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10 Greatest Unintentionally Hilarious Lines from Science Fiction and
Fantasy
One of the great joys of watching science fiction and fantasy is to
appreciate the unintentionally hilarious lines that come out of people's
mouths sometimes. It's inevitable that when you're exploring
mind-expanding premises and weird worlds, you're bound to run into some
really insane conversations.
Sometimes our favorite movies and TV shows feature some hideously
ridiculous dialogue. Sometimes nonsensical and melodramatic speech is
part of why bad movies are such a guilty pleasure. Here are the 10
awesomest lines of unintentionally funny dialogue from science fiction
and fantasy movies and television.
We asked everyone over on io9's Facebook page to suggest their
favorite unintentionally funny dialogue from movies, and people came up
with some great examples from television as well. Thanks to everyone who
gave us side-splittingly funny suggestions! (We would have included "Not
the bees!" from Wicker Man , but we're not sure if it counts as
science fiction or fantasy.)
10. Mortal Kombat: Annihilation: "Mother, you're alive!" "Too bad... YOU
will die!" It's really all in the delivery. The video pretty much says
it all.
9. Lord of the Rings: Legolas is Captain Obvious. This line is so
famous, it has a ton of tribute videos and remixes on Youtube, but here
it is in its unadulterated version. Aragon painstakingly explains how
they're going to create a diversion to distract Sauron, and then a
lightbulb goes on over Legolas' pretty head. "A diversion!" he says,
helpfully. (Thanks to Sunil and Caleigh for suggesting this one!)
8. Star Wars: Toschi Station Power Converters Why do people love this
line of dialogue so much? Is it the way that Luke talks about picking up
power converters as the greatest treat in his otherwise meh existence,
or just the whiny delivery? I think it's the whiny delivery, actually.
Another great candidate from the original Star Wars: "You came in that
thing? You're braver than I thought!" (Thanks Brett, Kimber, Jeff and
Tim!)
7. Star Crash â€" "Imperial Battleship, halt the flow of time!"
Wait, what? Star Crash is one of our favorite movies , and we love
the new DVD set , but we're constantly rediscovering the
marvelousness of Roger Corman's Star Wars knock-off. And we love the
idea of an imperial battleship that comes equipped with a
time-flow-halterater. (Thanks, Christian!)
6. Blade Runner: "She's trained for an off-world kick murder squad. Talk
about Beauty and the Beast â€" she's both." Bryant, describing one
of the deadly Replicants to Deckard, utters this immortal line, which
you can hear here , or at 3:44 in the above video (which isn't
embeddable.) There's noir, and then there's over-the-top cheese, and
this line goes over. (Thanks Michael!)
5. 2012: "The neutrinos are mutating!" You have to love a disaster movie
that doesn't just fly in the face of science, but pisses in the face of
science too. The last minute or so of this video is toothache-inducingly
stupid. (Sure, Doctor Who gave us "reverse the polarity of the neutron
flow," but this is better. Or worse.) This line has become so famous, it
has its own awesome T-shirt . Another great candidate from an
Emmerich film: "I think we've hit a critical desalinization point," from
Day After Tomorrow. (Thanks Paul and Jennifer!)
4. Star Wars: Almost every line from the prequels. Especially Padme's
"I'm not afraid to die... I've been dying a little bit each day since
you came back into my life." And Anakin's "Love can't save you, Padme.
Only my new powers can." Oh, and "You killed the younglings!" Oh, and
"Good call, my young Padawan!" But really, almost any line of dialogue
from the prequel trilogy, especially any scene with Anakin and Padme, is
side-splitting despite all of George Lucas' lofty ambitions. (Thanks,
Ariel, Sean, Andrew, Jennifer, Clinton, Jack and Landy!)
3. Star Trek: Voyager, "Get the cheese to sickbay" We couldn't resist
including this classic bit of dialogue, which pretty much sums up all
seven years of Star Trek: Voyager in four seconds. The deadpan line
delivery is part of what makes it so lovely. There's also Spock's "Brace
yourself. The area of penetration will no doubt be sensitive" from "The
Immunity Syndrome." "His brain... is gone!" from "Spock's Brain." And
Spock's "The women!" in "The Cage," the original pilot. (Thanks Toby,
Tim, The Sci Fi Show and Polly!)
2. Flash Gordon, "Not the Boreworms!" I know how she feels. I fucking
hate boreworms. They're boring. And wormy. Also great: "He'll execute
your whole perverted secret police force." Oh, and of course, "Gordon's
alive?!" Actually, almost any line where someone has to say "no, not the
______" often becomes unintentionally hilarious. Witness Doctor Who's "
No, not the Mind Probe " from "The Five Doctors."
