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KD
Since: May, 2009
15th Apr, 2021 07:38:09 PM
Some of this may be related to Priceless Ming Vase or Broken Treasure.
Mac_R
(Experienced, Not Yet Jaded)
16th Apr, 2021 05:18:34 PM
That's close enough, thanks.
Is there a trope for comedy scenes where a character is in a public setting, gets closer to an object to admire it and the object breaks (or it was broken already but the character assumes he did it). So the character has to awkwardly pretend he didn't do it, try to fix it without anyone noticing, blame it on someone else, hide it in his pants, et cetera...
Usually the object is a valuable piece of art or technology, an urn with human ashes, but sometimes it's just a random thing and the character is just super neurotic.