Tropescilloscope: As Himself

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

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