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ITT: One-off episode tropes

Anonymous Tue 06 Aug 03:56:01 2019 No.109166758 View Reply Original Report

Quoted By: >>109167148 >>109167361 >>109167888 >>109167945 >>109170220 >>109170806 >>109173967 >>109177440

>Character gets really into a game and it takes over their life until they realize they've lost their friends. They never play the game again and ask his/her friends for forgiveness

Anonymous

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Anonymous Tue 06 Aug 2019 03:59:01 No.109166821 Report

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>Character inadvertently becomes God and leads his people into genocidal destruction

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 06 Aug 2019 04:00:19 No.109166848 Report

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>Character learn a skill they never knew they had
>Skill is never mentioned kitte used again

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 06 Aug 2019 04:16:45 No.109167148 Report

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>>109166758
Was this a gambling metaphor?

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 06 Aug 2019 04:29:33 No.109167361 Report

Quoted By: >>109167389 >>109167638

>>109166758
WE

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 06 Aug 2019 04:31:13 No.109167389 Report

Quoted By: >>109175074

>>109167361
ARE THE CRYSTAL GEMS

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 06 Aug 2019 04:45:08 No.109167638 Report

Quoted By: >>109175074

>>109167361
WUZ

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 06 Aug 2019 05:00:18 No.109167888 Report

Quoted By: >>109167945 >>109170863 >>109170864

>>109166758
>Character becomes smart, empowered or otherwise elevated from being a dunderhead on one or more levels. Eventually ditches whatever intellectual boon they got, purposely dumbing themselves down so they can enjoy being around their old friends again, which is preferable to being smart and competent.

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 06 Aug 2019 05:04:16 No.109167945 Report

Quoted By: >>109170863 >>109170874 >>109174014 >>109174962

>>109166758
>>109167888
similarly
>character somehow becomes rich which immediately makes them a selfish asshole alienated from all their friends
>eventually find out they've somehow lost all their money and everything immediately goes back to normal

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 06 Aug 2019 05:51:47 No.109168674 Report

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>Character gets first girlfriend/boyfriend
>Character is dumped.
>Character "will never get over it" until the end of the episode

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 06 Aug 2019 06:03:26 No.109168887 Report

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>>109166821
there was another Episode where Bender became god again after integrating like a hundred processors into himself but he gave it all up by the end of the episode just out of boredom.

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 06 Aug 2019 06:08:45 No.109168972 Report

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>Annual __________ Race is approaching
>Character and friends build a __________ to compete but fight along the way
>Win/lose by a photo finish
>The real championship is their friendship

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 06 Aug 2019 06:19:02 No.109169110 Report

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>Kid characters think adult(s) are doing weird stuff
>Investigate and find weird stuff
>Turns out everything is normal actually and kids were mistaken
>Kids apologize and episode ends
>Last few seconds we learn adult(s) were really doing weird stuff and they continue to get away with it
>Never mentioned again

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 06 Aug 2019 06:24:54 No.109169178 Report

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>Episode about recycling

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 06 Aug 2019 07:37:18 No.109169891 Report

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>Main character(s) meet Santa Claus

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Anonymous Tue 06 Aug 2019 08:20:55 No.109170220 Report

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>>109166758
>It's a "popular kid forced to hang around nerds and found out they're kinda cool" episode

Anonymous

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Anonymous Tue 06 Aug 2019 08:42:08 No.109170366 Report

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>Character is dumb
>He becomes a genius because of a science experiment
>The effect eventually fades away

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Anonymous Tue 06 Aug 2019 09:20:23 No.109170647 Report

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>>109170366
>good natured dumb character somehow becomes extremely intelligent
>becomes a cunt for some reason

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 06 Aug 2019 09:42:50 No.109170806 Report

Quoted By: >>109171011 >>109174572 >>109174861

>>109166758
>Hero thinks they defeated the villain but he actually just fucks off to Hawaii as the show is cancelled due to a corporate buy-out

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 06 Aug 2019 09:50:19 No.109170863 Report

Quoted By: >>109170890 >>109171664 >>109173279

>>109167945
>>109167888
>Character gets /fit/, becomes a douchebag and gives it up

I think mediocre shitty people just like tearing people down and believing all smart, strong, rich or talented people are assholes.

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 06 Aug 2019 09:50:38 No.109170864 Report

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>>109167888
>he just pretends to be dumd

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 06 Aug 2019 09:51:16 No.109170871 Report

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>>109167148
I thought it was a yugioh parody.

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 06 Aug 2019 09:51:23 No.109170874 Report

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>>109167945
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D7WPeUpcBlg

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 06 Aug 2019 09:53:42 No.109170890 Report

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>>109170863
Some of the kindest people I've ever met were absolute winners in every category. It's just the coping mechanism of the mediocre.

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 06 Aug 2019 10:07:42 No.109171011 Report

Quoted By: >>109174052 >>109174572

>>109170806
Don't apologize
I never do

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 06 Aug 2019 10:19:50 No.109171106 Report

Quoted By: >>109174037 >>109174371

>character wins a ton of money but then loses it all to something stupid at the end of the episode and everything goes back to normal

These episodes really annoyed me as a kid

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 06 Aug 2019 11:47:10 No.109171664 Report

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>>109170863
That’s why I think so many people want their heroes to have flaws, it makes crappy people feel better about themselves.

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 06 Aug 2019 14:24:20 No.109173279 Report

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>>109170863
took me 28 years but finally understood life can only be lived as a winner. Mediocre people in media shoul kill themselves, brainwashing kids like me and ruining their lives.

