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* SpyFiction {{Mockbuster}} ''OperationKidBrother'' (or ''Operation Double 007'' for ''{{MST3K}}'' fans) has a scene where the BigBad's AmazonBrigade applies TheSchlubPubSeductionDeduction to an Army convoy carrying a load of Phlebotinum, while dressed as Wild West burlesque dancers. They then change into... skunk(?!?) outfits and disguise the truck they need as a float promoting a casino (to TheJimmyHartVersion of "Yes, Jesus Loves Me") before escaping. The first riff after a hard cut to the OmniscientCouncilOfVagueness:

* 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.

* In the [[NeonGenesisEvangelion Evangelion]] GagDub [[http://sokodei.com/redeath/ Evangelion: ReDeath]], [[{{Pokemon}} Pikachu]] attacks NERV. However, the following scene acts like an AMV for Pokemon set to the [[{{ACDC}} AC/DC]] song [[IfYouKnowWhatIMean "Big Balls"]], and there's not much of a focus on Pikachu, but rather James, another character from Pokemon. After the "AMV" is done, ANOTHER random anime is introduced- TenchiMuyo. The cast of Tenchi Muyo is quickly killed off by Pikachu, and the plot returns. [[SoYeah ...yeaaah...]]

** Which makes even LESS sense the more you know about Robin Hood. In most versions of the story where the French are mentioned at all, Robin Hood HATED the Normans, as did the real-life peasants of the period whom Robin defends. And if we assume that it's not supposed to make sense, than what we have here is a bit of FridgeBrilliance.
***Actually guys, I'm pretty sure this scene was supposed to show that even though Fiona was a pretty little damsel, she could still kick ass in combat. So it doesn't really fit here.

* Arguably, the shot in ''{{Citizen Kane}}'' in which a cockatoo very loudly squawks into the camera. Not only is there a huge SpecialEffectFailure where you can see the background through the parrot's eye, but Orson Welles even stated afterward that the only reason he put it in was in case people had fallen asleep in the theater.

** Or the random couple that sneaks into the main characters' house in order to have sex and eat chocolate. They are quickly spotted and not only does no one ask any questions but it's laughed off as if it's completely normal. The characters do show up again but their introduction is weird enough.
** Oh, and the random character who storms in and yells at Lisa for having an affair. He was never shown before and doesn't return.
** And Lisa claiming she's pregnant and then admitting she lied a few minutes later.
** And at one point, one of the main characters smokes pot, goes berserk, and hangs another character off a roof and it's never brought up at all.
** Just one more: there was the scene where Denny claims he's in love with Lisa right to the main character's face, only for the main character to brush it off and mention Denny's girlfriend who is never shown, nor was she ever mentioned before, nor does she ever get mentioned again. Really, this movie needs its own folder.

* ''[[HouseOfMouse Mickey MouseWorks]]'' had a sequence in the Donald Duck episode "computer.don" where Donald gets [[TheInternetIsForPorn sucked into his computer]] while trying to fill out his [[IfYouKnowWhatIMean personal information]], and is left at the mercy of a cursor that mostly pokes his ass until eventually being printed back out. This has no bearing on the rest of the episode apart from an excuse to throw in an ArtShift to [=CGI=]. [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_bjPR9KmxnY#t=4m50s Watch the BLAM here]].

** This is like a result of AdaptationDecay: the animators saw the scene in the manga, decided it was pretty funny and made it into an OverlyLongGag...that lasted about 30 seconds too long.
** Notice that Yoruichi [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BRnk6d_x7oc eats a lot more in the anime]] than she does in the manga.

* The sing-along sequence in the ''Love Hina'' special "Kimi Sakura, Chiru Nakare!"

* Just as Operation: Zero Tolerance was starting in the X-Men books, Jean is briefly [=KOed=]... the beginning of the next issue shows her meeting with Iron Man (who, along with half of the Marvel Universe, was presumed dead but had actually been sucked into a new universe). Before either of them can secure any answers, Jean is pulled back to Marvel 616 proper and this scene is never mentioned again. WordOfGod says this scene (and a few other power freak-outs Jean experienced) was supposed to have more relevance, but they dropped the plot point completely after the other Heroes returned.

