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opendoes this entree fit the trope Live Action TV
hello, I'm new to your site and I don't know if these scenes would be classified as a balcony wooing scene https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/BalconyWooingScene
or not under your site's rules. they are from the tv series How I Met Your Mother. I am arguing that not only are they balcony wooing scenes but that they are the best balcony wooing scene ever! I'm frankly kind of annoyed and amused they weren't already included as I feel they were a pivotal part of that series identity.
the first scene is from season one episode one "pilot" after the protagonist ted meets a girl named robin in his local bar he takes her out on a date at a restaurant the following day. after their date is interrupted by robin being called away for her job and ted feeling he may have messed the date up he discided to steal the blue french horn that robin commented on in the restaurant to use as a grand romantic gesture, he rings up to her apartment and she sticks her head out the window where upon ted offers it up to her as a grand romantic gesture.
here's the clip of the scene from youtube https://youtu.be/qUWoWAA8M3o you
can also search " How I Met Your Mother – Pilot clip6"
I would argue that this is a wooing scene as he brought the blue french horn as a grand romantic gesture. as mentioned in the description of balcony wooing scenes the Grand Romantic Gesture is a trope associated with balcony wooing scenes, they may have not shared any words like you would see in traditional balcony wooing scenes but the gesture was more than enough to convey teds message making talk meiningless IMO.
the second scene is from the season one finally (episode 22) "Come On" Ted shows up at his now ex-girlfriend Robin's apartment he calls out to her and she opens her window. they start a conversation and she then asks why he was there he replied "Because I made it rain!".
the reason why this is relevant is because he spent half a day performing a rain dance to make it rain so she would have to stay home and not go camping with a potential love rival after she rejected his first advance.
he goes up to her apartment and they embrace each other. after a cut scene ted narrates how that was how he and Robin got together.
here's the clip of the scene from youtube https://youtu.be/y8fTcd_ZeJk you
can also search "How I Met Your Mother - Ending of Season 1 Finale"here's an alternative version https://youtu.be/TIGU1GWy-pI you
can also search "Ted and Robin Getting back Together (How I Met Your Mother)"
I would argue that this was a balcony wooing scene because he called out to her and they had a conversation through the window ledge not to mention he offered the rain as a grand romantic gesture. all these are traits associated with balcony wooing scenes.
the third scene is from the final episode of How I Meet Your Mother series (season 9 episode 24) for context this takes place 25 years after the first two scenes. After being told by his kids and Ted realizing it for himself, that he is still in love with Robin. Ted decided to show up at Robin's apartment with the blue french horn that he gave to her after their first date leading to the mirroring of the events of the pilot episode.
here's the clip of the scene from youtube https://youtu.be/nW82fRNJc84 you
can also search "How I Met Your Mother - Ending Scene"
all I have to say is all these scenes individually would likely be dismissed as an insignificant homage to the balcony wooing scene because of their short time shown but combined it's irrefutable that they are significant enough to be included in the list of balcony wooing scenes.
I have gone ahead and posted them already in the style of the others around it. I had problems formating it so it's not properly displayed though. I would like to add the links to the videos showing the scenes but I don't know if that's allowed or really how to do it in the first place. I welcome you to edit/fix them if you wish but please don't delete them without explaining why here first. thank you.
open 80s 0r 90s show in Australia Live Action TV
This is a question annoying a friend. Her whole family remember a show in the early 90s/late 80s about a rock that swallows people. The show was in Australia. I don't know if it was one episode of a show. Or a show all by itself. They said it was pretty scary but a kids show. Are they making this up? I can't find any reference to this
openNo Title Live Action TV
Okay, the WMG section for the TV horror-drama, Supernatural, is getting excessively crowded, with no order to any of the WMG.
I want to do folders (which I know how to make) or redirects to new pages (which I don't know how to do) for different categories, but I'm not kidding when I call that thing huge and disorganized. I don't have the time (in real life or in the short amount allowed for edit sessions) to do all that by myself, so I'm requesting backup/help/divine intervention from anybody willing.
Please?
