Funny / Flash Gordon (1980)

• Early scenes with Zarkov and his assistant, Munson, who thinks the guy's crazy and tries to escape. Topol is at his hammiest.
  Zarkov: IT'S AN ATTACK!
• The Football fight scene where our hero takes on Ming's guards by playing quarterback. The whole sequence is a winner from Dale playing cheerleader to BRIAN BLESSED!!!!! whacking random guards on the head with his staff while their backs are turned to Ming's priceless remark about Klytus' troops:
  Ming: Klytus! Are your men on the right pills? Maybe you should execute their trainer!
• How is Flash captured at the end of the football sequence? Not by being overrun by the guards or by Ming dramatically exerting his power, but by Zarkov utterly whizzing a pass and conking Flash on the head with the metallic "ball" by mistake.
• While Flash is telepathically talking to Dale, he tells her to fake out Ming using her feminine wiles. Meanwhile Aura is doing exactly that to Flash, embarrassing him mightily when he sends the wrong thought to Dale.
• Dale's escape from Ming's chambers. The bit with the shoes, the unnecessary cartwheel — pure She-Fu. The shoe thing is extra funny, since she obviously slips them off because the heels are impractical in a fight, but she still grabs them and brings them along anyway because, hey, free shoes.
• Barin and Zarkov are blindfolded and chained up in a dungeon.
  Barin: [Beat] Tell me more about this man "Houdini".
  • Made even funnier by "LONG LIVE FLASH!" being randomly written on the wall between them.
• "Give me the REMOTE CONTROL!!!!!"
• At Ming's wedding, ships fly two banners in the background. The first says "All creatures shall make merry". The second says "Under pain of death".
• Then you have the wedding vows:
  Priest: Do you, Ming the Merciless, Ruler of the Universe, take this Earthling Dale Arden, to be your Empress of the Hour?
  Ming: Of the hour, yes.
  Priest: Do you promise to use her as you will?
  Ming: Certainly!
  Priest: Not to blast her into space? [this earns him a Death Glare from Ming] Uh, until such time as you grow weary of her.
  Ming: I do.
  Dale: I do not!
• When Flash is about to perform a Dynamic Entry into Ming's throne room with a burning spaceship, we're treated to the sight of various folks running in terror, and Dale giving a Call-Back to the football scene by shouting "Go Flash!" while fleeing for cover herself.
• Long live Flash! You've saved your Earth. Have a nice day.
  • "YEAH!" *shot briefly freezes on Flash in midair*
• Nearly every word uttered and/or bellowed by Vultan (BRIAN BLESSED!!!!!).
• If you're familiar with BLESSED's legendary hamminess, his delivery of "Gordon's alive?!" is one of his funniest moments in the film, because it's unexpectedly low-key compared to what you might be used to from BLESSED.

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