The Areas of My Expertise: Difference between revisions
Content added Content deleted
m (removed Category:The Areas of My Expertise; added [[Category:{{PAGENAME}}]] using HotCat) |
No edit summary |
||
Line 27: | Line 27: | ||
The first in the ''[[Complete World Knowledge]]'' trilogy, followed by ''[[More Information Than You Require]]'' and ''[[That Is All]]''. |
The first in the ''[[Complete World Knowledge]]'' trilogy, followed by ''[[More Information Than You Require]]'' and ''[[That Is All]]''. |
||
---- |
|||
{{tropelist|''The Areas of My Expertise'' provides examples of, and parodies, the following tropes:}} |
{{tropelist|''The Areas of My Expertise'' provides examples of, and parodies, the following tropes:}} |
||
* [[Alien Geometries]]: One house with a 666 phone number is described as having no right angles. |
* [[Alien Geometries]]: One house with a 666 phone number is described as having no right angles. |
||
Line 33: | Line 33: | ||
* [[Attack of the Killer Whatever]]: [[Discussed Trope|Discussed]]. |
* [[Attack of the Killer Whatever]]: [[Discussed Trope|Discussed]]. |
||
* [[Beware of Hitch-Hiking Ghosts]] |
* [[Beware of Hitch-Hiking Ghosts]] |
||
* [[Brian Blessed]]:In the BBC adaptation, in the role of "Old John Hodgman, After He Accidentally Becomes British". |
* [[Brian Blessed]]:{{context|reason=Is this a trope?}} In the BBC adaptation, in the role of "Old John Hodgman, After He Accidentally Becomes British". |
||
* [[Bunny Ears Lawyer]]: "Idiosyncrasies of the Great Detectives", parodying: |
* [[Bunny Ears Lawyer]]: "Idiosyncrasies of the Great Detectives", parodying: |
||
** [[Lord Peter Wimsey]] |
** [[Lord Peter Wimsey]] |
||
Line 78: | Line 78: | ||
* [[Pirate]]: Blackbeard pops up, briefly. There is also said to be [http://www.venganza.org/ a Utopian community that hopes to improve humanity through acting like stereotypical pirates]. |
* [[Pirate]]: Blackbeard pops up, briefly. There is also said to be [http://www.venganza.org/ a Utopian community that hopes to improve humanity through acting like stereotypical pirates]. |
||
* [[Planet of Steves]]: The ringtail cats, who, by a curious coincidence, are all named John McCain. |
* [[Planet of Steves]]: The ringtail cats, who, by a curious coincidence, are all named John McCain. |
||
* [[The Roaring Twenties]] |
* [[The Roaring Twenties]]{{context}} |
||
* [[Running Gag]]: [[Our Werewolves Are Different|The different varieties of werewolf]], [[A Date with Rosie Palms|masturbation]], eels, zeppelins, cheese, [[Hair Tropes|haircuts/facial hair]], distrust for people who use pseudonyms, Henry David Thoreau, giant Brazilian monkeys, Alexander Graham Bell, Yale University, crabs and lobsters (although the term "lobster" originally referred to a type of sea otter), the non-existence of Chicago, getting either [[Intoxication Ensues|"very high or very autistic"]], common flammable gels, Percoset, and, of course, the hoboes. |
* [[Running Gag]]: [[Our Werewolves Are Different|The different varieties of werewolf]], [[A Date with Rosie Palms|masturbation]], eels, zeppelins, cheese, [[Hair Tropes|haircuts/facial hair]], distrust for people who use pseudonyms, Henry David Thoreau, giant Brazilian monkeys, Alexander Graham Bell, Yale University, crabs and lobsters (although the term "lobster" originally referred to a type of sea otter), the non-existence of Chicago, getting either [[Intoxication Ensues|"very high or very autistic"]], common flammable gels, Percoset, and, of course, the hoboes. |
||
* [[Shout-Out]]: "The Amazing Duo of [[They Might Be Giants|Flansburgh]] and Goldwasser", Bruce Campbell, "[[Elf Quest|Skywise the Sexual Elf"]]. |
* [[Shout-Out]]: "The Amazing Duo of [[They Might Be Giants|Flansburgh]] and Goldwasser", Bruce Campbell, "[[Elf Quest|Skywise the Sexual Elf"]]. |
||
Line 90: | Line 90: | ||
* [[Word Salad Title]]: The whole title. |
* [[Word Salad Title]]: The whole title. |
||
* [[You Can Panic Now]]: One minor character is afraid that terrorists will attack the Mall of America. |
* [[You Can Panic Now]]: One minor character is afraid that terrorists will attack the Mall of America. |
||
---- |
|||
{{examples|Hodgman also gives us The Fifty-Five Dramatic Situations:}} |
{{examples|Hodgman also gives us The Fifty-Five Dramatic Situations:}} |