General Page Quote Discussion:

Looks good to me.

I like the Jeff Abbott quote for Obliviously Evil.

agreed on the jeff abbott quote

someone mentioned on another thread that the quote for Omnipresent Tropes is way too long. could it be trimmed down to just this?

"Moe feels like it's always been there. Sure, there was a time when we became more aware of it, and many believe it's a trend that's come and gone, but it hasn't gone anywhere. It's just slipped between the cracks and taken over a huge part of the identity of what anime is today. The influence of moe is in almost every genre of modern anime."

— Gigguk, "The Moe Anime Revolution"

Trim it down.

A Magic Contract Comes with a Kiss doesn't sufficiently demonstrate that the kiss comes with a magical contract.

Hi, I noticed Distinguishing Mark and Birthmark of Destiny miss a quote, may I add these (if you think they're good)?

this one above for Distinguishing Mark and the one below for Birthmark of Destiny

Add them.

I think Long-Runners has way too long of a quote, and it's from an obscure no-name online Caustic Critic to boot.

"If there was a magic DVD that contained all of Guiding Light, I could pop it into a DVD player, hit the Play button, get up from the TV, walk all the way from my hometown of Springfield, Missouri to Miami, Florida, take a three-day cruise to the Bahamas, come back to Miami, walk to Kennedy Space Center, get on a space shuttle, launch, fly to Mars, plant a flag on the surface, fly back to Earth, walk all the way back to Springfield, sleep for a solid week, go to the post office, apply for a passport, burn four weeks playing video games at my house, receive my passport in the mail, fly to Paris, live there for a hundred days, fly back to America, sleep for another solid week, then bike to Louisiana, spend a week with my in-laws to tell them about my trip to Mars, bike all the way back to Springfield, order pizza, sit down in front of the TV, and Guiding Light would still be on."

— Austin McConnell, Why Are Soap Operas STILL On The Air?

Looking through the page history, it seems the original quote was this before it was unilaterally changed:

I think that's a better option out of the two. Looking through the quotes page, I also like this quote from The Simpsons:

The length of the current quote kinda seems to be the point of it, since it's meant to parallel the length of the Long-Runners. Changing without discussion is a don't, but we do like it over the old one.

wouldn't exactly call Austin McConnell a Caustic Critic either but that's beside the point

Still, I'd rather go with the Simpsons quote, to be honest.

I actually like the Doctor Who quote best. As someone who's fallen behind on the series, that actually made me laugh.

Count me as someone who also prefers the Doctor Who quote.

I like the Doctor Who quote as well.

Suggestion for Brutish Bulls:

GNU, n. An animal of South Africa, which in its domesticated state resembles a horse, a buffalo and a stag. In its wild condition it is something like a thunderbolt, an earthquake and a cyclone.

—The Devil's Dictionary

Edited by Chabal2 on Nov 9th 2021 at 11:37:24 AM

Sorry, I shouldn't have changed it without discussion. I chose it because Officer Barbrady was patronizing Cartman, which shows how oblivious Cartman is.

Band Wagon Technique has two quotes.

The newer "proverb" feels like it was put there because someone wanted to be crude for the sake of being crude. I'd remove that one.

Yeah, cut the second one.

The quotes for Slipped the Ropes and Escape Artist are identical.

And if you're feeling déjà vu about that, you are right: we already discussed this, and changed the quote on Slipped the Ropes by one from Roger Rabbit. Problem, this same quote was also on Rule of Funny already, and thus a troper changed it back on Slipped the Ropes. So we're back to square one.

Any suggestion?

Maybe use the one from the Quotes subpage?

The quote on Gayborhood only alludes to the trope, and I use the term "alludes" very loosely.

The quote for Straight Gay was changed from this:

to this:

It took me a bit to wrap my head around exactly how this quote was supposed to exhibit the trope but then I realized this is a better example of The Beard (pretends to have girlfriend to stay in the closet) or Transparent Closet.

The trope doesn’t require anyone to be closeted, but rather exhibit stereotypical “straight behavior”. I think using this as the page quote would be nonindicative of the trope’s actual meaning.

That said, I thought the previous Superstore quote was only just ok. Still, I couldn’t find any effective quotes on the quotes page that weren’t too long or described sexual acts (which I’m personally fine with, but I’m guessing wouldn’t be appropriate for a page quote). So, I vote for reverting to the old one unless anyone else has a better idea.

EDIT: I actually have a suggestion; a trimmed down version of a quote from the quotes page.

I think it’s funny he thinks being fat is a straight thing but that part might distract from the trope idk, I guess there’s still Superstore

Edited by antenna_ears on Nov 10th 2021 at 6:57:24 AM

The suggestion or the Superstore one would be fine with me. Current is really unclear.

It's not even an example; the joke is that Zarbon is Camp Straight iirc. I think your suggestion is good. The Superstore one is funny, but I don't think it gets the trope across as well.

Edited by NervousShark on Nov 10th 2021 at 12:56:00 PM

I second that. The first example is meaningless to me because I don't know the work — it therefore almost comes across as an insult, which may not be the case in context, but there's no context here to help.

The new suggestion (Cheer Up Emo Kid) is a good one. I also don't know this work, but the quote is extremely clear that the one character can't wrap his head around the idea that gay people don't have to conform to stereotypes. I don't think the fat reference is a problem because it's clearly a reference to the stereotype that gay men spend all their time in gyms.

Edited by Wyldchyld on Nov 11th 2021 at 11:28:56 AM