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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Friend to All Children N-Word Privileges Unspoken Plan Guarantee Fate Worse than Death MacGuffin Heel Realization Karma Houdini Babies Ever After Recap / RiffTrax aka: Riff Trax Movies Body Horror Roger Ebert: Great Movies List She Cleans Up Nicely Canadian Movies Expository Hairstyle Change Motor Mouth Rewatch Bonus Disney Villain Death She's Got Legs Cain and Abel Flipping the Bird Call-Back Jump Scare Calling the Old Man Out Distracted by the Sexy Diabolus ex Machina Chiaroscuro Hong Kong Films Historical Hero Upgrade The Faceless Crapsack World Toplessness from the Back Foregone Conclusion Dark Reprise Horror Films Disney Death Not So Stoic Adaptation Distillation In Medias Res Badass Longcoat Unwitting Instigator of Doom Arranged Marriage Russian Films All Men Are Perverts Fingore Genre Savvy Instant Death Bullet Central Theme Retired Badass Obviously Evil Big Bad Duumvirate Plucky Comic Relief Bi the Way Recycled IN SPACE! Beauty Is Never Tarnished Leave the Camera Running Death Glare Properly Paranoid Brick Joke Scary Black Man This Is Gonna Suck Big Fancy House Military and Warfare Films Ghost Fiction Made of Explodium Fantastic Racism Evil vs. Evil Manly Tears Storming the Castle Red Herring Obfuscating Stupidity A Date with Rosie Palms Italian Films What the Hell, Hero? Bland-Name Product Bottomless Magazines Villain Protagonist Sports Stories Rule of Cool Serious Business Gorn Vampire Fiction Dressing as the Enemy Make It Look Like an Accident Dying Moment of Awesome Scenery Gorn Faux Affably Evil Offscreen Teleportation Adaptation Name Change Mama Bear Hair of Gold, Heart of Gold Last-Name Basis Mighty Whitey Screw the Rules, I'm Doing What's Right! Children Are Innocent Foreshadowing Small Name, Big Ego The Place After the End Broken Bird Biopic Mexican Standoff The '70s Once More, with Clarity! Taking You with Me Earn Your Happy Ending The Ace Science Fiction Films Rated M for Manly Ax-Crazy Very Loosely Based on a True Story Too Dumb to Live Overprotective Dad Exactly What It Says on the Tin Back from the Dead You Killed My Father Crazy Jealous Guy Lock and Load Montage Fatal Family Photo Closed Circle Big "NO!" Bar Brawl Creator Cameo Cat Fight Half the Man He Used to Be Disproportionate Retribution Homage Epic Fail Contrived Coincidence The '80s Defiant to the End The Smart Guy Non-Indicative Name Dirty Cop Early Installment Weirdness Rule of Symbolism folderlabel Attempted Rape Race Lift Interrupted Suicide Obstructive Bureaucrat Mooks Humans Are Bastards Batman Gambit Real Life Manipulative Bastard Adaptational Villainy Bring My Brown Pants Hollywood Darkness Film Series Parental Neglect Villain Opening Scene Accidental Misnaming Reality Ensues BFG Immune to Bullets Never My Fault Alpha Bitch Guile Hero Cool Old Guy Mugging the Monster As You Know Cold-Blooded Torture Heel–Face Turn The Quiet One Wounded Gazelle Gambit Badass Bookworm Determinator Hypocrite Killed Mid-Sentence Our Vampires Are Different Overly Long Gag Only in It for the Money Never Found the Body Badass in a Nice Suit Undying Loyalty Poor Communication Kills Action Girl NO INDOOR VOICE Badass Grandpa Pet the Dog Red Right Hand How We Got Here Expy Vomit Discretion Shot The Cameo Toilet Humour aka: Toilet Humor Catch-Phrase Peek-a-Boo Corpse Break the Cutie Your Cheating Heart Based on a True Story "The Reason You Suck" Speech Creative Closing Credits Outrun the Fireball Suspiciously Similar Substitute Intergenerational Friendship Irony Aww, Look! They Really Do Love Each Other Villainous Breakdown Heroic BSoD Those Two Guys All There in the Script Men Are the Expendable Gender Alas, Poor Villain Put on a Bus Berserk Button Would Hit a Girl Oh, Crap! No Antagonist Let's Get Dangerous! One-Word Title The