Tropescilloscope: Funny Background Event

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

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