Dumbest scene in TV History?

I had never heard of OA before, but that scene is a masterpiece, I see no dumbness there. Reading its description was better than watching it, though.
 
HP_Wuvcraft said:
How could I forget the Castle finale?

Both he and Kate are shot by a random guest star from this season that was supposedly the Big Bad of the entire series.

Next scene, they are sitting at breakfast with their three kids and no Alexis in what can only be ten years later. Then fade to black.
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wait that's how it ended? i didn't bother b/c how bad the show was getting and the scenes between Kate and Rick was so bad b/c the actors hated each other


watching the ending. it's clear that the bullet she was shot with got her pregnant with Castle's kid
 
Tagg9 said:
Yep, I've shown this scene to friends without giving them any context and it always gets huge laughs.

Here is the ridiculous scene for those wondering:
The OA - Episode 8 (Season Finale, so be warned that it contains significant spoilers)
https://youtu.be/C-zxOwo10_U?t=30
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crisdecuba said:
Can someone explain exactly why the scene comes off so poorly to people? Is it that it comes off as cheesy? Is it something specifically about the script ? I don't quite understand the level of dislike for the scene.
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The Newsroom took on the highly exaggerated, highly insane pace of Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip, throwing in moral lessons (and even the cheesy and unrealistic romantic aspects), and most posters probably never saw that show. Add to that fact that it actually reported on real news that had happened within the past few months or even weeks or so and reported upon it with a somewhat liberal but also much more accurate and less flashy nature (effectively lecturing the news media how they should actually report news).

So, Bin Laden, patriotic message, liberalism, it's kinda off putting to a lot of people. I don't get the hate for it either because right before the dumb Bin Laden patriotic line gets dropped, he, his crew, the entire plane is all panicking about bullshit and the basic Aaron Sorkin style message was that Bin Laden made everyone paranoid fucks about nothing for years and years and there they were, being paranoid fucks.

The OA got renewed, btw, guys.
 
HP_Wuvcraft said:
How could I forget the Castle finale?

Both he and Kate are shot by a random guest star from this season that was supposedly the Big Bad of the entire series.

Next scene, they are sitting at breakfast with their three kids and no Alexis in what can only be ten years later. Then fade to black.
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As shitty as the end was he wasn't some random guest star. Dude had appeared right from the beginning of the season and had interacted with them multiple times.
 
Oh man, how did I not remember the OA?

In addition to that scene, there's also a flashback scene where people do that dance and FUCKING INSANE SPOILERS:
a guy who was shot dead has the blood sucked back into his body and comes back to life because of the dance.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Q1j9pDW1Oxg

I could barely believe what the fuck I was seeing when I saw that. Even with the show being largely about "DID IT REALLY HAPPEN?", it was still one of the most genuinely dumb things I've ever seen on a TV show.

The OA made me and my girlfriend feel genuine anger after finishing the whole thing.
We thought it was a fairly interesting show up until around that point
 
I feel like riverdale had a ton of really dumb scenes. I can't think of anything specific but I recall turning to my wife multiple times a show and saying something like "that was stupid as fuck, I want all these characters to die."
 
Tagg9 said:
Yep, I've shown this scene to friends without giving them any context and it always gets huge laughs.

Here is the ridiculous scene for those wondering:
The OA - Episode 8 (Season Finale, so be warned that it contains significant spoilers)
https://youtu.be/C-zxOwo10_U?t=30
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How Brit Marling has a writing career is beyond me. This, Sound of My Voice, The East... they're all bad in such bizarre ways. But, she keeps getting to write and star in these things, so good on her, I guess. Actually, it's more like they are competent and sort of interesting and then have such bizarre scenes or ideas that come out of nowhere that taint the entire thing. Too clever by a half, and all.
 
Tagg9 said:
Yep, I've shown this scene to friends without giving them any context and it always gets huge laughs.

Here is the ridiculous scene for those wondering:
The OA - Episode 8 (Season Finale, so be warned that it contains significant spoilers)
https://youtu.be/C-zxOwo10_U?t=30
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Rodney McKay said:
Oh man, how did I not remember the OA?

In addition to that scene, there's also a flashback scene where people do that dance and FUCKING INSANE SPOILERS:
a guy who was shot dead has the blood sucked back into his body and comes back to life because of the dance.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Q1j9pDW1Oxg

I could barely believe what the fuck I was seeing when I saw that. Even with the show being largely about "DID IT REALLY HAPPEN?", it was still one of the most genuinely dumb things I've ever seen on a TV show.

