Tropes seen primarily in comedies, or which are inherently intended to be funny.
Tropes:
Main topics:
Genres/types:
- Black Comedy
- Comedy Series
- Cringe Comedy
- Dramedy
- Fantastic Comedy
- Horror Comedy
- Romantic Comedy
- Satire/Parody/Pastiche
- Rant Comedy
- Recorded and Stand-Up Comedy
- Self-Referential Humor
- Vulgar Humor
Other categories:
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Tropes – A
- Abhorrent Admirer
- Absent-Minded Professor
- Absurd Phobia
- Absurdly Bright Light
- Absurdly Ineffective Barricade
- Absurdly Long Wait
- Accidental Art
- Accidental Athlete
- Accidental Bid
- Accidental Dance Craze
- Accidental Discovery
- Accidental Hug
- Accidental Marriage
- Accidental Pervert
- Accidental Proposal
- Accidental Unfortunate Gesture
- Acid Reflux Nightmare
- Acme Products
- Acquainted with Emergency Services
- Acquired Error at the Printer
- Acquired Situational Narcissism
- Acronym Confusion
- Acting Unnatural
- Action Insurance Gag
- Actor/Role Confusion
- Actually Pretty Funny
- Actually, That's My Assistant
- Adam Westing
- Addictive Foreign Soap Opera
- Admiring the Abomination
- Adolf Hitlarious
- Adults Are Useless
- Agitated Item Stomping
- The Ahnold
- Air Hugging
- Alien Lunch
- Aliens Steal Cattle
- All Balloons Have Helium
- All-Cheering All the Time
- All Cloth Unravels
- The Alleged Car
- The Alleged Car: Real Life
- The Alleged Computer
- The Alleged Steed
- All Guys Want Sorority Women
- All Jews Are Cheapskates
- The All-Solving Hammer
- Amazingly Embarrassing Parents
- Ambulance Cut
- Am I Right?
- Amusing Alien
- Amusingly Short List
- Anal Probing
- And All I Got Was This Lousy T-Shirt
- And a Diet Coke
- ...And That Would Be Wrong
- And the Rest
- And There Was Much Rejoicing
- Angrish
- Animal Reaction Shot
- Animated Outtakes
- Annoying Background Event
- Annoying Laugh
- Anorgasmia
- Answers to the Name of God
- Antenna Adjusting
- Anti-Climactic Parent
- Anti-Climax Cut
- Anti-Humor
- Antiquated Linguistics
- Anti-Sneeze Finger
- Anyone Remember Pogs?
- Anything You Can Do, I Can Do Better
- Appeal to Obscurity
- Appliance Defenestration
- Are We There Yet?
- Are You Pondering What I'm Pondering?
- The Aristocrats
- Armor-Piercing Slap
- Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking
- Ashes to Crashes
- Ash Face
- Asian Speekee Engrish
- Aside Comment
- Aside Glance
- Ass Shove
- Assembly Line Fast-Forward
- Assumed Win
- Astonishingly Appropriate Interruption
- Astronomical Exchange Rate
- Asymmetric Dilemma
- At Arm's Length
- Ate the Spoon
- Attack! Attack... Retreat! Retreat!
- Attack of the Political Ad
- Attack the Tail
- Awful British Sex Comedy
- Awkward Father-Son Bonding Activity
- A Truce While We Gawk
Tropes – B
- The B Grade
- Bachelor Auction
- The Backstage Sketch
- Back to School
- Backwards-Firing Gun
- Bad Humor Truck
- Bad Impressionists
- Bad Job, Worse Uniform
- Bad Liar
- Badly Battered Babysitter
- Bad News in a Good Way
- Bad News, Irrelevant News
- Bad Omen Anecdote
- Bait-and-Switch
- Balloonacy
- Balloon Belly
- Balloon-Bursting Bird
- Banana In The Tail Pipe
- Banana Peel
- BANG Flag Gun
- Banister Slide
- Bank Toaster
- Barely Missed Cushion
- Bar Slide
- Batty Lip Burbling
- Beach Bury
- Bear Trap
- Beauty Mark
- Becoming Part of the Image
- Bedmate Reveal
- Bedroom Adultery Scene
- Beef Bandage
- Belly Flop Crushing
- "Be Quiet!" Nudge
- Bested at Bowling
- Best Out of Infinity
- Big Eater
- Big "SHUT UP!"
- Bird-Poop Gag
- Birthday Suit Surprise Party
- Biting-the-Hand Humor
- Bits of Me Keep Passing Out
- Bizarre and Improbable Golf Game
- Bizarre Taste in Food
- Black Comedy Animal Cruelty
- Black Comedy Burst
- Black Comedy Cannibalism
- Black Comedy Rape
- Blanket Fort
- Blanket Tug O' War
- Blazing Inferno Hellfire Sauce
- The Blind Leading the Blind
- Blind Mistake
- Blind Shoulder Toss
- Blind Without 'Em
- Blood on the Debate Floor
- Bloody Hilarious
- A Bloody Mess
- Blunt Metaphors Trauma
- Boggles the Mind
- Boogie Knights
- Book and Switch
- Boomerang Bigot
- Boomerang Comeback
- Born Unlucky
- Borscht Belt
- Bottom of the Barrel Joke
- Bowel-Breaking Bricks
- Box-and-Stick Trap
- The Boxing Episode
- Brain Freeze
- Brake Angrily
- Bread, Eggs, Breaded Eggs
- Bread, Eggs, Milk, Squick
- Break the Motivational Speaker
- Breathe on the Fan
- Breathless Non Sequitur
- Brick Joke
- Bring My Brown Pants
- British Humour
- British Royal Guards
- British Stuffiness
- Broken Echo
- Broken Record
- Brought Home the Wrong Kid
- Brutal Honesty
- Bubblegum Popping
- Bucket Booby-Trap
- Bumbling Dad
- Bunny Ears Picture Prank
- Burger Fool
- Burping Contest
- Butt Biter
- Butt-Monkey
- Butter Face
- By "No", I Mean "Yes"
- By Wall That Is Holey
Tropes – C
- Calling Me a Logarithm
- Calvinball
- Camp
- Cannot Keep a Secret
- Cannot Tell a Joke
- Can't Get Away with Nuthin'
- Can't Get in Trouble for Nuthin'
- Can't You Read the Sign?
