Comedy Tropes - Television Tropes & Idioms

Tropes seen primarily in comedy shows, or which are inherently intended to be funny.

Categories:

Parody Tropes
- Stock Parodies
Room Shuffle
Rule Of Funny
Stand Up Comedy

Tropes:

Acceptable Targets
- Once Acceptable Targets
Accidental Athlete
Acid Reflux Nightmare
Acquired Situational Narcissism
Actually Pretty Funny
Adam Westing
Adults Are Useless
- Parental Obliviousness
Air Hugging
Alien Lunch
Aliens Steal Cattle
All Girls Want Bad Boys
All Guys Want Cheerleaders
And The Winner Is
And Zoidberg
Animal Reaction Shot
Antiquated Linguistics
Anyone Remember Pogs
Are You Pondering What I'm Pondering?
Aside Glance
Asymmetric Dilemma
At Arms Length
The B Grade
Back To School
Bait And Switch
Bachelor Auction
Banana Peel
Bannister Slide
Bested At Bowling
Best Out Of Infinity
Biting The Hand Humor
Bizarre And Improbable Golf Game
Blind Without 'Em
- Dropped Glasses
Bloody Hilarious
A Bloody Mess
Black Comedy
Bread Eggs Milk Squick
Break The Motivational Speaker
Breathless Non Sequitur
Brick Joke
British Stuffiness
Brutal Honesty
Bucket Booby Trap
Bucket Of Ears
Burger Fool
By Wall That Is Holey
Calvinball
Can't Get Away With Nuthin'
Can't You Read the Sign?
Caught With Your Pants Down
Ceiling Banger
Centipede's Dilemma
Chained To A Bed
Chain Letter
Cheshire Cat Grin
Chirping Crickets
Church Of Tropology
Citizenship Marriage
Closet Shuffle
Clown Car Base
Coincidental Accidental Disguise
Comeback Tomorrow
Comedic Sociopathy
Coming Of Age Story
Completely Missing The Point
Confession Deferred
Confusing Multiple Negatives
Corridor Chase
Covered In Gunge (aka Covered In Slime, Cream Pie In The Face)
Crazy Prepared
Crosses The Line Twice
Crossover Punchline
The Couch
Could Say It But
Counter Zany
Cue The Flying Pigs
Cute But Cacophonic
Date Peepers
Dead Baby Comedy
- Rape As Comedy
Deep Immersion Gaming
Defenestrate And Berate
Delayed Reaction
Delegation Relay
Department Of Redundancy Department
Description Cut
Did A Korean Person Die
Did Not Eat The Mousse
Different For Girls
Disaster Dominoes
Discriminate And Switch
Dish Dash
Dismotivation
Dissimile
Distant Reaction Shot
Distracted By The Sexy
Does This Remind You Of Anything
Dog Walks You
Dont Explain The Joke
Doom It Yourself
Door Focus
Double Entendre
Double Take
Dresses The Same
Drives Like Crazy
Dropped A Bridget On Him
Drop The Cow
Drop What You Are Doing
Dude Wheres Our Car
Easy Come Easy Go
Eek! A Mouse!
Elephant In The Living Room
Embarrassing Cover Up
Embarrassing Slide
Embarrassing Tattoo
Escalating War
The European Carry All
Even The Dog Is Ashamed
Everything Back To Normal
Everything's Better With Monkeys
- Everything's Better With Penguins
- Nobody Here But Us Chickens
Exiled To The Couch
Exploding Closet
Expospeak Gag
Face Doodling
Failed A Spot Check
The Family For The Whole Family
Fantasy Twist
Fee Fi Faux Pas
Feng Schwing
Le Film Artistique
Filth
Finagle's Law
Hanlon's Razor
Fish Out Of Temporal Water
Flashback Cut
Food Fight
Forgot I Could Fly
For Inconvenience Press One
Freudian Slip
From The Mouths Of Babes
Fruit Of The Loon
The Fun In Funeral
Fun With Foreign Languages
Funny Foreigner
Funny Money
Gag Words
Gallows Humor
Gargle Blaster
Get A Hold Of Yourself Man
Ghost In The Machine
Gilligan Cut
Girls Have Cooties
Global Ignorance
Good Angel Bad Angel
Gonna Need A Bigger Boat
Grave Humor
Gravity Is A Harsh Seamstress
Groin Attack
Hadaka Apron
Hand Off
Hands Go Down
Henway
Hilarious Outtakes
Hilarity Sues
Hint Dropping
Hit Me, Dammit!
Hollywood Dateless
Homemade Inventions
Home Porn Movie
House Amnesia
How Did That Get In There?
How Much Did You Hear?
Hurricane Of Euphemisms
Hurricane Of Puns
I Broke A Nail
I Can Explain
Idiot Ball
If I Were A Rich Man
If You Know What I Mean
I Have This Friend
I Know You Know I Know
Imagine Spot
I Meant To Do That
I'm Mr Future Pop Culture Reference
Immune To Drugs
Impersonation Paradox
Incredibly Lazy Pun
Indulgent Fantasy Segue
Inherently Funny Words
Innocent Innuendo
Insistent Terminology
I Resemble That Remark
Ironic Echo Cut
I See London
I Sophagus
I Take Offense To That Last One
