1 | '''Basic Trope''': Someone assumes they know a "strange, but true" fact that's completely false. |
2 | * '''Straight''': Joel assumes that the word "murder" was actually derived from [[Literature/TheLordOfTheRings "Mordor"]], and Creator/JRRTolkien just happened to know a dictionary publisher. |
3 | * '''Exaggerated''': Joel assumes that the word "murder" was named after [[InventedIndividual Mark Murder, somebody he claims out of thin air to have been the first person to kill another]]. |
4 | * '''Downplayed''': ??? |
5 | * '''Justified''': ??? |
6 | * '''Inverted''': ??? |
7 | * '''Subverted''': Joel quotes facts that sound unlikely and that no one believes, but are [[EskimosArentReal actually true]]. |
8 | * '''Double Subverted''': |
9 | ** The evidence that corroborates Joel's claims is wrong. |
10 | ** The facts Joel quotes were true, but TimeMarchesOn and they are no longer true by the time he brings them up. |
11 | * '''Parodied''': Joel claims that everything in the universe is just an illusion, since the words "everything" and "illusion" [[InsaneTrollLogic both consist of letters]]! |
12 | * '''Zig-Zagged''': … actually, they became true again just before Joel brought them up. |
13 | * '''Averted''': Joel doesn't claim anything so hard to believe, or if he does, he doesn't present it as "secret knowledge." |
14 | * '''Enforced''': ??? |
15 | * '''Lampshaded''': As soon as Joel finishes talking, a subtitle or narrator immediately corrects him for the benefit of the viewer. |
16 | * '''Invoked''': ??? |
17 | * '''Exploited''': Bill wants to sabotage Bunsen in an upcoming test at school, so he suggests Bunsen ask Joel for tutoring. |
18 | * '''Defied''': Bob stops Joel from saying anything unbelievable. |
19 | * '''Discussed''': ??? |
20 | * '''Conversed''': ??? |
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22 | [[LittleKnownFacts This text isn't actually blue, and it doesn't link anywhere. Your imagination does all the work for you!]] |
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24 | %%Optional items, added after Conversed, at your discretion: |
25 | %%* '''Implied''': ??? |
26 | %%* '''Deconstructed''': ??? |
27 | %%* '''Reconstructed''': ??? |
28 | %%* '''Played for Laughs''': ??? |
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