Tropescilloscope: Noodle Incident

An unexplained incident is referenced, and it's funnier in our heads than whatever could be explained. (read more at tvtropes.org)

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Stylistic Suck Offscreen Teleportation Adults Are Useless Genre Shift Face Death with Dignity Action Film, Quiet Drama Scene Leaning on the Fourth Wall Romantic False Lead Hero Antagonist Shoot the Shaggy Dog No-Holds-Barred Beatdown Framing Device Recycled IN SPACE! "The Reason You Suck" Speech Only Sane Man Dogged Nice Guy In Medias Res Fantastic Racism Ooh, Me Accent's Slipping Visual Pun Line-of-Sight Name All There in the Script Bond Villain Stupidity Ambiguous Ending Genre Throwback Tagline Vampire Fiction Star-Crossed Lovers Kick the Dog Captain Obvious Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass You Have Outlived Your Usefulness Sole Survivor Abhorrent Admirer Deadpan Snarker Major Injury Underreaction Dumb Blonde Dramedy Pragmatic Villainy Black and Gray Morality Twist Ending Chekhov's Skill I Need a Freaking Drink Getting Crap Past the Radar Bare Your Midriff Pretty in Mink Film Noir Index Soundtrack Dissonance Faux Affably Evil Punch-Clock Villain Blonde, Brunette, Redhead Cat Fight Alpha Bitch From Nobody to Nightmare Not Even Bothering with the Accent Our Zombies Are Different Monumental Damage Running Gag The Alleged Car Horror Doesn't Settle for Simple Tuesday Product Placement Department of Redundancy Department Dirty Coward Kill 'em All Mythology Gag The Dreaded Fingore Russian Films Nice Hat Break the Haughty Let's Get Dangerous! 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An Axe to Grind Put on a Bus Foregone Conclusion Death by Sex Rewatch Bonus Humans Are Bastards Exactly What It Says on the Tin And the Adventure Continues Frame-Up Corrupt Corporate Executive Laser-Guided Karma Mystery and Detective Films Nice Guy Adapted Out Mercy Kill The Stoner I'm a Humanitarian Sequel Hook Leitmotif Horror Comedy Jump Scare Canon Foreigner Action Girl Calling the Old Man Out Unspoken Plan Guarantee Taking the Bullet A God Am I Not Quite Dead The Un-Favourite aka: The Un Favorite Mundane Made Awesome Jerkass B-Movie Break the Cutie Darkest Hour Historical Hero Upgrade Recap / RiffTrax aka: Riff Trax Movies The Stinger Shipper on Deck Humiliation Conga Big "NO!" 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Really Gets Around The '90s Screw the Rules, I Have Money! Dirty Old Man Five-Man Band Attempted Rape Taking You with Me MacGuffin Fish out of Water Translation Convention Black Best Friend Alliterative Name The Dog Bites Back Cloudcuckoolander Hair of Gold, Heart of Gold Take a Third Option Pet the Dog NO INDOOR VOICE Big Brother Instinct Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking Shut Up, Hannibal! Adaptational Badass Hell Is That Noise Bad Boss Easily Forgiven Insult Backfire Police Brutality Sadistic Choice Creator Cameo Psycho for Hire Enemy Mine Our Vampires Are Different Air-Vent Passageway Shown Their Work Brick Joke Freeze-Frame Bonus Refuge in Audacity Those Two Guys Show Within a Show Take That! The Starscream Time Skip Facial Horror Bunny-Ears Lawyer Butt-Monkey Combat Pragmatist Corpsing Reasonable Authority Figure Zombie Stories Romantic Comedy Word of God Apocalypse How Cool Old Lady The Brute Documentary Cat Scare Cool Car Hidden Depths Hooker with a Heart of Gold Does This Remind You of Anything? Guns Akimbo Television Movie Index Flipping the Bird Serious Business The Cameo Fatal Family Photo The Bully Advertised Extra Redshirt Army Well-Intentioned Extremist Deliberate Values Dissonance Disappeared Dad Novelization Soft Glass Parental Abandonment Villain Opening Scene Breaking the Fourth Wall Martial Arts Movie The X of Y Overprotective Dad Heroes Want Redheads Ungrateful Bastard Deal with the Devil Dramatic Gun Cock Rousing Speech Drugs Are Bad Abusive Parents Daddy's Girl Slasher Movie Creative Closing Credits Aww, Look! They Really Do Love Each Other For the Evulz Woman in White Beauty Is Never Tarnished Manic Pixie Dream Girl From Bad to Worse Off with His Head! Bilingual Bonus Arranged Marriage