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'''Calvin:''' [[Suspiciously Specific Denial|No one can prove I did that!]]|''[[Calvin and Hobbes]]''}}

The '''Noodle Incident''' is something from the past that is sometimes referred to but never explained, with the implication that [[Crazy Awesome|it's just too ludicrous for words]], and the reality that any explanation would fall short of audience expectations. Questions about it are often met with "[[You Do NOT Want to Know|You]]" or "[[Don't Want To Know…Ask]]". Persisting is a good way to press a character's [[Berserk Button]].

The inversion of this would be [[Let Us Never Speak of This Again]], where the event in question is shown onscreen and the characters make a pact to never mention it.

Compare [[Second Hand Storytelling]], [[Take Our Word for It]], [[Cryptic Background Reference]], [[Noodle Implements]], [[That Mysterious Thing]], [[What Did I Do Last Night?]]. Reminiscing about a '''Noodle Incident''' by the people involved can result in [[Lost in Transmission]] for an outsider. Compare and contrast [[Offscreen Moment of Awesome]], where the off-screen incident would have been better on-screen. See also [[Cow Tools]]. Enough such incidents create a character who has [[Seen It All]]. If a '''Noodle Incident''' is essential to solving a mystery, it's a [[Riddle for the Ages]]. If it results in the person/people involved being banished from wherever it happened, they've become [[Persona Non Grata]]. See also [[Great Offscreen War]]. Contrast [[Oblivious Mockery]], where characters talk about an event they don't know happened but the ''viewer'' does (most of the time). Should not be confused with [[Cut Short]], which is where a new instalment was intended to be made after leaving things to leave room for it, but it gets cancelled.

Please do not confuse with the [[Guns N' Roses|GNR]] album ''"The Spaghetti Incident?"'' (which is, however, a noodle incident itself). Or [[The Google Incident]]. (Or [[AboutTV Tropes/The Second Google Incident|the sequel]].)

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