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Forgotten Trope	comment	These are the tropes that are one step beyond Dead Horse Tropes and Discredited Tropes; not only are they not used straight, they're not used at all. You won't find this in any current series; they have disappeared from the writer's toolbox. Note that Forgotten Tropes aren't actually forgotten, Future Imperfect-style; if they were, would we even be talking about them here? Academics will know all about them, and a few minutes with a web search engine will turn up plenty if you know what to look for. Rather than truly forgotten tropes, they might be better thought of as obsolete tropes or archaic tropes. They may, on very, very rare occasions, show up in a modern series, but generally those are only emulating a series that did have these. The best place to find Forgotten Tropes is in "classic" works; there you will see them, frozen like insects in amber. They're also often used by artists relying a great deal on the Nostalgia Filter: Walt Disney, for example, probably did more than anyone else to keep a number of otherwise Forgotten tropes alive. Often, these tropes were a sign of the times, and as the times moved on so did the tropes, morphing to fit the current standard. Many tropes evolved this way, and while their ancestors went extinct, the fossils remain (as do, occasionally, vestigial features in their descendants). Tropes of this nature are occasionally revived (though only rarely played fully straight without further examination) in the process of invoking Deliberate Values Dissonance for the time period in which they were prevalent, as they typically reflected broader societal views on certain professions or issues. Alternately, a broken trope may be impossible in a work set in the modern day, but work perfectly well in a Period Piece; other tropes revolving around the production of a work can still be deliberately invoked as a stylistic choice but remain forgotten as a standard. Some tropes become Forgotten Tropes after going through the Discredited and/or Dead Horse Trope stage first. However, sometimes the usage of a trope just quietly fades away. Some trends were overlooked at the time of their popularity and are recognized as a trope only in retrospect, thus avoiding backlash. This can also happen if the trope was based on e.g. a piece of technology that has fallen into disuse, and the trope faded away alongside the tech itself. Forgotten tropes are almost always some of The Oldest Ones in the Book, except that they've fallen out of the book entirely. When a trope is forgotten but its parody isn't, it's gone through Parody Displacement. When a particular change in technology or culture makes tropes obsolete overnight, it's a Trope Breaker. Examples are sorted by the time period they were most popular or most common. If a trope has a lot of examples, please feel free to use the Trope Launch Pad to make it its own page! Forgotten Tropes with their own pages:
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Forgotten Trope / int_10638bff	comment	The theme for the 2011-2017 BBC2/Showtime comedy Episodes (which revolves around a couple of British scriptwriters in Hollywood) is a jaunty tune backed by typewriter noises. Interludes between are also frequently bridged with typewriter sounds, such as typing, dinging bells, and ratcheting.
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Forgotten Trope / int_12ff4a33	comment	In Swallows and Amazons, Nancy and Peggy's tyrannical great-aunt decides to punish them by having them learn a poem and recite it from memory. The girls' uncle comes to their rescue by suggesting Casabianca, which he knows they already know.
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Forgotten Trope / int_16aa3232	comment	Perhaps a modern variation is the competition by rich families for good nannies, as seen on Desperate Housewives.
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Forgotten Trope / int_18d31711	comment	Civilian adventure comics: The dominance of the superhero has all but eliminated the once-popular "civilian adventurer" type, who often had an exciting profession and invariably ended up battling criminals and spies. Many early comics featured the likes of aviator Hop Harrigan, TV host Roy Raymond, and adventurer Pep Morgan starring in backup features in the increasingly superhero-dominated anthologies. While some of these characters still exist, they usually survive by either becoming superheroes (like Congo Bill becoming Congorilla) or becoming part of the supporting cast of a superhero comic (like Speed Saunders, who has been tied in with Hawkman). The idea of such characters headlining their own comics is long gone. They still persist in some newspaper comics — Mark Trail, for example — but only because of the Grandfather Clause. Tintin began as a straightforward entry in the European version of this genre but gradually evolved into an ensemble adventure comic.
