I see the Awesomeness.
I'm tempted to suggest Smart Ass And Dumb Ass.
Fight smart, not fair.
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It depends on how each example plays out. Most anime examples though are directly from the Boke and Tsukkomi Routine. Its a dynamic that gets alot of play. Someone has to make a dumbass comment or a really bad snark the Boke, and get corrected or yelled at (most of the time violently, Paper Fan of Doom prefered) with a Tsukkomi.
As well as quite a few that follow the Abbott And Costello style (The page says its a Punch And Judy Show?)
A Redirect of Smart And Dumb Dynamic would work.
edited 6th Jul '11 12:53:55 AM by Raso
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Well, I was thinking more along the lines of just making Dumb And Smart it's own thing but I wanted to know maybe we need to split this and it up before I proposed a new trope.
Title? What Title?
No, what this needs is a serious rename to something non-opaque. I mean, Jesus... I read the title and went, "What the hell is that about?" The minute I read the description I didn't think of anime (which is obviously where the title comes from...), I thought of Martin and Lewis.
The trope description needs work, as well. Its written as if this only happens in Japan.
Being in a Japanese-produced work is not enough of a difference to warrant its own trope.
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This should be a page describing the specifically Japanese comedy act. The non-Japanese examples need to get split off into a supertrope about two-man comedy routines.
Boke And Tsukkomi definitely deserves its own page, its one of the hallmarks of Japanese comedy, and is used all the time.
edited 5th Aug '11 9:40:40 AM by SakurazakiSetsuna
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We don't need a special, separate sub-page for every regional variant of a standard trope. A sentence or two about how it's portrayed in Japan or Bollywood should be more than sufficient.
This is TV Tropes, not Subtle-Differences-Between-Nations tropes.
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Because clearly you are an expert in such things, right?
There are two threads on this.
Already completely resolved in the other thread.
vigilantly taxonomish
I was looking for a general Dumb And Smart trope (you know a Foil type trope like Fat and Skinny or Tomboy and Girly Girl) and found this.
The trope is about a specific thing, but we got some examples shoehorned in there. Plus it seems like a Dumb And Smart type trope should be enough to stand alone and get popular by it's self.