Tropescilloscope: Overly Long Gag

The length of the joke becomes the joke. (read more at tvtropes.org)

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