Not Tropeworthy: Viewer Stock Phrases

Viewer Stock Phrases is not a trope. It's a list of "stock phrases" possibly uttered by the audience viewing a work.

The page was created Aug. 11th, 2007 (long before No New Stock Phrases was put into place), its last non-cleanup edit was in October 2015, it has 18 wicks, and it has brought 208 people via non-search engine links. If it were proposed in the TLP today, it would not make it out.

Wick Check

Audience Awareness Advantage: as a "see" in description

Let's See YOU Do Better!: potholed in description

Look Behind You: mentioned in description

Manipulative Bastard: potholed in description

Sleep Cute: potholed in description

Stock Phrases: Index

What Could Possibly Go Wrong?: potholed in description

What Were You Thinking?: potholed in description

Heirverse: audience reaction

Scream (1996): audience reaction

Viewer Stock Phrases: laconic

Chuck: audience reaction

Miami Vice: audience reaction

Reaper: audience reaction

Star Trek: The Original Series: audience reaction

Sticky Dilly Buns: potholed in another entry, misuse because the speaker is not viewing anything

The Chipmunk Adventure: in another entry, points out that Look Behind You is such a phrase

24: entry

Assuming this is a trope, there are no correct uses.

Possible actions:

• Make YMMV
• Make Just For Fun
• Cut
• Something else

Since this is explicitly about audience reactions, it might be made YMMV. However, even as YMMV, the page serves no purpose to the wiki. We don't do stock phrases because saying "this gets said a lot" does not describe any narrative conventions, and neither does quoting viewers and leaving it at that. Even as YMMV, existing entries do not actually describe Viewer Stock Phrases because the phrases stated in the wicks (marked "audience reaction") are unique to that work. There are other YMMV entries those phrases can go. It's misuse of "Stock Phrase" as well because real life cannot have stock phrases (in the same way it cannot have Flanderization, Wham Line, Episodes, etc.)

If it comes down to a vote, I vote for cut.

Yeah, definitely doesn't look tropeworthy. The wick check helps. Opened.

Either JFF or cut will be my vote.

I vote cut, I can't see any reason for it to be JFF. It's not...well...fun.

JFF or cut. Not useful.

JFF, don't cut.

Cut. I'm with WarJay in thinking the page isn't really that fun as-is.

Cut.

Cut

Cut as it is. I think the concept of this page could be tweaked into a Just for Fun page, but TLP would be a better place for that.

6 votes for cut
1 vote for JFF
2 votes for either cut or JFF

How about a crowner?

Cut has the only positive score at 13-3, JFF is 5-7, YMMV is 0-14.

Dewicked and cut, so calling it done.