifically as the "bleeding time". You! What's the bleeding time?
    Simon: Ten past ten, sir.
  • Doctor at Sea:
    • When Archer is told he has athlete's foot, his first remark about the issue is that he doesn't know any athletes.
    • Jenkins takes out his teeth before he tries to hang himself because he doesn't want to swallow them and choke to death.
    • During the evacuation of the ship, Miss Mallet sees a rescue flare go off and starts going on about how much she loves fireworks.
  • In Doctor in Distress (1963), when Gillibrand is examining Mrs. Parry, he asks her where she got her pain (meaning where on her body), only for her to recall that she got it in the kitchen.
  • Doctor in Clover: As Wendover explains to Sir Lancelot how he got wounded by shrapnel during the war, Sir Lancelot asks "Rectum?", as in where he was wounded. However, Wendover doesn't understand, thinking that he meant "Wrecked 'em?", and replies that it didn't do them any good.
  • Doctor in Trouble:
    • Satterjee when Wendover tells him about fighting at Dunkirk:
      Wendover: I was at Dunkirk, mate.
      Satterjee: Oh, very good ferry service at Dunkirk. British Railway. Most excellent.
      Wendover: I was talkin' about the beaches.
      Satterjee: Oh, very sandy. The beaches.
      Wendover: I' wasn't when I was there. I' was full o' bomb 'oles.
      Satterjee: Oh, yes. The-the sunbathing was very good, also.
      Wendover: I said "bomb 'oles", not-
    • And again, when talking to a seasick Basil:
      Basil: Tell the Captain to go to hell.
      Satterjee: I'm afraid that is not possible, sir. Our first port of call will be Marseilles.
    • Dr. Burke does so when trying to pretend that he is Basil's personal doctor.
      Dr. Burke: I'm Basil's personal doctor.
      Satterjee: Which doctor?
      Dr. Burke: No, I'm not a witch doctor. I'm-I'm-I'm his physician.
    • When Wendover wants an apology from Captain Spratt:
      Wendover: So, under the circumstances, you'll be wantin' apologise!
      Captain Spratt: I apologise to you?!
      Wendover: Thank you very much.
• Dracula: Dead and Loving It dips into this early, when the rather obviously British Renfield stops in a small village outside the Count's castle, in a hurry for directions, as not to be late. Most of the villagers are horrified at his new boss, but...
  Renfield: I'm scheduled to meet Count Dracula.
  Villager 1: Dracula!?
  Villager 2: Dracula!?
  Villager 3: Dracula!?
  Villager 4: ...shed-yool?
• Dr. Strangelove - as the Russian ambassador horrifically explains his country's newly finished Doomsday Machine and how its imminent activation would mean the end of the world, General 'Buck' Turgidson excitedly whispers "Boy, I wish we had one'a them Doomsday Machines!"
• The protagonists in Dude, Where's My Car? are two stoners who are trying to figure out what happened the night before after a drinking binge, as well as locate their car. While searching, they meet a hot girl they know but never talk to.
  Jesse: Hey, have you seen my car?
  Christy Boner: Well, I saw it last night. I saw the back seat.
  Jesse: No, I'm talking about the whole thing.
• In Dumb and Dumber, Lloyd is with Mary, whom he's infatuated with, and asks:
  Lloyd: What do you think the chances are of a guy like you and a girl like me [sic]... ending up together?
  Mary: Well, Lloyd, that's difficult to say. I mean, we don't really...
  Lloyd: Hit me with it! Just give it to me straight! I came a long way just to see you, Mary. The least you can do is level with me. What are my chances?
  Mary: Not good.
  Lloyd: You mean, not good like one out of a hundred?
  Mary: I'd say more like... one out of a million.
  Lloyd: So you're telling me there's a chance? YEAH!
  • As Lloyd and Harry are on the road out of Colorado on foot, a bus pulls up filled with hot bikini girls and... Look, just read the exchange:
    Bikini girl: Hey, guys. We're going on a national bikini tour and we're looking for two oil boys who can grease us up before each competition.
    Harry: You're in luck... There's a town about three miles that way. I'm sure you'll find a couple guys there.
    Bikini girl: [weirded out] Okay... Thanks.
    [the bus starts leaving]
    Lloyd: [upset at Harry] Do you realize what you've done?! [starts running after the bus] Hey! Wait!
