1 | '''Basic Trope''': A character who normally is a DeadpanSnarker or tells irreverent one-liners is struck speechless, either by the seriousness or the sheer idiocy of the situation. |
2 | * '''Straight''': Tim, a detective who has been [[QuipToBlack quipping to black]] at dead bodies the whole series, remains silent when the body is [[WouldHurtAChild a little kid, suffocated with a teddy bear]]. |
3 | * '''Exaggerated''': Tim [[HeroicBSOD breaks down crying]]. |
4 | * '''Downplayed''': Tim gives an AsideGlance, but [[DespairEventHorizon can't go any further than that]], and it's left to interpretation what the AsideGlance means. |
5 | * '''Justified''': |
6 | ** Tim is the FriendToAllChildren. |
7 | ** [[DudeNotFunny Some things cannot be joked about]]. |
8 | ** Hey, you can't always have a quip ready whenever you need one. |
9 | * '''Inverted''': |
10 | ** The normally-humorless Ted suddenly gets in a good BlackComedy-style zinger when he sees the body. |
11 | ** The utter bleakness of the situation freaks Tim out so badly that he becomes even more sarcastic and irreverent than usual. "Looks like playtime is over! I know, I'm just unbearable today." |
12 | * '''Subverted''': Tim suddenly says, "Heh, you know, [[LampshadeHanging I could joke about this]], but it would be just too much to ...''[[LastSecondWordSwap stand]]''." |
13 | * '''Double Subverted''': [[ManlyTears Whereupon he starts weeping.]] |
14 | * '''Parodied''': Tim tries to get in a one-liner, only to be constantly interrupted by someone else doing it instead. |
15 | * '''Zig Zagged''': Sometimes Tim is speechless at particularly horrifying events, sometimes nothing escapes his wit. He just can't seem to find any consistency -- which he himself [[DeadpanSnarker remarks upon]]. |
16 | * '''Averted''': Tim delivers a one-liner as usual. |
17 | * '''Enforced''': The editors ruled "DudeNotFunny" on the proposed joke, so they took it out. |
18 | * '''Lampshaded''': Ted, who's been normally humorless for quite some time, cracks up a little, and remarks, "Tim? Are you actually speechless for once?" |
19 | * '''Invoked''': Tim is assigned a case that the higher-ups know [[DudeNotFunny he won't be amused by]], just to get him to quit it with the sarcasm. |
20 | * '''Exploited''': Tim became a DeadpanSnarker just so that the others would be more affected by the times he couldn't crack a joke. |
21 | * '''Defied''': Tim is mortified by the dead child, but forces himself to keep up the caustic wit to maintain his reputation. |
22 | * '''Discussed''': "I don't think even Tim could possibly make a joke about this." |
23 | * '''Conversed''': "Watch, they're gonna make it clear the audience is supposed to be mortified by having Tim not even make a joke. Just you wait, it'll happen." |
24 | * '''Deconstructed''': [[StepfordSnarker Tim uses his sarcasm as a coping mechanism]], and when he realizes that he's lost the one last barricade against the trauma to which he has been witness, he has a [[DespairEventHorizon complete breakdown]]. |
25 | * '''Reconstructed''': After a little episode when he failed to make a quip, Tim realizes that hiding behind sarcasm isn't a healthy way of coping with his stress, and tries to learn a healthier method of dealing. That doesn't mean he won't still have a clever one-liner ready for when it's actually appropriate. |
26 | * '''Played For Drama''': The victim is a child. Tim doesn't joke because the situation is too tragic. |
27 | * '''Played For Laughs''': |
28 | ** The victim turns out be a grown man who's died in a bizarre S&M accident involving the insertion of a cucumber too far up an orifice where whole cucumbers normally should not be inserted. Tim tries to get a joke off the ground but fails because the situation is too crazy even for him. |
29 | ** TheDitz says something so mindbogglingly stupid to Tim that all he can say is "I'm... not quite sure how to respond to that." |
30 | * '''Implied''': We don't actually see Tim's reaction to the murder, but a friend notes, "I wanted him to shut up, but not like ''that''." |
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32 | Not going back to SarcasmFailure is a fantastic idea!\ |
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34 | Oh... Oh my... |
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