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"Weird Al" Yankovic/Fridge

* YMMV
* Quotes
* (Funny
* Heartwarming
* Awesome)
* Fanfic Recs
* Analysis
* Trivia
* WMG
* Image Links
* Haiku
* Laconic

## Fridge Brilliance

* Fridge Brilliance: Weird Al generally doesn't take cheap shots, so it's sort of unfitting when he makes not one, but two borderline homophobic jokes in the same song, "Couch Potato". Recall the original artist of that tune.
	+ "Perform This Way" is a Lady Gaga parody, and at one point, Al is seen wearing a peacock costume. Peacocks are known to flaunt their weird colorful tail feathers in order to gain attention and show off. Lady Gaga does exactly that, except she doesn't have feathers.
* Al became a vegan in 1992. Every song about food he's recorded since 1992 is probably about one he doesn't even eat.
	+ "Wanna B Ur Lovr" from the *Poodle Hat* album is an Intercourse with You song consisting entirely of cheesy, off-the-wall pickup lines that would never work on anyone in real life... EXCEPT other fans who had heard the song. Anyone who understood the context would love it, thus subverting its original intent as a parody of such songs, making it the perfect Intercourse with You song for Weird Al fans.

## Fridge Horror

* "Weird Al" Yankovic's version of *Peter and the Wolf* invokes this with regard to the Duck being swallowed whole by the Wolf, and therefore being alive to have its Leitmotif played at the end, pointing out that this meant that the Duck died a slow, painful death as the Wolf's digestive juices broke him down. Of course, anyone could have had that reaction to the end of the original as well.
101 Dalmatians: The Series/Trivia

* Hey, It's That Voice!: For the animated series, it looked like the casting directors really loved the *Recess* cast. Let's see now...
	+ Lucky is Spinelli (The Other Darrin 50% of the time)
	+ Cadpig and Rolly are Butch and various kindergarteners.
	+ Tripod is King Bob
	+ Patch is Gelman
	+ Cruella is Miss Finster
	+ Ivy (Cruella's niece) is Ashley Q. (While Anita's niece, Amber, is Ashley B.)
	+ Whizzer is the library kid
	+ Mooch is Mundy
10.5

***10.5*** is a Made for TV Movie Miniseries for NBC Disaster Movie about a series of increasingly damaging geological events first on the West Coast of the United States and then into the Midwest.

The two-part miniseries opens up when a large quake strikes the Seattle area and brings down the Space Needle. Later a bigger quake devours a train and catches some suspicions from our resident Ignored Expert scientist Kim Delaney. She suspects the quakes are only going to get bigger and will eventually sink the entirety of the West Coast. She plans to counter said problem by detonating nukes at precise locations to stop the fault.

It spawned a second part titled *10.5:Apocalypse* which took the audacity of the first movie and took it Up to Eleven.

Now say the mantra again and again until you finally regain your faith in humanity.

Tropes used in *10.5* include:
* Artistic License Geology: For one thing, it is literally impossible for there to be an earthquake with a magnitude of 10.5 on the Richter Scale, because there aren't any faults big enough.
* Deus Ex Nukina: In addition to their traditional roles as weapons of mass destruction, nuclear explosions can also apparently stop earthquakes. Who knew?
* Disaster Movie: In more than one way.
* Doomed Contrarian: As seen in the sunken casino scene in Apocalypse.
* Earthquakes Cause Fissures
* Nuke'Em: The government sets off a chain of nukes in an attempt to quell the quake, including one in what's alleged to be "Gilroy, California". No more Garlic Festival...
* One-Dimensional Thinking: A bicyclist is victim to this trope in the Seattle event.
* Up to Eleven: The second part does this to the premise of the first.
"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.