It Came From The Fridge
It Is Pronounced Tro-PAY
It's A Costume Party I Swear
It's The Best Trope Ever
It's The Principle Of The Thing
It Tastes Like Feet
I Was Just Joking
Kent Brockman News
Kitchen Sink Included
Lampshade Wearing
Larynx Dissonance
Last Second Word Swap
Laugh Track
Law Of Disproportionate Response
Leaving Audience
Le Film Artistique
Line Of Sight Name
Literal Metaphor
Little Kid Lover
Little Known Facts
Living In A Furniture Store
The Long List
Long Speech Tea Time
Lost Wedding Ring
Ma'am
Made Of Explodium
Mall Santa
Marx Brothers
Matchmaker Dot Com
Mattress Tag Gag
MD Envy
Metaphorgotten
McNinja
Minor Injury Overreaction
Mirror Routine
Missed Him By That Much
Missing The Good Stuff
Mister Seahorse
Mobile Shrubbery
Mobile Suit Human
Most Common Card Game
Most Definitely Not A Villain
Motorcycle Dominoes
My Favorite Shirt
My New Gift Is Lame
Naked People Are Funny
Never Work With Children Or Animals
New Job Episode
The Niles
No More For Me
Nonverbal Miscommunication
Noodle Incident
Not My Lucky Day
Not So Above It All
Not So Great Escape
Not That There's Anything Wrong With That
Now You Tell Me
No You Hang Up First
Nuclear Family
Offscreen Crash
Oh Wait, This Is My Grocery List
On Second Thought
Once An Episode
Once More With Volume
One Scene Two Monologues
Only Sane Man
Orphaned Punchline
Oven Logic
Overly Long Gag
Overly Long Name
Overused Running Gag
Pass The Popcorn
Passing Judgment
Percussive Prevention
Pet Heir
Pet The Dog
Phlebotinum Induced Stupidity
Picture Day
Pie In The Face
Pif Paf Pof
Please Dump Me
Politeness Judo
Porky Pig Pronunciation
Potty Emergency
Powder Gag
Practical Joke
Prank Date
Premature Aggravation
Pretty Fly For A White Guy
Produce Pelting
Proportional Article Importance
Punchline
Punch Punch Punch Uh Oh
Punctuated Pounding
Rant Inducing Slight
Reactive Continuous Scream
Record Needle Scratch
Redundant Romance Attempt
Reflexive Response
Refuge In Vulgarity
Repeat After Me
Retroactive Wish
Ridiculous Future Inflation
Right Behind Me
Right In Front Of Me
Right On Queue
Road Apples
Roadside Wave
Rubber Face
Rule Of Three
Running Gag
The Runt At The End
The Scream
Screams Like A Little Girl
Screwball Serum
Seinfeldian Conversation
Self Deprecation
Self Offense
Seven Minute Lull
Shaped Like Itself
Short Cuts Make Long Delays
Shrug Take
Side Bet
The Simpsons Did It
Sit Comic
Skippy Rules
Slapstick
Slippery Skid
Smith Will Suffice
Sneeze Of Doom
Snipe Hunt
Social Services Does Not Exist
Somebody Else's Problem
Spit Take
Springtime For Hitler
Somebody Doesn't Love Raymond
Standardized Sitcom Housing
Start My Own
Stereo Fibbing
Stereotype Reaction Gag
Stock Underwear
- Goofy Print Underwear
Straight Man
Strip Poker
Stupid Sexy Flanders!
Subverted Rhyme Every Occasion
Subways Suck
Such A Phony
Sue Donym
Switching To GEICO
Tabloid Melodrama
Take A Number
Talking In Bed
That Came Out Wrong
That Was Objectionable
The Exit Is That Way
The Loins Sleep Tonight
There Was A Door
The Take
The Talk
This Trope Is Bleep
Throw It In
Tom Hanks Syndrome
Too Fast To Stop
Too Much Information
Too Spicy For Yog Sothoth
Top Ten List
Tough Room
Transparent Closet
Trash Of The Titans
Tree Buchet
Trick Dialogue
Tropaholics Anonymous
The Trouble With Tickets
Truth Telling Session
Trust Building Blunder
Twin Switch
Ugly Guy Hot Wife
Unfunny
Unpronounceable Alias
Unsympathetic Comedy Protagonist
Unusual Euphemism
Urine Trouble
Vetinari Paradox
Villains Out Shopping
Visual Pun
The Vodka Is Good But The Meat Is Rotten
Vomit Chain Reaction
Wacky Cravings
Wacky Fratboy Hijinx
Wacky Marriage Proposal
Wafer Thin Mint
We ARE Struggling Together
Weekend At Bernies
We Haven't Learned Anything Yet
Weird Trade Union
Well This Is Not That Trope
We Need A Distraction
We Sell Everything
- Show Some Leg
What?
What's My Line
White Dude Black Dude
Who Would Want To Watch Us?
What Are Records?
Who's On First
The Window Or The Stairs
Wiper Start
Wondrous Ladies Room
Won't Take Yes For An Answer
Worth It
Yawn And Reach
You Are A Tree Charlie Brown
You Get Me Coffee
Your Other Left

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