r/TopCharacterTropes • • Aug 25 '26

miscellaneous (Hilarious Trope) The person being "thrown" is clearly just a puppet/doll

Hundreds of Beavers

The Great Muppet Caper

Naked Gun (1988)

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u/CancelThis2077 Aug 26 '26

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u/SH4RPSPEED Aug 26 '26

Beating a motherfucker with another motherfucker

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u/havartifunk Aug 26 '26

Now that's one of my favorite tropes.

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u/NotAnotherSkeleton Aug 26 '26

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u/Distracted2004 Aug 26 '26

I thought this was real for several years

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u/suckitphil Aug 26 '26

I mean, I have a dog who does this. No editing needed. 

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u/Excellent-Trifle9086 Aug 26 '26

I grew up with german shepherds, I wouldn't have thought this was fake at first either, lol.

My current one I had to catch mid air to stop her from lunging off a 2nd story patio after a squirrel.

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u/Prior-Seat-7527 Aug 26 '26

“Duke do you want the ball?”

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u/Hidden_Misc Aug 26 '26

*insert cup pyramid crashing sounds*

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u/Mikpultro Aug 26 '26

Almost every time Grogu does a little force jump.

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u/ZiroLeHutt Aug 26 '26

Yeah its so cute. They like to keep the effects in shot as much as possible generally, without using CGI, and it works as its adorable. I love the way he waddles around too, haha!

Also that must be a dummy of Grogu's animatronic, as the main one cost $5 mill to make, so they aren't throwing that around.

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u/HandsomePaddyRedux Aug 26 '26

That actually makes that fit the trope, whereas the original comment would have not fit since the puppet would be doing its own stunts.

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u/mr-kvideogameguy Aug 26 '26

Damn, didn't know puppets get stunt doubles

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u/Dremzaforreal Aug 26 '26

Love this one (ignore how dirty my camera was taking this photo 😭)

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u/Unironicfan Aug 26 '26

Apparently they were considering using cgi for grogu until Werner Herzog found out and called them spineless cowards.

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u/DubiousBrushwagg Aug 26 '26

"They were....going to use a computer to make the little green child. I.... expressed my...... dissatisfaction about that. That....they would be....cowards...for not making...the little green one....real. Because how can our feelings....for the child be real.....if we cannot hold it...and feel that it is...real?"

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u/LuntiX Aug 26 '26

Werner Herzog could tell me I'm a coward for not liking cucumbers and it would probably convince me that cucumbers are the most delicious thing in the world

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u/SmallTownTrans1 Aug 26 '26

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Limmy’s Show

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u/FrillyKat Aug 26 '26

That shit looks VICIOUS

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u/ZiroLeHutt Aug 26 '26

Benny Harvey, gone too soon.

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u/Drakeskulled_Reaper Aug 26 '26

Fucking love Limmy's Show.

But, at the same time, it worries me. Like, some of the sketches are just pure fucking hilarity, but then every now and then, he just does aa sketch that's outright disturbing, like the minestrone soup one.

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u/rredeyes Aug 26 '26

Wrong way, down a one way street

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u/imadragonyouguys Aug 26 '26

Top Secret

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u/aguywithagasmaskyt Aug 26 '26

the punch that turns nazis into ceramic

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u/ComparisonSome1169 Aug 26 '26

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u/TonberryFeye Aug 26 '26

Such a simple, yet genius gag. I'm impressed!

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u/Cautious_Hotel_3632 Aug 26 '26

A tiny itty bitty nitpick i have always have about tf2 memes/sfms/anims is how whenn the characters are falling they use the crit kill screams instead of THE falling ones, so it feels so good seeing it used correctly in this one

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u/CreepyClay Aug 26 '26

Reminds me of that one diety in the Caine books that could scare things into existence.

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u/Apprehensive-Age-733 Aug 26 '26

This is one of my all-time favorites. It stays fresh every time I see it.

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u/UnsealedMTG Aug 26 '26

Also the dance sequence where the guys swing their dates over their heads like a lasso and they are just obviously dummies. I think that dumb visual joke makes me laugh more than anythint int he movie (and a lot of things in that movie make me laugh pretty hard

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u/powerful_p1608 Aug 26 '26

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u/ClunarX Aug 26 '26

Such a great use of an obvious dummy; kept things funny instead of traumatizing

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u/InvestigatorLast578 Aug 26 '26

I watched this movie wayyy too young and no it traumatized me.