* In the movie version of DiaryOfAWimpyKid, there is [[ThatRemindsMeOfASong a moment]] at the mother-son dance when Rowley and his mother do a dance to Intergalactic by the Beastie Boys.
* In the already very odd ThoroughlyModernMillie, there's a scene where, for no reason at all, Millie and her friend stop by a Jewish Wedding. Millie even sings a Yiddish song there while everyone takes part in a dance straight out of FiddlerOnTheRoof. Then, they leave, continue with the plot and neither the wedding or the Jews are ever mentioned again.
* In TheRoom [[SpellMyNameWithAnS Danny/Denny]]'s drug problem and Chris R are never brought up again and don't add anything to the plot. Also one of the more famous examples (or at least lead some people to think it's one of the worst movies ever made) is the fact that the character Claudette tells Lisa that she "definitely has breast cancer," which is never mentioned again.

* Tom Cruise's little magic show with the [[MacGuffin NOC list disc]] in the first [[MissionImpossible Mission: Impossible]] movie.

* In The Sweetest Thing, a romantic comedy, the three main character have lunch in a Chinese resturaunt and promptly burst into a song about how to lie to a man and tell him his penis is amazing. It is set to the beat of "Too Sexy" by Right Said Fred.
* At the end of the Japanese version of ''Frankenstein Conquers the World'' (yeah, you already know this sentence isn't gonna end well) the monster gets randomly attacked by a [[NaughtyTentacles giant octopus]] [[MisplacedWildlife wandering through]] ''[[UndergroundMonkey the forest]]''.

* ''Cabin Fever'' has two; [[{{Narm}} the infamous pancake scene]] and the weird rabbit surgeon.

* BetterOffDead featured a scene of hamburgers and "fraunch" fries dancing to Van Halen's [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Everybody_Wants_Some!! "Everybody Wants Some!!"]]

* Averted in the original ''ItalianJob'', 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.

* SpyFiction {{Mockbuster}} ''Operation Kid Brother'' (or ''Operation Double 007'' for ''{{MST3K}}'' fans) has a scene where the BigBad's AmazonBrigade applies TheSchlubPubSeductionDeduction to an Army convoy carrying a load of Phlebotinum, while dressed as Wild West burlesque dancers. They then change into... skunk(?!?) outfits and disguise the truck they need as a float promoting a casino (to TheJimmyHartVersion of "Yes, Jesus Loves Me") before escaping. The first riff after a hard cut to the OmniscientCouncilOfVagueness:

* ''Pieces'', a movie most noticeable for its TakeThat at ''TheTexasChainsawMassacre'' 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.

* CharlieChaplin's silent movies include some of what are perhaps the earliest examples of Big Lipped Alligator Moments. One example is in ''The Kid'' when Charlie falls asleep and has a dream where he's suddenly an angel, and dances with a lot of women dressed as angels until people dressed as demons come in and tempt everyone to evil. It comes out of nowhere and has nothing to do with the actual plot, and of course, sealing the deal, he wakes up and the movie continues as normal. A similar sequence occurs in his short film ''Sunnyside'' as well. Chaplin's longer films often did randomly insert nonsensical dream sequences.
* At one point of ''Kazaam'', Max suddenly shoots out of a glass of water the genie was about to drink. This is never explained, let alone ever mentioned again.

* ''When the Boys Meet the Girls'' from 1965 is not quite a BLAMEpisode. 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...

* ''Mad Monster Party'', the stop-motion animation film, has this in the "Stay One Step Ahead" musical number. As Boris Karloff's character Baron von Frankenstein sings the song to his nephew Felix, a gang of really weird creatures, unlike any of the beings seen elsewhere in the film, pop out of a television set and sing the chorus. At the conclusion of the sequence, they pop back into the TV. Neither Felix nor the Baron (nor anyone else) ever mentions this again afterward.

* ''Silk Stockings'' has "The Ritz Roll and Rock," a rock 'n' roll DanceSensation too bizarre to be true, written by Cole Porter and performed by a fifty-something Fred Astaire.

* ''Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans'' features a BLAM in which two iguanas are filmed up close, bright and blurry while a love song plays for quite a while. One iguana shows up later crawling between the bodies of some dead men but is not noticed. The iguanas may also be a product of the title character's seemingly perpetual drug addled state.

