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What goes around comes around... Join us as we count down the funniest instant karma moments in comedy movie history! From Regina George getting flattened by a school bus in "Mean Girls" to Bob Barker destroying Happy Gilmore in a fistfight, justice has never been this hilarious. Which moment had you rolling on the floor laughing?
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00:00Backstreet.
00:01Huh?
00:02No!
00:04Welcome to WatchMojo!
00:06And today we're looking at 20 of the funniest instant karma moments in movie history.
00:10We will be discussing important plot details in this list, so a spoiler warning is in effect.
00:15Hello.
00:20Number 20. Jaywalking.
00:22Harold and Kumar go to White Castle.
00:24Dude, this is ridiculous. Just walk across.
00:26It'll change in a second.
00:27There's not a car in sight. Just go ahead.
00:29It doesn't get more instant than this.
00:31In the stoner classic, Kumar Patel is the carefree stoner and comedic foil to Harold Lee,
00:36the extremely uptight white-collar banker.
00:39In one of the movie's key scenes, both are attempting to cross an intersection late at night,
00:43only for the crosswalk to not cooperate.
00:45Kumar tells Harold to just go, as there are literally zero cars on the road.
00:49Harold, breaking free from his restraints and deciding to break the rules a little, decides to go.
00:54Of course, that's when a patrol car materializes out of thin air
00:57and blocks his way with the comedic blare of the siren.
01:00It's a classic bit of comedy, and it gets us every single time.
01:10Number 19.
01:11A Stinky Situation.
01:13Back to the Future.
01:14And you're flying!
01:19I thought I told you never to come in here.
01:25Well, it's gonna cost you.
01:27How much money you got on you?
01:29Underneath all the time-travel shenanigans, Back to the Future is really a movie about learning how to stand up
01:34for yourself.
01:35George is the one who has to learn this, and funnily enough, it's his own teenage son who teaches him.
01:39This dynamic is on full display in the diner scene, where Biff confronts George and tries to rob him.
01:44Marty trips and punches Biff in response, but the karma doesn't end there.
01:48He then leads Biff on a thrilling chase around the town square, and causes him to crash straight into a
01:53manure hauling truck, filling his fancy convertible in poop.
01:56Later in the movie, Biff tells Marty that the crash caused $300 in damage to his car, nearly $4,000
02:02today.
02:03In a hilarious twist of irony, trying to steal money from George ended up costing him hundreds.
02:08He cost $300 damage to my car, you son of a ****.
02:12And I'm gonna take it out of your ass.
02:14Number 18, A Window of Opportunity, Shaun of the Dead.
02:17David, no!
02:21David!
02:23Right, I'm leaving.
02:25Nobody likes a backseat survivor during a zombie apocalypse.
02:28Throughout the entire ordeal, the perpetually irritating David does nothing but complain,
02:32undermine Sean's leadership, and cowardly squirm his way out of helping.
02:36This is perhaps all forgivable given the stress of the situation, but his villainy crosses a line when he tries
02:42to shoot Sean in the pub.
02:43Deeply embarrassed, he then tries apologizing to Sean.
02:46The only problem is that he's standing in front of a glass window.
02:50Mid-sentence, the undead horde breaks in, grabs the complaining nuisance, and violently rip him apart limb from limb.
02:56I'm so sorry, Diane.
02:58Maybe I'm not the one you should be apologizing to.
03:04Sean.
03:13Number 17, Lane Change Loser, Office Space.
03:16We have all experienced the soul-crushing agony of morning traffic, but Peter Gibbons is the patron saint of vehicular
03:22bad luck.
03:23Stuck in a dead-stopped lane on his way to Initek, Peter glances over and sees the adjacent lane cruising
03:29along beautifully.
03:30Yielding to that universal temptation, he maneuvers his car over into the open space, convinced he has finally outsmarted the
03:36morning rush hour.
03:37The comedic timing of what happens next is practically scientific.
03:40The exact millisecond his tires cross the white line, his shiny new lane grinds to a halt, while the lane
03:46he just abandoned instantly speeds away into the distance.