    [the bus stops as they get to the door]
    Lloyd: Y-you'll have to excuse my friend. He's a little slow... The town is back that way! [points at the opposite direction Harry pointed to earlier on]
• In Ferris Bueller's Day Off, the principal is chewing over the fact that the title character is absent from school yet again, and he mutters, "I don't trust that kid any further than I can throw him." This prompts the cheerful secretary to respond, "Well, with your bad knee, Ed, you shouldn't throw anybody." He's somewhat less than calmed by her concern.
• In Field of Dreams Terrence Mann does this at Fenway Park.
  Ray Kinsella: So, what do you want?
  Terrence Mann: I want them to stop looking to me for answers, begging me to speak again, write again, be a leader. I want them to start thinking for themselves. I want my privacy.
  Ray Kinsella: I mean, what do you want? [gestures toward concession stand]
  Terrence Mann: Oh. Dog and a beer.
  Ray Kinsella: Two.
• Free Guy: Molotov Girl asks Guy to turn around while she enters the password to open her safe house. However, he misunderstands and makes a complete turn.
• Played straight in George of the Jungle.
  Narrator: When they finally beheld the mighty Ape Mountain, they reacted with awe.
  Expedition: [affectionate] Awwww...
  Narrator: I said "awe". A-W-E.
  Expedition: [awestruck] Oooooh!
  Narrator: That's better.
• Ghostbusters (1984) has this:
  Stantz: Everything was fine with our system until the power grid was shut off by dickless here.
  Mayor: Is this true?
  Venkman: Yes it's true. [Beat] This man has no dick.
• Grease 2 features the very 'patriotic' musical number "Lets Do it For Our Country" Where Louis is trying to trick Sharon into doing it...to bad she's singing about him joining the army.
• In the movie Half Baked, Thurgood is telling his friends not to spend any money, as they have to save it. Then:
  Scarface: You said you gave Mary Jane a pearl necklace!
  Thurgood Jenkins: Obviously you missed the whole point of that story.
• Happens several times in The Hangover, invariably by Alan.
  • "I didn't know they gave out rings at the Holocaust!"
  • Again when they return to the hotel room:
    Alan: Guys. What about the tiger? What if he got out?
    Phil: Oh, fuck! I keep forgetting about the goddamn tiger! How the fuck did he get in there?
    Stu: I don't know, because I don't remember. (Referring to Alan who slipped them roofies)
    Alan: One of the side effects of roofies is memory loss.
    Stu: You are literally too stupid to insult.
    Alan: Thank you.
• In A Hard Day's Night, Ringo Starr inexplicably puts on a bizarre wig and sits under a hairdryer flipping through a magazine.
  John: Ringo, what are you up to?
  Ringo: Page five.
  • It gets a Call-Back in Help!, when Ringo attempts to mail a letter and ends up getting his hand grabbed by a cult member hiding inside the mailbox, resulting in him wildly thrashing about.
    John: What are you doing?
    Ringo: Posting a letter.
  • Seems to be a running thing - earlier on, a cult member is tugging at his ring finger while he sleeps with an extendable claw mechanism and pulls him out of bed.
    John: What are you doing on the floor?
    Ringo: I'm tired.
• In Heathers:
  Veronica: All we want is to be treated like human beings, not to be experimented on like guinea pigs or patronized like bunny rabbits!
  Veronica's father: I don't patronize bunny rabbits!
• It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World - Boozehound pilot Tyler Fitzgerald wants another Old Fashioned mid-flight, insisting on going in the back and mixing it himself, having Benjy take the controls. In a case of famous last words:
  Ding: What if something goes wrong?
  Tyler: What could possibly go wrong with an Old Fashioned?
• One of the few things played straight in Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back, and verging on parody. Jay's monkey is kidnapped and driven away in a van with a poster on the back that clearly shows its destination. After about 3 minutes of stupidity, "Silent" Bob is forced to set his friend straight.
  Silent Bob: The sign! On the back of the car! Said Critters! Of HOLLYWOOD! You dumb fuck!
• Jay does this again in Dogma. When Rufus explains that Bethany is a descendant of Jesus due to the logical explanation that Joseph and Mary probably WOULD HAVE had more children and, thus, be related to him by blood in some way, all Jay got out of it was "So you mean Bethany's... part-black?"
