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"How I Wrote This Article" Article

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When someone is contractually obligated to churn out regular humorous articles, they occasionally reach an inspirational dead end. Sometimes, to deal with this, they write an article about how they can't think of anything to write.

Stephen Fry mentions in the book collection of his articles that every humor writer is allowed one and only one of these.

Almost always a form of Self-Referential Humor. See also Writer's Block.

## Examples

* *Adaptation* is this in movie-form—it's a film telling the story of adapting a book into the screenplay of what eventually becomes the film you're watching.
* *FoxTrot*: "This is my fourth sentence. This is my fifth sentence. This is my second paragraph..."
	+ Jason calls his essay "a running first-person account of the process of writing a nine-hundred-word essay."
* Here's another: [1].
	+ For the record, that is an "incomplete" article on writer's block with a footnote which details (with references) the many reasons why the paper is unfinished.
	+ Also this.
* Dave Barry does this every so often.
* This is how *Under The Hood* begins in *Watchmen*.
* In the song "Boat Drinks" Jimmy Buffett sang, "I should be leaving this climate/I've got a verse but can't rhyme it."
* "This Is the Title of This Story, Which Is Also Found Several Times in the Story Itself".
* In *Breakfast of Champions*, Kurt Vonnegut's narration frequently goes off to explain what he was going through when he was writing it.
* *Calvin and Hobbes*: Hobbes ended up writing this story for Calvin after he tried time traveling two hours into the future to retrieve his completed story, only to find it hadn't been written yet. Unfortunately for Calvin, the class loves it, but it makes him look like a laughingstock.
* *"Weird Al" Yankovic'*s song "This Song Is Just Six Words Long" is about this.
* Belgian novelist Herman Brusselmans uses this trope on occasion, often as an introduction. The first sentence of *De kus in de nacht* (*The kiss in the night*) is as follows: "*As usual I have nothing to say and I will do so for about 600 to 650 pages, we'll see.*"
100 Girls

***100 Girls*** is a film directed by Michael Davis, starring Johnathon Tucker as Matthew, a college freshman and a virgin. At a party, he loses his virginity to an unknown girl during a blackout in an elevator. The next morning, he wakes up to find she isn't there. Thus, begins his search... Hilarity (and interesting observations about the nature of romance, sexuality, interpersonal relationships between genders and female archetypes) Ensues.

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Has nothing to do with *100 Girls (comics)*.

Tropes used in *100 Girls* include:
* Alpha Bitch: Subverted. Several characters, like Arlene and Cynthia, are set up as Alpha Bitches, but are instead given interesting characterizations.
* A Man Is Not a Virgin: Deconstructed. In the end, Matt's sensitivity and innocent nature nets him a shot at any girl in the dorm.

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100 Deeds for Eddie McDowd/WMG

## The Drifter is not planning to turn Eddie back to normal.

Well, why do you think he minuses his good deeds just because he can do whatever he wants?

## The Drifter is Eddie's Split Personality.

He is created by the good left in Eddie since he's a kid shown in A Very Canine Christmas. If he has completed 100 good deeds and Eddie turn into a human again, the Drifter will merge with him.

## Eddie is in a dream or coma in the entire series.

Must have been taken place after being traumatized by Justin spilling milk on him.

## The Drifter must have caused the explosion in a car.

Well, for starters, Eddie throws too many rocks and the car didn't explode. As a result, the Drifter uses his powers to cause an explosion and berate Eddie for this as if it wasn't his fault.

## The Drifter is a Reality Warper.

He didn't turn Eddie into a dog; instead, he just make him think he did so that he can do good deeds. He also did this to Justin and the entire world so that his Masquerade will not fail.

## The Drifter is one of the spirits in *Brother Bear*.

Well, does it look familiar when he turned Eddie into a dog as a symbolism of the animal he almost killed?

## The Drifter turned Eddie into a dog to create a dragon.

He turns bad people into animals as punishment for their misdeeds, but he has a hidden agenda to that. The goal is to find anyone who is bad enough to be transformed. Eddie is going to be his general. Once Eddie does 100 good deeds and turns back human, the Drifter will offer him his parents back, and gives him a choice: join him or act against him.

## The show is All Just a Dream for Eddie.

Ever since being spilled milk all over accidentally by Justin, he's been traumatized by this experience that he is put in a coma for this. Therefore, everyone are aspects of himself.

* Himself = his Self/Ego
* Justin = his Id
* Gwen = his Super Ego
* The Drifter = his conscience and dark part

## The Drifter turned Eddie into a dog so that he could kill him.

It seems to me that ever since someone before Eddie manages to do 100 good deeds and turn back human, the Drifter has gained a conscience for his experiences and thinks that the world would be better off without him since he is bossed around by the Drifter Council. He needed someone who could hate his guts long enough to kill him; therefore, tries to commit suicide by human turned animal.

## The Drifter erased Eddie's parents existence because they were holding him back.

It would appear that his parents could are considered to be his Morality Chain. In other words, they're the reason why Eddie remains good despite all that bullying he did at school. Realizing this, the Drifter has erased them, thinking that they're distracting him. Unfortunately, since they're the source of Eddie's goodness, bad move. Once Eddie turns back human, he'll get revenge on the Drifter for this.