The OA made me and my girlfriend feel genuine anger after finishing the whole thing.
We thought it was a fairly interesting show up until around that point
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Ok now I hate millennials.
 
Tagg9 said:
Yep, I've shown this scene to friends without giving them any context and it always gets huge laughs.

Here is the ridiculous scene for those wondering:
The OA - Episode 8 (Season Finale, so be warned that it contains significant spoilers)
https://youtu.be/C-zxOwo10_U?t=30
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Holy shit, what the hell? I can't believe this. How in the world?

When this was in production, why didn't somebody intervene?

Waaaaaaaaaaaaaat.

Garjon said:
I've got to say the big climax of the OA ENDING SPOILERS:
the characters have spent the entire series locked up trying to perfect a synchronised dance that will unleash a power that they will need for some unknown event in the future. What happens is they perform a dance in front of a school shooter to distract him while some random guy hits the shooter with a tray.

I don't think I've ever seen unintentional comedy pulled off so well.
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Oh wow it's worse than I thought. That was the culmination of a series-long storyline? Seriously?
 
I think the scene in the OP is way worse than that OA scene. It would fit perfectly in a parody without having to change a single thing about it. Nothing.
 
Tagg9 said:
Yep, I've shown this scene to friends without giving them any context and it always gets huge laughs.

Here is the ridiculous scene for those wondering:
The OA - Episode 8 (Season Finale, so be warned that it contains significant spoilers)
https://youtu.be/C-zxOwo10_U?t=30
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border said:
UPDATE ON HEART-EATING DOG:

I had to do a bit more research to get some context for that scene, and read this article:

Dan is waiting in the hospital for his new heart. He's pretty jazzed about it. Also present at the hospital: a drug dealer and a dog who we learn has just consumed three ounces of "nice Lebanese hash."

The dog was high out of his mind on pot! Holy shit, that makes the scene even better.
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Tagg9 said:
Yep, I've shown this scene to friends without giving them any context and it always gets huge laughs.

Here is the ridiculous scene for those wondering:
The OA - Episode 8 (Season Finale, so be warned that it contains significant spoilers)
https://youtu.be/C-zxOwo10_U?t=30
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I thought they were going to tackle the shooter and instead stood up and did some sort of Power Rangers morphin time dance routine
 
aravuus said:
Oh my GOD

I was planning on watching this show some day but yeah, NOPE
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I mean, to me it made sense in the whole world of the story (and it's meant to be ambiguous as to whether that dance did anything), but the whole story is about the girls journey and the dance so I don't see the problem. It's intentionally awkward and I think quite a few people can't see past that. Like, you've just been watching an entire show about this thing and wondering whether it's actually real or not.

Watching the show adds a lot of context - baring in mind it's meant to be mystical and weird and a bit open ended. It's an interesting journey up to there too, and tonally not as weirdly misplaced as some other things on this thread. My vote goes to Newsroom.
 
Tagg9 said:
Yep, I've shown this scene to friends without giving them any context and it always gets huge laughs.

Here is the ridiculous scene for those wondering:
The OA - Episode 8 (Season Finale, so be warned that it contains significant spoilers)
https://youtu.be/C-zxOwo10_U?t=30
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HOLY SHIT

I literally covered half my face in utter shock at what I just watched. Hoooowwwww?! HOW DID ANYONE THINK THIS WAS A GOOD IDEA?!

The Newsroom scene is some pandery jingoistic attempt at tugging your heartstrings, and it's utterly cringeworthy, but I'm not shocked some hack writer on that show went "Hey guys... 9/11." I'm not shocked by super lame product placement - it's hilarious, but I know it comes from higher ups with no integrity trying to make a buck.

This? This is something else entirely.
 
Tagg9 said:
Yep, I've shown this scene to friends without giving them any context and it always gets huge laughs.

Here is the ridiculous scene for those wondering:
The OA - Episode 8 (Season Finale, so be warned that it contains significant spoilers)
https://youtu.be/C-zxOwo10_U?t=30
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I can't think of any context where this can be justified and not look like a parody or something.

And yet the commenters claim this was a powerful scene that needs to be taken seriously, if you watched the show.

No way.
 
The best part of that one Tree Hill scene is that the guy who gets his heart eaten is one of the main villians of the series, so it's actually hilarious schadenfruede that it happens to him and why the guy death stares at him after it happens. In the context of the show he 'deserves ' it.

It's also worth noting that the guy who gets his heart eaten ends up taking down an entire human trafficking operation by himself liam neeson style in the final season.
 
Tagg9 said:
Yep, I've shown this scene to friends without giving them any context and it always gets huge laughs.

