Tropescilloscope: Brick Joke

A joke that was set up and forgotten about, finally gets a punchline. (read more at tvtropes.org)

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