Anonymous

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Anonymous Tue 06 Aug 2019 14:42:13 No.109173448 Report

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AJIMBO!

Behold! My Purple Panther!

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 06 Aug 2019 15:26:44 No.109173967 Report

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>>109166758
I absolutely hate that trope with a burning passion. It just feels like it's used by writers to demonize whatever hobby they find weird.
>sports good
>video games, D&D, etc. bad

Anonymous

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Anonymous Tue 06 Aug 2019 15:31:08 No.109174014 Report

Quoted By: >>109174323

>>109167945
SU subverts this trope well with Greg. He still has the money, but he decides to just live the same humble life that's suited him for years.

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 06 Aug 2019 15:32:29 No.109174037 Report

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>>109171106
Fuck this shit. And you know how the episode will end the moment someone announces that he became a millionaire.

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 06 Aug 2019 15:32:30 No.109174039 Report

Quoted By: >>109174699

>>109173279
>living life as a winner
>posts on 4chan

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 06 Aug 2019 15:33:39 No.109174052 Report

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>>109171011
What show?

Anonymous

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Anonymous Tue 06 Aug 2019 15:51:59 No.109174261 Report

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Pic Related. I always wanted to play it.

>>109173448
I always wanted to play that game too.

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 06 Aug 2019 15:52:38 No.109174269 Report

Quoted By: >>109174338

>>Characters swap bodies
>Voices swap with them

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 06 Aug 2019 15:57:17 No.109174323 Report

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>>109174014
The thing that annoyed me about this is that Stairway to Heaven didn't even produce $10 million in royalties for the writer, so Greg's jingle would have to be a better recognized song than that, and yet somehow he didn't know he had the most recognized song in the world.

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 06 Aug 2019 15:58:30 No.109174335 Report

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>Character is introduced who's just objectively better at everything than the MC

Always hated episodes like this, even when they turn out to be villains or something.

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 06 Aug 2019 15:58:37 No.109174338 Report

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>>109174269
I liked when SU avoided that shit.

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 06 Aug 2019 15:59:43 No.109174349 Report

Quoted By: >>109175397

>>109174052
Spectacular Spider-man.

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 06 Aug 2019 16:01:09 No.109174371 Report

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>>109171106
I like the inverse where the rich character goes through financial difficulties and is completely alienated by middle class life.

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 06 Aug 2019 16:17:25 No.109174572 Report

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>>109170806
>>109171011
I got a 12 Monkeys flashback, getting a flashback to that Spider-Man scene.

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 06 Aug 2019 16:19:48 No.109174601 Report

Quoted By: >>109175923

>friends form a band
>the grow huge egos and start fighting each other over stupid bullshit

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 06 Aug 2019 16:27:06 No.109174698 Report

Quoted By: >>109174760 >>109175296

>>109170220
That Recess ep was kind of fun

>TJ stuck inside and forced to spend recess with the nerds after some horror stories of one of the bullies pals disappearing after a similar event
>Turns out they are chill as fuck and just play dnd and read comics during recess. TJ is into it
>Cool with them by the end of ep even though they are huge nerd stereotypes
>When bully tries to start shit it turns out one of the nerds was one of those guys part of his group before
>Dude is just happy playing dnd

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 06 Aug 2019 16:27:08 No.109174699 Report

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>>109174039
>you need to be a chef to know if a burger tastes good.

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 06 Aug 2019 16:31:30 No.109174760 Report

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>>109174698
i was upset by that dnd depiction. that was one boring sounding game. i like that he wore the outfit though.

Anonymous

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Anonymous Tue 06 Aug 2019 16:33:14 No.109174785 Report

Quoted By: >>109176012

>obligatory mind control episode

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 06 Aug 2019 16:33:39 No.109174797 Report

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>>109171664
Its actually for realisim, makes the hero human, gives them the chance to overcome adversity/themselves.

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 06 Aug 2019 16:37:33 No.109174861 Report

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>>109170806
It was the Cayman Islands, idiot.

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 06 Aug 2019 16:44:15 No.109174962 Report

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>>109167945
Drew did nothing wrong, he was just saving Chaz from himself

Anonymous

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Anonymous Tue 06 Aug 2019 16:47:25 No.109175026 Report

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>New love interest played by new celebrity arrived and disrupt the romantic status quo between main characters.
Expect the celebrity character being a bitch in disguise, who is only using the smitten character for something. Old love interest discover this bitchiness, kick them out, and then make up a lie so the smitten character doesnt hurt too badly

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 06 Aug 2019 16:49:52 No.109175074 Report

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>>109167638
KANGZ
>>109167389
faggot

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 06 Aug 2019 17:06:31 No.109175296 Report

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>>109174698
That's happier then I remember it being.

I thought TJ got absorbed, went too nerd and abandoned his friends who had to snap him out.
Though I might be mixing it with the feral kindergarden episode.

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 06 Aug 2019 17:14:35 No.109175397 Report

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>>109174349
Thanks senpai

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 06 Aug 2019 17:53:18 No.109175923 Report

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>>109174601
>there's always a beatles reference with someone spoofing like John Lennon.
The simpsons did it okay, but as a kid seeing it in Jimmy Neutron made me roll my eyes.

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 06 Aug 2019 17:58:34 No.109176012 Report

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>>109174785
BLACK GUY, WOMAN GET IN COSTUME I FOUND AN IRREGULARITY!!!!

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 06 Aug 2019 19:27:33 No.109177440 Report

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>>109166758
Ok

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