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Cannot Convey Sarcasm
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The inversion of Sarcasm-Blind. Due to some characters' demeanor, it is hard for others to distinguish if they are being sarcastic. In this case, it isn't that someone doesn't understand the concept of sarcasm — it's that someone doesn't understand how to properly use it, despite knowing exactly what sarcasm is. Often, they have to alert others that they are in Sarcasm Mode. May overlap with Insult Backfire. Likely perpetrators are The Comically Serious and those with No Social Skills or No Sense of Humor. Compare Cannot Tell a Joke. Compare Sarcasm Failure, a situational trope where someone who usually can convey sarcasm fails to do so for one reason or another. Examples |
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In Borderlands 2, Zer0 has this as a taunt when he manages to kill someone with a critical hit. Being Zer0, he does it in Haiku. | |
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Every so often Brennan and (at one point anyway) Zack from Bones (on the off chance that they'd actually use sarcasm). | |
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The Simpsons: Inverted in the episode "Bart of Darkness": Played with in "Bart Has Two Mommies", after telling Marge that Bart was kidnapped by a monkey: In the episode "Homerpalooza" two unnamed teens/young adults engage in a form of this: And then there's the time when Homer's sarcasm was perfectly clear, but he suddenly worried that he hadn't made himself clear: |
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Inverted in a The Kids in the Hall sketch in which Dave Foley’s character inadvertently insults people due to his speech impediment which causes it to sound as though he’s perpetually being sarcastic. Check it out. | |
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Reddit users use /s to represent sarcasm. | |
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Abed from Community (possibly) subverts this twice: Once where he goes out of his way to use sarcastic inflection when being sincere about the importance of inflection, and again where he lets the group know he's about to begin a sarcastic diatribe before doing so, and closes with "Sarcasm over". | |
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In Double Homework, since Morgan’s Uncle, Tommy, is a scary-looking, middle-aged ex-rocker, the protagonist is nonplussed when Uncle Tommy asks him what his intentions are with Morgan. He then clarifies that he was just kidding. | |
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The 100 Girlfriends Who Really, Really, Really, Really, Really Love You: Zigzagged with Nano. Her lack of emotions make it difficult to tell if her comments that would come off as sarcastic from someone else are actually sarcastic or dead serious. | |
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Inverted in the Corner Gas episode "Dog River Dave". People keep thinking Wanda is being sarcastic when she actually isn't, a big pet peeve of hers. As Wanda is the biggest Deadpan Snarker on the show, it's highly likely that the rest of the town just assumes that anything coming out of her mouth must be sarcasm. | |
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In one episode of Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends, Mr. Herriman tries to receive funding from an Eccentric Millionaire, and tells Bloo with obvious sarcasm that he and Mac will get race cars from the money. Bloo's glee at this comment reveals to Mac that he has absolutely no idea what sarcasm is, and his attempts to teach him run throughout the episode. As it turns out, the "millionaire" had no money, and thought his baldfaced lying was sarcasm. Additionally, Mr. Herriman was telling the truth, and gives Mac and Bloo race cars in the end. | |
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Dr. Clef from SCP Foundation makes it impossible to tell whether he's lying or not, or whether he's even serious or not. | |
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Wordgirl has an instance in "The Pretty Princess and Mr. Big Power Hour" in which Leslie and Mr Big have an exchange after the latter has explained his evil plan. It turns out that not even she knows when she's being sarcastic or not. | |
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Every so often, Sheldon from the The Big Bang Theory says something sarcastic, but does it without much inflection. In one episode, Penny wants Sheldon to apologize to Leonard. When Sheldon refuses, Penny invokes this trope by telling Sheldon to apologize sarcastically. Sheldon agrees, and Leonard never realizes that Sheldon is trying to be sarcastic. | |
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One sketch on So Random! features "Possibly Sarcastic Skip", who was born with a disease that makes him sound sarcastic all the time. The sketch is spent trying to determine when he is and isn't being sincere. | |
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Sten from Dragon Age: Origins. He's extremely stoic and does not seem to make jokes. However, if you at one point reply to one of his rather deadpan observations with "funny" (whether your character is being sarcastic or not is really up to you), he'll thank you as it was, apparently, meant as a joke. | |
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Mass Effect 2 has EDI: She slowly becomes increasingly capable at humor, although her capability to convey sarcasm through tone of voice takes a bit more work. In between the six months that seperate the second and third games, she seems to have refined her technique, although she tends to avoid sarcasm in favor of messing with her Organic crew members’ minds. Joker has just finished crawling through one access tunnel and is about to crawl through another, complains to EDI about it. Even better in Mass Effect 3, as she gets the same reaction from resident badass, Commander Shepard. |
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Even better in Mass Effect 3, as she gets the same reaction from resident badass, Commander Shepard. | |
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Digman! has Zane, Rip Digman's friend-turned-rival who speaks with a thick British accent that makes it difficult for Rip to tell when Zane is being genuinely snide. It's used as a plot point at the end of the Pilot episode, when Zane's sarcastic statement to the press that he wouldn't have succeeded without Digman's help is interpreted as genuine by a bunch of people and leads to Digman getting a bunch of new job offers. | |
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The Saturday Night Live sketch "Sarcasm 101 with Matthew Perry." They know what sarcasm is, but they don't all quite get how to do it. | |
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El Goonish Shive: Grace is very naïve and misses a lot of social cues because she was Raised in a Lab. It makes it hard for other characters to tell whether she's making a joke or just being a Cloud Cuckoolander. | |
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Dead Famous: Inspector Colebridge can spend a whole paragraph being "deeply sarcastic" during The Summation without the hundreds of millions of people watching the televised event getting it. A good example of this is when he describes a hypothetical scenario where one of the eliminated reality show contestants tunnels back inside to commit a murder out of revenge. | |
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South Park had an inversion in "Sarcastiball": After Randy Marsh accidentally invents a sport by sarcastically suggesting it, he adopts a habit of speaking sarcastically all the time. At one point Sharon asks him if he's stuck speaking sarcastically. He angrily replies with things like "Yes! I'm stuck speaking like this! I need help!" She still can't tell if he's sincere or not. | |
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Maybe GLaDOS from Portal. Her being a robot doesn't help. She might not have the intonation, but given that most of her sarcasm is the variety you would expect from a bratty six-year-old, it isn't exactly difficult to make out. At least in the sequel, she is promoted to teenager-level bitchiness. | |
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In Edgar Allan Poe's Murder Mystery Dinner Party, several famous nineteenth-century writers gather for a murder mystery game which turns out to be far too real. When the writers start arriving, Mary Shelley makes the lamest joke possible about her own novel. Through a combination of the joke's stupidity and her dead serious delivery, everyone present misses it or charitably pretends they did. | |
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Buffy the Vampire Slayer Anya Jenkins, maybe. She is very inept at handling human relationships and behaviour, so it is hard to tell for the Scoobies whether she is being sarcastic, just unknowing — or plain insulting. Oz, the extremely-Deadpan Snarker. |
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Robin and her date have a misunderstanding in How I Met Your Mother in which he turns up in a Halloween costume while she doesn't, as her sarcasm didn't come across in their online conversations. | |
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Shizune in Katawa Shoujo occasionally has this problem. Being deaf and mute, her sign language is interpreted by Misha, who tends to speak in a cheerful, bubbly tone regardless of Shizune's intent. | |
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