6) Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy
“Oh, I’m storming your castle on my steed, milady.” “Oh, mi corazón, es en fuego! Julio, fuego, fuego, fuego!” And with that awkward exchange between dashing, mustachioed anchorman Ron Burgundy (Will Ferrell) and beautiful, ambitious newswoman Veronica Corningstone (Christina Applegate) after their very funny, jazz flute-heavy first date, one of the greatest and strangest sex scenes ever committed to celluloid was born. Just how strange is it?
Well, after Veronica’s venture in Spanish seduction (which the multilingual Baxter seems more receptive to than Ron), Ron and Veronica literally go to Pleasure Town in one of the trippiest animated sequences outside of a Golden Age Disney flick. They find themselves riding unicorns together into the gates of Pleasure Town, which contains “the most glorious rainbow ever” in addition to a host of cuddly/creepy pandas, squirrels and dancing trees. As they gallop and frolic around, what’s happening outside of Pleasure Town is left completely to the imagination – but it sounds ridiculous. And it’s set to “Help Yourself” by Tom Jones… so there’s that.
– Isaac Feldberg