* ''High Anxiety'' is surprisingly focused for a Mel Brooks film, with almost all the specific parody scenes being well integrated into the plot. The big exception is a spoof of ''The Birds'' where Brooks is attacked by a bunch of pigeons... doing what pigeons are famous for. After the scene he heads into a dry cleaner's, after which we forget all about it.

* HowardTheDuck has of all things: Duck ''tits''. [[http://thatguywiththeglasses.com/videolinks/thatguywiththeglasses/nostalgia-critic/2453-howard-the-duck You know, for kids!]]

* ''Permanent Midnight'' had an in-universe example; Jerry Stahl (Ben Stiller) is pitching an idea for an episode of a sitcom (while [[ThisIsYourPremiseOnDrugs hyped up on cocaine]]) in which the main character blasts into a musical number with a pool that opens out of the set and afterword no one mentions it. He is immediately fired afterword.

* Arguably a [[BLAMEpisode Big Lipped Alligator Movie]], or at very least a deliberately surreal AnachronismStew, Julie Taymor's ''Titus'' - a [[ThisIsYourPremiseOnDrugs modern adaptation]] of Shakespeare's TitusAndronicus - features a scene in which one of the villains, played by JonathanRhysMeyers, dances terrifyingly on a pool table to loud techno music, trussed up in red leather and with his hair in pigtails. It isn't the ''strangest'' scene in the movie by a long way, and it certainly isn't the most disturbing, but it's notable in that it contains no dialogue, has absolutely no basis in the original play (obviously), does nothing to further the plot, is never referenced again, and serves no purpose beyond making the audience just a little bit more amused/baffled/emotionally scarred than they already were.

* The beginning of ''Kung Fu Hustle'', where the axe gang did their weird axe dance. Was it awesome? Yes. Was it a completely random way to start the movie? Yes. Do they ever do this dance again or hell, even mention anything about this dance in the rest of the movie? No.

* Pretty much every Marx Bros. film contains these. For no reason whatsoever, most of the movies have a 10-15 minute scene in which we watch Chico play the piano with his one finger routine and Harpo move incredibly out of character to play a lovely melody on a harp.

* Casino Royale (1967 film) is one big series of weird events with little bearing on the rest of the movie. This is by design it seems, as it had four different directors and the "story" was made at the end (with only one of the directors) and a bunch of other people edited it.
* [[MortalKombat Mortal]] [[VideoGameMoviesSuck Kombat:]] [[SoBadItsHorrible Annihilation]] tries to [[LoadsandLoadsofCharacters squeeze in as many characters as it can]] from the second and third game with [[AllThereIntheManual little to no explanation]]. After Sonya beats Mileena, a monster that is not from the games appears. Jax suddenly throws a few punches and it disappears. [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9pPp6lzkwlk Seen around 2:16.]]

* In ''Hot Rod'', at one point near the end of the film, two characters break into a beat-box session using the phrase "Cool beans". This is never referred to again.
* In ''Gamer'', the protagonist, [[XtremeKoolLetterz Kable]] infiltrates Castle's mansion with the intent of confronting his foe in a Super Cliche Ultimate Showdown. Hearing voices from downstairs, he hurries to his destiny and is confronted...by our villain singing Sinatra at him while his henchmen dance in synch behind him for no discernible reason. Kable is, understandably, very confused, and never mentions the random song and dance number after the fight starts. It's actually a wonder he bothered to fight instead of backing out the door slowly as any sane man would.

* 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.
* In both {{The Boondock Saints}} movies, the respective FBI agents investigating the two title characters' crime scenes have scenes that replay what they think happened in their mind... with them injected in the scene itself. In the first, Willem Dafoe's character kneels on the pavement and throws up his arms reminiscent of his famous scene in {{Platoon}}, screaming "There was a firefight!" ending with him firing a pistol in the air. In the second, Jule Benz does the same for a particular crime scene by having her dressed up in a cowgirl getup with Colt Single Action Army pistols in a horrendous Southern accent exclaiming, "Just a few hours ago, it was the got-dam O.K. Corral in here."

