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jormis29
Since: Mar, 2012

What's that one trope where someone takes a picture/video of some rare phenomenon but invariably loses the camera or has the lens obscured? I've seen it in Huckleberry Hound (Huck had the lens cap on when he was trying to take pictures of a leprechaun), The Flintstones (Barney had his thumb on the lens), Captain Planet (Wheeler lost the camera containing video of a yeti), and Invader Zim (Dib's attempt to expose Zim was foiled by a lens cap).