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.flow/Heartwarming

* There is a bit of truth to the Oreko x Sabitsuki ship: If you wear the diving helmet, Oreko will follow you around if not otherwise occupied.
* It's hard to describe that bittersweet music that plays when Sabitsuki is asleep in her bed, it's very calm and emotional, makes the game feel a lot deeper than the hellish nightmare simulator you usually see it as at first glance. Not that this game doesn't have it's hellish nightmare simulator moments.
* When you hit Smile with the steel pipe, he laughs and gives a very, very creepy smile and pulls out his weapon. This only happens when he's with his little sister (and in a room in the school, but without the laugh). Then you realize - he's trying to protect the people he's close to.
* The ending sequence could possibly be interpreted as this, with Sabitsuki (wearing her headphones) walking through her memories and past events of the game.

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"Stop Having Fun!" Guys

> *"No, you can't play with it. You won't enjoy it on as many levels as I do."*
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> **Professor Frink**, *The Simpsons*, "The PTA Disbands"

The gamer equivalent of the Arrogant Kung Fu Guy. He's a Hard Core gamer, plays in all tournaments, and knows everything about how to play. He knows *all* the secret moves (even the glitches), the most effective strategies, and the quickest ways to completely destroy his opponent. He's completely "above" the mantra of casual play: He doesn't play just for fun, he plays to *win*. He's good, and he knows it. There's nothing wrong with that.

But he's also extremely arrogant. He's completely intolerant of play styles other than his own. If you challenge his beliefs, he'll automatically call you a Noob, a Scrub, or something similar. As far as he's concerned if you don't play like him you have only your inferior skills to blame, because obviously you would if you could.

Yep, that's right, he's the exact opposite of the Scrub...

...but just as annoying.

This kind of player takes the "pro" mentality to an annoying extreme, generally giving other tournament players a bad name (while his counterpart, the scrub, takes the casual mentality to an annoying extreme and generally gives other casual players a bad name). In the real world, there's room for both, and game companies generally try to put something in their games for both Player Archetypes.

In the end, what makes a Stop Having Fun Guy isn't the rule-setting; it's the attitude. While regular competitive/tournament players simply like playing to win, the Stop Having Fun Guy believes that this is the *only* right way to play the game.

The SHFG is a specific subspecies of Fan Haters, who dislike/condescend to "casual" gamers who don't play the same way they do. It also overlaps with Complacent Gaming Syndrome, where the players use only one or two characters/strategies/levels to make winning easier.

See also: Scrub, Serious Business, Fan Dumb and Internet Backdraft. The larval form of the SHFG is the Munchkin. See It's Easy, So It Sucks for the mentality that sometimes results from the single-player form of this.
"Find Out Next Time!"

At the end of an episode of a show, usually on a Cliff Hanger ending, a narrator poses a few questions and promises alert viewers that the answers will be revealed in the next exciting episode.

May or may not be placed at the end of an "On the Next..." trailer.

See also To Be Continued. Contrast To Be Continued Right Now.

**As an Ending Trope, Spoilers ahead may be unmarked. Beware.**

Examples of "Find Out Next Time!" include:

## Anime

* The dub of *Dragonball Z* always ended its next episode previews with "Find out next time on Dragon Ball Z!"
	+ Naturally The Abridged Series, if they use it, parody it.

> **Narrator**: A new evil has revealed its face. Who are these mysterious enemies? And do Gohan and Krillin stand a chance? The answers to these questions will be be revealed... right now: Zarbon, Dadoria, Freeza and Oh. My. No!
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## Comic Books

* A handful of *Tintin* comics ended like this. One of them ended with Tintin *himself* telling the readers to buy his next comic and discover the resolution.

## Live Action TV

* *Soap* had their narrator, Rod Roddy, do this at the end of every episode.
* How will Batman survive? Find out tomorrow, same bat-time, same bat-channel!

## Western Animation

* The *Rocky and Bullwinkle* narrator did this for every Cliff Hanger, with joke next-episode titles. Sometimes played with:

> **Narrator:** Will Bullwinkle be able to extricate himself?
> **Bullwinkle:** I will as soon as I get loose!
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* Spoofed on the *Looney Tunes* short "Hare Trigger". The cartoon ends with Bugs Bunny tied and suspended over a bridge as Yosemite Sam cuts the rope.

> **Narrator:** Is this the end of Bugs Bunny? Will he be dashed to bits on the jagged rocks below?!?
> **Bugs Bunny:** (dragging a hogtied Sam behind him) Is he doomed to utter destruction? Will he be rendered *non compos mentis*? Eh, he don't know me very well, do he?
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(500) Days of Summer/Fridge

* As seen above the movie could be considered to have a Downer Ending when he begins pursuing relationship with Autumn because of the implications that he hasn't learned anything from his relationship with Summer and is about to do a Here We Go Again... unless you consider the importance of her different name: Autumn. Which means "change".
	+ There's nothing to actually make fans believe this. There's also the fact that Summer was probably the problem and nothing infers that Autumn is like that.
(The Customer is) Not Always Right/Tear Jerker

## From *Not Always Right*

* While Your Mileage May Vary, you really gotta feel bad for this guy.

> **Dad:** Oh, don’t worry about it. I hate my life anyway.
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* This customer. The tear-jerker part is a bit of Fridge Horror.
* Whatever can be said about the current conflict, people coming home from it only to deal with this is depressing.
* This poor little girl, whose mother considers her less important than a credit card. She even tells the workers who watched her daughter to say it's her daughter that's lost next time so she knows not to rush.
* A minor one here.
* It might not exactly be a tear jerker, but it's hard not to feel sorry for this guy/girl.
* This one doesn't sound sad until you put it in hindsight. You can bet this little girl's gonna grow up a Spoiled Brat.

