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It's not Hey Its That Voice, but is there anything that covers a cartoon character given a voice that's meant to be an impression of a well-known Hollywood celebrity?
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1. Consider the following lines:
"What's with the wait, Jennifer Slow-pez?" "What's your favorite movie? Squeal Magnolias?" (After someone has just been a snitch) "Who are you, Nagatha Christie?" (After someone is nagging the speaker)
These are all puns and plays on words, but do they each count as a Shout-Out?
2. A trope for when something is going wrong and a character, in front of a series of buttons/levers/whatever, presses and pulls everything in order to try and stop the wrongness.
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In an episode of TMNT 2012/Nick, the 1987 Turtles make an AU appearance as a menace from 2012/Nick ends up in their world. While jovial, these were not the Flanderized 1987 Turtles from Turtles Forever. Would this qualify as Author's Saving Throw, and if so, would it go on the main page or YMMV?
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I've noticed in several Disney cartoons that characters designed to look beautiful (usually female leads) look and animate like a normal human would while characters not designed to look beautiful (usually male villains) look more like a caricature and have odd animation quirks, such as a mouth that changed shape, size and/or position.
Examples:
- Oliver And Company: Compare Jenny to any of the male humans, especially Fagin.
- One Hundred And One Dalmatians: Compare Anita to Cruella or any male character.
- Tarzan: Compare Jane to Clayton.
- Sleeping Beauty: Compare Prince Phillip to King Hubert.
Is there a trope for this?
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I wnated to make sure this fits for the Radar.My Little Pony Friendship Is Magic page.
In the episode "Make New Friends But Keep Discord" the eponymous character threatens to send another character to another dimension. The dimension in question included a sock puppet named Senor Huevos. Huevos is technically Spanish for eggs, but apparently it is also slang for testicles.
So does this fit?
also related is Senor Huevos mentioning another sock puppet named Monsieur Baguette, I inquire if Baguette is also slang for some dirty words.
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What's the trope where the main character has a superpower (heat ray, ice power, telekinesis, etc.), but rarely uses it and rather use a weapon (such as a sword)?
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What is the trope where the main character says a different question every time and someone answers it with the same answer/comment/phrase?
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Can looked over and over the Speeches and Monologues page and i can't tell which specifically Dictator Pickles speech qualifies as
. I'm not as experiences with this wiki, so can someone with a little more insight into the Speeches and Monologues tropes give me an idea?
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Is there a trope about when a person's love interest or family member becomes a zombie and the person still decides brings them with them everywhere? It happened once on the show 6teen during the halloween episode where eveyones turns into zombie, the blonde girl covers her zombified boyfriend's mouth so he can't bite her and drags him along with them.
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South Park: Kyle claims, in one episode, towards Cartman, that he hates Cartman, but won't help kill him. In a later episode, he convinces Cartman to go on a quest purely because Kyle thinks Cartman will die.
What trope would this fall under? A good character developing more hate for an evil character, to the point that their morals decay towards that character only... I guess. That was a downright awful summary of what I'm thinking of.
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I looked on the Sleep and Wakefulness Tropes page, but I can't find. Mainly an animated trope, the phenomenon where a sleeping character inhales and exhales with such force that any nearby cloth (curtains, clothes, etc) will be sucked in and blown out at corresponding intervals. I just saw this in action watching a review of Cricket On The Hearth.
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Does anyone know a trope where a character has mental disorders and is usually shown on a white err...bed thing with white tape or something?
Example: Oggy when he realizes he spent an entire night being awake thanks to the cockroaches. He does crazy things such as spinning, hitting himself with a hammer, singing a short opera, slapping himself and doing the Russian squat dance.
So does Joey upon the fact he thinks Oggy is everywhere.
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A gag possibly found in old Looney Tunes cartoons.
A landmass, or a section of it, has words written on it as if it was a map.
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What would a character who speaks in guitar riffs go under? The Unintelligible, Starfish Language, or...?
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Has anyone heard of a trope where an animal is the main character, is a pet to humans, and despises it? I'm just thinking back to Gill's line in Finding Nemo, "Fish weren't meant to be kept in a box, kid. It does things to you."
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Is there a trope for a certain type of "charming" smile, where the eyes are half closed and the teeth are showing (often with perfectly white teeth)? Especially quiz show hosts seem to have this smile. It is used quite often in Western Animation, but it is not limited to that as I have seen it in Anime, Live Action movies/shows (if the actor has a cartoony face) and Video Games.
I would greatly appreciate your help.
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I'm looking for a trope, very common in late 1920s through early 1930s Western animation, in which the action halts for a moment as a character's face juts into the camera, for comical effect, Nightmare Fuel or both. It's not a Jump Scare, because the character's body stays put; only the face fills the screen. Nor is it Eat the Camera, because it doesn't involve going right inside a wide-open mouth. Related to Nightmare Face. A few examples of what I mean: Circus Capers
(Van Beuren), Mysterious Mose
(Fleischer), Snow White
(Fleischer), Lady, Play Your Mandolin!
(Warner Bros.).
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Now I want a trope that's the opposite of Dude Looks Like a Lady, to be exact. I know I've already asked for a "tasting something makes you feel addicted to it" trope earlier today.
Example:
Liz from The Magic School Bus and Yumi from Hi Hi Puffy AmiYumi.
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I'm trying to remember the name of the trope with this basic scenario.
Bob's being chased by an angry mob. Bob dashes around a corner and ducks into a nearby box/trash can/door to a building in panic. The mob gives chase around that same corner, but go right past the box/trash can/door. Bob takes a peek to see if the crowd is out of sight, utters a "Phew! That was close!", and walks off on his merry way- unscathed.

I remember seeing an old cartoon where an insect (a bee?) was in a bakery and spent 7 minutes eating many sweets. At one point, he goes through a few cheesecakes until he inadvertently eats a "limburger cheesecake" that he promptly spits out. I think it was a Merry Melodies short.