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Bad News, Irrelevant News
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Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_mobile_ad_1'); })A trope most easily employed with two or more characters who are in a Good News, Bad News scenario. After breaking the overwhelmingly bad news to the other, the messenger helpfully relays the good news: a Breathless Non Sequitur that has nothing to do with the dire situation. This usually results in effectively crushing the raised spirits of the receiver(s). Maybe the messenger was just fulfilling his role as the comic relief, maybe he's a Jerkass with a really mean-spirited sense of humor, maybe he's self-centered and can't comprehend that others might not regard the irrelevant news as good, or maybe he's The Ditz and was thoroughly convinced that his piece of good news was every bit well placed. Whatever the case, the receiver is usually anything but amused. Very likely to come up in Kent Brockman News. A related trope is Bad News in a Good Way. Compare Worst News Judgment Ever when the Irrelevant News is in the headlines. Also compare No Sympathy and The One Thing I Don't Hate About You. Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_mobile_ad_2'); })Examples |
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Dave Chappelle does this in his spoof of P. Diddy's Making the Band. | |
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Sheriff Carter does this in the Eureka episode "Family Reunion", while leading someone into his jail cell. | |
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From an episode of Hustle: the bad news is, the castle the team is pretending to have for sale is open to the public until 7, and the mark is coming at 6 to look at it. The good news: if they buy a 6 month pass to said castle, they get a free ice cream. | |
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The Sledge Hammer! episode "They Call Me Mr. Trunk" has a newscast announcing that the police precinct has been contaminated by a weapons-grade virus. | |
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Inverted in the first Modern Warfare, where Gaz's "good news" is there's a civil war in Russia, with Ultranationalist rebels against government loyalists. The bad news is a new guy's joining them. | |
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In one episode of Corner Gas, after the Rough Riders lose and Brent is blamed because he wasn't wearing a Rough Riders jersey, someone tells Brent he now has to tell his wife he lost the farm. When Brent asks if he bet the farm on a football game, he clarifies he's just bad at business and was hoping to invoke this trope to lift his wife's spirits. | |
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The Fairly Oddparents: Dr. Rip Studwell, a charming but self-absorbed fairy doctor, would rather talk about the success of his golf swings rather than diagnosing his patients: | |
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Brooklyn Nine-Nine double-subverts this, in one episode, in which Hitchcock comes back from checking out a perp's alibi, and announces that he has good news and bad news. The bad (irrelevant) news is that his favorite taffy place was closed. The good news is... the perp's alibi checked out. As Peralta points out, that was actually also bad news. | |
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Irregular Webcomic! does it here with good news and bad news in an order that makes the good news irrelevant news. | |
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Used by Danny and Jackie in Blue Bloods. They explain to the Criminal of the Week that they found his gun and he's headed for death row. The good news? "We decided to drop the credit fraud charges." | |
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This little gem from the True Lab in Undertale: | |
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From Dragon Ball Z Abridged, the end of "Bardock: Father of Goku" has Nappa telling young Vegeta that their home planet has been destroyed. "But the good news is, we're going to DAIRY QUEEN!!" | |
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Ultra Fast Pony. From "Faith to Faith": | |
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In an unusual case of it actually cheering someone up for a moment, in Farscape, D'Argo uses this tactic when John's about to be frozen as a statue for eighty years: | |
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A highly surreal edge-case from Twin Peaks: Agent Cooper is blessed in a prescient dream with the good news that "that gum you like is coming back in style". | |
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In the movie 21, a friend of the main character declares "I just saved a bunch of money on my car insurance," but does not mention GEICO. | |
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The trope namer comes from the last episode of Season One of The Office (UK): Particularly noteworthy in that not only is he called out on his "good news", but he genuinely thinks it should be considered as such, and desperately tries to convince them as such. |
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Somewhat cruelly subverted in the first chapter of Mother 3 by telling the good news first in a horribly misguided attempt to soften the blow. After a search to find a family lost in the woods after a storm, Bronson comes back from a search and declares something to the effect of "The good news is I've just found a fang that would make a great weapon — the bad news is that it was pierced through your wife's heart". He is quite rightly walloped for this. This is all Played for Drama. | |
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In Darths & Droids Lando explains that Leia has been identified as one of the rebels, but the good news is that he can claim part of the bounty. | |
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Concession does it here. | |
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After the unfortunate switching of two crates is discovered in Stand Still, Stay Silent. Bad news, the expedition ran out of food much earlier than planned. Good news, they aren't running out of candles anytime soon. | |
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A comedian from The Tonight Show was talking to Manny Ramirez c. 2003. He mentioned that the Red Sox hadn't won a World Series in 85 years. "But you know what the good news is? I just saved a bunch of money on my car insurance." Hilarious in Hindsight considering that they they won the World Series in... 2004. |
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