Ninjasaurus posted:

I already knew some goons were little better (or worse) than your average troper but yeah, that could easily be a conversation held on TV Tropes and none of us would have been the wiser.

I've never seen that show but I'm gonna hazard a guess that it's not about rape. Goddamnit you dorks.

Babe Magnet posted:

The episode was an origin story on one of the main characters, Jake, a magic shape-shifting dog. In it, his dad was bitten by a weird alien/trans-dimensional creature with some Giger-ey influences (there was also a really obvious Alien reference almost immediately after, reinforcing the Giger thing) while out monster hunting with his pregnant wife. In the end, a creature busts out of his head around the same time his wife starts to be going into labor, and Jake plops out and does a little song and dance.

So obviously this episode was secretly about society's pressure on rape victims and victims of abuse to keep the unwanted products of their abuse like children.

Steven Yun's probably got a very active TVTropes account and he's super popular in that thread because his fanfiction is better than everyone else's I guess. Still better than Sithsaber for the most part.

Ninjasaurus posted:

Wow. Is the show always that weird?

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Disney's Aladdin has a famous example of unintentional innuendo in the song "A Whole New World."

I can open your eyes,
Take you wonder by wonder;
Over, sideways and under
On a magic carpet ride.
A whole new world!
A new, fantastic point of view.
No one to tell us no, or where to go,
Or say we're only dreaming.
...
Unbelievable sights!
Indescribable feeling!
...
A whole new world!
Don't you dare close your eyes.
A hundred thousand things to see.
Hold your breath — it gets better!

tacodaemon posted:

From one of the Accidental Innuendo sub-pages:


Aww man get a load of all that innuendo.

(Actually that whole page is troperiffic as hell)

Accidental Innuendo posted:

Beauty and the Beast:
"Barely even friends, then somebody bends unexpectedly." Ummm. Disney should not be putting people's minds into the gutter..

Accidental Innuendo posted:

The resulting dialogue when TRON, Flynn and Ram find a pure source.
Flynn: What's that?
Ram: That is just what I need right now...

Accidental Innuendo posted:

In "May the Best Pet Win", Rainbow Dash tells Twilight that her inability to understand the difference between "coolness", "awesomeness", and "radicalness" is why she would never qualify to be her pet. Errmmm...

idgi posted:

The lyrics of Seven Rings in Hand can easily be interpreted as masturbation jokes. "No such thing as fate for those who speed"?

gently caress YOU posted:

In the first Pajama Sam game, Sam will grab a plank of wood at the cost of a rope he borrowed from a tree. If you have Sam offer the wood to the tree in exchange, she'll be disgusted and tell Sam to take it away.

Who the hell even notices device driver names? posted:

It's a common file name in all of Sierra's adventure games, but an accidental innuendo is caused if you realise that the VGA version of Leisure Suit Larry has a device driver with the name "STD". (This filename is actually short for "standard" (in C and C++, a library that handles multiple standard C features is called cstdlib, for C standard library) since VGA is the basic resolution on most x86 computers, still often used today to safely use a computer with a bad driver without the driver being active. However, considering the game in question, it can be misinterpreted as standing for something unrelated to computers.)

Opening a book to a random page and reading exactly half a sentence is completely reasonable posted:

This gem from The Phantom Tollbooth:
Tock: Oh, I don't just watch Lethargians, I watch boys too...

Accidental Innuendo on TvTropes itself?! posted:

The Laconic entry for Well, Excuse Me, Princess! states "The Magical Girlfriend calls out her love interest's shortcomings."

That's not accidental, that's called a joke posted:

Community:
From "Environmental Science":
Annie: You have to get Chang to call off some of this homework. You're the one with the silver tongue.
Pierce: Go tongue Chang.

Lottery of Babylon posted:

The Troper's Syllogism: This is a good thing. Sex is a good thing. Therefore this is sex.

quote:

The Sylvester Stallone film Oscar gets two good in-film moments from linguist Dr. Poole (Tim Curry), both involving linguistic terms — the first comes when he comments on Lisa's (Marisa Tomei's) "nicely rounded diphthongs", only to have have Snaps (Stallone's character) reply that they're "what got her in this jam [Lisa's fake pregnancy]." He later comments on another (male) character's "dangling participle", and the character responds by turning around and checking his fly. Then again, this is Tim Curry (and might explain why he liked the role so much)...

