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So, you're spending many (way too many) hours reading TV Tropes. You remember exactly every Tropes Of Legend and know by heart the whole Canonical List Of Subtle Trope Distinctions. But still, even if it might ruin your life, TV Tropes might also make it better in many areas.
Those are:

• Vocabulary! You never know what bizarre word a troper will use (especially if you're not native English) and you need to understand it! Then, woah, you remember and start using it. Congratulations, your Vocabulary just got a +1 bonus!
  • Examples: Laconic, any one of the four temperaments, and double meanings no one who has never been to this site will ever get!
• Grammar! Even if you literally know nothing about it, there's always a Grammar Nazi around to correct you, making you acknowledge the error and learn by fun, 'cause TV Tropes is fun.
• Series! So, you read a trope or something, and there it is - a TV show, or maybe a comic, that sounds good. You'd never know about its existence without TV Tropes.
• Knowledge! And then you're there, reading a summary of something, going through the tropes it shows... What a surprise for your friends, when you suddenly pop up with such a detail, that even that geeky fan didn't remember about, and now you even understand the strange Meme.
• School!
  • TV Tropes is helpful for literature classes because you start thinking about literary works in the context of analysis, which is the entire point of most literature classes. (Well, that and the whole Everyone Is Jesus In Purgatory thing.) You just need to remember not to tell your college professor that the Ariadne myth hung a lampshade on the whole philandering-gods thing...
  • Useful Notes. The best source of notable information right after The Other Wiki.[ citation unneeded ]
  • Known persons and philosophical concepts get quite useful too, especially when trying to impress teachers.
  • General knowledge! It's amazing what stuff you pick up from this site without realising.
  • Would you believe I Am Not Shazam? When we got to the industrial revolution in history class, I already knew Jethro Tull invented the seed drill.
  • This troper got a question right on a test on the Enlightenment thanks to remembering the Rousseau Was Right article. Thus justifying all the time he spent not studying.
  • I'm in public speaking class. One of the most important lessons I know of is to practice dictation with any kind of long passage I can find. Guess where my favorite place to do that is. Go on, guess.
  • This troper aced her philosophy exam by launching into a monologue about post-modernism in fiction, using tropes from this site (paraphrased) as examples. The teacher was very impressed.
  • This troper knew what everything her teacher was going to teach her about logical fallacies before the class started, thanks to You Fail Logic Forever.
  • This troper once got astoundingly high on an English assessment (a narrative) thanks to making a quick but compelling plot by drawing Unreliable Narrator, Jerkass, and Beware The Nice Ones (and probably many more) out of the recesses of my easily-distracted mind. This was a national test; I was at least in the top 2% of Australia. Thank you, TV Tropes.
  • This troper writes his notes in trope. It helps a lot (so that my easily emptied mind can focus on things that just won't leave).
  • Tv Tropes convinced This Troper to take a film studies class! And now reading Tv Tropes counts as research! Thank you, Tv Tropes!
• Wit! Because you get to use it a lot when editing the TV Tropes, you little Deadpan Snarker!
  • And how!
    • In a related area, Title Dropping a trope name can cause hilarity to ensue. E.G. Shouting "You Highly Visible Ninja!" at annoying enemies that fit the description,, or demanding, "WhatDoYouMeanItWasntMadeOnDrugs?"
• Critical mind! First, because carefully analyzing a work and breaking it down into its component tropes teaches you to carefully watch TV with a judging mind instead of just passively accepting the show. Second, because there's a reason you've became so acquainted with negative tropes, such as Author Tract or Wall Banger, as well as potentially negative tropes like What Do You Mean Its Not Symbolic: because they give you a solid base to justify why a show is bad!
  • Not to mention Evil mind! There's so many villainous tropes lying about, not to mention the Evil Overlord List, to render even the world-record Villain Ball carrier Dangerously Genre Savvy!
  • And don't forget the insane mind, for the Madness Tropes are varied, diverse, and oh-so-useful in determining just how much of a headcase you really are!
• Writing! TV Tropes can tell you all about a possibly negative trope in your work that you didnt even know existed. Now there are all sorts of stories which have been improved thanks to this wonderful website!
  • But don't forget that Tropes Are Not Bad! You can discover fresh tropes that would never have occurred to you and use them in your writing. Or you can take old Discredited Tropes and subvert or deconstruct them in exciting new ways.
    • This Troper is good with settings but bad with characters. TV Tropes helped him have a way to draw up characters.
• Inner strength!
  • TV Tropes kidnapped my boyfriend, so I Took A Level In Badass in order to rescue him! Thanks, TV Tropes!
• Making new friends! Hearing someone use words like Cloudcuckoolander or Genre Savvy in conversation means you can say "A fellow troper?" and make a new friend.
  • And thereby experience The Power Of Friendship firsthand! Maybe you'll even defeat an Evil Overlord or two, who knows?
• TV Tropes can also make you larger and enhance performance, and that can be allot of fun.
• Now I've know everything that I need And Knowing Is Half The Battle
  • Obscure factoids! You know that mirror thing doctors always wear in any fiction that isn't a medical drama? It's called an otolaryngologist's mirror! Now you know!
  • And TV Tropes told me that factoids does not denote a small fact, but instead a statement which sounds true, but isn't!

See also Tv Tropes Will Ruin Your Life, TV Tropes Ruined Your Life, Tv Tropes As A Gateway Drug and Tv Tropes Will Ruin Your Vocabulary, though. If TV Tropes already has enhanced your life, let us know!

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