This is Cannon Films' retelling of the story of the legendary muscleman of Greek mythology, and I know one thing for sure: the people who made this movie were cracked out of their minds. Let me put it this way: Hercules fights robots. Not enough? How about the way they have the Greek gods living on the moon? Or how about the prominent female character who wears a codpiece for the whole movie?

Even better is how all of Lou Ferrigno's lines are dubbed over, though it's never quite as funny as the generic announcer guy they got to dub Arnie's lines in Hercules in New York (yes, that's coming up later in the countdown, too). Actually, it wasn't until this very moment that I looked it up and found out that Ferrigno doesn't have a foreign accent; he was born in New York City, and his speech impediment is the result of being partially deaf. I can't be the only person who never knew that, can I?

But back to the bear fight. You might watch this clip and see Hercules picking up a bear and actually throwing him into outer fucking space, and wonder why this fight doesn't earn a higher rank on the list. (To put things in perspective though, Hercules throws a lot of stuff into space in this movie.)

But upon closer examination of the clip, it's obvious that the entire "bear fight" is really just stock footage from Giant of Thunder Mountain, or some other movie featuring Bart the Bear, intermixed with footage of Ferrigno tangling with a guy in a bear suit.

I think I speak for many when I say I really wouldn't care if he was just fighting a guy in a bear suit. In fact, Ferrigno plainly and openly fighting a guy in a bear suit would have been even funnier. But the weak attempt to cover it up with stock footage knocks this fight down at least 3 or 4 notches for me. Sorry, Golan and Globus.

In this post-Jaws attempt to cash in on the whole "animals attack" genre, it's revealed that the breakdown of the ozone layer causes animals to go crazy and attack humans, especially at higher altitudes. Makes perfect sense, right?

Unfortunately, a group of hikers, led by Leslie Nielsen, are out in the remote wilderness when this happens, and they don't get word about the animal onslaught until it's too late. But the really bad news is they have to contend with Nielsen going twice as batshit crazy as any animal in this film.

He cracks under the pressure, and at a pivotal moment, he rips off his shirt like he's in the geriatric version of Lord of the Flies, and rails at a coming thunderstorm, yelling non sequiturs about God and Moby Dick. Eventually, he goes fully Neanderthal on one of the female hikers, claiming her as his property through brute force.

And that's when the bear shows up. Actually, this same bear has been stalking the hikers all throughout the film, and evidently Nielsen has had enough, because he decides to engage in full-on manly grappling with the bear. (But looking closely at the clip, it's not so much a bear fight as it is a playful hug.) But it's an ill-advised strategy, judging by how the rest of his party quickly skedaddles, leaving Nielsen for dead.

What makes this clip even better is that it was filmed in those pre-Airplane! days when Leslie Nielsen was still known as a dramatic actor. One has to wonder how Frank Drebin or that doctor who says "Don't call me Shirley" would have dealt with a bear, but I doubt it would have been anywhere near as funny.

And is it just me, or does the bear nearly talk in this clip? At around 0:30, I swear he says "Come onnn!" If only Mr. T had been there to translate, then all of this senseless bloodshed could have been avoided.

It's Ferrigno's second appearance on this countdown, this time as the Marvel Comics character that made him a star. This was the second Hulk TV movie of the '70s, which would eventually lead to the Incredible Hulk weekly series. Here, Bill Bixby as David Banner tries his best to save a young girl who's being deliberately poisoned by her family, and the only way to escape is by dragging her through the wilderness.

And you know what that means! Well, for one thing, it means they pick up a hermit along the way who, for reasons I can't quite remember, is wearing an Olympic gold medal. But more importantly, it means they cross paths with a bear. They try to quietly sneak past the beast, but unfortunately, it's not to be. Unfortunate for the bear, that is, as the animal happens to zero in on the one member of the group who has the ability to turn into a giant green rage monster.

Compared to the insanity of the weekly series, this bear fight is pretty mild (about four episodes into season one, the Hulk would pilot a 747 to a safe landing). But there's so much hilarity in this clip, I don't even know where to start. How about Bixby's cries of pain while he's being attacked by the bear? Judging by the sound of his voice, getting mauled by a bear might be the most annoying thing ever.

Or how about when the Hulk rises up out of the lake, and this is depicted via Lou Ferrigno rearing up in front of a plain white background that looks nothing like the outdoor setting in the previous shot? I realize they couldn't have Ferrigno actually rise up out of the water, given all the green body paint and all, but couldn't they have at least used a sky-colored backdrop? Did they really think we wouldn't notice?

Or how about when Ferrigno's green body paint actually starts to rub off on the bear's fur? Or how about when the Hulk hefts up a life-size Teddy Ruxpin doll and hurls it through the air? It's all more than enough to earn this clip its rightful place at #4 on this list.

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