Tropescilloscope: Actually Pretty Funny

Begrudgingly admitting that a joke was funny. (read more at tvtropes.org)

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More Tropes Pun aka: Incredibly Lame Pun Due to the Dead All Just a Dream Really Gets Around Funny Background Event Important Haircut Wham Shot Protagonist Title Offscreen Teleportation The '70s Roaring Rampage of Revenge Arch-Enemy Mood Whiplash Recycled IN SPACE! The Ghost From Nobody to Nightmare Psychopathic Manchild Novelization "The Reason You Suck" Speech Interrupted Suicide Fourth Date Marriage Have a Gay Old Time Spared by the Adaptation Action Prologue Demoted to Extra The Smurfette Principle Soundtrack Dissonance Gainax Ending Camera Abuse What the Hell, Hero? Male Gaze Training Montage Shut Up, Hannibal! Adaptational Heroism Corrupt Corporate Executive Big Eater Attempted Rape Action Film, Quiet Drama Scene Chekhov's Skill Running Gag Dwindling Party Dirty Coward Alliterative Name Serial Killer Anyone Can Die Cain and Abel Riddle for the Ages Guile Hero Better to Die than Be Killed No-Sell Hong Kong Films Posthumous Character Becoming the Mask Almost Kiss Military and Warfare Films Depraved Bisexual Establishing Character Moment Peek-a-Boo Corpse Blood from the Mouth Friend to All Children Punctuated! For! Emphasis! Expy Comically Missing the Point My Beloved Smother Asshole Victim Match Cut Mercy Kill Everyone Has Standards Lighter and Softer Plot Hole Ominous Latin Chanting Shirtless Scene Epic Fail Heel–Face Turn No-Holds-Barred Beatdown Amusing Injuries An Arm and a Leg Freeze-Frame Bonus Actor Allusion Punny Name La Résistance Reckless Gun Usage Market-Based Title Flipping the Bird Motor Mouth Creative Closing Credits Developing Doomed Characters Random Events Plot Sci-Fi Horror Girl-on-Girl Is Hot Fantastic Racism The Sociopath Ooh, Me Accent's Slipping Earn Your Happy Ending Hollywood Law Film Noir Index Karmic Death Scary Black Man Country Matters Lock and Load Montage Logo Joke The Brute Artistic License – Law Parental Substitute Disguised in Drag Politically Incorrect Villain Dramedy Gilligan Cut Psychological Thriller Wicked Cultured Adaptation Name Change timeperiod Shout-Out Impaled with Extreme Prejudice Contrived Coincidence Stepford Smiler Horror Doesn't Settle for Simple Tuesday The Dragon Screw the Rules, I Have Money! The '90s Exactly What It Says on the Tin Eldritch Abomination Faux Affably Evil Suspiciously Similar Substitute Never Trust a Trailer Early Installment Weirdness Catapult Nightmare Scenery Porn Man on Fire Artistic License – History Nice Job Fixing It, Villain! Eiffel Tower Effect Disney Death Only a Flesh Wound Dutch Angle Manic Pixie Dream Girl Crapsack World Badass Boast Narrator Reasonable Authority Figure Red Herring Death by Adaptation Brutal Honesty Improbable Weapon User Kick the Dog Romantic Comedy Black Dude Dies First Sequel Escalation Villain with Good Publicity Bond One-Liner Implacable Man Rewatch Bonus Dies Wide Open Bloodier and Gorier As You Know Central Theme Scare Chord Beauty Is Never Tarnished Fatal Flaw Anguished Declaration of Love Sir Not-Appearing-in-This-Trailer Deus ex Machina No Name Given The Oner Distracted by the Sexy Blonde, Brunette, Redhead Fire-Forged Friends Disproportionate Retribution Off-into-the-Distance Ending Love at First Sight Mundane Made Awesome Continuity Nod Gender Flip Department of Redundancy Department Evil Counterpart The Musical Hypocritical Humor Taking the Bullet Fate Worse than Death Stuff Blowing Up Femme