* The cheesy sci-fi movie "12 to the Moon" (as seen on [[MysteryScienceTheater3000 MST3K]]) has a strange moment where, after kicking the earthmen off the moon, the moonmen insist that they leave the expedition's cats behind, as the moonmen find them intriguing. The Earthers leave the cats' cages behind, and we're treated to a shot of shadows approaching the cats, and then... nothing. The cats are never mentioned again, and there was no build up to why the moonmen were so taken by the cats. Companions? Test subjects? [[EatTheDog Snacks?]]
* In EdWood's ''The Sinister Urge'' (also seen on [[MysteryScienceTheater3000 MST3K]]) there is a fist fight between two young men in a diner which turns out to have nothing to do with the film's plot and involves no characters from the rest of the film. One of the young men in the fight is none other than Ed Wood himself.
* George Lucas' old 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 [[strike: man woman]] person dancing violently, jiggling everywhere. For about five minutes. Did we mention that this is apparently the ''focus'' of the scene for five minutes?

*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.

* [[TheGamers The Gamers: Dorkness Rising]] has a scene that involves ninjas deliving pizzas, while fighting pirates, in an office.

* FatalDeviation has one scene in which, as {{Cracked}} so eloquently said it: "[[http://www.cracked.com/article_18632_irelands-only-kung-fu-movie-is-worst-film-ever-made.html This man turns up with no reason, no lines and does nothing but show his ass.]]"
*{{Harry Potter}} and the Half-Blood Prince has one of these right in the middle of the movie. Harry goes to the Burrow for Christmas, which happens in both the book and [[TheFilmOfTheBook the movie]]. However, in the movie, Bellatrix and Greyback show up for no apparent reason, Ginny chases after them for some reason, Harry quite understandably chases after Ginny, and then Bellatrix sets the Burrow on fire. Big BLAM moment, as nothing about the scene makes sense anyway. It really didn't help that afterward, Ron and Ginny never mention the Burrow or even act like their house just burned down. Uhh....

* In {{Wedding Crashers}} Jane Seymore's characters comes into Owen Wilson's room, exposes her breasts, and asks Owen to touch them. He obliges and she storms off, calling him a pervert. This is never brought up again and on top of that, the scene is followed by Owen Wilson telling Rachel McAdams how much he likes her family.

* The Death Coach chase scene from Disney's recent version of ''A Christmas Carol''.

* The Belgian animated feature ''Pinocchio in Outer Space'' features a scene where Pinocchio and Nurtle the Twurtle (don't ask) fly to Mars, are menaced by giant crabs and other horrible mutants, and finally escape by dropping an atomic bomb. This has nothing to do with the rest of the movie.

* RockADoodle has the main protagonist Edmund ''run into his brain'' (?) and hallucinate the other characters berating him for being a "scaredy-cat". (Cause he got turned into a [[KarmicTransformation cat]], [[DontExplainTheJoke get it?]]) As per the usual, it is never mentioned again.

* In the HortonHearsAWho movie there was an over the top [[ArtShift anime sequence]].

* ''Balto'' has a scene where, after the main character is now happy with being a wolf, he actually sees a wolf and starts howling with it. You could say that was to show that he was now proud about being a wolf but by that point it was kind of obvious which makes that scene pointless. Not to mention the wolf is never mentioned again.

* The musical sequence in the middle of "Remains of the Day" in CorpseBride. We zoom in on Bonejangles's empty eye socket, have a sequence with him and his skeleton band playing bone instruments (often pieces of themselves/each other) in a black void, tossing Victor around in a crazy dance, then we zoom back out and get back to the actual song. Never mentioned again, has no real point -- basically a StopMotion DisneyAcidSequence.

* DespicableMe has one where the minions go to the [[WeSellEverything big box store]]. They go around looking in wonder at and trying everything, but the plot is neither advanced nor set back.

