Tropescilloscope: Funny Background Event

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

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Shown Their Work Vomit Indiscretion Shot Betty and Veronica Historical Hero Upgrade Advertised Extra Costume Porn Not Even Bothering with the Accent Final Girl Not So Stoic All for Nothing Demoted to Extra Foreshadowing Genre Throwback Determinator aka: The Determinator Beard of Evil Cold-Blooded Torture Improbable Aiming Skills The Smurfette Principle Apocalypse How Anti-Hero Kick the Son of a Bitch Product Placement Artistic License – Law The Sociopath Naïve Newcomer Overly Long Gag Meaningful Echo Never My Fault Real Life Writes the Plot Only in It for the Money Rousing Speech Our Zombies Are Different Taking the Bullet Reality Ensues Adaptational Villainy Heel Realization Nothing Is Scarier Evil Is Petty Those Two Bad Guys Cloudcuckoolander Informed Ability Everyone Has Standards Adapted Out Corrupt Corporate Executive Expository Hairstyle Change No-Holds-Barred Beatdown Chekhov's Skill Wicked Cultured Downer Ending Evil Laugh Jerkass Chuck Cunningham Syndrome The Brute Paper-Thin Disguise Amoral Attorney Suspiciously Specific Denial Gory Discretion Shot Fanservice Extra Pre-Asskicking One-Liner Cruel and Unusual Death Manic Pixie Dream Girl Comically Missing the Point Greater-Scope Villain Unusual Euphemism Say My Name Defrosting Ice Queen Mr. Exposition Rule of Three Bilingual Bonus The Chick And Starring Have a Gay Old Time Not Using the "Z" Word Japanese Films Real Life Action Survivor Dramedy Bloody Hilarious Sliding Scale of Idealism vs. Cynicism The Dreaded The Power of Love Gilligan Cut Empathic Environment Artistic License – Gun Safety Kill 'em All Important Haircut Love at First Sight Artistic License – Physics Plot Hole My Beloved Smother She Cleans Up Nicely Reality Is Unrealistic Mr. Fanservice Not Quite Dead Your Cheating Heart Exactly What It Says on the Tin Diabolus ex Machina Loads and Loads of Characters Break the Haughty Flipping the Bird Horror Comedy The Mole Ms. Fanservice Dogged Nice Guy Posthumous Character Implacable Man Reality Has No Subtitles Didn't Think This Through Sadistic Choice A Date with Rosie Palms Jerk Jock Precision F-Strike Stalker with a Crush Big "NO!" Sudden Sequel Death Syndrome Retirony The Load Heterosexual Life-Partners Ugly Guy, Hot Wife Fatal Flaw World of Ham Black and Gray Morality Manly Tears Batman Gambit Adult Fear Blood Knight Death by Sex Imagine Spot Novelization Documentary "Well Done, Son!" 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Ascended Extra Fantastic Racism Big Fancy House Yandere Catapult Nightmare Pragmatic Villainy Ass Shove Ambiguously Gay The Stoic Loophole Abuse The Ditz Villain with Good Publicity Hero of Another Story 20 Minutes into the Future Anti-Villain Broken Pedestal You Have Outlived Your Usefulness Chiaroscuro Jump Scare Dressing as the Enemy Award-Bait Song Truth in Television NO INDOOR VOICE Re-Cut Obfuscating Stupidity Male Gaze Tempting Fate Australian Movies Bar Brawl Shower Scene Pet the Dog Anyone Can Die Biopic Continuity Nod Annoying Younger Sibling Love Triangle Anguished Declaration of Love A.I. Is a Crapshoot Noodle Incident Faking the Dead May–December Romance Mighty Whitey How We Got Here Pyrrhic Victory Mistaken for Gay Curse Cut Short Men Are the Expendable Gender Be Careful What You Wish For Anachronic Order Manchild Imperial Stormtrooper Marksmanship Academy Body Horror Sanity Slippage Once More, with Clarity! Vampire Fiction The Dragon Politically Incorrect Villain Drowning My Sorrows Adaptation Distillation Early Installment Weirdness Artistic License – History Even Bad Men Love Their Mamas An Aesop Domestic Abuse Evil vs. Evil Heroic Sacrifice Framing Device Sinister Minister Nice Guy Improbable Weapon User Blonde, Brunette, Redhead Improbable Infant Survival aka: Infant Immortality The '80s You Have Got to Be Kidding Me! As Long as It Sounds Foreign Nice Hat No Good Deed Goes Unpunished Humans Are Bastards Action Genre Screw This, I'm Outta Here! Chase Scene Off with His Head! Eldritch Abomination Retired Badass The Stinger Insult Backfire Setting Update Bloodless Carnage Hollywood Law Action Film, Quiet Drama Scene The End... Or Is It? 