Fatale Adaptational Attractiveness Artistic License – Geography In Name Only It's Personal Badass in a Nice Suit Adaptational Villainy Film Series No Antagonist Adaptation Dye-Job Time Skip And Starring Horror Films From Bad to Worse Costume Porn Death by Irony Famous Last Words Cloudcuckoolander Kids Are Cruel Storming the Castle Betty and Veronica Gone Horribly Right The Place Mama Bear Eureka Moment Greater-Scope Villain Broken Bird Genre Savvy Chase Scene Bolivian Army Ending Parental Neglect Action Survivor Neck Lift Reality Ensues Off with His Head! Index of Film Westerns Aside Glance Sassy Black Woman Our Zombies Are Different Naked People Are Funny The Alleged Car Red Right Hand Disappeared Dad Arranged Marriage Nice Guy Dirty Old Man Vitriolic Best Buds Shown Their Work Hate Sink Evil Is Hammy Evil Cannot Comprehend Good Jerkass Has a Point Race Against the Clock Rape as Drama Re-Cut Casting Gag Deconstruction Age Lift Jerk Jock Alpha Bitch Adaptation Distillation Malevolent Masked Men Bound and Gagged Cool Old Lady B-Movie Aluminum Christmas Trees Destination Defenestration Fingore Star-Crossed Lovers The Mafia Sexy Discretion Shot Cowboy Cop Belligerent Sexual Tension Reality Is Unrealistic Large Ham Amoral Attorney O.O.C. Is Serious Business Get Out! Not What It Looks Like Heterosexual Life-Partners Antagonist Title Death by Sex Race Lift Those Wacky Nazis Guns Akimbo Back from the Dead Artistic License – Gun Safety Apocalypse How Cool Car Domestic Abuse Adaptational Badass The Load Bowdlerise Aww, Look! They Really Do Love Each Other Meaningful Echo Jump Scare Meet Cute Epic Movie Green-Eyed Monster 20 Minutes into the Future Chuck Cunningham Syndrome Australian Movies The Stinger Badass Longcoat Here We Go Again! Villain Opening Scene Dark Action Girl Breaking the Fourth Wall Faking the Dead Heroes Want Redheads Fantasy Films The Starscream Vomit Indiscretion Shot Only in It for the Money Reality Has No Subtitles Psycho for Hire Bilingual Bonus The Film of the Book Poor Communication Kills Laughing Mad Fanservice The End... Or Is It? Wham Line Idiot Ball Driven to Suicide Plucky Comic Relief Mr. Exposition German Films Deliberate Values Dissonance She's Got Legs Double-Meaning Title The Bad Guy Wins Never My Fault As Himself Instant Death Bullet Punch-Clock Villain Once More, with Clarity! Twist Ending Every Car Is a Pinto Covers Always Lie Call-Back World of Ham Rasputinian Death Names to Run Away from Really Fast BFG Rated M for Manly Credits Gag Captain Ersatz Toilet Humour aka: Toilet Humor Ungrateful Bastard Bitch in Sheep's Clothing Crazy Jealous Guy Slasher Movie Chewing the Scenery An Axe to Grind Real Life Deal with the Devil Silence Is Golden You Have Failed Me A.I. Is a Crapshoot The Great Depression Body Horror Hero of Another Story All Men Are Perverts The '60s Pragmatic Villainy Not Quite Dead Show Within a Show Character Development Bad "Bad Acting" Freudian Excuse Beta Couple Token Minority Big "NO!" Totally Radical Horror Comedy Big Fancy House The Big Guy Boom, Headshot! Biopic Wounded Gazelle Gambit Rape Is a Special Kind of Evil Framing Device Advertised Extra Leitmotif Stealth Pun Cool Old Guy Pretty in Mink Grievous Bottley Harm Only One Name Auto Erotica Tap on the Head Closed Circle I Want My Beloved to Be Happy The Dog Bites Back Cat Scare Evil Sounds Deep Not So Different Taking You with Me Not Even Bothering with the Accent Red Eyes, Take Warning Outrun the Fireball This Is Gonna Suck Fan Disservice Broken Aesop Fish out of Water