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There doesn't seem to be a general trope I can find for the fairly common joke where what to the real world audience is an Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking list is treated as a Bread, Eggs, Milk, Squick list to a character who hears it. Like in Treehouse of Horror IV when Devil Flanders gradually reveals his Jury composed of famous villains like John Wilkes Booth, Benedict Arnold, Blackbeard, and the 1976 Philadelphia Flyers, and only the last actually frightens the family.
Should it have its own trope or do we just say it's Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking combined with Faux Horrific? There's I Take Offense to That Last One but that is only when it's the accused/insulted responding.
Edited by DeepFiemott