Real life sure is stranger than anything else but when I use "that would never happen in real life" it usually comes from watching a movie that holds true to what it's telling me for some time and then goes off on a tangent that "could only happen in the movies".

Danger was so out of place (I mean we're talking Dorothy in OZ here) that it's a shameless comedic touch from Eastwood. It's funny, right from the get-go, but it's something that I see through (as a person who's logged a lot of movie-watching hours)

Maybe I'm being petty..