Wacky wars
Australia deployed soldiers armed with machine guns to cull a population of 20,000 emus that were damaging crops in Western Australia. The birds used clever guerrilla tactics and scattered, leading the military to declare defeat
The Emu War (1932)
An 8-year-old left behind for the holidays defends his home from two bumbling burglars using cartoonish, over-the-top slapstick traps.
Home Alone
A happy-go-lucky snowman who has zero concept of reality or the danger of summer heat. His childlike wonder and blissful cluelessness lead to endless goofy quotes.
Olaf
Greater good? I am your wife! I'm the greatest good you're ever gonna get!"
The incredibles
The former supervillain tries and fails at basic parenting, from reading terrible, terrifying bedtime stories to using questionable safety contraptions around the house for Margo, Edith, and Agnes.
Gru's parenting troubles
The Anglo-Zanzibar War of 1896 lasted only 38 minutes, making it the shortest war in recorded history
The shortest war
A silly, prehistoric road-trip adventure driven by the nonstop physical comedy of Sid the sloth and his chaotic animal companions.
Ice Age
A giant henchman who is strong on muscles but short on brains. He is famous for talking to squirrels, messing up his famous spinach puffs, and having a full debate with a shoulder angel and devil.
Kronk
"Fish are friends, not food."
Finding Nemo
During the rowdy "I’ve Got a Dream" musical number at the Snuggly Duckling, one of the massive thugs aggressively slams his metal hook down onto the piano, knocking several wooden keys completely off the instrument. Yet, in the very next shot, he continues playing the piano smoothly, and all the missing keys have seamlessly fixed themselves and returned to the board
Rapunzal
A U.S.–British territorial standoff on San Juan Island began after an American farmer shot a massive black boar rooting in his potato patch. The pig belonged to a British employee, and the single dead animal escalated into a 12-year bloodless joint military occupation
The Pig War (1859)
A clumsy inventor's experimental shrink ray accidentally blasts his kids down to the size of bugs, sparking a perilous and funny backyard trek.
Honey I shrunk the Kids
The quintessential lovable cartoon idiot, famous for poor decisions, a short attention span, and legendary blunders.
Homer Simpson
"I ate like a pig." / "Pumbaa, you ARE a pig."
Lion King
This stunt was unscripted. _______________ actually crashed, and his stunned, genuine reaction in the movie is real.
Napolean Dynamite
Rival Italian city-states Bologna and Modena fought a bloody battle after Modanese soldiers snuck into Bologna and stole a wooden bucket from a public well. Modena won the battle, and that same bucket is still kept in a tower in Modena today
The War of the Bucket (1325)
Princess Bride
He constantly breaks direct orders, flies inverted over a hostile MiG to take a Polaroid, buzzes air control towers, and racks up repeated safety violations (losing his qualifications as section leader multiple times
Maverick
"Just smile and wave, boys. Smile and wave."
Madagascar
In the first movie, _______ aggressively chases a human mother through a rushing river without a care in the world. In the sequel, the writers suddenly give him a crippling, plot-centric fear of water, failing to account for his swimming history.
Ice Age
France sent a naval fleet to blockade and shell Mexico after a French pastry chef claimed Mexican officers ransacked his shop in Mexico City and refused to pay for his ruined pastries
The Pastry War (1838)
A warm, deeply nostalgic summer comedy about a tight-knit group of neighborhood kids obsessed with baseball and local legends.
Sandlot
The self-appointed mastermind of the duo, Harry is slightly smarter than Marv, yet still foolish enough to get outsmarted and brutally battered by an 8-year-old child multiple times.
Harry Lime
Yo, rugman! Haven't seen you in a few millennia. Give me some tassel
Aladan
____ wears gloves to keep her ice powers from shooting out of her hands, yet she walks around barefoot or in normal shoes and her ice powers pass right through her soles to freeze the ground beneath her.
Frozen