Tropescilloscope: Fake Shemp

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

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MacGuffin Bi the Way Idiot Ball Match Cut Same Language Dub Truth in Television May–December Romance Public Domain Feature Films Dramatic Irony Even Bad Men Love Their Mamas Alas, Poor Villain Shout-Out Nothing Is Scarier Catch-Phrase Double Entendre The Atoner Take That! Parental Neglect Big-Bad Ensemble Dumb Blonde Man on Fire Not So Above It All Hong Kong Films Jerk with a Heart of Gold Curse Cut Short Stepford Smiler Ragtag Bunch of Misfits Get Out! 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From Bad to Worse Super Strength Babies Ever After Stylistic Suck Never My Fault Cool Car Expy Fatal Family Photo No Good Deed Goes Unpunished All There in the Manual Determinator aka: The Determinator Adults Are Useless Fish out of Water Hair-Trigger Temper Overprotective Dad Retcon Not So Different Took a Level in Badass Monumental Damage BFG Sadistic Choice Dramatic Gun Cock Adaptational Attractiveness Logo Joke Screw This, I'm Outta Here! 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Epilogue Loophole Abuse What You Are in the Dark And I Must Scream Race Lift The Faceless Epic Movie Early-Bird Cameo Curb-Stomp Battle Rule of Funny Random Events Plot Closed Circle The Film of the Book Celebrity Paradox Kick the Son of a Bitch Country Matters Creative Closing Credits Red Shirt Even Evil Has Standards Evil Counterpart Epic Fail Red Right Hand Not So Stoic Danny Peary Cult Movies List Crazy Jealous Guy Brutal Honesty Manipulative Bastard Madness Mantra Almost Kiss Knife Nut Pretty in Mink Happily Married Hypocritical Humor Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking Scary Black Man Why Did It Have to Be Snakes? The '60s Ghost Fiction Authority Equals Asskicking Bavarian Fire Drill She's Got Legs Show Within a Show The Alcoholic Bait-and-Switch Re-Cut Shut Up, Hannibal! It's Personal Camera Abuse Big Bad Duumvirate Papa Wolf Dissonant Serenity Mighty Whitey He Knows Too Much Suspiciously Similar Substitute Brick Joke Index of Film Westerns Only Known by Their Nickname Eiffel Tower Effect Deconstruction Offscreen Teleportation For Want of a Nail Intergenerational Friendship Author Appeal Combat Pragmatist Based on a True Story Men Are the Expendable Gender Dramedy Corpsing Only a Flesh Wound Chiaroscuro Real Life Writes the Plot Important Haircut Maybe Magic, Maybe Mundane Adult Fear Reasonable Authority Figure You Have Failed Me Whole Plot Reference Getting Crap Past the Radar Bittersweet Ending Video Credits In Medias Res Too Dumb to Live Suspiciously Specific Denial Artistic License – Law Deliberate Values Dissonance Decoy Protagonist Badass Normal Shown Their Work Department of Redundancy Department For the Evulz Self-Deprecation Advertised Extra Bilingual Bonus Posthumous Character Kill 'em All Intrepid Reporter Chuck Cunningham Syndrome Dull Surprise Contrived Coincidence Stalker with a Crush Put on a Bus Girl-on-Girl Is Hot Villainous Breakdown Genre Throwback "Well Done, Son!" Guy The Quiet One Together in Death Zombie Stories Central Theme Domestic Abuse Mundane Made Awesome Wretched Hive Evil Is Petty Shower Scene Gold Digger Police Brutality Hollywood Darkness Villain Ball The Place "The Reason You Suck" Speech Beauty Is Never Tarnished Sanity Slippage Ambiguously Gay Exactly What It Says on the Tin Fiery Redhead Famous Last Words Henpecked Husband Black Best Friend There Is No Kill Like Overkill Pay Evil unto Evil Fate Worse than Death Karma Houdini Nice Job Breaking It, Hero! Freeze-Frame Bonus Ominous Latin Chanting Straight Gay Soft Glass Stealth Pun As Long as It Sounds Foreign Properly Paranoid Slasher Movie The Bad Guy Wins The Un-Favourite aka: The Un Favorite German Films Cassandra Truth Moment Killer Setting Update Amusing Injuries