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eroock
Since: Sep, 2012
14th Jan, 2024 08:56:52 PM
I would call this a parodied example of Scenery Censor.
Florestan
Since: May, 2015
15th Jan, 2024 04:47:22 AM
There are various ways of Playing with a Trope, including parodied, subverted, zig-zagged...
UseHuck
Since: Dec, 2023
15th Jan, 2024 09:04:26 AM
Great, thank you.
I know there is a page called Trope Breaker, which talks about how tropes can become less relevant over time. But that’s not what I’m asking about.
What I’m asking about is, sometimes a comedy work will start out with a well known trope - but then the trope fails, breaks, or gets flipped around, as a joke.
For example, in The Simpsons Movie, Bart’s skateboarding scene, it starts out like a Scenery Censor trope. By “luck,” the inappropriate bits just happen to be invisible from the perspective of the camera. But after doing this successfully for several shots, then all of a sudden the trope breaks and shows ONLY the, uh… inappropriate bit. Would this be called something like “Scenery Censor Breaker”? Or is there a specific trope that refers to breaking other tropes?