Tropescilloscope: Overly Long Gag

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

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