Darkest Hour Mind Screw Improbable Weapon User Gender Flip Eagleland Bloodier and Gorier Blood from the Mouth Product Placement What the Hell, Hero? The Cameo Continuity Nod Dirty Cop Adaptation Distillation Genre Savvy The '90s Psychopathic Manchild Superhero A.I. Is a Crapshoot Suddenly SHOUTING! Sexy Discretion Shot Gilligan Cut Bottomless Magazines Kubrick Stare Gainax Ending Anguished Declaration of Love Good Is Not Nice Villain Protagonist Rewatch Bonus Beta Couple Bolivian Army Ending Well-Intentioned Extremist Major Injury Underreaction Big Damn Heroes Rule of Cool Our Zombies Are Different Villain Song Sir Swears-a-Lot A Father to His Men And the Adventure Continues Unusual Euphemism Stuff Blowing Up Here We Go Again! The Dragon Beware the Nice Ones Smug Snake The Load The Ditz Defrosting Ice Queen Diabolus ex Machina No-Holds-Barred Beatdown Sci-Fi Horror Jerk Jock I Just Shot Marvin in the Face Animal Title Index The End... Or Is It? Needs Wiki Magic Love Pragmatic Villainy Gone Horribly Right What Happened to the Mouse? Not Quite Dead Greater-Scope Villain Spiteful Spit Obviously Evil Pretty Little Headshots Five-Man Band The Dreaded Drowning My Sorrows Manly Tears As You Know Asshole Victim Character Development Roaring Rampage of Revenge Wham Line Translation Convention Vitriolic Best Buds Wicked Cultured Imagine Spot Nice Hat Neck Lift Funny Foreigner Redemption Equals Death Composite Character Storming the Castle Dark Action Girl Captain Obvious Insane Troll Logic Bowdlerise Bound and Gagged Dutch Angle Manic Pixie Dream Girl Comically Missing the Point Actor Allusion Foregone Conclusion Bring My Brown Pants Destination Defenestration Death Glare Spanner in the Works Historical In-Joke Very Loosely Based on a True Story Evil Plan Maybe Ever After Mooks Even Evil Has Loved Ones Big Bad My God, What Have I Done? Reality Has No Subtitles Facial Horror Bland-Name Product The Ace The Lost Lenore Manchild Badass Bookworm Unwitting Instigator of Doom Bond One-Liner The Musical Broken Aesop Unspoken Plan Guarantee Does This Remind You of Anything? Heterosexual Life-Partners Really Gets Around Psychological Thriller The Reveal Adaptation Name Change Historical Hero Upgrade Alpha Bitch Animal Motifs Demonic Possession Take a Third Option The Stoic La Résistance Arc Words Chekhov's Skill Anti-Villain Soundtrack Dissonance Gorn Hope Spot Homage Blackmail Rape as Drama No Celebrities Were Harmed The Dog Bites Back Ungrateful Bastard Breaking the Fourth Wall Motor Mouth The Sociopath Adaptational Badass Attempted Rape The Bully Narrator Heroes Want Redheads Driven to Suicide Thriller Big Fancy House Title Drop Break the Haughty Politically Incorrect Villain Recycled IN SPACE! Only in It for the Money From Nobody to Nightmare Music Stories The Brute Everyone Has Standards War Is Hell You Have Got to Be Kidding Me! Rule of Three Reality Is Unrealistic All for Nothing Guns Akimbo Retired Badass Love at First Sight Hollywood Law Sliding Scale of Idealism vs. Cynicism Trailers Always Spoil Protagonist Title Leitmotif An Aesop Red Eyes, Take Warning Made of Explodium The Hero Dies Affably Evil Shipper on Deck Face Death with Dignity Air-Vent Passageway Vomit Indiscretion Shot Action Survivor Handicapped Badass Gory Discretion Shot Every Car Is a Pinto Took a Level in Jerkass Hate Sink "Shaggy Dog" Story Affectionate Parody Undying Loyalty Apocalypse How Freudian Excuse More Dakka Hero Antagonist Real Life The Remake Accidental Misnaming Would Hit a Girl Becoming the Mask Evil vs. Evil Hair of Gold, Heart of Gold Failed a Spot Check Oh, Crap! All Girls Want Bad Boys Meet Cute Immune to Bullets World of Ham Rule of Symbolism Dies Wide Open Action Genre Death by Sex Badass Boast Peek-a-Boo Corpse Agony of the Feet Big Eater The '80s Mistaken for Gay Star-Crossed Lovers Punny Name How We Got Here Vampire Fiction Martial