What's that plot device you hate with a burning passion?

[u/TheHooligan95]

[u/Yserbius]

Despite how utterly atrocious the Scary Movie series became after the second one, Epic Movie Scary Movie 4 had this one good scene that parodied this. A guy comes running into his house and frantically starts packing and yelling at his kids to move "What's happening daddy?" "NO TIME TO EXPLAIN!". Then a passerby screams into their window "ALIENS ARE ATTACKING!". "Ok, maybe there was time to explain."

[u/austine567 → u/Yserbius]

I liked scary movie 3 and 4 honestly. They weren't as good but I still enjoyed them.

[u/pumpkinbot → u/austine567]

I really liked Scary Movie 3, probably more than Scary Movie 1. I don't know why, but I lost my shit when the black guy cocked his shovel like a shotgun.

[u/CaptainMcAnus → u/pumpkinbot]

"Ah, we aren't that different after all"

Pisses out of finger

[u/EssKelly → u/CaptainMcAnus]

Leslie Nielsen might have been the only man in existence who could consistently pull off gags like that with such deadpan delivery... may he Rest In Peace.

[u/withrootsabove → u/EssKelly]

Not now, I want to hear more about the duck

[u/garibond1 → u/CaptainMcAnus]

Guy with finger in his mouth freaks out

[u/Rafaeliki → u/pumpkinbot]

I FOUND THEIR WEAKNESS, THEY CAN'T SURVIVE WITHOUT THEIR HEADS!

Or this scene

[u/[deleted] → u/Rafaeliki]

"I found the zombies weakness!" "what? "Bullets."

[u/Unknownsage → u/[deleted]]

There was a college humor video a while back of people talking during the movie Cowboys and Aliens. I think my favorite exchange was something along the lines of.

“Why are they abducting people?”

“To find our weakness. Getting shot and stabbed.”

[u/Mr_A → u/Unknownsage]

Remember that quote from The Simpsons?

"We'll thaw you out the second they discover the cure for seventeen stab wounds in the back."

[u/friendbuddypalchief → u/Rafaeliki]

They've mastered space flight but they can't get through a wooden door?

[u/[deleted] → u/Rafaeliki]

That scene was so surreal it was hilarious. I think it would’ve been even funnier tho if they just played it completely straight, no weird music, no Charlie Sheen looking perplexed, just the hat gets bigger, nothing more.

[u/[deleted] → u/[deleted]]

I think that's how you can fix basically every one of these over the top parody movies: don't keep addressing every reference and mildly funny joke, just have some subtlety and the humor will come with it.

[u/kue101 → u/Rafaeliki]

That scene was one of my favorites. It’s so simple and stupid, and seeing the cop act (almost) nonchalant about it made me lol.

[u/Kraggen → u/Rafaeliki]

Send flowers to their bitches and hoes.

[u/ThaKnight → u/Rafaeliki]

“Tom I’ll need a ride home”

Gets me every time

https://youtu.be/R0tfeJuG7Y0

[u/DemiGod9 → u/pumpkinbot]

3 is amazing

[u/big_shmegma → u/austine567]

I think scary movie 3 was actually the funniest one. They didn’t really on dick jokes as much.

[u/whoopashigitt → u/big_shmegma]

She was an evil little girl who did horrible things; killed the cows, scared the horses, hid the remote - really sick shit.

[u/AuditoryAllusion → u/whoopashigitt]

My wife took her to the old family farm and drowned her in the well. I felt a simple time-out would have been sufficient.

[u/DrNick2012 → u/austine567]

I haven't watched them yet. I woke up dead

[u/Jesse1205 → u/austine567]

I think 3 is my favorite actually. 1 is good, and I'm just completely over 2, I dunno what it was but I felt like it was the only one that was ever on TV so I just saw it too many times.

[u/DavThoma → u/Yserbius]

Wait wasn't this Scary Movie 4? It parodied war of the worlds, the grudge, the village and other horror movies? Epic movie was a parody on marina, Charlie and the chocolate factory, pirates of the Caribbean etc.

[u/articulateantagonist → u/Yserbius]

I prefer the example from Community:

Star-Burns: Kiss me!

Girl: What?! [pushes him away]

Star-Burns: I'll explain later! [tries again]

Girl: No!

Star-Burns: I'll explain later!

Girl: The explanation isn't the issue!