Tropescilloscope: Funny Background Event

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

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