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!
**Krillin**: Wait, wha- [end tune]

## 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!

* 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?
+Anima/Ho Yay

* Husky is an unnaturally gorgeous boy. Because he is so utterly pretty and effemminate ](he's also his Kingly father's favorite), his 8,000 half-brothers and their moms made fun of him on a daily basis. As such, he had no friends until he met Cooro. Also, he hates girls with a burning, fiery passion. And he lets it be known. A lot.
	+ When Nana joined the group, Husky was very upset and said it was 'all her fault he couldn't keep the promise [he] made with [Cooro]." (the promise being to travel with him if Cooro untied him from a large pole.) Obviously, he wants Cooro to get rid of Nana so he can stay with him. Cooro then tells him to just forget the promise and leaves, and Husky gets very depressed.
	+ Also, he cross-dresses for cash.
	+ He has a staff called the 'Cooro Punishing Stick'. Enough said.
	+ Nevermind that they're kids. Husky being constantly mistaken for a hot girl generally leads to lots of interesting situations, but particularly in the first chapter, Cooro either deliberately hits on Husky, or is very oblivious that That Came Out Wrong. Even though *he* knows Husky's a boy. There's also an instance of Senri licking Cooro's finger and Rose getting the wrong idea IIRC.
	+ Oh please. In that first example, Cooro was *obviously* just being dramatic.
10 Things I Hate About You/Trivia

* Hey, It's That Guy!: CJ Cregg is Ms. Perky! Alex Mack is Bianca! Jim Hawkins is Cameron! Charlie Eppes is Michael!
	+ Hey, it's Tommy and Alissa from *3rd Rock*! And they're *still* dating even though their names are different!
		- COOOOOBRAAAAA!!!!!
		- Wait a second, that's *Arthur*?
	+ Bianca's BFF is head of the Clovers cheer squad.
	+ From the series: Tess and Moze are sisters and Monica Dawson is the head cheerleader.
* Retroactive Recognition:
	+ Kat is Nicky Parsons.
	+ Patrick is The Joker!
* Throw It In: Stiles's tears during the poetry reading scene were apparently unscripted, as was the brief shot of Ledger playing with the Bunsen burner near the opening of the film.
1408/Fridge

## Fridge Horror

* So how were the staff able to clean the room, and the police document all the suicides? Surely all that must take more than one hour.
	+ Olin does explain that he strictly supervises the cleanings with the door open and makes sure that nobody's in there for too long. Presumably he followed a similar procedure for the police.
* Mike hears that nobody has been able to remain in the room even an hour, with times to suicide ranging from a few seconds to a few minutes. However, after we learn how the room works, one realizes that those brief times were only in the beginning of the latest loop. We don't know how many loops they'd endured up till then.
	+ With that in mind, now think about the "natural deaths" that also occured in that room...
* Given the room's evil and macabre sense of humor, how likely is it that the "express checkout" is Schmuck Bait, and suicide would lead to being trapped like the ghosts we see in the room?
* What if the ending is simply Mike trapped in yet another loop?
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.

Back to *100 Deeds for Eddie McDowd*
Neil Thwaite

Neil is a character from Retold.

## Personality

Strengths: confident,

Weaknesses:

Psych: hopeful patriot, afraid of snakes,

Mannerisms: hand fidgets when stressed, spaces out when worried, often uses “at some point”, rarely starts with “yes” or “so”,

Interests: card games,

Likes: Secret societies, comics, politics, needlepoint,

Dislikes:

Faves: horses,

## Skills

Trapper Ranger Class
12 Monkeys/Trivia

* Doing It for the Art: Bruce Willis wasn't paid for the movie. His salary would have nearly doubled the film's budget, and he wanted to work with Gilliam badly enough that he opted for a cut of the box office receipts instead.
* Hey, It's That Guy!: The seemingly-unimportant lab worker whose circuitous plane trip will unleash the apocalyptic virus: doesn't he look like the Jerkass cop who persistently oppresses Gregory House, MD? But... it *couldn't* be him; neither of those characters are like the infinitely kind and patient hospital resident on that oddball medical series (yeah, a long time ago), which wound up being remembered for the increasingly-complex nutjob artifices inspired by its All Just a Dream finale.
	+ Done in universe by Dr. Railly, when she sees Cole in a photograph from World War I, which was the first step to convincing her that Cole may be from the future.
* Hey, It's That Voice!: Arthur Dent is a future scientist! I mean present. Which is still the future in real life.
* Playing Against Type: Along with *Se7en*, one of the movies that helped Brad Pitt break out of pure pretty-boy type-casting. Also, Bruce Willis's character is notably more frail than what he usually plays. This was the first movie where one of Bruce Willis' characters dies.
100 Strokes of the Brush Before Bed/YMMV