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Forgotten Trope / int_1bb34bf8	comment	Termagant: The name of an imaginary god worshipped by Muslims, according to different tales of the Christian West. The Western Christians' stories often referred to Muslims as "pagans", and assumed that they worshipped Muhammad as a god, amongst other gods including Termagant. Some stories, like The Song of Roland, claimed that the Muslims worshipped an 'unholy trinity' of Muhammad, Apollyon, and Termagant. As time passed, clashes between the West and the Muslim world continued, but the idea of 'Termagant' as an evil trickster deity was forgotten. The term is still used nowadays to describe a violent woman, but even in that context, it's dark and obscure, even more than the original meaning of the word. This often went hand-in-hand with a semi-trope that emerged from cultural misunderstanding; Muslims are Pagans. In the ancient Church the three categories of religions were Christians, Jews, and Pagans, and this line of thinking continued into the middle ages (hence why the Nine Worthies listed above are split into those three groups). It was often just assumed that Muslims were simply another group of Pagans (since they weren't Christians or Jews); hence why Crusades-era songs referred to Muslims as "heathen". This idea died down when Christian Europe made more diplomatic contact with Muslims.
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Forgotten Trope / int_1ca25ddb	comment	Referenced on TimmyTurnersGrandDad in their two tributes to Games Done Quick - the place where the speedrun timer should be has a flashing 12:00 instead.
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Forgotten Trope / int_1dd1cb89	comment	A Midsummer Night's Dream features one of these for the Show Within a Show, delivered with a hefty dose of Stylistic Suck. The same players offer to perform an epilogue after their play, but this offer is declined; however, Puck's speech at the end of the play itself ("If we shadows have offended...") is more of a straight example.
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Forgotten Trope / int_1ef6a11b	comment	The main characters in Lynn Flewelling's Nightrunner series, who were sharing rooms (and occasionally even a single bed, when staying in traveler's inns or friends' guest rooms) long before they ever developed any romantic interest in each other. In the latter case, it's depicted as an "old-fashioned arrangement" (due to lack of proper heating), or as the result of the very limited space in wayside inns.note If they hadn't splurged on a private room, they would have been expected to share a bed in the common room with half a dozen strangers. There's also mention of teenage noble girls sleeping in a bed with their nurse/chaperone — possibly to prevent nightly visits from their beau.
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Forgotten Trope / int_1f72b18d	comment	Chase Cartoons: After the big success of Tom and Jerry, the idea of having some cartoon character chasing another as the basic premise became a sub-genre in the animation industry. Even parodies like Wile E. Coyote and the Road Runner (that took the basic plot and put it to work with the two most unlikeliest animals in the weirdest setting Chuck Jones could think of) was a success in its own right when people took it at face value instead of the satire it was supposed to be. But while a lot of those characters remain beloved icons of the medium, you just don't see a lot of these kind of shows anymore. The very few attempts to revive this premise in later years are seen as obscure, or as cult shows at best.
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Forgotten Trope / int_1fc24b50	comment	The song "Cavity Search" by "Weird Al" Yankovic, which is a parody of U2's "Hold Me, Thrill Me, Kiss Me, Kill Me", ends with the song fading out while someone screams in the dentist's office getting a cavity filling. Once the original song is fully cut, a Muzak version of the instrumental is played.
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Forgotten Trope / int_222b64ac	comment	In Slaughterhouse-Five, when Roland Weary calls Billy a "motherfucker", the narration notes that the word was "still a novelty in the speech of white people in 1944."
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Forgotten Trope / int_2237705a	comment	This was parodied in Osmosis Jones, where the Stomach is depicted as an airport full of arrivals. Near the bottom of the escalators where passengers get off are Hair Cell Krishnas. According to the commentary, test audiences got a kick out of them due to how silly they look and act but didn't really understand the reference.
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Forgotten Trope / int_22a51da6	comment	Lampshaded with "Wunderbar!" in Kiss Me, Kate.
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Forgotten Trope / int_261c8d3f	comment	The Fox Network as "a hard-core sex channel" (in the words of Marge Simpson): Well into the 1990s, media commentators would commonly refer to "the Fox edge" — the willingness of the "fourth" network owned by Rupert Murdoch to air programming depicting sex, violence, and general antisocial behavior with a frankness hitherto not seen on American television. Married... with Children set the template in 1987 with the sociopathic Bundy family, and they were followed soon enough by The Simpsons (who themselves weren't above poking fun at this trope). Indeed, later in the '90s when Fox premiered Ally McBeal (a show about a quirky female attorney), they joked that for once they were going to focus on a woman's mind instead of her body. Although by then, NBC and to a lesser extent ABC began relaxing their S&Ps regarding sex, and CBS (the network most traditionally associated with "family values") caught up in terms of sensationalism in the early 2000s, primarily with Survivor (the Trope Codifier for all the reality shows that followed), and after hitting a nadir in the mid-late 2000s, Fox toned down these aspects in tune with its competitors. Add to that how premium cable and on-demand services go even further than broadcast TV ever can, and how its earlier series seem less risquÃ© as time goes on. The notoriously right-wing stance of Fox News Channel has also made Fox's former image a little ironic.
