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openIf it's got a hinge, people pretend it's a mouth that's talking or eating
- Just saw this in an episode of Cutthroat Kitchen. After a losing chef returns his money to the briefcase Alton opens and closes it a few times, making eating noises.
- In a Friends episode Ross and Carol are at the obstetrician/gynecologist office waiting for the doctor. Ross picks up a speculum and opens and closes it making duck sounds.
You know, I think you might have a How Did We Miss This One? here.
Data does it with a tricorder in Star Trek: Generations after he gets his Emotion Chip and discovers humor.
Might consider expanding it to something like "Improvised Puppet" to cover corner-cases like using something that Kind of Looks Like A Face as a stick-puppet.
Edited by Scorpion451
I'm not sure I agree with that. I think it takes more than just a mouth (and not even a realistic mouth) to get the status of "puppet."
Tropes Are Flexible, as is the definition of puppet, which essentially boils down to "an object that is being used as a puppet". (you don't even really need the object.)
Edited by Scorpion451
Used with a dental model of teeth all over the place, but since it is a mouth I'm not sure if it's an example of this trope.
Still an improvised puppet.
Link to TRS threads in project mode here.
Time for the TLP?
^ Let's try.
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