- Caption Humor
- Cardboard Pal
- Car Meets House
- Car Radio Dispute
- Carrying a Cake
- Cartoon Conductor
- Cartoonland Time
- Catch That Pigeon!
- Caught on the Jumbotron
- Caught with Your Pants Down
- Cavemen vs. Astronauts Debate
- Ceiling Banger
- Celeb Crush
- Censored for Comedy
- Centipede's Dilemma
- Chain Letter
- Chain of Corrections
- Chained to a Bed
- The Chain of Harm (this is usually Played for Drama, or added to horror films. But a slapstick version does exist)
- Chance Meeting Between Antagonists
- Chaos While They're Not Looking
- Charlie Chaplin Shout-Out
- Chased Off into the Sunset
- Check, Please!
- Cheek Copy
- Chekhov's Gag
- Cheshire Cat Grin
- Chew-Out Fake-Out
- Chic And Awe
- Chicken Joke
- Childish Pillow Fight
- Chirping Crickets
- Chronically Crashed Car
- Church of Happyology
- Chucking Chalk
- Citizenship Marriage
- City of Everywhere
- City of Weirdos
- Clapper Gag
- Class Clown
- Cliff Stack
- Clingy Aquatic Life
- Closet Shuffle
- Cloudcuckooland
- Cloudcuckoolander
- Clown Car
- Clown Car Base
- Clucking Funny
- Clutching Hand Trap
- Coconut Meets Cranium
- Coincidental Accidental Disguise
- Coincidental Dodge
- Cold Turkeys Are Everywhere
- Color Failure
- Collective Groan
- Comeback Tomorrow
- Comedic Relief Characters
- Comedic Sociopathy
- Comedic Spanking
- Comedic Underwear Exposure
- Comedy as a Weapon
- Comedy Ghetto
- Comedy of Remarriage
- Comedy Video Games
- Comically Inept Healing
- Comically Invincible Hero
- Comically Lopsided Rivalry
- Comically Missing the Point
- The Comically Serious
- Comically Small Bribe
- Comically Small Demand
- Comical Nap Drool
- Comical Overreacting
- Comic Role Play
- Comic Sutra
- Coming-of-Age Story
- Competition Coupon Madness
- Complaining About Things You Haven't Paid For
- Completely Off-Topic Report
- Confession Deferred
- Confusing Multiple Negatives
- Congruent Memory
- Construction Zone Calamity
- Contractual Gag
- Contrived Clumsiness
- Convenience Store Gift Shopping
- Convenient Slow Dance
- Cordon Bleugh Chef
- Correlation/Causation Gag
- Cosmetic Horror
- The Couch
- Could Say It, But...
- Counter Zany
- Counting to Potato
- Covered in Gunge
- Covered in Mud
- Cover Innocent Eyes and Ears
- *Crack!* "Oh, My Back!"
- Craggy Island Fun Fair
- Crashing Through the Harem
- Crash-Into Hello
- Crazy Cultural Comparison
- Crazy Jealous Guy
- Crazy-Prepared
- Creator Career Self-Deprecation
- Credit Card Plot
- Creepy Family
- Crosses the Line Twice
- Crossover Punchline
- Crotch-Grab Sex Check
- Crowded Cast Shot
- Crush Filter
- Crush Parade
- Cry Laughing
- Crying After Sex
- Cuckoolander Commentator
- Cue Card Pause
- Cue O'Clock
- Cue the Falling Object
- Cue the Flying Pigs
- Curse Cut Short
- Cut a Slice, Take the Rest
- Cutaway Gag
- Cute, but Cacophonic
Tropes – D
- Damned by Faint Praise
- Dance Off
- Date Peepers
- Dating Service Disaster
- Dead Man's Chest
- Dead TV Remote Gag
- Deadline News
- Deadpan Snarker
- Death as Comedy
- Deconstructive Parody
- Deep-Immersion Gaming
- Defeat by Modesty
- Defenestrate and Berate
- Delayed "Oh, Crap!"
- Delayed Reaction
- Delegation Relay
- Department of Redundancy Department
- Depraved Dentist
- Description Cut
- Did the Earth Move for You, Too?
- Did They or Didn't They?
- Did You Get a New Haircut?
- Didn't Think This Through
- Different for Girls
- Digging to China
- Digging Yourself Deeper
- Ding-Dong-Ditch Distraction
- Dinner and a Show
- Dinner Order Flub
- Dinner with the Boss
- Dinosaur Doggie Bone
- Directionless Driver
- Disaster Dominoes
- Discriminate and Switch
- Dish Dash
- Dismotivation
- Disgusting Public Toilet
- Disorganized Outline Speech
- Disproportionate Restitution
- Disproportionate Retribution
- Dissimile
- Distant Reaction Shot
- Distracted by the Sexy
- Distracting Disambiguation
- D.I.Y. Disaster
- Dodgeball Is Hell
- Dodgy Toupee
- Does This Remind You of Anything?
- Dog Walks You
- Dogs Love Fire Hydrants
- Do-It-Yourself Plumbing Project
- Domestic Appliance Disaster
- Don't Be Ridiculous
- Don't Explain the Joke
- Don't You Like It?
