Tropescilloscope: Fake Shemp

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

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Break the Haughty Blood from the Mouth The Quiet One Ugly Guy, Hot Wife Redshirt Army Pragmatic Villainy Stock Footage Shirtless Scene Action Film, Quiet Drama Scene MacGuffin Adaptation Name Change Ooh, Me Accent's Slipping Redemption Equals Death Jerkass Has a Point Have a Gay Old Time Blackmail B-Movie The Starscream Dwindling Party As You Know Hair of Gold, Heart of Gold Artistic License – Law The Smurfette Principle Drugs Are Bad Children Are Innocent Roger Ebert: Great Movies List Badass Longcoat Sudden Sequel Death Syndrome Dogged Nice Guy Awesome, but Impractical Soundtrack Dissonance My Beloved Smother The Hero Dies Badass Grandpa Adult Fear Mugging the Monster Would Hurt a Child Smug Snake My Greatest Failure Homage Chekhov's Gunman Big Damn Heroes Music Stories Guns Akimbo Papa Wolf As the Good Book Says... Film Noir Easily Forgiven Final Girl Dull Surprise Mood Whiplash French Films Hero Antagonist Gilligan Cut Mooks Screw This, I'm Outta Here! 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Or Is It? Wicked Cultured Manly Tears Exact Words Stealth Hi/Bye Good Is Not Nice Television Movie Index Cool Old Guy Karma Houdini Title Drop The Dog Bites Back Properly Paranoid Naked People Are Funny Unwitting Instigator of Doom No Celebrities Were Harmed Drill Sergeant Nasty Ship Tease Sanity Slippage Bolivian Army Ending Death Seeker Affectionate Parody Once More, with Clarity! Reckless Gun Usage Humans Are Bastards She's Got Legs Recap / RiffTrax aka: Riff Trax Movies Evil-Detecting Dog Jerk with a Heart of Gold All There in the Manual Arc Words The Big Guy Jack Bauer Interrogation Technique Evil Brit Posthumous Character Retirony Foreshadowing Did Not Get the Girl Bloodier and Gorier Instant Death Bullet Too Dumb to Live Artistic License – Physics One Steve Limit The Great Depression Adapted Out And Starring I Just Shot Marvin in the Face Sequel Hook Soft Glass Small Name, Big Ego Off with His Head! 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Freeze-Frame Bonus Those Two Guys Killed Mid-Sentence Thriller Pretty Little Headshots Rule of Cool Enemy Mine Half the Man He Used to Be Left the Background Music On Important Haircut All There in the Script Bald of Evil Loads and Loads of Characters Flashback Laser-Guided Karma Composite Character Gorn Madness Mantra Put on a Bus Developing Doomed Characters Star-Crossed Lovers Humiliation Conga Slap-Slap-Kiss Historical Hero Upgrade Time Skip Corrupt Corporate Executive Broken Aesop Hooker with a Heart of Gold Morality Pet Overprotective Dad Self-Deprecation Fingore It Can Think Big "NO!" 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Is Serious Business Bring My Brown Pants Stylistic Suck Only One Name Missing Mom Visual Pun Anguished Declaration of Love The Dragon The Sociopath Pre-Mortem One-Liner Drowning My Sorrows Spiritual Successor Badass Boast The Stinger Truth in Television Evil Is Petty Product Placement Villainous Breakdown I Want My Beloved to Be Happy Calling the Old Man Out Fainting Manipulative Bastard Dirty Coward Bad Boss Serial Killer The Casanova Film Series Brainless Beauty Attempted Rape Revenge Woman in White Biopic Took a Level in Badass Fate Worse than Death Peek-a-Boo Corpse Jump Scare Creepy Child timeperiod Red Herring Face–Heel Turn Unspoken Plan Guarantee Ambiguous Ending Not So Stoic Hypocrite Death by Adaptation "Shaggy Dog" Story Imagine Spot Psychological Thriller Guile Hero Unresolved Sexual Tension A God Am I Toplessness from the Back Plot Hole BFG Shipper on Deck Hong Kong Films Disguised in Drag Offscreen Teleportation Beware the Nice Ones Darker and Edgier Ironic Echo Implacable Man "Where Are They Now?" 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The Un-Favourite aka: The Un Favorite Hope Spot Fanservice Extra La Résistance Race Against the Clock Every Car Is a Pinto Despair Event Horizon Bond One-Liner Black Dude Dies First Bi the Way Does This Remind You of Anything? Real Life Politically Incorrect Villain Ripped from the Headlines Dirty Old Man Broken Pedestal Evil Sounds Deep Eiffel Tower Effect Translation Convention Pun aka: Incredibly Lame Pun Eye Scream Made of Iron Video Credits Throwing Your Sword Always Works Funny Foreigner A Minor Kidroduction Cool Old Lady Curb-Stomp Battle Never Found the Body Spanner in the Works Artistic License – Biology Mr. Fanservice Failed a Spot Check Took a Level in Jerkass 20 Minutes into the Future No Name Given You Have Got to Be Kidding Me! Earn Your Happy Ending Pimped-Out Dress Not Using the "Z" Word Loophole Abuse Outrun the Fireball Sir Not-Appearing-in-This-Trailer Sir Swears-a-Lot Gainax Ending Evil Plan Lampshade Hanging Artistic License – Gun Safety Colour-Coded for Your Convenience aka: Color Coded For Your Convenience Fourth Date Marriage Everyone Calls Him "Barkeep" Your Head A-Splode Drives Like Crazy Abhorrent Admirer