Dumbest scene in TV History?
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It wasn't terrible as a whole. This reminds me of the Dunkirk trailer thread and people going overboard because of a gif.
Yeah, when I saw his face in A Cure for Life,
I knew he was up to no good and oh god he didn't disappoint lol.
The show is OK, even good. Too bad it ended on this scene, it's all people remember now ^^.
I mean, is there a show mentioned in this thread that didn't get a second season?
MeshuggahMan
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Ahhh YES the OA is it. I might say it's the stupidest thing I've ever watched. Just totally baffling. It may have been so dumb that I erased it from my mind till someone posted that clip.
So.
Dumb.
So.
Dumb.
I really enjoyed that show until that scene. It makes more sense in context of the full series, but yeah that was awful.
Oh by terrible, I wasn't talking about the clip. I've heard the show itself sucks and was asking why it got renewed.
But I can't watch the clip because I might want to watch the actual show eventually.
Damn it. You made me remember that creepy group feeding scene from The East that I had repressed.
PuppetSlave
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OA is well worth an watch. I really want to the watch the second season and find out what happens. It is an show where you try to guess what is real and what is not. It's subtle compared to most shows.
People dismissing the series and never watching it just because of that scene are missing out.
xrnzaaas
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I actually like most of the films she and Mike Cahill wrote scripts for. And you forgot about the most interesting one imo - I Origins.
Massive Nights
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Jesus, this is it, this beats The Newsroom.
This scene made me stop watching the show right after this happened.
Some of these other clips, jeez most of the shows I dont watch or have heard of Im glad I havent
FutureLarking
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The thing is, it's not actually dumb in the context of the show whereas the Newsroom's is.
As someone who watched it...no. It's bad. Bad acting, poor pacing, and terrible writing.
MeshuggahMan
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Couldn't disagree more. Show had some intrigue the first episode or two then just awful. It was so god damn weird and I don't think they even knew what to do with the show. They didn't really figure out what type of show it wanted to be. Blegh. Topped off with that last scene posted in here and I was out. To think that shooter would stand there and watch them move like that.. As if he would be so flabbergasted he wouldn't know what to do ugh just UGH SO STUPID. I generally consider myself easy to please with entertainment and willing to give everything a chance and this is one show that I consider truly awful.
JustSomeone
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That's typical Aaron Sorkin for you. At least with this show he didn't manage to fool anyone into thinking it's a good show,unlike the white house.
OMG, people are sleeping on this one. What the hell is this nonsense?
Glass Shark
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I will agree with all of the above. It's almost an embodiment of the whole idea of the show that watching that scene without understanding what's going on will make you go "WTF." I will admit that even watching it play out as someone who saw the whole series up to that point and was very invested in it, I thought it was a bit cheesy. But damn if it wasn't compelling.
It's supposed to make you uncomfortable. The idea of the show, if you watch it, is to step outside your comfort zone, believe things you wouldn't normally believe, and embrace the weird. It's certainly very, very far from "the worst thing ever put to film." And it totally makes sense within the show's framework of slightly magical realism.
Chuckie
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Lol seriously hahahaha.
People probably just read the post and thought...meh hacking scene...not gonna watch that again.
They are missing out haha.
Dagobert Duck
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Dont you hate it when you slip on ketchup?
LordKasual
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Glass Shark
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despite all the hacking nonsense, the worst thing about this scene is the bite of the sandwich the meathead guy takes at 0:31 seconds
kingkaiser
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So, does someone actually care to elaborate what exactly is so bad about that scene from The Newsroom?
Because I remember the threads here when President Obama announced bin Laden's death and in comparison that scene was almost subtle...
Because I remember the threads here when President Obama announced bin Laden's death and in comparison that scene was almost subtle...
One tree hill.
LordKasual
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Are they casting a spell? Summoning Gabriel? Tsukuyomi????
I was expecting the shooter to blow them away at any second, might have made a better scene
I seriously doubt that even in context it's a good scene. I could only stomach the first episode because the writing and acting was so God awful. Worse than in any other Netflix original I've seen and that's saying a lot.
