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Here at last is a section where you can put all those nagging questions that have Always Bugged You about various and sundry TV shows and stuff. Found a single typo in a thousand pages of perfect grammar? Got some [[Fridge Logic]] you want to [[Ass Pull|just make up]]? Dump it here!

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== From actual media ==

 

== [[Just for Fun|From us tropers]] ==

**** What you mean words can be names? That's trolling! TROLL!

* Unless it's from ''[[G Gundam]]'', no [[Gundam]] mech should be in ''[[Super Robot Wars]]''. They should all be in ''[[Real Robot]] Wars''.

** Why do they call it "pop art" when the most famous images of it are of soup cans?

* Why are dramatic movies superior to the comedic, sci-fi, musical, and animated ones in the eyes of the critics? I hate dramatic movies. They're either boring, too depressing, or just plain annoying due to characters randomly screaming every 5 minutes.

* You know what ''really'' bugs me? '''[[You Suck|You]]''', tvtropes. '''[[You Suck|Fuck you]].'''

** The site itself is great. It's [[This Troper|the tropers]] themselves who are obnoxious little shitheads. It's ''not about you'' for a reason.

*** Who constantly spout old memes.

****** It's both, really.

* What's with [[Devil May Cry|Nevan's]] [[Godiva Hair]]? Is it glued to her nipples or something? (Ouch.)

* In the earlier episodes of ''[[Mermaid Melody Pichi Pichi Pitch]]'', They go out in the rain all the time, yet once you get to episode 25, they can't go out when it's raining!

* Why is [[Dawn of War]] called... [[Dawn of War]]? Its licensed from Warhammer ''40000'', which was a tabletop game that came after ''Warhammer''. One of Warhammer 40000's taglines are "In the grim darkness of the ''future'', there is only ''war''."

** It's named after a game mode from the Tabletop. It begins with only deploying scouts and working your way up. It starts at Dawn, and it's a War. Lazy Pun, but, hey, it works.

* Why is it that, on ''[[Doctor Who]]'', everyone acts as though the Ninth Doctor never existed? They almost never mention the regeneration or the fact that he used to have a different face (except in "The Christmas Invasion," "New Earth," and "Utopia"). It seems that the writers only want us to remember David Tennant, even though Christopher Eccleston did a [[Catch Phrase|FANTASTIC!]] job as well. Hell, the only other regeneration that the Tenth Doctor has acknowledged is the Fifth Doctor, and that's not exactly canon...

** In fairness, the classic series never used to frequently make a big deal about the previous selves either. But I can't help but get the feeling for some reason that there's a certain rift between Christopher Eccleston and the ''[[Doctor Who]]'' production team...

* For the last time, Xander in [[Buffy the Vampire Slayer|''Once More, With Feeling,'']] "skeezy cheeses" really ''is'' a description!

* No matter how many times I watch ''[[The Dark Knight]]'', it still doesn't let me see Mark Hamill's Joker in live action, with writing for an adult audience.

* Private eyes [[Your Princess Is in Another Castle|suspect the most suspicious person]]. Romantic heroes have no idea that the [[First Girl Wins]]. Yet whenever a horror movie character shows [[Genre Blindness]], everyone groans!

** The detectives and the romantic heroes get smarter. The horror film victims don't. Except the [[Final Girl]], and it still took her seeing everyone else taken out to grow a brain.

** [http://www.red-bean.com/fitz/google/where-are-my-socks.html Ask Google.]

** Keys are always in the refrigerator. If there are small children in the house, then both keys, socks, and anything else you lose is either in the fridge, microwave, oven, closet, sink, or any other place where it's too late.

** Better yet, why the hell is [[Ali Larter]] still on the show? If other series follow suit, we may have [[Ali Larter Job Security]] as a trope.

* Why are their celebrity fragrances? Who wants to smell like them? Who tests these smells? Are they're really people obsessive enough to want to smell like their favorite celeb?

** Yes.

*** Two Words: Jade. Goody.

*** She has a perfume?! Who would wear that? I mean, pork smells good and all but...

** To sell them. They're basically celebrity endorsements.

** They don't, they just move forward slower than the screen is scrolling.

*** So could your pockets. Or orifices.

*** My elementary school now confiscates box lunches that they deem unhealthy, like diet sodas... or dare I say it... Sugar Free Candy!!! I would like to point out that my elementary school admin was staffed with complete morons.