- Doomed Supermarket Display
- Doom It Yourself
- Door Focus
- Door Judo
- Door Roulette
- The Door Slams You
- Dope Slap
- Doppelgänger Dating
- Double Entendre
- Double Standard: Rape, Male on Male
- Double Take
- "Down Here!" Shot
- Do Wrong, Right
- Dragged by the Collar
- Dragged into Drag
- Dramatic Drop
- Dramatic Sit-Down
- Drawing Straws
- The Dreaded Pretend Tea Party
- Dreadful Musician
- Dresses the Same
- Dripping Disturbance
- Drives Like Crazy
- Driving Stick
- Drool Deluge
- Drop-In Character
- Dropped Glasses
- Drop the Cow
- Drop the Washtub
- Drunk with Power
- Duck!
- Duck Season, Rabbit Season
- Dude, Where's Our Car?
- Dumbass DJ
- Dumb Muscle
- Dynamite Candle
Tropes – E
- Earpiece Conversation
- Ear Trumpet
- Easy Come, Easy Go
- Easily Impressed
- Easily Overheard Conversation
- Eating Pet Food
- Eating Shoes
- Eat the Bomb
- Edible Treasure
- Education Through Pyrotechnics
- Eek, a Mouse!!
- Egocentric Team Naming
- Either "World Domination", or Something About Bananas
- "El Niño" Is Spanish for "The Niño"
- Electric Joybuzzer
- Elephant in the Living Room
- Elvish Presley
- Embarrassing Cover-Up
- Embarrassing Damp Sheets
- Embarrassing Nickname
- Embarrassing Old Photo
- Embarrassing Ringtone
- Embarrassing Slide
- Embarrassing Tattoo
- Embarrassingly Painful Sunburn
- Emotionally Tongue-Tied
- Empty Swimming Pool Dive
- Endangered Soufflé
- Epic Fail
- Escalating Punchline
- Escalating War
- Escaped Animal Rampage
- Eskimos Aren't Real
- Especially Zoidberg
- Even Beggars Won't Choose It
- Even Nerds Have Standards
- Even the Dog Is Ashamed
- Even the Rats Won't Touch It
- Everybody Laughs Ending
- Everyone Chasing You
- Everything's Better with Monkeys
- Everything's Better with Penguins
- Everything Is an Instrument
- Evil Elevator
- Evil Has a Bad Sense of Humor
- Evil Is Hammy
- Evil Is Petty
- Evil Lawyer Joke
- Equal-Opportunity Offender
- Exact Words
- Exiled to the Couch
- The Exit Is That Way
- Explain, Explain... Oh, Crap!
- Explaining the Soap
- Exploding Closet
- Explosive Cigar
- Exposition Diagram
- Expospeak Gag
- Express Lane Limit
- Extended Greetings
- Extendo Boxing Glove
- Extreme Close-Up
- Eyepiece Prank
- Eye Take
Tropes – F
- Face Doodling
- Face Fault
- Face Palm
- Face Plant
- Facial Composite Failure
- Failed a Spot Check
- Failed Attempt at Drama
- Failed Dramatic Exit
- Failing a Taxi
- Failures on Ice
- Fake High
- Fake Rabies
- Fake-Real Turn
- Fall of the House of Cards
- False Teeth Tomfoolery
- The Family for the Whole Family
- Fanservice Extra
- Fantastic Anthropologist
- Fantasy Twist
- "Far Side" Island
- Fast-Forward Gag
- Fat Comic Relief
- Faux Horrific
- Faux to Guide
- Feedback Rule
- Fee Fi Faux Pas
- Feghoot
- Feng Schwing
- Fight for the Last Bite
- Fighting in the Playground
- Le Film Artistique
- Filth
- Finagle's Law
- Finding a Bra in Your Car
- Fine, You Can Just Wait Here Alone
- Finish Dialogue in Unison
- Fish out of Temporal Water
- Fishing for Sole
- Five Aces Cheater
- Flashback Cut
- Flash In The Pan Fad
- Flat Joy
- Flat Scare
- Flintstone Theming
- Flipping the Table
- Flirtatious Smack on the Ass
- Flock of Wolves
- Flushing Toilet, Screaming Shower
- Fly Crazy
- Fly in the Soup
- F--
- Follow the Chaos
- Food and Animal Attraction
- Food Fight
- Fool's Map
- Forgettable Character
- Forgot I Couldn't Swim
- Forgot to Feed the Monster
- Forgot to Mind Their Head
- For Inconvenience, Press "1"
- Format Specific Joke
- Formula for the Unformulable
- Four-Man Band
- Fowl-Mouthed Parrot
- Frank's 2000-Inch TV
- Frantic Object Concealment
- The Freelance Shame Squad
- Freeze-Frame Bonus
- Freudian Slip
- Freudian Slippery Slope
- Friendly Tickle Torture
- From the Mouths of Babes
- Fruit of the Loon
- Fully Automatic Clip Show
- Funbag Airbag
- The "Fun" in "Funeral"
- Fun with Flushing
- Funny Answering Machine
- Funny Background Event
- Funny Foreigner
- Funny Robot
- The Future Is Shocking
- Fun with Foreign Languages
Tropes – G
- Gag Echo
- Gag Words
- Gallows Humor
- Garden-Hose Squirt Surprise
- Gargle Blaster
- GASP!
- Gasshole
- The Genie Knows Jack Nicholson
- Get a Hold of Yourself, Man!
