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"Trope Of The Day II: Our Troperiffic (Second) Century."
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Because in the history of western animation, just about no one has ever thought to themselves 'Why is that bush following me?' Okay, one pony got freaked out by a trotting haystack, but the straw pile was wearing Groucho glasses at the time. http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/MobileShrubbery And then you have the Get Smart example where one cardboard box was being shadowed by another cardboard box...
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2. "Ineffable..." |
... effable, effanineffable, deep & inscrutable, singular random button.
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3. "RE: Ineffable..." |
And how.
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4. "RE: Ineffable..." |
And don't forget, inedible.
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5. "#102" |
Oh, this piece? Right off the shelf at Nordstrom. A perfect fit, as always. And look at the jacket! Yes, I know the label looks a little off, but that's because I met the designer when she was still doing them by hand, all the way back at her second street fair. I'm proud to say I knew her from before her win on Project Runway, which was a natural for her: so much experience and talent... That one? Well, after I saw it on the world's most popular supermodel last spring, I had to have one for myself: the only challenge was in beating everyone else to the store. See how well it contours? Sure, I know I don't technically need this much of a wardrobe, but the sheer pleasure of wearing all these beautiful pieces that work as if they were made just for me more than justifies it. Can you imagine if I had to get all this personally done instead of just pulling my size? How strange would that be? http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/WorldOfBuxom ...and this? Would you believe some idiot put this on clearance?
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6. "RE: #102" |
LAST EDITED ON 05-21-12 AT 02:39 PM (EST)Big breasts are sexy. Little breasts are just as sexy, really. What really matters, though, is the proximity of those breasts to my hands eyes. And whether or not they are tied up with ribbons. 
(But I swear, those Anime girls said they were 18. And surely some of the blame goes to the artist).
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8. "#103" |
Someone has wronged you. But they apologized for it. And that's the important thing, really. Anyone could make a mistake, even one as colossally stupid and arrogant as theirs. That kind of monumental hubris comes along all the time. Just because it personally and permanently destroyed everything you were working for doesn't mean you can't just take -- them -- back...... ...right after you do this one little thing. *!POW!* http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/MyFistForgivesYou Much better.
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9. "#104" |
Alfred Hitchcock was a trope namer -- the official designation-applier of the MacGuffin: the object everyone in the plot is after. It may be valuable, contain secrets, have magical or super-science powers, or maybe it's just the family heirloom that determines who gets to hold the throne, but by the gawds, if you are in this story, you are after the MacGuffin. Or worse, you have it. And everyone else knows it.But -- sometimes you get to chase the dead horse. The object everyone's after? Is worthless. In fact. calling it garbage is an insult to litter. Take the thing and two bucks and you'll have $1.98 because your possessing it devalued everything else you were carrying. You have totally wasted your time. And unless you can convince the pack that they in turn are wasting their own, they will still be trying to kill you. Congratulations. You are the proud owner of the http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/MockGuffin?from=Main.GoldenHelmetOfMambrino and you really, really wish you weren't... Most Big Brother twist items work out like this.
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17. "#110" |
So you're working on some sort of series. And it occurs to you that your sales and viewership might peak a bit if you introduced a gay character. (In the States, this is mostly from people buying your work pre-burning, but as long as you've got their money...) There's just one problem: you need that character now. Well, maybe two problems. You're also kind of lazy. Creating characters is hard. Why do you have to go through all the effort of whipping up a brand new sentient being? Isn't there some easier way to work? You've got so many established characters already, and they were enough of a problem to start with. Life would be so much simpler for you if one of the old hands abruptly went against everything you've ever written about them, from dating life to bedroom activity and that one time on the roof, and out of totally @#$%ing nowhere revealed they were actually -- -- hmmm... http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/SuddenlySexuality (Oh, and that character not rather more sensibly being bisexual? Completely different trope. Which you are also too lazy to use.)
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19. "RE: #110" |
The phasing storyline issue (they fall in through the ceiling and leave via the walls) is one of the main reasons I don't watch Glee. The whole series feels like the writers have a six-second memory and assume the viewers are working with three.
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20. "RE: #110" |
I felt like the initial series was OK. Nothing special, but kept me interested. The second season felt like a parody of the first, which was why I barely watched the last season (Sue's heel-face turn was a huge WTH moment, though).
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21. "#111" |
Quick riddle: what is it that pulls in anyone who gets within a certain distance, is inevitably fatal without miraculous aid, has arguably claimed more victims in fiction than in life, and doesn't even remotely work the way writers tell you it does?So tempted to say 'Religion?' here... Black hole? Close. But no, this is found on Earth. In fact, if a hack so desires, it will be in your backyard. What if I threw in a really convenient vine? Light just went on, didn't it? Because one of those things we can nearly all agree on (unless you're about to put it in someone's backyard) is that http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/QuicksandSucks Generally with a strength of 3.8 Harrisons.
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23. "#112" |
LAST EDITED ON 05-31-12 AT 06:58 AM (EST)http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/MedievalMorons Basically, this one claims that not only are the majority of people found in this era going to be stupid, anyone attempting anything resembling thought during the Dark Ages is going to be punished for it, as in: 1152 A.D. Peasant: "I have discovered crop rotation! Our lands will no longer turn barren!" Church: "BURN THE WITCH!" Then again... 2012 A.D. Scientist: "I have discovered stem cell regeneration! All those with lost limbs and organs will be whole again!" Church: "BURN THE WITCH!" Oh, so that's what they mean by traditional values...
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24. "#133 (Games)" |
LAST EDITED ON 06-01-12 AT 07:44 AM (EST)http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/ExtraTurn It doesn't get much more basic than that. You go, and then you go again. And if the rules are broken, again and again and again...
ETA: Yes, I see the unfixable sleepy-typo and I'm aware this is actually #113. Apparently my subconscious took a few extra turns of its own. And didn't bother telling anyone else.
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26. "RE: #133 (Games)" |
Extra turn by accident versus extra turn by deliberate player intent? If you can roll doubles on purpose, there are things you should be doing away from Monopoly. And Vegas will hate every one of them.
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27. "RE: #133 (Games)" |
Easily taken advantage of in Pokemon...Togekiss used Thunder Wave! Opponent is paralyzed! It can't move! Togekiss used Air Slash! Opponent flinched! Togekiss used Air Slash! Opponent flinched! Togekiss used Air Slash! Opponent fainted! Repeat until everyone dies.
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28. "RE: #133 (Games)" |
At least you didn't accidentally send everyone back in time possibly causing a history rewrite.
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29. "#114 (Reality TV)" |
They Thought They Had TalentThey Were Wrong You Will Scream You Will Cower But There's Nowhere To Hide From http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/HopelessAuditionees Coming Soon To Every Bloody Reality Show Near You (Whether You Like It Or Not)
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30. "RE: #114 (Reality TV)" |
I was totally expecting todays trope to be something about the end of a very long quest for something finally coming to an end.
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31. "RE: #114 (Reality TV)" |
I think Johnny Carson may have been responsible for introducing us to this when he tortured us with Tiny Tim.
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32. "RE: #114 (Reality TV)" |
I remember reading about the Marx Brothers doing a parody of this (one-reeler promo, not part of a movie) where they were, one by one, auditioning for a talent agent with the exact same song. Which included Harpo's attempt. (Simon would approve. Or not.) So for video capture, this goes back farther than most people might think.As the trope listing notes, this also turned up in comics around the 60s with the Legion Of Super Heroes, who always held open auditions to try and find new members. And they always got people who couldn't quite make the cut. Admittedly, they were horrible judges a lot of the time -- tossing away someone who could create sub-zero cold zones was not their best collective idea -- but some of the prospects were beyond suspect. The one who always stuck in my head from seeing the collections was Arm Fall Off Boy. No, he did not have the power to make an opponent's arms fall off. That would have been interesting, if a little bit one-way. He had the power to make his own arm fall off at the shoulder. One arm. And then he'd pick it up with his surviving arm and beat you with it. He did not make the second round. No idea if the thing ever reattached.
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06-02-12, 11:49 AM (EST)
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33. "RE: #114 (Reality TV)" |
Like most things, it probably goes back to the Greeks.
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35. "RE: #114 (Reality TV)" |
Were they known for having their arms fall off?
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38. "RE: #114 (Reality TV)" |
Arm-Fall-Off Boy tries on a Legion flight ring
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06-03-12, 11:47 AM (EST)
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40. "RE: #114 (Reality TV)" |
Actually, it should be "Arm-Float-Off-Boy".
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42. "RE: #114 (Reality TV)" |
You know the worst part? Legion flight rings are triggered by willpower. His arm has a mind of its own. And it's trying to get away from him.
