The Best Scene in MISERY!

Summary

Annie recalls being a child in Bakersfield, eagerly attending Saturday-matinee cliffhanger serials. Her favorite, Rocket Man, ended one week with its hero trapped in a car hurtling toward a cliff. When the next installment revealed that he had escaped at the last second, the crowd cheered—but Annie stood up and protested that the filmmakers had cheated and changed what happened. Her intense outrage over the story’s continuity makes the scene both funny and unsettling.

A brief, unrelated channel-style interjection adds a gag: “Things made better by farts,” followed by, “OMG, you’re so immature.”

Personalities Appearing

• Annie Wilkes
• Paul Sheldon — part of the scene’s context, though he doesn’t speak in the subtitles
• Channel/commentary voice — appears briefly for the unrelated gag