- Getting the Boot
- Ghost in the Machine
- Giant Eye of Doom
- Gibberish of Love
- Gift-Giving Gaffe
- Gift Shake
- Gigantic Gulp
- Gilligan Cut
- Girlfriend in Canada
- Girl Scouts Are Evil
- Girl Watching
- Girls Have Cooties
- Give Geeks a Chance
- Give Me a Sign
- Giving Up the Ghost
- Glad You Thought of It
- Glasses Pull
- Glass Smack and Slide
- Global Ignorance
- Glove Slap
- Gone Behind the Bend
- Gone Swimming, Clothes Stolen
- Gonna Need More X
- Good Angel, Bad Angel
- Good News, Bad News
- A Good, Old-Fashioned Paint Watching
- Goofy Print Underwear
- Goofy Suit
- Got Volunteered
- Go Ye Heroes, Go and Die
- Grave Humor
- Gravity Is a Harsh Mistress
- Gravity Is a Harsh Seamstress
- Gravity Is Only a Theory
- Greeting Gesture Confusion
- Grilling Pyrotechnics
- Groin Attack
- Gross-Up Close-Up
- Grounded Forever
- Groupie Brigade
- Guilt by Association Gag
- Guys Are Slobs
Tropes – H
- Had the Silly Thing in Reverse
- HA HA HA— No
- Hairstyle Malfunction
- Ham and Deadpan Duo
- The Ham Squad
- Hammerspace Hair
- Hands Go Down
- Handshake Refusal
- Hanlon's Razor
- Hard Head
- Harmless Villain
- Harpo Does Something Funny
- Hash House Lingo
- #HashtagForLaughs
- Have I Mentioned I Am Sexually Active Today?
- Haven't You Seen X Before?
- Headdesk
- Head-Tiltingly Kinky
- Helium Speech
- Hellistics
- "Help! Help! Trapped in Title Factory!"
- He-Man Woman Hater
- Heroes Gone Fishing
- Hideous Hangover Cure
- High-Dive Hijinks
- Hilariously Abusive Childhood
- Hilarious Outtakes
- Hilarity in Zoos
- Hilarity Sues
- Hint Dropping
- Historical Character Confusion
- Historical Hilarity
- Historical Longevity Joke
- Hit Me, Dammit!
- Holding Both Sides of the Conversation
- Hold Up Your Score
- Hollow Sounding Head
- Hollywood Dateless
- "Home Alone" Antics
- Homemade Inventions
- Home Porn Movie
- Homoerotic Subtext
- Horrifying the Horror
- Hot Guy, Ugly Wife
- Hot on His Own Trail
- Hot Potato
- Hot Sauce Drinking
- House Amnesia
- How Did That Get in There?
- How Did You Get It?
- "How Did You Know?" "I Didn't."
- How Is That Even Possible?
- How Much Did You Hear?
- Huge Rider, Tiny Mount
- Human Doorstop
- Human Knot
- Human Ladder
- Human Mail
- Human Traffic Jam
- Human Snowball
- Human Snowman
- Humans Are Morons
- Humor Dissonance
- Humorless Aliens
- Hurricane of Euphemisms
- Hurricane of Excuses
- Hurricane of Puns
- Hurt Foot Hop
- Hyde and Seek
- Hyper-Destructive Bouncing Ball
- Hyperventilation Bag
- Hypocritical Humor
- Hypocritical Singing
Tropes – I
- I Ate WHAT?!
- I Banged Your Mom
- I Broke a Nail
- I Call Him "Mr. Happy"
- I Can Explain
- I Can't Hear You
- Identical Panel Gag
- Idiot Ball
- Idiot Hair
- Idiot Hero
- I Fell for Hours
- If It Was Funny the First Time...
- If I Were a Rich Man
- Ignore the Disability
- Ignoring by Singing
- I Have This Friend...
- I Know You Know I Know
- I Like My X Like I Like My Y
- Ill-Fated Flowerbed
- I'll Never Tell You What I'm Telling You!
- I'll Take Two Beers Too
- Imagine Spot
- Imagine the Audience Naked
- I Meant to Do That
- I'm Going to Hell for This
- Immediate Self-Contradiction
- Immune to Drugs
- I'm Mr. [Future Pop Culture Reference]
- Impact Silhouette
- Impersonation Paradox
- Implausible Deniability
- Impossible Insurance
- Impossible Leavening
- Impossible Pickle Jar
- Impossibly Compact Folding
- Improbably Predictable
- Improv
- I'm Standing Right Here
- I'm Taking Her Home with Me!
- I'm Thinking It Over!
- Incompetent Guard Animal
- Incredibly Lame Fun
- Incredibly Long Note
- Indexing Ensues
- Indulgent Fantasy Segue
- I Need to Go Iron My Dog
- Inept Talent Show Contestant
- I Never Said It Was Poison
- Inflating Body Gag
- Inflationary Dialogue
- Inherently Funny Words
- Initiation Ceremony
- Inner Thoughts, Outsider Puzzlement
- Innocent Innuendo
- In One Ear, Out the Other
- Inopportune Voice Cracking
- Insane Proprietor
- Insane Troll Logic
- Insistent Terminology
- The Inspector Is Coming
- Inspector Oblivious
- Instant Home Delivery
- Instantly Proven Wrong
- Instant Seiza
- Instant Turnoff
- Insult Comic
- Insult Misfire
- Insurmountable Waist-Height Fence
- Intentional Engrish for Funny
- Interactive Narrator
- Interrupted Intimacy
- ...In That Order
- In the Local Tongue
- Invincible Classic Car
- Invisible Holes
- I Resemble That Remark!
- Ironic Echo Cut
- Ironic Fear
- Iron Butt-Monkey
- Irony
- I Say What I Say
- Island Help Message
- iSophagus
- Is That What They're Calling It Now?
- Is This Thing Still On?
