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   10 Greatest Unintentionally Hilarious Lines from Science Fiction and   
   Fantasy   
      
     One of the great joys of watching science fiction and fantasy is to   
   appreciate the unintentionally hilarious lines that come out of people's   
   mouths sometimes. It's inevitable that when you're exploring   
   mind-expanding premises and weird worlds, you're bound to run into some   
   really insane conversations.   
   Sometimes our favorite movies and TV shows feature some hideously   
   ridiculous dialogue. Sometimes nonsensical and melodramatic speech is   
   part of why bad movies are such a guilty pleasure. Here are the 10   
   awesomest lines of unintentionally funny dialogue from science fiction   
   and fantasy movies and television.   
   We asked everyone over on io9's Facebook page   to suggest their   
   favorite unintentionally funny dialogue from movies, and people came up   
   with some great examples from television as well. Thanks to everyone who   
   gave us side-splittingly funny suggestions! (We would have included "Not   
   the bees!" from Wicker Man  , but we're not sure if it counts as   
   science fiction or fantasy.)   
   10. Mortal Kombat: Annihilation: "Mother, you're alive!" "Too bad... YOU   
   will die!" It's really all in the delivery. The video pretty much says   
   it all.   
   9. Lord of the Rings: Legolas is Captain Obvious. This line is so   
   famous, it has a ton of tribute videos and remixes on Youtube, but here   
   it is in its unadulterated version. Aragon painstakingly explains how   
   they're going to create a diversion to distract Sauron, and then a   
   lightbulb goes on over Legolas' pretty head. "A diversion!" he says,   
   helpfully. (Thanks to Sunil and Caleigh for suggesting this one!)   
   8. Star Wars: Toschi Station Power Converters Why do people love this   
   line of dialogue so much? Is it the way that Luke talks about picking up   
   power converters as the greatest treat in his otherwise meh existence,   
   or just the whiny delivery? I think it's the whiny delivery, actually.   
   Another great candidate from the original Star Wars: "You came in that   
   thing? You're braver than I thought!" (Thanks Brett, Kimber, Jeff and   
   Tim!)   
   7. Star Crash â€" "Imperial Battleship, halt the flow of time!"   
   Wait, what? Star Crash is one of our favorite movies  , and we love   
   the new DVD set  , but we're constantly rediscovering the   
   marvelousness of Roger Corman's Star Wars knock-off. And we love the   
   idea of an imperial battleship that comes equipped with a   
   time-flow-halterater. (Thanks, Christian!)   
   6. Blade Runner: "She's trained for an off-world kick murder squad. Talk   
   about Beauty and the Beast â€" she's both." Bryant, describing one   
   of the deadly Replicants to Deckard, utters this immortal line, which   
   you can hear here  , or at 3:44 in the above video (which isn't   
   embeddable.) There's noir, and then there's over-the-top cheese, and   
   this line goes over. (Thanks Michael!)   
   5. 2012: "The neutrinos are mutating!" You have to love a disaster movie   
   that doesn't just fly in the face of science, but pisses in the face of   
   science too. The last minute or so of this video is toothache-inducingly   
   stupid. (Sure, Doctor Who gave us "reverse the polarity of the neutron   
   flow," but this is better. Or worse.) This line has become so famous, it   
   has its own awesome T-shirt  . Another great candidate from an   
   Emmerich film: "I think we've hit a critical desalinization point," from   
   Day After Tomorrow. (Thanks Paul and Jennifer!)   
   4. Star Wars: Almost every line from the prequels. Especially Padme's   
   "I'm not afraid to die... I've been dying a little bit each day since   
   you came back into my life." And Anakin's "Love can't save you, Padme.   
   Only my new powers can." Oh, and "You killed the younglings!" Oh, and   
   "Good call, my young Padawan!" But really, almost any line of dialogue   
   from the prequel trilogy, especially any scene with Anakin and Padme, is   
   side-splitting despite all of George Lucas' lofty ambitions. (Thanks,   
   Ariel, Sean, Andrew, Jennifer, Clinton, Jack and Landy!)   
   3. Star Trek: Voyager, "Get the cheese to sickbay" We couldn't resist   
   including this classic bit of dialogue, which pretty much sums up all   
   seven years of Star Trek: Voyager in four seconds. The deadpan line   
   delivery is part of what makes it so lovely. There's also Spock's "Brace   
   yourself. The area of penetration will no doubt be sensitive" from "The   
   Immunity Syndrome." "His brain... is gone!" from "Spock's Brain." And   
   Spock's "The women!" in "The Cage," the original pilot. (Thanks Toby,   
   Tim, The Sci Fi Show and Polly!)   
   2. Flash Gordon, "Not the Boreworms!" I know how she feels. I fucking   
   hate boreworms. They're boring. And wormy. Also great: "He'll execute   
   your whole perverted secret police force." Oh, and of course, "Gordon's   
   alive?!" Actually, almost any line where someone has to say "no, not the   
   ______" often becomes unintentionally hilarious. Witness Doctor Who's "   
   No, not the Mind Probe  " from "The Five Doctors."   
   1. Amazing Spider-Man, "Yes, Peter. I am you and you are me and this is   
   a gun." I have to admit, I found this line because someone had labeled   
   it "best worst line in screenwriting history" on Youtube. Which seems   
   like cheating, somehow. But it's too astonishingly great not to include.   
   There's the Beatles shoutout and the sort of Zen quality to it all.   
   There's the fact that the whole Clone Saga boils down to just this   
   fantastic moment. But most of all, there's the completely deadpan, bored   
   way in which Evil Peter recites his line, like he can't wait to kill   
   Good Peter so he can go eat some grits.   
   Runners up include " Inspector Detector suspected foul play  " from   
   Speed Racer, " Take the fucking elephant!  " from Darkman, "But why   
   would the benevolent Dr. Cocteau send such a brute savage into our   
   midst?" from Demolition Man, and almost every line of dialogue from Plan   
   9 from Outer Space.   
   This io9 flashback originally appeared in July 2011.    
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