History Recap / SlidersS05E13AThousandDeaths

I removed the Freudian Excuse examples. In Mallory’s case, the trope page notes that Freudian Excuses do not apply to events in adulthood. Secondly, it’s not clear what the excuse would actually be for (being a history buff isn’t really something to excuse). For Diana, while she does have a phobia, it’s not like she developed a lot of neuroses or shut herself off from the world because of her phobia. She had a single incident which resulted in a fear but again it’s not clear what the actual excuse would be for in her case (she seems to have coped with her fear and have become a capable confident individual).

I removed the "this is reality" example. The definition of this tropes relates to where “One character tells another; this is reality, this is not a movie, or any variation thereof.” Basically, it relates to where a trope may be defied in a work with the characters noting that the trope would not occur in real life. In other words, “this thing you may expect to happen, won’t be happening because it’s unrealistic and this is reality”. However, the trope example related to noting how the unusual things the patrons were paying to do were things they could experience in their real life. In other words, “our lives are sufficiently unusual, we don’t need to pay to experience these things, we get them for free.”