Alleged Car Kill 'em All Reckless Gun Usage A.I. Is a Crapshoot Re-Cut Redshirt Army Tempting Fate Offscreen Moment of Awesome Big Brother Instinct Evil Is Hammy Country Matters All There in the Manual Rich Bitch Alliterative Name Freeze-Frame Bonus Daylight Horror Informed Ability Deliberately Monochrome Insistent Terminology Cool Car Guns Akimbo Wham Shot Sinister Minister For the Evulz Parental Abandonment Destination Defenestration For Want of a Nail Public Domain Feature Films Only a Flesh Wound Agony of the Feet Morality Pet Character Development Epic Movie Foil Greater-Scope Villain Only Sane Man Book-Ends Captain Obvious Flashback Implacable Man Woman in White Boom, Headshot! Call-Forward Mr. Fanservice Needs Wiki Magic Love Impaled with Extreme Prejudice Amoral Attorney Credits Gag Moment Killer Pre-Asskicking One-Liner As Long as It Sounds Foreign Hate Sink Bunny-Ears Lawyer Amusing Injuries Captain Ersatz Dull Surprise Annoying Younger Sibling Artistic License – Geography Composite Character Anachronic Order Playing Gertrude Shirtless Scene Face–Heel Turn Silent Movie No Celebrities Were Harmed No Good Deed Goes Unpunished Famous Last Words Slasher Movie Unusual Euphemism Fun with Acronyms Show Within a Show Meaningful Background Event Betty and Veronica Taking the Bullet The Stinger Age Lift Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking Tranquil Fury A God Am I Armor-Piercing Question Framing Device Extremely Short Timespan Deal with the Devil Maybe Ever After Bloodless Carnage Not Even Bothering with the Accent Due to the Dead Psychological Thriller Horror Doesn't Settle for Simple Tuesday All Just a Dream Adaptational Badass Punch-Clock Villain Paper-Thin Disguise Bittersweet Ending Unreliable Narrator Adaptational Heroism Reasonable Authority Figure Naïve Newcomer It's Personal The End... Or Is It? Gold Digger Tagline Bait-and-Switch Film Noir Comically Missing the Point Shut Up, Hannibal! Pun aka: Incredibly Lame Pun Hidden Depths Even Evil Has Loved Ones One Steve Limit As Himself Artistic License – Biology The Cavalry The Alcoholic Spared by the Adaptation Riddle for the Ages Super Strength Cassandra Truth Didn't Think This Through Arch-Enemy Horror Comedy Hope Spot Stealth Pun Token Minority The Vamp Karmic Death Animal Title Index Fish out of Water Anguished Declaration of Love Superhero Kill It with Fire Death by Sex There Is No Kill Like Overkill Easily Forgiven Camp Gay Anti-Villain Reality Is Unrealistic Ripped from the Headlines From Bad to Worse Insult Backfire Ms. Fanservice No-Sell Funny Foreigner Shell-Shocked Veteran Police Brutality Gone Horribly Right Stock Footage Dark Action Girl Pretty in Mink What Happened to the Mouse? Double-Meaning Title True Companions Villain with Good Publicity Dark and Troubled Past I Need a Freaking Drink Romantic Comedy Roaring Rampage of Revenge Jerkass O.O.C. Is Serious Business Nice Hat Setting Update Take That! Retcon Nice Job Fixing It, Villain! Authority Equals Asskicking Adorkable Darker and Edgier Big-Bad Ensemble The Un-Reveal Male Gaze Bowdlerise Laughing Mad Why Don't You Just Shoot Him? Scare Chord Off with His Head! Four-Temperament Ensemble No OSHA Compliance Bitch in Sheep's Clothing Awesome, but Impractical Shower Scene Why Did It Have to Be Snakes? 