Misused: Caught On The Jumbotron

The trope is supposed to be about two people kissing shown on a jumbotron. It is used on its own page for basically any embarassing event shown on a jumbotron.

So the description says one thing, the examples say another. Should we make a supertrope for the non-kissing examples? Or just modify the description and take it out of the Kissing Tropes index?

What would be the point of having two tropes? It's basically the same.

The description is an Example as a Thesis anyway so you can't really trust it. Just rewrite it to not be an Example as a Thesis and... whatever.

I saw this in the YKTTW and thought it was about fighting.

Does it have to be kissing? Can it be anything embarrassing, or something like getting caught stealing?

edited 15th May '12 9:49:54 PM by spacemarine50

I dunno, do we want to make sure it stays in the Kissing Tropes index?

Other traditional activities known for humorously drawing the jumbotron's attention include: picking your nose, eating something that fell on the floor, flashing the players, attacking the players, attacking the referee, falling onto the field naked on camera day, etc.

Yes, generalize the description and remove it from that index, unless being on the index is compatible with the better definition.

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Actually, while the description mentions a "kiss-cam or somesuch", it doesn't actually say that the characters need to be kissing. It just says, "they're doing something embarrassing". Which covers a wide range of activities.

I say broaden it (or leave it as broad as it was intended to be, depending on how you interpret the description), and remove it from the Kissing index, and, in any case, clarify the description a little.

ETA: browsing the history, I see that the bit about "usually a man and a woman" was a recent addition to the description, and may be adding to the confusion. I don't think this was ever intended to be limited to kissing.

edited 19th Jun '12 10:31:20 AM by Xtifr

I don't read the trope as necessarily kissing, just doing something embarrassing. So, what's needed is really a rewrite of the description to clarify.

If it is supposed to be only about kissing, the trope is badly written, as that's not clear at all.

How's this? I don't even think it necessarily has to involve more than one character, so I made it second-person, as it seemed to flow better, and convey the sense of embarrassment better:

So you've gone to a sporting event and, during a slow moment, you're engaged in some harmless-but-embarrassing activity, like changing your clothes, or picking your nose, or kissing a friend, or hitting a friend, when suddenly, you realize that the Jumbotron camera has decided to zoom in on the stands, and your embarrassing private activity is now being displayed, larger than life, for everyone in the stadium to enjoy.

One common variant is for platonic friends to attend an event together, forgetting that it's a romantic holiday, and then get caught on the "kiss-cam", and have the whole stadium start calling for them to kiss.

May result in a moment of Dull Surprise.

That looks fine. While I am fond of the 'list of increasingly specific examples' style gag from post #6, it might be a bit much for the description.

That's good. I've removed it from the kissing index.

Any other comments on my proposed rewrite? Should I just go ahead and paste it in? And will that be enough that we can call this done?

It's an improvement, so go ahead.

Ok, done. Anything else?

I added it to the Index of Shame. It's about an embarrassing situation, so it fits there.

Good, good, and I just threw it onto the Scenes index (which seems distinctly underpopulated, but that's another story).

Doesn't seem there's anything else to do here.