Tropescilloscope: Gilligan Cut

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Is Serious Business The Great Depression Fourth Date Marriage All Men Are Perverts All for Nothing Big Bad Duumvirate A Father to His Men Cold-Blooded Torture Police Brutality Alliterative Name Deus ex Machina War Is Hell Unusually Uninteresting Sight Taking the Bullet Humiliation Conga Sir Swears-a-Lot Artistic License – Law Adaptational Heroism Non-Indicative Name Truth in Television Jack Bauer Interrogation Technique Posthumous Character Mr. Exposition Bound and Gagged Twist Ending Shut Up, Hannibal! Action Genre Badass Grandpa Black Best Friend Silent Movie Bond Villain Stupidity Adaptation Dye-Job Gratuitous English Sadistic Choice British Films The Vamp Smoking Is Cool For Want of a Nail Does Not Like Shoes Imagine Spot Properly Paranoid Expy Big "NO!" Bury Your Gays Dramatic Gun Cock Blood from the Mouth Ugly Guy, Hot Wife The Place Getting Crap Past the Radar Took a Level in Jerkass Fanservice Extra Dying Moment of Awesome Evil Is Hammy Camera Abuse No Antagonist Bavarian Fire Drill The Stinger Hollywood Law Villain with Good Publicity Narrator I Want My Beloved to Be Happy Improbable Infant Survival aka: Infant Immortality Never Found the Body Face–Heel Turn Break the Cutie All There in the Script It's Personal Important Haircut Aww, Look! They Really Do Love Each Other Authority Equals Asskicking Damsel in Distress Shirtless Scene German Films Adaptation Name Change Cool Old Lady Ass Shove Shipper on Deck Badass Longcoat Book-Ends Improbable Aiming Skills Rich Bitch The Smurfette Principle Pimped-Out Dress Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass No Good Deed Goes Unpunished A Date with Rosie Palms Belligerent Sexual Tension Parental Neglect Meaningful Name Curb-Stomp Battle Only Known by Their Nickname Dark and Troubled Past Soundtrack Dissonance Better to Die than Be Killed Calling the Old Man Out Drowning My Sorrows Very Loosely Based on a True Story Cluster F-Bomb The Film of the Book Knife Nut Maybe Ever After Affectionate Parody Your Head A-Splode Ironic Echo Karmic Death Cool Car Only in It for the Money Let's Get Dangerous! 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Foreshadowing Freudian Excuse "Awesome McCool" Name Shout-Out Ms. Fanservice Foregone Conclusion Accidental Murder Martial Arts Movie Defiant to the End Punny Name Poor Communication Kills Shell-Shocked Veteran Wretched Hive Manchild An Axe to Grind Throwing Your Sword Always Works Heroic Sacrifice Taking You with Me Brother–Sister Incest Romantic Comedy Paper-Thin Disguise Awesome, but Impractical "Shaggy Dog" Story Deliberately Monochrome Never My Fault Horror Doesn't Settle for Simple Tuesday Unusual Euphemism Zombie Stories Attempted Rape Cain and Abel All Just a Dream Fantasy Films This Is Gonna Suck Science Fiction Films Chewing the Scenery Hypocritical Humor Woman Scorned Translation Convention Superhero Fish out of Water Improvised Weapon Not So Stoic Fake Shemp Blackmail Took a Level in Badass Vampire Fiction Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds Bittersweet Ending Knight Templar Jerk with a Heart of Gold The '60s Imperial Stormtrooper Marksmanship Academy Captain Ersatz Improbable Weapon User Woman in White Silence Is Golden Time Skip Action Film, Quiet Drama Scene Wicked Cultured Jump Scare Sole Survivor In the Back The End... Or Is It? The Musical Motor Mouth Red Oni, Blue Oni Screw the Rules, I'm Doing What's Right! Only One Name You Killed My Father Unwitting Instigator of Doom An Aesop Laser-Guided Karma Meaningful Background Event Daddy's Girl Anti-Villain Fan Disservice The Cavalry Up to Eleven Worthy Opponent Fat Bastard Real Life Writes the Plot Revenge The Dog Bites Back Suspiciously Specific Denial Bond One-Liner The Ace Animal Motifs Nothing Is Scarier Catch-Phrase Five-Man Band Put on a Bus Stuff Blowing Up Red Right Hand Exactly What It Says on the Tin Love at