The importance of a good "so there"

I am intensely fond of the "so there" moments found in media.  Whether movies, television or books, I deeply love a good "so there".  They appeal to the vindictive part of my soul, the very human part that screams "eye for an eye" rather than "turn the other cheek".
It's something I'm working on.
However, having just read a wonderful "so there" moment (which I will expound on in a moment), I thought I might compile a list of my favorite "so there" scenes and conversations.

• Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman, episode "The Library"

The wonderful "so there" scene in this episode comes near the end.  The townspeople have set fire to the books Dr. Mike donated to the town for a real library, convinced that books were full of wrong and immoral things, giving people bad ideas, un-Christian thoughts.  Dr. Mike and her family are picking through the ruined books, searching for some that can be salvaged, when she comes across a certain book.  Going into the church, she offers to hand over the book to the reverend "because I'm sure we can all agree what to do with it," she says.  She goes on to explain that the book she is holding has a scene in which God accepts a bet from the devil.  The reverend accepts the book with thanks and looks at the title.  His face goes completely still.  One of the parishioners asks, "Well, what is it?"  Dr. Mike turns to the congregation, head held high, and says quite clearly, "The Holy Bible."  Upon which she leaves the church to return to her books.

• Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix

All right, so most of the Harry Potter series has a great slew of incredibly entertaining "so there" moments.  My personal favorites- both of them- happen in the fifth book.  The first being, of course, when Fred and George make their spectacular exit from the school in the midst of Umbridge's desperate attempts to recreate order after weeks of chaos since Dumbledore's exile.  The scene starts with the twins being confronted and Umbridge sending Filch for an educational decree to resume corporal punishment for rulebreakers.  Fred and George reply that they don't think they'll be sticking around for that.  In their exit, they call upon Peeves the poltergeist (if you've only seen the movies, you've no idea who this essential character actually is) to "give her hell from us" before flying off into the proverbial sunset, one of their brooms trailing a chain still attached to a bit of the wall from Umbridge's office (for more on how their brooms came to be chained in her office in the first place, READ THE BLOODY BOOK!).
The second "so there" moment, and a great favorite of mine, happens towards the end, right before the Department of Mysteries events.  This one is in the movie, too, so if you've seen it, you'll know what I'm talking about.  Umbridge has Hermione and Harry out in the Forbidden Forest at wandpoint, demanding to be shown Dumbledore's "secret weapon" when a herd of centaurs finds them.  Umbridge does some supremely stupid things, like insulting them, and they decide to carry her off.  She screams at Harry to tell them she means no harm, and he looks her in the eye and says calmly, "I'm sorry, Professor.  I must not tell lies."  Makes me laugh every time.

• The Lord of the Rings: Return of the King

Though it was in the book, the scene was cut from the theatrical release of the movie, then restored to the extended edition.  In it, the remainder of the Fellowship, along with the combined armies of Gondor and Rohan, march on the Black Gate of Mordor in order to draw off Sauron's attention from Frodo.  A truly ugly personage, the Mouth of Sauron, comes to taunt them with Frodo's mithril mail shirt, telling them about how he was tortured and suffered greatly, in order to break their spirits.  Aragorn rides over, looking all solemn, and then in a bloody move, cuts off the Mouth's head and declares that he doesn't believe it.

• Buffy the Vampire Slayer, season three episode "Faith, Hope, and Trick"

This fun "so there" moment comes complete with an awesome mom!  Just after the opening credits, when Buffy and her mom go to Sunnydale High to meet with Principal Snyder, Snyder is giving Buffy his list of demands when Joyce cuts in with the fact that he has no power to prevent Buffy from attending school.  Buffy stands up and comments how when the school board overturned his decision to expel her it "called into question [his] whole ability to do [his] job".  The best part of this scene is when Joyce stands up and smiles smugly and says, "What my daughter is trying to say is 'na na na-na na!'" and then the pair walks out of Snyder's office.