** Agreement is not reached yet. Yes, i mean "[[Executive Meddling]] [[X Meets Y|meets]] [[Product Placement]]".

* Why can't teachers in films and TV shows plan lessons properly? Whenever a lesson is in progress the teacher is always interrupted mid-sentence by the bell.

* Why?

** Because.

** 42.

** Why not?

* Where is the exit button frothy?

* Why not?

** Why isn't there a ''[[Nightmare Fuel]]'' section for fan art? [[Squick|Makes sense]]...

*** [[Rule 34]], dude, [[Rule 34]].

** Also: the battleships, furies, and kraken. The Chimera had to tunnel under the English Channel to invade Britain. One would think they would have brought forth the battleships and sea-going critters rather than bothering with the tunnels.

** Speaking of style, why does the US have things that '''shouldn't'' be in the 50's I know it's and Alternet history but really.

** Or ''We Lied''?

** Because it wouldn't make as much money. Duh. ;)

** False advertising. They sell hope, not games.

** Because ''We Lied'' is too close to ''[[Elfen Lied]]''.

** This entry. Is that Welsh?

** It looks like a Newtonian mechanics problem that's been put through a blender.

** Sex, Pregnant Woman, Babies.

** [[Calvin and Hobbes|Most people just buy the assembly kit from Sears.]]

* Why do teenage girls love ''[[Gossip Girl]]''? High school is ''nothing'' like that, so that show should not be used as guidance.

** You just answered your own quesiton.

* Where are the [[Troper Tales]] for [[Screw Yourself]] already? We've already got [[Troper Tales]] for everything else, even [[Brother-Sister Incest|social taboos]]. Now where's the granddaddy of social taboos already?

** Explains, in part, why the only Princess I really like is Belle. Blue and gold-what's not to like?

* If Batman has two rules he will never break (never kill and never use a firearm), why doesn't he just cut off all of the Joker's limbs to make him harmless without breaking either rule?

* Since [[Firefly]] is now extremely popular, why don't FOX resurrect it? Or is there some kind of rule against that?

** Because [[Joss Whedon]] doesn't want to resurrect it.

* Where is our [[Zeerust]] Home, Our [[Flying Car]], Our [[Ridiculously-Human Robots|Human-like]] [[Robot Buddy|Robot]], [[Food Pills]], and our [[Frickin' Laser Beams]]??? [[I Want My Jetpack|We Want Our]] [[Jet Pack]]!!!!

** People can't even drive in two dimensions. Want to try three? Human robots are being worked on. [[Food Pills]] are unnecessary and stupid. [[Frickin' Laser Beams]] are being worked on too. Jet Packs have too poor mileage.

** Technology does improve, you [[The Aesthetics of Technology|just have to look a bit closer]]. Seriously, take a time machine back to 1999 and prepare to be shocked at the primitiveness. In fact, the more 'advanced' something is the less likely it is you will notice it. Or as [[Douglas Adams]] said: "Technology is a word that describes something that doesn't work yet."

* Why did ''[[Battlestar Galactica]]'' crash and burn so horrifically in its finale?

* Why must the future constantly be pictured with nearly everything in white, gray, or silver? Why can't the future be ''purple''?

** Cause Purple [[Real Is Brown|isn't Real.]] But Why can't the future be ''Brown''?

*** Peak Oil, shrinking arable land and dwindling water supplies.

* How the Hell is 1 + 1 = 3?

** Rounding errors- "1" consists of a possible range of values between 0.5 and 1.5 (actually, an infinitesimal above 0.5, but meh). So 1+1=1 is just as valid as 1+1=3 and 1+1=2 (the average).

* I found some MAJOR [[Gosh Dang It to Heck|Butt]] [[Ass Pull|Pulls]] that show up [[Reality Is Unrealistic|EVERYWHERE]]

** Bombs explode!

** You can say ass. Ass ass assity ass. See?

* How does ''[[Bleach]]'' keep from getting canceled despite doing the '''exact same things''' that made other manga get canceled?