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Obviously Evil Works Set in World War II Soundtrack Dissonance Dirty Coward Ripped from the Headlines Mystery and Detective Films Mundane Made Awesome Cool Car The Film of the Book Screw the Rules, I Have Money! Animal Motifs BFG Lampshade Hanging Bunny-Ears Lawyer Heroes Want Redheads Slasher Movie Not So Above It All Enemy Mine Recycled IN SPACE! Four-Temperament Ensemble Defiant to the End What Happened to the Mouse? 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Is Serious Business Wham Line Villain Protagonist Colour-Coded for Your Convenience aka: Color Coded For Your Convenience Crucified Hero Shot Impaled with Extreme Prejudice Rewatch Bonus Meaningful Background Event Decoy Protagonist Expy Madness Mantra Adorkable Closed Circle Artistic License – Military Slap-Slap-Kiss Hypocritical Humor Aww, Look! They Really Do Love Each Other Laser-Guided Karma Due to the Dead Bavarian Fire Drill Almost Kiss Mind Screw After the End Retcon Off-into-the-Distance Ending Dwindling Party I Did What I Had to Do Evil Counterpart Curb-Stomp Battle Cool Guns Rich Bitch Genre Shift Friend to All Children Bitch in Sheep's Clothing German Films Major Injury Underreaction Animated Credits Opening Hooker with a Heart of Gold Bloodier and Gorier Roaring Rampage of Revenge Mythology Gag Made of Iron Adaptation Dye-Job Agony of the Feet Creepy Child My Greatest Failure The '50s Disney Villain Death Blackmail Ooh, Me Accent's Slipping Scare Chord Skewed Priorities This Is Gonna Suck Offscreen Teleportation Adaptational Heroism Cat Scare Coming-of-Age Story Groin Attack Death of a Child Mad Scientist Plucky Comic Relief Spanner in the Works For the Evulz Honor Before Reason Early-Bird Cameo Crapsack World Visual Pun Failed a Spot Check Sequel Hook Homage Totally Radical Married to the Job Chewing the Scenery Sassy Black Woman Star-Crossed Lovers Covers Always Lie Tranquil Fury Leitmotif Black Comedy Psycho for Hire Random Events Plot Offscreen Moment of Awesome Psychological Thriller Distracted by the Sexy Dramatic Gun Cock As You Know Scenery Gorn Hate Sink My God, What Have I Done? Belligerent Sexual Tension Martial Arts Movie Room Full of Crazy Developing Doomed Characters Big Applesauce Crazy Jealous Guy Amusing Injuries No Name Given Death by Adaptation The Un-Favourite aka: The Un Favorite Author Appeal Redshirt Army Beauty Is Never Tarnished In Name Only Fun with Acronyms British Films The Faceless Face–Heel Turn Spared by the Adaptation Evil Is Hammy The '90s The Dog Bites Back The Oner Super Strength Soft Glass Unresolved Sexual Tension In Medias Res Needs Wiki Magic Love Drives Like Crazy Babies Ever After Interrupted Suicide Deadpan Snarker Dark Is Not Evil Aside Glance Instant Death Bullet Captain Ersatz Rasputinian Death Dumb Blonde Peek-a-Boo Corpse Brainless Beauty Twist Ending Fanservice Leave the Camera Running Self-Deprecation Red Right Hand Central Theme Spell My Name with an "S" Bowdlerise Rated M for Manly Freudian Excuse Immune to Bullets The Remake "Awesome McCool" Name Even Evil Has Standards Karma Houdini Parental Neglect Disguised in Drag Big Damn Heroes Facial Horror Rule of Funny It's Personal Male Frontal Nudity True Companions Spiteful Spit Blood from the