* Les Yay: Melissa has a lesbian encounter halfway through the book. It is not all it's cracked up to be and she does not end up enjoying it or reciprocating.
* Unfortunate Implications:
	+ Gay men have better sex than straight men. Melissa P sees this when she goes to watch two men have sex hoping to see men treat each other as badly as they treat her.
	+ Melissa often allows her relationships to be very anti-feminist and even abusive while resenting them for being that way. This is not seen as a sad an interesting tale about a teenager's life, but often is seen as pure literotica.
13 Ghosts/Funny

## 2001 Remake

* This little nugget:

**Dennis:** Whoa whoa whoa whoa whoa whoa whoa whoa! Where are you going!?
**Arthur:** We're going downstairs to get Bobby so we can get out of here.
**Dennis:** Did I say there was a *petting zoo* downstairs!? NO! There are *ghosts* downstairs!
**Maggie:** This basement?
**Dennis:** *YES* this basement! If it was the basement next door I wouldn't give a shit!

* And this:

**Dennis:** *[after having spent a considerable amount of time trying to explain the situation to a bemused Arthur]* Ghosts, Arthur. I used to - I used to hunt ghosts with your uncle Cyrus.
**Arthur:** *[beat]* ...Goats?
**Dennis:** *[utterly exasperated]* GHOSTS! Ghosts, goddammit!
.hack/Funny

* In *.hack//SIGN* Tsukasa is worried whether he's really a person or just a program in The World. Subaru takes his hand and places it on her chest, and tells him that if he can feel her heart beating, than the sensations he's feeling is real and that they can interact has meaning. She continues with this, but Tsukasa has stopped worrying about his existance or her philosophy and is making this *face* at his hand that was touching a pretty girl's chest a few seconds ago.
	+ And if you consider that in the real world Tsukasa turns out to be a girl... well, that either makes it even funnier or... um... not.
* End of *.hack//SIGN*. "This shindig looks like the bomb-diggity."
	+ That, and the Monkey Dance.
2012/Nightmare Fuel

* Being one of the people left behind as California, Las Vegas, Washington, D.C., etc all succumb. The LA footage, particularly, reminded us of 9/11 (collapsing office buildings with people inside.)
	+ LA subway train falling into one of the chasms: imagine being on that train.
	+ Being on the streets of LA while the earthquake is going on. A giant crack appears along the ground and the dirt beneath your feet starts tilting, causing cars to come hurtling towards you at apparently terminal velocity. In the trailers that show that clip, one of the people knocked into the chasm by a falling car SCREAMS.
* Basically being anywhere on the Earth at any point in time. If the earthquakes and volcanoes don't get you, you can bet the tsunamis will.
* If you're still left alive after the caldera goes off (which will pretty much *choke* the living shit out of anyone in America, immediately kill any person in the Yellowstone area, and so on), you get front-row seats of a tidal wave going to drown you!
* Falling to your death. Too many times to count.
* In the scene where the plane in Las Vegas takes off, the guy on the ATC lets out a chilling, painful scream as he is fried alive inside the control tower when the ash cloud hits it.
* Imagine making a narrow escape from the disasters that hit your area, arriving at the rendezvous point for your rescue aircraft just in the nick of time with your family, and being flown to the Himalayas.....only to make the horrifying discovery that your assigned Ark was one of the ones that was damaged. I mean, yeah they eventually did manage to squeeze everyone onto the remaining Arks, but still can you imagine the absolute terror of being in that situation?
07-Ghost/Trivia

* Hey, It's That Voice!
	+ Why, hello Teito! Aren't you also Wolfram, Yoite, Robert Haydn, Tsukasa...
	+ And Mikage! You sound a bit like Italy! And Fay!
	+ Hey Ayanami! Are you sure you have no relation with Captain Aizen? Or Muraki?
	+ Don't forget that Labrador really is Yamada Hanataro!!
	+ Why isn't Frau mentioned yet? There you go, Grimmjow!
1941/Trivia