- I Take Offense to That Last One!
- It Came from the Fridge
- I Think You Broke Him
- It Is Pronounced "Tro-PAY"
- It Runs on Nonsensoleum
- It's a Costume Party, I Swear!
- It's Been Done
- It's Raining Salesmen
- It's the Best Whatever, Ever!
- It's the Principle of the Thing
- It Tastes Like Feet
- I've Heard of That — What Is It?
- I Want My Mommy!
- I Was Beaten by a Girl
- I Was Just Joking
- I Will Tear Your Arms Off
- I Would Say If I Could Say
Tropes – J
- The Jail Bait Wait
- Japanese Ranguage
- Japanese Tourist
- Jar Potty
- Jaw Drop
- Jeweler's Eye Loupe
- Jewish Complaining
- The Jinx
- Joke and Receive
- Joke Exhaustion
- Joke Name Tag
- Juggling Loaded Guns
- Jump, I'll Catch You!
- Jump Rope Antics
- Jury Duty
- "Just Joking" Justification
- Just Like Making Love
- Just the Introduction to the Opposites
- Juxtaposition Gag
Tropes – K
Tropes – L
- Ladder Tipping
- Lamaze Class
- Lame Excuse
- Lampshaded Double Entendre
- Lame Rhyme Dodge
- Lame Pun Reaction
- Lampshade Wearing
- Landing in Someone's Bathtub
- Large Ham
- Larynx Dissonance
- Last Day to Live
- The Last of These Is Not Like the Others
- Last Place You Look
- Last-Second Word Swap
- The Last Straw
- Late to the Punchline
- Late to the Realization
- Laughably Evil
- Laugh Track
- Laugh with Me!
- Laughing at Your Own Jokes
- The Law Firm of Pun, Pun, and Wordplay
- Law of Disproportionate Response
- Laxative Prank
- Layman's Terms
- Leap Day
- Least Rhymable Word
- Leaving Audience
- Left It In
- Left the Background Music On
- Less Embarrassing Term
- Lethally Stupid
- Let's Mock the Monsters
- Letting the Air Out of the Band
- Let Us Never Speak of This Again
- Life's Work Ruined
- Lightbulb Joke
- Lightmare Fuel
- Line-of-Sight Name
- Lint Value
- List of Transgressions
- Literal Ass-Kicking
- Literal Ass Kissing
- Literal Metaphor
- Little Girls Kick Shins
- Little Jimmy
- Little Known Facts
- Live-Action Cartoon
- Living Crashpad
- Living in a Furniture Store
- The Loins Sleep Tonight
- LOL, 69
- Long List
- Long Neck
- Long Speech Tea Time
- Loophole Abuse
- Lopsided Dichotomy
- Lost Food Grievance
- Lost Him in a Card Game
- Lost The TV Remote
- Lost Wedding Ring
- Lots of Luggage
- Loud of War
- Low Clearance
- Low-Speed Chase
Tropes – M
- Ma'am Shock
- Mad Libs Catch Phrase
- Made from Real Girl Scouts
- Made in Country X
- Made Myself Sad
- Made of Explodium
- The Magazine Rule
- Maintain the Lie
- Makeover Torment
- Malfunction Malady
- Mall Santa
- Manchild
- Man in a Bikini
- Man-Made House Flood
- Marshmallow Dream
- Marshmallow Hell
- Mass "Oh, Crap!"
- Matchlight Danger Revelation
- Matryoshka Object
- Mattress Tag Gag
- McNinja
- MD Envy
- Meatgrinder Surgery
- Meat-O-Vision
- Medium-Shift Gag
- Men Are Uncultured
- Merit Badges for Everything
- Metaphorgotten
- Metaphoric Metamorphosis
- Mid-Battle Tea Break
- Mic Drop
- Midnight Snack
- Miming the Cues
- Mind Your Step
- Minor Injury Overreaction
- Mirror-Cracking Ugly
- Mirror Routine
- Misaimed Stereotyping
- Misleading Package Size
- Mismeasurement
- Misplaced Retribution
- Misplaced Sorrow
- Missed Him by That Much
- Missing Steps Plan
- Missing the Good Stuff
- The Missus and the Ex
- Mistaken Age
- Mistaken for Afterlife
- Mistaken for Exhibit
- Mistaken for Object of Affection
- Mistaken for Pedophile
- Mistaken for Servant
- Mister Seahorse
- Mistook the Dominant Lifeform
- Mobile Shrubbery
- Mobile-Suit Human
- Mocking Music
- Mocking Sing-Song
- Mock Guffin
- Mock Hollywood Sign
- Mock Meal
- Mock Surprise Reaction
- Moment Killer
- Monkey Morality Pose
- Monkeys on a Typewriter
- Moonburn
- Most Common Card Game
- Most Definitely Not a Villain
- Motionless Makeover
- Motivation on a Stick
- Motorcycle Dominoes
- Mouse Trap
- Movie-Making Mess
- Multiple Choice Form Letter
- Multitasked Conversation
- Mundane Ghost Story
- Mundane Object Amazement
- Murphy's Bed
- Musicalis Interruptus
- Must Make Her Laugh
- Mutilation Conga
- My Country Tis of Thee That I Sting
- My Favorite Shirt
- My Friends... and Zoidberg
- My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels
- My Little Panzer
- My New Gift Is Lame
- My Sensors Indicate You Want to Tap That
- Mystery Box
- My Verbin' Noun!
Tropes – N
- Naked Apron
- Naked People Are Funny
- Naked People Trapped Outside
- Namesake Gag
- Narm Charm
- Nausea Dissonance
- Nautical Knockout
- Necktie Leash
- Need a Hand, or a Handjob?
