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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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