* Hey, It's That Guy! / Hilarious in Hindsight *1941* features both Blues Brothers and John Candy plus John Landis in a minor role -- one year before *The Blues Brothers*. There is even at least one promotional picture of Dan Aykroyd and John Belushi on that military motorcycle.
* Old Shame: Spielberg readily acknowledges he screwed up big time. It was such a massive failure that in trailers for *Raiders of the Lost Ark*, it was the only Spielberg movie not mentioned.
* What Could Have Been
	+ The original Zemeckis-Gale script was a Black Comedy entitled *The Night the Japs Attacked*.
	+ A scene of Slim Pickens being threatened with what looks like a torture device but turns out to be a coat hanger was cut, but Spielberg liked the joke so much he swore that he'd try to put it in every one of his future movies until it stayed. He got his wish in his very next film, but just imagine if he hadn't and had held his promise during some of his later work...
	+ Supposedly, at one point, Spielberg debated making the movie as a musical.
	+ Spielberg initially approached John Wayne to play Stilwell, but he refused in disgust at the film's "anti-American" tone.
	+ The ferris wheel subplot started as a vehicle for Jackie Gleason and Art Carney to essentially reprise their roles from *The Honeymooners*, to the point that the original script says the characters resemble a bus driver and a sewer worker. Gleason torpedoed the plan by mysteriously refusing to work with Carney again.
"Shut Up" Kiss/Quotes

**Robin**: Maybe a hero isn't all that I am. Maybe I could be... Maybe we could be...
**Starfire**: Robin?
**Robin**: Starfire?

**Starfire**: Stop talking.—*Teen Titans: Trouble in Tokyo*

*This love-hate relationship*
You say you can’t handle it
But there’s no way to stop this now

So shut up and kiss me.*—**Orianthi**, "Shut Up And Kiss Me"*

*"Peace! I will stop your mouth." [Kisses her.]* —**Benedick**, *Much Ado About Nothing*

*Damn it, Ramona! This is probably all a dream, so why waste time talking about it? I FORGIVE you already! Let's make out!*—**Scott Pilgrim**

*"You talk too much."*—**Sokka**, *Avatar: The Last Airbender*
"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."*—**Homer Simpson**, *The Simpsons*

*"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."*—**Sky**, *Winx Club*

*"Claus...You're not Porky's robot!...You're our son!"*—**Hinawa**, *Mother 3*

*"You have to wake up, Mao! I'm risking my life to stop you!"*—**Almaz**, *Disgaea 3: Absence of Justice*

*"Your thoughts betray you, Father. I feel the good in you... the conflict."*—**Luke Skywalker**, *Return of the Jedi*
009-1/Tear Jerker

* You can easily count the number of episodes that *don't* end in one with your fingers. An example is like when one of Mylene's opponents, an agent masquerading as a musician, prefers to blow himself up than killing her, which greatly upsets Mylene as she reflects on how happy they could have been.
13 (musical)/Trivia

* Hey, It's That Guy!: Too many to name.
	+ Graham Phillips (Evan) played Ben in Ben 10: Race against time.
	+ Allie Trimm (Patrice) played Kim Mc Affee in the first revival of Bye Bye Birdie.
		- Brynn Williams (Cassie) was in the same revival as Ursula.
	+ Eric Nelsen (Brett) was in the iCarly episode "iDream of Dance".
	+ Delaney Moro played Jane in the Original Broadway cast of Mary Poppins.
	+ Joey La Varco plays young Jack on 30 Rock.
		- Allie Trimm guest starred as Bethany.
	+ Elizabeth Gillies (Lucy) is Jade in the Nickelodeon show Victorious.
		- Along with Ariana Grande (Charlotte) as Cat.
	+ Eamon Foley (Richie) and Brynn Williams (Cassie) have done multiple broadway shows.
	+ Most of the cast was on an episode of The Battery's Down.
	+ Come to think of it, Caitlin Gann (Molly) is the only one who hasn't really done anything outside of 13.
		- She posted Youtube videos before 13 fame.
12 Angry Men/Trivia

