Five Funny Out-Of-Context Film Gifs

Another MTV Clutch piece back when GIF roundups were the rage in 2011. Enjoy!

The internet is awash in GIFs people will recognize as “Popular character acting like popular character.” Beyond that are millions more of self-explanatory moments like a beautiful woman being a beautiful woman, a candid reaction, or simply Simon Pegg throwing a child into the bushes. You know: universal stuff.

But occasionally, there arises a GIF which defies explanation. These, friends, are those GIFs.

The most awkward punch in film history?
Richard Dean Anderson for Red Tornado, 2012.

Our first amazing example is one Mr. R.D. Anderson, an actor and seducer of Bouvier twins. Whilst playing the beloved eponymous character MacGyver, Anderson and his stylish jacket find themselves in what can only be an underground complex devoted to malicious experiments. Understandably, the gentleman MacGyver wishes to egress the compound. But what’s this? What ho! Resistance!

Or not. I mean, it looks like that guy was just about to enter in one of those awkward moments you have at the bank or post office. Imagine not only getting cold-cocked in that situation, but your attacker takes himself out as well for a twin ballet of falling revolutions. And then in jumps some third dork who trips himself just to fit in and look cool. Oh, MacGyver! The only thing you can’t engineer is a way to make us stop loving you.

Matt LeBlanc fights a cat
Still less weird than that Red Shoe Diaries where he absolutely railed in an elevator.

Outside of Friends, Matt LeBlanc’s world is just orangutans and terrible Married with Children spin-offs. Here he is fighting a cat, which we might all want to do, but we certainly wouldn’t call such an experience Top of the Heap. It’s never your proudest moment fistfighting an animal smaller than you. Unless…is the animal Paulie D?

Say it with us now: Oh MY!

The internet loves George Takei almost as much as it does Batman. So it’s not surprising that we’d want to see him happy, and not just to hear him coo, “Oh MY!” But man, not like this. Not with the most casually administered drug injection ever. And the way Kirk just nonchalantly refutes his ascent to Heaven…That’s brutal.

[Note: the full GIF has vanished from the internet, so here’s the biggest slice I could find of it.]

John Travolta as a Xenu-worshipping space alien laser-blasting the legs off cows to terrorize manimals one at a time? Sure? Why not, it’s not like today’s going to get any weirder. The real awesomeness is the guy behind him, who weeps for America.

And finally, what the hell, here’s a bewigged Avril Lavigne face-fencing a churro.

And with that, we have reached the end of the internet. Goodnight, everybody!

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