Very Loosely Based on a True Story Evil Brit Black Best Friend "Shaggy Dog" Story Dumb Blonde Shoot the Shaggy Dog Dark and Troubled Past Revenge Insult Backfire Male Frontal Nudity Frame-Up Nothing Is Scarier Unresolved Sexual Tension Scenery Gorn Good Is Not Nice Crazy-Prepared Television Movie Index Kill 'em All Animal Motifs Ambiguously Gay Ascended Extra Informed Ability Pay Evil unto Evil A Date with Rosie Palms Dropped a Bridge on Him Foregone Conclusion Creator Cameo You Have Got to Be Kidding Me! Break the Cutie Eye Scream Would Hurt a Child Didn't Think This Through Villain Protagonist Say My Name Canadian Movies Big Bad Duumvirate Take That! Trailers Always Spoil Improbable Infant Survival aka: Infant Immortality Line-of-Sight Name Adult Fear Hair-Trigger Temper Affectionate Parody Police Brutality Madness Mantra Deliberately Monochrome Blatant Lies Redemption Equals Death The Quiet One Kill It with Fire Death of a Child Creepy Child Evil Is Petty Darker and Edgier Mooks Big Damn Heroes Defiant to the End Public Domain Feature Films Colour-Coded for Your Convenience aka: Color Coded For Your Convenience Cassandra Truth "Well Done, Son!" Guy Loads and Loads of Characters Dark Is Not Evil Fatal Family Photo Recap / RiffTrax aka: Riff Trax Movies Abhorrent Admirer Sanity Slippage Genre Shift Your Cheating Heart Sole Survivor Determinator Bi the Way Ass Shove Gold Digger The Cavalry Hope Spot Ms. Fanservice Artistic License – Military Arc Words Grey and Gray Morality I Did What I Had to Do The Casanova The Chessmaster Shell-Shocked Veteran Canon Foreigner Mistaken for Gay Hoist by His Own Petard Left the Background Music On Red Shirt Hypocrite Expository Hairstyle Change All There in the Script Tempting Fate Despair Event Horizon Face–Heel Turn Henpecked Husband One-Word Title Rule of Three Bittersweet Ending She Cleans Up Nicely Ragtag Bunch of Misfits Adaptation Expansion Superhero Bottomless Magazines Mad Scientist For the Evulz Double Entendre Decoy Protagonist Historical Hero Upgrade Smug Snake As Long as It Sounds Foreign Not So Above It All Manly Tears Dogged Nice Guy Early-Bird Cameo "Where Are They Now?" Epilogue Vacation Films Hidden Depths Men Are the Expendable Gender Video Credits The Vamp Hell Is That Noise Rousing Speech I Just Shot Marvin in the Face Daylight Horror Ripped from the Headlines Woman in White Groin Attack Extreme Doormat Did Not Get the Girl War Is Hell Truth in Television Damsel in Distress Bare Your Midriff Ugly Guy, Hot Wife Science Fiction Films Even Bad Men Love Their Mamas Took a Level in Badass Would Hit a Girl Spanner in the Works Bar Brawl Paper-Thin Disguise I Have Your Wife What You Are in the Dark Shower Scene Throwing Your Sword Always Works Noodle Incident Married to the Job Sealed Evil in a Can Getting Crap Past the Radar Author Avatar Romantic False Lead The Reveal Badass Bookworm The Mole The X of Y Pet the Dog Corpsing Parental Incest Spiteful Spit Cluster F-Bomb Sinister Minister Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds Anachronism Stew Combat Pragmatist Flashback Extremely Short Timespan Calling the Old Man Out Adults Are Useless Homage Ax-Crazy Historical In-Joke Naïve Newcomer Anachronic Order Eyepatch of Power Missing Mom Rule of Symbolism Ship Tease And the Adventure Continues Slap-Slap-Kiss In the Back Sadistic Choice As the Good Book Says... Bad Boss Documentary Historical-Domain Character Facial Horror The '80s Our Vampires Are Different Even Evil Has Standards Fat Bastard Playing Gertrude