* Infocom's ''Wishbringer'' also has this, in the form of a small mailbox that comes to life and follows the player around, and a large mailbox that threatens the player. Neither mailbox is relevant to the storyline or puzzles, and if they happen to meet each other, they have this bizarre over-the-top fight where both expand to giant size while a crowd of postal meters gathers to see it. Then, all of them are obscured in a puff of smoke, and when the smoke clears, the mailboxes and the weird spectators are gone. The player is left to just go on as if this really crazy scene never happened.
* ColossalCaveAdventure itself was given a few of these. In 1979, David Platt wrote an extended version of ''Adventure'' with several Big Lipped Alligator Moments, which he called "cameos". These included the player meeting Rover from ThePrisoner, the robot from LostInSpace, and a cyclops in a worsted three-piece suit who thinks you are a hallucination brought on by the "leafy green substance" he has been smoking.
* ''Sunset Over Savannah'' is about a guy on the beach wondering if he should quit his job. Typing "[[ClassicCheatCode xyzzy]]" in the right place produces an exquisitely purple paragraph where the Leviathan rises, scrutinizes the protagonist for a seeming eternity, and sinks back below the waves. Technically this is an EasterEgg and supposed to be odd, but the WTF is magnificent.

* There is a particularly [[{{Narm}} narmful]] scene in OfMiceAndMen where [[GentleGiant Lennie]] hallucinates that he is being berated by a talking rabbit.

* In the first or second chapter of ''Moby Dick,'' Ishmael (the protagonist) is in a tavern, where there is a man named Bulkington, from Virginia. The way he's described makes him seem both magnetic and physically impulsive, and others in the bar are shouting his name. Then he's never mentioned again. (Even my English teacher thought that was strange.)

* Oh course, this happens in Thomas Pynchon novels all the time, in fact, BLAM's may get more page space than the novel's "plot" itself, leading one to wonder whether it is, in fact, the plot of any Pynchon novel that is a BLAM to be compared against the self-consistent cohesion of the otherwise unrelated, ubiquitous absurdities.
* The Tom Bombadil chapter in TheLordOfTheRings. Merry does receive the sword he uses to help kill the Witch-King here ... but that's a whole lot of BLAM for one plot point.

* In the children's classic 'The Wind in the Willows', there's the infamous 'Piper at the Gates of Dawn' chapter, where the characters are transported into a mystical world where they meet the great god Pan. Many editions of the book omit this chapter, not because it's bad, just because it's so baffling in relation to the rest of the story.

* DoctorWho: Part 7 of ''The Daleks' Master Plan'' has our heroes picked up by police on Christmas, getting split up on a RoaringTwenties movie set, and finally breaking the fourth wall.

** ''Snuffbox'' is kinda similar to the above, except usually the BLAM is the same song repeated every episode, with minor changes to the lyrics.
** There's a real-life explanation for it, though. Comedy at the BBC was administered by two divisions of the Light Entertainment TV department: LETV Comedy, which covered sitcoms, and LETV Variety, which was sketch- or skit-based entertainment. Now, LETV Variety offered a higher budget per episode, but required that each episode contain at least one musical number and, y'know, ''sketches''. This is not to say that the ''Young Ones'' team didn't like being able to book and stage their favourite bands, but that's the reason why they did it, along with all the non-sequitur scenes.

* In the middle of a segment regarding binge drinking on the talk show ''The Morning Show'' with Mike and Juliet, a picture of a cat in a high chair eating spaghetti randomly appeared for a few seconds, and then disappeared. Nobody acknowledges this or ever talks about it again. This quickly became a meme known as "Spaghetti Cat" and it became a running gag on another show, ''TheSoup''. Apparently it was a type of dialog censor, but it was still so outlandish and out-of-nowhere that it should count.

* Dennis Potter became known for making extensive use these in his TV dramas, particularly ''Pennies from Heaven'' and ''TheSingingDetective''.

* At the end of the first season of {{Skins}}, several characters, including a random bus driver and Tony [[spoiler: who is in a ''coma'' at the time]] start singing Cat Steven's "Wild World". Not just singing it, but as a full-blown musical number, with backing music- See here: [[http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x1lslw_skins-wild-world_music]].

* In the episode of {{Supernatural}}, 'Hammer of the Gods' the boys are doing their usual thing of looking for weaknesses in their MonsterOfTheWeek when after a few secondary characters have a little conversation the screen suddenly freaks out in a DoNotAdjustYourSet moment, the opening to [[AffectionateParody Ghostfacers]] plays. It goes nowhere and is never mentioned again. In fact since none of the episode focusing characters are in this BLAM, the joke is on the audience.

