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Trope has been launched. This was about binning it.
...given that it's overly short and has been untouched for 21 months.
Goo Monster, do you want to do anything to revive it? Like the new name you wanted two years ago? A better description would help, too, as well as marking up the examples with formatting and links.
So it's Twisted Echo Cut via Show Within a Show. I see what is unusual here, but whether it's worth depends on more examples.
The Regular Show and Legend of Korra examples need to be examined by someone who knows the shows in question, because they are so poorly written I'm not sure what the writer was actually trying to say.
It would also need a rename, of course. Like "Nested Twisted Echo" or something. A good point against it is that Twisted Echo Cut doesn't have much examples, so maybe it would be better to merge and note than separate.
Two months and no one has made any changes. If anyone wants to save this, you have until the end of the weekend.
It got 5 examples. Then again, it's not a lot, so this may as well be merged into Twisted Echo Cut.
picture is up, no one has displayed interest in an alternative in a long time.
For now this is the only picture I have for the trope http://img3.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20111124040832/teenagerobot/images/4/41/JennyAndMonsterLaughEvilly.png . I know of a few frames of scenes I would prefer, but I don't know how to get them without using a screenshot, which I find crude.
If you have a picture editor (MS Paint, GIMP, Adobe Photoshop) you can do some cutting, pasting, and cropping of any images you find to have the appriopriate content, then upload that (just mention the source and your alterations when you do)
I think you misunderstood me. A video is a bunch of pictures which are played one after another, like a flip book. What I want is to use is a frame/picture from a video. However I do not remember how to take a single frame/picture out of a video. I can do a screenshot, but there is a less crude way that has a better result.
Okay so I figured out how to get those frames without the crude screenshot. Even so the initial resolution is pretty terrible, so if anyone knows where I can get decent (or better) resolution for the episode Futureshock of My Life as a Teenage Robot, that would be great.
Okay so I got access to episode Futureshock and was wondering which moment's you like the best (if you've seen it). My favorite one that fits is when Tuck is leaping off a car.
In the thread "This looks like a dead candidate" here, TBeholder suggested that this trope needs a better title. I don't see anything wrong with "Movie Match Up" (except that there should be a hyphen in there: "Movie Match-Up").
TBeholder suggested "Nested Twisted Echo" (which in my humble opinion is more esoteric than what we have now).
Opinions on renaming this trope and what the name should be if it's renamed are requested, please.
Forgot the pings: @TBeholder @Labster @GethN7 @Looney Toons @QuestionableSanity @DocColress @LulzKiller @SelfCloak
My idea is not any closer to the best and snappy names either, indeed.
I just see names not fitting the scope or definition (that aren't famous examples) as leading to wrong assumptions, so they end up missing examples that actually fit and/or becoming sinks for "not really this, but if you squint, it looks sorta kinda related" bloat. Not a hot issue, but perhaps worth a thought.
"Recursive Action", maybe? I have to say that "Movie Match-Up" is a big vague; it almost sounds like a romance trope.
Ooh, how about "Media Mirroring"? I'm a little concerned it might make people think it has to do with 2 regular works instead of a work and a Show Within a Show though.
Agreed; IMHO, "Media Mirroring" is better than anything else suggested so far.
They aren't as common as they used to be (Maybe it's Aluminum Christmas Trees). Should we explain it in the caption?
New Name: I looked up the definition of "Match Up", and it doesn't come close to the definition of the trope. I just used it because it was the closest thing to the definition (especially if you don't know what "match up" means, which I didn't at the time) and for Alliteration. As such, I would like the community to propose new names and have a vote on which one we use. --Goo Monster (talk) 21:32, 15 June 2014 (BST)