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Forgotten Trope / int_263d08ee	comment	Boy inventor Tom Swift is the most famous and longest-lasting Edisonade hero.
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Forgotten Trope / int_26a58a8f	comment	This trope naturally features heavily in Hysteria (2011), as well as the invention of the vibrator as the "cure" for hysteria.
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Forgotten Trope / int_277975b4	comment	In the Miss Marple novel A Pocket Full of Rye this is a plot point — a gold mine that had been written off as worthless in the 1920s turns out to contain valuable uranium deposits.
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Forgotten Trope / int_28ccdd97	comment	Blake and Mortimer
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Forgotten Trope / int_2903c34b	comment	In Heart of a Dog, Professor Preobrazhensky tells an old lady he's going to implant a monkey's ovaries into her. Of course, monkeys were hard to come by in Russia back then, and he doesn't need problems with the law once the implant rejection causes obvious problems, so most likely he'll give her some fake scars and rely on the Placebo Effect.
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Forgotten Trope / int_297f346	comment	Due to its heavy use in old Western films (enough that the sounds are often associated with the genre), pieces paying homage to the classic era of Westerns will use this effect as a shout-out, similar to using the Wilhelm Scream. Red Dead Redemption is a good example of this at work.
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Forgotten Trope / int_2a562268	comment	Steam Boy, while clearly in the Steampunk genre, is also about the adventures of a young boy inventor Ray fighting antagonists with his wit and invention—with the necessary caveat that the boy inventor is, in fact, British.
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Forgotten Trope / int_2bbcacd9	comment	The latter two occurred in the Looney Tunes short "Long-Haired Hare".
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Forgotten Trope / int_2d36f9cb	comment	Carmen was originally produced at the OpÃ©ra-Comique, which permitted spoken dialogue. It was soon adapted into a French grand opera, with the dialogue replaced by recitatives by Ernest Guiraud, and a ballet added to the fourth act. Many productions include the recitatives but omit the ballet.
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Forgotten Trope / int_2e2efbf9	comment	Gay Men Really Love Their Mommies: In pop culture of decades past, there was a perceived correlation between a man being gay and having a very unhealthy attachment to his mother. Best seen in the novelization and a deleted scene from the movie of Back to the Future, where Marty, anticipating what might happen on his date with Lorraine, fears it might turn him gay (the punchline being the Doc being clueless about that usage of the term). The 1990s changed this perception, with really late examples in 1993's The Powers That Be, in which the senator's illegitimate daughter, upon learning that a guest likes long walks on the beach with his mother, immediately asks if he's gay, and an episode of Black Books from 2000 where Fran, on a date with a closeted gay man, uses the fact that he calls his mother frequently as supporting evidence of his homosexuality. Now, this trope is so far forgotten that the writer of this Cracked article expresses genuine confusion in his discussion of the deleted BTTF scene. One episode of The Critic has Duke assuming Jay is close to his mother because he's gay. He isn't, and he isn't.
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Forgotten Trope / int_304d4028	comment	Spirou & Fantasio
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Forgotten Trope / int_3501cc23	comment	The trope is still quite common in fantasy literature; for example, the main characters of Scott Lynch's Gentleman Bastard series, who are as-good-as-brothers friends and have been sharing a small room since they were kids, and apparently saw no real reason to stop as adults.note Neither of them is particularly lucky in love.
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Forgotten Trope / int_370e34a1	comment	Almost Live! expanded this to include people in southern King County, which was a predominantly white, blue-collar, working-class area looked down upon as a bunch of uncouth hicks by urban Seattle during the show's run.
