Maybe this subtype has a page:
A new character needs to be clued in, without belaboring what the audience already knows. Sometimes the exposition is given within a cut. Otherwise a breezy summary is given, perhaps containing some side-jokes for the audience, leaving the newcomer bewildered because that's Funny.
I have in mind a scene in Buffy s7: she tells Robin Wood that Spike has a chip, a soul and a curse, but does not make clear what any of that means.
Maybe this subtype has a page: A new character needs to be clued in, without belaboring what the audience already knows. Sometimes the exposition is given within a cut. Otherwise a breezy summary is given, perhaps containing some side-jokes for the audience, leaving the newcomer bewildered because that's Funny.
I have in mind a scene in Buffy s7: she tells Robin Wood that Spike has a chip, a soul and a curse, but does not make clear what any of that means.