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43. "#116" |
Let's say you're playing a video game where your character has to defuse a bomb. And the bad guy announces that the explosives are on the ground floor of the building. You? Are on the top. Eighty stories up. The elevators are out, the stairs are crammed with mooks, you can't improvise a rappel right now, and there's thirty minutes on the countdown. You'll have to fight your way to street level, floor by floor. In thirty minutes. So your character fights. Locates some powerups. Changes body armor a few times. Checks out the bathrooms. Reads dozens of interoffice memos to learn how the bomb plot came to be. Searches for those elusive Collect 'Em All game stamps. Stops to heal up a few times. Receives skill training (between floors). Over six hours of actual game play. And when you finally reach the bottom? The timer will read 00:10. In fact, you could have gone down to the second floor, then climbed all the way back up to see if there was anything you missed, gone into the cafeteria, cooked for every last mook, received your certified culinary institute diploma, then headed back down via chewing your way through the ceilings and there still would have been 00:10 left on the timer. So go ahead and http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/TakeYourTime because the bomb will wait. And besides, you really wanted to learn how to make your own croissants.
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46. "#117" |
LAST EDITED ON 06-05-12 AT 05:40 AM (EST)So why would anyone want to drink at a wretched hive of scum and villainy? Well... They have the best drink selection inhumanely available. No one ever waters the booze. Customer satisfaction is Job One And Only. There has never been a shortchanged customer in the history of the bar, and you know this (plus all of the above) for a fact because the bar is still standing. Think about it. http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/BadGuyBar And everybody knows your name. Because it was on the Hall Of Wanted Poster Fame when you walked in.
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48. "#118" |
In real life, the most fatal aspect of a terminal disease is generally the disease itself.In reel life, all that's required for death is finding out you have one. http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/LethalDiagnosis If your doctor's name is Greg, you may have to find out five or six times.
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51. "#119" |
Most murders (of the private grudge, no-state-sanction variety) don't work well in public. Not many killers want witnesses. A few of them may wish to avoid collateral damage. Pretty much all of them would like to avoid being criticized on their technique. For the most part, the actual act murder winds up as a private event between killer and victim, with any invitations issued posthumously. But sometimes, a killer wants spectacle. In fact, for this trope, you want cheering. Rally music. People clapping rhythmically in time to your stabs. In fact, what you're trying for is to have fifty thousand witnesses to your act, none of whom know what happened. Only one thing to do. http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/TakeMeOutAtTheBallGame Bonus points for championships.
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52. "RE: #119" |
So maybe Saturday night in New Jersey?
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06-07-12, 12:03 PM (EST)
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53. "RE: #119" |
Can't happen. You'll never get 50,000 people into the building.
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55. "#120 (Every beer commercial ever.)" |
http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/TestosteronePoisoningExcessive use of 'male traits' (violence, shouting, muscle poses) played for laughs. Also known as most of MTV's programming, all of Spike's, about a third of the Tea Party, half the contents of your average bar, and nearly every man on any given beach. Only they're not in on the joke. In fact, if you go by advertising, Traditional Values, and military recruiters, this is what every man on the planet is supposed to act like. And what most of the teenage editions spend at least a year actively trying for. *covers eyes* Don't make me look.
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57. "RE: #120 (Every beer commercial ever.)" |
I'm guessing a Google search for 'testosterone poisoning testicle removal' would turn up about a hundred radical feminist blogs.
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61. "#121" |
"You want an answer? Here's the only one you're ever going to have: there are no answers. The bad guy gets away, the victim doesn't even have the dignity of a name to be buried under, the cops are demoted for not solving the crime, the media gets the investigation budget cut by forty percent, and whoever cared spends the rest of their life ripping themselves apart because they couldn't do anything. Your prize for going through all this crap is a void you'll never fill. And every time you miss a resolution from now on, that void is going to get bigger. Eventually, it'll swallow you. And if you're lucky, just before it happens, there won't be enough left of you to notice."http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/TheUnsolvedMystery "Welcome to the long suicide."
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62. "RE: #121" |
Some of these just have great names, like the referenced and related trope "Karma Houdini".
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65. "#123 (actual person)" |
This has been known to happen. When you're very well-known, have a number of myths existing around you, and happen to be in the public domain, enough writers may wind up putting their own spin on you to turn you into your very own semi-trope. The site has some celebrities and personages troped out with everything that applies, sure -- but when the person becomes the story element, they've crossed the line.And this guy had already crossed so many. http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/RasputinTheMadMonk (He also happens to be a trope namer, but it's not the kind of thing you'd really want to be remembered for.)
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66. "RE: #123 (actual person)" |
Rasputin's picture, from the TV Tropes website:
Caption: Russia's greatest love machine!
Notice the size of his hands. There's another trope in there, somewhere. Also, is there not a resemblance to:
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69. "RE: #123 (actual person)" |
We'll see how you feel about that after you hit the rinse cycle.
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70. "#124" |
There are worlds where, for young women of a certain personality and determination, learning magic seems to take about five minutes.Unfortunately, those are the same worlds where learning the meaning of the words 'property damage' takes about twenty years. http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/BlackMagicianGirl Note that nothing about this trope automatically indicates evil. This generally represents someone who has just been given a very large hammer and has not figured out the rest of the world isn't composed of nails. They may be friendly. Some of them are genuinely nice people. But misplace their coat in the cloakroom and any tip they leave tends to explode. Serve them inferior food and they'll serve you superior fireballs. And you see that two-mile crater over there? That's where that last pickpocket used to operate. The proper response to having one of them coming to save you is turning to the evil forces conquering your land to negotiate the terms of your surrender, because at least the evil forces might leave something standing. They're here to help you. For a very painful definition of 'help'.
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71. "RE: #124" |
I'm glad Skye is on our side.
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73. "RE: #125 (religion)" |
Another Charlie Sheen bashing thread? If it must be, it must be.
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LAST EDITED ON 06-14-12 AT 05:55 AM (EST)So let's say you've recently had cause to swear off doing or having something. Say, sex. Sure, that'll work. And as soon as you make the vow, potential sexual partners start to -- materialize. In fact, you can't open a door without finding someone desirable on the other side. And not only are these people you would want to have sex with, every last one of them? Wants to have sex with you. Sometimes in groups. And the more you explain that you are sworn not to have sex right now, the more they desire you, because now you're forbidden fruit and they're trying to get you to eat your own apple. And the longer you go on and stick to your vow, the more of these people show up, to the point where you finally throw yourself into the local equivalent of a religious celibacy retreat and find out this is the day their deity personally descended to ground level to give just one more commandment: Screw Any Eligible Person You See, Starting With The One Who Just Walked In. Because as we all know, http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/ColdTurkeysAreEverywhere (By the way, it only works if you mean it.)
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80. "#128 (music)" |
This is when the song is about the song. Or at least the genre of the song. http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/HeavyMeta It doesn't necessarily like itself. Overweight paranormals are a separate topic.
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81. "RE: #128 (music)" |
Heavy metal music is a con invented by neck trauma doctors.
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82. "RE: #128 (music)" |
Overweight paranormals are a separate topic. That's no excuse for omitting "Hot Patootie."
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83. "RE: #128 (music)" |
Bless my soul
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84. "#129 (gaming)" |
Human nature: if killing someone via decapitation would, roughly two percent of the time, cause a magic item to appear -- http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/RandomDrop?from=Main.RandomlyDrops -- within a month, the species would exist in two forms: headless and heavily invested in neck guards.
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06-18-12, 04:40 PM (EST)
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88. "RE: #130" |
That's the first time I've ever heard of a girl flirting with a man's eyelids. Talk about your focused fetish...
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90. "#131" |
Our first from the paranormal ability field is one of the most dangerous. Any power can be threatening under the right circumstances, but this one can get just about anyone in any given setting. All its possessor needs is patience -- and nightfall.http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/DreamWeaver In the right milleu, there are ways in which this is scarier than telepathy. Many telepaths have to do a lot of digging to sort through the mind's slightly scrambled filing system: surface thoughts are easy, deeper stuff requires an expedition and several hours of non-stop effort. In this state, your mind is making the links for the observer's benefit and will happily do so all night. And pretty much everyone's vulnerable. Not remembering your dreams doesn't mean you don't have dream. Subconscious influences, outright hypnosis, phobia creation, getting at your traumas -- it's all available. And as for direct damage -- do the words 'falling forever' mean anything to you? Sweet dreams. But for who?
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93. "RE: #132 (universal)" |
Answering questions does seem to be their weak suit.
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94. "#113" |
If your characters visit the Statue Of Liberty, that's potentially kind of interesting.If they have a fight there, you've got potential. If they engineer the statue into a giant robot which steps off the island, walks into Manhattan, and starts kicking enemy rear, you have just entered the realm of the http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/WeaponizedLandmark Also, there's a good chance they're awesome. Or really cheesy. One of those.
