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2. "I'll Do The Fingering" - Alien: Covenant

Alien Covenant Michael Fassbender
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Ever since Ridley Scott's divisive Alien: Covenant hit cinema, fans have been fiercely debating whether the infamous flute-playing scene featuring androids David and Walter (Michael Fassbender) was hilarious on purpose or not.

The sequence has David teaching Walter how to play the flute, and after placing the flute in front of Walter's lips, David remarks, "I'll do the fingering", to giggles and chortles the world over.

Considering the psycho-sexual subtext of Alien as a franchise, it's hard to believe this wasn't written on purpose, even if some still argue it's too silly and detracts from an otherwise genuinely intriguing scene.

Whatever your takeaway from it, Fassbender absolutely killed the scene.

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