What scene from a movie or tv show has stuck with you years after you've seen it?

The murder scene from the perspective of the gangster being killed in 2001’s Gangster No. 1.

I should not have taken advantage of that hotel cable.

The Elephant Show

I watched this when I was a kid and for some reason I distinctly remember them doing the “Skinner Marinky Dinky Dink, Skinner Marinky Doo, I Lovee youu” with the audience.

Dorothy, when she first opens her front door, after her house has fallen into a land called Oz. It goes from black and white to beautiful color.

This by the way, is awesome.

Cruel intentions, the scene when Sebastian calls Greg demanding to know where Annette is, the camera shows Sebastian driving his Jaguar towards Manhattan, in the next scene he is waiting for in her in the stairs at subway station, the next is the bedroom scene, during this 3 scene sequence Colorblind by the Counting Crows can be heard… for some reason I love it, and I love the song :D

The “all those moments lost in time like tears in rain” scene from Bladerunner. Also, when Sonny beats the shit out of his sister’s husband in the street in The Godfather. Those scenes stick with me.

Oh, and this from The Shining.

The end of the Sopranos. Very upsetting; very Nihilist.
The resuscitation scene from “The Abyss”. This is what love can do.
Twelve Angry Men where the holdout juror reveals that it’s his son he wants to send to prison. So real.
“Adrian!” from “Rocky”. Gets me every time.
The scene in Shindler’s List where the kids fight about who gets to hide in the toilet. Oh humanity.
“Deep Blue Sea” – where Samuel L Jackson’s rally the troops speech is cut short.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9gLN3QoN-q8

Ugh. I wish I could get it out of my brain.

The leeches on Humphrey Bogart (Charlie Allnut) in African Queen.

Another – the Klan meeting in O Borther, Where Art Thou?

American Werewolf in London, where the star’s buddy is being ripped apart by a wolf right next to him. All he can do is watch.

The scenes from WKRP in Cincinnati once the helicopter begins to drop the live turkeys onto the shopping center right through until a disheveled Gordon Jump says, “As God is my witness, I really thought turkeys could fly.” One of the funniest half hours of television ever made.

Last scene of the last episode of the 3rd season of M*A*S*H, when Radar tearfully informs the OR that Col Blake, who in that episode got his discharge and was celebrating the entire time, was shot down over the Sea of Japan. “It spun in. There were no survivors.”

The scene from Office Space where Peter is sitting Chotchkie’s and the waiter says to him, “Sounds like somebody’s got a case of the Mondays.”

I saw A Clockwork Orange at too tender an age when it came out. I do not recommend it for young teens – it left an impression indelibely etched into my brain – in particular the rape/murder scene – and I still cringe when I hear Singing in the Rain, as I still associate it with that scene – much as Alex cringed when he heard Beethoven.

ZEN OUT

@syz Beautiful! Rates up there with the last scenes of “2001, A Space Odyssey.”

For me it’s this: Goodfellas, the Billy Batts scene. “Now go home and get your fuckin’ shine box!” Classic.

the ring : where the girl climbs out of the tv
the exorcist: masturbating with a crucifix

braveheart” the freedom speech…

3rd Rock from the Sun

William Shatner (as the Big Head) and John Lithgow (as Dr. Dick Solomon)
Shatner shows up at the house complaining that there was something on the wing of the plane he just arrived on.
Lithgow says, “you saw it too?!”

The humor is they both did the same twilight Zone episode. (Shatner doing the original in 1963, Lithgow in 1983’s Twilight Zone: The Movie)

Called “Nightmare at 20,000 Feet”

Plot summary

Bob Wilson (William Shatner) is a salesman on an airplane for the first time since his nervous breakdown six months ago. He spots a gremlin on the wing of the plane. Every time someone else looks out the window, the gremlin leaps out of view, so nobody believes Bob’s seemingly outlandish claim. Bob realizes that his wife is starting to think he needs to go back to the sanitarium, but also, if nothing is done about the gremlin, it will damage the plane and cause it to crash. Bob steals a sleeping policeman’s revolver, and opens the window marked “Auxiliary Exit” to shoot the gremlin, succeeding despite the fact that he is nearly blown out of the plane himself. Once the plane has landed, although he is whisked away in a straitjacket, there is evidence of his claims: the unusual damage to the plane’s engine nacelle — yet to be discovered by mechanics — that presumably can only be explained as caused by something that clawed at the structure’s airframe.

Can I include a commercial? – “Where’s the beef?!”

The part of the film The Producers where the musical “Springtime For Hitler” is going on and the singer exclaims, “Don’t be stupid, be a smarty; come and join the Nazi Party!” I saw it on the blonde wood cabinet colour TV set in my maternal grandparents’ living room. I probably remember the scene so well because it was one of the few times I ever saw my rather taciturn grandfather laugh so hard, he had to hold his sides. I think I was 3, so that would have been ‘72, ‘73.

