Tropescilloscope: Funny Background Event

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

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