Big-Lipped Alligator Moment

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FORCE: Gen Z BrainrotUNIVERSE: TV TropesCLUSTER: tv_tropes_vocabulary

Fandom slang for an odd, off-topic scene in a film or other fiction that arrives with no buildup and has no lasting effect on the story. It is often shortened to BLAM.

REAL-WORLD EXAMPLE

""The talking-lamp song in the middle of the thriller was a classic big-lipped alligator moment.""

LORE & ORIGIN

Wiktionary says the term was coined in a 2009 Nostalgia Critic review of FernGully: The Last Rainforest, where the reviewer used it for a bizarre moment in the 1989 film All Dogs Go to Heaven in which an alligator breaks into a musical number in the style of Esther Williams films. It is catalogued as a trope on TV Tropes.

FIRST SEEN

2009 (Nostalgia Critic review of FernGully, per Wiktionary)

PEAK ERA (EDITORIAL)

2010s-present

CURRENT STATUS

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DOCUMENTED SINCE

2009 (Nostalgia Critic review of FernGully, per Wiktionary)

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