P.S. I'd also like to know if I'm even allowed to do that.
openNo Title Live Action TV
This can apply to other mediums as well, but I'm editing the character entry for Antonio from the cast of Power Rangers Samurai. Specificially, I'm adding the Iaijutsu Practitioner trope. Reading the Iaijutsu Practitioner page, I just discovered the existence of the Blade Spam trope as well (a Sub-Trope of Spam Attack), all of which apply to the character. Would I just list the Blade Spam subtrope by itself alphabetically (in the "B" section), or would I use the following format (in the "S" section)?:
Thanks in advance for the clarification.
Edited by fenyx4openQuestionable entry on Non-Gameplay Elimination Live Action TV
I was browsing Non-Gameplay Elimination when I came upon this entry:
- On Ego Trip: The White Rapper, contestants would go through a number of challenges to prove themselves as the best rapper of the bunch, however, many challenges really had nothing to do with their skills as a rapper, but were physical challenges built around humiliating them. The most talented rapper of the first season, Dasit, quit the very first episode (announcing his quitting via rap, actually, and doing so very stylishly) because he knew he was too good for the show. Which is actually true.
Am I the only one who thinks this entry seems highly critical of the show and biased towards Dasit?
Also, I looked up the show on The Other Wiki out of curiosity. While their accuracy is usually called into question, it seems to contradict the above information. (That's the only reason I don't think Dasit wrote the entry himself.) Unfortunately, I haven't seen the show, so I can't judge one way or the other.
openCan I add a trope? Live Action TV
To the B5 page, Ceremonies of Light and Dark. I noticed they had missed something for Continuity Nod, but tbh, after my year-long tempban, I'm a bit hesitant in even any minor infraction. Like, you know... not knowing proper edits. Not the wording, per se, but the text itself. What do I do? Maybe do I post here to ask you guys for help in the final product?
openNo Title Live Action TV
Not a long time ago I added several entries to the Germans Love David Hasselhoff page (Live-Action TV sub-page). My examples were deleted with edit reason that "None of the Czech examples qualify as being more popular there than in Britain, really."
I carefully tried to give reasons why they are considered insanely popular here. There are examples similar to that on the page, e.g. Friends were never considered unpopular in the States, right? Other examples with Monty Python and Red Dwarf were left on the page untouched and it simply feels unfair. (I know a lot about that page since I was fixing its Example Indentation.)
Also, for now it is a YMMV trope. Popularity of a show at home and abroad could be measured objectively, but I would like to have equal treatment.
I would revert that myself, but I don't want to start Edit War so I thought I'd ask first.
Edited by XFlloopenDeleting a trope from a work page Live Action TV
I find myself very reluctant to just delete something someone else posted, but while watching the work and reading its tropes page side-by-side I realized an entry was wrong. Posting an additional comment with a correction would be natter. Should I just delete it, or ask a moderator to do so, or what is the right thing?
The page is the Doctor Who recap page "The Green Death" and reads:
- Toxic, Inc.: We never find out what Global Chemicals does make other than toxic waste.
While watching the episode I saw we do indeed find out what Global Chemicals makes: it’s an oil refinery with a new process that produces 25% more usable fuel from each barrel of crude oil. The new process however produces more toxic waste as a by-product (where the extra mass comes from is not discussed).
openTitleTrope dispute on a Recap page Live Action TV
Someone keeps deleting the Double-Meaning Title entry I made on an Arrow Season 6 recap page. Here's my entry:
- Double-Meaning Title: At first glance the episode title (which is "Doppelganger'") seems to only refer to Black Siren (the Alternate Self of a deceased main character), but the episode also features the return of Roy, a man who took the identity of the Arrow to take all the blame from Oliver back in Season Three. It also shows Diggle, Oliver's most constant stand-in, expressing his desire to officially don the Green Arrow mantle.
I think I made a valid explanation, but I don't wanna cause an Edit War so I'm here for second opinion(s). You guys think its Ok to put this back?
Edited by makarovak47openLocked recap pages? Live Action TV
I've taken it upon myself to develop the Mighty Morphin' Power Rangers Recap pages. Before I started my work, they didn't go past the first dozen or so episodes of the first season. I've made my way up to the fourth Green With Evil Saga episode and on submitting it, I found that it just took me back to the blank recap page for the episode. Why is this? I grant that my recaps are detailed but they do not substitute for the full episodes or scripts, and nor have I ever seen a rule forbidding detailed recaps (indeed I have seen many others for other works). I haven't gotten a PM relating to the matter either, not yet at least. Instead I think this must just be some kind of locking glitch but not sure why it would have happened? Please can someone fix this so I can continue to work on the recaps. I also noticed that the fifth episode of the saga had the same predicament and, one might assume, so on and so forth for other episodes after that point. I checked and I was able to re-edit previously submitted recaps.
