10 Movie Scenes That Went Completely Over The Top

Four years before John Cusack forever became the awkward crush for every high school girl and secret hero of every guy in Say Anything..., he was your average teen in standard 80s teen comedies, often as a second or third character. The exceptions, One Crazy Summer and Better Off Dead, were both handled under the sage guidance of director Savage Steve Holland. You know he's reliable because he's willing to include his nickname right in the credits.

Better Off Dead finds Cusack in a typical suburban teen environment, except for the Asian teens who challenge him to a drag race while the passenger apes Howard Cossell. There's more lunacy, like the unfunny running joke of the newspaper boy who stalks Cusack relentlessly over a bill of two dollars, but the moment you know studios became afraid of Savage Steve and just handed him the camera is the fast food stop-motion dance sequence.

Cusack begins to suffer from hallucinations after being dumped by his girlfriend. While working, he imagines himself as a Dr. Frankenstein figure and the meat as a corpse. The burger re-animated, it finds a family of hamburgers, some with instruments, and hilarity ensues. It's especially strange given that none of it is actually funny.