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Ultimatum Disasturbator from The Wiggle Room (Old as dirt) Relationship Status: Who needs love when you have waffles?
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#1: Dec 5th 2010 at 8:48:32 AM

This is the one thats currently on both fancruft and People Sit On Chairs

edited 5th Dec '10 8:49:20 AM by Ultimatum

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DragonQuestZ The Other Troper from Somewhere in California Since: Jan, 2001
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#2: Dec 5th 2010 at 8:57:41 AM

I say People Sit On Chairs should have another picture. Preferably it should show a similar scene, but with an irrelevant element being different. That irrelevant element would be People Sit On Chairs, while the actual events of the scenes being shown would be the proper trope. It might need some text added to point this out, but it would show that it's the irrelevancy that makes something People Sit On Chairs, not how common it is.

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DoktorvonEurotrash Lex et Veritas from Not a place of honour (4 Score & 7 Years Ago)
#3: Dec 5th 2010 at 9:50:02 AM

Cut the picture for People Sit On Chairs, definitely.

My suggestion for People Sit On Chairs would be... a shot of people sitting on chairs, preferably from a really famous work like Citizen Kane, or Gone With The Wind, or Star Wars. Caption could be "The Most Triumphant Example".

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#4: Dec 5th 2010 at 10:02:36 AM

Oh man, that would be the perfect snark for this. How about the following:


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JapaneseTeeth Existence Weighed Against Nonbeing from Meinong's jungle Since: Jan, 2001 Relationship Status: Mu
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#6: Dec 5th 2010 at 10:42:29 AM

I kinda like the Star Wars one because it's obvious that the chairs are not the focal point of the picture; it emphasizes the "there's really no reason to even note this" aspect of the trope.

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SeanMurrayI Since: Jan, 2010
#7: Dec 5th 2010 at 11:11:24 AM

^I can go with that.

Also, here's the best non-watermarked GIS picture I could find of people objectively sitting in chairs being the the focal point of the entire picture and still managing to be entirely uninteresting.

DoktorvonEurotrash Lex et Veritas from Not a place of honour (4 Score & 7 Years Ago)
#8: Dec 5th 2010 at 11:18:53 AM

So many good pictures here, the hard part is choosing one.

My favourite is probably the first Godfather one, though I really like the Star Wars and Gone With The Wind ones too. (And the Snow White link doesn't work for me.)

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#9: Dec 5th 2010 at 11:38:21 AM

Hmm, not sure why that would be. The Snow White image isn't one of the better ones, in any case.

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DragonQuestZ The Other Troper from Somewhere in California Since: Jan, 2001
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#10: Dec 5th 2010 at 11:42:58 AM

Just the picture alone is Just A Face And A Caption, especially calling it something subjective like the Most Triumphant Example.

This is what I meant earlier (a rough draft though), to show which is the trope and which isn't:

The briefing is the trope, not that they are sitting down to hear it.

edited 5th Dec '10 11:43:14 AM by DragonQuestZ

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SeanMurrayI Since: Jan, 2010
#11: Dec 5th 2010 at 11:58:19 AM

^Technically Our Graphics Will Suck in the Future is the trope.

edited 5th Dec '10 12:00:03 PM by SeanMurrayI

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#12: Dec 5th 2010 at 12:01:03 PM

[up][up]I think that's kind of the point, to show how ridiculous the idea is by trying to show it as a trope when it's obviously completely irrelevant.

Although granted, it isn't entirely clear that way, so your idea works fine.

edited 5th Dec '10 12:01:31 PM by JapaneseTeeth

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suedenim Teutonic Tomboy T-Girl from Jet Dream HQ Since: Oct, 2009
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#13: Dec 5th 2010 at 12:11:23 PM

[up]No, I think you had it right the first time. At the risk of ruining the joke, the idea most of us are talking about is to pretend for the sake of humor to treat People Sit On Chairs as if it was a "real" trope that tropers would get all excited and argumentative about, and argue about its Most Triumphant Example. (And, probably, have huge Edit Wars about how Triumphant it really is, but we don't need to carry the joke that far.)

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#14: Dec 5th 2010 at 12:16:10 PM

Yeah, I know, I was just explaining my reasoning. I just find the idea of using the picture in an attempt to present it as an actual trope to be hilarious.

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rodneyAnonymous Sophisticated as Hell from empty space Since: Aug, 2010
#15: Dec 5th 2010 at 3:03:03 PM

I think Sean's suggestion is by far the most dorky illustration of People Sit On Chairs, but sue's are from media and therefore more appropriate for TV Tropes.

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DragonQuestZ The Other Troper from Somewhere in California Since: Jan, 2001
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#16: Dec 5th 2010 at 4:05:42 PM

This isn't actually about sitting on chairs, but a lack of purpose making something not a trope.

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JapaneseTeeth Existence Weighed Against Nonbeing from Meinong's jungle Since: Jan, 2001 Relationship Status: Mu
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#17: Dec 5th 2010 at 4:08:47 PM

Yes, but an image of people sitting on chairs would drive home just how pointless these kinds of attempted tropes are.

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DragonQuestZ The Other Troper from Somewhere in California Since: Jan, 2001
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#18: Dec 5th 2010 at 4:27:17 PM

No, it would just look like people sitting on chairs.

This thing is an abstract, which means the picture can't just show a scene and expect that to illustrate the point without context.

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rodneyAnonymous Sophisticated as Hell from empty space Since: Aug, 2010
#19: Dec 5th 2010 at 4:31:32 PM

An image depicting people sitting on chairs is way funnier than an image depicting a story element that has no informational content.

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DragonQuestZ The Other Troper from Somewhere in California Since: Jan, 2001
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#20: Dec 5th 2010 at 4:37:45 PM

What makes you think this is a comedy trope? That's the only way that funny would be a factor here.

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rodneyAnonymous Sophisticated as Hell from empty space Since: Aug, 2010
#21: Dec 5th 2010 at 4:56:45 PM

Comedy tropes are not the only thing that should be humorous.

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DragonQuestZ The Other Troper from Somewhere in California Since: Jan, 2001
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#22: Dec 5th 2010 at 5:09:15 PM

[up] Illustrative is the point of pictures, not humor. And how would showing people on chairs be funny anyway? You'd have to understand the trope first, and that is not how pictures are supposed to work.

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rodneyAnonymous Sophisticated as Hell from empty space Since: Aug, 2010
#23: Dec 5th 2010 at 5:09:53 PM

Illustrative and funny.

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DragonQuestZ The Other Troper from Somewhere in California Since: Jan, 2001
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#24: Dec 5th 2010 at 5:29:16 PM

You still are ignoring that a) that's not a requirement just because you want it to be, and b) it's not funny unless you already know the trope, which goes against the point of pictures.

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SeanMurrayI Since: Jan, 2010
#25: Dec 5th 2010 at 6:35:38 PM

This... with the caption:

Tropes: Cool Chair, Slouch of Villainy, Damn, It Feels Good to Be a Gangster!
Not A Trope: Sitting In A Chair

edited 5th Dec '10 6:35:57 PM by SeanMurrayI


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