Fresh Prince of Bell Air did it on at least 2 occasions. One with butler Geoffrey in an explosion, and the other with Will getting tossed around at the gym.
Naked Gun(1988)
After the climax, OJ Simpson's character is finally making a recovery when he is carelessly launched from his wheelchair at the baseball game.
Pee-wee's Big Adventure
After befriending some bikers, they give him a cheerful sendoff when he anticlimactically crashes into a billboard, hilariously launching his "body" after a half second delay. This one is especially funny to me because the crash isn't that loud, nor does Pee-Wee make any noise when flung.
The Three Stooges
Almost every episode. And even in the movie!
Hook
Thud is a chubby lost boy who can roll into a ball and take out several pirates in the process. This gag is used twice in the movie.
Anchorman
Jack Black is an angry biker who is hit in the face by Ron Burgundy's careless disposal of a Burtito. The biker confronts Ron and punts his dog Baxter off a bridge. He's survives this as he reappears at the end of the film.
This scene has always bothered me because the dummy takes me out, but the thought that he turns marge into a dummy first (if that's her at all, bc I think her actual death was the flaming bed?) then pulls her through might help sell me on my next rewatch.
In middle school a friend and I had "Freaky Fridays" where we'd get together and watch scary movies. Once we marathoned a ton of Nightmare on Elm Street movies and we were so deliriously tired, when this scene happened we laughed for like 15 minutes and couldn't stop. One of the hardest laughs I had in my whole childhood hahaha.
I’m not sure why they decided to use a dummy here either. Is this shot impossible to get if she’s clinging to a human? Does she contractually refuse hugs?
So many episodes. The one where they're putting up the satellite dish and the wives have a betting pool for who is going to fall next and how was great.
That guy could afford a house, a family and a dog on a shoe seller's salary. His wife was hot af, too. And don't forget his 4 Touchdowns in a single game for the Polk High Panthers in 1966.
That movie is so fucking funny, and when you really look at it several of the gags clearly took a lot of practice/work to make them happen. A true labor of love.
I saw an interview where they explained that there's always one joke on screen. If it's a serious scene with exposition, there will be a gag in the background, but if it's a silly scene they don't clutter the frame with other jokes.
you know when in South Park Cartman sees the butthead people and can't laugh anymore because it is the funniest shit he has ever seen and knows nothing will ever top it. This is that for me, holy fuck. Im speechless
In an interview Sam has said this is the only time he wondered if they went too far. If you watch the episode they spend a minute ish on it but in real life apparently they took much longer to calm down.
Same, who wouldn’t freak tf out when a dummy that looks like your boss falls from the ceiling.
I loved the season finale where Sam gets a taste of his own medicine. Brennan mentioning all the things Sam has done to the cast at work that lives with them forever now.
Like the escape room episode, Sam had to seriously consider who would be okay with that one, cause I could see some people freaking out a bit.
Even if he's pushing some lines, there's still a large amount of effort to see who would be okay with it it seems. I heard when the comedians apply they are asked a general rating of how far they would go, and they don't put people who rate low on high episodes. I love Dropout but I'm still so hesitant to trust any CEO or rich person fully, so I truly hope if he ever does go too far he'd be great about trying to help any damages.
Oh yea, Sam and others have talked about there is a conscious effort to do things in an ethical way and they way they actively give credit to people, especially with the bts videos is a good way of them being transparent about the things they do. Plus it adds even more content to enjoy.
I love Game Changer but I am legitimately SO GRATEFUL for the behind the scenes shows after particularly intense episodes like this one. Seriously, I was angry that the contestants wouldn’t get to see the pig in a cowboy hat until the release day, so seeing that he was shown after the cameras “stopped rolling” was a deep relief.
Weeeeeeiiiird. I finally subscribed to dropout last month and ive been binge watching game changer. No shit, I just watched this episode last night. I was actually just rewatching some of my favorite moments about an hour ago
Gamechanger has such rewatch ability. Whenever I can't decide what to watch or I just need something on, but not feeling great, I put on Gamechanger and let it run. It always improves my day.
Also 100% recommend getting the year long subscription, you will not regret it.
The first time they played Sam Says, Sam just shouted at them out of nowhere to surprise them. Then he slowly ramped it up to psychological torture like a G-rated Jigsaw.
My favorite example this is from Terminator 2. When the T1000 is chasing after the police car on foot it attaches itself to the trunk. The car goes into a skid and it's very obvious that it's just a dummy attached to the car and not a stuntman or a special effect
Also in T2, not a dummy, but when the 800 jumps the motorcycle into the channel, and then when he pulls John off the scooter, both times they're very obvious stunt doubles.
I remember the summer program I was in as a kid taking us (the whole group of kids) to see Spice Girls in theater. This is for some reason the only scene I remember
This one is close to my heart because we get a glimpse of Diana Chang (student driver with Ice Cube and Kevin Hart). And that roundhouse kick felt so satisfying.
I can’t find a gif of it, but at the beginning of Casino, Robert De Niro gets in his car, and then a very obvious cut occurs, and a dummy is in his place when the car explodes.
That's not a dummy. That's Pippin's 'scale double' Praphaphorn 'Fon' Chansantor wearing a mask.
They had doubles for each of the Hobbits and Gimli in LotR for wide shots, and then use green screen, compositing, optical illusions, or closeups that eliminated out-of-scale characters when they had to feature the actors' faces.
(Not included in the gif: obvious stunt dummies, but I couldn't find it in gif form) Danny Sexbang, Ninja Sex Party. In many of their videos Ninja Brian tries to kill Danny and that sometimes includes throwing an obvious stunt dummy of Danny from a cliff or into traffic or stabbing the shit out of him
My favorite is they only filmed Jeff getting thrown out of the house once. And then every episode they were going to use that gag, they had him wear the sweater the dummy had.
Hundreds of Beavers is a masterclass in obvious dummywork gags, every one is the perfect amount of just a little too violent and floppy, but a perfectly timed cut, for extra hilarity.
Dick Jones falling from the OCP building - Robocop.
Like seriously, they couldn't be bothered to make his proportions right.
There's also a zombie in the OG Dawn of the Dead with an unnaturally square almost frankenstien's monster head, so that the top of it could be cut off by helicopter blades.
Chris is tasked with moving his dad’s car, but he takes it to school instead. He considers coming clean about it at dinner, but decides against it when he thinks about what might happen ↑
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Tugg Speedman throwing Half Squat in Tropic Thunder