## From *Not Always Romantic*

* Your Mileage May Vary on this one too, but at the least, it is sad.
* Hard not to feel sorry for this poor guy.

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(The Customer is) Not Always Right/WMG

## Some stories are submitted by customers.

Some people who post on the website as employees or bystanders are actually the customers who are looking back and feeling embarrassed so they post their experiences as if they were not the ones who did it but were instead simply witnesses.

* This... wouldn't be very surprising, actually.
	+ At least one customer posted his dumb moment himself.

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"Fascism Is Everywhere" Ending

When a fascist or otherwise extreme political group is investigated and busted, a member, often the leader, brags how the group is everywhere. This is a **"Fascism Is Everywhere" Ending**, and it does not mean that "fascism everywhere is ending" - just the opposite.

He claims that his movement is everywhere and is growing and will rule supreme someday and the heroes are concerned that there will be more trouble in the future.

Note: Often associated with right-wing militia movements, which became a trope of their own following the militia scare in the media after the Oklahoma City bombing.

Contrast Red Scare and Yellow Peril.

**As an Ending Trope, Spoilers ahead may be unmarked. Beware.**

Examples of "Fascism Is Everywhere" Ending include:
## Live-Action TV

* *MacGyver* episode "Ten Percent Solution", MacGyver uncovers a massive Neo-Nazi conspiracy that has infiltrated a sizable portion of America.
* On *Law & Order: Special Victims Unit*, there is often a variant where a pedophile reminds Our Hero that pedophiles are everywhere, particularly on the internet. The episodes "Chat Room" and "Pandora" used this technique.
* *Law & Order* episode "Charm City", a white supremacist convicted of planting a poison gas bomb on a subway car angrily hisses that “My country is growing, yours is shrinking!” as the credits roll.
* Trope subverted on the *CSI: Miami* episode "Pirated" where the militia leader threatens how his movement is everywhere and growing. The detectives respond that they are investigating every connection he has and expect a wave of arrests of his cronies in short order, which we see happening in a flurry of images as the police swoop in to bust the terrorists. The militia leader is left stunned to hear that his organization is being smashed so quickly.
* A variation in the same vein as this trope occurred on *Star Trek: Deep Space Nine* in the season three finale "The Adversary" where a defeated changeling who has been sneaking around the ship trying to sabotage it tells Odo that the Changelings are Everywhere.

## Video Games

* At the end of *Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots* with the Patriots seemingly all dead and their AI system destroyed, Drebin tells Otacon that he believes the world is not truly free from the influence of the Patriots. To prove this, he writes the name of Meryl's unit (Rat Patrol 01) in the sand and makes the letters rearrange into PATR10T.
	+ It's actually a bit of odd Fridge Logic in that the letters don't actually form an anagram at all unless "patrol" is shortened to "PT" as Drebin does. PT isn't an accepted shortening of the world "patrol".
		- And the fact that a Patriot-sponsored unit like Rat Patrol 01 would hide the name of the organization doesn't prove Drebin's point that the Patriots are still controlling things.
1-800-Missing/YMMV

* Adaptation Decay: Meg Cabot's *1-800-WHERE-R-U* books are about a teenage girl who acquires psychic powers and tries to find missing children without attracting the attention of the FBI while also navigating a teenage romance. *One Eight Hundred Missing* is about a woman in her twenties who almost immediately goes to work for the FBI as a special consultant. The TV show exists in the book universe, where the characters complain about the changes.
"I Know You're in There Somewhere" Fight/Quotes

> *"Somewhere in that sea of bull hormones is the sweet, wonderful girl I married. The woman who, instead of swatting a fly, would give it a bath and send it on its way. I'd sure like to go home and have Jiffy Pop with her."*
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> *"I know what your heart is like. I felt it. Your heart is full of life, Bloom. Your heart is so pure in good. That saved me. You didn't let me go and I'm not gonna let you go so you have to this, Bloom. You have to break free, you have to come back because I love you."*
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> *"Claus...You're not Porky's robot!...You're our son!"*
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> *"You have to wake up, Mao! I'm risking my life to stop you!"*
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> *"Your thoughts betray you, Father. I feel the good in you... the conflict."*
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"I Want" Song/Quotes

> This has really become Cartman's like thing. No matter where Cartman is, he always wants to be some place else. That's basically Cartman's M.O. through a lot of the shows. Is he just. This wasn't the way 3rd grade was. It sucked. But Cartman wants to be anywhere but where he is, and he often has a song about it. He often has a song about the place he'd rather be.
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> *This is known as an "I Want" song — a number that comes early in a musical, in which the hero(ine) expresses his/her hopes and dreams, so that we in the audience understand those dreams, and get more involved in his/her quest to achieve them.*
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> *Why is it that Disney women are never satisfied? You're fucking royalty! If you had any more, you'd be friggin' **gods!***
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> The Nostalgia Critic, on the frequent I Want Songs in the Disney Animated Canon.