Edited by FlashStepsopenNo Title Live Action TV
I moved a Boardwalk Empire
character from one category to another because his change of "camp" constitutes a season 4 spoiler by itself and is generally agreed not to do that for the current/last aired season out of courtesy in the indexes (like with the houses in Game of Thrones, where allegiances are spoilers and it was discussed that moving them around under their master houses defeats the purpose of the categories in the first place), so anyway I put the character in another
factually correct and less revealing category. All with edit reasons and all, but editor Mickey Doyle
, who moved the character there
in the first place, has reverted the correction without any edit reason or discussion whatsoever.
So It's up to me to sort it out? (It's a bit painful to articulate P Ms with people who don't use edit reasons, he should be the one justifying the changes, perhaps you can help me out here) Maybe this informal courtesy is not really sanctioned and characters pages can be spoilers-off.
edit : PM sent
Edited by TrollBrutalopenNo Title Live Action TV
Hm... While he does prove a point in Go-Busters being labeled the Black Sheep of Tokusatsu, do you think May Incon's edits
are... good?
I ask because I'm not sure myself.
Edited by Psyga315openNo Title Live Action TV
Over at the Game of Thrones S4E9: "The Watchers on the Wall" recap page we have troper mfarah ignoring a request to bring a contentious example to the discussion page and continuing to edit war. To give history to this; I thought the Idiot Ball examples were wrong for a variety of reasons listed in the edit reason and deleted them initially, mfarah added them back in with an edit reason responding with some arguments that weren't convincing. I commented them all out and pulled it to the discussion page, where the verdict was universally to cut them. mfarah just uncommented them without even looking at the discussion page.
Can a mod step in so this doesn't devolve into a full-out edit war? As it stands myself, Troll Brutal, Larkman and Hodor all weighed in on the discussion page and supported cutting it, mfarah is the only one pushing to keep them and can't be bothered to bring it to discussion.
openNo Title Live Action TV
I am a bit confused by the fact that the Creator.Adam West and SelfDemonstrating.Adam West pages are absolutely identical. Is there a point?
openNo Title Live Action TV
I just launched AuctionKings and I wanted to put an image up.
I've read through the Administrivia pages, but I'm still not 100% clear on what's acceptable. How do I tell if an image is legal for us to use?
I'll also take any general feedback on the page itself. Feel free to make updates yourself or suggest them to me.
openNo Title Live Action TV
Would it count as Harsher in Hindsight if the creators blatantly meant for something to have meaning, but only after a certain reveal?
The point I'm referring to is from Series.Jane The Virgin. One woman uses her husband's frozen sperm to try to inseminate herself. At the time, it seems like a desperate attempt to get him to stay with her.
However, later on it's revealed she's a golddigger and it's just an attempt to keep him long enough for their prenup to kick in, thus giving her his money.
Still later on, it's revealed that it's his only sample and the only chance he'll ever have at having a child.
Is it Harsher in Hindsight when the creator intends for it to be harsher?
openNo Title Live Action TV
Ever since Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. S02E08, "The Things We Bury", was broadcast, there are some like myself who believe Daniel Whitehall is a Complete Monster solely based on his actions in that episode. However, unlike those others, I have shown a perfect willingness to wait until his time on the show ends and have even helped remove his example until the proper time.
openNo Title Live Action TV
Edit war on Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.: The "Centipede" Group; I refuse to involve myself, but danielle is clearly in the wrong, continuing to remove examples without explanation. Possible sockpuppet? Must investigate further.
openNo Title Live Action TV
Regarding reality TV shows, are we allowed to trope entries that are not explicitly shown on the screen itself, but news from other sources?

Hey there, I was led to the No Nonsense Self Defense link on I Just Want to Be Badass and reading through the page I began thinking about Buffy The Vampire Slayer. You know how she goes out on patrol looking for demons and such? Well as many people would guess that would likely get someone killed. I have in my mind writing up a detailed prose on this. How would I go about doing it? Where would I post it? Or would it be better off to leave that to self defense experts?