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Cello Solo of death: if someone has a cello solo, especially if they play "prelude to No. 1 for unaccompanied cello" by Bach, someone will die. Seen in kingdom and desperate housewives
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Is there a reason why Queen of Swords is under "Series" rather than "Main"? Can/should it be moved?
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Someone added a link containing the N-word on the Alphas page. Do we allow that? I know we don't want to Bowlderize or run nannybots, but racist epithets are another thing entirely, I think.
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Dukes Of Hazzard looks to me like it should automagically redirect to The Dukes Of Hazzard. Since I'm mentioning this here, you can probably gather that it doesn't.
What's wrong with that page/redirect? (Or is it just something wrong with me?)
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Real Guns expel cartridge cases, Hollywood guns rarely do. Ever since Myth Busters showed off the gattling gun, more Hollywood guns do expel the cases. Is there a trope for this?
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ATTN: To any Canadian or British tropers.
INRE: I have spent many worthwhile hours exploring this amazing website and have felt compelled to join. Thank you so much, everyone who has devoted so much time and effort to evolving this site.
My query involves a pilot movie for a speculative fiction series that I completed and my attempts to adapt it from an American POV to appeal to a British audience. I would hate for anyone to say that I did not do the research when I Fed Ex it to the writer's-room at the BBC. Would any troper out there be willing to review this script prior to me sending it out? Help anyone could offer would be greatly appreciated.
It's registered with the W.G.A., so if anyone would like a digital copy to review, I don't mind sending it out. With my thanks.
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I don't know if this is the place to ask this question but is there a page for the television show Bliss? It was a sort of erotica anthology show that they used to show edited for American TV episodes on the Oxygen network late nights. I wanted to mention it on Better on DVD, but wasn't sure if I should.
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Why was almost all the content on the Glee headscratchers page removed. They are mostly valid questions, but they were removed because they had a 'negative' side. Can we only have positive questions about a show? https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/article_history.php?article=Headscratchers.GleeSeason2&more=t
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https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/el.php?findfor=theschwab34 and his newly recruited friend https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/el.php?findfor=Confession0791
Can someone tell this guy to stop inserting incorrect trope usage into an article just because he ships a certain pairing?
He can't tell the difference between BST and UST, or how the tropes are being played with, won't bother reading the entries that clearly explain why the entries are, re-edits the article every time it's changed back to the correct version.
Then he goes off to start wikilawyering here accusing people of bias, which is silly, since myself and the other guy who have done most of the edits on the show have been trying to get the show to qualify for Trope Overdosed and rejecting a trope because of a "bias" wouldn't help that goal.
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is there a trope name for when the main characters of a high school drama go to college and immediately age to the actors actual respective age even though they are supposed to be young.
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Hi, tvtrope lurker here... I'm trying to find a trope usually used in television crime procedurals wherein the cop acts sympathetic to the villain in order to manipulate or get information from them. It's more than just a friendly good cop, they act like they understand or even share the bad guy's motivation, especiallly if the perp in question is mentally unbalanced. Usually pretty obvious to the audience but also pretty creepy if it's done right. Is there anything that sounds like that?
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There was an episode of Angel where Faith is working on redemption, Buffy comes in wanting to kill her, and Angel basically tells her off. Would Buffy be the Designated Villain in this case?
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Since Big-Lipped Alligator Moment has the YMMV disclaimer/banner, shouldn't BLAM Episode have it too?
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I know there's a war on YMMV tropes on the main page at the moment. What if they were the Trope Namer? Badass Decay\Spikeification and "Funny Aneurysm" Moment being listed on the Buffy main page, for example?
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Sorry to be a pain, where do I go to ask what trope something would go under? I wanted to put in how Willow flaying Warran alive is treated as bad, but for many it'd be considered good or justified.
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Is there any way to undo any edit? Because on the Whose Line Is It Anyway page, TroperKC seems to be combining Bluenose Bowdlerizer and Scunthorpe Problem, deleting whenever a-s-s appears inside a word, like H***elhoff, ***umed, and L***ie, among other 'fixes'.
Or should I just revert it manually?
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Would I be allowed to add this to 24?
- Art Imitates Life: The positive portrayal of David Palmer is credited for the election of Barack Obama.
I'm looking for a trope described thusly:
A (female) Royal (or Spoiled) Brat and Mr. Fixit are stuck on a Desert(ed) island and forced to come up with creative ways to survive/be rescues. Inevitably Belligerent Sexual Tension ensues. The Royal Brat is always unhelpful but will usually end up doing/finding the single important thing that leads to their survival (she finds the food, disables the evil pirates, flies the plane, whatever). The struggle leads to a great many Well Excuse Me Princess moments, might include Mr/Mrs Fanservice with a chance of Mud-wrestling, almost always ends with a Crowning Moment of Awesome (preferably by the brat).
Examples, Star Trek Enterprise episode "Precious Cargo" Quantum Leap episode "Leaping of the Shrew" Movie "Six Days Seven Nights" and more
What does the Tropersphere think?
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