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u/LiterallyDumbAF Aug 26 '26

Thankfully the dog lives and thrives in the end, otherwise I'd still be pissed at the movie lol

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u/That_Apathetic_Man Aug 26 '26

There used to be a website dedicated to letting people know if a movie had a dog die in it.

I am that many websites-ago old.

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u/Emo---Emu Aug 26 '26

It still exists! Unsure if it's the same thing but DoesTheDogDie includes that and other common triggers/content flags 

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u/Jimmyg100 Aug 26 '26

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u/broom_temperature Aug 26 '26

I'M IN A GLASS CASE OF EMOTION!

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u/Birdorama Aug 26 '26

I'm completely miserable San Diego.

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u/ToruSnap Aug 26 '26

This scene kills me every single time

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u/AKlutzyGiraffe Aug 26 '26

THE BAD MAN PUNTED BAXTER!

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u/fkasumim Aug 26 '26

Baxter! Is that you? Bark twice if you're in Milwaukee!

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u/TheG-What Aug 26 '26

THE BAD MAN PUNTED BAXTER!

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u/thewoodlayer Aug 26 '26

That’s how I roll!

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u/smash_ultra_64 Aug 26 '26

Fresh Prince

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u/LtGeneral_Obvious Aug 26 '26

Fresh Prince loved the dummy!

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u/fluffypuppiness Aug 26 '26

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u/Nice-Cat3727 Aug 26 '26

You can tell when they were going to do that because they would have the actor wear the same shirt

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u/PurpleGuy04 Aug 26 '26

I remember that Because they lampshaded It, at one point he points out to Uncle Phil that he cant throw him out because he isnt wearing the shirt. So we get a new stunt

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u/kakka_rot Aug 26 '26

That's really funny.

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u/HandsomePaddyRedux Aug 26 '26

I also took that as a joke that Jazz was under the impression Phil needed Jazz to be wearing that particular shirt because it could bear the strain of Phil lifting him up by it and was surprised to find any shirt would do.

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u/SemenileElder Aug 26 '26

Or when they're already outside so Phil throws him inside

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u/busterkeatonrules Aug 26 '26

That way, they only had to film the stunt once!

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u/CaptainMatticus Aug 26 '26

I never noticed that. I was just waiting for him to get thrown out.

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u/amazing_asstronaut Aug 26 '26

I think that's the real guy though. But they filmed it once and used it so many times.

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u/out_of_shape_hiker Aug 26 '26

Fresh prince had a bunch. Loved that show as a kid.

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u/GrecoRomanGuy Aug 26 '26

"...I call this one 'Workman's Compensation!'"

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u/ModernDayQuixote Aug 26 '26

Actually, Fozzie and Kermit did their own stunts.

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u/ZiroLeHutt Aug 26 '26

No way did Miss Piggy though!

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u/shypster Aug 26 '26

I need a scene where Miss Piggy's stunt double is Hafþór Júlíus Björnsson.

https://giphy.com/gifs/bqPaC45vUZEmk

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u/SuggestSomething1 Aug 26 '26

Miss Piggy only does her own stunts when she's playing Master Yoda

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u/Sweet_Xocoatl Aug 26 '26

Chris gets thrown out the window after confessing to Julius he took the car out for a joyride, Everybody Hates Chris.

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u/JingoboStoplight4887 Aug 26 '26

Chris is imagining what happens if he confesses his dad that he took the car out for a joyride.

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u/Rowsdower888 Aug 26 '26

The ending of Nightmare on Elm Street. This was supposed to be taken seriously.

https://giphy.com/gifs/rnl1T0pYzILUA

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u/Prank_Owl Aug 26 '26

Was it? I always thought that movie was intentionally super campy. The scene where Johnny Depp gets sucked into his bed and a geyser of blood shoots out is hilarious, imo.

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u/Rowsdower888 Aug 26 '26

Definitely not as campy as the later entries. The first was one pretty dark, and that scene of Tina in the body bag is still really upsetting.

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u/Wenital_Garts Aug 26 '26

Naw that was them doing their best. It's actually pretty cool how they did it. It's a room with everything fixed in place and a camera attached. The room was able to be flipped like a giant box so everything you're seeing is upside down with the red paint pouring downwards out of the bed.

The second movie is interesting because it's overtly gay. Iconic pro lgbt horror in a time when being an ally could mean you lose your career. IIRC people had to insist the gay themes were unintentional or some would have no longer been able to work in hollywood.

After that pretty much all the movies are VERY campy which is what makes them fun. Wes Craven tried to do another in the 90's with the original cast in a much more darker tone but by that time he was fighting a losing battle, Freddy was campy and that was that.