- Neon Sign Hideout
- Nerd Nanny
- Never Trust a Hair Tonic
- Never Work with Children or Animals
- New Job Episode
- Newhart Phonecall
- The Nicknamer
- Nightmare Retardant
- Nobody Here but Us Birds
- Nobody Here but Us Statues
- Nobody Touches the Hair
- No Can Opener
- No Fourth Wall
- The Noisy Straw
- No More for Me
- No One Else Is That Dumb
- Non Sequitur Distraction
- Non Sequitur, *Thud*
- Non-Specifically Foreign
- Nonverbal Miscommunication
- Noodle Implements
- Noodle Incident
- No Respect Guy
- No Sense of Humor
- No Snack For You
- Nose Shove
- Not a Date
- Not Me This Time
- Not My Lucky Day
- Not Now, We're Too Busy Crying over You
- Not on the List
- Not Quite Back to Normal
- Not Quite Forever
- Not Rare Over There
- Not Really a Birth Scene
- Not So Above It All
- Not So Dire
- Not So Great Escape
- The Not-So-Harmless Punishment
- Not-So-Innocent Whistle
- Not That There's Anything Wrong with That
- Not This One, That One
- "Not Wearing Pants" Dream
- Now You Tell Me
- No, You Hang Up First
- Nuclear Family
- Nuns Are Funny
Tropes – O
- Obligatory Joke
- Oblivious Janitor Cut
- Oblivious Mockery
- Oblivious Transformation
- Obsessed Are the Listmakers
- Obvious Object Could Be Anything
- Obvious Pregnancy
- Of Corpse He's Alive
- Of Corsets Funny
- Of Course I Smoke
- Offscreen Crash
- Offscreen Reality Warp
- Oh, Crap!
- "Oh, Crap!" Fakeout
- Oh, Cisco!
- Oh God, with the Verbing!
- Oh Wait!
- Oh Wait, This Is My Grocery List
- On Three
- Once More, with Volume!
- Once per Episode
- One Crazy Night
- One Scene, Two Monologues
- The One Thing I Don't Hate About You
- One-Two Punchline
- Only Sane Man
- On Second Thought
- Open-Fly Gag
- The Operators Must Be Crazy
- Opening The Floodgates
- Orphaned Punchline
- Orphaned Setup
- Our Slogan Is Terrible
- Outside Joke
- Oven Logic
- Overcomplicated Menu Order
- Overly Long Airplane Banner Gag
- Overly Narrow Superlative
- Overly Long Gag
- Overly Long Name
- Overly Long Scream
- Overly Nervous Flop Sweat
- Overly Polite Pals
- Overly Preprepared Gag
- Overreacting Airport Security
- Overused Running Gag
- Ow, My Body Part!
Tropes – P
- Pacing a Trench
- Packed Hero
- Painful Body Waxing
- Pain-Powered Leap
- Panicky Expectant Father
- Paper Bag Popping
- Paper-Thin Disguise
- Paranoia Gambit
- Parental Hypocrisy
- Parental Obliviousness
- Parents Walk In at the Worst Time
- Parking Payback
- Parodic Table of the Elements
- Parodied Trope
- Pass the Popcorn
- Passing Judgment
- People Fall Off Chairs
- Percussive Prevention
- Perfectly Cromulent Word
- Personal Raincloud
- Persona Non Grata
- Pervert Revenge Mode
- Pet the Dog
- Pet Heir
- Phlebotinum-Induced Stupidity
- Phoney Call
- Piano Drop
- Piano Key Wave
- Picture Day
- Pie in the Face
- Pinball Gag
- Pity the Kidnapper
- Plane Awful Flight
- Plank Gag
- Planning with Props
- Playing a Tree
- Playing Games At Work
- Playing Pictionary
- Please Dump Me
- Please Get Off Me
- Plucky Comic Relief
- Plumber's Crack
- Police Code for Everything
- Politeness Judo
- Polka Dork
- Polka-Dot Paint
- Pooping Food
- Popcorn on the Cob
- Popping Buttons
- Population: X, and Counting
- Porky Pig Pronunciation
- Porn Stash
- Potty Dance
- Potty Emergency
- Potty Failure
- Powder Gag
- The Power of Apathy
- Powersuit Monkey
- Practical Joke
- Prank Call
- Prank Date
- Prank Injuries
- The Pratfall
- The Precious, Precious Car
- Preemptive "Shut Up"
- Premature Aggravation
- Pretty Fly for a White Guy
- Priceless Ming Vase
- Primal Scene
- Prince of Pranksters
- The Problem with Pen Island
- Produce Pelting
- Profile View Gag
- Prompting Nudge
- Proportional Article Importance
- Pseudolympics
- Publicly Discussing the Secret
- Puff of Logic
- Pulling the Rug Out
- Pun
- Punchline
- Punch! Punch! Punch! Uh Oh...
- Punch Spin Gape
- Punctuated Pounding
- Purely Aesthetic Era
- Put Off Their Food
- Putting the "Medic" in Comedic
- Putting the Pee in Pool
Tropes – Q–R
- Quick Draw Decision
- Queer People Are Funny
- Rage Against the Author
- Raging Stiffie
- Rake Take
- Rant-Inducing Slight
- Rapid-Fire Comedy
- Rapid Fire Interrupting
- Rapid-Fire Name Guessing
- Rapid-Fire "Shut Up!"