* At the end of one episode toward the end of ''Moonlighting'', the episode was padded by having Herb Viola (Curtis Armstrong) sing "Wooly Bully." It had nothing to do with the plot and, for many fans, was further evidence that the show JumpedTheShark after David and Maddie "did it."

* On TheSecretLifeOfTheAmericanTeenager, there is scene where Adrian is studying while listening the radio. Then she changes the station and "Istanbul (Not Constantinople)" starts playing. This prompts Adrian to get up and dance like a spaz for about 10 seconds before sitting back down and changing the station. No explanation is given.
* SonnyWithAChance has, in season 2, been including musical numbers. On a show that's supposedly about a group of sketch comedy actors. Okay, 3 of the 5 cast members (4 from 6 if you include Marshall, who can do vaudeville) can sing, and sing well, but that's no excuse.

* The infamous, week-long, 1989 {{Garfield}} run "Garfield Alone" was a particularly [[NightmareFuel creepy]] example of this. Garfield wakes up to find himself in an alternate reality where Odie and Jon are nowhere to be seen and he's all alone in a boarded-up, run-down, old uninhabited house, tormented by loneliness.

* PearlsBeforeSwine actually ''justifies'' a BLAM. There's a rather strange story where one of the crocodiles turns into Alice from Alice in Wonderland by going DownTheRabbitHole. He meets the guard duck who is the Mad Hatter and the Caterpillar who is Rat, the Ratterpillar. The Ratterpillar than ''eats'' all the other characters including Goat (it is [[LampshadeHanging stated continuity is ignored]]) and [[RageAgainstTheAuthor Stephen Pastis, the creator]]. The Sunday comic strip following that week reveals that Stephan Pastis was actually on vacation and Rat wrote a week's worth of nonsensical comic strips in his place.

* The drinking quintet in the second act of Marschner's ''Der Vampyr'' seems to mainly be an excuse to have a drinking scene; it interrupts the plot with characters who had one or two lines previously and whom we never see again, and ends abruptly with [[spoiler:the discovery of Emmy's death]].

* The play ''My Name is Rachel Corrie'' is about a young woman by that name who was killed by an Israeli bulldozer demolishing a Palestinian family's house which she was attempting to protect. The play opens with her apparently reading a journal entry which describes a bizarre, seemingly schizophrenic hallucination. Then the play goes on as a monologue narrating her life and thoughts leading up to her death. At no point is the opening scene explained or referred to again, and she never shows any other signs of mental illness or hallucination.
* In the musical ''The Pajama Game'', the opening of Act 2 called "Steam Heat", a quirky song and dance routine introduced into the show as a union morale-booster. The song was a pop hit in the 1950s, and the dance did a lot to advance the career of Bob Fosse, but it's still weird.
** Adler and Ross, the songwriting team of ''Pajama Game'', included a completely pointless song in their other show (''Damn Yankees'') as well, "Who's Got the Pain?"

* The Cole Porter musical ''Something for the Boys'', now obscure though a hit in 1943, had a number called "By the Mississinewah," in which the show's two leading ladies dressed as squaws, the costumes being BraidsBeadsAndBuckskins at their campiest, singing about living a bigamous life in Indiana. The song is ludicrously corny, totally unlike the smart songwriting Cole Porter is best remembered for, and the lyrics go into GratuitousFrench for no reason.
* The second scene of the third act of GeorgeBernardShaw's ''Man and Superman'', ''Don Juan in Hell'',is a dream sequence where DonJuan and the devil argue about life and the afterlife. It's usually removed from productions of ''Man and Superman'' because it's fundamentally a very long BigLippedAlligatorMoment, but it can be performed as a stand-alone one-act play without confusing the audience more than the material itself already might.

*In GilbertAndSullivan 's ''Utopia, Limited'', the second act opens on Zara and Captain Fitzbattleaxe, the young couple in love, and Fitzbattleaxe... sings a song about how he's much too much in love to sing romantic ballads effectively, as his voice keeps breaking in the high notes, complete with intentional flubbing of the high notes. In an opera. Fourth Wall? What Fourth Wall?

