Tropescilloscope: Brick Joke

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

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