* Actor Allusion: Juror #3 mocks #12 by calling him "the boy in the gray flannel suit". Lee J. Cobb, the actor playing #3, was in the 1956 film version of *The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit*, as was Joseph Sweeney, the actor playing Juror #9.
* Hey, It's That Guy!: Juror #1 is the detective from *Psycho*, lots of *Twilight Zone* episodes and the lead in *Tora! Tora! Tora!*.
	+ - Also in *Tora! Tora! Tora!* is Juror #4.
	+ Juror #3 is Lt. Kinderman.
	+ Juror #5 is Oscar Madison (television series) and Quincy.
	+ Juror #6 was Walter Bedell Smith.
* Hey, It's That Voice!: The actor who plays Juror #2, the late John Fiedler, was the voice of Piglet in the Disney versions of *Winnie the Pooh*. We learn in this movie that Fiedler used his natural voice for Piglet.
	+ - Could also qualify as a Hey Its That Guy! as Fiedler later became more well known as the very very nervous Mr. Peterson on the Bob Newhart Show
		- Not to mention he had an important role in one episode in Star Trek: The Original Series.
...And Show It to You/Quotes

**Church**: Poor Jimmy was the last one to go. Tex walked up to him, pulled Jimmy's skull out right of his head and beat him to death with it.
**Tucker**: Wait a second. How do you beat someone to death with their own skull? That doesn't seem physically possible.
**Church**: That's exactly what Jimmy kept screaming.

**Jimmy**: *(In a flashback while Tex is smacking him with a skull)* This doesn't seem physically possible!—Red vs. Blue

*I'm gonna shut you down, I'm teaching you a lesson*

*Rip out your CPU and show it to you still processing*—Love Handel, "Robot Riot"

Dude. That's my heart. *(keels over, dead)*—**Jaffers's friend,** *Suburban Knights*
2001: A Space Odyssey/Quotes

2001 *has next to no dialogue; it has only the loosest narrative arc, no hero and not really a villain either unless you count a malfunctioning computer.*
*It's a film with no universally agreed ending and asks many more questions than it answers, yet is widely acknowledged as one of the greatest achievements in science-fiction film making.*

*And it predicted Siri and Alexa. What else do you want?*—Michael Moran, *2001* set the standard for the next 50 years of hard (and some soft) sci-fi
101 Dalmatians/YMMV

* Adaptation Displacement: The Disney movie.
* Creator's Pet: Spot is mostly disliked because she's a main character and Ensemble Darkhorse Two-Tone isn't (or Patch, thus filling out the four characterized puppies from the original book.)
* Ear Worm: *Cruella de Vil, Cruella de Vil... if she doesn't scare you, no evil thing will...!* Arguably justified in its catchiness in that Roger's a musician.
	+ Awesome Music
	+ Two words: Kanine Krunchies.
	+ The TV series theme song.
* Ensemble Darkhorse: Two-Tone.
	+ In the animated film Sgt. Tibbs was quite popular, possibly for being almost Keet and subverting Cats Are Mean.
	+ Patch, through and through. 95% of all merchandise features him.
* Family-Unfriendly Aesop: You should never give a second chance to anybody. He will most probably become evil again if he's anywhere near the Big Ben, anyway.
* Foe Yay: Cadpig and Mooch had this going on for a while.
* Hell Is That Noise: Mr. Skinners wheezing.
* Love to Hate: Cruella.
* Memetic Mutation: "I'll get even! Just wait! You'll be sorry, you fools! You... YOU IDIOTS!!!" (SLAM!)
	+ Roger and Pongo have had enough of your bullshit.
	+ Sergeant Tibbs would like to know just what the hell is going on here.
	+ "Yard sale? I love yard sales! Actually, I hate yard sales. Of course, the pros of a yard sale are the bargains, but the cons of a yard sale are that the items are used. Ick!"
* Misaimed Fandom: Many fur fans actually like Cruella, especially the animated version, for her huge fox coat. And a lot of the mentions of fur, like sleeping between ermine sheets in the book, often just seem like a sybaritic Pretty in Mink.
* Moral Event Horizon: In-story, Missus claims that biting a human is always this for a dog. Of course, she is perfectly willing to bite Cruella or the Badduns, but she justifies that on the grounds that they aren't really human (and in Cruella's case, at least, she may be right, as the book does take the liberty to imply that her last name might just be meant literally....)
* The Scrappy: *Lt. Pug.* Nobody, we mean *NOBODY* likes this Jerkass.
	+ And Dumpling, Mayor Pig's spoiled daughter.
		- One episode did portray Dumpling in a somewhat positive light and she did save Cadpig. So maybe she could be excused from this. Pug gets not such redemption, though.
	+ Swamp Rat goes in and out of this at times for also being a Jerkass but unlike Pug, Jeff Bennett's voice acting for this character makes him funnier and less grating.
* Sequelitis: *Patch's London Adventure* makes this the third version to have a sequel. But as far as Disney sequels go, it's one of the better ones.
	+ Played straight with the live action *102 Dalmatians*.
* Viewer Gender Confusion: Polly, with his blue collar.
	+ From the TV series, how many here didn't know Spot the Chicken was a female until her gender was actually mentioned?
* The Woobie: This varies, but Rolly and Spot usually qualify for this.

