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Deadlock Clock: Jun 28th 2013 at 11:59:00 PM
BlueGuy (Ten years in the joint)
#1: May 27th 2013 at 2:47:33 PM

I figured this could work for Drop the Cow (probably without a caption, though if it's needed I'd suggest "And after all that work, too...").

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SeptimusHeap from Switzerland (Edited uphill both ways) Relationship Status: Mu
#2: May 27th 2013 at 2:57:05 PM

This image got some support in the old thread. I have concerns that the image is more about the trope name than the trope, though.

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BlueGuy (Ten years in the joint)
#3: May 27th 2013 at 3:03:41 PM

Oh yeah! I forgot about that. Whoops...

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rodneyAnonymous Sophisticated as Hell from empty space Since: Aug, 2010
#4: May 27th 2013 at 3:29:40 PM

Vote against. Misleading: It fits the trope name but does not illustrate its meaning.

edited 27th May '13 3:33:37 PM by rodneyAnonymous

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#5: May 27th 2013 at 3:55:29 PM

I agree. There's no point of showing the name if that doesn't help to understand the concept. That guy holding the cow is confusing but it doesn't look like he's doing it for silliness.

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#6: May 27th 2013 at 10:52:51 PM

[up] Not that this is helping the image's case, but that's a she getting crushed by the cow, not a he.

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#7: May 28th 2013 at 4:16:31 AM

Yes, the image demonstrates the name rather than the trope. That's probably grounds for dragging the trope to TRS, too.

In the meantime, perhaps something from the Muppet Show? They did have a tendency to interrupt scenes with random drop-ins.

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Melkior Since: Dec, 2011
#8: Jun 1st 2013 at 1:51:35 AM

The recent "Quackbusters" movie (Daffy Duck) had in its opening, Daffy being crushed under a falling cow. It was fairly obviously a shout-out to the trope since it was at the end of a deliberately awkward sketch.

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rodneyAnonymous Sophisticated as Hell from empty space Since: Aug, 2010
#10: Jun 4th 2013 at 7:12:31 PM

^^ There's a lot to be said for not using an image that involves an actual cow.

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#12: Jun 25th 2013 at 6:21:42 AM

As this got an empty bump at the 20-day mark, I've gone ahead and clocked it.

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#13: Jun 29th 2013 at 4:31:02 PM

Clock's up; locking for iactivity. No action is to be taken based on this thread.

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