Well-Intentioned Extremist Catch-Phrase Mighty Whitey Drugs Are Bad Took a Level in Jerkass Danny Peary Cult Movies List Make It Look Like an Accident Works Set in World War II Needs Wiki Magic Love Spell My Name with an "S" Broken Pedestal Unwitting Instigator of Doom Lampshade Hanging Dying Moment of Awesome Dissonant Serenity Dull Surprise Christmas Movies Index Last-Name Basis Kick the Son of a Bitch Gory Discretion Shot Foreshadowing Tagline Chekhov's Gunman Insane Troll Logic Historical Villain Upgrade Spiritual Successor Suspiciously Specific Denial Slashed Throat Parental Abandonment Demonic Possession Jerkass I'm a Humanitarian Heroic BSoD Berserk Button The Smart Guy Bloodless Carnage Disney Villain Death Your Head A-Splode Obstructive Bureaucrat Agony of the Feet Non-Indicative Name Death Glare Annoying Younger Sibling Pragmatic Adaptation After the End The Faceless NO INDOOR VOICE Rule of Cool Butt-Monkey Screw the Rules, I'm Doing What's Right! Undying Loyalty Retired Badass Manchild Ambiguous Disorder Curb-Stomp Battle The Lost Lenore A Minor Kidroduction The Atoner Those Two Bad Guys Zombie Stories Monumental Damage Retcon Unreliable Narrator Drives Like Crazy Hollywood Darkness Pre-Mortem One-Liner Deadpan Snarker Dramatic Irony Villainous Breakdown Action Genre All There in the Manual Toplessness from the Back No OSHA Compliance Obviously Evil Word of God Heel Realization Meaningful Background Event Brainless Beauty The Remake Papa Wolf No Good Deed Goes Unpunished Everyone Calls Him "Barkeep" Animal Title Index Conspicuous CG Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass In Medias Res Mugging the Monster Blackmail Redshirt Army Let's Get Dangerous! Evil Laugh The Lancer Bunny-Ears Lawyer Book-Ends Dual Wielding Drill Sergeant Nasty Animated Credits Opening Stealth Hi/Bye Leaning on the Fourth Wall Fun with Acronyms My Greatest Failure Card-Carrying Villain Coming-of-Age Story The '50s Break the Haughty Humiliation Conga Enemy Mine Fake Shemp Screw the Money, I Have Rules! Self-Deprecation Alas, Poor Villain Maybe Ever After One Steve Limit Imagine Spot May–December Romance Tranquil Fury Real Life Writes the Plot An Aesop Gratuitous English Exact Words You Have Outlived Your Usefulness Properly Paranoid Dark Reprise Car Fu The Stoner Refuge in Audacity Put on a Bus Intrepid Reporter Overly Long Gag Imperial Stormtrooper Marksmanship Academy Jack Bauer Interrogation Technique Killed Mid-Sentence Ghost Fiction Chekhov's Gun Curse Cut Short Anti-Hero Half the Man He Used to Be Only Sane Man Vomit Discretion Shot A Father to His Men '80s Hair Knife Nut Major Injury Underreaction Screw This, I'm Outta Here! Stylistic Suck Film Noir Worthy Opponent Morality Pet Captain Obvious Russian Films Soft Glass Why Did It Have to Be Snakes? Diabolus ex Machina Neck Snap Cold-Blooded Torture Cool Shades Big Brother Instinct folderlabel Thriller Fanservice Extra Ironic Echo Black Comedy Rape Those Two Guys Brick Joke Drowning My Sorrows Laser-Guided Karma Happily Married Music Stories Take a Third Option Evil-Detecting Dog Batman Gambit Cat Fight Bullying a Dragon Silent Movie Maybe Magic, Maybe Mundane Never Trust a Trailer aka: Trailers Always Lie Product Placement Love Triangle Big Bad The Dreaded Dressing as the Enemy Cruel and Unusual Death All for Nothing Beard of Evil Immune to Bullets Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking Artistic License – Physics Mystery and Detective Films Does Not Like Shoes Insistent Terminology Skewed Priorities