Mouth Hidden Depths Left the Background Music On Ungrateful Bastard Calling the Old Man Out Aluminum Christmas Trees Made of Explodium Alas, Poor Villain Children Are Innocent He Who Fights Monsters Bald of Evil Bland-Name Product Screw the Rules, I'm Doing What's Right! The Cameo Christmas Movies Index More Dakka Deliberate Values Dissonance Historical Villain Upgrade Laughing Mad Idiot Ball Properly Paranoid Becoming the Mask Dramatic Irony Bare Your Midriff Contrived Coincidence Girl-on-Girl Is Hot Italian Films Mugging the Monster An Arm and a Leg Music Stories Catch-Phrase The Un-Reveal Pimped-Out Dress Black Comedy Rape Bring My Brown Pants Wounded Gazelle Gambit Big Brother Instinct A Minor Kidroduction Here We Go Again! The Lost Lenore I Just Shot Marvin in the Face Mama Bear Dull Surprise Knife Nut folderlabel Race Against the Clock Bury Your Gays Pretty in Mink Brutal Honesty Unspoken Plan Guarantee Toplessness from the Back You Killed My Father Shout-Out Lock and Load Montage Names to Run Away from Really Fast Gone Horribly Right Red Herring You Have Failed Me Death Glare Market-Based Title Zombie Stories Evil Cannot Comprehend Good Cool Old Lady Not So Different Adults Are Useless Shut Up, Hannibal! Vomit Discretion Shot Big-Bad Ensemble Artistic License – Biology Why Did It Have to Be Snakes? Rape as Drama Sports Stories Gorn Together in Death Too Dumb to Live Fantasy Films Air-Vent Passageway Accidental Misnaming Ambiguous Ending Card-Carrying Villain Gratuitous English Every Car Is a Pinto Famous Last Words Thriller Taking You with Me Darker and Edgier Call-Forward Character Development Jerkass Has a Point Genre Savvy Creator Cameo Running Gag Sci-Fi Horror Reasonable Authority Figure Jack Bauer Interrogation Technique Evil Brit The Casanova Adaptation Name Change I Want My Beloved to Be Happy Depraved Bisexual Fatal Family Photo He Knows Too Much Easily Forgiven Eureka Moment Deus ex Machina Older Than They Look Fiery Redhead Naked People Are Funny Sir Not-Appearing-in-This-Trailer From Bad to Worse Cat Fight Does Not Like Shoes She's Got Legs The Ghost Earn Your Happy Ending Camera Abuse Shipper on Deck Took a Level in Jerkass Reckless Gun Usage Funny Foreigner Red Shirt Combat Pragmatist Horror Films Unwitting Instigator of Doom Token Minority Russian Films Hollywood Darkness Dirty Cop Camp Gay Did Not Get the Girl Casting Gag Villain Opening Scene Stealth Hi/Bye Animal Title Index Film Noir Fat Bastard Pun aka: Incredibly Lame Pun What You Are in the Dark Abusive Parents All There in the Manual Neck Snap All There in the Script Intergenerational Friendship Grey and Gray Morality Scenery Porn Cool Shades Race Lift Epic Movie One Steve Limit The Chessmaster Overprotective Dad Ghost Fiction Drill Sergeant Nasty And I Must Scream Arranged Marriage N-Word Privileges Worthy Opponent Storming the Castle Jitter Cam Up to Eleven Punch-Clock Villain Deliberately Monochrome Getting Crap Past the Radar All Men Are Perverts Disproportionate Retribution Hong Kong Films Parental Abandonment Happily Married The Starscream Small Name, Big Ego Bittersweet Ending Black Best Friend The Cavalry Large Ham Back from the Dead B-Movie Mercy Kill Playing Gertrude Suddenly SHOUTING! Big Bad Jerk with a Heart of Gold Actually Pretty Funny Artistic License – Geography Cowboy Cop Daylight Horror Smug Snake Why Don't You Just Shoot Him? Bad "Bad Acting" Accidental Murder Drugs Are Bad Wrong Genre Savvy Badass in a Nice Suit Fourth Date Marriage Action Girl Karmic Death Frame-Up Vitriolic Best Buds Stepford Smiler Sir Swears-a-Lot Call-Back Author Avatar For Want of a Nail No-Sell Kick the Dog Bad Boss Meet Cute Not What It Looks Like Training Montage Age Lift Those Two Guys Villain Ball Put on a Bus Creative Closing Credits