03:50Maybe you should take a page of Michael's book and just embrace the traffic with a song.
03:53I've got my pistol-point cocked, ready to link shots non-stop, until I see your monkey ass drop, and
03:59let your homies know who done it.
04:01Number 16, Ransom Gets Puked On, Knives Out.
04:04Yeah, I killed Fran, but I guess I didn't, so what do you have on me? Nothing. What, attempted murder?
04:10I get arson for the building and a few other charges, with a good lawyer, which I have, I'll be
04:15out in no time.
04:16Rian Johnson helped revitalize the whodunit with Knives Out, with Chris Evans playing bad guy Hugh Ransom.
04:22In the brilliant climax of the film, Marta tells everyone that Fran has survived the attempt on her life.
04:27Ransom then comes clean, and admits trying to kill her, falsely believing that he will avoid criminal charges.
04:32However, Marta was lying, and she also has this quirk where she pukes whenever she lies.
04:37She then throws up all over Ransom's face, admitting that she lied, that Fran is actually dead, and that Ransom
04:43is just confessed to murder.
04:45As if getting chucked on wasn't bad enough.
04:47Ransom then tries to murder Marta in front of everyone, only to learn that the knife he is using is
04:52a fake.
04:52Naturally, he's quickly scooped up and taken into custody.
05:03Number 15, Finding a Stranger in the Alps, The Big Lebowski.
05:07Alright, this is pointless.
05:11Okay?
05:12Time for Plan B.
05:15You might want to watch out that front window, Larry.
05:18Walter Sobchak is a man of intense principles, who never fails to escalate a situation.
05:23Walter decides to teach a local teen a lesson after the teen stole the dude's car.
05:27Grabbing a crowbar, he assumes that a pristine Corvette outside belongs to the kid, and begins smashing it to pieces,
05:33feeling righteous about the act of vigilante justice.
05:35But the instantaneous payback is legendary.
05:38The actual owner of the car is an uninvolved neighbor, who runs out of his house screaming.
05:43Seeing his beloved ride destroyed, the furious neighbor grabs the crowbar from Walter, and demolishes the dude's already battered car
05:50in retaliation.
05:51Classic, chaotic Walter at his finest.
05:53I accept your apology.
05:56No, I just want to handle it by myself from now on.
06:00No, no.
06:02No, that has nothing to do with it.
06:06Yes, the car made it home.
06:08You're calling me at home.
06:10Number 14.
06:11Gassed out.
06:12One battle after another.
06:13What kind of proof do you have?
06:15If you were unconscious, how do you know this to be true?
06:17I don't know it to be true, but I suspect it when I awoke.
06:20There was sensitivity in a private place, and there was some residue of an interaction.
06:24In the thrilling climax of PTA's masterpiece, Sean Penn's Colonel Lockjaw is shot in the face by a member of
06:30the Christmas Adventurers Club, a white supremacist group trying to cover up Lockjaw's past with a black woman.
06:35However, he survives the assassination and goes crawling back to the group, lying about his past with Perfidia and claiming
06:42that he was sexually assaulted by her.
06:44Knowing that he's just a pathetic liar, the club plays nice and rewards Lockjaw with his own corner office.
06:49Only, this is a literal trap, and Lockjaw is instantly gassed and incinerated.
06:54This karma isn't about cosmic morality or good triumphing over evil, but a case of a predator getting eaten by
07:00an even bigger predator, because he thought he could manipulate them.
07:03I just, I suppose I wanted to be the one that you came to for help, right?
07:10You know, the one, the cool dad that you could say anything to, even though I know that's impossible.
07:20Number 13. The Town Shootout. Hot Fuzz.
07:23Is there anything I can do for you?
07:27No.
07:30This is something I have to do myself.
07:32We return to Edgar Wright's Cornetto Trilogy for Hot Fuzz, and it's an unforgettable ending.
07:38Nicholas Angel confronts the neighborhood watch alliance and tries to arrest them all for committing murder.
