If Kanye West were to hop on stage to receive an award for Most Notorious Interrupter, we'd grab that mic right out of his hand and scream out the following names. Here's a list of interrupters we'd like to applaud for their ability to butt in.
P.S. The Daily Arts Department would also henceforth like to be referred to as "Martin Louis The Daily, Jr."
10. Scooby-Doo and the gang: Ah, Scooby-Doo and the Mystery, Inc. gang, always stopping the ghosts and monsters just in time ... or interuppting the bad guys' plots. And they would have gotten away with it, if it weren't for those meddling kids (and their little dog, too).
9. The shark in "Deep Blue Sea" (1999) that eats Samuel L. Jackson: What does an eight thousand pound Mako shark with a brain the size of a V8 engine and no natural predators think about? Ruining a potentially good movie, of course! About 30 minutes into this initially promising shark flick, a genetically-modified, hyper-intelligent Mako leaps out of nowhere and devours Sammy right in the middle of his most badass speech. Talk about rude.
8. Dustin Hoffman in "The Graduate" (1967): Dustin Hoffman wins for most crazy-romantic interruption of all time. He takes a cue from Scooby-Doo and the gang and earns extra points, whisking a girl away from her wedding in his own vehicle of choice: a big yellow bus.
7. The iceberg in "Titanic" (1997): For Jack and Rose, this goes down as the worst first date ever.
6. Streakers: What better way to stop any event than with a little birthday suit exposure? When you do this with a group of people (ahem, NQR), it can be fun and exciting, but when one lone bare bottom wanders onto the scene, things are guaranteed to grind to a halt.
5. Joe Wilson screaming "you lie" during one of Obama's speeches: You know this is one of the top ten interruptions of all time when the U.S. House of Representatives formally censures someone for it.
4. Interrupting cow joke: "Knock knock." "Who's there?" "Interrupting Cow." "Interrupting Cow—" "Moo!" The beauty of this joke is that the cow never lets the ending be heard. For all we know there is no ending. That cow is just so impoli—"MOO!"
3. John Wilkes Booth: On April 14th, 1865, the paying customers at Ford's Theatre in Washington, D.C. never found out how Tom Taylor's purportedly hilarious play, "Our American Cousin," ended. Halfway through Act 3 Scene 2, John Wilkes Booth shot President Abraham Lincoln. Let's just hope that the audience, Mr. Lincoln included, got a refund.
2. Yoko Ono: Not content merely to subject the world to her absurd conceptual art, Ms. Ono felt compelled to destroy John Lennon's marriage and his band. Although The Beatles were already in conflict by the time she arrived on the scene, her succubus-like control over Lennon and her constant presence in the recording studio was so not cool.
1. TUPD: You're busting a move, making eyes at that cute stranger just across the packed room and watching your friend do a keg stand. In walk the blue uniforms. Nothing like TUPD to break up your Friday night fun. Like Kanye West at the MTV Europe Music Awards, we just want to get our "sippy sippy" on.