“Luke, I am your father.”

The sex scene in Basic Instinct with Michael Douglas & Jeanne Tripplehorn is pretty good.

Salo: 120 days in Sodom
There was one particular scene so vile and offensive that I don’t even want to type it here.

Last Tango in Paris. Cheese rape.

The ending of Gurren Lagann.

I remember the first time I saw my first pair of boobies and it was from a movie. Which movie that was is the question. I think it was Stargate, but I am not sure. If someone could confirm that there was a naked pair of tah-tahs in that movie, that would be great.

the part in the exorcist when the girls walks down the stairs backwards on her hands and feet and head tilted back. Ah, what a freaky image

The freaked-out look on Meatloaf’s face when he was about to be killed in The Rocky Horror Picture Show…just because I felt so bad for him. And a scene in that Dinosaurs! TV show when the dad had to give these innocent little creatures to his boss and he ate them…that really freaked me out as a child.

I saw Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back in the theater (original release) when I was three and the whole scene where Luke got his hand chopped was fresh and vivid in my mind until we got cable, and I saw it again, when I was 8. My goodness, what a movie.

The last bit of Cowboy Bebop.
Tom Cruise’s character walking through the underground sex cult in Eyes Wide Shut.
Nathaniel Fisher Sr. dying in Six Feet Under.
Toboe dying in Wolf’s Rain. Most of Wolf’s Rain.
The wallpaper shifting in Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas.
Al Swearengen having his bladder stones pulled out in Deadwood.
Fivel and Tiger passing each other, each thinking the other is a mirage, in An American Tail: Fivel Goes West.
Most recently, the first fifteen minutes of Ink. People who recognize the things I’ve named so far should check this movie out. Everyone else too, for that matter.

That one scene from Nothing To Lose when Nick looses it when there’s a spider on his head and then his shoes catch on fire.

Might not had been his best movie, But I was young when I saw Argento’s Inferno (the entire movie is actually on youtube). and the scene of peek-boo though the mailbox slot of the stain glass window still scare the heck out of me.
Also theres the finally scene from the creepshow story with the roaches Here it is
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uBim1j1tVbE

@THEDELLS I totally agree with you on inferno and creepshow

The peeking alien scene in Communion. Scarred me for life it did.

The beginning scene in ET when ET is running through the woods as his spaceship is leaving him.

The end of Close Encounters of the Third Kind (who could forget that?).

The first scene in Firefly with Wash playing with his dinosaurs:

“Ah! Curse your sudden but inevitable betrayal!”

@Shuttle128 Ha! Thanks for reminding me of the Wash scene. Awesome!

Fredrick March surprises his family with his early arrival, back from the war, in “The Best Years Of Our Lives”

10X lurve, @filmfann!! What a great one: Billy Wyler at his best. The scene that stays with me from that film is Homer Parrish struggling with the rifle in his parent’s garage. The frustration is palpable, finally breaking through his patina of good cheer. So many emotions in that film. What a classic!

At @erichw1504 Actually he says, in reply to Luke: NO – I am your father

@filmfann scene after interesting scene in that one. Especially the garage.

For some reason, I always remember Clark Griswold putting the Christmas lights up all over his house.

People, places, the things they do, the times they do ‘em
~Andy Sipowicz

The scene in Carrie when her arm pops up from her grave. Gave me nightmares for years that did and i haven’t really watched a horror film since.

In Viva Zapata! the lovely scene in which Emiliano Zapata’s bride begins teaching him to read from the Bible on their wedding night, in their bridal bed.

I also vividly recall a scene from the original Lost Horizons, even though I was only six or seven, in when the High Lama makes his first appearance. Thanks to the preservative qualities of Shangri-La, he was hundreds of years old, and boy, did he look it! Scared me so bad my mother had to take me out to the lobby.

Andy Sipowicz telling his son how to be a good beat cop. Pay attention to people, places, the things they do, and the time they do them.

This is one of hundreds, as the greatest show in television history produced so damn many.

Brian Fantana: Sex Panther by Odeon. This stuff is illegal in 9 countries. It’s made with bits of real panther, so you know it’s good.

Ron Burgundy: It’s quite pungent. [cringes] It’s a formidable scent; it stings the nostrils in a good way.

Brian Fantana: [daubing the cologne on his neck] Yup.

Ron Burgundy: Brian, I’m gonna be honest with you, that smells like pure gasoline.

Brian Fantana: They’ve done studies, you know. They say 60% of the time, it works every time.
Ron Burgundy: That doesn’t make any sense.