07:43They fight back and chase Nicholas, and he's saved at the last second by his partner, Danny, who ushers him
07:48out of town and tells him never to come back.
07:50Of course, Nicholas immediately goes back.
07:52After buying spray paint and sunglasses from a gas station, Nicholas turns the car around, returns to Sanford,
07:58steals the weapons from the evidence locker, and engages the town in one of the funniest shootouts ever put to
08:03screen.
08:04What are you gonna do? Just walk in and arrest the whole village?
08:10Not exactly.
08:11Number 12. Baxter Gets Kicked. Anchorman, The Legend of Ron Burgundy.
08:16What the hell, bro?
08:18Hello, neighbor.
08:19Ron Burgundy is a man who brings problems on himself, and his ridiculous scheming always comes back to bite him.
08:25Like in this scene, which ends with his beloved dog getting punted off a bridge.
08:29It's funnier than it sounds.
08:30The egocentric Ron throws a half-finished burrito out his car window, hitting a passing motorcyclist and causing him to
08:36fall off the bike.
08:37The cyclist confronts Ron, who is not the least bit perturbed that he nearly killed the man and destroyed his
08:42bike.
08:43So, the man decides to pick up Ron's dog, and punts him off the bridge in retaliation.
08:48This is the kind of scene that sounds horrifying on paper, but the performance and obviously fake dummy dog turn
08:53it into comedic gold.
08:54I love poetry, and a glass of scotch, and of course, my friend Baxter here.
09:01Well, guess what? Now this is happening.
09:04Excuse me. Excuse me! What are you doing?
09:11That's how I roll.
09:12Number 11. Ben stands up for himself. Knocked up.
09:16Okay. Well, thank you. I've got it from here.
09:19Debbie.
09:20I talked to you in the hall for a second.
09:22We return to the theme of standing up for yourself, this time with Seth Rogen and Leslie Mann.
09:27Allison is in the hospital giving birth, and Ben is with her offering support.
09:31That's when Pete and Allison's sister, Debbie, arrive.
09:34In a flagrant act of disrespect, Debbie tells Ben to leave the room so that she can help Allison herself.
09:38Telling an expectant father to leave the birth of his own child is a step too far, and the otherwise
09:43polite Ben can no longer contain himself.
09:46Taking Debbie out of the room, he gives her a verbal thrashing for the ages, and tells her in no
09:50uncertain terms that she is not welcome in the room with them.
09:53Funnily enough, it's this speech that finally causes Debbie to respect Ben.
09:57Look, Debbie, you are high off your ass if you think you're coming into that room.
10:02If you take one step towards that door, I will tell security there's a crazy chick in a pink dress
10:07snatching up babies, okay?
10:08So don't even try to come into that room. That's my room now. That little area with the Pepsi machine,
10:14that's your area.
10:15Number 10, The Director's Cut, Tropic Thunder.
10:19You wanted to be actors? You wanted to occupy the skin of another human being?
10:23Well, get ready to occupy the skin of a terrified U.S. Infantry Grant surrounded by death, crawling up Satan's
10:29bottom.
10:31There'll be ambushes, enemy fire, your own little personal slice of naam.
10:35Damien Cockburn is an overly dramatic director who is completely fed up with his cast of pampered, high-maintenance actors.
10:42Desperate to assert his dominance and force them to take the war movie seriously, he drops them in the middle
10:47of a real jungle, surrounded by armed heroin producers.
10:50Standing in a clearing, Damien tells his actors that they will be shooting the movie guerrilla style and using their
10:56real pain and frustration to get results.
10:58And then immediately after his speech, he steps on a live landmine and gets blown to smithereens.
11:02We don't know what's funnier, the visual of him getting blown up, or the cast's reactions to it.
11:14Number 9, McLovin Gets Knocked Out, Superbad.
11:18Um, okay. I'm gonna need to see some identification.
11:24Really? Makes me feel young again.
11:27Armed with the most ridiculous fake ID in movie history,
11:30Fogel enters a convenience store to purchase a massive haul of liquor.
