Tropescilloscope: Fake Shemp

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

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