Tropescilloscope: Fake Shemp

The Other Darrin meets He Who Must Not Be Seen. (read more at tvtropes.org)

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