- Reaching Between the Lines
- Reactive Continuous Scream
- Reading Ahead in the Script
- Reading the Stage Directions Out Loud
- Real Dreams Are Weirder
- Real Vehicle Reveal
- Record Needle Scratch
- Red-and-White Comedy Poster
- Red Boxing Gloves
- Redundant Romance Attempt
- Reflexive Response
- Rejection Affection
- Reluctant Gift
- Remembered I Could Fly
- Reminder of Impossibility
- Remonstrating with a Gun
- Removable Steering Wheel
- Repeat After Me
- Repeated Cue, Tardy Response
- Replacement Flat Character
- Rescue Reversal
- Retroactive Wish
- Revenge Is a Dish Best Served
- Reverse Telescopic Vision
- Rewind Gag
- Rhyming List
- Ridiculous Exchange Rates
- Ridiculous Future Inflation
- Ridiculous Future Sequelisation
- Ridiculously Long Phone Hold
- Ridiculously Long Phone Number
- Ridiculous Procrastinator
- Right Behind Me
- Right in Front of Me
- Right on Queue
- Right Out of My Clothes
- Right Through the Wall
- Ringer Ploy
- Rip Van Tinkle
- Rise of Zitboy
- Road Apples
- Road Runner vs. Coyote
- Roadside Wave
- Road Sign Reversal
- Road Trip Across the Street
- The Roast
- Rom Com Job
- Roofless Renovation
- Rubber Face
- Rube Goldberg Device
- Rule-Breaker Rule-Namer
- Rule of Three
- Rules of the Road
- Rummage Fail
- Rump Roast
- Running Gag
- Running Gag Stumbles
- Running into the Window
- Running on the Spot
- Runs with Scissors
- The Runt at the End
- Rushed Inverted Reading
- Russian Humour
Tropes – S
- Sausage String Silliness
- Saved by a Terrible Performance
- Saw "Star Wars" 27 Times
- Scantron Picture
- Scared of What's Behind You
- Scary Flashlight Face
- Scooby-Dooby Doors
- Scooby Stack
- Scrabble Babble
- The Scream
- Screaming at Squick
- Screams Like a Little Girl
- Screeching Stop
- Screwball Comedy
- Screwball Serum
- Secret Handshake
- Security Cling
- Seesaw Catapult
- Seinfeldian Conversation
- Self-Deprecation
- Self-Induced Allergic Reaction
- Self Offense
- Senseless Phagia
- Senior Sleep Cycle
- Sequel Snark
- Sequential Symptom Syndrome
- Seriously Scruffy
- Seven Minute Lull
- Severely Specialized Store
- Sexual Karma
- Shake Someone, Objects Fall
- Shameful Shrinking
- Shaped Like Itself
- Share the Male Pain
- She Cleans Up Nicely
- Shoehorned First Letter
- Shopping Cart Antics
- Short Cuts Make Long Delays
- Shower of Awkward
- The Show Must Go Wrong
- Show Some Leg
- Shrug Take
- Shut Up, Scary Thing
- Shy Bladder
- Side Bet
- Signed Up for the Dental
- Signs of Disrepair
- Silly Spook
- Similar Item Confusion
- Simpleton Voice
- Singing in the Shower
- Skewed Priorities
- Slapstick
- Slapstick Knows No Gender
- Sliding Scale of Comedy and Horror
- Slippery Skid
- Slippery Soap
- Slow-Loading Internet Image
- Smart Ball
- Smart Jerk and Nice Moron
- Snark Ball
- Sneeze of Doom
- Snipe Hunt
- Snowball Lie
- Snub by Omission
- Soap Punishment
- So Bad, It's Good
- Social Services Does Not Exist
- Sold His Soul for a Donut
- Somebody Doesn't Love Raymond
- Someone's Touching My Butt
- Something Else Also Rises
- Something That Begins with "Boring"
- Sophisticated as Hell
- Sorry Ociffer
- Sorry to Interrupt
- Sound Defect
- So Unfunny, It's Funny
- Spanner in the Works
- Spit Take
- Spoof Aesop
- Springtime for Hitler
- Standardized Sitcom Housing
- Stand-In Parents
- Start My Own
- The Stateroom Sketch
- Stealing from the Hotel
- Stealth Pun
- Stereo Fibbing
- Stereotype Reaction Gag
- Stewed Alive
- Sticky Situation
- Stink Bomb
- Stock Punishment
- Stock Underwear
- Stoners Are Funny
- Stop Drowning and Stand Up
- Stop Poking Me!
- Stop Saying That!
- Storm in a Teacup
- Straight Man
- Straight Man and Wise Guy
- Strange Minds Think Alike
- Strip Poker
- Stripper/Cop Confusion
- Strongly Worded Letter
- Stuck on a Ski Lift
- Stupid Crooks
- Stupid Question Bait
- Stupid Sexy Flanders
- Stylistic Suck
- Subverted Punchline
- Subverted Rhyme Every Occasion
- Subways Suck
- Such a Phony
- Suddenly Bilingual
- Suddenly Fluent in Gibberish
- Sue Donym
- Sugar Apocalypse
- Suggestive Collision
- Suicide as Comedy
- Suntan Stencil
- Super-Fun Happy Thing of Doom
- Super Zeroes
- Surprise Jump
- Surprise Slide Staircase
- Surreal Humor
- Suspect Is Hatless
- Suspiciously Specific Denial
- Sustained Misunderstanding
- The Swear Jar
- Swivel-Chair Antics
Tropes – T
- Tablecloth Yank (specifically when a character can't pull off the trick)
- Tabloid Melodrama
- The Take
- Take a Number
- Take Off Your Clothes
- Taking It Well
- The Talk
- Talking in Bed
- Talking in Your Sleep
- Talking Poo
- Talking with Signs
- Tampon Run
- Tandem Parasite
- Telegraph Gag Stop
- The Tape Knew You Would Say That
- Tar and Feathers
- Tarot Troubles
- Tastes Like Purple
- Technologically Blind Elders
- Terrible Interviewees Montage
- Terrible Pick-Up Lines
- Testes Test
- Testosterone Poisoning
- Textbook Humor
- Thanks for the Mammary
- That Came Out Wrong
- That Poor Car
- That Poor Cat
- That Poor Plant
- That Was Not a Dream
- That Was Objectionable
- That Was the Reward
- The Internet Is for Porn
- Themed Wedding
- There Is No Rule Six
- There Was a Door
- Thermometer Gag
- They Just Dont Get It
- They Killed Kenny Again
- Thing-O-Meter
- Think Unsexy Thoughts
- 30 Minutes, or It's Free!
