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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Intergenerational Friendship No Celebrities Were Harmed Reality Has No Subtitles The Cavalry Loads and Loads of Characters Alliterative Name Fainting Action Girl Adaptation Name Change Madness Mantra Wicked Cultured Sequel Hook Match Cut Danny Peary Cult Movies List Big-Bad Ensemble Flashback Bland-Name Product A Minor Kidroduction Accidental Murder Adaptation Expansion Black Dude Dies First Evil Laugh Eye Scream Face–Heel Turn NO INDOOR VOICE Department of Redundancy Department Annoying Younger Sibling Humiliation Conga Ambiguously Gay Captain Ersatz Death by Sex Accidental Misnaming Evil Cannot Comprehend Good Black Best Friend The Smurfette Principle MacGuffin Flipping the Bird The Atoner '80s Hair Reality Ensues Dwindling Party Race Against the Clock Mad Scientist Epic Movie Shown Their Work No Good Deed Goes Unpunished Cassandra Truth Gilligan Cut Ambiguous Disorder Half the Man He Used to Be Villain Ball Undying Loyalty Oh, Crap! 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They Really Do Love Each Other Dramatic Gun Cock Death by Irony Blatant Lies Artistic License – Biology Biopic Red Shirt Eyepatch of Power Screw the Rules, I'm Doing What's Right! Broken Aesop Pyrrhic Victory Diabolus ex Machina The '70s The Stoic Improbable Weapon User Deliberately Monochrome Not So Different What Happened to the Mouse? Corrupt Corporate Executive As the Good Book Says... Fan Disservice Bait-and-Switch Dogged Nice Guy Leaning on the Fourth Wall Plucky Comic Relief Sole Survivor Logo Joke Bare Your Midriff "The Reason You Suck" Speech Interrupted Suicide Intrepid Reporter Dumb Blonde Fingore Wham Shot Age Lift Jerk Jock The Cameo Nice Job Fixing It, Villain! Tagline The Un-Reveal Rewatch Bonus Sudden Sequel Death Syndrome Freeze-Frame Bonus Everyone Has Standards Fatal Family Photo Exact Words Evil Brit Creator Cameo Foregone Conclusion Sliding Scale of Idealism vs. Cynicism Anachronism Stew Evil Sounds Deep The '50s Here We Go Again! The Place Skewed Priorities Facial Horror Retired Badass Motor Mouth Neck Lift Insult Backfire Outrun the Fireball Pet the Dog Villain with Good Publicity The Casanova Wretched Hive Bury Your Gays Adaptational Heroism Crapsack World Public Domain Feature Films Married to the Job Knife Nut Tempting Fate Index of Film Westerns Fat Bastard Adaptation Distillation It Can Think Bullying a Dragon Love Triangle Moment Killer The Faceless Recap / RiffTrax aka: Riff Trax Movies Nothing Is Scarier Malevolent Masked Men The Oner Bowdlerise Hidden Depths Shout-Out Historical Villain Upgrade Evil vs. Evil Unusually Uninteresting Sight Darkest Hour Honor Before Reason Manipulative Bastard "Where Are They Now?" 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