Here is the ridiculous scene for those wondering:
The OA - Episode 8 (Season Finale, so be warned that it contains significant spoilers)
https://youtu.be/C-zxOwo10_U?t=30
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https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=5qKCLh0aBOQ

I'm watching it thinking, "ok they're about to summon Shenron or something....dafuq,
is this show telling me they saved the school with the power of dance?? And nobody is giving a fuck that blonde just took a bullet to the chest until after the scene skip
... fuck this shit."
 
eizarus said:
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=5qKCLh0aBOQ

I'm watching it thinking, "ok they're about to summon Shenron or something....dafuq,
is this show telling me they saved the school with the power of dance?? And nobody is giving a fuck that blonde just took a bullet to the chest until after the scene skip
... fuck this shit."
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There's 8 episodes of very... "reasonable" build up, that explains why they thought
getting up and doing a strange dance in-front of a school shooter
was a reasonable thing to do. Pretty much one of the main focal points of the series. As to whether the dance actually did anything... watch the series. Explains the girl too - there's a shit ton of context for all of it. Out of context that scene is straight wack.
 
FutureLarking said:
There's 8 episodes of very... "reasonable" build up, that explains why they thought getting up and doing a strange dance in-front of a school shooter was a reasonable thing to do. Pretty much one of the main focal points of the series. As to whether the dance actually did anything... watch the series. Out of context that scene is straight wack.
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Yep. Still a bad scene, but seeing it out of context just makes it even more so.
 
FutureLarking said:
There's 8 episodes of very... "reasonable" build up, that explains why they thought getting up and doing a strange dance in-front of a school shooter was a reasonable thing to do. Pretty much one of the main focal points of the series. As to whether the dance actually did anything... watch the series. Explains the girls too - there's a shit ton of context for all of it. Out of context that scene is straight wack.
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Yeah, out of context that scene would be utterly baffling, but pretty much the entire rest of the season is building up to that moment in some way or another, so without any of that of course it's going to look odd.

Conceptually the 'movements' is a fairly out there plot device, but if you've bought into the story that is being told then that finale is more or less earned by the show.

I appreciated the audacity of The OA's premise, and it had a few interesting ideas and some genuinely affecting moments, so even though it was (very) shaky at times I'm still curious to see where they go with season 2.
 
Beartruck said:
The best part of that one Tree Hill scene is that the guy who gets his heart eaten is one of the main villians of the series, so it's actually hilarious schadenfruede that it happens to him and why the guy death stares at him after it happens. In the context of the show he 'deserves ' it.

It's also worth noting that the guy who gets his heart eaten ends up taking down an entire human trafficking operation by himself liam neeson style in the final season.
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What is this show?
 
ExInferus said:
I never watched the show so can someone explain this.
So "Saxon", the guy sitting at the bar turns his head but still clearly can't see Dexter standing outside. What was he doing outside anyways and what is James Remar doing?
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Saxon is the guy sitting at the bar, Dexter is the guy stood outside in plain sight. Dexter is supposed to be stalking Saxon with a view to sedating him and killing him. In this scene he decides that the best way to sneak up on someone is to follow them, out in the open, in broad daylight with absolutely no attempt at remaining hidden or inconspicuous. Saxon spots him because he is not blind, and gives Dexter the slip. It's worth noting that Saxon knows Dexter, that Dexter is stood there for about 20 minutes (not an exaggeration - it shows how much times has passed), that Saxon keeps getting up to play the same song on the jukebox over and over so it's not like he's just sat there with his back to Dexter and his bright blue shirt the entire time.

James Remar is an imaginary version of Dexter's dead adoptive father who Dexter speaks to. For some reason his imaginary dead father actually has the sense to try to stay out of sight, while Dexter does not.
 
brianmcdoogle said:
How Brit Marling has a writing career is beyond me. This, Sound of My Voice, The East... they're all bad in such bizarre ways. But, she keeps getting to write and star in these things, so good on her, I guess. Actually, it's more like they are competent and sort of interesting and then have such bizarre scenes or ideas that come out of nowhere that taint the entire thing. Too clever by a half, and all.
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She's like if Neil Breen was a respected filmmaker, it seems like.
 
Shit, I thought that OA scene was powerful as fuck, though I totally get finding it ridiculous.

It's basically meta-commentary of the shows premise. It either works, or is amazingly ridiculous. Like the main Characters either believe her stories and in her, or they tell her to fuck off. The weird movements are part of that.

Is anything, it's worth a watch to see Jason Isaac be a prick for 7 hours. Best actor Hollywood forgot.
 
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