1. Amazing Spider-Man, "Yes, Peter. I am you and you are me and this is
a gun." I have to admit, I found this line because someone had labeled
it "best worst line in screenwriting history" on Youtube. Which seems
like cheating, somehow. But it's too astonishingly great not to include.
There's the Beatles shoutout and the sort of Zen quality to it all.
There's the fact that the whole Clone Saga boils down to just this
fantastic moment. But most of all, there's the completely deadpan, bored
way in which Evil Peter recites his line, like he can't wait to kill
Good Peter so he can go eat some grits.
Runners up include " Inspector Detector suspected foul play " from
Speed Racer, " Take the fucking elephant! " from Darkman, "But why
would the benevolent Dr. Cocteau send such a brute savage into our
midst?" from Demolition Man, and almost every line of dialogue from Plan
9 from Outer Space.
This io9 flashback originally appeared in July 2011.
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One of the great joys of watching science fiction and fantasy is to
appreciate the unintentionally hilarious lines that come out of people's
mouths sometimes. It's inevitable that when you're exploring
mind-expanding premises and weird worlds, you're bound to run into some
really insane conversations.
Sometimes our favorite movies and TV shows feature some hideously
ridiculous dialogue. Sometimes nonsensical and melodramatic speech is
part of why bad movies are such a guilty pleasure. Here are the 10
awesomest lines of unintentionally funny dialogue from science fiction
and fantasy movies and television.
We asked everyone over on io9's Facebook page to suggest their
favorite unintentionally funny dialogue from movies, and people came up
with some great examples from television as well. Thanks to everyone who
gave us side-splittingly funny suggestions! (We would have included "Not
the bees!" from Wicker Man , but we're not sure if it counts as
science fiction or fantasy.)
10. Mortal Kombat: Annihilation: "Mother, you're alive!" "Too bad... YOU
will die!" It's really all in the delivery. The video pretty much says
it all.
9. Lord of the Rings: Legolas is Captain Obvious. This line is so
famous, it has a ton of tribute videos and remixes on Youtube, but here
it is in its unadulterated version. Aragon painstakingly explains how
they're going to create a diversion to distract Sauron, and then a
lightbulb goes on over Legolas' pretty head. "A diversion!" he says,
helpfully. (Thanks to Sunil and Caleigh for suggesting this one!)
8. Star Wars: Toschi Station Power Converters Why do people love this
line of dialogue so much? Is it the way that Luke talks about picking up
power converters as the greatest treat in his otherwise meh existence,
or just the whiny delivery? I think it's the whiny delivery, actually.
Another great candidate from the original Star Wars: "You came in that
thing? You're braver than I thought!" (Thanks Brett, Kimber, Jeff and
Tim!)
7. Star Crash â€" "Imperial Battleship, halt the flow of time!"
Wait, what? Star Crash is one of our favorite movies , and we love
the new DVD set , but we're constantly rediscovering the
marvelousness of Roger Corman's Star Wars knock-off. And we love the
idea of an imperial battleship that comes equipped with a
time-flow-halterater. (Thanks, Christian!)
6. Blade Runner: "She's trained for an off-world kick murder squad. Talk
about Beauty and the Beast â€" she's both." Bryant, describing one
of the deadly Replicants to Deckard, utters this immortal line, which
you can hear here , or at 3:44 in the above video (which isn't
embeddable.) There's noir, and then there's over-the-top cheese, and
this line goes over. (Thanks Michael!)
5. 2012: "The neutrinos are mutating!" You have to love a disaster movie
that doesn't just fly in the face of science, but pisses in the face of
science too. The last minute or so of this video is toothache-inducingly
stupid. (Sure, Doctor Who gave us "reverse the polarity of the neutron
flow," but this is better. Or worse.) This line has become so famous, it
has its own awesome T-shirt . Another great candidate from an
Emmerich film: "I think we've hit a critical desalinization point," from
Day After Tomorrow. (Thanks Paul and Jennifer!)
4. Star Wars: Almost every line from the prequels. Especially Padme's
"I'm not afraid to die... I've been dying a little bit each day since
you came back into my life." And Anakin's "Love can't save you, Padme.
Only my new powers can." Oh, and "You killed the younglings!" Oh, and
"Good call, my young Padawan!" But really, almost any line of dialogue
from the prequel trilogy, especially any scene with Anakin and Padme, is
side-splitting despite all of George Lucas' lofty ambitions. (Thanks,
Ariel, Sean, Andrew, Jennifer, Clinton, Jack and Landy!)
