Stop Helping Me!/Film
Examples of Stop Helping Me! in Film include:
Films -- Animation
- In The Incredibles, Mr. Incredible encounters a really annoying boy who tries to be his sidekick. When turned down, the boy gets mad and grows up to become the villain.
- Although by the end of the movie he's actually managed to be fairly helpful, Mushu of Mulan starts off as an incredibly awful companion to her. Witness how he tries to help her "befriend" her fellow soldiers, thus leading to a free-for-all, a great deal of resentment, and a very bad first impression on Shang. Not to mention his advice on how to be a man is at best contradictory and at worst, just plain wrong. What makes this worse is that the only way he'll ever get in good with the ancestors again is if he succeeds in making Mulan a hero—so his pathetic attempts to help Mulan not only make things worse for herself, they shoot him in the foot as well.
- Mulan got it better than the last member of the Fa family Mushu got assigned to, at least. Apparently Mushu got demoted from his position as a guardian because his guidance led to Fa Deng getting his head chopped off.
- In El Arca (Noah's Ark), in the English dub at least, Xiro and Dagnino are having their final battle, and this happens:
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Kyrel: I'd like to see if you'll dare clobber the real king! |
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Films -- Live-Action
- The Trope Namer is none other than infamous Nineties flop Hudson Hawk. In it, Anna tries to help Eddie (Bruce Willis), who's fighting Jeeves, with a gun. Unfortunately, nuns cannot and should not handle firearms. Her first shot ricochets off Eddie's belt buckle, causing him to quote the Sixth Commandment. Her next shot wings him, causing him to name the trope.
- As seen in the page quote, Jackie Chan shouts this in the 2008 remake of Around the World in 80 Days.
- The Producers: In the original movie, when Leo Bloom stands up at their trial to speak in Max Bialystock's defense, he starts by listing all of Max's faults and shortcomings. "Stop helping me," Max says.
- In the musical remake, Max says "Don't help me" to both Leo's attempt to defend him to the chorus of old ladies who are singing off-key in the background as he tries to sing his verse to Leo.
- In All of Me, Roger provides a concise summary of the ways that Edwina, whose soul has been trapped inside his body for a large part of the film, has tried to help him, and the less-than-desirable effects this has had:
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Roger: Since you started helping me, in the last twenty-four hours, I've lost my girl, my job, I've alienated my dog! I broke my sunglasses! You can't even get that kind anymore. Stop helping me!! |
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- Mr. Shoop, from Summer School (1987), an hour and seven minutes in, goes to court and his students try to help him, to which he replies, "Guys, don't help."
- Neo holds this attitude towards "Kid" in the sequels to The Matrix.
- John Woo's Broken Arrow: "Would you mind not shooting at the thermonuclear weapons?"
- In Kiss Kiss Bang Bang, Harry manages to blurt this out a few times to Gay Perry, who is fiercely pissing off the thug who has some electrodes attached to Harry's googlies.
- The Abyss: When Lindsey is trying to get the rest of the crew to believe her about the underwater aliens, Hippy, the resident conspiracy nut, goes into his usual Conspiracy Kitchen Sink speech. This results in a zinger:
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Lindsey: Hippy, do me a favor? Stay off my side. |
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- Sir Robin's minstrels in Monty Python and the Holy Grail definitely fit this one.
- In True Lies, Gib is trying to help Harry get over his wife cheating on him (she isn't, but Harry thinks she is):
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Harry Tasker: Stop trying to cheer me up! |
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- Shaun of the Dead, friends' help is just as likely to hurt, to the point of a Running Gag. During Queen's "Don't Stop Me Now" scene, Diane 'helps' Shaun fend off a zombie bartender by throwing darts, with mixed success.
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Shaun [after Diane scores a hit]: Yes! In the head! Aaaaow! |
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- Played for laughs in Around the World in Eighty Days:
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Fogg: Look out on your right! |
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- Back to Stop Helping Me!