- This Banana is Armed
- This Billboard Needs Some Salt
- This is No Time to Panic
- The Snack Is More Interesting
- The Three Certainties in Life
- Throw It In!
- Throw the Book at Them
- Throw the Pin
- This Is Going to Be Huge
- This Is My Side
- Thought-Aversion Failure
- Three Stooges Shout-Out
- Thumbtack on the Chair
- Ticket-Line Campout
- Tied-Together-Shoelace Trip
- Time-Freeze Trolling Spree
- Tinkle in the Eye
- To Be Continued ... Right Now
- Toll Booth Antics
- To Make a Long Story Short
- Tongue on the Flagpole
- Too Fast to Stop
- Took a Level in Dumbass
- Too Many Halves
- Too Much Information
- Too Spicy for Yog-Sothoth
- Top Ten List
- Torso with a View
- Totem Pole Trench
- Tough Room
- Tour Guide Gag
- Trampoline Tummy
- Translation by Volume
- Transparent Closet
- Trash Landing
- Trash of the Titans
- Trauma Button Ending
- Tree Buchet
- Trees into Toothpicks
- Trick Dialogue
- Trivially Obvious
- Trojan Gauntlet
- Trolling Translator
- Tropaholics Anonymous
- The Trope Formerly Known as X
- Troublemaking New Pet
- The Trouble with Tickets
- Trust-Building Blunder
- Truth-Telling Session
- Turn Your Head and Cough
- 20% More Awesome
- Twerp Sweating
- Twin Switch
- A Twinkle in the Sky
- Two-Faced Aside
- Two out of Three Ain't Bad
- Two Rights Make a Wrong
Tropes – U
- Upside Down Blueprints
- Ugly Guy, Hot Wife
- Umbrellas Are Lightning Rods
- Uncomfortable Elevator Moment
- Unconventional Smoothie
- Un-Duet
- Undignified Death
- Un-Entendre
- Un-Evil Laugh
- Unlikely Spare
- Unnecessary Time Precision
- Un-Paused
- Unplanned Crossdressing
- Unpronounceable Alias
- Unraveled Entanglement
- Unsatisfiable Customer
- Unscrewed Salt Shaker
- Unsettling Gender Reveal
- Unsuspectingly Soused
- Unsympathetic Comedy Protagonist
- Unusual Euphemism
- The Unwitting Comedian
- Uranus Is Showing
- Urine Trouble
- Useful Book
- Useless Spleen
- Useless Without Cell Phones
Tropes – V
Tropes – W
- Wacky Cravings
- Wacky Fratboy Hijinx
- Wacky Marriage Proposal
- Wacky Racing
- Waiting Skeleton
- Waking Non Sequitur
- Walking Out on the Show
- Walk Like an Egyptian
- Wallbonking
- Wallet Moths
- Wallpaper Camouflage
- Washy Watchy
- Wasn't That Fun?
- Wasteful Wishing
- Watch Out for That Tree!
- Watch Where You're Going!
- Water-Geyser Volley
- Water Hose Rodeo
- Way Past the Expiration Date
- We Are Experiencing Technical Difficulties
- We ARE Struggling Together
- We Have Those, Too
- We Need a Distraction
- We Sell Everything
- We Should Get Another Tape
- Wedgie
- Weird Trade Union
- Well-Intentioned Replacement
- Well, This Is Not That Trope
- Wet Cement Gag
- What Are Records?
- What Did I Do Last Night?
- What Does This Button Do?
- What's a Henway?
- What the Fu Are You Doing?
- Wheel of Decisions
- "Where? Where?"
- Where Did We Go Wrong?
- "Which Restroom" Dilemma
- White Dude, Black Dude
- Who Even Needs a Brain?
- Who Is Driving?
- Who's on First?
- Who Would Want to Watch Us?
- Whoopee Cushion
- Why Are We Whispering?
- Why Are You Looking at Me Like That?
- Why, Thank You, X!
- Wildlife Commentary Spoof
- Wild Take
- The Window or the Stairs
- Wiper Start
- With Catlike Tread
- With This Ring
- Witness Protection
- Wondrous Ladies Room
- Won't Take "Yes" for an Answer
- The World Mocks Your Loss
- Worrying for the Wrong Reason
- Worse with Context
- The Worst Seat in the House
- Worth It
- Would Rather Suffer
- Writers Suck
- Wrong Insult Offence
- Wrongfully Attributed
- Wrong Parachute Gag
- Wrong Restaurant
Tropes – X–Z
- X Called; They Want Their Y Back
- X Days Since
- Xylophone Gag
- Yawn and Reach
- Yellow Snow
- "Yes"/"No" Answer Interpretation
- You Can't Miss It
- You, Get Me Coffee
- You Have Got to Be Kidding Me!
- You Make Me Sic
- You Wanna Get Sued?
- You Won't Feel a Thing
- Your Brain Won't Be Much of a Meal
- Your Costume Needs Work
- Your Mime Makes It Real
- Your Other Left
- Your Television Hates You
- You're Drinking Breast Milk
- Zany Scheme
- Zany Scheme Chicken
