Tonight on Reality TV Tropes, the tropes meet each other for the first time. But will they all hold up under the same index, let alone survive the night without going on the Cut List? Find out now!
The name of this page would also be a good "Before & After" puzzle on Wheel of Fortune.
Tropes:
- Back for the Finale
- Blind Date
- Bigot vs. Bigot
- Breakfast Club
- Brutal Honesty
- Cat Fight
- Celebrity Edition
- Compassionate Critic
- Confession Cam: "Amy, I like cheese, and more cheese."
- A Death in the Limelight
- Developing Doomed Characters
- The Diva: The most talented contestant and the show, and she knows it. Often a trait of hostesses as well as contestants.
- Eat That
- Eliminated from the Race: "You have been eliminated from the race."
- Elimination Catchphrase: "Now sashay away."
- Elimination Houdini: "Kami & Karli are safe again, is this the 6th time?"
- Elimination Statement
- Everyone Meets Everyone
- Fake Video Camera View
- Follow the Leader
- Fourth Wall Greeting
- Game Show Physical Challenge
- Harsh Talent Show Judge
- Historical Re-Creation: A Period Piece-themed Reality Show.
- Hopeless Auditionees: "Don't you wish your girlfriend was RWWWAAAARRRRGGGGHHHHH like me."
- I'm Not Here to Make Friends
- Immoral Reality Show
- Manipulative Editing: "My... taint... is... made... of... bacon!"
- Non-Gameplay Elimination
- No Such Thing as Bad Publicity: Sometimes
- Point-and-Laugh Show: Sometimes
- Reality Show Genre Blindness
- Reality TV Show Mansion: "Seven strangers, picked to live in a mansion..."
- Real Life Writes the Plot: Subverted more often than you'd expect.
- Romance on the Set: Don't expect it to last very long, though.
- Rule of Drama
- The Runner-Up Takes It All
- Shocking Elimination
- Spin-Off
- Stage Mom: If the series features a contest involving kids or teens.
- Tall Poppy Syndrome
- This Is a Competition
- Too Qualified to Apply
- Voted Off the Island: "The tribe has spoken."
- White-Dwarf Starlet: Very often serves as a platform for washed-up celebrities who aren't quite ready to step out of the limelight, or who are attempting a comeback.
