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Technically 2 here...totally unrelated as well.
1. Is there a trope that certain voices, no matter what the medium, are always going to gravitate toward a specific vocal performance...especially if said medium is outside the age range of the ORIGINAL version? For example, any nebbish in a children's Cartoon invariably sounds like varying degrees of EVERYONE's (usually bad) Woody Allen impersonation? TV Chefs before a certain time are generally either Variations on The Galloping Gourmet (if Male) or Julia Child (If Female) and after a certain time frame are generally parodies of Emeril or Paula Deen. Basically it's a quick visual/vocal parody that tells you the basic outline of the character based on everyone's stock impersonation of them.
2. The second is the phrase "You didn't think it'd be that easy did you?" It seems like it'd be it's own trope, but likely is a simple "Stock Villain Phrase"
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In a space station, spaceship, factory, etc, a large number of characters are standing around spouting technobabble and long numbers, usually staring at screens in fierce concentration. "Five-six-eight-zeta-omega..." "Heading starboard at zero five nine degrees, correct alpha alpha three..." There will be flashing lights, beeps and mysterious cables. There's not usually any focus on what is actually happening, but the creators to give the impression that there's a lot of it — think ants with voices. Often used as a background for the real action or dialogue.
This is quite a common scene, I think — there must be a trope of it somewhere.
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Alice and Bob are not in love. At all. They have no Unresolved Sexual Tension, really. They're also the main characters / two of the main characters in a TV show or movie, so if they *do* actually hook up, it has to be near teh end or else it's RUINED FOREVER!
Then they meet Carly and Dave. Carly and Dave are expys of Alice and Bob. Maybe they show up for one episode/a ministory-arc, or they come in the end of the film, either way. Alice and Bob won't notice the similarities, but everyone else will. If it's Played for Laughs than Alice and Bob won't notice anything and status quo is god. If they do, it's the realization they need to know they do love each other.
Does this ring any bells with anyone?
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"I admit that humanity has in the past been barbaric. Therefore I say test us. Test whether this is presently true of humanity."
I'm trying to think of what trope this would fall under. A little help?
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I was watching one Buffy episode and at the beginning she is dressed exactly the same as Kim Possible, specifically the lime tank top and blue pants she sometimes wears. I don't think this is a Shout Out from KP creator Steve Loter, as it would be fairly obscure. I'm leaning towards Hilarious In Hindsight, given the similarity of the two shows, but I'm wondering if there's a better trope for it.
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Happens all over, but the examples I can think of are LATV. A teacher who seemingly only teaches one class a day, like Mr. Kotter on Welcome Back Kotter, Mr. Moore on Head Of The Class, etc.
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Here's the setup: Bob gets amnesia. He can't remember anything about his family, friends, job, etc. So he has all sorts of wacky/exciting/terrifying adventures (depending on the genre) trying to piece his life together. At the end of the episode, because Status Quo Is God, Bob's amnesia is reversed. However, now he's forgotten everything that happened to him while his memory was gone.
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Is there one for when someone is getting a dose of information they don't like hearing, and so they say something like, "I'm out of here!" or "I don't have to take this!" and turn to walk away, but then the same character who was questioning/berating them finally gets to the punchline and the person ends up not leaving?
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What's the trope for that "Voice Modulator" that KITT had in the [[Knight Rider]] series? Is there even one?
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Do we have a trope for when an actor or other show worker gets visibly tired and goes from being a "normal" actor to phoning it in? For instance, Richard Dawson as a panelist on Match Game went from a lovable joker to a laconic Jerkass who was clearly bored out of his gourd.
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Do we have a trope for inadvertent destruction of props on-camera?
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Character 1: "How have you not seen [New Character] before?"
Cut to clips of old episodes with new character inserted digitally.
Character 2: "Oh yea, him/her!"
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I would call this "Visiting Psychologist." It's similar to "Sensitivity Training."
A visiting psychologist talks to all the main characters who react in predictable or unpredictable ways. Some are scared that s/he will be found wanting. All the neuroses and tics come out. Some are defiant and belligerent, some study up to try to say the "right" thing, some refuse to even be interviewed and are badgered by the boss until they comply.
At the end, the psychologist decides everyone's okay.
Examples:
Homicide, Life on the Street: "See No Evil" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/See_No_Evil_%28Homicide:_Life_on_the_Street%29
NCIS: "A Man Walks Into A Bar" http://www.ncisfanwiki.com/page/8.14+A+Man+Walks+Into+A+Bar...
I believe there was an episode of M*A*S*H where Alan Arkin played the visiting psych.
All episodes of The Sopranos.
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Buffy. Willow flaying Warran alive after he kills her girlfriend. In the show it's treated as a Moral Event Horizon. Now I'm sure a lot of fans would agree, were it me I wouldn't have stopped at the flaying. If someone had killed a character Amber Benson played I'd slaughter thousands.
What trope would something portrayed as bad be something that viewers agreed with? I thought Values Dissonance but it didn't seem to fit there.
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I was wondering what it's called when someone thinks there is reason to be scared, but it turns out there is nothing to worry about.
Example: 24 Redemption has one of the boys Jack is looking after going through his things, stealing his knife and shirt before he sees Jack watching him. The boy is afraid, thinking Jack is going to do something or at least be angry, but it turns out he was only fetching some work gloves, and after a few calm words gets the boy to give the knife back.
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Is there a Trope for the way that characters control TV sets? Like they'll have it on mute until a point that they want everyone to see comes on, or the way they turn the TV off afterwards in a way that's just plain unnatural.
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"So, we've lost all power, the monsters are burrowing in, and Justin turned out to be one of the bad guys!"
A lot of shows seem to have a line of dialogue in just that form, listing everything bad that's going on. What's it called?
It's also often done in Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking form, eg, "… and my hair looks awful!"
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It seems like Steven Moffat does this a lot, where someone will realize something and the phrase it as a question. It's like "If you're here, and I'm here, who's watching the kid?" I remember a specific instance in "Forest of the Dead," where someone says something about there being five people to save, and then someone says "if there are five people to save, why are there six people in here?" And then everyone turns around to see the disguised monster. My sister and I have been calling it "if x then why," so I might be having trouble locating it under another name, if it exists.
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Is there a trope that something along the lines of "screwing the boss's wife"? tried to look for it but can't find it. i'm only thinking of this cuz i JUST realized that J.D. from the Scrubs show has done this in the first season since Jordan is the ex-wife of Dr. Cox who is pretty much J.D.'s boss(technically wife because we found out later that their divorce wasn't offical) as well as Christa Miller who is Jordan's actress being the real-life wife of the creator of scrubs. I think there should be so maybe i missed it. if this trope hasn't been made i'd be somewhat disappointed
Okay, so I *know* this has got to be a trope. Somewhere.
...Right...?
Anywhooz you have one/small group of amateurs at something- mostly combat (ninjas!), but sometimes also a sport- and something happens to everyone who was more experienced then them, leaving the amatuers to save the day.
Not Ragtag Bunch of Misfits, as this is specifically about the fact that one/small group is an amateur, and the more experienced people have failed.
Thank you for your time tropers~