39,327
edits
Halfway Plot Switch: Difference between revisions
m
Convert TVT links to internal links
m (Mass update links) |
m (Convert TVT links to internal links) |
||
Line 52:
* The [[Alfred Hitchcock]] classic [[The Birds]] starts out as a romance and then shifts gears about half way through the movie, turning into a horror movie about the titular animals.
** Probably not at all unexpected by the audience, since they had that "Directed by Alfred Hitchcock" credit to tip them off.
** Not surprisingly this also applies to [
** AND it certainly applies to ''[[Vertigo]]'' too
* The Paul Giamatti film ''Win Win'' starts out as a comedy about high school wrestling with Giamatti coaching a young wrestling prodigy...then {{spoiler|the kid's mother shows up and the second half becomes a drama about a battle over an estate}}. It still works though due to Giamatti and Tom Mc Carthy's direction.
Line 118:
* [[Tom Lehrer]]'s song ''Poisoning Pigeons in the Park'' starts out as your typical ballad about the wonders of spring... and then in the first chorus suddenly moves on to being about, well, [[Exactly What It Says On the Tin|poisoning pigeons in the park]].
** Also ''I Hold Your Hand In Mine'' which starts out like a regular love song but then reveals that {{spoiler|the hand isn't attached to her body}}.
* [[The Beatles]]' [
* "Charming Weather" from Lionel Monckton's ''The Arcadians''. It starts off obviously leading into a marriage proposal - until {{spoiler|they realise they aren't alone}}, and it turns into {{spoiler|banal smalltalk}} for the chorus. Unusual since, being music, it can ''do it all over a second time''. Youtube has a [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b2_mEwNq86M rather badly performed recording of it].
* Katrinah Jospehina by [http://www.universalhallpass.com Universal Hall Pass]. The first half of the song is the tale of a girl (the eponymous Katrinah) who decided to explore beneath the earth. The second half consists of a twisted, echoing beat accompanying backwards-sounding fragments of the lyrics. This change is never really explained, but it's heavily implied that {{spoiler|Katrinah is either mentally ill or trapped in hell... or both.}}
Line 203:
** The plot of "Crook And Ladder" starts with Marge taking away Maggie's pacifier and Maggie destroying the house as a result, then Maggie gets calmed down with Santa's Little Helper's squeaky dog toy, only the squeaking leads to Homer being unable to sleep, so he takes sleeping pills and becomes a "zombie" of sorts and Bart and Milhouse take advantage of him, which then Homer accidentally crashing into the fire department and injuring all the volunteer firefighters, and FINALLY the main plot of Homer and his friends becoming firefighters gets under way.
* ''[[Family Guy]]'' loves it too. In one episode, they go through <s> four</s> six plots in rapid succession: Peter ruins his suit, and buys some adult-size footy pajamas, he becomes a faux-superhero by rubbing his feet on the carpet and shocking people, a fed-up Lois rips up all the carpet in the house, and finds a coin worth a lot of money, which the Griffins use to open a restaurant, the restaurant then becomes a favorite of crippled people, Peter bans the cripples and fights against them and then becomes crippled himself. The remainder of the plot is devoted to him coming to terms with being in a wheelchair and apologizing to Joe for banning him.
** [[Lampshaded]] in one episode. Peter takes Brian to the vet and gets the ownership of a parrot while there, which inspires him to become a pirate, and he finds three pirate buddies. They attack a car filled with spices, and the parrot dies in the resulting fight. Chris, who has a crush on the receptionist, tells her Peter will just find some other wacky adventure. Indeed, he finds a pipe organ immediately, and when he breaks that ten seconds later, the deeds to a cattle ranch. The rest of the episode ignored Peter's hijinks in favor Chris's relationship with her. To make matters worse, this particular episode is named "Long John Peter" and the promotional [
** [[Lampshaded]] again, this time averted, in "Welcome back, Carter", an episode which mostly sticks to one plot. After repairing the relationship between Lois' parents, and in the last [[Your Princess Is in Another Castle|five seconds]], Peter exclaims, "Hey, I found a magic lamp! No? Maybe next episode."
** In another episode, Peter "accidentally" kills Quagmire's cat. On the way to burying it and hiding the evidence, Peter and Brian are stopped by a cop, who is completely oblivious to the dead cat and the shovel in the back, but charges Brian with possession of marijuana. The rest of the episode is about Brian trying to get marijuana legalized. [[Lampshaded]] at the very end, when Peter goes to Quagmire's house and tells him that his cat is dead and then leaves; the audience had most likely already forgotten about the cat by that point.
| |||