Tropescilloscope: Fake Shemp

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

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