> *But who cares/No big deal/I want more...*
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> Ariel singing *Part of Your World*

> *In almost every musical ever written, there's a place that's usually about the third song of the evening — sometimes it's the second, sometimes it's the fourth, but it's quite early — and the leading lady usually sits down on something; sometimes it's a tree stump in* Brigadoon*, sometimes it's under the pillars of Covent Garden in* My Fair Lady*, or it's a trash can in* Little Shop of Horrors*... but the leading lady sits down on something and sings about what she wants in life. And the audience falls in love with her and then roots for her to get it for the rest of the night.*
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> Howard Ashman, specifically referring to the above song, *Waking Sleeping Beauty*

> *You want something nondescript, and **by G-d,** you're gonna sing about it!*
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> The Nostalgia Chick, in her Disney Princess review
"Weird Al" Yankovic/Awesome

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* When Devo admits to being jealous of *Dare To Be Stupid* and a critic comments that Weird Al had out-Devoed Devo.
* Reportedly, Kurt Cobain said that he only really knew he hit the big time when Weird Al parodied one of his songs.
	+ He also, reportedly, cracked up the entire time when he first saw the video for "Smells Like Nirvana".
	+ Cobain is by no means the only guy who's expressed this particular sentiment (either example).
* Weird Al's even Covered Up with a parody song. Chamillionaire, whose song "Ridin'" was the basis for "White & Nerdy", reported that he received praise from people overseas, saying "people were telling me they had heard my version of Weird Al's song".
* Al wrote the lyrics to "The Saga Begins" with 99% accuracy... *without having seen The Phantom Menace*. He got all of his information from fan sites and went to see a pre-screening only to check his work.
	+ It's said that, when Weird Al went to watch the pre-screening, he actually *cheered* when Anakin told Shmi that he was going to be a Jedi.
	+ According to one report, he sent the song to George Lucas before the album released, and was told later, "You should have seen the look on his [George's] face."
	+ And Don McLean admitted that since his kids also played the song so often, when Don performs "American Pie" in concert, at times he accidentally sings *Al's* lyrics.
* ALBUQUERQUE. (Superfly, "I. HATE. SAUERKRAUT.", the Hermaphrodite, and the point where he loses track of the story all count.)
* The breathless list of items in "Hardware Store".
$uicideboy$

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> *"Ruby was a motherfucking reject*
> *Then I cut my wrists and now I motherfucking bleed checks"*
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**$uicideboy$** are a rap duo from New Orleans, formed in 2014 by cousins Scrim and Ruby da Cherry. They are known for their dark music and nihilistic lyrics, and have a sizable discography. They have collaborated with underground rappers like Pouya, Ghostemane and Germ.

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**Albums**

* *I Want to Die in New Orleans* (2018)

**Mixtapes**

* *Gray/Grey* (2015)
* *7th or St. Tammany* (2015)
* *YUNGDEATHLILLIFE* (2015)
* *High Tide in the Snake's Nest* (2015)
* *My Liver Will Handle What My Heart Can't* (2015)
* *Now the Moon's Rising* (2015)
* *Dark Side of the Clouds* (2016)
* *Eternal Grey* (2016)

**EPs**

* *KILL YOUR$ELF* (Parts I-X, 2014-2015)
* *Black $uicide* (2015, with Black Smurf)
* *Black $uicide Side B: $uicide Hustle* (2015, with Black Smurf)
* *G.R.E.Y.G.O.D.S* (2015, with RVMIRXZ)
* *Grey Sheep* (2015)
* *I No Longer Fear the Razor Guarding My Heel* (Three parts, 2015-2016)
* *Black $uicide Side C: The Seventh Seal* (2015, with Black Smurf)
* *$outh $ide $uicide* (2015, with Pouya)
* *G.R.E.Y.G.O.D.S.I.I.* (2016, with RVMIRXZ)
* *DIRTYNASTY$UICIDE* (2016, with Germ)
* *Grey Sheep II* (2016)
* *Radical $uicide* (2016, with Getter)
* *G.R.E.Y.G.O.D.S.I.I.I.* (2017, with RVMIRXZ)
* *DIRTIERNASTIER$UICIDE* (2017, with Germ)
* *KILL YOUR$ELF* (Parts XI-XX, 2017)
* *Live Fast, Die Whenever* (2019, with Travis Barker)

Tropes used in *$uicideboy$* include:
* Driven to Suicide: In-Universe. In "$outh $ide $uicide", Yung Plague, aka Ruby, ends his verse by shooting himself in the head.
* Celebrity Song: "Vincent Van Gogh Ain't Got Shit on Me", "Joan of Arc" (with Night Lovell) and "Jon Voight (Live Fast, Die Young)".
* Creator Breakdown: The title of "I HUNG MYSELF FOR A PERSONA" parodies the trope.
* I Have Many Names: Both Scrim and Ruby da Cherry have many nicknames.
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* Pun-Based Title: "DIEMONDS".
* Sampling: "AUDUBON" samples a *Gangland* episode on a New Orleans crime scene.
* Suicide Pact: In their interview with No Jumper, the duo said that if their attempt at getting successful with music didn't work, they would have killed themselves.
(500) Days of Summer/Trivia