• In Jurassic Park, when they first arrive on the island, Ellie is excited by all of the plant life, including species that had been extinct for millions of years. Alan has to work to get her attention before she notices the herds of dinosaurs wandering around in the background. Of course, as a paleobotanist it's basically the same thing from her perspective.
• Kingpin:
  • Once, he holds out his rubber hand to Ish, to show him is bowling championship ring and Ish comments on his hand. Later in Reno, he holds out his hand to demonstrate its fakeness and the guys he's showing think he's going on about the ring.
  • Three times, when he's signing up at the end and tries to put his ring up for collateral on his dues, the response is 'what am I supposed to do with a rubber hand'
• A Knight's Tale:
  • Sir Ector has a heart attack while taking a dump between bouts, so William puts on Sir Ector's armor to take his place in the tournament (and hopefully win because they've been completely out of food money for days). He's ebullient about getting to joust for the first time.
    William: I've waited my whole life for this moment.
    Roland: [baffled] You waited your whole life for Sir Ector to shite himself to death?
  • Wat's usual state of mind. For just one example, his response to Jocelyn's disparaging description of William as "a silly boy with a horse and a stick" after a fight.
    Wat: It's called a lance, helloooooo!
  • William is trying to write a love letter to Jocelyn with the group's help, and has no idea how to express how much he misses her. Wat suggests, "How about her breasts? You miss them."
    Geoffrey: You could... I would tend to look above her breasts.
    William: I miss her throat?
• In Last Action Hero, Danny questions why there is an animated cat (it's not an animated film) in the police station. Jack Slater explains that the cat's suspension was only for 2 weeks.
• Lord of War: Yuri wants his uncle (a Red Army colonel) to fudge his weapon stocks numbers and sell the rest to him on the black market.
  Yuri: How many Kalashnikovs do you have?
  Uncle Dimitri: Forty thousand.
  Yuri: Is that a four? Doesn't look like a four to me. Looks more like a one.
  Uncle Dimitri: [Looks at clipboard] No, it's a four.
• Lost in a Harem: Hazel tells her boss that she "can't go out there until you put out that wolf." Mr. Ormulu thinks she's talking about a real wolf until she explains she's referring to a particular customer (actually Prince Ramo) who stares at her in a way that makes her uncomfortable.
• Marvel Cinematic Universe:
  • Iron Man 2 has the scene where Tony tells Pepper he wants her to run Stark Enterprises and she, not unreasonably, points out she does run Stark Enterprises. His attempt to clarify that he means actually run the company just make her feel less appreciated, until finally he says "Pepper, I'm trying to make you CEO. Why won't you let me?"
  • Happens frequently in Guardians of the Galaxy (2014).
    • Drax the Destroyer has no concept of metaphors. They go right over his head.
      Drax: Nothing goes over my head! My reflexes are too fast. I would catch it!
    • When planning a prison break, Rocket suggests that Gamora use the fact that a number of the male prisoners find her attractive to her advantage. Her reply of "You must be joking." is answered with "No, I really heard they find you attractive."
    • One happens at the end: Reasonable Authority Figure Rhomann Dey relays a message from Star-Lord warning of an impending invasion by the Big Bad and of an offer of help. The message concludes with Peter admitting to being an "a-hole" but also saying that he is not "100% a dick". When Dey is asked if he believes Peter, he replies that he isn't sure that he believes that anyone is 100% a dick.
  • Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2:
    • After Peter calls Rocket out on accidentally launching a Stealth Insult at their current clients, Rocket is so dense he thinks Peter is pointing out he screwed up the "stealth" part and not reprimanding him for insulting their clients.
    • When a frantic Mantis wakes up Drax to warn him of Ego's intentions, he thinks she wants sex and goes to elaborate lengths to tell her how much this squicks him out.
  • Avengers: Infinity War:
    • This exchange:
      Iron Man: You're from Earth?
      Star Lord: I'm not from Earth, I'm from Missouri.
      Iron Man: Yeah, that's on Earth, dipshit!
  • In Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings, Trevor reveals that he first became fascinated by acting when he asked his mother how they got the apes to ride horses in Planet of the Apes (1968), and she explained they were actors. He interprets this as meaning the apes weren't really riding horses, they were just acting.
• This is a staple of all Marx Brothers movies. To pick just one example from Monkey Business:
  Groucho: Come here, babe, I like you.