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LAST EDITED ON 06-22-12 AT 06:40 AM (EST)'So before we go out there and announce NBC's new fall schedule, I thought I'd say a few words of encouragement. Yes, I know the only remotely successful shows we have are aging faster than Ryan Seacrest's portrait, and most of them have at most two years to go. Sure, we went and canceled the only viewer-luring drama we've created in the last five years just because the people watching it had finished puberty. Maybe we haven't had a reality show stick since reality television was created. And we do seem to keep shelving anything people like while renewing the single most reviled comedy of the past decade. It's true that we've put all our sports eggs into the giant jingoistic basket that we'll turn the Olympics into and we don't have any cash left to bribe people into letting the Americans win every event. And yes, we've descended as a network to the point where we are now getting our asses regularly kicked by the History Channel. But we're still NBC, and we're going to go out there and announce a completely-new fall schedule. And you know why we're going to do that?' http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/GoYeHeroesGoAndDie 'Because twelve months from now, after all those series are canceled, we're going to have to do it again!'
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06-22-12, 08:24 AM (EST)
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97. "RE: #134" |
I'm right behind you. Way behind.
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06-24-12, 11:22 AM (EST)
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101. "#135" |
And then one day, a female agent took a stiletto heel right through the eardrum...http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/ShoePhone This is any mundane object concealing spy tech. The trope being named after one of the least effective versions ever can be blamed directly on Take A Wild Guess for putting the idea in the public's collective head. Obviously defictionalized as any trope gets, with some fun Real Life examples on the list. Don't bang that pen against the desk: it might go off. By the way, stiletto heels? Are lethal all by themselves.
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103. "Hey..." |
...missed it by that much.
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06-25-12, 09:30 AM (EST)
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106. "RE: Although not a 'sequel' per se" |
They never did explain the bloody foreheads, did they?
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107. "Worf's reaction" |
... was far better than any explanation IMHO.
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109. "RE: #138 (you've done it) " |
LAST EDITED ON 06-26-12 AT 05:53 AM (EST)Applies to a number of things in my house, especially those that were handed down to me from my parents. - Refrigerator door won't close fully? Open the door a few inches and slam it shut. Then push with all your strength. If all else fails, prop a chair against the door. - Old Sanyo radio from my father's bachelor years won't play? Lift up the left side two inches from the table and drop. Usually works. If not, you really can't blame the makers--it's ten years older than I am. - TV, which again, is older than I am. It's so old you can only program 14 channels into it, with each channel represented by a button on the TV panel. Surprisingly, the remote still works quite well, requiring just a little shake from time to time. I also used to have an Action Replay that had to be jiggled a little bit for it to work. Just pop it out of the console, blow into the slot, and very carefully slide it back in while tilting the DS slightly to the left.
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124. "RE: #138 (you've done it) " |
If that was a line from the cook on "2 broke Girls", it would have a whole different meaning.
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112. "RE: #138 (you've done it) " |
I'm trying to get an exact mental picture on this. Would the coins get stuck in the chute and you knew where to hit the machine in order to finish the trip to the internal collection area and release the soda -- or could you make them fall all the way through into the coin return box while still paying off in drink?
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116. "#139 (music)" |
Say, what's the name of that song called Teenage Wasteland?Yes, it's a trick question. On a couple of levels. http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/RefrainFromAssuming This is a trope just about all but the most knowledgeable listeners have been guilty of: when you hear an emphasized part of the song and decide it has to be the title -- but the composer had other ideas. (Look down the example list. You will probably find your own misassumption before hitting the end of the page.) The various search engines have made it easier to pin down titles and a truly forgiving ongoing music seller will allow you to hit the right song via the common mistake, but it's still a great way to look like an idiot in the record shop of your choice. Which admittedly is the main reason people wind up in record shops.
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06-27-12, 05:07 PM (EST)
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118. "RE: #139 (music)" |
So on a scale of one to ten for 'massively stoned', you were...?
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119. "#140 (Westerner confuser.)" |
Unless you've been to Japan or understand a lot about Eastern wealth and Zen garden design, the following trope name will make no sense whatsoever.http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/TheThingThatGoesDoink If, however, you fulfill either condition or have been in the presence of one, the trope name will make perfect sense. And if you paid a feng shui expert $1200 to tell you how badly you needed one, you may find their head also goes *doink*. As often as you want it to. Now that's Zen.
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126. "RE: #140 (Westerner confuser.)" |
I've seen a lot of these in the anime I used to watch. Never really figured out that it was a "status symbol" (or a deer-chaser for that matter). I always thought that this was some kind of timer that was used when someone was meditating.
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127. "#141 " |
There is no such thing as a stripper name: let's clear that up right now. Yes, there are names more likely to be found in clubs than others, but they're stage names, applied because you don't want your real ID totally out there and media-trained people think all those monikers are supposed to sound a certain way, so they keep repeating. In real life, giving your child a name ending in 'i' does not increase the odds of her becoming an ecdysiast. (And if it did, what are you so afraid of? Especially in this economy.) Unless she goes into the field just because people keep telling her she has to, in which case, you really should have raised more of a free thinker. However, in reel life, Names Can Be Destiny. And if you happen to be in the metahuman/paranormal section, Names Can Also Be The Powers You Eventually Wind Up With. If you have something which would sound at least vaguely ironic as a secret identity, the universe will bend over backwards to make sure you wind up with an ability set to match. After all, very few people get four robotic tentacles grafted to their bodies just because everyone kept telling them they should. Mostly for a lack of graftable robotic tentacles. So step over here and meet http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/StevenUlyssesPerhero Don't read too many of the examples at once. The pain builds up faster than you might think. Pity the Real Life examples -- except when they brought it on themselves. Doctor Doom, indeed.
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129. "You know what time it is in the States?" |
It is way too gawdsdamn early to figure out how the @#$$ I'm supposed to pronounce that.
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135. "His name eludes me" |
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06-30-12, 07:35 PM (EST)
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136. "RE: His name eludes me" |
I'd horsewhip you if I had a horse.
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133. "#142" |
Ever have a limb fall asleep on you?Ever have it happen during a crucial moment and then find out the thing wouldn't wake up? http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/BitsOfMeKeepPassingOut Ever have it teleport away and send back a Christmas card?
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134. "RE: #142" |
I'd like to see the writers of "The Big Bang Theory" do something with this. Obviously Sheldon would be hilarious, but interesting possibilities exist for the other cast members as well.
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139. "#144 (Throwback)" |
Let's say you're female, heterosexual, and you have a good job. In fact, you have a fast track position which may eventually lead to running the whole thing. And along comes a man. You like this man. You could love him. You might even be considering marriage. But this guy has made it very clear that you can have him, or you can have the fast track. Because he is man, hear him roar, but most especially hear him whine and twitch in the corner because he cannot stand the thought of living with someone more successful and wealthy than he. Besides, if you're working, then who's going to clean the house? Certainly not he. Yes, it's just another case of http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/CareerVersusMan and in stories, guess which usually wins. You're a fast-track career woman. And yet you don't have the brains to dump a sexist idiot.
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141. "#145 (mostly comics)" |
Let me know if this one sound familiar: a supervillain has decided to draw the hero out and do so on his terms. No random confrontations, getting pulled into a trap by the spandex contingent, or having your headquarters infested by a horrible case of capes. Instead, the villain is going to bring the hero to him, luring future victim of choice into a specially-designed area which will give the bad guy the advantage, especially after he presses the Kill Idiot Instantly button. And what is the single best way to ensure the hero will show up even when he knows it's going to be a fatal trap?Take hostages. Either the good guy shows up or innocents die. How can he refuse? So you capture a number of flashbulbs (use once, throw away) and wait for the hero to come. Only he doesn't show up. And keeps not showing up no matter how many revised deadlines you throw out. And it's not because he suddenly stopped caring, he's out of town (which no villain ever considers), or someone took him down on the way to the playdate. Because he's already there. And he can't do a thing. What you've got -- completely unawares -- is just another case of http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/BruceWayneHeldHostage Congratulations, genius: you just grabbed the secret identity. And you will never, ever figure it out, because the hero is going to be running ragged finding a way to be hostage and savior both without you making the connection -- and the Laws Of Story say he's going to pull it off. Stupid Laws Of Story. (This is one of my least favorite comics tropes. While it's still possible to execute it well, it's generally so far past done to death as to need an embalmer -- and when it happens to the trope namer, take a nap. Welcome to Gotham City, where your odds of being taken hostage by a crazed villain are currently at 98.3%, an all-time low...)
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143. "#146" |
It's easy to create a fictional society obsessed with a single ideal role: go ahead and turn an entire nation or race into just one basic character type, because it'll save you a lot of work in making individuals. So write up your planet of warriors -- but ask yourself this first: what happens to the support staff? Because unless you're willing to deal with everyone wielding unusually effective rocks and clubs, you can't have a planet of warriors without someone making the weapons. And typically, these people will be hated. Loathed. Looked down upon because you're standing on their heads. After all, if they were real warriors, they would be out there on the battlefield slaughtering millions of people instead of having handed you the tools which let you personally do it. Anyone advancing your knowledge is a wimp, no matter how you might personally benefit from what they come up with. Sure, your world would collapse without them. Yes, without them, you don't have one at all. They are utterly essential. If only there was a way to kill every last one of them. Oh, well -- might as well just shoot the one in front of you. It's not as if it matters. http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/KlingonScientistsGetNoRespect Say, what did he just say? Something about reflective shielding with perfect redirection? Nerd -- Note the Tropers trying to keep Real Life examples off the page. Depressing, ain't it?