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u/Prank_Owl Aug 26 '26

It was his first role in a feature film.

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u/Zwischenzug32 Aug 26 '26

He played the role of man with the blood of 10 men

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u/BarracudaAlive3563 Aug 26 '26

Same. It’s several times more blood than a single person could possibly hold. Even the cops look flabbergasted when they try to investigate. Hard not to chuckle a bit.

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u/lanceturley Aug 26 '26

I actually like how fake it looks. It wouldn't work in a "real world" slasher like Halloween or Friday the 13th, but things don't have to look realistic in a dream world.

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u/Jimmyg100 Aug 26 '26

I don’t think it was.

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u/Nice-Cat3727 Aug 26 '26

It was a fuck you to the studio who made him include it. So he made it suck on purpose

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u/Jimmyg100 Aug 26 '26

I like it. It’s like a fever dream bookend.

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u/Bloodless-Cut Aug 26 '26

Al Bundy falling off the roof in Married With Children

https://reddit.com/link/p5wzoae/video/8w5wt2cm9mlh1/player

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u/WrongColorCollar Aug 26 '26

Al is just straight dead on that one

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u/dern_the_hermit Aug 26 '26

Nah, he's tough. Polk High. Four touchdowns in one game.

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u/JuanOnlyJuan Aug 26 '26

This is what i was looking for. Classic

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u/One-Earth9294 Aug 26 '26

This is what I came to find lol. They did that gag like 100 times and it never stopped being funny.

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u/NoQuarter19 Aug 26 '26

"Luckily my neck broke my fall"

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u/LoganCube400 Aug 25 '26

Mac and Me

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u/powerful_p1608 Aug 26 '26

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u/omega2010 Aug 26 '26

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u/el_torko Aug 26 '26

The way I ran to the comments looking for the Mac and Me gif, and the way y’all made it so much better. Like I can’t even

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u/cptnamr7 Aug 26 '26

This bit will never not be funny. 

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u/Lord_Eln_8 Aug 25 '26

I haven't seen this movie. Please tell me it's meant to be played seriously, that'd be so much funnier

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u/Hetnikik Aug 26 '26

It's a knock off of E.T. MST3K has done an episode of this movie.

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u/jbwarner86 Aug 26 '26

"Damn you, Roy's Discount Medical Supplies!"

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u/powerful_p1608 Aug 26 '26

“Pretty nice”

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u/Scylla_the_eel6 Aug 26 '26

“Plot twist! He’s from Chicago”

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u/Katzington2319 Aug 26 '26

Not only a ripoff of ET, but also a feature length McDonalds and Coca Cola commercial. The aliens diet on their homeworld is a liquid on their planet that they drink through a straw. Conveniently, it's identical to Coca Cola. There are also full scenes that are just a straight up McDonalds commercial 

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u/ThrowawayAdvice1800 Aug 26 '26

It was totally serious. (And also a commercial.)

Fun fact: Paul Rudd is obsessed with this movie and he had a running gag with the crew on Conan where every time he appeared to promote a movie, when it came time to show a clip from it instead they would just play this scene. 

“So this is a scene with Ant-man shrinking and fighting some bad guys?”

“Yes, absolutely.”

“You’re SURE?”

“100%.”

(Wheelchair kid launched off waterfall)

(Conan glaring, trying not to laugh)

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u/SporesM0ldsandFungus Aug 26 '26

The greatest was when Conan had Paul on for his podcast Conan O'BRien Needs A Friend.  An audio only podcast.   Paul gave talked for several minutes about a project he was writing, the casting, the joy of the production, and did the set up for a clip of a scene.  

Then he played the audio of the Mac and Me scene.  And Conan couldn't believe it.  "Paul... Was there any truth to any of that setup?" "No."

Edit - Forgot to post the clip https://youtu.be/TyBzqhz6n_M

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u/NarmHull Aug 26 '26

It sure is, and even has extended product placement scenes at McDonald’s and Coke being crucial to the plot. Adam Sandler would be proud

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u/MrBoo843 Aug 26 '26

I don't know how serious the whole project could be but IIRC it's played straight.

The movie even ends on a message telling us to see them again in the sequel so they could have been a bit serious

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u/PostCrisisOzone Aug 26 '26

the same wheelchair kid also gets shot by the police later on in the film by the way

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u/55cHzDARKSTAR Aug 26 '26

My favourite part of this scene is the weird choppiness of the fall and the sound effect playing after the actual splash.