11:34The cashier rings him up and then asks for his ID, which a nervous Fogel hands over.
11:38The cashier either buys it or just doesn't care, and tells Fogel his total.
11:42And that's when the universe immediately punishes his law-evading hubris.
11:45Out of nowhere, a robber bursts into the convenience store and sucker punches Fogel square in the cheek,
11:51knocking our triumphant hero out cold before he can even grab the liquor.
11:55Of course, this robbery attracts the police, and a simple underage liquor purchase turns into a veritable disaster.
12:01Ethnically, I mean, did, what, um, I mean, was he, was he like, uh, us, or?
12:09Number 8, Call Me Elf One More Time, Elf.
12:12I didn't know you had elves working here.
12:17Boy, you're, you're hilarious, my friend.
12:19Buddy the elf is a fountain of infectious holiday joy, but his lack of social cues finally gets him into
12:25major trouble.
12:26When acclaimed children's author Miles Finch arrives at the boardroom to pitch ideas,
12:30Buddy excitedly assumes the diminutive man is an elf from the North Pole.
12:33Despite warnings from everyone in the room, Buddy arrogantly insists on treating Finch like a magical creature,
12:38and repeatedly makes unintentional jokes at his expense.
12:41Finch's patience quickly evaporates, and he gives Buddy an explicit warning.
12:45Buddy ignores it, and without missing a beat, the author runs across the boardroom table,
12:50dropkicks Buddy into the wall, and then launches him over the table before storming out of the room.
12:55You get the hell out of here.
12:57Where do you want me to go?
12:58I don't care where you go.
13:00I don't care that you're an elf, I don't care that you're nuts!
13:02I don't care that you're my son!
13:04Get out of my life!
13:06Now!
13:06Number 7, I've Had Better, Liar Liar.
13:09Is it good for you?
13:13I've had better.
13:15Jim Carrey is fantastic as Fletcher Reed, a loving but deeply flawed father who repeatedly lies to his family and
13:22neglects his son Max.
13:23In a horrible act of selfishness, Fletcher skips his son's fifth birthday party so that he can sleep with a
13:28co-worker.
13:29The heartbroken Max then makes a wish that his dad would just be honest, even for one day.
13:34The wish magically comes true, and at the worst possible time.
13:37While in bed, Fletcher is asked how the sex was, to which he gives a brutally honest and blunt reply
13:42that gets him thrown out of the room, and thus begins a masterclass in Jim Carrey's comedic energy.
13:47Everybody's been real nice.
13:49Well, that's because you have big jugs.
13:52I mean, your boobs are huge.
13:54I mean, I want to squeeze them.
13:59Mama!
14:02Number 6.
14:03A Freak Gasoline Accident
14:29Zoolander
14:30The tragic comedy writes itself.
14:31In the middle of this toxic rom, one of the models casually pulls out a cigarette and strikes a lighter.
14:36The resulting explosion is a fiery and absurd consequence of choosing aesthetics over basic high school chemistry.
14:42Or, you know, just common sense.
14:53Number 5.
14:54A Shot To The You-Know-Whats
14:56Home Alone
14:56Merry Christmas, little fella.
15:00We know that you're in there, and that you're all alone.
15:05The Wet Bandits are seasoned burglars who confidently assume that robbing the McAllister house will be a total breeze.
15:10They repeatedly mock the idea that an eight-year-old child could possibly thwart them.
15:15Harry is particularly arrogant, and fittingly enough, it's him who gets hit first.
15:19The bandits try to lure Kevin out of the house through the kitchen door, but the home defender has other
15:23ideas.
15:24He sticks a BB gun out of the cat flap, and in the very first act of violence in the
15:28franchise, shoots it directly into Harry's crotch.
15:31Movie history was made right here, with Joe Pesci screaming gibberish and holding his groin.
15:36What?
15:39What?
15:42What?
15:42What?
15:43What?
15:43What happened?
15:44Number 4.
