Just a Pokemon and a Caption: Epileptic Trees

So from what I can tell, the trope Epileptic Tree is something similar to Wild Mass Guessing where it involves random crackpot theories about plots, characters and so forth. Got it. But what does Sudowoodo have to do with any of it? The trope isn't about trees nor is it about Pokemon, so not really sure why it's there.

edited 9th Feb '11 10:34:51 PM by Mattonymy

Visual Pun, I think. Not a very good one.

But if we're going to use a visual pun, why not one where the trope's a little more...evident? We could crop out the watermark and use this one◊, for instance, with the caption "The truth is in there somewhere, right?"

edited 10th Feb '11 12:05:17 AM by Mattonymy

Sudowoodo is weird and slight irrelevant - how could this NOT be the poster Poke for ET?

That's really only if you actually understand who he is and where he came from. To everyone else, he's just a stylized happy anime tree. Plus he's got absolutely nothing to do with the trope, since it's neither about Pokemon characters nor Trees.

If you want, split it off into the WMG for Pokemon. But it's a pretty terrible image to have on the main page for Epileptic Trees.

edited 10th Feb '11 7:56:46 PM by Mattonymy

Bump, so any other ideas that aren't just JAFAAC?

Something from a comic strip or webcomic might be the best bet. Pretty much everything else would probably be JAFAAC.

Why hasn't the picture of that... thing (just what the hell IS that anyway?) been pulled yet?

Here's an interesting one: [1]

edited 18th Feb '11 2:13:03 PM by redhed311

Erm, that's cutting a little too close to being a Wall of Text IMO. Plus speech bubble carries entire thing.

Maybe the first panel only would work?

That mutant tree thing is still the page image? Seriously?

edited 19th Feb '11 10:01:02 AM by redhed311

Here's the first panel only of that comic strip:

Does that assume familiarity with Gilligans Island?

I'd say that's a nice start, but without the necessary context simply looks like someone explaining the plot of the show.

Maybe the entire strip then?

Yeah, that not going to happen, sorry.

Could we at least pull the original image, then? Phallic looking mutant trees do not represent this trope well at all. I know I sound like I'm harping on this a lot, but that's because people are so quick to pull other images, yet this terrible example remains.

This trope would probably be best left imageless (although I don't see what's so wrong with the comic strip).

edited 28th Feb '11 4:20:36 PM by redhed311

Old image pulled:

edited 10th Apr '11 1:43:39 PM by Osmium

Here's another rather bizarre tree image, perhaps a spiraling into a thread of deceit? [1]◊

No not really

Meh, I liked Sudowoodo.

Except he literally has nothing to do with the trope and is exceptionally unclear if you've never played Gold or Silver.

Sudowoodo works because JAFAAC is really the only way we can do this trope and the Visual Pun is easy enough to figure out, and what we had up there was the most relevant thing while staying simple.

edited 14th Jun '11 6:18:39 PM by MikaruKeiko

I liked him too. I want to claim grandfather clause cause his was the first page I saw. No real water, but eh.

"JAFAAC is all we can come up with for this trope" doesn't mean "put up JAFAAC." It means "don't put up a picture."

Not to mention that Sudowoodo wasn't JAFAAC. At least JAFAAC pictures are somehow related to the trope beyond being a pun on the title.

edited 14th Jun '11 7:11:43 PM by INUH

Voting no pic, unless someone draws up a pic of a bunch of trees twitching in front of a flickering TV.

[/crass]

edited 14th Jun '11 7:56:23 PM by Willbyr

My apologizes if my terms were off, but if I may explain: 1. Sudowoodo has the visual pun for the picture itself, however that isn't enough, so 2. An example of the trope in the caption, "Theory X: All trees are a herd of sudowoodo". Another pun, but is relevant and makes relevant its picture as it demonstrates the trope simply enough. However if that isn't enough, 3. If the picture and caption isn't the best we've got, then what have we? In an attempt to reexplain the trope, it is a theory that is strange enough to be plausible but isn't anyway, which sudowoodo works in my thought train (and possibly mine alone) since every tree might be a sudowoodo of either a different strain or age, but as we can figure out, it isn't true.

Here's the thing. Images aren't meant to be examples. They're above the examples line. They're part of the definition. So if an image doesn't show the trope to someone who's completely unfamiliar with both the trope and the series the image is from, it's worse than not having an image.

And no, a caption that happens to mention the trope doesn't make the image good by itself.

edited 14th Jun '11 11:02:05 PM by INUH