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Forgotten Trope / int_370f6f37	comment	The Pawnshop Plot: In the early days of film (around the 1910s and 1920s), many films involved pawnshops as they were one of the few places to get credit before credit cards and easy loans were feasible. Films like Unclaimed Goodsnote the writer would go on to create Zorro and Pawn Ticket 210 would involve pawnshops running into situations such as (a few examples) buying or selling guns that a jilted spouse would use against their lover, or have someone abandon a baby at their doorstep as if they were pawning them. These would die off as credit cards and easier ways to get consumer credit arose, and ended up vanishing by the 1950s. As most of the films unfortunately no longer survive, this is one that is all but truly forgotten. This was discussed in (naturally) Pawn Stars here, when a customer brings in some old posters of pawnshop movies to sell.
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Forgotten Trope / int_3736edbb	comment	Die Fledermaus, though a Viennese light opera, has a ballet in the middle of its second act that seems to be usually cut, even though it's one character's excuse for being there.
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Forgotten Trope / int_3740c00a	comment	Hysteria, and more broadly the consistent misdiagnosis and mistreatment of women during the 19th and early 20th centuries, is the theme of the classic early feminist short horror story The Yellow Wallpaper.
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Forgotten Trope / int_3b870ce6	comment	Little Nemo: Adventures in Slumberland has one of these at the start of the film, mostly as a setup for And You Were There as the circus performers Nemo sees resemble characters that later appear in his dream. Fittingly it takes place sometime near the beginning of the 20th century.
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Forgotten Trope / int_3d6b812b	comment	Part of the plot of Matinee is kids going to one of these types of films during the Cuban Missile Crisis. It's implied that they served as escapism from the Cold War.
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Forgotten Trope / int_434ba0d	comment	The variant about young girls wearing short skirts makes a significant appearance in Fingersmith.
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Forgotten Trope / int_43c9273b	comment	In Gypsy, one of the favors Rose offers in the song "Mr. Goldstone" is to "have June recite a poem." Of course, she is a Stage Mom.
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Forgotten Trope / int_45c0ae7	comment	"Loudly let the trumpet bray" from Iolanthe is Gilbert and Sullivan's Affectionate Parody of this type of operatic number, combining a relatively modest staging (though Gilbert and D'Oyly Carte didn't skimp on the Peers' costuming) with lyrics of excessive pomposity:
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Forgotten Trope / int_4617a9f2	comment	This shaped the portrayal of Kelly Bundy and her friends on Married... with Children after the first couple of seasons.
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Forgotten Trope / int_474c18c1	comment	"Columbia" pops up again in BioShock Infinite, interestingly.
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Forgotten Trope / int_4a510504	comment	Rock Bimbo: The "rock bimbo" was a trope that often appeared in comedy through the '80s and early '90s, based on perceptions of female fans of rock bands like Guns N' Roses and Aerosmith as attractive, shallow, dumb, promiscuous partiers and more often than not overlapping with stereotypes of the Valley Girl and images of the singer Madonna from the time. It went away completely with the rise of grunge rock in the '90s — not to mention the rise of alternative rock, which cemented the image of women in rock as musicians in their own right and not just groupies note which itself is pretty unfair since there have been serious female hard-rock and punk musicians since at least the '70s (Nancy and Ann Wilson, Patti Smith, and toward the end of the decade Deborah Harry and Joan Jett), the '60s if psychedelic rock is considered hard rock (Janis Joplin, Grace Slick), or even the '50s if rockabilly is included (Wanda Jackson) — although similar stereotypes about teenaged and college-aged women still surface. But at least the rock bimbo's look — long feathered hair, dark but skimpy clothing, and wearing lots of long necklaces topped by maybe a large crucifix — has long been a relic. This shaped the portrayal of Kelly Bundy and her friends on Married... with Children after the first couple of seasons. A big part of Julie Brown's comedy persona especially on the old skit comedy show The Edge. The song "1985" by Bowling For Soup is about a woman stuck in the past, namely the year 1985, who is described as being this trope ("Where's the miniskirt made of snakeskin?/And who's the other guy singing in Van Halen?"). Found extensively throughout the cutscenes in the Aerosmith pinball machine, but considering its theme, this is very likely a throwback to the era of Aerosmith's music.
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Forgotten Trope / int_4acbcaf	comment	The title character of Auntie Mame is shown as free-spirited because she gives her nephew long pants to wear in his childhood.