* The MMORPG ''Everquest 2'' has a BLAM in the form of the Tower of the Drafling. In the middle of a rather overrun contested area, is a beehive. Clicking said beehive shrinks you down, and allows you to explore and fight inside it. Nothing about this is explained. Ever. At all. In fact, it's not really referred to again in any of the quest texts, either.

* At one point in [[{{Tsukihime}} Kagetsu Tohya]] Shiki randomly gets eaten by a magical talking jaguar for going through Arcuied's underwear. What the hell is going on here? Even Shiki is baffled. And unlike numerous other bizarre things in this {{oddly named sequel}} - though it's far from the only example - this never comes up again or is explained in the slightest.
* {{Seiklus}} is a surreal game and most of it makes little sense, but one moment in particular is unusually jarring. After discovering the ability to teleport to random places, you can sometimes find yourself in an unbelievably out of place laboratory room which contains a flying monster made of smoke behind a glass wall. The room is not on the map and does not move your progress forward at all.

*In ParappaTheRapper 2, Chop Chop Master Onion from the first game has a show that's "Strictly for Adults" in which CCMO teaches "[[IfYouKnowWhatIMean romantic karate]]". and Parappa and his best friend try using the moves on each other while unbeknownst to the two of them, Parappa's father and girlfriend's father watch. This is never mentioned again. Lyrics include "Caress your lover" and "Get it on." This is one eighth of an E-rated game.
*''Gore: Ultimate Soldier'' is a fairly standard space FPS. '''SUDDENLY, HORDE OF YELLING SKELETONS WITH CHAINSAWS, WHAT DO YOU DO?'''

* {{Pokemon}} Heart Gold/Soul Silver feature an optional event where an entire UNIVERSE is created and presumably destroyed in order to give you a rare Pokemon. Proof [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jh1FLRJQALg here]]

* The dancing (yourself and your car) in GrandTheftAuto: SanAndreas.

* {{Sierra}} is already fond of [[MoonLogicPuzzle lateral thinking puzzles]], [[HurricaneOfPuns puns]], and [[VisualPun visual gags]], so off-the-wall moments don't usually qualify, except this one. In the later half of ''King's Quest VI'', Alexander, becoming more and more desperate to SaveThePrincess, journeys to the underworld, an [[SceneryGorn understandably solemn place]]. To get the guard to give you his skeleton key, you must [[spoiler: play an upbeat tune on a conveniently-placed bone xylophone, causing all four guards to jiggle and dance, also causing three more skeletons to can-can onto and off of the screen.]] Then it's right back to the dreary music, you pick up the key, and go on your way.

* [[http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2000/9/13/ This strip]] early on in {{Penny Arcade}} where Tycho is a giant turnip in a sweater. No comment is made about this, and it never happens again.

* MegaManX 4 TheAbridgedSeries: [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mG6j8Owjdk8 Did someone say TRIPLE AXL TIME?]]

* Anyone familiar with Don Hertzfeldt's little short "The Animation Show"? at the end... during a very stirring speech about the serious aspects of cartoons... [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Je5ON5U8h2Y&feature=related robots show up...]]
* If we were to go into all the Big Lipped Alligator Moments in ''The Adventures of Mr. Gear and Clippy'', we'd be here all day. And just about half of the early episodes could qualify as a BLAMEpisode.

* [=~Darwin's Soldiers~=] features a [[http://z7.invisionfree.com/thegangoffive/index.php?showtopic=4340&view=findpost&p=9069804 winged fox swooping down from the sky]] and [[DeusExMachina flying]] Dr. Zanasiu and Dr. Shelton to safety as they run away from the exploding Einstein-Rosen bridge. This moment is never spoken of again.

** Family Guy might as well be called Big Lipped Alligator Moment: The Animated Series.

* InvaderZim had one of these in "The Girl Who Cried Gnome," Zim unleashes a robotic gopher on a Girly Ranger who's trying to sell Ninja Star cookies to him. After trapping her leg in a tunnel dug by the robot, it begins dancing and is spontaneously sucked into another dimension.

* On the episode "Humiliation 101" of MyLifeAsATeenageRobot, once Jenny figures out that she in fact will not be embarrassed by her mother in front of the entire school, she breaks into random song with Brad and then they proceed to school after singing this little ditty with a small dance included as if nothing ever happened.