* Hey, It's That Guy!:
	+ What dream level is Arthur in during this movie?
		- Arthor who? That's Brendan Frye there, dealing with his issues.
	+ Reid is one of Tom's two best friends.
	+ And the other is Vince.
	+ That's if you can get over Tommy as a romantic lead, even a quirky, indie one.
		- Who was also the kid who sees angels in the 1994 remake of Angels in the Outfield.
	+ COOOBRAAA!!!!!
	+ Dr Peace / Victor "Sully" Sullivan is the narrator.
	+ Hit-Girl is the protagonist's little sis. Hit-Girl, this is a romantic film. Please don't kill us all!
		- Younger viewers may know her as Angie. Well, she's still a Deadpan Snarker...
	+ Lyla Garrity is the girl Tom meets at the end of the movie.
	+ Agent Coulson is Tom's boss.
* Write Who You Know: The story is inspired by a real romance co-writer Scott Neustadter had. When he showed the script to the woman who inspired the character of Summer, she said she identified more with Tom.
101 Dalmatians/Awesome

### (1961) Disney Adaptation

* You do NOT want to get caught trying to hurt Pongo and Perdita's pups, trust me.
* Roger having the guts to stand up to Cruella and decline her offer for the puppies.
* The Twilight Bark sequence, and not just because we get to see cameos of all our favorite dog characters from *Lady and the Tramp*.

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"Just Joking" Justification/Quotes

> *"Like a madman shooting firebrands or deadly arrows is a man who deceives his neighbour and says, 'I was only joking!'"*
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> *"Cruelty is shameful--unless the cruel man can represent it as a practical joke. A thousand bawdy, or even blasphemous, jokes do not help towards a man’s damnation so much as his discovery that almost anything he wants to do can be done, not only without the disapproval but with the admiration of his fellows, if only it can get itself treated as a joke."*
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08.04 AM Daydream

*08.04 AM Daydream*, is a one-shot sexually explicit Girls Love doujinshi written by Sudoo Kaoru, whom dedicated yuri fans may remember from the Too Good to Last manga *Otome Kikan Gretel*. It tells the story of two friends, Eri and Shino. Eri has been late for school several days in a row, and Shino is about to find out why...

Tropes used in *08.04 AM Daydream* include:
* Cast Full of Gay
* The Chikan: On a female-only train. Not that the "victims" aren't enjoying it...
* Girls Love
* Double Standard Rape (Female on Female): Most of the patrons of the girls-only train seem to believe that molesting people is a way to show their love for them.
* Schoolgirl Lesbians: Eri and Shino
* The Stoic: Eri, who doesn't seem to mind being fondled by other girls
.hack//Sign/Heartwarming

* The ending has Tsukasa finally meet up with her beloved Subaru, the crippled girl who helped her through her imprisonment in the game. It's especially heartwarming since Tsukasa thought she was a guy herself for most of the series — but it doesn't matter to either of them.
	+ *Anything* involving Tsukasa and Subaru is heartwearming, period.
		- Indeed. Another moment that stands out is when Subaru has just disbanded the Crimson Knights. She's kinda down and wandering through an area where she first formed the guild. A girl with a similar character design comes up and starts talking to her, then tries to Player Kill her. A beaten and tired Subaru wanders down into the cave where Tsukasa is sitting. Tsukasa initially panics, but she stops him, and they embrace. It's a very sweet scene.
* Anytime the song "Grandpa's Violin" plays in the background, it's going to be a heartwarming moment.
* The episode focusing on B.T.'s personal life. She seems to be bitter and lonely in real life, all the people in the game either dislike her for her cold and snarky nature, or merely want to use her as a way to get information. She realizes she doesn't have *any* friends. Then Tsukasa shows up and saves her from two Player Killers she was trying to be nice to, and she starts bonding with him.
* **Unison**. All the main protagonists, including the ones from the games set after the events of *.hack//SIGN*, get together and have a strictly feel-good party, dancing the night away to the series' theme song.
* Macha showing Tsukasa the Aromatic Grass during her Heroic Sacrifice. Doubles as a Tear Jerker.

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"Well Done, Son" Guy/Playing With

**Basic Trope**: A character who desperately wants the approval of another - most often his father.

* **Straight**: Bob tries his hardest to gain the approval of Al, his incredibly distant father.
* **Exaggerated**: Bob does everything in his power to gain Al's approval, when he barely registers on Al's radar.
* **Justified**: Bob wants Al to love him.
	+ Bob's mom Dahlia died when he was very young, so to him Al is the only parent he has, even if Al is a Jerkass.
* **Inverted**: Al tries his hardest to gain the approval of Bob, his incredibly distant son
	+ Alternatively, Bob, a total Jerkass teenager, tries his hardest to piss off his formerly-proud dad Al.
	+ Doubly alternatively, Bob receives respect and praise from Al, who is a horrible man Bob despises, making the praise little more than a cruel mockery to him.
	+ Al is trying to force Bob to do things his way, but Bob won't follow along.
	+ Bob is Calling the Old Man Out.
* **Subverted**: Al tells Bob that he didn't need to do anything to gain his approval - which confuses Bob, as he started doing things to improve his life for his own sake.
* **Double Subverted**: However, as Bob really analyzed his behavior, he realized that subconsciously, he *did* do those things because that's what Al wanted.
* **Parodied**: The workaholic or working-class son Bob tries to win the approval of his high-culture or art-focused father Al. (A good example is a Monty Python sketch called Working-Class Playwright.)
* **Deconstructed**: Al dies without ostensibly letting Bob know that he loved him. This tears Bob up inside and causes him to lash out at everyone and everything.
	+ Alternatively, Al lets Bob know that he really *doesn't* care about him, which warps Bob psychologically.
	+ Alternatively: After had for so long tried to gain Al's approval, Bob becomes more bitter and bitter about his father. When the day comes that Al finally express his approval, it's too late for Bob and instead of satisfaction Bob feels bitterness and even spite for the approval.
* **Reconstructed**: Bob eventually comes to terms with his relationship with Al - he decides that raising him was a pretty good way to show love, even if he didn't say it all the time.
	+ The Jerkass Al got his comeuppance from someone outside the family, and he finally see that when everyone left him, Bob is the only one who still revere him. Al Took a Level In Kindness.
* **Zig Zagged**: ???
* **Averted**: Either Al is open with his approval of Bob, or Bob feels no need to prove himself.
* **Enforced**: Bob doesn't feel he needs to win Al's approval, but a third-party insists he must.
* **Lampshaded**: "Why is it that no matter what I do he'll never say 'I love you' or 'I'm proud of you'?"
* **Invoked**: Al's father was like that with him, and he credits the emotional distance for allowing him to succeed. So, he does the same thing with Bob.
* **Exploited**: Al is a Jerkass who deliberately maintains a facade of emotional distance so Bob will do things for him.
* **Defied**: "Ah, screw it. I'm proud of you, son."
* **Discussed**: ???
* **Conversed**: ???