Lottery of Babylon posted:

The Troper's Syllogism: This is a good thing. Sex is a good thing. Therefore this is sex.

RareAcumen posted:

TvTropes Pleads the Fifth: Everything is actually rape

RareAcumen posted:

TvTropes Pleads the Fifth: Everything is actually rape

Byde posted:

But tropers will accuse feminists of the same thing and treat it as a bad thing there. : "Only the alpha male gets to call anything an innuendo and gets away with it, bitch."

The only thing that isn't considered rape to them is

tacodaemon posted:

From one of the Accidental Innuendo sub-pages:


Aww man get a load of all that innuendo.

(Actually that whole page is troperiffic as hell)

BioEnchanted posted:

Look at the Count of Monte Cristo and The Portrait of Dorian Gray.

Lottery of Babylon posted:

The Troper's Syllogism: This is a good thing. Sex is a good thing. Therefore this is sex.

Darth Walrus posted:

Eh, tropers didn't come up with that interpretation. People have been saying A Whole New World is about bonin' pretty much as long as Aladdin has been out.

KiteAuraan posted:

The Pajama Sam one clearly involves the tree being disgusted because you are offering it a dead, chopped up piece of another tree. It's not difficult to get why a tree would be upset about a wooden board and it doesn't involve dicks.

Pajama Sam Nightmare Fuel posted:

Darkness. Although Dark Is Not Evil, just lonely, he still managed to traumatize many children.

Pajama Sam posted:

Guide Dang It:
In "No Need To Hide When It's Dark Outside," one of the missions to get the flashlight, is incredibly complicated. First you need to get a pickaxe that you then use to pick up some gold. Then you use that gold to cross a bridge, where you pick up a sentient pencil. Then you have to find a hammer that you use to break through some boards. Then you use the pencil to break through a wall (It Makes Sense in Context). Then you race into another room that is pitch black. Then you flip a switch to turn the lights on. Then you go back into where the dark room was. There's a mechanism that is used to send you flying towards the flashlight, but you need a certain gear. So then you go back to Darkness' house to talk to a clock. He says he'll give you one of his gears if you correctly reset his time. So then you go to another room in Darkness' house to check one of the clocks for the correct time. Then you go back to the Grandfather clock and input the correct time. Then you collect the gear, head back into the mines, put the gear in place, and finally use the mechanism to send you flying straight to pick up the flashlight. Going through it the first time, especially for a young kid, would've been incredibly time consuming and confusing.

Pajama Sam Wild Mass Guessing posted:

Sams’ house is an interdimensional hub— and his Mom knows.
Since we never actually see Sam’s mother, I’m gonna peg her as non-human: She has blue skin, like her son, so we’ve already got a bit of evidence in that direction. This theory states that not only is she a non-human entity, she has the ability to create and manipulate portals to other universes. She’s kind of an interdimensional explorer, who gave up her day job to settle down and raise a kid in a nice suburban community.

However, she still retains the power— and she uses her connections with dimensional deities to help her out with parenting. Kid’s freaking out over sleeping in the dark? Well, hey, you slept in that guy’s guest room for a month in college. Kid won’t eat his veggies? Seeing the effects of political imbalance amongst the food groups will teach him to have a balanced diet! Thunder and Lightning? Oh, they’re just the nicest couple! Of course they’ll put him up in the weather machine for a night— hopefully he doesn’t break anything.

Anyway. This would explain why the characters in the “pretend” worlds make pop culture references and jokes that go over Sam’s head, and why everything always works out fine in the end. And as a bonus? That carrot that’s in every game is an interdimensional traveller as well. And, though it’s going out on quite a limb, he’s Sam’s biological father. It was a fling back when his mom was younger, okay? He’s clearly a child of the 60s, so it sounds about right, age-wise. She’d been meaning to have a little explorer of her own, anyway. Sam’s mom sends Sam off on interdimensional travels to raise him correctly, and Sam’s dad watches over him on these adventures.

NobbytheSheep posted:

I think you might be thinking of DrunkScriblerian. He used to bang on about being drunk all the time, don't know if he still does. He also had a girlfriend who posted on there as DrunkGirlfriend.