First Sight Bullying a Dragon Reasonable Authority Figure Stock Footage Big Applesauce Insult Backfire Room Full of Crazy Market-Based Title Did Not Get the Girl Why Did It Have to Be Snakes? Show Within a Show A.I. Is a Crapshoot Logo Joke Slasher Smile The X of Y Karma Houdini One-Man Army Bland-Name Product Punch-Clock Villain I'm a Humanitarian True Companions Implacable Man Mugging the Monster Noodle Incident Apocalypse How Contrived Coincidence Beta Couple Agony of the Feet Mighty Whitey Moment Killer Screw the Rules, I Have Money! Obfuscating Stupidity Oh, Crap! Married to the Job Cool Guns Japanese Films Needs Wiki Magic Love Plot Hole Historical-Domain Character Yandere Kubrick Stare Chase Scene Hope Spot Genre Savvy The Mole Here We Go Again! Totally Radical Dull Surprise Bilingual Bonus Children Are Innocent Nice Guy Too Dumb to Live Well-Intentioned Extremist Sealed Evil in a Can Naïve Newcomer Same Language Dub Slap-Slap-Kiss Unreliable Narrator Villain Opening Scene Funny Background Event Sir Not-Appearing-in-This-Trailer Final Girl Actor Allusion Sudden Sequel Death Syndrome Early Installment Weirdness 20 Minutes into the Future Gold Digger Disappeared Dad Auto Erotica Dark Reprise Armor-Piercing Question Only Sane Man Cassandra Truth Demoted to Extra Not What It Looks Like Fainting The Un-Favourite aka: The Un Favorite Running Gag Those Two Bad Guys Stealth Pun Wrong Genre Savvy Foil Even Evil Has Loved Ones Big Bad No OSHA Compliance Boom, Headshot! Double Entendre Cat Scare Flashback The Power of Love Why Don't You Just Shoot Him? Historical Hero Upgrade Villain Song Annoying Younger Sibling How We Got Here Everyone Calls Him "Barkeep" Offscreen Moment of Awesome Crucified Hero Shot Exact Words Mythology Gag Ominous Latin Chanting The Hero The Dreaded Refuge in Audacity No Celebrities Were Harmed Brick Joke Match Cut Insane Troll Logic Darkest Hour Made of Iron Bolivian Army Ending Public Domain Feature Films Faking the Dead Dissonant Serenity No Name Given Adorkable The Ditz I Have Your Wife Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking Almost Kiss Evil vs. Evil Re-Cut Television Movie Index Papa Wolf Cat Fight Would Hurt a Child B-Movie Badass Bookworm Italian Films Token Minority Russian Films Every Car Is a Pinto Does This Remind You of Anything? She's Got Legs Vomit Indiscretion Shot Men Are the Expendable Gender Crapsack World Card-Carrying Villain Bloodless Carnage Advertised Extra Early-Bird Cameo Artistic License – Physics Driven to Suicide Leave the Camera Running Reality Has No Subtitles Closed Circle Genre Shift Country Matters All There in the Manual Broken Bird She Cleans Up Nicely The Ghost Star-Crossed Lovers Red Herring Race Against the Clock Evil Cannot Comprehend Good Self-Deprecation Deconstruction Toilet Humour aka: Toilet Humor Psychological Thriller Nice Job Breaking It, Hero! Take That! Together in Death Hair-Trigger Temper Reality Ensues MacGuffin Scenery Porn Eureka Moment Death by Sex Evil Brit The Alleged Car Mind Screw Protagonist Title Wham Line Ooh, Me Accent's Slipping Bi the Way Aside Glance N-Word Privileges Our Vampires Are Different Screw This, I'm Outta Here! "Well Done, Son!" 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Irony Australian Movies Heroes Want Redheads Didn't Think This Through Nice Job Fixing It, Villain! Action Prologue Our Zombies Are Different Pun aka: Incredibly Lame Pun Funny Foreigner Really Gets Around Documentary Rewatch Bonus Hollywood Darkness Facial Horror Captain Obvious Domestic Abuse Say My Name No Ending Bottomless Magazines Light Is Not Good Not So Different Empathic Environment Malevolent Masked Men As the Good Book Says... Ungrateful Bastard Beware the Nice Ones The Load Face Death with Dignity Amoral Attorney The Chick Sci-Fi Horror Naked People Are Funny The Chessmaster Evil Plan Music Stories Action Survivor Femme Fatale And Starring Coming-of-Age Story Broken Pedestal Serial Killer