Tropescilloscope: Fake Shemp

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

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