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145. "RE: #146" |
As long as no one's ever called you an Oompa-Loompa, you're probably in better shape than some of the pack. I'm guessing the BBT writers got a few nasty Emails after that one.
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146. "#147" |
Thinking requires energy.The brain primarily runs on sugar. Therefore, the more you think, the more sugar you're going to need. http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/GeniusSweetTooth Also the more you tend to think about dentists.
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162. "RE: #147" |
My interest and curiosity about Jerrold is piqued. Hope his stuff in on Kindle.
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07-06-12, 07:23 AM (EST)
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150. "#148 (Canada)" |
Vancouver is Vancouver. Also New York, Chicago, San Francisco, and whatever other major U.S. city the producers want it to be because they were too cheap to film on the actual site and Vancouver can pass for nearly anything as long as you restrict your shooting to certain areas. And don't film the high background. I said, don't film the high background. Listen to me, gawdsdamnit, you can't --http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/HereThereBeLions -- crap.
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152. "RE: #148 (Canada)" |
Ask Max. His team went so far as to have an inanimate object for a second baseman.
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153. "RE: #148 (Canada)" |
Isn't the Stanford University mascot a tree? Wouldn't seem too animated, but apparently it can be.
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154. "#149 (estrogen bait)" |
Since the laws of many countries allow males to go around with their torsos completely uncovered at no penalty, most men in those areas will take advantage at some point in their lives. And since it's legal, the local networks will take advantage and have their more conventionally attractive characters occasionally show off in an attempt to lure in the viewership. Some do so more than others. And if a certain type of man knows his torso looks good, he's going to expose it a lot. There are guys out there who will take any excuse to remove their upper-body garments. Hard work. Light sweat which might ruin it. Just did a barrel roll and now it's dusty. Somewhere just out of their immediate detection, there might be a female looking at them. And off goes the shirt, every time. And somewhere beyond that level, you get this guy. http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/WalkingShirtlessScene He's never even heard of a shirt. Arousing the legions is religion and my, is he ever faithful. Any attempt to clothe him from the waist up will be met with derision, followed by violence -- which may come from those around him who will not let you take away the view. This is him and those are his pecs, but never will he let you mentally distinguish the two... Note the raw length of the example list. It's legal, y'know.
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211. "RE: #149 (estrogen bait)" |
You probably need the base trope of Shirtless Scene for that. This one is for people who never cover their torso, and the costume counts. *checks* Series not on the trope page, trope not on the series page. Maybe someone should edit that. http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Series/TheFlash The series is on my perpetual 'should pick up eventually' list, but I hadn't gotten down that far on it... ($28.00 on Amazon right now. Regardless, Being Human Season #2 is my next-up.) BTW, he's still getting some odd bits of mileage from the part -- I remember seeing him on a voice work credit for playing Zoom (arch-nemesis of Barry) recently. Bad time to tell you Mr. Shipp is gay?
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158. "RE: #150 (animation)" |
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161. "#151 (not PG13)" |
@#$% the @#$%ing language limits around this !@#$ing place and the #$%^ing horse they tried to publicly @!#$ before they got here with someone else's $#^&.http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/SirSwearsalot Or (quoting the page here), as Dexter viewers know it, "Ladies and gentlemen, Debra @#$%ing Morgan."
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170. "RE: #152 (half of you did it)" |
Life is complicated.
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172. "RE: #152 (half of you did it)" |
Now I'm snickering.
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http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/LibationForTheDeadThere's an old meme which claims that when you die, you're suspended upside-down in a barrel filled with all the alcohol you've ever spilled and if you drown, straight down you go. So to me, this trope represents people trying to take you with them.
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175. "#154" |
This is not what it sounds like.http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/LipLock This is when a series is dubbed over into another language without anyone redoing the mouth movements of the actors (animated or live, but generally the former), creating either moments of total dissynching or comedic speech patterns as the new voices try to match their timing to the shifts already present. Embarrassing at best and 'Get Mike and the 'bots ready' at worst. One of the less subtle curses of trying to put up with anime dubs. And as the article notes, anime frequently doesn't match up in the original language. One of the strongest arguments for subtitles -- but those have their own problems.
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177. "#155 (man-eater)" |
It's only a myth.An urban legend. Something told around the campfire at two a.m. to scare gullible teens and tweens into celibacy. http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/VaginaDentata You hope. *snicker* I just got a killer idea for a totally non-PG13 Halloween costume.
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178. "Does the costume" |
... involve one or more of these?
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181. "RE: Does the costume" |
*evil smile*Vagina Dentata... what a wonderful phrase!
Vagina Dentata... ain't no passin' craze!
It means no weiner... for the rest of your days!
It's a penis free... girl cavity! Vagina Dentata! Sweet dreams. Queen Of Wands: sadism on the earworm plan.
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182. "RE: Does the costume" |
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185. "#156" |
Technically, you've almost been murdered -- but it's just a matter of time, which you don't have much left of. Dying, but not quite there yet. And you got a good look at your killer before he left. You know exactly who did this to you and why. You've got some strength remaining, too. And within easy reach? Is a working pen and lots of paper. So you write down -- -- the killer's childhood nickname (at the age of two), the three places he'd least like to go on vacation, the middle three digits of his Swiss bank account, five colors you'll never find in his wardrobe, and his strikeout totals from junior high. http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/DyingClue You figured the police would like something to do.
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187. "#157" |
The things you learn on TVTropes: Jimi Hendrix could play the guitar. And not with his hands. ...no. (And imagine the calluses.) No, we're talking about http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/NowThatsUsingYourTeeth The mouth is a tool. And so are most of the people using it.
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188. "#158" |
Kid: "You're not the real Santy Clause!"
Bullock: "Sure I am. Wanna see my gun?" http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/MallSanta Also known as being paid to have children kick, punch, and occasionally urinate on you. (This differs from parenthood in that you get paid.) And question your existence. To your face. Induction of fundamental philosophical dilemmas in four-year olds. Come to think of it, it's a pity there's no such thing as a Mall Jesus.
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189. "#159" |
Putting a few of the Real Life examples from the page:Charlie Chaplin entered a Charlie Chaplin Impersonation contest.... and came in 3rd. Larry the Cable Guy had a similar experience in Las Vegas at a club where people did celebrity impressions. He played himself, and interviews of people leaving said he did the jokes well, but didn't sound the same. An audience member was asked to leave a showing of The Rocky Horror Picture Show because he was a Tim Curry impersonator. The member: Tim Curry himself. In the 60's, Brazilian rock'n'roll musician Raul Seixas once showed up to perform so high that he couldn't sing his own songs. That led to the audience thinking he was an impostor and calling the police. Dolly Parton once lost a Dolly Parton look-a-like contest. The late Jeremy Beadle hosted a hidden-camera prank show called Beadle's About during the 1990s. He would appear in disguise (usually as an authority figure like a policeman or traffic warden), wind up the victim a little more, and then reveal that it was all a set-up for the TV. The downside? There was at least one case of a member of the public mistaking a real policeman for Jeremy Beadle, and attempting to pull his "disguise" off... http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/MistakenForAnImposter And of course, Harpo Marx was once charged with impersonating Harpo Marx. He did the only thing he could do. He fell asleep.
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190. "RE: #159" |
There's a law on the books somewhere that makes impersonating Harpo Marx a crime? Who knew the Marx bros had so much pull?
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191. "RE: #159" |
(Doing this from memory because I can't find the sourcebook right now.)But claiming you're someone famous in order to get out of trouble is fraud... As the story goes, Harpo had attended a costume party dressed as a famous (and at the time, living) German politician (and not Hitler. Harpo had enough trouble there: he was of German descent and his birth name was Adolph, later quietly changed to Arthur), where he'd done quite well for himself, taking third prize and staying very late until the party had completely wrapped up, the hosts were in bed, and he was the last one out the door. And it was one of those parties where you were supposed to guess the identity of the attendees, with no one obligated to give their real name unless someone successfully saw under the mask. And, as Hollywood was much looser in those days, he'd crashed it under the certain Harpo confidence that no one would mind. As it was a nice night, he decided to walk home -- which gave the police the sight of a rather famous (and then-living) German politician wandering through Hollywood. They stopped him and asked for his name. He was carrying no ID: it didn't go with the costume. Harpo being Harpo, he started by giving them the name of the German politician. No sale. Seeing he had an unreceptive audience, Harpo gave his real name and explained that he'd been at a costume party. The police called the hosts, who were dazed from being woken up at that hour and couldn't remember every costume in attendance, but they certainly knew they hadn't invited any Marx to the proceedings. It was around this point that the conversation moved to the police station. Harpo continued insisting on his true name, but no one was buying it: a Marx brother out of makeup looks almost nothing like one in, and it wasn't as if anyone could recognize his voice. But he had an easy out. All it takes to vouch for a Marx is another Marx. So he gave them Chico's number (because Chico saw five a.m. all the time, generally from the far side of a poker table) and told them to call his brother. The police called Chico, who was quite receptive. Yes, he had a brother. In fact, his brother was right there with him now: would the police like to speak with him? No, that wouldn't be necessary, the police said, and turned back to the matter of this unknown stranger -- who was now in trouble for impersonating an important German politician, trespassing (if he'd been at the party), wandering the streets at all hours, and impersonating Harpo Marx. And Harpo, upon being informed that he was facing possible jail time for pretending to be himself, did the only thing he could: fell asleep in his cell and stayed that way until someone showed up to get him out.