Back to *101 Dalmatians*
100 Deeds for Eddie McDowd/Headscratchers

* Why is Eddie's face not shown when he is human in the first episode?
	+ More suspense to wanting him to be reverted.
* Two things have always bugged me about this series. One, according to the Drifter in that episode where Eddie helps a girl dog he has a crush on complete her deeds, Eddie's parents have *completely forgotten about him*. And this isn't apparently some magical thing, either, because that girl gets to go back to hers when she turns human. Is Eddie Squee's older brother or something?
	+ It could be that the parents forget about the kid while he's a dog, but when he's turned back, they remember again.
* The second is the pound episode, where it is revealed that dog tags can protect you against toxic gases. And conveniently, pounds leave these lying around inside of the chambers that they flood with gas to kill the dogs.

Back to *100 Deeds for Eddie McDowd*
"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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101 Dalmatians/Nightmare Fuel

* Cruella De Vil has some pretty scary moments. Maybe the worst is when she drives right at the camera with this face, but there's also the scene where the dogs are hiding in an old shed and she suddenly drives past *really slowly*, glaring in the window. Turned Up to Eleven when she comes back shortly thereafter, going the other way.
* Cruella ("-De Vil"), Cruella ("-De Vil, if she doesn't scare you, no evil thing will..."). And more.
	+ Plus **THIS FACE.**
	+ Likewise, the part where the dogs are hiding in the coal shed and suddenly Cruella is right there at the window, driving past *really slowly* and glaring in at them. gets even worse when, shortly thereafter, this is repeated with Cruella going the other way.
* A very important example that combines with Fridge Horror. She's ordered her henchmen to kill puppies and in the most painful ways possible to have them skinned into a fur coat which is scary enough; now, consider the following: it's implied they were her *regular employees*, so they do work for her *all the time*, but acquiring fur illegally -- by *stealing and killing puppies* -- IS the only work *she ever gives them*, and we are shown that she already had about *fifty* fur coats made up by the time the police caught her. Oh, God, those poor hundreds of puppies...
	+ Of course, all but Pongo and Perdita's litter were actually bought and paid for. Doesn't excuse the killing of those poor puppies, but it does seem to lighten the blow just a wee bit.
* Just look Pongo and Perdita's faces when they are facing off Jasper and Horace. They don't look so sweet anymore...
* Ivy's regular face is cute and adorable, but when she gets angry or sinister, then her face truly lives up to this trope.

Ivy: "I'm cute as a button, and ready for war!"

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"You're the Best" Montage

The **"You're the Best" Montage** is a sports montage and it shows you, or your team, having lots of small, easy, insignificant victories to a sporting tune. It's popular in an episode of a show dedicated to a tournament of some kind, as it gets to show the team being good and winning many times while hurrying them along a course of weeks or even months to the main event - the finals. It's not used so often in films because there's more time in the film.