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"Stone Cold" Steve Austin/Awesome

* YMMV
* Quotes
* (Funny
* Heartwarming
* **Awesome**)
* Fanfic Recs
* File:Magnifier.pngAnalysis
* File:Help.pngTrivia
* WMG
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* File:Haiku-wide-icon.pngHaiku
* Laconic

* His now legendary "Austin 3:16" promo upon winning the 1996 King of The Ring, forever cementing his place as a future legend.

> **Austin:** Austin 3:16 says "I just whooped your ass!"
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* Austin's feud with Vince McMahon, considered to be *the* greatest rivalry in Professional Wrestling history, was so huge he *literally* became The Hero figure of the WWF, on top of the biggest name in the business.
* The match that started the Attitude Era- Stone Cold Steve Austin vs. Shawn Michaels at Wrestlemania 14. Specifically the ending- A sweet chin music which was countered into a stunner which was countered into another sweet chin music which was countered into another stunner!!
* His Big Damn Heroes moment on the 4/26/99 edition of Raw as he saved Stephanie McMahon from being part of an unholy wedding ceremony at the hands of Undertaker's Ministry of Darkness.
* Bret Hart vs Stone Cold, Wrestlemania 13. The end of the match had Hart putting on the Sharpshooter on Austin, and Austin is bloodied and *desperately crawling to the ring ropes* and passes out in a pool of his own blood. That iconic image would be the start of Austin's Wrestlemania moments of glory.
1000 Ways to Die/Fridge

## Fridge Logic

* "Drunk Die-er": The drunk driver who was still alive and had to not only watch his organs being harvested before they took out his heart, but *feel* every second of it. How do we know he's alive when there are no life signs actually? And how come highly trained doctors are so stupid to not notice he was alive either?
12 oz. Mouse/WMG

## The series is a parable about the difference between wanton pleasure seeking and true freedom

The series leaves a lot of room for interpretation, so a lot of this is my own guesses. The series begins when he meets Shark, but this isn't the first time they have meet. In fact Fitz has been wandering around a for an unknown length of time, generally being an amoral pleasure seeker. How ever, this cycle Fitz begins breaking the masquerade. Slowly, Fitz comes to care more about things and in the end stops believing his probably illusionary wife and daughter and is more motivated by caring for his only constant companion, Skillet. This process destroys the control of the increasingly decadent Shark and Rectangular Business Man, who represent the Military and Industrial complexes respectively, which represents their inability to control the Older and Wiser Fitz.

## The series is a later season of Big O

Every reset of Paradigm City degrades it a little, making it less realistic. Over dozens of resets, tomatoes became corndogs, Big O became Corndroid, and humans became whatever the heck the Twelve Ounce Mouse characters are. It all ends in another reset, but with hints that this time Roger/Fitz has learned how to break the cycle or at least alter it.

## Amalockh's Breakdance of Death nullified Shark's and Liquor's bulletproofing.

The order of events gets muddy due to the non-linear episode order, but both Shark and Liquor were demonstrably bulletproof before the Breakdance. Afterwards, Shark was killed by a barrage of bullets and Liquor was afraid of Robogirl's guns ("I'm boned.").
1000 tearz or deth

> *Beta's Note: Hello again. Turns out that even after the last ordeal, she still wants to write this crap. I apologize ahead of time. On the bright side she seems to have gotten over the need to write 'Geddit' after every time she wrote 'sad' or something equally stupid.*
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> The stories beta reader, who's also the authors sister

1000TearzOrDeth is a Harry Potter Fanfic about an emo girl at hogwarts with an Overly Long Name, written by a rude author who loves to insult prepz. Yes, it's a clone of the most infamous Fanfic ever. Somehow, the spelling and grammar manages to be even worse than that of its spiritual predecessor, although the snarky comments of the beta reader and her grammar improved version of the text are worth reading.

