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SeptimusHeap from Switzerland (Edited uphill both ways) Relationship Status: Mu
#1: Aug 3rd 2013 at 7:39:12 AM

Oh, Mr. Grant! is a trope about, apparently, an off-screen version of love making. However, it's stuck with a dialoguey title and pitiful usage stats (18 wicks and 42 inbounds), and the description is not all that clear.

What is to do here?

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#2: Aug 3rd 2013 at 8:52:07 AM

Ohmigod. Not only is the name a line-of-dialogue, it's a line-of-dialogue that was originally used in a way that has nothing to do with the trope at all! [[note]] In the Mary Tyler Moore Show, Mary would say "Oh, Mr. Grant!" whenever things were going awry. It has nothing to do with offscreen lovemaking.

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#3: Aug 3rd 2013 at 8:57:39 AM

Well, it's a legitimate trope, that much I can say.

Rename, try to find more examples? I don't think it's really that common, though.

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MikuruFan from Away Since: Nov, 2012
#4: Aug 3rd 2013 at 9:22:42 AM

I think it may be too specific. Cut away before a sex scene with Fade to Black and the name has to be said? The line that says that mentions a trope where the partner's name is said in sex. I'd like to see that trope.

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#5: Aug 3rd 2013 at 9:34:29 AM

Yeah, this is basically Sexy Discretion Shot but with a name!

I'd say cut this and YKTTW the "calling partner's name during sex" trope.

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MikuruFan from Away Since: Nov, 2012
#6: Aug 3rd 2013 at 9:40:59 AM

[tup] Maybe we can take examples of this trope to either Sexy Discretion Shot or the name saying trope.

We have Wrong-Name Outburst. Branching off that, the new trope's name may be Name Outburst with something added to the beginning of that that indicates sex.

edited 3rd Aug '13 9:42:19 AM by MikuruFan

SeptimusHeap from Switzerland (Edited uphill both ways) Relationship Status: Mu
#7: Aug 3rd 2013 at 10:38:35 AM

This trope seems to be that instead of showing us the sex, the partner is called by name when it happens. I am thinking of Namecalling The Offscreen Sex (don't really like it).

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#8: Aug 3rd 2013 at 10:41:44 AM

I say cut it and add its examples to Sexy Discretion Shot. It's obviously a subtrope, but it's only got 18 wicks and is a Dead Horse Trope so it's not like it'll need constant updating.

Just make a note in the description of Sexy Discretion Shot that one form of it is someone calling their partner's name as the scene fades away and call it good.

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SeptimusHeap from Switzerland (Edited uphill both ways) Relationship Status: Mu
#9: Aug 12th 2013 at 3:19:30 AM

I see a proposal for a rename and a proposal for a merge here. Shall we crowner that?

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Rethkir A Trusted Friend in Science and Ponies from the gap between dimensions Since: Mar, 2013
#10: Aug 12th 2013 at 5:37:10 AM

What's up with Main.ptitlef7p89sx1 redirecting here?

edited 12th Aug '13 5:39:15 AM by Rethkir

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#11: Aug 12th 2013 at 9:05:15 AM

Leftovers from the old ptitle system. I think that can be safely cut.

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#12: Aug 12th 2013 at 9:06:49 AM

..and the name has to be said?

Yeah, that's basically what No New Stock Phrases was supposed to be about. (*grumble* *grumble*)

Anyway, as it sounds I agree that it does seem too much like The Same But More Specific to Sexy Discretion Shot.

edited 12th Aug '13 9:08:06 AM by Stratadrake

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#13: Aug 12th 2013 at 9:15:50 AM

I've cutlisted that ptitle redirect.

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#16: Aug 14th 2013 at 1:47:20 AM

I clicked on this thread thinking that it was a trope based off something from Jurassic Park, This is even worse.

Merge with extreme prejudice.

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#17: Aug 20th 2013 at 7:39:19 AM

Calling to merge with Sexy Discretion Shot.

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SeptimusHeap from Switzerland (Edited uphill both ways) Relationship Status: Mu
#18: Aug 20th 2013 at 7:45:40 AM

Took care of the tagging and most wicks.

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