History Main / ThePlotThickens

!'''Examples'''

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* One of the chapters in ''Literature/ThePhoenixGuards'' by Steven Brust is titled "[[InWhichATropeIsDescribed In Which]] [[LongTitle The Plot, Behaving In Much The Same Manner As A Soup To Which Cornstarch Has Been Added, Begins, At Last, To Thicken]]."

* ''Film/StingraySam''. After an Exposition scene TheNarrator says: "And so the plot begins to thicken... but not by much."

-> ''The plot "thickens", as they say. Why, by the way? Is it a soup metaphor?''

The phrase is sometimes parodied as "The plot sickens". You may also hear "the plot thins" - usually uttered after a major AntiClimax.

-->'''M. Gustave:''' The plot "thickens", as they say. Why, by the way? Is it a soup metaphor?

* One of the ''Literature/EnchantedForestChronicles'' books has a chapter titled "[[InWhichATropeIsDescribed In Which The Plot Thickens]]", which is followed shortly thereafter by one titled "In Which The Plot Positively Curdles".
* Every book in ''Literature/TheIncredibleWorldsOfWallyMcDoogle'' has a chapter called "The Plot Sickens".

-->Ah ha, you see, the plot grows thicker,
-->And Cindy's luck starts looking sicker.

--> '''Narrator:''' The plot thickens
--> '''Other voice:''' And tho do the joketh

-->'''Hawakeye:''' The plot thins.

-> ''Why, by the way? Is it a soup metaphor?''

-->C.S. Lewis: He comes; he sleeps; he goes. So the plot thickens.

-->M. Gustave: The plot "thickens", as they say. Why, by the way? Is it a soup metaphor?

-->Wo Fat: As we clever Chinese say, "The plot thickens..."

-->Michael Knight: So, the plot thickens. I bet this guy David Dalton is not down in Mexico looking for the world's biggest burrito.

-->Pauline: It's about Mickey. He's getting married.
-->Ross: Oh-ho. The plot thickens.

-->-- Gustave H., ''Film/TheGrandBudapestHotel''