* ''Dot and the Kangaroo'' and its sequels each have several of these.
* Walk on the Wild Side, a season 2 episode of ''{{X-Men Evolution}}'', opens with Jean getting angry at Scott because of his assertion that it was a good thing a man was there to save her and Magma. This leads to the two forming an all girl vigilante group with Tabitha, and they quickly rope in Kitty and Rogue, complete with music videos, a change of spy wardrobe, and enough Charlies Angels riffs to make KimPossible proud. Even Mystique gets in on the action. [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iYlr2mjtbNE&feature=PlayList&p=FXpnFcUZNSI Watch it here.]]

* In the popular {{Disney}} show, PhineasAndFerb, the popularity of the "Gitchie-Gitchie-Goo" song in one episode [[ExecutiveMeddling led the higher ups to decide]] to make the musical segways OnceAnEpisode. That includes when it really doesn't make any sense to have a musical number whatsoever. The writers do their best of course, but sometimes there's just no way to work a song into the plot of an episode. And yet there's one there anyway.

** Although this can be seen as a jab at how many of Rodney Dangerfield (who was voicing Larry Burns)'s movies seem to end with a spontaneous party.

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* Many stories have Cid Highwind from ''FinalFantasyVII'' randomly complain about people interrupting the Dukes of Hazard...and then the show is never mentioned again and most of the time the plot continues as usual.
* Fanfic/BartTheGeneral, despite making little sense to begin with, has a few scenes like this, such as one when [[HouseMD House]] climbs a water tower and gets his cane broken by an icicle, and a scene where Barton wakes up in an underwater vault with a strange gauge.
* Subverted in [=~Latias' Journey~=] with the [[ParodySue Berry Stoo]] fight, the RPG arc, and the [[spoiler: battle between the Pokérangers, Team Rocket and the Tyrantron]]. Not only does Ash get a rematch with Stoo later on, but [[spoiler: Mewgle becomes [[strike: TheDragon]] TheManBehindTheMan, and the origin of the Pokerangers becomes an important plot point]].
** Played straight when [[spoiler:Giovanni's body (working for Deoxys) is trying to interrupt Rayquaza's resurrection]] and stumbles onto the set of a game show for no good reason.
* [[FanFic/DiddyKongRacing5000 "Watch for moving Nintendo 64 logos."]]
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** Notice that Yoruichi [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BRnk6d_x7oc eats a lot more in the anime]] than she does [[http://www.onemanga.com/Bleach/195/02/ in the manga]].

* MahouSenseiNegima's infamous chapter 235 cheerfully starts with "Yes, we're worried about [[spoiler:the captive Asuna]], but right now..." Cue thirteen pages of "relaxation, healing, and group nakedness!" in the [[FuroScene bath]], including massive [[SkinshipGrope Skinship Groping]] of the cast by a girl who calls herself "Chichigami" (Breast Goddess), and their mild retaliation. This is never mentioned again.

* An early chapter of Hellsing features Seres sleeping in a coffin after it was transported to Brazil. Before Alucard tries to wake her up, she breaks into a bizarre dream about her gun having the spirit of [[{{Dune}} Baron Harkonnen]] that talks to her. As the scene keeps going, the art eventually devolves into random scribbles that only sort of look like humanoid shapes before Alucard eventually gets her up.

* In the movie version of DiaryofaWimpyKid, there is [[ThatRemindsMeOfASong a moment]] at the mother-son dance when Rowley and his mother do a dance to Intergalactic by the Beastie Boys.

* The episode of the dinner of Trimalchio in Petronius' ''Satyricon'', making this OlderThanDirt.

This trope was first mentioned by [[ThatGuyWithTheGlasses the Nostalgia Chick]] when she and the Critic [[http://www.thatguywiththeglasses.com/videolinks/thatguywiththeglasses/nostalgia-critic/4191-ferngully reviewed]] ''{{Ferngully}}'', but the TropeNamer is ''AllDogsGoToHeaven'', with the Big-Lipped Alligator Moment being... well, [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin a moment featuring a big lipped alligator.]]

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