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BabClayton
Since: Apr, 2016
12th May, 2022 10:21:17 AM
Could this be an example of Failed a Spot Check, since the observer is literally right next to who they are looking for and not realize it?
Potentially, a mixture of Missed Him by That Much or A Truce While We Gawk, too?
Any of those what you're looking for?
A kind of specific visual slapstick joke: A persecutor who lost his quarry is observing a situation where he expects the subject to be. He's being joined by exactly the same subject he's looking for, who ALSO starts observing the situation, assuming that something interesting must be happening, as there is a already another person observing. Both are so distracted, that it takes them a moment (often a double take) to realise they are after one another. And on goes the chase…
I'm sure I've seen it multiple times, but I can't exactly remember… Is this a trope?