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Married to the Job Punctuated! For! Emphasis! The Musical Never Trust a Trailer Big Bad Ironic Echo Grievous Bottley Harm Say My Name Evil-Detecting Dog French Films Sudden Sequel Death Syndrome Ugly Guy, Hot Wife Becoming the Mask The Mole Pretty Little Headshots Not Quite Dead Humiliation Conga Depraved Bisexual Important Haircut Animal Motifs The Big Guy Action Survivor Five-Man Band Drill Sergeant Nasty You Have Failed Me My Beloved Smother Politically Incorrect Villain Freudian Excuse Shout-Out Deus ex Machina Downer Ending Rule of Three Rape Is a Special Kind of Evil Mad Scientist Redemption Equals Death Leitmotif Improbable Infant Survival aka: Infant Immortality Protagonist Title Vitriolic Best Buds Affectionate Parody The Chick Cat Scare Costume Porn Posthumous Character Yandere Bavarian Fire Drill Jerk with a Heart of Gold Artistic License – History Chekhov's Skill Domestic Abuse Twist Ending Ass Shove Cloudcuckoolander Canon Foreigner Hoist by His Own Petard Fanservice Extra Final Girl Demoted to Extra Male Frontal Nudity Black and Gray Morality Sexy Discretion Shot The Dog Bites Back Almost Kiss Ungrateful Bastard Historical Villain Upgrade Pay Evil unto Evil Television Movie Index Continuity Nod Heterosexual Life-Partners Trailers Always Spoil Japanese Films All for Nothing Big Eater Neck Lift Not So Different It Can Think Early-Bird Cameo May–December Romance Cowboy Cop The Bully Chekhov's Gun Stuff Blowing Up Bloody Hilarious Badass Normal Dissonant Serenity Ambiguous Ending The Dragon Jack Bauer Interrogation Technique Black Comedy Rape Did Not Get the Girl Fat Bastard Police are Useless Danny Peary Cult Movies List Wretched Hive Jerk Jock Facial Horror Refuge in Audacity Here We Go Again! Eye Scream Drives Like Crazy The Lost Lenore Mind Screw Ambiguously Gay Pre-Mortem One-Liner Fake Shemp Mistaken for Gay Spanner in the Works Product Placement The Stoner Race Against the Clock As the Good Book Says... 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Honor Before Reason Large Ham Together in Death Wham Line Took a Level in Badass Auto Erotica "Where Are They Now?" Epilogue Random Events Plot Visual Pun Exact Words Meaningful Echo Artistic License – Physics Double Entendre My Greatest Failure Meaningful Name Faking the Dead Soft Glass Mercy Kill The Bad Guy Wins Chase Scene Artistic License – Gun Safety Deliberate Values Dissonance He Who Fights Monsters Broken Aesop Daddy's Girl 20 Minutes into the Future Brutal Honesty War Is Hell Hero of Another Story Lighter and Softer Big Damn Heroes Leaning on the Fourth Wall Wrong Genre Savvy Arc Words Revenge '80s Hair Coming-of-Age Story Demonic Possession Hooker with a Heart of Gold Match Cut Author Avatar Card-Carrying Villain Getting Crap Past the Radar Narrator Dual Wielding Cool Old Lady Break the Haughty Time Skip Neck Snap Actor Allusion Disguised in Drag Abhorrent Admirer Eureka Moment Blatant Lies British Films Beta Couple Hero Antagonist Worthy Opponent Evil Counterpart Enemy Mine Reality Has No Subtitles Pimped-Out Dress Animated Credits Opening Maybe Magic, Maybe Mundane Fan Disservice The Atoner Dramatic Irony Sequel Escalation Pragmatic Villainy Dark Is Not Evil Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass Heroic Sacrifice Spiritual Successor Conspicuous CG I Have Your Wife Apocalypse How Curse Cut Short The Ditz Parental Substitute Screw the Rules, I Have Money! Translation Convention And I Must Scream Market-Based Title From Nobody to Nightmare The Hero Henpecked Husband Woman Scorned Get Out! No Ending Improbable Weapon User Smug Snake Anyone Can Die Missing Mom Pragmatic Adaptation Word of God Chewing the Scenery Imperial Stormtrooper Marksmanship Academy Historical In-Joke Red Oni, Blue Oni Take a Third Option One-Man Army "Well Done, Son!" Guy Dirty Old Man An Axe to Grind Sir Not-Appearing-in-This-Trailer The Mafia Dwindling Party Casting Gag Room Full of Crazy Gory Discretion Shot I Want My Beloved to Be Happy Rape as Drama Papa Wolf Blood Knight Dramedy Left the Background Music On Loads and Loads of Characters The Ghost Action Genre Nice Job Breaking It, Hero! Award-Bait Song Laser-Guided Karma Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds Knight Templar German Films Genre Shift Black Dude Dies First Affably Evil Nothing Is Scarier The Chessmaster Ooh, Me Accent's Slipping Logo Joke The Hero Dies