Tropescilloscope: Hypocritical Humor

Hypocrisy played for laughs. (read more at tvtropes.org)

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