Try and guess what this trope is without checking.: Plan B From Outer Space

I'll agree with Accusing The Witness. Plan B From Outer Space is rather amusing, but very nonindicative.

Bumping this since I just discovered this trope and its obtuse name.

Accuse the Witness / Accusing The Witness sounds good.

Yes, rename to Accuse the Witness.

I strongly dislike this name, so I want to rename it. And it only has 19 wicks/19 inbounds, so I say, sweet, let's do this thing.

Wait! What about The Perry Mason Method, as mentioned earlier by Madrugada? (And by this, I mean the fact that it ALSO means "accuse the witness"?)

I can see an argument for making a distinction between the two: Perry Mason usually called the witness for the sole purpose of accusing them, having deduced their culpability, while The Practice usually did it as a straight-out tactic, not knowing or even caring if the witness actually did it or not. But is that too fine a distinction (or at least, is it a distinction that will allow tropers to remember which is which)?

Maybe we should just merge the two, perhaps under the Accuse the Witness name?

edited 22nd Jun '11 7:12:41 PM by Leaper

I prefer Accuse the Witness.

The Perry Mason Method involves, and I quote, "[badgering] a confession out of a witness on the stand in the courtroom." Getting witness to confess to a crime on the stand is not the same thing as outright accusing the witness of being the perpetrator.

Not that the name Accuse the Witness would help with keeping them apart.

I Thought It Meant something to do with the B-movie Plan 9 From Outer Space. Yup, I'd say it needs a change.

Yeah, I have to agree with Accuse the Witness. It gets the point across. Plan B From Outer Space was a terrible name for this.

Agreed — Accuse the Witness seems like it'll cause too much confusion with The Perry Mason Method. Some sort of reference to reasonable doubt (which is the key distinction, seems to me) would probably be better, but I'm damned if I can think of one. :/

Anyway, there's several better suggestions here, so let's just choose one and rename it?

I'm down for merging too. They are pretty similar, and neither one has good performance. (The Perry Mason Method's wicks and inbounds are both sub-50.)

I apologize for taking so long, but there is now a page action crowner for this trope here. I think that we can switch to an alternative titles crowner pretty quickly if the rename option receives a lot of support early. If other people think that we can skip this crowner and go straight to alternative titles, I would be open to doing that as well.

Bumpity.

Calling the crowner, 8 to 1 in favour of a rename.

Edit: Alt titles crowner made and hooked.

edited 4th Jan '12 4:36:10 AM by BobbyG

Accuse the Witness looks like it has a consensus.

Calling in favor of Accuse the Witness.

Page moved, wicks moved, laconic moved, and I folderized it while I was at it. We should be done here.