Tropescilloscope: As Himself

Bob the Actor is actually playing Bob the Actor. (read more at tvtropes.org)

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