Tropescilloscope: Brick Joke

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

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