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17 42"Sustenance, Shower or Sex" Offer
The Breadwinner arrives home and is immediately offered comfort of 3 things: food, bath or sex
2 38Smart Jerk, Nice Moron
A pair consisting of a smart but mean person and a nice but dumb person.
13 38Never Given A Name
Character doesn't have a "real name" because their parents never gave them one.
2 35Artists Wear Berets [Runoff crowner]
An artist (especially a funny one) must wear a beret. Title crowner
0 31Villain Reveals The Secret
A character's or a group's secret is revealed by the villain.
3 28Expert In Underwater Basket Weaving
A character who has an utterly useless skill.
6 27Signature Mon
A character, who may have many monsters, has one that is associated with them the most.
4 27Bubbly Blonde
A blonde character with a bubbly personality.
2 26Purgatory And Limbo
The place between Heaven and Hell
0 25Sensual Massage
A massage-as-Ship Tease
8 25Stupidly Long Filler Sound
An Overly Long Gag involving a stupid or confused character saying "uhhhhhhhhhhhh..." for a really long time.
1 25Works Set In World War I
Works of fiction using World War I as a setting.
4 25Cartoon Meat (launching soon)
Stock depictions of meat in cartoons and comics, both western and eastern.
24 25Scrappy Episode
A largely hated episode in an otherwise popular series.
6 24Ignorant About Fire
A clueless character allows a fire to burn, or can't handle fire.
1 24Combat Lasso
A character (most commonly in a Wild West setting) engages an opponent by trapping them with a lasso.
3 24YMMV/Competence Porn
The appeal of watching hypercapable characters do their thing
21 23Our Monsters Are Unstereotypical
Fantastic character has a very unstereotypic attribute.
0 23Helpless Window Death
Someone dies behind a window while the protagonist can do nothing but watch
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4 54Death Flag
Once triggered, it's only a matter of time before someone dies.
Created: Aug 14th 2010 at 1:12:38 AM