Tropescilloscope: As Himself

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

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