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bitemytail from Arizona Since: Dec, 2011 Relationship Status: [TOP SECRET]
#1: Mar 30th 2018 at 4:06:05 PM

Besides not really demonstrating the trope, it looks like it has a watermark or something along the bottom. That Guy With The Glasses.com from what I can read of it.

Health sure is versatile. It's possible to be both light-headed and dim-witted. At the same time, no less.
AmourMitts Since: Jan, 2016
#2: Mar 30th 2018 at 7:10:56 PM

The image already displays the trope name, so Keep Until Better Image Suggested.

Willbyr Hi (Y2K) Relationship Status: With my statistically significant other
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#3: Mar 30th 2018 at 7:16:34 PM

[up][up] Yeah, that's what it is. It names the trope but doesn't illustrate, and short of a lampshade I have no idea how we'd do this. Voting BUPKIS pending something that actually works.

EDIT: [nja]’d

edited 30th Mar '18 10:09:49 PM by Willbyr

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#4: Mar 30th 2018 at 7:28:17 PM

Hard to find a good image for this, so Keep Until Better Image Suggested.

Keet cleanup
PeabodySam The Pea Mocker from Behind the computer Since: Aug, 2012 Relationship Status: Owner of a lonely heart
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#5: Mar 30th 2018 at 8:10:27 PM

Quick suggestion from a mind that's a little sleep-deprived at the moment (but isn't that always when we get our best ideas?):

Perhaps a collage of screenshots from this Nostalgia Critic review? Most of the screenshots would depict Critic and Chick sitting normally and reviewing the film. The current picture (Critic and Chick randomly dancing while wearing silly hats accompanied by the BLAM logo) would be included somewhere in the collage as the one outlier.

This would visually demonstrate what a Nostalgia Critic review is normally like, and show that this random scene is completely out of nowhere and is strange in context.

... until SUDDENLY DINOSAURS.
Gosicrystal Since: Jun, 2016 Relationship Status: Who needs love when you have waffles?
#6: Mar 31st 2018 at 6:35:38 AM

@2 A good image illustrates the trope in action (which the current doesn't, because it lacks context) instead of announcing the trope's name.

Pull regardless of replacement.

edited 31st Mar '18 6:36:32 AM by Gosicrystal

TheUnsquished Filthy casual from Southern Limey Land (Life not ruined yet) Relationship Status: Married to the job
Filthy casual
#8: Mar 31st 2018 at 6:55:30 AM

I'll go with BUPKIS.

(Annoyed grunt)
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Morgenthaler Since: Feb, 2016
#10: Apr 6th 2018 at 2:52:45 PM

BUPKIS.

You've got roaming bands of armed, aggressive, tyrannical plumbers coming to your door, saying "Use our service, or else!"
Ookamikun Since: Jan, 2001
#11: Apr 10th 2018 at 8:58:51 PM

Yeah this is hard to grab an image because you'd require context in the show. Maybe the caption would do that but it'd then be reliant on the caption. BUPKIS.

Shadao To be a Master Since: Jan, 2013 Relationship Status: Shipping fictional characters
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#12: Apr 15th 2018 at 11:20:59 AM

Well, I remember this scene from The Princess and the Frog.

https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/big_lipped_alligator_moment.jpeg
It didn't end well

However, I would say it's not a completely straight example as it was used to explain why Louis wants to be human. However, the scene kinda illustrates of how just out of nowhere a BLAM is.

Ookamikun Since: Jan, 2001
#13: Apr 15th 2018 at 8:24:08 PM

Isn't this using an image to lie though, since his appearance wasn't a BLAM (he was already part of the cast when this happened iirc).

Morgenthaler Since: Feb, 2016
#14: Apr 15th 2018 at 9:03:16 PM

Yeah, that doesn't look like it's an example. It's just a Cutaway Gag.

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Karxrida The Unknown from Eureka, the Forbidden Land Since: May, 2012 Relationship Status: I LOVE THIS DOCTOR!
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#15: Apr 15th 2018 at 9:23:31 PM

Not sure if it's a Cutaway Gag per se.

Speaking of, that page's image has issues. Starting a thread for it.

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PeabodySam The Pea Mocker from Behind the computer Since: Aug, 2012 Relationship Status: Owner of a lonely heart
The Pea Mocker
#17: Apr 16th 2018 at 3:00:08 PM

https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/blam_v1.png
Six-panel proposal
https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/blam_v2.png
Four-panel proposal
Okay... since nobody seemed to notice my suggestion to improve the current, I'm just throwing it out there again as an illustration of how this one moment of the episode can come across as out-of-nowhere, nonsensical, and irrelevant. Just to keep the ball rolling before we officially declare this a BUPKIS case.

Any thoughts?

Also, as a possible caption: "One of these scenes is not like the others. One of these scenes just doesn't belong."

edited 16th Apr '18 9:01:41 PM by PeabodySam

... until SUDDENLY DINOSAURS.
Willbyr Hi (Y2K) Relationship Status: With my statistically significant other
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#18: Apr 17th 2018 at 4:19:32 AM

[up] Both are good...and you didn't link the actual review in your original suggestion which is why people probably didn't pay attention.

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#19: Apr 17th 2018 at 9:21:56 AM

I don't find either particularly illustrative by themselves but 17.2 could probably work with a good caption. 17.1 is a tad too cluttered; it's not immediately obvious which panel is supposed to show the BLAM.

bitemytail from Arizona Since: Dec, 2011 Relationship Status: [TOP SECRET]
#20: Apr 17th 2018 at 9:26:48 AM

17.2 with a good caption seems fine.

Health sure is versatile. It's possible to be both light-headed and dim-witted. At the same time, no less.
AnotherDuck No, the other one. from Stockholm Since: Jul, 2012 Relationship Status: Mu
No, the other one.
#21: Apr 19th 2018 at 4:57:16 AM

What would be a good caption? I think it works at least passably by itself.

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Shadao To be a Master Since: Jan, 2013 Relationship Status: Shipping fictional characters
To be a Master
#23: Apr 19th 2018 at 11:31:23 AM

Caption:

One of these screencap is not like the others.
Something you don't see everyday.
Insert a song and dance segment in the review and never speak of it again afterwards.

bitemytail from Arizona Since: Dec, 2011 Relationship Status: [TOP SECRET]
#24: Apr 19th 2018 at 12:49:36 PM

[up] "Accordion to this trope, the 3rd image has nothing to do with the rest of the review."

Edit: Changed the pothole to a trope, not an index.

edited 15th May '18 7:54:03 AM by bitemytail

Health sure is versatile. It's possible to be both light-headed and dim-witted. At the same time, no less.
Morgenthaler Since: Feb, 2016
#25: Apr 19th 2018 at 1:32:07 PM

17.1 + 24.

edited 19th Apr '18 1:32:19 PM by Morgenthaler

You've got roaming bands of armed, aggressive, tyrannical plumbers coming to your door, saying "Use our service, or else!"

7th May '18 7:21:59 PM

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