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192. "#160 (someone here fell for it)" |
Disney animation is tremendously expensive and takes years to complete. Disney voice acting is high-end and brings in the best performers of the day. Disney stories? Are generally public domain. And that means there are all sorts of little studios around the world who carefully study Disney's release schedule, then throw together the cheapest possible animation, voice actors who can just about speak their native tongue, and a script based on the original tale in the way that toxic waste is based on water, then throw about fifty minutes of barely-moving figures into a plot that makes no sense for characters incapable of explaining it, followed by slapping on a cover and title that would look vaguely like the Disney release to a concussed monkey in a dark room, and ships it on the day the Disney movie comes out. It sits on a display rack, just waiting for some unsuspecting parent to decide it's a video read-along for the real thing, or a filmed-from-the-screen that got into the store (especially in my area), or the import from Hong Kong because everyone knows the movie is on DVD there two weeks before it reaches the screen here. So they buy it and take it home for a night of family viewing, believing themselves to be saving the money that would have been spent on all those movie tickets. http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/TheMockbuster And then about 8000% of that goes to the ensuing therapy bills. Note that this isn't limited to animation: the serial numbers can be filed off most major releases, with the shavings scattered across a four dollar budget. But the Disney/Pixar impersonator is the one you're most likely to find. You'll have a harder time finding the production company. They haven't shown up in court yet.
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194. "RE: #160 (someone here fell for it)" |
Wrong trope. http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/ParallelPornTitles (Imagine how non-PG13 that page is. Then approach it at your own risk.) Same general spirit, though. But the adult entertainment parody generally winds up with higher production values plus better acting from a stronger script. Seriously. Ratatoing (from the Mockbusters page) will make you weep. Or kill something. Or both simultaneously.
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195. "RE: #160 (someone here fell for it)" |
The Malaprop trope.
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196. "#161" |
The battlecry of many of a director: 'Who cares if it makes sense, as long as it looks neat!' http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/RefugeInCool For 'neat', read 'something blows up real good.' One of the all-time hit or miss tropes. You can't do this one halfway. Once it starts moving, the entire work has to be a no-bends-payback dive into uncharted depths of coolness or nitrogen bubbles explode it from within, mostly produced by laughter. Pull it off and you've got a classic. Fail...
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197. "Fail..." |
...and your Michael Bay.
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201. "#162 (slow-motion drama)" |
We'll keep this one relatively short because the example list is approximately a day long. A bullet travels very quickly. Some ultra-tech sniper rifles can get one moving at a couple of hundred miles an hour. Therefore, when dodging bullets, you're actually dodging the gun barrel: seeing where it's pointing and moving away before the shooter can fire. This doesn't always work because as said, bullets are fast. You can't readily get out of one's way.However, if the need is to get into the path, any human being is capable of instantaneously accelerating to just below the speed of sound, making a ten-second scream of denial which may be followed by an extended speech, catching five feet of air in order to find the right intercept point, and never, ever doing this in front of a projectile strong enough to go completely through them and whatever they were diving in front of. And this works every. single. time. Yeah, you know this one. http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/TakingTheBullet It's kind of like using up every bit of speed for your entire life in one try. And since you won't need it any more, it works. (The speed. And your life.)
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LAST EDITED ON 07-21-12 AT 09:18 AM (EST)
Multicam will cost you extra.
If you can't swing it, go with black. ACU is getting kicked to the curb, and God knows you don't want that.
Phillipine Tiger Stripe is pretty cool.
You definitly don't want Japanese, unless you actually LIKE weird ugly-freaky-clown balloons. It also makes you feel small. I guess I can do Fire Engine Red or Blaze Orange, but the thought makes me uncomfortable. Trouble is, those colors just say: "shoot me right here". Plus, why advertise any possibility that you have a rash? For hunting, think about "Real Tree". There are several different types, but you can't go wrong with wood.
Girls like it. foonermint: color coordinator
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216. "RE: #164" |
Good. Glad to see you got that out. Articulating the problem is the first step of the cure. Now, next step, get a bazooka...
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217. "RE: #165 (not Congress) " |
LAST EDITED ON 07-23-12 AT 09:00 AM (EST)Before going to the link, I am going to assume that the classic example will be Western Films where both good and bad guys had an inexhaustible supply of bullets in their guns. Now to the link, where I find out how misguided my guess was. Again. ETA: And I was. Evidently this is exclusively aimed at people emerging from a space. or a space being larger inside than it appears from the outside. So, where was the TARDIS from Dr. Who?
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218. "RE: #165 (not Congress) " |
This is a sort of subtrope to the overall Tardis one. To get in on this one, you'd need every Doctor, every companion, and about a thousand Daleks emerging from the Tardis in a conga line.
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219. "#166 (overexposure will kill you)" |
A little cute goes a long way.A lot of cute sticks in your throat. Too many deliberate attempts to invoke cute can act as a repellant. About three light-years beyond that point, you get this. 
http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/TastesLikeDiabetes This trope represents any work that tries to play off so many 'cute', 'sweet', and 'aww, isn't it adorable' cliches that the only sane human response is a burst of psychotic rage channeled into a desperate strike at everyone involved, followed by salting the earth where they once stood before nuking the area until it glows because it's the only way to be sure. Watching too much of this stuff will either kill you or turn you into a Dobson devotee before joining the Million Bigot Mom March, which is the far worse of the two fates. Just reading down the full example list may leave you twitching for the rest of the day. And be really careful about how many of those you check out. There is a Wake Up Screaming Limit in all of you and I don't know where it is. Or we could just have a contest where everyone tries to read through the complete page plus all associated video links and whoever gets the farthest without dying gets to envy those who didn't make it. You can go first. I will now boil my hard drive in bleach.
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220. "RE: #166 (overexposure will kill you)" |
This is why we have grouches, and why they (we) are absolutely necessary.
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221. "#167 (Newsome, help!)" |
Insects are a pain to animate, and a lot of that is in the limbs. There's two extra ones to deal with, and every insect character will have them, and if you're making a movie with lots of or nothing but insect characters, the extra detail multiplies into something approaching death. Most studios will cheat and create a http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/FourLeggedInsect just to keep the animators in their chairs instead of plummeting past the windows. But there's also a literary example. The Bible. Which seems to say insects are supposed to have four legs. Which is presumably how the creating deity designed them. And they aren't that way now. Please explain. Does this affect their marriage prospects?
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222. "RE: #167 (Newsome, help!)" |
Blessed are the fish, for we have no legs.
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224. "RE: #167 (Newsome, help!)" |
We all have our Ozarks cousins.
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319. "RE: #167 (Newsome, help!)" |
LAST EDITED ON 08-17-12 AT 11:34 AM (EST)I know it took a while. My apologies for a delay in responding. I've only just now had the time to really look at the question and the possible answers. In this case, I'm completely deferring to the experts, as you'll see. The answers below are theirs, but I am in agreeance with what they say. http://www.answersingenesis.org/articles/2009/01/26/contradictions-two-missing-legs
Leviticus 11:20–23
All flying insects that creep on all fours shall be an abomination to you. Yet these you may eat of every flying insect that creeps on all fours: those which have jointed legs above their feet with which to leap on the earth. These you may eat: the locust after its kind, the destroying locust after its kind, the cricket after its kind, and the grasshopper after its kind. But all other flying insects which have four feet shall be an abomination to you. The Bible in Leviticus 11:21 indicates that the hind jumping legs are not included in the four “walking” or “creeping” feet. The feet are the four front limbs used for walking and look the same. The back two limbs are primarily for long hops. Although today, people lump them all together and say there are six legs, the Bible distinguished them here. The Bible referred to them in more detail than perhaps expected. Notice how the feet and legs are separated in the verses and referred to separately. The Bible is being very precise as to distinguish the front four from the back two. So, there is no contradiction at all: 4 walking legs + 2 hind hopping legs = 6 total legs Leviticus 11:20-23 refers only to the insects with these specific feet-leg combinations that have wings.1 Now, I know you’re wondering . . . did any Israelites actually eat these insects? Look up Matthew 3:4 and Mark 1:6!