Tropes used in *1000 tearz or deth* include:

* Costume Porn
* Deadpan Snarker - The beta reader, who's also the authors sister, until she just gave up and stopped even reading the story.
* Hurricane of Puns - Obligatory for a My Immortal clone. Yes, they are pointed out.
* Jerk Jock - The fic introduces "joks" to the now standard preps vs. goths dynamic.
* Overly Long Name - Atera Darkness Amy Nny Gerard Klesa Quella Elddir, although everyone calls her Amy.
* Stealth Parody - It's quite possible that the author wrote both the terrible story *and* the snarky comments of her *sister* to make fun of My Immortal.
* Troll Fic - Likely, because it resembles My Immortal in so many ways.
* The Glorious War of Sisterly Rivalry - The author and her sister.
.hack R1 Games/YMMV

* Ensemble Darkhorse: Mistral was extremely popular, so much so that after she quits in *Outbreak*, she shows up again near the end of *Quarantine* for the final battle. Skeith, too, is far more popular than any of the other Phases.
	+ In Mistral's case, part of it was her character, and part of it was that she was one of the previous few magic specialists in the game, with one of the other two being a bit of The Scrappy and the other not joining up until around the end of *Mutation*.
* Most Annoying Sound: "\*boing\* Golden Egg! \*boing\* \*squeak\*" or any of the other grunty foods.
* That One Boss: Skeith is ridiculously tough, in part due to being the player's first experience fighting a Phase.
	+ And then after you beat him, you inadvertantly create Cubia. Oops.
	+ Macha has an ability that causes everyone in your party to be confused at the same time. Enjoy helplessly watching your party attack each other.
"Not Wearing Pants" Dream/Quotes

> **Tycho:** (*naked, smiling and waving*) This is totally weird. Have you ever had one of those dreams where you're naked in some public place? And everybody's staring at you, right, and you're just kind of smiling and waving?
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> **Tycho:** You could've told me that before we left the house.
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> **Gunhazard:** Put your pants back on, Blue Lazer!
> **Blue Lazer:** How could you possibly refer to these as pants!?
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100 Bullets/Funny

* Lono, Loop, Victor and Jack are riding in a car.

> **Loop:** Ain't never been to Mexico...
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> **Victor:** If you're American.
> **Jack:** Yeah, it must taste like ass to be Mexican.
> **Loop:** Mexicans *are* Americans.
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* Lono's idea of a knock-knock joke

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> **Lono**: Norma.
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"The Reason You Suck" Speech/Playing With

**Basic Trope:** A character gives another character a speech in which they delineates all of their flaws.

* **Straight:** Bob gives Alice a speech on why she is a failure.
* **Exaggerated:** Bob gives Alice a very, very long, detailed speech that carries on for hours and hours.
* **Justified:** Bob frequently speaks his mind bluntly and he just saw Alice doing something stupid.
* **Inverted:** Alice gives Bob a speech praising all of his virtues.
* **Subverted:** I Have Just One Thing to Say
* **Double Subverted:** Bob's speech starts off listing Alice's flaws, but then he starts praising her...before going right back to conclude that she's still a horrible person.
* **Parodied:** Bob gives a passive-agressive speech that involves lots of egregious things and Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking.
* **Deconstructed:** The speech causes Alice to snap and suffer an Heroic BSOD.
	+ Bob gives Alice a speech about her flaws which then angers Alice who then gives Bob a speech on his own similar flaws, telling him that he's no better and thus has no right or position to be so judgmental of her.
* **Reconstructed:** ...But, although shaken, she takes Bob's criticisms to heart and becomes a better person.
* **Averted**: Bob and Alice have an ordinary, non-judgmental conversation.
* **Lampshaded**: ???
* **Defied**: Shut UP, Hannibal
* **Enforced:** "The Moral Dissonance is getting out of hand. Find some way to chew Alice out for all the bad stuff she's done."
* **Discussed:** "Ow. Alice must feel bad about all that."
* **Conversed:** ???

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(The Customer is) Not Always Right/Heartwarming

## From *Not Always Right*

* A few of these as well.
* Also: Sometimes, the customers are the better people.
* This, too.
* "Are you thankful for me?"
* The cashier story qualifies as well.
* And this one.
* That was sweet of him.
* Anytime the customer or whoever realizes and apologizes for being stupid/psychotic/irrational. This shows that not *all* customers intentionally think they're better than the storekeeper/whatever.
* This, in an odd sort of way.
* Everyone needs hugs.
* "Why don't you take a break? We don't mind waiting."
	+ don't mind me I just have something in my eye
* "Don't worry about it, Jesus and my mama still love me!"
* One big hearted postal employee.
* It might have been a joke, but this customer definitely qualifies.
* "Happy birthday!"
* It's customers like this woman who make working in retail a little more tolerable.
* Not heartwarming in the usual sense, but it's hard to read this without going "D'awwww."
* This inversion of the Peking Duck Christmas. A group of Chinese people become regular customers of a kosher deli to return the favor of Jews often eating Chinese takeout on Christmas.

## From *Not Always Romantic*

* Here's two to start.
* Sometimes, one moment fixes everything.
* "It would be so nice to date a girl who's not obsessed with her appearance. May I?"
	+ Bonus points to the boy for putting the girl's bully in her place.
* This guy couldn't afford a ring. His fiance doesn't seem to mind.
	+ That's adorable. I seriously hope they stay together.
* Sometimes, it's good to be wrong.
* He thought she'd say no. She said yes to so much more.

## From *Not Always Related*

* These two boys really want to be uncles. Awwwww!!
* This one, in a strange way.

## From *Not Always Working*

* This story, in a weird sorta way.

