big-lipped alligator moment
nounEtymology
Coined in a 2009 Nostalgia Critic review of FernGully: The Last Rainforest, referring to a scene in the 1989 film All Dogs Go to Heaven, in which an alligator breaks into an Esther Williams-style musical number.
Definitions
A notably unusual, tangential scene in a movie or similar work of fiction, which occurs…
A notably unusual, tangential scene in a movie or similar work of fiction, which occurs without setup and does not affect the story afterward.
- This may be the first case where the *entire* movie is a Big Lipped Alligator Moment . . .
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