Basic Trope: Someone assumes they know a "strange, but true" fact that's completely false.
- Straight: Joel assumes that the word "murder" was actually derived from "Mordor", and J. R. R. Tolkien just happened to know a dictionary publisher.
- Exaggerated: Joel assumes that the word "murder" was named after Mark Murder, somebody he claims out of thin air to have been the first person to kill another.
- Downplayed: ???
- Justified: ???
- Inverted: ???
- Subverted: Joel quotes facts that sound unlikely and that no one believes, but are actually true.
- Double Subverted:
- The evidence that corroborates Joel's claims is wrong.
- The facts Joel quotes were true, but Time Marches On and they are no longer true by the time he brings them up.
- Parodied: Joel claims that everything in the universe is just an illusion, since the words "everything" and "illusion" both consist of letters!
- Zig-Zagged: … actually, they became true again just before Joel brought them up.
- Averted: Joel doesn't claim anything so hard to believe, or if he does, he doesn't present it as "secret knowledge."
- Enforced: ???
- Lampshaded: As soon as Joel finishes talking, a subtitle or narrator immediately corrects him for the benefit of the viewer.
- Invoked: ???
- Exploited: Bill wants to sabotage Bunsen in an upcoming test at school, so he suggests Bunsen ask Joel for tutoring.
- Defied: Bob stops Joel from saying anything unbelievable.
- Discussed: ???
- Conversed: ???
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