*** Are you seriously implying they're not going to ''anyway?'' I mean, have you even seen the Digimon fandom (although Fan Dumb describes a larger majority...)? They're still bitching about ships from the ''first two seasons.''

** What "thing" that make "other manga" get canceled? It sells well, and baring something like the author falling ill or a suffering a [[Creator Breakdown]] poor sales are all that would get a series canceled before the author wants to end it.

* Think of the following:

## [[King of the Hill|The Hills]] showed up in ''[[The Simpsons]]'', meaning that ''Simpsons'' and ''KotH'' are in the same universe.

## Take the above, which means that ''KotH'' and ''FG'' are in the same universe.

## Brian is in the ''FG'' universe, and he is '''always''' right. Even about religion.

## Hank is from the ''KotH'' universe, and he is ''always'' right. Possibly even about religion.

## Brian is an atheist.

## Since both where in the same 'verse, and both are right, yet both contradict eachother, what happend if Hank and Brian met?

** The link is via the Simpsons, which has a... relaxed attitude to continuity. So KotH and FG aren't necessarily in the same universe.

* You know what bugs me ? Those stupid nightmare fuel entries. Some are legitimate fears but others make me think this site is written by three year old girls

** I agree and disagree. It may sound like this site is written by three year olds, but that is because [[Nightmare Fuel]] talks about things that scared you as a child. I agree though that some of the things weren't scary at all for me when I was a child and sound just like pure Wangst. Either that or I'm just de-sensitized to that stuff.

** ''[[Doctor Who]]'' is the out-and-out worse example. I'm fairly sure if half the contributions made about it are true, the people who wrote them would have an epileptic fit if they cut their finger. [[Doctor Who/Nightmare Fuel|Don't believe me?]]

** I think High Octane Nightmare Fuel is the worse of two evils. [[Nightmare Fuel]] is what scares you and isn't supposed to, and HONF is something terrifying. It's a wonder people even leave their houses if they're that honestly scared of everything. It's difficult to not go through the [[Mass Effect]] HONF and not start serial editing.

* Why must [[The Smiths|Morrissey]] lie and constantly contradict himself? He hates his former band mates WAIT they've always been pals! Celibate, oh, nevermind. Yes, actually... Make up your goddamn mind.

* Why do they put regualr TV commercials on movie reels? I go to the movies to watch trailers and then the movie; if I wanted to watch commercials, '''I WOULD'VE STAYED HOME!'''

* How exactly do you kill two birds with one stone anyway?

** You tie the birds together, of course. :)

** Simple you had a rock to [[A Wizard Did It|a wizard and let them take care of it]].

** Hit one bird with the stone so that it gets knocked into the other bird with lethal force.

*** '''''[[Overly Long Gag|OR]]'''''... you throw a stone, kill a bird, pick same stone up afterwards, kill a bird. ''[[Memetic Mutation|Simples!]]''

** The key is [[Family Guy|two small birds and one big stone]].

 

* What kind of name is Ed Begley Jr? Not only does it misspell "Bagel", that word is not an adjective, so how they fuck can it be an adverb?

** What kind of a name is "Ed Begley Junior"? Why, an anagram for "I boned ugly jeer", of course!

** "I can't believe no one mentioned ''x'' yet..."

*** Relatedly, people using the "This is Sparta" trope and punctuating ''every damn word'' even when it's clear that it's not done like that.

** Using several of these in combination is particularly annoying. Like this: ''Batman. Just Batman. Every. Fucking. Time.''1

* Miracle Whip. Even if you don't find it disgusting like this troper does, its commercials just reek of aging corporate advertisers sitting around in an office trying desperately to appear "hip." It's sandwich spread, people! I have never had friends who were embarrassed to be seen with me because I like mayo!

** "Troperette" would have been better. Actually, no - ''"I"'' would have been better. Why, back in troper tales, did no one ever use "I"? All the third person was just pointless and silly.

* Where RPG elements are concerned - would hot lasers hurt fire elementals?

** It must be that she's 20% cooler than the other ponies.

** What's the big deal with the My Little Pony fad in general? I don't get it. It's a show meant to teach 3 to 9 year-old girls the importance of friendship, sharing, and caring, it's not something that 20 to 40 year-old men should be jacking off to.

 

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