Laughing at Inappropriate Times

[AndyC]

I'm sure we've all done this. You're sitting in a crowded theatre, or watching a video with other people, the scene you're watching is dead serious, but something in it tickles you. And the fact that laughing will make you look like an a***ole only makes it harder to resist.

I can think of a couple right away.

Watching Star Trek: Generations, Picard is discussing his only blood relations burning to death. There's a moment when he tries to speak, but he's so overcome with sobbing, he can't get the words out. It looks funny as hell, and it caught me totally off guard the first time I saw it. So, theatre full of people silently glued to the screen, and suddenly there's a burst of giggling that everyone can hear.

The other one was not embarrassing, because only one other person was there, and he laughed too. It was maybe 20 years ago, watching a VHS of Dirty Harry with a friend, and it gets to the part where the killer, wearing a red ski mask, gets stabbed in the leg. He turns around screaming, his eyes wide open, and his mouth in a big "O." We lost it immediately. I mean, he looked like nothing less than an insane hot dog.

[hellbilly]

Unbreakable: when the kid pulls the gun on Bruce Willis in the kitchen.

House of Sand and Fog: Ben Kingsley's big dramatic moment when his son died (I think it was his son). Kingsley was on his knees overwhelmed by grief screaming his pain. I thought it was the funniest thing ever.

[The Burgomaster]

When THE EXORCIST: THE VERSION YOU'VE NEVER SEEN was released to theaters a few years ago, several people kept laughing whenever Linda Blair's character let out a string of profanity.  These were the sames scenes that scared the hell out of people when they saw the movie during the 1970s.  Now people laugh at them.

[Cthulhu]

I laugh when the national anthem is playing.
You know, when everyone is standing dead serious and singing, I just have to giggle.

Then again, I'm not the only one.

[Mofo Rising]

Unbreakable: when the kid pulls the gun on Bruce Willis in the kitchen.

When I was saw that movie in the theater, the entire audience was laughing at that scene. And not in a good way.

[Mr. DS]

I laughed in the theater during Titanic when the ship was going down and one of the people pinged off one of the boilers. 

[AndyC]

I laughed in the theater during Titanic when the ship was going down and one of the people pinged off one of the boilers. 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xWx2GpQgW8M
No, it's not real, but it's funny.

[Psycho Circus]

I laughed at Batman's voice in The Dark Knight all the way through. People in the cinema thought I was absolutely stark raving bonkers! The only other time was when I saw The Phantom Menace with my dad. We thought every scene (barring Darth Maul's) was an abomination...

[retrorussell]

I laughed in the theater during Titanic when the ship was going down and one of the people pinged off one of the boilers. 

Same here!

I fell over laughing at the end of Final Destination 2, where the barbecued hand falls on the mom's plate.  A bunch of teens in the audience stared at me and didn't know what to think. 

[Javakoala]

I fell over laughing at the end of Final Destination 2, where the barbecued hand falls on the mom's plate.  A bunch of teens in the audience stared at me and didn't know what to think. 

Ummmm...wasn't that MEANT to be funny? I almost peed my pants laughing at that.

[WingedSerpent]

I'm sure it's happened more, but the most recent one I can remember is during AVATAR.  Right after the giant tree where all the blue cat people live is destroyed.  The main girl cat person's father is found dead.  She starts wailing in saddness, and I couldn't help but laugh.  It just seemed goofy to me.

[darthchicken]

I can't help but laugh during the scene in Gladiator when he finds his family dead.. I feel all sad, and then a chicken walks by in the background, and I crack up.. everybody I know thinks I'm a horrible person for this, but it's so funny.

[SPazzo]

I was with about five or six friends and we were watching Silence of the Lambs.  When Hannibal said his line about eating the census takers liver I laughed like crazy.  One other person laughed, and the others just stared.

I mean, that line was hilarious.  How can someone not find that funny?

[AndyC]

I was with about five or six friends and we were watching Silence of the Lambs.  When Hannibal said his line about eating the census takers liver I laughed like crazy.  One other person laughed, and the others just stared.

I mean, that line was hilarious.  How can someone not find that funny?

Back when that came out, my best friend and I went into hysterics at Buffalo Bill's delivery of "Put the f**king lotion in the basket!" For a long time after that, we could start each other snickering by doing impressions of that line.

[retrorussell]

Ummmm...wasn't that MEANT to be funny? I almost peed my pants laughing at that.

I thought so, that's why I laughed.  Nobody else did.. screw them.

Another funny Silence Of The Lambs exchange that I laughed at (and hardly anyone else in the theater did):

Hannibal Lecter: Tell me, Senator: did you nurse Catherine yourself?
Senator Ruth Martin: What?
Hannibal Lecter: Did you breast-feed her?
Paul Krendler: Now wait a minute...
Senator Ruth Martin: Yes, I did.
Hannibal Lecter: Toughened your nipples, didn't it?
Paul Krendler: You son of a b***h!
Hannibal Lecter: Amputate a man's leg and he can still feel it tickling. Tell me, mum, when your little girl is on the slab, where will it tickle you?
Senator Ruth Martin: Take this... *thing* back to Baltimore!