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Lev. 11:20-3 All fowls that creep, going upon all four, shall be an abomination unto you. Yet these may ye eat of every flying creeping thing that goeth upon all four, which have legs above their feet, to leap withal upon the earth; even these of them ye may eat; the locust after his kind, and the bald locust after his kind, and the beetle after his kind, and the grasshopper after his kind. But all other flying creeping things, which have four feet, shall be an abomination unto you.
Is this an error -- since insects have six feet, not four, and since "fowl" have two feet, not four? The reference to "fowl" is thought by some Skeptics to refer to birds, but the word used here is 'owph, which merely means a creature with wings -- it is the same word used in verse 21 (flying). The reference in both cases is to insects. Now we might call this a poetic phrase (i.e., "crawling around on all fours"), and this is partially right. But there is an even better - and more correct - answer. Quite simply, the big back legs on the locust, etc. were not counted as "legs" in the same sense as the other legs. Let's use an illustration from George Orwell's Animal Farm. In this story, Snowball the pig invented the slogan, "Four legs good, two legs bad" so as to exclude humans from Animal Farm society. The geese and other fowl objected, because they had only two legs. Snowball explained (more clearly in the book than in the movie) that in animal terms, the birds' wings counted as legs because they were limbs of propulsion, not manipulation, as a human's arms and hands were.
Now note the differentiation in Leviticus above -- referring to "legs above the feet" for leaping. The "feet" are being differentiated from the "legs above the feet" because of their difference in function. They are legs, but in a different sense than the "four" legs which are just called "feet." We are being told of two types of legs: The "on all four" legs (which are nowhere called legs; they are only called "feet" ), and the "leaping legs." It is clear that the Hebrews regarded the two large, hopping hindlimbs of the locust and the other insects of the same type, which are the only types of insects mentioned here (we now translate "beetle" as "cricket"), as something different than the other four limbs - perhaps because they were used primarily for vertical propulsion, whereas the other limbs were for scurrying around. Shifts of terminology like this happen even today; check this proposal to redefine "planet". A helpful reader also noted a similar issue with the "legs" of the octopus; see here.) Unacceptable? The alternative is to say that the Hebrews - who ate these things raw - didn't see that these bugs had six legs. Objection: Such insects are sometimes hard to find, and some cannot be found for up to decades at a time. So it's possible they did make such a mistake. Not all such insects disappeared entirely for any length of time, and the author of Leviticus, by virtue of his literacy, clearly within the context of the ancient world had to be someone with a few years under his belt. There is no way it can be claimed that he happened to live in a timeframe when there were never and insects of this type around, or no one who knew better. Further objectionI did a little private survey and found out that a few people, even intelligent ones, did not know that insects had six legs. All this really shows is that people aren't getting a decent science education...not that this is relevant anyway, since it is doubtful that any of them ate insects as part of their regular diet and had them constantly in their face as the Hebrews did. What other "winged insects with four feet" (11:23) could there be? The last pair of legs of many winged insects are specially designed for jumping or "lifting off" and therefore serve a differing function than the other four legs. With millions of species of insects in the world it seems rather presumptuous to try to select just a few and claim that these make a hash of Lev. 11:23. But let's just take one as an example. Here there is a site on the anatomy of the honeybee. The picture shows clearly enough that the rear legs present an entirely different orientation than the other four. More technically, they serve a different function and have a different structure: http://www.captted.com/bees/beemanual/cb05.htm The hind legs differ from the other legs in their larger size and broad flattened form. These legs differ in size in the queen, worker & drone. It is only the worker that collects pollen and places it in the pollen baskets on these hind legs. The legs have long curved hairs. The space enclosed by these hairs is called the pollen basket. The worker bees carry pollen to the hive storing in these conclave shaped hind legs. The pollen is collected from the body by the front and middle legs and deposited on the large flat brushes on the inner surfaces of the hind legs. Each of which is covered by 10 transverse rows of stiff spines projecting backwards.
Although these legs are used to walk (even as the grasshopper's can be and are), in function and appearance they are clearly, vastly different. The Hebrews were just as able (and by extension of the same scheme used with grasshoppers, katydids, etc) to regard the back legs of other types of flying insects as being of a different order, of being something different, so that only the first four were called plain old "feet" as only the first four on the hoppers, etc. were called feet, while the others were given a differing name such as "legs above their feet". -James Patrick Holding ---- Also, I found the following, which I think also connects to our discussion from the Sikh shooting thread. Texas groceries thread. Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary 11:1-47 What animals were clean and unclean. - These laws seem to have been intended, 1. As a test of the people's obedience, as Adam was forbidden to eat of the tree of knowledge; and to teach them self-denial, and the government of their appetites. 2. To keep the Israelites distinct from other nations. Many also of these forbidden animals were objects of superstition and idolatry to the heathen. 3. The people were taught to make distinctions between the holy and unholy in their companions and intimate connexions. 4. The law forbad, not only the eating of the unclean beasts, but the touching of them. Those who would be kept from any sin, must be careful to avoid all temptations to it, or coming near it. The exceptions are very minute, and all were designed to call forth constant care and exactness in their obedience; and to teach us to obey. Whilst we enjoy our Christian liberty, and are free from such burdensome observances, we must be careful not to abuse our liberty. For the Lord hath redeemed and called his people, that they may be holy, even as he is holy. We must come out, and be separate from the world; we must leave the company of the ungodly, and all needless connexions with those who are dead in sin; we must be zealous of good works devoted followers of God, and companions of his people.
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320. "RE: #167 (Newsome, help!)" |
Huh. Okay, slightly twisted here and there -- I was personally expecting something along the lines of handling limbs, as a few insects do try to manipulate with the front pair, and so didn't figure launchers to get involved. But I can see where the reasoning is (at least up until the bit about leaving the company of the ungodly). If it moves you through some sort of walking, it's a leg: if it pushes off, it's something else. B.C. taxonomy: fair enough. Thankee for the research. I figured you'd know the proper sites to check (as in: 'the ones not attempting Wikipedia-style sabotage'). I appreciate your effort in answering the question seriously and thoroughly. You can see where it would get at least a blink, though -- no evolution for higher forms (over cell size) allowed in the faith and intelligent design doesn't allow for 'You know, I think I'll add two more'. From there, the guessing starts at wild and gets progressively worse. If you posted in the Sikh thread, my computer's not showing it. Do you mean about humans codifying we-call-it-divine law?
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227. "#169" |
This is a murder story. You've spent the entire tale chasing the killer. Who has been elusive. Everywhere you go, the killer isn't. Clues are left behind, hints abound, but you can't make sense of them. You don't know why the murder happened, you don't know how to make it stop, and you have no idea who did it.http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/TheKillerInMe And then on the last page, someone shows you a mirror. Very much an all-or-nothing trope. Either it works spectacularly or it crashes through the basement and burrows deeper.
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228. "RE: #169" |
I prefer the "A) The 'hero' is a willing killer or monster who has been trying to shift blame or tie up loose ends." as a way to resolve the problem. And I really really don't prefer the "It was his trusted and loyal partner all along", which although not part of this trope, is often the way this kind of mystery is resolved. The "B...blackout..." resolution is just too easy, a cop out, much like having a character wake up and discover it was just all a bad dream. Ptooie. Now I have to find and read "Vidocq" and "Primal Fear".
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233. "Don't be silly." |
The world is ending on December 23rd. We don't have five years.
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234. "RE: #171 " |
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236. "RE: #171 " |
got sidetracked by the Stange Brew link.
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237. "#172 (not comics)" |
http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/AllDeathsFinalAny setting where once you're gone, you're gone. Resurrection magic/powers/science doesn't exist. You might have hypertech healing to get you back from the brink and people will continue to fake deaths with a Never Found The Body game, but any time someone is verified gone, it's going to stick. Note that this doesn't always prevent reincarnation or ghosts -- but it does mean you'll never get that person back as you knew them in the body they just abandoned. Obviously not a trope Marvel & DC are willing to live with.
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239. "RE: #172 (not comics)" |
Surprised the Bible doesn't get mentioned for avoiding this trope. Subverting, maybe?
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241. "RE: #172 (not comics)" |
Does Achmed pass of fail this trope??
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243. "RE: #172 (not comics)" |
Undead state, twisted reincarnation, or just plain 'I'm a puppet! I'll kill you!'
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244. "RE: #172 (not comics)" |
And obviously not Days of Our Lives.