They're going to win this match for sure, and they're going to keep winning, probably to the tune of "You're The Best Around" by Joe Esposito (although that song is also popular in a Training Montage).

There is very little training in this type of Montage (if at all) because it's assumed that the training has already been done and all that's left is to be awesome and win.

The final is a lot more important, so the Montage ends right there so that the episode can concentrate on how tough the final match is going to be.

Examples of "You're the Best" Montage include:

## Western Animation

* A parody of a You're The Best Montage in *South Park* shows the South Park's Little League Baseball Team winning matches, and Stan's father winning petty fights with other redneck dads. The irony is that the teams are cheering for each other to throw balls or strike out so that they can *lose*, but to their disappointment they just keep winning, and they play entirely without enthusiasm.

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+EV/YMMV

* Accidental Innuendo: Clancy wants to point out that backdooring cowboys is one thing he won't do, here.
* Lowest Common Denominator: The comic seems to have a very specific target audience: People who play poker. If you don't really play the game that much, you probably won't get any of the jokes. Except for the toilet humor.
* Painful Rhyme: The Princess Amazia theme song.
1632/WMG

## Monsieur Gaston will ascend the French throne.

He's the current French heir and hates Richelieu's guts. Also, we just happen to have a bunch of Huguenot assassins running around. Perhaps they will make an attempt on Richelieu, and get King Louis instead. Richelieu, of course, will promptly get the hell out of Dodge. Defecting to the USE would be too obvious, but he could go elsewhere, possibly joining the Dutch Hapsburgs, or even try to carve out an empire of his own in the New World.

* With regard to this, a line at the end of *1635: The Papal Stakes* indicates Gaston is also very, **very** anti-USE, as in siding with Borja against Pope Urban on the grounds that Urban's toleration toward the USE makes him unfit to be pope. If Monsieur comes to the throne, he may try another war against the USE ... possibly before France has modernized its forces sufficiently to win. Especially since Turenne and his bunch, as Richelieu appointees, are likely to still be on Gaston's fecal roster. He's implied to not be smart enough to forgive and forget simply because Turenne is the best military leader France has.
* And as of *1636: The Cardinal Virtues*, Louis is indeed killed in an attempt on Richelieu, though it wasn't by Huguenots, and Gaston claims the throne despite Queen Anne having given birth to Louis' acknowledged heir. As for Richelieu, there's some question about whether he **was** killed; the phrase "pulling an Elvis" is used, and has to be explained to a bewildered Swedish officer....
"Stop Having Fun!" Guys

*"No, you can't play with it. You won't enjoy it on as many levels as I do."*—**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.
.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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(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.
10 Things I Hate About You/Headscratchers

* Why is the English Teacher Mr. Morgan such a Jerkass to Kat?
	+ He's short-tempered and, in fairness, she's rather pretentious at points.
	+ This troper got the impression that he wasn't very fond of his students in general, and the implication was that Kate had been soapboxing in his class for a while, all while he himself had an ax to grind on the race aspect of their readings (as opposed to Kate always talking about the feminist issues).
	+ Not to mention that Kat, let's be fair, isn't the most ingratiating person herself either.
* How did Bianca and Chastity, who had never rehearsed together, do a fully choreographed duet? I mean, I know they were doing the same song, but they weren't doing the same dance. And why did the school just let them randomly change their routines?
(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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10 Things I Hate About You/Funny