  Lucille: Oh, I shouldn't. What about my husband?
  Groucho: That's all right, maybe we can get a girl for him.
• In M*A*S*H, as Frank "Ferret Face" Burns is loaded into an MP Jeep in a straitjacket following an act of violence against Hawkeye, Duke poses this question to Colonel Blake:
  Duke Forrest: If I nail Hot Lips and hit Hawkeye, can I go home too?
• When Brian writes treasonous graffiti in Monty Python's Life of Brian, all the Centurion notices is that the Latin is wrong... and then makes him correct it and write it out 100 times.
  • Also, when Brian tells his unwanted followers "You are all individuals!" they all (but one) mindlessly repeat the statement in lockstep unison.
• An early scene from The Muppet Movie features a movie director (Dom DeLuise) in the forest needing directions when he happens to meet Kermit.
  Director: I'm lost.
  Kermit: Oh...well, have you tried Hare Krishna?
• Charlie in Mystery Team, mainly because he's Too Dumb to Live
• National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation: After the family gets home with the new Christmas tree this is the exchange that takes place:
  Rusty: Dad that thing will never fit in the front yard.
  Clark: It's not going in the front yard, it's going in the living room.
• No Kidding:
  • When Matron insults the District Nurse:
    Matron: This interfering busy-body-
    District Nurse: A very pretty little body, I agree.
  • When Henri arrives at Chartham Place, his poor English makes David mistake the word "written" for "rotten":
    Henri: My fazzer. 'E 'as wrotten?
    David: Oh, really?
    Henri: 'E 'as wrotten to you? No?
    David: Well, no, I've never... Oh-ho-ho-ho, you mean, has he written to me?
  • When Henri meets Catherine, she remarks he's Franc. Henri thinks she's gotten his name wrong and corrects her that he is "Henri".
• One, Two, Three:
  Peripetchikoff: "We have emergency meeting with Swiss Trade Delegation. They send us 20 car-loads of cheese. Totally unacceptable... full of holes."
• Please Turn Over:
  • Janet doesn't see why she can't stop in the middle of her driving lesson for a quick chat:
    Janet: Oh, by the way, did y-
    Ian: No, Janet, we're in the middle of the road.
    Janet: Oh, well, that doesn't matter. It's a very quiet street.
  • Also from Janet's driving lesson:
    Ian: Get off the pavement. Get off the-
    Janet: There's nobody on it.
    Ian: That's not the point, get off the flippin' pavement!
  • When Robert talks about royalties for Decay, the play he intends to produce based on Naked Revolt, Jo believes he means that Elizabeth II will be coming to see it.
  • In Naked Revolt, when the barman asks Roger, "Bitter?", meaning if he'd like to drink some, Roger replies that he is bitter.
  • Also, in Naked Revolt, when Madeline tells a drunken Roger that Blanche is running away, he wonders if she has enough money to.
• In Pokémon Detective Pikachu, when Mr. Mime tells him "You can shove it!" in mime, Detective Pikachu somehow manages to interpret this as "Your problem is you push people away and then hate them for leaving." Cue Mr. Mime making a "No, no, no!" face at him.
• Roger de Bris (the camp director in The Producers) insists on giving the play (about Adolf Hitler and World War II) a happy ending, because the protagonists losing would be a downer.
• Rebecca (1940)'s heroine completely misses that she's being proposed to.
  Maxwell: [from an adjoining room] Either you go to America with Mrs. Van Hopper, or you come home to Manderley with me.
  Narrator: You mean you want a secretary or something?
  Maxwell: I'm asking you to marry me, you little fool.
• One of the Scooby-Doo movies has Scooby and the gang investigate a house, only to be captured in a booby trap that has already claimed a girl scout selling cookies and a pair of Jehovah's Witnesses. They're all alive, of course, leading to the following exchange:
  Girl Scout: Would you like to buy some cookies?
  Jehova's Witness: Have you heard the good news?
  Scooby-Doo: Yeah, there's cookies!
• Scream (1996): On unnamed party guest thinks that Jamie Lee Curtis never got topless scenes in horror movies because she "couldn't afford a decent pair [of breast implants]" rather than due to Curtis playing protagonists in movies where Sex Signals Death is at play.
• In Shaun of the Dead, Shaun invokes this trope upon finding a zombie in their garden softly moaning.
