Rename: Sammys Glass Eye

OK, let's see if it passes the smell test. Without looking, what is this trope about?

It's about a flaw that someone keeps being exhorted not to mention, only to mention it themselves.

Very unintuitive, but damned if I can come up with something catchy to replace it.

Almost Missed Freudian Slip?

• Disabled Elephant In The Living Room Freudian Slip?
• Elephant In The Living Room Freudian Slip?
• Accidental Insult? <too generic?
• Accidental Freudian Slip Insult?

edited 25th Oct '10 12:15:40 AM by fawn

Almost Dodged Freudian Slip?

Just Elephant in the Room I think. It's not specific to physical oddities (for the love of god, don't mention the war) and if you take that out it is.

Oh gods, there's the confused mess that is Elephant in the Living Room. (That's about when there's a topic in the series that the writers don't handwave and everyone just has to ignore...)

It can't be just Elephant in the Room. It's more specific than that - it's where there's an elephant in the room that a particular character keeps telling everyone not to mention, only to mention it him/herself.

Do Not Mention The Big Fat Flaw? That might be too long though. It should be something like that that includes something that sounds insulting at the end to get across the "and then points it out anyway" part of the trope.

edited 26th Oct '10 8:09:27 AM by Kayube

Try Not To Mention The Elephant? (I'm trying to play off "don't think of an elephant" as well as Elephant in the Living Room, but in this trope characters are supposed not only to think about the "elephant" but talk about it, since it's staring them in the face.)

• Try Not To Mention It
• Ignore the Disability
• Ignore The Peculiarity
• Do Not Speak Of The Peculiarity
• Do Not Speak Of The Disability
• Crippled Elephant In The Living Room
• Hard To Ignore Characteristic

edited 26th Nov '10 11:40:10 PM by fawn

800PoundGorilla? perhaps with 790PoundGorilla as a redirect?

Crowner made and hooked. Vote on the ideas we already have, and keep adding new ones.

Bump.

While we're at it, I think the trope description is overly specific. The real essence of the trope seems to be "Hilarity Ensues when characters try to avoid mentioning an obvious disability or disfigurement". The bit about Hypocritical Humor and Freudian Slips is just one way of pulling it off.

Dont Mention The Secret

Add it to the crowner, then.

I already added it.

Ignore the Disability may work better as something like Ignore This Man's Disability (only without a ptitle, if possible....maybe Ignore Their Disability) so that it sounds more like dialog, thus giving an example of the mistake.

Added both to the crowner.

edited 4th Dec '10 10:12:02 AM by MoCellMan

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