3. Star Trek: Voyager, "Get the cheese to sickbay" We couldn't resist
including this classic bit of dialogue, which pretty much sums up all
seven years of Star Trek: Voyager in four seconds. The deadpan line
delivery is part of what makes it so lovely. There's also Spock's "Brace
yourself. The area of penetration will no doubt be sensitive" from "The
Immunity Syndrome." "His brain... is gone!" from "Spock's Brain." And
Spock's "The women!" in "The Cage," the original pilot. (Thanks Toby,
Tim, The Sci Fi Show and Polly!)
2. Flash Gordon, "Not the Boreworms!" I know how she feels. I fucking
hate boreworms. They're boring. And wormy. Also great: "He'll execute
your whole perverted secret police force." Oh, and of course, "Gordon's
alive?!" Actually, almost any line where someone has to say "no, not the
______" often becomes unintentionally hilarious. Witness Doctor Who's "
No, not the Mind Probe " from "The Five Doctors."
1. Amazing Spider-Man, "Yes, Peter. I am you and you are me and this is
a gun." I have to admit, I found this line because someone had labeled
it "best worst line in screenwriting history" on Youtube. Which seems
like cheating, somehow. But it's too astonishingly great not to include.
There's the Beatles shoutout and the sort of Zen quality to it all.
There's the fact that the whole Clone Saga boils down to just this
fantastic moment. But most of all, there's the completely deadpan, bored
way in which Evil Peter recites his line, like he can't wait to kill
Good Peter so he can go eat some grits.
Runners up include " Inspector Detector suspected foul play " from
Speed Racer, " Take the fucking elephant! " from Darkman, "But why
would the benevolent Dr. Cocteau send such a brute savage into our
midst?" from Demolition Man, and almost every line of dialogue from Plan
9 from Outer Space.
This io9 flashback originally appeared in July 2011.
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daily 10 10:00 AM 10 Upcoming Science Fiction and Fantasy Movie
Remakes (and Why They May Not Suck)
daily 10 10:00 AM 10 Revolting Foods That People Have Made in
Prison
daily 10 10:00 AM 10 Recent Science Fiction Books That Are About Big
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daily 10 10:00 AM 10 Things We Want From a New Star Trek TV Show
daily 10 10:00 AM 10 Scientific Missions That Became Action
Adventures
daily 10 10:00 AM 10 Criminally Overlooked Characters in the Mass
Effect Universe
daily 10 2:00 PM 10 Civilizations That Disappeared Under Mysterious
Circumstances
daily 10 10:09 AM 10 Structures That Could Help Us Build
Civilizations on the Ocean
daily 10 11:40 AM Andy Warhol’s Batman? 10 Wacky And
Forgotten Versions Of Famous Movies
daily 10 10:00 AM 10 Completely Terrible Ways to Do a Justice League
Movie
daily 10 10:26 AM 10 Limits to Human Perception … and How
They Shape Your World
daily 10 10:00 AM 10 Things You Didn’t Know About Batman
daily 10 10:10 AM 10 Robots With Good Reasons to Rise Up Against
Humanity
daily 10 10:20 AM 10 Reasons Why Oxytocin Is The Most Amazing
Molecule In The World
daily 10 10:39 AM 10 Weird Rules That Control How We Name the
Planets
daily 10 10:08 AM 10 Science Fiction Novels You Pretend to Have Read
(And Why You Should Actually Read Them)
daily 10 10:40 AM 10 Reasons Why Billy Ocean’s
“Loverboy†Is The Best Music Video Ever Made
daily 10 10:25 AM 10 Science Experiments That Looked Like the End of
the World
daily 10 10:18 AM 10 Great Science Fiction Novels with Go-Back-To-Bed
Depressing Endings
daily 10 10:17 AM 10 of the Weirdest Futurist Scenarios for the
Evolution of Humanity
daily 10 10:00 AM 10 Movements to Secede from the United States
daily 10 10:16 AM 10 Fun Ways to Euthanize Yourself
daily 10 10:00 AM Top 10 Most Traumatizing Movies About Toys
daily 10 10:29 AM The 10 Best Futurama Episodes
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Nutjob
daily 10 10:00 AM 10 Rules of Blockbuster Movies that Hollywood
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daily 10 10:28 AM 10 Ways the Human Microbiome Project Could Change
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daily 10 10:07 AM 10 Law Enforcement Careers That You Can Have in the
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daily 10 10:06 AM 10 of the Deadliest Proteins on Earth
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daily 10 10:03 AM 10 Things Aliens Will Harvest From Humans
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