Lottery of Babylon posted:

NO THE CARROT ISN'T SAM'S FATHER GO gently caress YOURSELF

Byde posted:

The only thing that isn't considered rape to them is

Sham bam bamina! posted:

Eh, that's different. "Wild Mass Guessing" is basically a self-aware Cinema Discusso where they deliberately come up with the most absurd, contrived "readings" that they can as a joke. 99% of it is just unfunny bullshit (The three ladies in A Wrinkle in Time are Time Lords! Q is a Time Lord! The John DeLancie character in My Little Pony is Q and also a Time Lord!!!), but I'll admit that I got a kick out of this one.

Sham bam bamina! posted:

Eh, that's different. "Wild Mass Guessing" is basically a self-aware Cinema Discusso where they deliberately come up with the most absurd, contrived "readings" that they can as a joke. 99% of it is just unfunny bullshit (The three ladies in A Wrinkle in Time are Time Lords! Q is a Time Lord! The John DeLancie character in My Little Pony is Q and also a Time Lord!!!), but I'll admit that I got a kick out of this one.

Wanamingo posted:

Yes.

Guide Dang It: Racing posted:

Games which have a checklist of objectives, like Kirby Air Ride, often do not tell you what the objectives are before you complete them. This leads to a few of the objectives becoming Guide Dang Its. In KAR's case, how would anyone guess to win a race on a certain track without touching the walls even once? Well, the game does reveal a few of the uncleared objectives when you start to clear them, but for most of them, they'll be completed without you knowing what they are or that you've completed them.

Guide Dang It: Strategy posted:

Lego Rock Raiders
In the whole game, Chief only tells you three times about the monsters in that mission, the other times leaving them to be a nasty surprise.

Guide Dang It: Platform Game posted:

Shadow the Hedgehog doesn't have many moments like this, with one notable exception. The Hero mission for Space Gadget is just the Neutral mission on a time limit. If you want to get to Cosmic Fall from this level (by clearing the Neutral mission), you have to run out the clock on the Hero mission first, otherwise the game will count it as you passing the Hero mission and instead send you to Final Haunt. This is the only stage where something like this happens.

Guide Dang It: Platform Game posted:

In order to get to Rusty Bucket Bay in Banjo-Kazooie, you need to transform into a pumpkin and go under a gate in the graveyard room where you enter a building which results in other things happening, but the gate doesn't look like it has a hole.

Guide Dang It: Other posted:

Good luck getting through Knightmare without divining what you were supposed to do, the game was easily made unwinnable with the no backtracking rule.

Guide Dang It: Pokemon posted:

The games start you off in your room in the upstairs part of your house. Going downstairs is intuitive, but nowhere does it say that the little floor mat marks the front door of your house.

Guide Dang It: Other posted:

In Real Life, socializing can be this.

quote:

The line of Junior Arcades by Humongous Entertainment typically had at least one instance.

Freddi Fish & Luther's Maze Madness gave us Level 24, an incredibly long and tedious level compromised of three rooms. One of the rooms in particular is filled with opening and closing leaves, that will only let you through when they feel like. This makes the level drag out for as long as possible.
SPY Fox in Cheese Chase includes Level 75, "Carnival of Clouds." You navigate through narrow passages of rollercoasters, all of which are one hit kills. If you do so much as touch the corner of one of the tracks, it's over. This is often the one level where people use the "Go slower" junior helper.
Spy Fox in Hold the Mustard has the passageway levels. Compared to the rest of the game which gives you a sky to fly around, the passageways are narrow tubes, and thanks to the lack of Mercy Invincibility, walls are almost always one hit kills, unless you get lucky and somehow manage to escape before your health drains (and even if you do, you'll still probably have only one hit left). The microscopic enemies certainly don't help matters, considering they also knock you far back, commonly into the walls. This is all bad enough; the fact that there are sixteen of these in succession instead of the usual eight, it's one heck of a ride. Sure, you can break up the action a bit by going to the secret Atlantis levels midway through, but they aren't much better.
Putt-Putt & Pep's Balloon-o-Rama has Level 108, which has balloons encased in a line of pinwheels and bumpers. For those who don't know, it plays like Breakout, except there is gravity thrown into the mix. The bumpers will be sure to keep you out of there though, and the pinwheels are supposed to send you in a random direction, but more often than not they just act like the bumpers. This makes getting the balloons they are blocking dang near impossible. You will be playing this level for a loooong time before you finish it.
Putt-Putt & Pep's Dog on a Stick has a level toward the end where you are traveling along one-square wide paths, with four hedgehogs in your way. This is a Q*Bert styled game, and the hedgehogs are the fastest enemies in the game, so they are a giant pain to dodge. There are also switches all over the level that add additional squares to help you some, but often the hedgehogs will hog the buttons and just keep switching them on and off as if to taunt you. Getting through this level without the unlimited lives junior helper is a big pain, unless you exploit a glitch that lets you jump through enemies with the proper timing. And even then, it hardly helps because you'll probably just land straight into the inevitable hedgehog that was trailing it.