(And yes, I guess the characters were never really dead -- I see a whole slew of "But there is no way anyone could have survived that" tropes)
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246. "#174 (video games)" |
Your characters can destroy opponents with a single punch.A casual effort at jumping vaults an entire river. One bullet will just about disintegrate a wall. And if they touch a single mote of dust, they die. http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/OneHitPointWonder This is one of the most annoying tropes a video game player can face. Any contact with an enemy force costs you a life, sends you to a checkpoint, or just plain ends the game: have 'fun' starting over. And 'enemy force' can be defined as any part of the scenery the design team didn't want you making contact with. Sometimes this means all of the scenery (and that's another trope). And even if you're relatively durable, I've got two words for you: escort mission. A leading cause of Rage Quits worldwide. And yet some people will try to finish the bloody game anyway.
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249. "{Penn}YOU FOOL!{/PENN}" |
...sorry, but that had to be done, because that statement was just embarrassing. You just messed up one of the very few tropes which has permeated just about every level of public consciousness. A mook is the near-faceless minion who heedlessly rushes into death on behalf of the villain. What you're thinking of is this:http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/RedShirt The near-faceless minion who heedlessly rushes into death on behalf of the hero. And you might enjoy this. http://tinyurl.com/c5hh5st
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251. "RE: {Penn}YOU FOOL!{/PENN}" |
How could you have missed Redshirt Army!
Every major battle on LOST involves one group of redshirts attacking another group of redshirts with the main characters from both sides escaping unscathed.
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253. "RE: {Penn}YOU FOOL!{/PENN}" |
I was saving it for a special occasion? We may also wind up at Mauve Shirt eventually: we'll see how the randomness goes. And your example is just one of the many reasons to give up on Lost, where the title actually indicated the perpetual state of the writers. Well, there was the solution most of us recognized too late...This quote from the Real Life section on your link is one of the more depressing things you'll read today. While not in charge of an official Red Shirt Army, General Charles Mangin gave a speech that summarizes this trope to its essence: "Gentlemen, we attack tomorrow. The first wave will be killed. The second also. And the third. A few men from the fourth will reach their objective. The fifth wave will capture the position. Thank you, gentlemen." Now imagine hearing that line as a member of waves #1-3. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Mangin
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257. "RE: {Penn}YOU FOOL!{/PENN}" |
Mangin also became known for the observation: "Quoi qu'on fasse, on perd beaucoup de monde." ("Whatever you do," (i.e. attack or defend) "you lose a lot of men.").Even though it seems very cold-hearted, in World War 1 all ground troops everywhere were essentially just cannon fodder, at least he was honest about it. 
One of my main gripes about Lost, really my biggest gripe, is they pretty much made a mockery of the "Live Together or Die Alone" sentiment. Almost everyone died no matter what they did, most often because someone killed them. The saving grace, though, came in the season five when Rose, Bernard and Vincent turned up, and the old dears explained essentially, "Oh, you all can keep trying to get yourselves killed while getting everyone else killed too, we're retired."
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252. "{wardrobe malfunction}left brain short circuit{/wardrobe malfunction}" |
Mind still contemplating, and google not working.
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255. "RE: {wardrobe malfunction}left brain short circuit{/wardrobe malfunction}" |
I'll give you the Jennifer BB promise of $200 someday later plus I won't put you on the block for two weeks. I pinky swear on Fairplay's grandmother's grave.
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260. "RE: {wardrobe malfunction}left brain short circuit{/wardrobe malfunction}" |
Ah yes, Jordan's one brain cell. Good times.
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261. "RE: {wardrobe malfunction}left brain short circuit{/wardrobe malfunction}" |
Not for those of us who fully remember what it is was like watching the poor thing trying to work, no.
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250. "RE: #175 (for Foonermints)" |
I thought it was Moops!
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258. "RE: #175 (for Foonermints)" |
Kramer's entrances were always a highlite for me. They were vaudeville-ish, but Kramer put a unique spin on them. Cleese in Faulty Towers had similar entrances.
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259. "#176 (music -- sort of)" |
From their own page:"Back in the late seventies, when Punk Rock was the dominant form of rebellious music, a bunch of musicians came to a realization that led to the creation of a new genre. The conversation went a bit like this: First: @#$%, I just realized something!
Second: What, you're drunk?
First: No, I realized that punk rock... has too much music in it! People listen to it!
Second: Your point being?
Third: Actually, that's a very good question. What's your point, man?
First: Look, what if we made the ultimate form of rebellious music by resisting conformity to musical standards?
Second: Eh?
First: What if we made ''anti''-music?
Second: ...
Third: That might work, actually." tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/Industrial I already have a headache.
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264. "RE: #176 (music -- sort of)" |
That sounds like something I could appreciate. But that isn't Industrial, or if it is, once again I'm way out of the loop.
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265. "RE: #176 (music -- sort of)" |
No, not even remotely industrial. But that's the sort of music you can find at the top of the list for a lot of professional musicians. Ask your friends about it and decide if you want to sample. You can always grab a track download from the album for $0.99 or so.
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267. "RE: #176 (music -- sort of)" |
I just ordered the CD. Most of the music I listen to lately is in the car, and CD's work best for me.
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270. "RE: #177" |
I suppose now is the time to suppress the urge to make you a sunflower siggie?
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271. "RE: #177" |
Only if you want me to suppress the urge to put a live skunk in your car.
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273. "RE: #178" |
I can only think of Lou Grant.
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274. "RE: #178" |
Marshall Dillon?
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275. "#179" |
Let's say you've got a popular TV show on the air. In fact, it's so popular that you've been wondering if you could get a quick novel or six out of it. There seem to be enough writers who enjoy the characters and could work in that format for you. So you decide to put on a quick publishing run. Except that -- well -- writers have this tendency to, shall we say, go off the reservation. They think that just because they're telling stories, those stories have to be about how people change over time due to the events around them. And clearly that's not going to work here because if any character learned anything in a book ever, that would have to be reflected in the TV series. And you're not going to do that. So here's Rule #1: no character may change in any way whatsoever for any reason due to any cause. Also, no new supporting characters. They might catch on and then you've have to cast them. No new reappearing locations. You refuse to build extra sets. In fact, you are categorically forbidding anything interesting from happening, by law. Now what kind of stories can you get your writers to tell? http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/RestrictedExpandedUniverse Apparently not strongly-selling ones. Now how did that happen? Well, clearly it's the writers' fault...
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280. "#182" |
Former population: 8,000,000Current population: 0. Creep-out factor: off the scale. http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/GhostCity The Ghost Cities Of China under the Real Life examples are one of the stupidest examples of corporate-bureaucracy teamup you may ever see -- until you look at virtually any headline after reading this post. It's one thing to plan for the future, and something else entirely to price that future out of everyone's purchase range...
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282. "#183" |
...oooh, so the only reason Big Brother stays on the air is because the Chenbot's husband wants to make sure she has a primetime job every year, which means the quality of the casting, competitions, and show itself totally don't matter to anyone at the network!http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/LateToThePunchline I just got that! For the five thousandth time.
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284. "#184" |
he holds me captivehe will kill me if i try to leave he will hurt my family if i succeed he feeds me he shelters me he keeps me safe from the horrors outside he will protect me from anything that comes he says he loves me http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/StockholmSyndrome today i said it back
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288. "RE: #184" |
Unfortunately, I'm still stuck on the SWAT team crashing in through a brick wall while shouting "OH YEAH!"
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291. "RE: #185" |
Fun with Job aplication forms: Country of birth: Artesistan Ethnicity: Cromatatoid Job applied for: Systematic Allaition Specialist Religion: Western Biodegradable Hobbies: Bandsacking, Wishpering, Travel Fugue, and phartsmelling. (and now the real fun) References:
Foonermints
Ayatollah Khomeini
Tummy
JBug
Estee
MrC
Moonie
Bravie
crabman
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Uncle Fester
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292. "RE: #185" |
So, every merged Survivor tribe ever?
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297. "RE: #187" |
Sigh. We have come far, yet so much more is possible.Saturday morning porn. Anime porn. Oprah porn. Sunday noon porn. Weekday soap porn. Monday night Football porn. Sigh.
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300. "RE: #187" |
Never underestimate the power of people with sticks up their rears and a desire to implant them in others.
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301. "#188 (mostly true)" |
...well, animated ones, anyway. And the most recent generation only...http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/AllGirlsLikePonies I've ridden a horse once. I am aware that they bite. And kick. And have bowel movements appropriate to their overall mass. Everywhere. Ponies are fun to look at from a distance and they're a joy to watch in motion, but get close up and they're no different from every other animal -- which means the group is composed of individuals and most individuals are jerks. I like certain ponies and horses. Automatic adoration of the species as a whole? Buck it.
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302. "RE: #188 (mostly true)" |
Especially little Polish girls.
