12 Fantastic Films You Only Remember For One Scene

10. Little Miss Sunshine - Beauty Contest

Although this scene serves as a punchline to what is essentially a ninety-minute-long joke, it doesn't make the build-up any less enjoyable. Having finally arrived at California's Little Miss Sunshine beauty pageant, seven-year-old Olive Hoover (Abigail Breslin) is dismayed to find herself lost in a sea of spray-tanned, sexualized strippers-in-waiting. Her gawky glasses and pale complexion will surely be the laughing stock, and so her family prepares to let her down gently... But she hasn't travelled all the way from New Mexico to give in so easily. And so, putting into the practice the moves she had rehearsed with her grandpa (Alan Arkin), she takes to the stage. Her outfit: a jacket, tie, top hat and trousers. Her backing track: 'Super Freak' by Rick James. Her act: an unbelievably inappropriate burlesque dance that leaves her family, the audience and us utterly speechless. She tears off her trousers, throws her top hat at the announcer and looks to be having the time of her life.