big-lipped alligator moment
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big-lipped alligator moment
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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.
noun big-lipped alligator moments
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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 . . .
Similar: BLAM
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