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resolved Baby Talk
Is their a baby equivalent to Animal Talk, eg babies can talk to each other and understand adults but adults can't understand them eg Rugrats, Baby Geniuses, Look Who's Talking, Arthur and sometimes Family Guy
Edited by jormis29resolved Hallucination POV
I'm thinking of the thing that happens in visual media where a hallucination is revealed to be a hallucination by the view switching to a different camera angle and at the same time switching to showing the reality. (Or, alternatively, switching from the reality to the hallucination.)
For instance, two characters are talking, and then the camera switches to a wide shot that reveals that one character is actually alone in the room and talking to thin air. Or there's a group of characters where one is insisting that they can see something that nobody else can see, and when the camera is pointing over that character's shoulder the audience can see it too but in the wide shots it's invisible.
Do we have a page for that?
resolved Boring Vacation Slideshow
An incredibly boring activity that only the person doing it will find fun: showing off a picture slideshow of their trip or vacation. Usually a comedy trope, I've seen this one multiple times.
- The Simpsons does this three times:
- In "Krusty Gets Busted", Homer is not looking forward to seeing Patty and Selma's vacation slides of their trip to Mexico. He stops on the Kwik-E-Mart on his way home, leading to him seeing Krusty (actually Sideshow Bob) robbing the store. Bart and Lisa do end up watching the slideshow, and don't enjoy it.
- In "Kiss Kiss, Bang Bangalore", Patty and Selma kidnap Mac Gyver. However, he starts getting too interested in escaping from their house and annoys them nonstop. To get him away for good, they tie him up and show him pictures of their vacation; he's begging to be let go by the end of it.
- In "Flaming Moe's," Homer has a boring night watching Patty and Selma's vacation pictures, so he goes to find a drink in the kitchen; he doesn't have any, leading to him creating the Flaming Homer that sets up the plot of the episode.
- In Arthur, one of Francine's embarrassing memories in "Kids are from Earth, Parents are from Pluto" is having her dad stay in class on an open night. When the teacher shows slides of a field trip (mostly just pictures of trees, narrated in a boring and slow voice), he falls asleep and snores loudly.
- In SpongeBob SquarePants, "A SquarePants Family Vacation" has a framing device of SpongeBob inviting his friends to something they'd all enjoy, only for it to turn out to be his vacation slides. They're all disappointed and want to leave, but he manages to keep them in for long enough to show them.
resolved Orson Welles making frozen pea commercials Film
Is there a trope, in-universer or out, for accomplished creators/athletes/performers whose careers drop to comically humiliating lows, thanks to a perceived decrease in skill, abrasive personality, offscreen antics (including legal troubles) or a refusal to compromise their ethical values?
A more extreme version would be an actor being reduced to making porn.
Edited by Mac_Rresolved Trope used to describe character titles when they show up for the first time
Not sure which trope covers this. It's in anime/manga, but I've seen this in 24 for instance.
resolved Seemingly blank message
A blank piece of paper reveals a hidden message if, for example, held over a flame or wetted with lemon juice.
resolved Social Media "Hack"
Do we have a trope for when a character's social media platform(s) are vandalized by another character logged in to their account?
resolved Misunderstanding Evidence Debuked Live Action TV
Alice thinks X about Bob. Throughout the episode, she sees a bunch of stuff to comfirm her hypothesis.
In the end, she (or someone she talked to) confronts Bob, and Bob explains what every piece of evidence really meant.
The example I'm thinking of, from The Nanny, Fran assumes Niles is a serial killer because he's been shopping for knives, calling the morgue and wearing sneakers. In the end, Niles reveals he's written a play - the sneakers were so he could walk on stage, the knives were props and the morgue was research. Often, the explanations are increasingly ridiculous as a form of Lampshade Hanging.
resolved Pilots Have Lots of Sex Live Action TV
Is there a trope for airplane pilots being portrayed as having lots of sex, since they can travel around the world and sleep with locals and attractive flight attendants?
Or rather, a trope that associates professions and sexual attractiveness/promiscuity?
resolved Surprisingly unoccupied area
A character arrives to a location that they expected to have people in it, only to find it empty. For example, someone attends a party that was cancelled without their knowing, or a child comes home to find their family gone. I'm sure I saw this just a few days ago, but I can't find it now.
resolved Non-Video Game UpdatedRerelease
Do we have a trivia trope like Updated Re-release for things like J. R. R. Tolkien altering later editions of his books, or old works edited for modern release by removing depictions now seen as uncomfortably bigoted?
resolved When the phrases "kicked out" or "thrown out" are taken literally
Gag common in cartoons when a character is removed from a building by an angry person via literal kicking or throwing.
resolved Two Children-related tropes Film
1 - When a movie that features rauchy humor or extreme gore has a child actor, scenes are often edited so that the kid isn't present during the recording of the dirty/violent scenes, because the crew is worried about the kid's psychological balance. Some movies make a point of showing the editing so viewers can relax knowing the innocent little actor wasn't subjected to graphic images. (for example, that scene from Clerks where Randall is listing off a bunch of porn movies he needs to buy, and a lady with a baby is hearing it with a shocked expression). What trope would that be?
2 - Some works (or some episodes of a certain work) feature kids in a realistic setting that celebrates the bittersweet innocence of childhood, as opposed to setting the kids up as wiser than their elders, sarcastic, competent, mature, or involved in speculativeFiction tropes. I'm thinking in particular of the "kids being kids" episodes of South Parklike "Return of the Fellowship of the Ring to the Two Towers". Is there a trope for that?
resolved everyone comes back for the ending Film
A comedy where the main character meets lots of people throughout the movie (often during a road trip), and in the last scene everyone shows up, usually for a party or something. Or, the character is spends the movie helping people out expecting nothing in return, then in the end when all hopes are lost, the characters show up to help him back.
resolved "Split Team" episodes
A show follows the adventures of Mary, Bob, Alice, and Ted. Most episodes feature all four of the characters. However, one episode centers around Mary and Bob, with Alice and Ted nowhere to be seen. The next episode shows what Alice and Ted were up to during Mary and Bob's adventure.
resolved Vampire Doctor
Do we have a trope for characters whose chosen profession shows that they have a great deal of control over their Horror Hunger.
resolved Snooty Ivy Leaguer Western Animation
What trope would fit the character of a snooty, young male Ivy League student, who's part of an old fraternity he joined thanks to his old money family connections, acts pompous and towards the main characters, drinks expensive booze, wears cardigans around their neck, plays tennis, lacross or rowing, and gets humiliated in a gross manner in the end?
resolved There's only one Vigilante (SOLVED) Print Comic
Is there a trope about the Fridge Logic that applies to countless superhero stories - that is, the fact that people in-universe always assume the superhero is a single guy, despite not knowing anything about him - and despite the fact that the superhero costume makes it easy for impersonators - for instance, J. Jonah Jameson always assumes Spiderman (the chameleon or Mysterio) robbing a bank is "proof" he's a criminal, rather than some other powered character buying the same costume.
Edited by Mac_R
Alice wants to surprise Bob - either a surprise party, dinner, gift or something. Thus, she pretends she's not doing anything special, and ignores Bob's attempts at reminding her. This drives Bob mad and he goes on a rant trashing Alice, saying their relationship is over, revealing secrets and so on... then he finds out about the surprise, but it's too late.