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Although expressed in a form very specific to the genre in which Chandler was writing, the Law can be easily generalized to handle any type of story.
Participants in [[NaNoWriMo|National Novel Writing Month]] (which emphasizes wordcount over quality) know this law by a similar mantra: "If all else fails, [[Instant Awesome, Just Add Ninja|have Ninjas burst through the wall and attack someone]]", as the writer should be able to get ''at least'' a few hundred words out of the characters [[You Have Got to Be Kidding Me|suddenly questioning]] "Ninjas? What the hell is going on here?"
This undoubtedly finds some origin in the [[Rule of Drama]]. If guns are too dramatic for you, try [[Drop the Cow|dropping a cow]] for the [[Rule of Funny]] version. If an entirely new plotline results, see [[Halfway Plot Switch]]. [[Diabolus Ex Nihilo]] operates on this principle with varying levels of success. [[Conflict Killer]] is often a result of this.
Not to be confused with ''anything'' to do with [[Friends|Chandler Bing]], nor [[Sonichu|Christian Weston Chandler]].
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* ''[[Trapped in The Closet]]'' by R. Kelly follows this trope so much it goes from [[Once an Episode]] to [[Drinking Game]] pretty quickly.
** Parodied in the ''South Park'' episode of the same name, where R. Kelly is ''constantly'' pulling out his gun, usually for no reason at all.
* Many of Weird Al Yankovic's parody songs are like this. A particularly egregious ([[Refuge in Audacity|but not]] [[So Bad
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