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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 hitting people with other people? Seen a lot in cartoons.
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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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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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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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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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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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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.
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Is there a page on a character who is more over-the-top and cuckoolandy than the rest? The character feels like they belong in a Sugar Bowl and usually invokes Toon Physics and other silliness more than others do. Somewhat like an inverted Vile Villain, Saccharine Show, but the setting doesn't necessarily have to be a Crapsack World.
Some examples would be Pinkie Pie from My Little Pony Friendship Is Magic and Spongebob Squarepants (and, to a lesser extent, Patrick Star).
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Do we have this one? Is this a trope? Characters will sometimes be depicted lounging around the house in their underwear, or at least sans pants and shoes.
Examples: Homer Simpson of the Simpsons has been seen on the couch in his underwear with a can of beer, I'm sure. Peter Griffon of Family Guy fame has also slacked off in his underwear once or twice, also drinking beer. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-BddCq1zFI4
is an example of this in action.
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It's most seen in western animation but it I've seen it in other media. The trope is a men vs women competition. Most of the time it goes like this: man or men laugh at women saying men are better at X (where X is more than frequently a sport). Then women react saying they could kick men asses colectively, and there we go. Also when it starts like this women will win because after all the man was being a chauvinistic pig and he totally deserved it, in fact I don't remember ever seeing the guys winning even if they didn't think they were better. Sometimes we'll get also An Aesop and yadda yadda.
It appears most in Western Animation series with Negative Continuity so the aesop can be easily discarded in the next episode.
Yeah, it pretty much seems like it's You Go, Girl!. Thanks. Edited by DrMcNinja
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I'm not sure if we have this trope, but it's where in old cartoon, a character is eating corn on the cob, and it makes typewriter sounds.
It's becoming a Discredited Trope now, naturally.
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Do we have a trope for bizarre superheroes? For instance, a guy has a toaster on his head and fights crime with toast?
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Is there a name for a Western Animation trope where a character cries so hard they flood the place with their tears? I've seen that quite a few times in cartoons.
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Not sure if it's a trope or not, but is there a trope for this:
Whenever construction work is going on in a cartoon, you always hear the sound of a Jackhammer, even though Jackhammers aren't used for building work (least not the type that's supposed to be going on) This might also extend to the presense of any random constuction sound effects that don't fit with the tools the characters actually have in the scene
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Do we have a trope for when the kids in the grade above the main characters are huge and look like teenagers even though they are in elementary school? A really good example is The Tough Customers from Arthur. I am also pretty sure this happened on Hey Arnold and Recess.
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Do we have a trope called something like All Animals Age The Same? Good example will be in Bambi how Thumper and Bambi took the same amount of time to grow up. Another example would be in Ice Age 2 Ellie, Crash, and Eddie were all seen as babies at the same time in a flashback despite the fact that possums only live to be about five and a mammoth wouldn't be full grown until at least 15 or so.
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Lets say character A is on a conveyor belt inching toward an incenerator and the belt is operated by a lever. Character B finds said lever and tries his hardest to pull it to the OFF setting or whatever, but ends up...
1- Breaking the handle in half, which makes it inoperable. 2- Turning it to a higher speed. 3- Both 1 and 2.
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Is there a trope when a character sees a TV ad that is convenient to their situation? Like Squidward seeing the ad for Tentacle Acres when he couldn't take Spongebob and Patrick anymore or Mordecai and Rigby seeing the ad for Party Pete when their party sucks.

Is there a trope for that cloud left behind when cartoon characters move very fast?