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u/Longjumping-Buy-3434 Aug 26 '26

That reminds me, this was implied in Stranger Things season 1 episode 3, when they presumably threw a dummy of Will off a cliff and into the lake.

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u/DJ-DasCool Aug 26 '26 edited Aug 26 '26

Ayo the pizza here!

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u/I_enjoy_butts_69 Aug 26 '26

Calebcity is truly a gem

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u/RogueAlys Aug 26 '26

Chris Farley throwing Nancy Kerrigan.

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u/President-Lonestar Aug 26 '26

Wasn't that the same skater that got her legs broken or something like that?

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u/the_17_lost_texts Aug 26 '26

Yes. Yes it is

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u/Crazy_Chopsticks Aug 26 '26

King Kong vs Godzilla

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u/RidleyCR Aug 26 '26

That wasn’t the real Godzilla?

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u/thatonemoze Aug 26 '26

he was sick that day

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u/nondescriptun Aug 26 '26

The Great Mupper Caper

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u/Wild-Video-5317 Aug 26 '26

It would be really funny if they'd stuffed a stuntman into a suit for that Muppet scene

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u/SleepWellBaba Aug 26 '26

They do later on in the movie! Miss Piggy struggles climbing up a wall and turns to the camera and says she's not doing her own stunts anymore. Towards the end of the film she rides a motorbike during a car chase and it's clearly being ridden by a human stunt performer in a Piggy costume. It's brilliant and slightly disturbing

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u/Sniggledumper Aug 26 '26

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I don’t know what this is from, but god it’s funny

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u/PolyesterRabbit Aug 26 '26

What is that from that's incredible lol

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u/manwithlotsoffaces Aug 26 '26

Baxter - Anchorman

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Dog survives don’t worry.

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u/VonBagel Aug 26 '26

side note: Hundreds of Beavers is a fucking masterpiece AND it's free on youtube right now

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u/kemick Aug 26 '26

Tropic Thunder

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u/Ndmndh1016 Aug 26 '26

Half squat!

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u/Sinnafyle Aug 26 '26

Who in crikey-fuck is half squat?!

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u/Dayman_C0meth Aug 26 '26

Will throwing Carlton during their talent competition in the Fresh Prince

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u/Popplio3233 Aug 26 '26

So long, King Bowser!

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u/GregTheMad Aug 26 '26

He's not saying "king", why should he address the usurper as king? He uses a different word.

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u/Beautiful-Cup4161 Aug 26 '26

the joke band Ninja Sex Party likes to do this a lot

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u/jbwarner86 Aug 26 '26

They call it the Dannequin 😆

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u/GoodGuyPokemoner Aug 26 '26

Hey, that implies NSP is a joke!

They are a comedy band. And phenomenally talented.

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u/Calvinball08 Aug 26 '26

They even did this joke in an animated starbomb music video

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u/Niglie_trollster Aug 26 '26

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u/WillArrr Aug 26 '26

"Ok Carey, for this scene I need you to deliver your line to Buttercup, then we're gonna huck this big-ass stuffed rat right into your chest."

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u/basiamille Aug 26 '26

That CAPER example is hilarious: “Hey! Those Muppets are just PUPPETS!”

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u/Alorxico Aug 26 '26

In The Muppet Movie, during the bar fight scene, Kermit is throw into the piano. He groggily pulls himself out, looks at the camera and says “I hope you appreciate that I’m doing my own stunts.”

I love those movies so much.

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u/adipose1913 Aug 26 '26

Yeeting the Muppet will never not be funny

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u/fishystudios Aug 26 '26

I don't know the answer to that! YEET AHHHHHHHHH!

https://giphy.com/gifs/10KNNNMdyCoxAA

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u/Calvinball08 Aug 26 '26 edited Aug 26 '26

Punch punch Forever

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u/SevenFootHobbit Aug 26 '26

I don't know what that's from but that's legitimately hilarious.

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u/whoamdave Aug 25 '26

Aunty Donna's Stray Man

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u/robocalypse Aug 26 '26

Did Mark just throw Homelander in the trash?

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u/ImDero Aug 26 '26

Don't act surprised. You've always known Mark Banana is the most powerful being in the universe.

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u/Deako87 Aug 26 '26

It was just his stray man, dont worry about it. He had to be put down for trying to bite Broden

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u/MaximumEmu6 Aug 26 '26

They also did this one in the Manbeast sketch!