  Shaun: Oh my god...
  [Shaun and Ed stand there mouths hanging open as the zombie slowly turns around]
  Shaun: ...She's so drunk!
  [they look at each other and laugh]
• In Some Like It Hot, when Joe learns that Osgood proposed to Jerry (as Daphne):
  Joe: What are you talking about? You can't marry Osgood.
  Jerry: Why, you think he's too old for me?
• In Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (2014), when April sees the turtles for the first time, Michelangelo thinks she was more scared by their bandanna masks than the fact that she sees giant talking turtles standing before her.
• 10 Things I Hate About You:
  Cameron: She kissed me!
  Patrick: Where?
  Cameron: In the car!
• This exchange in There's Something About Mary where Pat Healy is pretending to have the same interests as Mary:
  Pat Healy: Really, [architecture is] only a side thing for my true passion.
  Mary: And what's that?
  Pat Healy: I work with retards.
  Mary: Isn't that a little politically incorrect?
  Pat Healy: Yeah, maybe, but hell, no one's gonna tell me who I can and can't work with.
• In This is Spın̈al Tap, after the band's 18 foot tall model of Stonehenge turned out to be 18 inches tall:
  David: We had a Stonehenge monument that was in danger of being crushed by a dwarf.
  Derek: We could redo the choreography. Keep the dwarf clear.
  • In a related example, after the Stonehenge debacle has caused a major fight in the band and driven their manager to quit, Derek's only question is, "Are we going to play 'Stonehenge' tomorrow night?"
• In This Is the End, when Jay is going over the signs of the apocalypse in the bible (specifically the mountains being set on fire), everyone else gets caught up on whether the Hollywood Hills count as mountains than what's the fastest way over them.
• Near the opening of the 1983 To Be or Not to Be, authorities rush into the theater, stopping the performance of "Naughty Nazis." The complaint was that it could be construed as an insult to Chancellor Hitler.
  Construed! It was meant to be an insult!
• In Tremors 2: Aftershocks Earl throws a timebomb into the bed of a large army truck loaded with explosives, hoping it will kill the Shriekers trapped in the building in which the truck is parked. When he gets back outside and tells the truck's owner, Burt, what he has done:
  Burt: That's two and half tons of high explosives, Earl!
  Earl: You mean that's not enough? Oh Burt, don't tell me it's not enough!
  Burt: Not enou... Never mind, just run! Run!
  • They're dealing with creatures that asexually reproduce exponentially when they eat too much, inside a warehouse full of snackfood and MREs in Burt's truck. Earl's worry is justified, as Burt is the only expert on explosives present in the movie.
  • More accurately, in the parts where Earl has to remind Grady to stay off the ground. And when the Graboid eats the radio.
    Earl: You left the radio on the ground?!
    Grady: Sorry, I forgot...
• In Tucker & Dale vs. Evil, the eponymous friends explore the cabin they bought and see the a board filled with several newspaper-clippings of the brutal murders the previous owner committed in the area. The only clipping they actually pay any attention to is the discount-coupon for a local hotdog stand.
• Twice Round the Daffodils:
  • When Henry is explaining how to play Chess to George, George asks him if the pieces can jump like in Checkers. When Henry sarcastically tells him the bishop can't jump, George remarks that he understands that, as it wouldn't be dignified for a bishop to jump, would it?
  • When Henry and George sneak out of Ward V in the middle of the night to do some cooking, and George shuts the door behind them:
    Henry: Er, ajar.
    George: Eh? We're not making a jam?
    Henry: The door, you great nit.
• In Unaccompanied Minors Mr. Porter brings the five kids back to the UM Room after their night of chaos throughout the airport. The kids notice the previously wild room has cleared out, including Spencer's sister Katherine. Then this exchange takes place between Mr. Porter and the five kids:
  Grace: Where are my friends?
  Spencer: Oh man. Where's my sister?
  Mr. Porter: They went where all the good little boys and girls go for Christmas. They went somewhere nice. Where you ask? Why the comfortable and festive...Hoover International Lodge. Which is just a few thousand yards down from this delightful little room, which now smells like a horse died in it.
  Beef: Oh, so we're going to the lodge?
• Watch Your Stern:
  • When Blissworth is asked if there is any Coke onboard the HMS Terrier for Commander Phillips, he gets confused and remarks that the ship burns oil fuel.
