Tropescilloscope: Funny Background Event

A funny event that takes place in the background. (read more at tvtropes.org)

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