Lottery of Babylon posted:

lol

Lottery of Babylon posted:

quote:

Guide Dang It: Other posted:

In Real Life, socializing can be this.

Ninjasaurus posted:

Let's be honest, this is the only one you needed to post.

bucketmouse posted:

I wonder if the guy who wrote that grew up to be a PUA.

That page (or a similarly themed one) used to have an amazingly long faux-psychologist I'm Super Smart Listen To Me rant about the barrel in sonic 3 that spergs always have trouble with but unfortunately it seems to be gone now.

Ninjasaurus posted:

tacodaemon posted:

I was looking through another Accidental Innuendo page and learned that tropers think Georgia O'Keeffe's flower paintings are an example of accidental innuendo.

bucketmouse posted:

That page (or a similarly themed one) used to have an amazingly long faux-psychologist I'm Super Smart Listen To Me rant about the barrel in sonic 3 that spergs always have trouble with but unfortunately it seems to be gone now.

quote:

As seen to the right, Sonic 3 & Knuckles, That loving barrel in Carnival Night Zone, also known as"Barrel of Doom" (solution: stand on the barrel and press UP and DOWN on the D-pad in sync with the barrel's bobbing motion to shift its weight). This was such a bad case of the trope that Yuji Naka publicly apologized for it in 2011 at Summer Of Sonic in London.

*While the down key is used frequently in gameplay, the up key has little to no use in the game elsewhere. The up and down keys also appear to be non-functional while standing on a barrel. Pressing up or down does not make Sonic look up or duck down like he does elsewhere. If the barrel is stationary, pressing the up or down keys will do nothing. If you tap the up and down keys randomly, you're not likely to notice a change in the barrel's velocity.

*Jumping on a barrel makes it move. In fact, it is the only thing a player can do to a barrel that is guaranteed to give instantaneous feedback. It doesn't help that carefully timed jumps on any other barrel in the zone will be enough to pass them.

*It is only just possible to get past the Barrel of Doom by jumping on it until it falls low enough that you can spin-dash under it when it pops back up. Players that could almost make it would believe they were doing the right thing, just not well enough. Plus, this method would often leave you with not enough time to reach the next checkpoint.

*That barrel is the only barrel in the zone that cannot be skipped. You will run into it, unless you're playing as Knuckles.

*And you can easily get into Sonic and Tails area with Knuckles if you feel like having Knuckles face the barrel.
If you read the manual, and saw the tip about how Sonic would sometimes run into traps that were completely inescapable except by waiting for time to run out or resetting the game, chances are you wouldn't realize that it was actually handwaving the rather large number of glitches that the player might encounter, and instead think it was referring to That F-ing Barrel.

*At first, this wasn't even in the guides.

*They seem to be hoping that pressing down and up like that would feel natural to the player, like how most people pressed A when they wanted to catch a Pokémon, or pressing B to run.

*Finally, the fact that merely standing on the barrel makes Sonic spin around vertically, which in any other situation would imply that he can't be controlled beyond making him jump off it, discourages people from actively trying to figure out what they need to do.

tacodaemon posted:

I was looking through another Accidental Innuendo page and learned that tropers think Georgia O'Keeffe's flower paintings are an example of accidental innuendo.

Testekill posted:

Is it just me or does That One Level seems to only rarely be about points in games that are brutally unfair and are instead the troper just being bad at games? Case in point, there's complaining about the LEGO crossover games that are pretty easy for the most part and don't punish you for dying outside of losing some studs.
There's also complaining about Dynasty Warriors which is also odd since it's not exactly difficult either.

Shwoo posted:

Was it this?

Emphasis theirs. It's on the Platform Games subpage.