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(500) Days of Summer/YMMV

* Award Snub: No Best Original Screenplay nomination?
* Better on DVD: The brilliant use of Anachronic Order can be more easily appreciated if you can rewind and rewatch scenes and transitions.
* Non Sequitur Scene: The spontaneous dance sequence (the morning after Tom and Summer have sex for the first time), which is simultaneously a glorious movie musical dance scene and a hilarious parody of movie musical dance scenes.
* Bittersweet Ending: Tom and Summer don't get back together, but he's on the path to achieving his dreams, she's in a happy relationship, and he might have a good relationship starting.
	+ Or, Downer Ending: Some viewers have been saddened, or even angered, by the reveal of Autumn. "HE LEARNED *NOTHING*! He's just going to do it all over again!"
	+ Or, a Here We Go Again, but for Autumn, who'll have a 500 day relationship with Tom, who is too emotionally wrecked from what happened with Summer, and it'll cause their relationship to collapse eventually.
* Dull Surprise: A common criticism of Zooey Deschanel.
* Fan Dumb: Zooey Deschanel was quite taken aback by the volume and vitriol of the hate mail she received in response to "her" alleged mistreatment of Tom.
* Genius Bonus: See Viewers Are Geniuses on the main page.
* Tear Jerker: The "Expectations vs Reality" Party scene is a real kicker though, esp. for anyone who has had a similar experience.
	+ As is the last scene at Tom's spot in the park.
	+ This troper was pretty torn up when the Book Ends conversation from Day 488 was revealed to be an echo of an earlier conversation.
* The Woobie: Tom, the movie being told from his perspective 'n all.
28 Days/WMG

## Gwen's group was in on her therapy.

Think about it - they were there when she got there, they were still there when she left. They were there to help her face herself. Daniel and Andrea's issues were part of the act - Daniel leaving and coming back to show how common it is to relapse, and Andrea's death was faked to drive that point home (It's only *Daniel* who checks Andrea over!). Eddie Boone is only there to show Gwen that her relationship with Jasper is trouble, and after she gets out she runs into Gearhardt, who's just checking on how she's handling things post-rehab.

## The limo driver got fired.

Leaving the limo unattended *with the keys in it*. It was obviously some time until the bride and groom were supposed to leave - the cake hadn't even been cut yet.

## This movie is in the same universe as *28 Days Later*.

The stories don't cross, but the rage virus is released the same day this movie ends.

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.flow/Shout Out

Shout outs for *.flow* include:

* In particular, there are at least two that refer back to *Yume Nikki*. The arm effect makes Sabitsuki look like Monoko's five-armed form. An image similar to Uboa also appears on the wall of a maze-like area that is also a dead end. More obscurely, the tumbling doll effect is functionally similar to the severed head effect in *Yume Nikki*, and is in an endlessly looping area full of Kaibutsu.
* Another area appears to be a shout out to Moonside.
* Using the Witch effect gives Sabitsuki a large red bow and blueish dress.
* Madotsuki appears in the Famicom world with the Witch Effect equipped, in the same room where you get the Broom effect
* Some of Smile's design calls to mind of Doruga and the Cross Eyes from Dorohedoro
101 Dalmatians/Heartwarming

> **Pongo**: Perdita, darling, are you all right?
> **Perdita**: Oh, of course, dear. After all, dogs were having puppies long before our time.
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* Pongo' idea to use the twilight bark as a Gondor Calls for Aid.

> **Perdita**: The twilight bark? But dear, that's only a gossip chain.
> **Pongo**: Darling, it's the very fastest way to send news. And if our puppies are anywhere in the city, the London dogs will know. Now we'll send the word tonight when our pets take us for a walk in the park.
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* It's hard to tell whose adoption of the other 86 puppies was more heartwarming, the dogs or the humans.

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(The Customer is) Not Always Right/Nightmare Fuel

* The way some customers act like makes you hope you never meet them. They are that frightening.
	+ The very worst ones are the customers that put themselves and other people around them in harms way. Or the ones that threaten to or actually do inflict violence on the workers.
	+ Or people who are just crazy.
* What do you think eventually happened to this guy?
* Parents like these two examples make you fear for the kids' sake, as they quickly turn into Fridge Horror.
* Just knowing that there are people like this guy can really make you not want to go to a golf course, of all places.
* It's pretty scary how greed can and *will* completely consume people. Nothing is sacred, everything is fair game.
* What's also scary, though maybe on a lesser scale, is how stupid some customers are. Not the ones who just make a minor obvious mistake. The ones who do and say things so dumb, you can't imagine how in the world they've survived for so long. Such as this customer, for example. What makes it especially frightening is the fact that she has three children.
* This guy here. Let's hope he was just saying that.
* This woman gives off some...uncomfortable implications considering that she not only believes that there are helicopters in her veins that make things stop working but the fact that *things actually stop working when she touches them.*

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100 Deeds for Eddie McDowd/Trivia

* Hey, It's That Guy!: Yes, Brenda Song--now typecast for playing Asian Airheads on the Disney Channel--got her start on a Nickelodeon show playing the brainy best friend.
	+ Apparently Brenda Song is very brainy in real life, so maybe it was her stint on *Suite Life* that was against type.
	+ The Drifter is Two-Face and Devil Hulk.
	+ Do you want to know who played Human Eddie since his face is not shown? It's Terra!
* Hey, It's That Voice!: Seth Green voiced Eddie as a dog in season 1.

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