15:45The Cycle Of Karma, Dumb and Dumber
15:47You're really wimped out, man.
15:50What are you talking about wimped out?
15:52What?
15:53What?
15:53Did you see?
15:54The guy hawked up my burger.
15:55This comedy classic contains not one, but two examples of instantaneous karma in its famous diner sequence.
16:02Harry knocks over the salt shaker, and Lloyd tells him to throw some over his shoulder to negate the bad
16:07luck.
16:07Instead of just tossing a few sprinkles, Harry launches the entire shaker, and it hits a man named Seabass.
16:13The angry diner then hawks a loogie directly into Harry's burger in retaliation.
16:17And in retaliation for that, Lloyd devises a scheme, and gets Seabass to pay for their lunch.
16:22Of course, he then tries getting Lloyd back, and in a grotesque manner at that, but that comes much later
16:27in the movie.
16:27Seabass and the fellows offered to pick up our check.
16:30They said just put it on their tab.
16:34They're very nice.
16:37Seabass said that.
16:39Number 3.
16:39The Bunk Bed Collapse, Stepbrothers
16:42It's so bad, there's blood everywhere.
16:44The bunk beds were a terrible idea, why did you let us do that?
16:47There's nothing funnier than seeing grown men in their 40s act like eight-year-old children.
16:51Brennan and Dale decide to stay up late, and turn their separate beds into a makeshift bunk bed.
16:56Of course, they do this without a semblance of safety or structural engineering.
17:00The bunk bed is a ridiculous contraption, not to mention a horrible accident waiting to happen.
17:05Naturally, it doesn't take long at all for said accident to occur.
17:08In a brilliant visual gag, Dale excitedly jumps onto the top bunk, causing it to collapse straight onto Brennan.
17:14We don't know how they didn't see that coming.
17:16Hey, I never asked you.
17:17Yeah.
17:17Do you like guacamole?
17:21Number 2.
17:22Hit by a bus.
17:24Mean Girls
17:24They say that you're a homeschooled jungle freak who's a less hot version of me.
17:29Yeah.
17:30So don't try to act so innocent.
17:31You can take that fake apology and shove it right up your hairy-
17:35Regina George rules North Shore High School with an iron fist.
17:39But even the ultimate Queen Bee can't outrun the universe's retribution.
17:42After learning about Janice's plan to destroy her, Regina leaves the school in a fury and gives a malicious rant
17:48to the pursuing Katie.
17:48But before she can finish tearing Katie apart, she mindlessly walks into the street and is immediately plowed down by
17:54a passing school bus.
17:55It's a jaw-dropping moment of payback that permanently dethrones the school's most arrogant dictator in a split second.
18:02Don't worry, she makes a full recovery and is humbled in the process.
18:05Regina's spine healed and her physical therapist taught her to channel all her rage into sports.
18:14It was perfect because the jock rolls weren't afraid of her.
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18:30Number 1. The Price is Wrong. Happy Gilmore.
18:34I can't believe you're a professional golfer. I think you should be working at the snack bar.
18:38You better relax, Bob.
18:39There is no way that you could have been as bad at hockey as you are at golf.
18:44Alright, let's go.
18:47You like that, old man? You want a piece of me?
18:50This hockey player-turned-golfer is famous for his temper, but throwing a tantrum at a charity golf tournament is
18:55just silly.
18:56Paired up with legendary game show host Bob Barker, Happy plays terribly and begins blaming a heckler in the crowd.
19:02Bob grows increasingly frustrated at Happy's poor performance and confronts him, causing Happy to punch the elderly man square in
19:09the face.
19:09Just when he thinks he won the fight, Bob springs back to life like a horror movie villain and destroys
19:14Happy in a fistfight.
19:16The beloved host knocks the arrogant golfer completely unconscious, delivering the most iconic and satisfying dose of instant karma in
19:22comedy history.
19:23I think you've had enough.
19:26No?
19:30Now you've had enough.
19:33Can you think of any hilarious examples that we forgot? Tell us about them in the comments below.
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