When Bond went weird

James Bond is known for being suave, severe and for personifying cool, but over his 50 year tenure on the silver screen his adventures have seen a fair amount of things definitely not befitting the world's greatest spy.

He's an icon who was using jet packs before they were even considered futuristic, slept with a beautiful woman in outer space and who on his latest mission in 'Skyfall' finds time to readjust his cufflinks as the train he's on is eaten by an industrial digger. Simply put — nobody does it better.

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No film series can be so cool for so long and not have a few blotches on its ledger however, so here are some of the weirdest, most baffling and downright awful moments from 007's adventures thus far.

Pierce Brosnan goes tsunami surfing

To put it lightly, not every Bond film has been as great as 'Goldfinger' - some have been downright terrible. 'Die Another Day' is most definitely one of them, and when people justifiably lambast it they often bring up one scene in particular.

It's all set up with Bond hanging perilously off the edge of a glacier in a rocket car, because that's the kind of jam 007 tends to get himself into. Whilst hanging there the film's villain Gustav Graves (Toby Stephens) demonstrates his enormous sun laser by cutting off the section of ice from which 007 is hanging.

Bond survives the ensuing fall and tsunami by surfing it, naturally, having attached part of the rocket car to his feet and removing the emergency parachute so he could steer himself. Guiding himself towards an upward slanting iceberg, he shoots up and over danger onto another glacier. Did we mention the enormous sun laser? Good.

Sean Connery is turning Japanese

Towards the end of 'You Only Live Twice' Sean Connery's Bond learns new techniques from a Japanese secret service agent's clan of ninjas. Following a botched attempt on his life Bond disguises himself to maintain some sort of anonymity but makes no effort to cover up his thick Scottish accent.

The result is weird. Connery sports thick eyebrows and, erm, tapes his eyes back a little in an attempt to appear more Japanese. He ended up looking more like Leonard Nimoy's Spock in the last 'Star Trek' film. Borderline racism in a very 60s way.

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Roger Moore dumps Blofeld down a chimney

A series of legal battles over the 'Thunderball' novel meant that the rights to Bond foe Blofeld and his criminal organisation S.P.E.C.T.R.E were in contention for decades. It was this that gave cause to this tongue-in-cheek pre-title sequence.

Roger Moore's Bond is paying his respects at the grave of his dead wife Tracey (who died in 'On Her Majesty's Secret Service') before an attempt is made on his life by a familiar bald-headed antagonist. Never directly calling him Blofeld, it's all heavily implied with a white cat, a bald head and similar clothing to that of Donald Pleasence's iconic take on the character in 'You Only Live Twice'.

What makes the scene so odd isn't Bond murdering a crippled man purely to avenge his dead wife, or that he does it by dumping him and his wheelchair down an industrial chimney (well, it is partially). It's more the hokey way the script deals with it. "Mr. Bond, I'll make you a deal. I'll buy you a delicatessen in stainless steel!" pleads Blofeld. "All right, keep your hair on,"quips Bond.

Jaws falls in love

Jaws was so popular after 'The Spy Who Loved Me' that producers felt they had to bring him back for the next Bond film, 'Moonraker'. He'd also earned it having survived a building falling on top of him, a fight with a shark and being thrown from a train. In 'Moonraker' he continues his death-defying and death-causing ways but eventually finds love and redemption in the form of a similarly mute girl by the name of Dolly.

A change of heart sees Jaws aid Bond in defeating space-faring villain Hugo Drax before uttering his only words of both films in a toast to his new girlfriend. The scene in which they first meet comes after the cable car Jaws is chasing Bond in crashes through a building. Dolly helps Jaws out of the wreckage and they hold hands. Tchaikovsky's Fantasy Overture (you'd know it if you heard it) even plays.

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Scaramanga's car becomes a plane

Few men ever escape Bond but even the super-spy himself couldn't have seen this one coming. After a lengthy car chase through America's deep south, the man with the golden gun ducks into a barn where giant wings are grafted to his AMC Matador. His instruments change to those of a plane and as if by magic it can now fly, despite no obvious propulsion system of any kind.

Daniel Craig wants you to buy an Omega

'Casino Royale'was a great reboot for the Bond series and widely regarded as one of the better 007 adventures. It's not without fault however and one of the biggest is the product placement. Nowhere was it more obvious than in the scene between Craig's Bond and Eva Green's Vesper Lynd on a Montenegro-bound train.

The scene is largely excellent except for a few lines of dialogue that turn it from the meeting of the film's two key characters to an advertisement. Three words seal its place on this list. "Rolex?" asks Vesper. "Omega," smirks Bond. "Beautiful".

Eww.

Roger Moore is a clown (in 'Octopussy')

Many people who lived through the eighties will look back on those years fondly while regretting some of their fashion choices. Roger Moore will look back and remember the time he dressed like a sad clown in 'Octopussy', which for Bond is reprehensible in any decade.

He does so while evading Germans on his way to finding and disarming a bomb, which is hidden at a nearby circus and was put in place to kill Octopussy herself. Cool and sophisticated, British secret agents shouldn't dress like clowns for any reason, even for disarming a nuclear devices. His make-up was suspiciously good too.