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WackyMeetsPractical
Since: Oct, 2009
208.90.160.1
Since: Dec, 1969
7th Apr, 2011 04:35:59 PM
No, actually, that's not what I'm looking for. Stab The Salad is when a character looks like he's about to stab someone with a dangerous weapon, but in actuality, is using it to cut up vegetables or something. The trope I'm looking for is a character's reaction to what the viewer thinks is the main event but is actually something else. Try again, please.
Edited by CaveCat
Here's another trope that I can't find anywhere; one character notices something that he becomes greatly horrified or surprised at, but it turns out to be something mundane rather than the main event that happened. Happens fairly often in Sponge Bob Square Pants. It could be a subtrope of Completely Missing The Point, but I don't know what it's called. Does anyone know what that trope is called?