Unresolved Sexual Tension Dark Reprise Storming the Castle Expy Not So Stoic Green-Eyed Monster Coming-of-Age Story Music Stories Badass in a Nice Suit Rule of Symbolism Gainax Ending Colour-Coded for Your Convenience aka: Color Coded For Your Convenience Mooks Failed a Spot Check Every Car Is a Pinto Even Evil Has Standards Narrator Killed Mid-Sentence Smoking Is Cool Anguished Declaration of Love Japanese Films Drives Like Crazy The Ditz Maybe Magic, Maybe Mundane Ripped from the Headlines Noodle Incident Those Wacky Nazis Improvised Weapon Ms. Fanservice Bloodless Carnage Film Series Book-Ends Married to the Job Hair-Trigger Temper He Knows Too Much Suspiciously Similar Substitute Accidental Murder Badass Grandpa Villainous Breakdown Defrosting Ice Queen Get Out! Bad "Bad Acting" The Hero Wham Shot Vitriolic Best Buds Stalker with a Crush My God, What Have I Done? Yandere Maybe Ever After No Celebrities Were Harmed Unusual Euphemism The Vamp Developing Doomed Characters Domestic Abuse Jitter Cam Bring My Brown Pants Disney Death As Long as It Sounds Foreign Animal Title Index Token Minority Bound and Gagged Outrun the Fireball Cool Guns Happily Married Mugging the Monster Cain and Abel Pragmatic Adaptation Dying Moment of Awesome Scare Chord She's Got Legs "Well Done, Son!" Guy Body Horror Stock Footage Neck Snap Scenery Gorn Why Did It Have to Be Snakes? Never Trust a Trailer aka: Trailers Always Lie Punny Name Spiteful Spit The Faceless Biopic Cool Old Guy Improbable Weapon User It Can Think Nice Job Fixing It, Villain! Diabolus ex Machina The '60s Madness Mantra Anti-Hero Crucified Hero Shot An Aesop Extremely Short Timespan Henpecked Husband The '80s Broken Pedestal Screw the Rules, I'm Doing What's Right! Double-Meaning Title Bolivian Army Ending May–December Romance Missing Mom Punctuated! For! Emphasis! Bar Brawl Blackmail Artistic License – Geography Adaptation Dye-Job A Date with Rosie Palms Four-Temperament Ensemble Foil Does Not Like Shoes Fanservice Celebrity Paradox The Voiceless Names to Run Away from Really Fast Slashed Throat Dull Surprise Papa Wolf Dwindling Party Demoted to Extra Call-Forward As You Know Mexican Standoff Love at First Sight Screw This, I'm Outta Here! Batman Gambit Fiery Redhead Distracted by the Sexy Big Fancy House Sequel Escalation Heroic BSoD Straight Gay Ironic Echo Canadian Movies Good Is Not Nice Sir Swears-a-Lot Revenge What You Are in the Dark Villain Song Bait-and-Switch Whole Plot Reference What Happened to the Mouse? Drill Sergeant Nasty Suspiciously Specific Denial Have a Gay Old Time Pre-Mortem One-Liner Australian Movies Throwing Your Sword Always Works Blood from the Mouth Cluster F-Bomb This Is Gonna Suck Covers Always Lie The End... Or Is It? Armor-Piercing Question Bond One-Liner Dark Is Not Evil Fun with Acronyms Off-into-the-Distance Ending Improbable Infant Survival aka: Infant Immortality One Steve Limit Depraved Bisexual Fan Disservice Sealed Evil in a Can Artistic License – History Index of Film Westerns Stepford Smiler The Power of Love Sci-Fi Horror Never Trust a Trailer Skewed Priorities Bury Your Gays Fake Shemp Peek-a-Boo Corpse Eldritch Abomination The '70s Morality Pet Same Language Dub Children Are Innocent Antagonist Title Science Fiction Films The Musical Only Known by Their Nickname Stealth Pun Not So Above It All Early-Bird Cameo Awesome, but Impractical Historical-Domain Character Guile Hero Honor Before Reason Despair Event Horizon Sudden Sequel Death Syndrome Your Head A-Splode You Have Failed Me Evil Plan Exact Words The Cavalry Paper-Thin Disguise I Just Shot Marvin in the Face Wham Line Never Found the Body Poor Communication Kills Psychological Thriller Rule of Funny Oh, Crap! No Antagonist Mr. Fanservice Woman Scorned Creepy Child Obfuscating Stupidity The Dragon Match Cut The Hero Dies Friend to All Children Nothing Is Scarier Evil Laugh Fate Worse than Death Impaled with Extreme Prejudice Rated M for Manly A.I. Is a Crapshoot Gory Discretion Shot Conspicuous CG The Ace Crapsack World Dramatic Irony Dissonant Serenity Stealth Hi/Bye Closed Circle British Films Obstructive Bureaucrat Even Evil Has Loved Ones