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u/Tylendal Aug 26 '26

"Brodan, surely this is something we can discuss!"

"I'll treat you like a discus!"

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u/asteinberg101 Aug 26 '26 edited Aug 26 '26

Duke, do you want the ball?

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u/Goober11222 Aug 26 '26

What, you wanted them to throw the REAL muppets out of the bus? Sicko.

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u/Nervous_Macaroon3101 Aug 26 '26

This is a recurring gag in NSP music videos

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u/TheBrewThatIsTrue Aug 26 '26

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u/Rude-Nectarine8228 Aug 26 '26

Even in the animated Starbomb videos

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u/WHYER4 Aug 25 '26

Markiplier

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u/th_one_who_questions Aug 26 '26

Hello everybody

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u/Chill0000 Aug 26 '26

I like the heist one where they dummy doesn’t make it and they pull it with a rope

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u/agentcarwalking Aug 26 '26

I think the dummy has been in every Markiplier production! It was in Who Killed and Heist too

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u/WHYER4 Aug 26 '26

As far as I’m aware, the only one that didn’t use a dummy is Iron Lung.

He also hurt his back filming Iron Lung, so it’s very likely the dummy will return!

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u/TheRoyalRoseTrueBack Aug 26 '26

The Angry Video Game Nerd tends to do this in some of his skits, especially when he "throws" himself to a bunch of stairs.

https://giphy.com/gifs/htdvFspxfRKZCUfnkd

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u/drrockso20 Aug 26 '26

Or that time he beat up Bugs Bunny

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u/stinkyydarb Aug 26 '26 edited Aug 26 '26

I've watched the Bugs Bunny's Birthday Blowout episode at least a dozen times and I always laugh my ass off at the dummy without fail.

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u/EitherStranger Aug 26 '26

In Re-animator there's a segment where the two leads are fighting back against a pissed off zombie cat, and because it's a B-movie from the 80s, you can tell that it's a puppet, also it's not on screen during most of the segment so it does oddly work

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u/Mr31edudtibboh Aug 26 '26

Presumably the puppet was also Jeffrey Combs

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u/Vman-223 Aug 26 '26

On the show, Ned’s Declassified School Survival Guide, they used dummies A lot and they were always hilarious

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u/smagysings Aug 26 '26

I heard that they did their own stunts in the great Muppet caper

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u/spectatorade Aug 26 '26

I ... I think we need to have discussion about the Muppets...

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u/Haunt_Fox Aug 26 '26

Super Dave Osbourne is built on that trope, and it's hilarious every time because of the ragdolling and Dave's narration, lol.

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u/Ambaryerno Aug 26 '26

Top Secret! was already posted, but here's a better quality GIF.

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u/Guitarsquatch Aug 26 '26

Not person, but my favorite "obvious puppet/doll" moment

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u/PrometheusMMIV Aug 26 '26

The Muppets are puppets?!

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u/UnknovvnMike Aug 26 '26

Stunt Muppets are puppets, don't worry

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u/Ashthekiwiana1 Aug 26 '26

Playlunch - Keith.
(What should be) Australia's National Anthem

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u/MetalTrek1 Aug 26 '26

There are a number of sketches from the show where they utilize dummies. And it's hilarious.

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u/demotsusucku Aug 26 '26

Mitch McConnell in Real Life(2026)

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u/USMCgRuNt_1944 Aug 26 '26 edited Aug 26 '26

When Ben pushes "Ross" down the stairs on an episode of Friends.

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u/CaptainMatticus Aug 26 '26

The Fugitive, when Kimble jumps out of the overflow pipe. They made a big deal about how expensive the dummies were and how life-like they were going to be onscreen and then...

Also, in the alternate ending of "It's a Wonderful Life." Mr. Potter is replaced by what is clearly a dummy.

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u/foamingkobolds Aug 25 '26

Recognized the first pic instantly. SUCH A GOOD MOVIE.

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u/Court_Jester13 Aug 26 '26

Manbeast Returns by Aunty Donna on YouTube

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u/TheBestThingIEverSaw Aug 26 '26

Every time Al Bundy went on his roof

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u/PM_me_your_dawgs Aug 26 '26

SNL, Alexander Skarsgaed, Play Date sketch. Hilarious sketch

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u/Chumlee1917 Aug 26 '26

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The 3 Stooges anytime they had to fall off a height

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u/Embarrassed_Item4992 Aug 26 '26

Monty Python's Flying Circus did this a lot, but the one I remember most often is the Burglar/Encyclopaedia Salesman sketch