MetalGearZed
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This made my chest burn a little bit.
you could tell the Ice-T didn't know what the hell was coming out of his mouth
why did they insert this line?? lmao
i mean, it's an incredibly cringey scene (the only thing missing was the passengers standing up with their right arm on their chest while 'god bless america' plays in the bg with an amercian flag waving in the wind), but hardly the 'dumbest thing on tv'. not defending the show or anything, but man, the hyperbole. i don't get the vitriol either.
what's funny is until this thread, i had no idea what "hate-watching" was, lol.
seriously, there are actually real-life people who do this?? people who spend a decent portion of your own time watching a show you don't actually like? i wish i had that level of spare time, lol.
if i don't like a show, i simply watch something else. but i guess that's just me... is this part of 'hater-culture' or something. i don't get it. i'm really getting old.
Gazoogleheimmer
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I'll bet the stunt double here is a 40 year old man
I mean, hate-watching has been a thing since as far back as I can remember. Used to watch terrible movies on VHS in the 90s with my cousins. It's fun to make fun of bad tv/movies with you friends... not sure whats hard to get about it. Everything Is Terrible started in 2000 and is still going strong.
Mega Man's Electric Sheep
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I actually love Three's Company, but there's no denying it's a dumb show, and the "Double Trouble" episode is ridiculous even by this show's standards. You see, Mr. Furley (the landlord, for the young or uninitiated) has a niece visiting, and Jack wants to date her, but since Mr. Furley thinks he is gay, he has to invent a twin brother from Texas. So he puts on a cowboy hat and invents "Austin", complete with terrible hick accent. What's that you say, not ridiculous enough? Well then there's the scene where Mr. Furley wants to have a drink with both Austin and Jack and somehow Jack convinces him that both are in the same room by taking his hat on and off. It's masterful in its stupidity.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TIaCEPVHBUM
The scene in question starts at about the 13 minute mark.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TIaCEPVHBUM
The scene in question starts at about the 13 minute mark.
Gets on the treadmill - falls - ages 35 years
I can't decide on the best part of this scene. It's either the aimless whacking of the treadmill's touchscreen, the 45 year old stunt double, or the copious amount of blood from a simple fall.
Angelus Errare
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Really? Not the dual keyboard action?
It really is dumb even in the context of the show. I almost burst out laughing when they did the dance at the end. Not to mention the sheer randomness of the school shooter.
Just close the thread,this clip already won.
I went from thinking the show was interesting, to meh, to hating the show after that last scene. However, the scene kinda sorta makes sense. Major spoilers...
The bulk of the series is Brit Marling telling the story of her abduction to these high school kids, and the dance they learned during that time that had special powers. But it turned out that Brit was full of shit. She made it up. To what extent I'm not certain. Was this her coping mechanism during the time of her abduction? But the point is the dance had no special powers. So the random guy hitting the shooter made sense. There wasn't going to be some miraculous intervention. Unless you count that random guy... but fuck that noise and the entire school shooter premise.
Darth Pinche
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Plus if I remember correctly, that series of movements was an
act of healing. So they were healing the shooter's pain to stop him from shooting.
I loved the OA. Watching that clip out of context is a mistake as it is the build up of the whole series about mysticism. It is the only show I can think of where it really humanizes a bully character and shows such growth in its characters. But I can see it is not for everyone.
peanutbutterlatte
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Obscure, but watching How I Met Your Mother when Robin cheats on Kevin, and is about to tell him when he stops her, saying whatever he has to tell her is better left unsaid, and if it's going to hurt him, why bother saying it in the first place.
Just really pissed me off.
Just really pissed me off.
Now the OA has literally the dumbest scene in TV history? Because it chose to use interpretive dance?
Opinion threads never fail to get to point of "that thing you enjoyed and found interesting and valuable and maybe resonated with you? It totally sucks. You actually didn't enjoy it. You're wrong."
Opinion threads never fail to get to point of "that thing you enjoyed and found interesting and valuable and maybe resonated with you? It totally sucks. You actually didn't enjoy it. You're wrong."
It's like they almost get caught 10 times an episode.
Renna Hazel
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Luke Cage spoilers here, but I found this to be incredibly stupid
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i-8tHpLfoV4
And that's the only video I can find of this.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i-8tHpLfoV4
And that's the only video I can find of this.
Archie's an idiot, and the latter half of the season starts to play into that.
I think the OA gets bonus bullshit points because it inadvertently makes light of school shooters with how ineptly they handle their fictitious one. For me, The Newsroom's largest sin is that it feels self congratulatory and assumes the viewer will follow along with its jingoism because they too celebrated the death of Bin Laden.
But the OA is a special kind of stupid, the kind that is so egregious it insults actual social issues.
But the OA is a special kind of stupid, the kind that is so egregious it insults actual social issues.