* "The shit hath hiteth the fan...eth."
* "Stop... Turn... Explain."
* "And hell is just a sauna."
* "My insurance does not cover PMS!"
* "Hello, Katarina, made anyone cry today?" "Sadly no, but it's only four-thirty."
* "What is it with this chick? She have beer flavoured nipples?"
* "Someday, you gonna get bitch slapped, and I'm not gonna do a thing to stop it."
* Kat's 'Plan' for distracting the other soccer team.
	+ She distracted him with her "wits".
	+ "Now that I've shown you... 'The Plan'... I'm gonna go... and show 'The Plan' to somebody else" \*cue death by embarrassment\*
* Ms. Perky and her novel.
	+ "Judith!! What's another word for... engorged?"
* Mr. Morgan's casual hostility towards his students.
	+ And him outright laughing at Joey, who he knows got his eye blackened by Bianca at the prom.
* The teacher in detention confiscating a student's weed, then thinking a minute and confiscating another kid's chips.
* "My momma didn't raise no fool."
* (In a tone that can only be done by someone on crack) "We're SCREWED!"
* "What's a Bogey Lowenstein?"
* The outtakes
	+ "Can I get a prophylactic... a prophylactic... ah..."
	+ \*thwap!\* "Shall we go to my office?!"
* "Am I that transparent? I want you. I need you. Oh baby. Oh baby."
* "I'm a crack whore should have made my skeezy boyfriend wear a condom?"
* "Your eyes have a little green in them." \*BWARF!!\*
* "...I have a dick on my face, don't I?"
* "That was Costa Rican, butthead!"
* In an uncharacteristic moment of cartoonishness, when Kat is practicing archery, she turns and shoots the teacher in the ass, who proceeds to flail around in pain for a while.
	+ Comes back as a Brick Joke when he's supervising detention and sits down on his desk - only to quickly jump back up, wincing in pain.
* Bianca being made to wear the fake belly by her Dad.
	+ "Who knocked up your sister?"
* "Are there sheep?"
* "My balls!"
* "Don't say shit like that. People can hear you!"
* *Beat.* "... are you saying I'm not a pretty guy?"
	+ Cue the two characters being accused in this fashion desperately assuring him of how pretty he is.
* Patrick running away from the police as he's singing "Can't Take My Eyes Off Of You" and slapping one on the ass.
(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.
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.
2010: The Year We Make Contact/Tear Jerker

* Dave Bowman's visitation to his ex-wife and his mother.
* HAL thanking Chandra for telling the truth, followed by HAL, just before death, essentially asking Chandra if there is an afterlife, followed by the touching exchange between HAL and Dave:

**HAL-9000:** What is going to happen?
**Dave:** Something wonderful.
**HAL-9000:** I'm afraid.
**Dave:** Don't be. We'll be together.
**HAL-9000:** Where will we be?
**Dave:** Where I am now.

* In the movie, the death of Max Brailovsky. What sells it is Curnow's breakdown:

**Curnow:** "You stupid bastard, get out of there!"
127 Hours/Trivia

* Dueling Movies: With *Soul Surfer*, a film about Bethany Hamilton (another athlete who loses a limb).
* Hey, It's That Guy!:
	+ Yep, you've seen James Franco as Harry.
	+ The ex-girlfriend he remembers is Fleur Delacour.
	+ On his way to his date with a rock, Aron meets Tibby and a US Marshall.
* What Could Have Been:
	+ Aron Ralston was approached by the producers of the *Saw* movies. He was understandably hesitant to work with them.
	+ Even after Danny Boyle took over, the film as it is now wasn't the one they planned to make. Boyle wanted Cillian Murphy to play Aron initially.
12 Monkeys/Headscratchers

* I do understand the Stable Time Loop premise of the movie and all the things related to it, even the "insurance" woman at the end. But I just don't understand the meaning of the "Bob" guy and the prison guard who shows up on the escalator near the end. Were they time travelers too? And, if they were, how's the story of their travels? Or where they only fragments of Cole's imagination?
	+ My brother had this idea that the Bob guy started out as a time traveller, but ended up going back so many times that he became a "part of time" and could speak to Cole in any time or place, his memories were fragmented as a result.
		- Your brother's watched too much *Doctor Who*.
	+ My assumption has always been that the "insurance" scientist and accompanying guard are there to prevent wayward "volunteers" from bucking the system, as Bob apparently has. (And I don't mean the penal system, but the linear-time system.)
* The guy in the next cell. Well, maybe he's in the next cell. Maybe he's in the Central Office. Or maybe he's just in Cole's head. Well, which is it? And if he were just another "volunteer", why would he be fucking with Cole like that? Why for that matter if he's a spy?