Too Dumb to Live Heroic Sacrifice Air-Vent Passageway Based on a True Story No Celebrities Were Harmed Armor-Piercing Question Mexican Standoff Action Girl Smoking Is Cool He Who Fights Monsters Accidental Misnaming Nice Job Breaking It, Hero! Italian Films Title Drop The Ditz Beware the Nice Ones More Dakka The Alcoholic N-Word Privileges Stalker with a Crush Jerk with a Heart of Gold Retirony Four-Temperament Ensemble Camp Gay Actually Pretty Funny Bald of Evil Never Found the Body Oh, Crap! Made of Explodium Pimped-Out Dress Super Strength Fiery Redhead Mr. Fanservice Yandere Mythology Gag And I Must Scream Handicapped Badass Improvised Weapon French Films Offscreen Moment of Awesome Suddenly SHOUTING! Gorn Vampire Fiction Knight Templar It Can Think Kubrick Stare My God, What Have I Done? One-Man Army Pretty Little Headshots Empathic Environment Even Evil Has Loved Ones Hooker with a Heart of Gold You Killed My Father Face Death with Dignity It Will Never Catch On "Awesome McCool" Name Defrosting Ice Queen Woman Scorned Straight Gay Brother–Sister Incest Bland-Name Product Not So Stoic Award-Bait Song Meaningful Name Intergenerational Friendship Ambiguous Ending Evil vs. Evil Translation Convention Bury Your Gays Villain Song Pre-Asskicking One-Liner Manipulative Bastard Red Oni, Blue Oni Bloody Hilarious Mind Screw Blood Knight Stock Footage I Need a Freaking Drink Composite Character MacGuffin Villain Ball Authority Equals Asskicking A God Am I Unspoken Plan Guarantee Rich Bitch Determinator aka: The Determinator Only Known by Their Nickname Roger Ebert: Great Movies List Japanese Films Dirty Cop Adapted Out Precision F-Strike Bond Villain Stupidity Police are Useless The Un-Favourite aka: The Un Favorite The Voiceless For Want of a Nail Karma Houdini The Stoic The Chick Serious Business Shipper on Deck Sports Stories Abusive Parents Does This Remind You of Anything? Black Comedy Chiaroscuro The Cameo Affably Evil Obfuscating Stupidity Sliding Scale of Idealism vs. Cynicism The Un-Reveal Sudden Sequel Death Syndrome Sequel Hook Irony How We Got Here Slasher Smile Together in Death Hair of Gold, Heart of Gold Jitter Cam Visual Pun Hero Antagonist Sacrificial Lion Awesome, but Impractical There Is No Kill Like Overkill The Hero Dies Eagleland Children Are Innocent The Power of Love Made of Iron Darkest Hour Funny Foreigner Moment Killer Badass Grandpa True Companions Why Don't You Just Shoot Him? Wretched Hive Author Appeal British Films All Girls Want Bad Boys Badass Normal Final Girl Victoria's Secret Compartment Pyrrhic Victory Death Seeker Big-Bad Ensemble The Hero Same Language Dub Daddy's Girl Room Full of Crazy Martial Arts Movie Unusually Uninteresting Sight Fainting Setting Update Easily Forgiven Honor Before Reason Improbable Aiming Skills Humans Are Bastards Be Careful What You Wish For Older Than They Look Loophole Abuse Leave the Camera Running Crucified Hero Shot Whole Plot Reference Babies Ever After Downer Ending The Bully It's All About Me Five-Man Band Accidental Murder He Knows Too Much Call-Forward Nice Hat Unusual Euphemism Artistic License – Biology No Ending The Ace Anti-Villain Big Applesauce Genre Throwback Light Is Not Good Adorkable Sir Swears-a-Lot Cool Guns Not Using the "Z" Word Celebrity Paradox Dramatic Gun Cock Small Name, Big Ego Rule of Funny Bait-and-Switch Wrong Genre Savvy Black and Gray Morality Bavarian Fire Drill Up to Eleven Bring My Brown Pants What Happened to the Mouse? Failed a Spot Check Evil Plan Overprotective Dad Foil