Fate Worse than Death Continuity Nod Pretty Little Headshots Adaptational Badass It Can Think Sinister Minister The Alcoholic Redshirt Army Blonde, Brunette, Redhead Costume Porn Tap on the Head Character Development Have a Gay Old Time Artistic License – Biology Alpha Bitch Crazy-Prepared Recap / RiffTrax aka: Riff Trax Movies Affably Evil Epic Fail Suddenly SHOUTING! Failed a Spot Check The Stoner Whole Plot Reference The Faceless Canon Foreigner Henpecked Husband Crazy Jealous Guy Drives Like Crazy Shoot the Shaggy Dog Adapted Out Film Noir Index Would Hit a Girl Covers Always Lie Horror Comedy Not So Above It All The Casanova Military and Warfare Films Ascended Extra The Reveal Mistaken for Gay The Brute Eagleland Evil Sounds Deep Drugs Are Bad Offscreen Teleportation Adult Fear The Smart Guy Eldritch Abomination Good Is Not Nice Christmas Movies Index Toplessness from the Back Pretty in Mink Hoist by His Own Petard Intrepid Reporter folderlabel Pre-Mortem One-Liner Kick the Son of a Bitch Vacation Films Mr. Fanservice Arch-Enemy Pragmatic Villainy Setting Update Handicapped Badass Race Lift Fingore More Dakka Ambiguous Ending Punctuated! For! Emphasis! Creepy Child Get Out! Dark Is Not Evil Eyepatch of Power Product Placement Major Injury Underreaction Ship Tease Maybe Magic, Maybe Mundane Hell Is That Noise Made of Explodium Rule of Symbolism Green-Eyed Monster Extremely Short Timespan The Lost Lenore Meaningful Echo Once More, with Clarity! Age Lift Dark Action Girl Back from the Dead Depraved Bisexual Hooker with a Heart of Gold Blatant Lies Sequel Escalation Horror Films Politically Incorrect Villain Film Series Rated M for Manly Disney Villain Death Bring My Brown Pants Precision F-Strike The '70s Historical Villain Upgrade Fanservice Dogged Nice Guy Tranquil Fury Heel–Face Turn Flipping the Bird Cruel and Unusual Death Fantastic Racism Morality Pet Hate Sink Adaptation Distillation Playing Gertrude Chekhov's Skill Famous Last Words Aluminum Christmas Trees A God Am I Leitmotif Distracted by the Sexy Neck Lift Anyone Can Die Plucky Comic Relief Lock and Load Montage Dirty Coward "Where Are They Now?" 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Determinator aka: The Determinator Missing Mom Heel Realization Vitriolic Best Buds Creative Closing Credits Arranged Marriage Badass Normal Kick the Dog Composite Character Ripped from the Headlines The Sociopath No-Holds-Barred Beatdown Psycho for Hire Animal Title Index Greater-Scope Villain Author Avatar '80s Hair La Résistance Last-Name Basis Artistic License – Military Four-Temperament Ensemble Take a Third Option Never Trust a Trailer Badass Boast Jerkass Has a Point Gender Flip Random Events Plot Evil Is Petty Department of Redundancy Department May–December Romance Shown Their Work NO INDOOR VOICE Male Frontal Nudity Jerk Jock Wham Shot Monumental Damage Genre Throwback Humans Are Bastards Loads and Loads of Characters Celebrity Paradox Names to Run Away from Really Fast Dirty Old Man Disproportionate Retribution Novelization Spell My Name with an "S" Biopic Mooks Roger Ebert: Great Movies List Wounded Gazelle Gambit Gainax Ending Not Even Bothering with the Accent Creator Cameo Daylight Horror Insistent Terminology Freeze-Frame Bonus Black Comedy Colour-Coded for Your Convenience aka: Color Coded For Your Convenience Curse Cut Short Cloudcuckoolander Everyone Has Standards Amusing Injuries Half the Man He Used to Be Anachronism Stew Overprotective Dad Anachronic Order I Need a Freaking Drink Manic Pixie Dream Girl Betty and Veronica And I Must Scream Death Glare You Have Outlived Your Usefulness Off with His Head! Stepford Smiler Dies Wide Open Dwindling Party Kill It with Fire Spared by the Adaptation Broken Aesop Outrun the Fireball Bare Your Midriff The Stoic Heroic BSoD Riddle for the Ages The Hero Dies My Greatest Failure Fatal Family Photo Deliberate Values Dissonance In Medias Res Gilligan Cut Bald of Evil Sequel Hook