Arts Movie Ugly Guy, Hot Wife Only One Name Adaptation Dye-Job Damsel in Distress Cluster F-Bomb Brother–Sister Incest Wounded Gazelle Gambit Darker and Edgier Last-Name Basis Genre Shift Broken Bird Rousing Speech Aluminum Christmas Trees Insistent Terminology Drugs Are Bad You Have Outlived Your Usefulness Toilet Humour aka: Toilet Humor Science Fiction Films Pre-Asskicking One-Liner Action Prologue Malevolent Masked Men Dressing as the Enemy Ship Tease Mystery and Detective Films A God Am I Anti-Hero Those Two Guys Romantic False Lead Tempting Fate Ironic Echo Four-Temperament Ensemble Eye Scream Your Cheating Heart No OSHA Compliance Leave the Camera Running Works Set in World War II Femme Fatale Chase Scene Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds Large Ham Actually Pretty Funny Playing Gertrude Frame-Up Light Is Not Good Villain with Good Publicity Novelization Humans Are Bastards Would Hurt a Child Adorkable Faking the Dead Karmic Death Toplessness from the Back Worthy Opponent The Hero Knight Templar No Antagonist Funny Background Event Call-Back I Have Your Wife Eureka Moment Creator Cameo Death of a Child Documentary Disproportionate Retribution Chewing the Scenery Interrupted Suicide Unreliable Narrator Empathic Environment No Name Given Disney Villain Death Biopic Ambiguous Ending Mercy Kill Eldritch Abomination Friend to All Children Call-Forward Sequel Escalation An Axe to Grind Pun aka: Incredibly Lame Pun Black Dude Dies First Naked People Are Funny Wrong Genre Savvy Dual Wielding As Himself Batman Gambit Nice Job Fixing It, Villain! Hooker with a Heart of Gold Fainting Scare Chord Italian Films Distracted by the Sexy Silent Movie Sequel Hook Dwindling Party The Smurfette Principle Death by Irony The Stinger Conspicuous CG Fan Disservice Horror Doesn't Settle for Simple Tuesday The Starscream The Stoner The Cavalry Informed Ability The Mole Evil Brit Extremely Short Timespan O.O.C. Is Serious Business Antagonist Title Cat Scare Artistic License – History Bullying a Dragon Dark Reprise Kick the Dog Determinator Mr. Fanservice Hero of Another Story Never Trust a Trailer Training Montage Rich Bitch Disguised in Drag Credits Gag Artistic License – Geography Skewed Priorities Heroic Sacrifice Refuge in Audacity Fake Shemp Back from the Dead Cool Old Guy It Can Think Calling the Old Man Out Adaptation Expansion Not Using the "Z" Word Shell-Shocked Veteran I Did What I Had to Do Pet the Dog Heel–Face Turn Author Avatar Evil-Detecting Dog Sole Survivor Establishing Character Moment Fat Bastard Cowboy Cop Adaptational Heroism Not What It Looks Like British Films Aww, Look! They Really Do Love Each Other Dirty Coward Canadian Movies Military and Warfare Films Dying Moment of Awesome Gratuitous English Exact Words I Need a Freaking Drink Catapult Nightmare B-Movie Deadpan Snarker Missing Mom Bitch in Sheep's Clothing Beard of Evil Token Minority Reality Ensues Those Two Bad Guys Mythology Gag Grey and Gray Morality Belligerent Sexual Tension Race Against the Clock Bloodless Carnage Taking You with Me Wham Shot Faux Affably Evil Horror Comedy Jump Scare Award-Bait Song Killed Mid-Sentence Butt-Monkey Crucified Hero Shot Parental Incest French Films Fun with Acronyms Tagline Enemy Mine Plucky Comic Relief Big "NO!" Kill It with Fire Boom, Headshot! Film Noir Sir Not-Appearing-in-This-Trailer Time Skip Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass Once More, with Clarity! Room Full of Crazy Fanservice Leaning on the Fourth Wall Stealth Hi/Bye Off with His Head! Despair Event Horizon Death by Adaptation Have a Gay Old Time Cool Guns Riddle for the Ages Does Not Like Shoes Lock and Load Montage Laughing Mad Artistic License – Biology Vacation Films Historical-Domain Character Sealed Evil in a Can Screw the Rules, I Have Money! Overly Long Gag I'm a Humanitarian Canon Foreigner The Vamp