Tropescilloscope: Overly Long Gag

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

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