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306. "RE: #188 (mostly true)" |
LAST EDITED ON 08-15-12 AT 01:41 PM (EST)No bad odors to speak of. Very much like a farm or a ranch. The place I visited was an elephant orphanage in Namibia where they took orphaned elephant calves from the wild, some very small, and raised them until they could be freed. Some they kept as adults and let tourists ride in order to raise money for the operation of the place. Very heart warming and scarcely anyone left there without tossing a hand full of cash in. They brought out the baby elephants to pet, and they were the hit of the day. So I guess the odor issue was addressed with frequent sponge baths, plus they had a watering hole where they had water gun contests with their trunks. They also had a dust pit which I'm told helps keep down parasites. Elephants, much like cattle and other grass eating animals are shit machines, and are almost constantly evacuating. However elephant dung is a conveniently dry bundle, a turd about 6" in dia., and you can just sort of kick it aside if it's in your way. It isn't the more disgusting liquid based or sticky plop, and doesn't have a feces reek. For Poop, it's pretty pleasant, and not hard to be around.
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308. "#189" |
The version I never get to see: the character slices a vein and starts bleeding into the ground while proclaiming the nature of his vow, why he's taking it up, the total number of people it's effective against, what he personally plans on doing to each one, the route he's taking to get there in order to avoid extra tolls, and several good restaurants along the way --http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/BloodOath -- before dying from excessive blood loss. ...oh, come on: it would be hilarious.
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309. "RE: #189" |
The blood secret is, I've got HIV. And now you have it too.
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317. "What?" |
What'd you say?
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311. "#190 (occupational hazard)" |
Actually, more like occupational qualifier...http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/DistractedByTheSexy ...which in some perspectives kind of takes this into occupational pickpocketing, but let's not get into that... Not gonna be a good day for Kingfish on this trope.
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313. "RE: #190 (occupational hazard)" |
I seem to be immune to this particular trope.
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315. "RE: #190 (occupational hazard)" |
So you've never been taken out of your train of thought by spotting a good-looking guy?
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316. "RE: #190 (occupational hazard)" |
Trope only mentions the distraction caused by gorgeous women. Gender reversal might be a different story.
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329. "RE: #190 (occupational hazard)" |
That clip had the exact opposite reaction.
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332. "RE: #190 (occupational hazard)" |
The tag said that if you were a straight male, the clip might turn you gay. Is it my fault if I read it as 'It features a male who's just that gorgeous'?
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327. "RE: #190 (occupational hazard)" |
As poker has developed to be dominated more and more by internet players (many who appear to be a small step from computer geeks), I think Jenn's "full house" has most of them dominated.
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324. "RE: #190 (occupational hazard)" |
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325. "RE: #190 (occupational hazard)" |
This one qualifies as... show some tail!
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326. "RE: #190 (occupational hazard)" |
Those are some really open-minded dogs.
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328. "RE: #190 (occupational hazard)" |
I had seen that before, and figured it was photoshopped, but now I see that there are reflections of the dogs in the puddle beside the cat. Either really good photoshop, or really well trained dogs!
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331. "RE: #190 (occupational hazard)" |
The cats must really pray that the training went well.
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333. "RE: #190 (occupational hazard)" |
I would think the cat would be for the advanced class that already passed the jogger and other distractions tests.
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338. "#191 (stoopid Hollywood liberals)" |
On the Movie Map Of The World, once you leave America's coastlines behind, you are generally limited to three locations.Chicago
Detroit
http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/DownOnTheFarm As the article notes, believing the movie industry generally means believing every city in the center has less than ten thousand people and is patiently waiting for someone to get past the laws banning calculators so they can actually take a census, if only the town council didn't believe a census would capture their souls. And yes, there are places and people where this is pretty much Basis In Fact -- but the entire Midwest? Not. Quite. Maybe prairies just get really boring to film?
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339. "RE: #191 (stoopid Hollywood liberals)" |
There was still a touch of that Prairie Life ideal in the hill country of Texas when and where I spent some of my youth. Now it's country estates and million dollar summer homes. Ptooie.
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340. "#192" |
LAST EDITED ON 08-20-12 AT 08:36 AM (EST)This... "The Internet Engineering Task Force often publishes spoof standards documents on April Fool's Day. One of these was "A Standard for the Transmission of IP Datagrams on Avian Carriers", ie, a document proposing a standardized way to send Internet traffic via homing pigeon. In 2001, a group in Norway tried it out and determined that it had severe problems with latency and packet loss." ...does not contradict this. http://tinyurl.com/fasterthanaspeedinginternet Yeesh. http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/InstantMessengerPigeon Either way, you're going to be taking custody of a lot of poop.
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341. "RE: #192" |
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343. "#193 (the far right wishes)" |
One puff and the world starts to take on a slight sparkle around the edges.Two puffs and you're pleasantly mellow. Three puffs and you grab a rifle and head out into the street where you start shooting at the demons oozing up through the cracks in the planet and they're everywhere and there's a little one in that stroller so you'd better shoot it before it can attack http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/MarijuanaIsLSD Most reefer madness is in the eyes of those trying to ban it. But not all.
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08-23-12, 08:52 PM (EST)
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351. "RE: #194 (RPG)" |
Thanks.
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08-23-12, 07:57 AM (EST)
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349. "RE: #195 (mostly RPGs)" |
When you no longer have sleep and bath cycles to give you a reason for changing, a nose to tell you how bad you're starting to smell, or other people around to mention it for you or comment on your appearance, the fashion sense is the first to go.
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08-23-12, 08:46 AM (EST)
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350. "RE: #195 (mostly RPGs)" |
Well that trope was confusing as hell.I read, Typically his soul is stored elsewhere in a Soul Jar, at times called a phylactery, which must be destroyed before he can be fully defeated., and started looking for the link Dick Cheney. Then I read, A lich's physical appearance can range from near-normal, to zombie/corpse-like, to completely skeletal, which usually depends on the lich's age., and starting looking for the link to Nancy Pelosi. The next closest reference I could find for her was the trope page's picture of her reading the Obamacare bill while standing on a pile of Chicago voters. 
U.S. Government: Doing everything you used to do yourself for you since 2008.
"A government big enough to give you everything you want, is strong enough to take everything you have." - Thomas Jefferson
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352. "#196 (misunderstood)" |
This is one of the fallback tropes for crime shows, mystery stories, and films where the villains come from outside the country. It is used, abused, kicked in the head, tossed in the dumpster, and then hauled out so the cycle can begin again. And since the only contact most people have with it is through media, very few understand how it actually works -- especially since the dramatic necessity (and lack of research) means most of the writers are going to get it wrong, frequently on purpose. As long as it serves the needs of the story, who cares about accuracy?Which also happens to describe what the subjects do every day. http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/DiplomaticImpunity This one's worth a read just to find out how the process operates in real life. Be warned, though: it will ruin a movie for you. Or twenty. Per year.
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08-24-12, 08:31 AM (EST)
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353. "RE: #196 (misunderstood)" |
Without looking, I'm guessing I'll find Burn Notice, Covert Affairs, White Collar under TV and no doubt will see Lethal Weapon 2 in film.
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355. "RE: #196 (misunderstood)" |
Two for four and one of them provides the page quote. But it's one of those tropes where citing every example could potentially overwhelm a server.
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354. "RE: #196 (misunderstood)" |
This is why us Can'tadian peeps don't pay our RTVW user fees. We see it as a tax, and we are immune.
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08-25-12, 08:37 AM (EST)
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356. "#197" |
Somewhere on the lower tier of standard sitcom plots -- you know the ones: tired writers, uncaring director, stupid audience, so head for the twenty stories that keep getting cross-series reruns -- is this rotten walnut. Because it's just so tragic. To think that all those people who know you so well could neglect this very basic detail. Because they're self-involved idiots who don't care about anything but themselves. And so are you. Which is why you care about this. And they don't.http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/ForgottenBirthday In the Whitney version, the cast kills the victim. That way, they never have to worry about forgetting their birthday again. No, they won't remember the anniversary to show up at the gravesite either.
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08-25-12, 09:06 AM (EST)
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357. "RE: #197" |
The "Married with Children" example was a pretty funny version of this. And it exemplified the basic irreverence of everybody for everybody else theme of the show.
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08-26-12, 10:33 AM (EST)
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360. "RE: #197" |
My friend's brother forgot his dad's birthday....which happened to be on the same day as his. Schmuck.
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08-26-12, 10:40 AM (EST)
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361. "RE: #198 (generic)" |
If I ever forget my password, I am coming back with the name Squishy Wizard.
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08-28-12, 07:09 AM (EST)
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363. "#200" |
LAST EDITED ON 08-28-12 AT 07:26 AM (EST)If you want to get a student's attention on a lesson, make it involve something exploding. If you want to find out just how little they learned anyway, give them the chance to replicate it. And if you want to definitively prove that you're a total idiot who never should have been allowed access to a classroom in the first place, let them all do it at the same time. http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/EducationThroughPyrotechnics The Real Life examples are not for the faint of heart. New thread tomorrow.
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365. "RE: #200" |
Oh the stories I could tell of my colleague and a balloon full of acetylene.......
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366. "RE: #200" |
Oh, tell, tell us do.
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