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Is there a trope for something that sounds really outlandish, but actually happened? For instance, an episode of Regular Show was based on a billboard-sitting contest held in 1983.
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Do we have something on a situation where a telephone is not only able to communicate and translate sound information, but can also send bad breath, saliva, and other physical matter to the receiving end?
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Recently I've seen an episode of Total Drama World Tour called "Awwwwww, Drumheller". However... at one point the cast has to find some barrels of oil buried in Drumheller's badlands as a challenge. After the explaination of the challenge Cody came up with this line to say how harder the challenge is: "There must be twenty miles of badlands. It's like looking for a needle in... twenty miles of badlands!". Now I would like to know where this example should be put. I've thought of Shaped Like Itself, Buffy Speak or Metaphorgotten. It seems to fit with each of them, especially the first two... what do you think? Or maybe it fits in another trope I don't know? I'm waiting answers.
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Theme Song, Interrupted. In short, when a character's theme song is countered by another, usually rival character before it resumes.
Examples I have :
Jem (We Are The Misfits!)
Mickey Mouse Club (Donald Duck!)
Fraggle Rock (Work Your Cares Away—Dancing's For Another Day)
Does this already have an entry?
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The medium falls under a lot of genres but the biggest one is "comic books". That wasn't there, so Western Animation it is.
Before I make a YKTTW, I need to know if there is an entry for a disgruntled sidekick. You know, a sidekick or group of sidekicks that are treated like crap and decide to go on strike/get revenge/turn evil.
I know it happened on an episode The Tick, and a friend of mine says examples are also in Sky High and Sponge Bob Square Pants. There is also now an example in the first book of Toonopolis Files.
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Is there a trope for hitting people with other people? Seen a lot in cartoons.
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What's the trope for reading the book in the wrong direction?
An example is Eternal Daughter, where the reading direction flips if you face left or right. Another example is an early episode of X-Men, where The Beast reads Animal farm by turning pages from the front to back (although I should verify this).
This doesn't include Japanese books/manga, which are meant to be read right-to-left.
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Is there a trope for that cloud left behind when cartoon characters move very fast?
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Do we have a trope specifically for euphemisms for Hell?
I'm thinking of how, on kids' shows, the characters can talk about hell, or even go there, but they still refer to it with euphemisms like "Hades", "the bad place", or "the other place".
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Here's another trope that I can't find anywhere; one character notices something that he becomes greatly horrified or surprised at, but it turns out to be something mundane rather than the main event that happened. Happens fairly often in Sponge Bob Square Pants. It could be a subtrope of Completely Missing The Point, but I don't know what it's called. Does anyone know what that trope is called?
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Is there a trope for the comedic puffs of dust left behind by a cartoon character who has just made a break for it? They tend to have sight gags of their own (spelling out words, creating a silhouette of that character which also startles and runs away, etc.)
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Is there a trope for how characters with a cavity will usually have this depicted by having a swollen cheek and/or a bandage wrapped around their head?
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Is there a trope for when someone is summoned to bring their ear closer to the speaker, as if to whisper, only for the speaker to shout in their ear?
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What about where a character undergoes a significant transformation at the end of a story, but all of the merchandise shows the pre-transformed character? Plus, the sequels are all Interquels. In effect, the post-transformed character is a lot less interesting. Disney seems to love this one. The Beast is a beast, Ariel has a tail, Rapunzel has her hair, Pinocchio is a wooden boy, etc.
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What's the name of the trope wherein two people stranded on a deserted island or lifeboat etc. get so hungry, that they imagine the other person looks like a food product?
Reading tropes such as You Know What You Did
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Is there a trope for someone choosing to take a hit in a fight?
The reason I'm wondering about this trope is from a scene in Spider-Man, where Peter is attacked by a group of university thugs. After he managed to dodge their blows he decides to let himself be beaten, thinking that he looked too good. Is there a trope for that? Something to do with hiding a secret identity or something?
Noodle Implements FTW!
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Mostly a game trope, but I've seen it apply to animation and film.
There's an up-and-coming project from an up-and-coming company. They're cutting corners on costs to stay within the budget, so instead of guest stars, or, in fact, any trained actors, they do every bit (or a statistically significant bit, anyway) of acting themselves. Be it on-screen action for a movie, or FMV cutscenes for a video game, or voice-overs for a cartoon or a video game, it's done by the dev team, not trained actors. This can lead to both good (Tex Murphy, War Craft and Mortal Kombat come to mind first of all) and bad (a great many Mortal Kombat wannabe) results. This can also apply to localizations as well, causing a further upgrade from what is simply a "Blind Idiot" Translation to a Translation Trainwreck =)
The Russian joke phrase (which would be the Trope Namer if we had a Russian version of the Wiki) is "Voicework done by professional programmers". But do we actually have one for a case of this on This Wiki?
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What is the name of the trope where animated characters receive help or meet real life celebrities? Like when scooby doo meets the Harlem globe trotters.

Someone KO'd by physical force is more likely to fall backward; someone KO'd by an energy or mental attack is more likely to fall face forward (sometimes after a couple of ambiguous seconds on his feet).
I lisetd this under Western Animation but it appears in other visual media, as I recall.