  • On the topic of Captain Foster's malfunctioning bell, Blissworth mentions that he's doing his best to locate the trouble, only for Captain Foster to tell him to look in the mirror. However, Blissworth doesn't understand he's been insulted at first and wonders what a mirror could do to muck up an electrical circuit.
  • As Captain Foster and Commander Fanshawe try to bluff their way through explaining the plans for the Creeper torpedo, Admiral Pettigrew sees Commander Fanshawe's bicycle fall past the porthole just as they get up to explaining the homing mechanism. When Admiral Pettigrew asks if he just saw a bicycle, Commander Fanshawe thinks he's still talking about the plans and remarks that it's definitely part of the homing mechanism.
• Weird Science: Chet discovers his grandparents frozen in the pantry:
  Chet: What are they doing in here?
  Lisa: I put them in there. I didn't want to Gary and Wyatt to get into trouble. Quite frankly, they weren't having a very good time at the party.
  Chet: Not having a good time? Do you think they're having a good time being catatonic in a closet?
• From Weird: The Al Yankovic Story, when a sultry Madonna visits Al at home.
  Al: So, would you like to see the rest of the house?
  Madonna: There's only one room I'm interested in seeing.
  Al: Oh, I'm doing some work on the bathroom. But there's another one downstairs.
  Madonna: Oh, I'm not talking about the bathroom.
  Al: Then let me show you to the laundry room.
• There was this gem from the beginning of The Wizard of Oz:
  Ms. Gulch: Mr. Gale!
  Uncle Henry: Howdy, Ms. Gulch!
  Gulch: I want to see you and your wife right about Dorothy.
  Henry: Dorothy? Well, what has Dorothy done?
  Gulch: What's she done? I'm all but lame from the bite on my leg!
  Henry: You mean she bit you?
  Gulch: No, her dog!
  Henry: Oh, she bit her dog, eh?
  [Henry lets go of the gate and it hits Ms. Gulch from behind]
  Gulch: No!

  Given the type of person she was, it's possible he was simply Obfuscating Stupidity in an attempt to protect Dorothy.

• In The World's End, after first discovering the robots, Andy is more concerned with the fact Gary lied about his mother dying rather than Gary accidentally killing a teenager who is actually a robot.
  • At the end of the film, Gary triumphantly declares "There's only one Gary King!" after ripping the head off the Network's teenage duplicate of him. Later, when he points out that the Network's plan is flawed because humanity is filled with people like him, the confused Network points out that he just said there was only one Gary King.
  Gary: I fucking know what I fucking said!
• X-Men Film Series:
  • X-Men: Days of Future Past: When Hank unveils his set-up so that any mention of what happened in Paris on TV is recorded, he proudly notes that it'll record from all three networks and PBS. Logan, coming from a future where there are far more than three networks, makes a sarcastic comment about it. Hank gets slightly offended and reiterates he's also got it set-up to record PBS, thinking Logan was making fun of him for only being able to record from three networks.
  • X-Men: Apocalypse:
    • When Hank inquires to Charles about what he's seeing with Moira through Cerebro, Xavier completely misinterprets the question.
      Hank: Moira MacTaggert?
      Charles: [with a goofy grin on his face] Uh huh.
      Hank: Give me the details.
      Charles: She looks amazing. She has barely aged a day.
      Hank: No, I meant, what is she doing there?
    • Peter mentions that he's the son of Magneto, causing a Big "WHAT?!" When Raven asks him how was that possible, he says that Magneto had met his mother and the two of them had sex.
• In Year One, Jack Black's character doesn't understand what lesbian means and gets into an awkward situation when he tries to sleep with one. She even tells him she likes to have sex with women and he stills doesn't get it. Admittedly he's just that stupid.
• Zoolander. The eponymous character, observing a model of the school building he plans to open: "What is this? A center for ants?!"
  • Also the scene where the lead, a male model, reads a magazine with his picture on the front. The title reads, 'A Model Idiot.' Not getting the insult, the main character reads it as 'A Model, Idiot.'
  • Later in the story, Zoolander strikes a pose that saves a vital character from dying. When he is cheered on for his actions, he thinks it is because they noticed he turned left to do the pose. (Zoolander admitted that he was incapable of making left turns, and has to make a full right turn instead.)

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