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Chekhov's Civilian Live Action TV
Do we have a trope/subtrope where: the hero tells the civilian to stay in the car...and then they run over the villain from inside the car. They stayed in the car and didn't violate the spirit of the agreement; it's based off hedgiwithapen's tumblr post talking about this trope in these exact terms. [/post/682927017429221376]
Episodic format Live Action TV
Is there any actual trope to indicate a strictly episodic formula, akin in style to MacGyver (1985), where you can plug in at any episode, continuity is barely there and the only connecting tissue are recurring characters and general concept?
Asking for a very specific case with Czterej pancerni i pies, which, despite being ostensibly a TV series, opens each episode with "Studio Syrena presents FILM from the... Title Drop series", and excluding two two-parters, the entire show is done entirely in self-contained episodes, with the only continuity being progression of the war and characters knowing each other.
Or should just Film Serial be used directly to describe it?
Edited by Stanisz
SPOILERY REVEAL: Live Action TV
So in the latest Episode of Series.Moon Knight 2022, While expalining that there are multiple afterlifes, Tawaret mentions the Ancestral Plane which was seen in Black Panther. Obviously a continuity nod, but what other tropes are there for multiple afterlives?
Killer found by saying something only the killer would know Live Action TV
Ok so imagine crime drama where a woman is killed and they are interviewing the husband, the husband says something like "please detectives, find the man who stabbed my wife 12 times" but the cops never revealed to the husband that she was stabbed, or that it was 12 times, so how does he know? Obv it means he is the killer
Chekhov's in reverse? Live Action TV
In The Pretender S 1 E 02 Every Picture Tells A Story, Sydney tells Miss Parker that she was a happy little girl. Just then a little girl passes by on a tricycle. Later in the episode there's a sort of flashback to something traumatic that happened to Miss Parker as a little girl on April 13, 1970.
The little girl at the beginning is presumably not related to Miss Parker and has no further use in the story, but she foreshadows that something about a main character's past will be revealed.
I'm certain we have this trope, I just have no idea what it's called or how to find it.
Website on TV show exists in real life to point to producer's website Live Action TV
I'm thinking this must be a Trivia trope: In several TV shows, a website is mentioned that must clearly be a fictional website. Examples abound in The Big Bang Theory, Boston Public, CSI: Cyber, The Good Wife, etc.
But if you're curious, you open a real Web browser on your real computer, type the URL, hit enter and you're redirected to the production company's website. For example, go to http://www.friendagenda.com/
and you'll be redirected to https://www.paramount.com/brand/paramount-streaming
What is this called?
Anachronistic Currency Live Action TV
Yesterday's episode of Coronation Street had a character find a stash of money that had been hidden by someone who'd been murdered in June 2019. That money is in the form of £20 notes - of a design that was first issued in February 2020. Is this a minor case of Anachronism Stew or is there a more appropriate trope for this mistake?
Everyone chooses the same song on the jukebox Live Action TV
The only example I can think of is JAGS 06 E 11 Baby Its Cold Outside but every time I watch that episode or even think about it, I have this feeling that three characters choosing the same song on the jukebox is a very common and predictable event in TV shows. Is it? Do we have it listed as a trope?
Double Standard Live Action TV
I'm having trouble about which type of double standard I should be putting. A woman gets interest in a boy that its 16 or 17 years old and sexually harasses him but they never have sex. Which type of double standard applies in this situation: rape or abuse?
Intersecting Events with Multiple Characters Live Action TV
Is there a trope for the plot structure used in The Simpsons S7 E21 "22 Short Films About Springfield" where multiple threads can briefly intersect with one another without characters necessarily being aware of how events are overlapping, e.g. one character walks down the street and unwittingly passes another character who's involved in another plot, which is something only the audience is aware of due to Dramatic Irony?
Motor Mouth? Live Action TV
Is there a trope for when someone says a REALLY long sentance without stopping for a breath? I'm thinking about Britain's Charlie Brooker, when, talking about the horsemeat scandal of 2013 in his show Newswipe, he said this:
"I don't know about you, but when I ate a burger, I used to think 'Mmm, what a tasty compact disc of minced tissue scrapings blasted off a cow carcass with a high-pressure hose in a fly-blown abattoir ringing with the incoherant agonizing howls of simple beasts dying from a single boltgun shot to the forehead'"
My best guess was Motor Mouth.
Edited by awakeningcry
Mysterious Holes and Symbols Live Action TV
Is there a trope for mysterious holes or symbols appearing in walls or on the ground with no apparent explanation? I just created a trope page for Outer Range and the trailers indicate those will factor heavily into the plot.
Ironic diegetic music Live Action TV
In This Is Us S 6 E 12 Katoby, Kate and Toby laugh at Whitney Houston's "I'll always love you" song playing in the elevator at the law firm where they talk to a divorce lawyer. Maybe Kate and Toby will always love each other on account of their children, but this song playing at a law firm is ironic.
What trope is this? I looked at Soundtrack Dissonance but that doesn't seem quite right for this...
Scrappy episode Live Action TV
An episode of a show almost everyone hates.
Thingamajig between scenes Live Action TV
What is the proper terminology for that thing like on The Big Bang Theory where there's a short animated sequence of subatomic particles instead of a fade or cut between scenes? I think That '70s Show also has those... Is there a trope for it?
Invented folksy metaphors Live Action TV
In NCIS Hawaii S 01 E 11 The Game, Malik, pretending to be a Texan, says he'll wire Tara some money faster than a "chicken caught in a coyote parade."
That's gotta be a trope listed on this website. But what is it called? In The Simpsons S13 E2 "The Parent Rap", Judge Harm tells Bart "don't spit on my cupcake and call it frosting." Or maybe that's more a parody of Judge Judy rather than someone trying to come up with an unusual metaphor as part of a cover...
You're safer in custody Live Action TV
So the cops or agents decide to just release a suspect, no catch. Because then the evil boss will assume the suspect talked, and thus kill the suspect. Most recent example I've seen is NCIS Hawaii S 01 E 18 TNT
I looked at Batman Gambit hoping to find a link there to a closer match, but no luck...
Edited by JohnRore
Character expectations trope? Live Action TV
Is there such a trope as this:
- Bob introduces Alice and Carol to his friend Kate, who's a Nice Girl Goth, and she tells them about how she's a huge fan of Megan Thee Stallion and Bebe Rexha and then afterwards Alice and Carol argue:
Alice: Surely she CAN'T be a Goth due to her taste in music? She doesn't listen to punk or emo. What a phoney, she's not a Goth!Carol: She's not a phoney, she's still a Goth!
Is there such a trope for where someone assumes someone from a subculture is a phoney because their interests are so far from what's expected of the subculture? Is it Such a Phony?
Edited by Merseyuser1
Dummy as a character? Live Action TV
Is there a trope for when a character is not played by a human but by a lifeless dummy? The example I am specifically thinking of is Law & Order. The episode last week had the victim-of-the-week played by their oft-used stunt dummy with a wig, rather than actually cast anyone to play said dead body.
Prop is the real thing that it is said to be in the story Live Action TV
According to IMDB, the napkin signed by Leonard Nimoy in The Big Bang Theory S 2 E 11 The Bath Item Gift Hypothesis is an actual napkin signed by Leonard Nimoy in real life. I looked at Cameo Prop, which does have clear cut examples on The Big Bang Theory, but those are different from this one, in my opinion...