Tropescilloscope: Noodle Incident

An unexplained incident is referenced, and it's funnier in our heads than whatever could be explained. (read more at tvtropes.org)

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