Tropescilloscope: Funny Background Event

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

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