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Forgotten Trope / int_4bea6084	comment	The legend is referenced in an achievement in the game Europa Universalis IV, which is based around reclaiming several holy sites as Ethiopia.
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Forgotten Trope / int_4ca7cf84	comment	All Old Folks Like Matlock: A common joke in sitcoms and stand-up routines was to make fun of how old people like that show. Of course, nowadays it's hard to find anyone not only using the joke but even remembering the show at all, as this demographic has long since passed away. Almost Live! expanded this to include people in southern King County, which was a predominantly white, blue-collar, working-class area looked down upon as a bunch of uncouth hicks by urban Seattle during the show's run. This is a borderline Running Gag with the old folks in The Simpsons. Abe loves the show so much that he demands that the Simpsons' home be destroyed in "Sideshow Bob Roberts" because it is blocking the route of the "Matlock Expressway". A bizarre variation of this trope happens in the How I Met Your Mother episode "Last Time in New York" (originally aired in 2013). In that episode, the actor Mandy Patinkin is shown to be like catnip to the elderly, with the mere mention of his name attracting droves of them. The gag is quite similar to the older Matlock jokes, but it remains unclear why Mandy Patinkin of all people would work as a 2010s substitute for Matlock. A similar mentality used to persist regarding game shows, but a more youthful approach to the genre over the years (glitzier sets, younger and/or more attractive hosts, physically and/or mentally demanding gameplay formats conducive to 20- to 30-something contestants) has helped put this trope to rest. Also helping was the rise of game shows targeted at children, most notably Double Dare. The parody political cartoons from The Onion have one strip bashing internet-loving teens because "computers don't have Matlock". Shows up in one episode of The Venture Brothers, with Pete White and Billy Quizboy insulting Rusty, calling him old, asking him if he had to take a break to watch Matlock. This appears in Better Call Saul, where Jimmy painstakingly apes Matlock's look because he's specializing in elder law and hopes to appeal to those kind of clients. This makes sense given that the series takes place in the early 2000s, where this trope had yet to be completely forgotten.
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Forgotten Trope / int_4ce969a9	comment	It was used in the Marathon computer games as late as 1996 (source).
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Forgotten Trope / int_4e9e9863	comment	In Arsenic and Old Lace, the very old-fashioned Aunt Martha points out to Elaine that, according to the standards of etiquette that they raised Mortimer with, he should not have asked her to meet him at his house, and should instead have called for her at her house. Elaine objects that "there's something about calling for a girl at a parsonage that discourages any man who doesn't embroider."
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Forgotten Trope / int_4fae3df1	comment	One chapter of The Adventures of Tom Sawyer involves Tom and his Sunday-school classmates being awarded tickets for successfully memorizing Bible verses, to redeem for prizes. Tom, naturally, gets the idea of trading with his more studious classmates for their tickets, and Hilarity Ensues.
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Forgotten Trope / int_543bfacd	comment	Believe it or not, but Bram Stoker's novel Dracula is sometimes classified as Invasion literature and you can certainly take the vaguely Eastern-European aristocrat from Ruritania as a stand-in for Austria-Hungary, then an ally of Germany.
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Forgotten Trope / int_554fcf93	comment	A Little Princess is actually a version of this. She gets her wealth back because she was a good girl -and not, say, because the guardian her father appointed finally looked at the boarding house right next door.
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Forgotten Trope / int_5562da6a	comment	Another modern version occurred in the 3rd Rock from the Sun episode "Citizen Solomon", with Dick and Mary fighting over a maid:
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Forgotten Trope / int_574b92e4	comment	The idea is alluded to in the Quiet, Please (1947) episode "Northern Lights", in which one of the scientists volunteers his lighter for the teleportation/time travel experiment because he figures it'll be no big loss if they can't get it back and explicitly says that it hardly ever works, anyway.
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Forgotten Trope / int_5896bcd7	comment	The "10-20-30" melodrama: a long-extinct genre of theatrical productions which originated many of the stereotypical characters and over-the-top practical effects now more typically associated with early silent films like The Perils of Pauline. The "10-20-30" name was derived from the cheap ticket prices charged for these productions — 10 cents, 20 cents, 30 cents. Interestingly, the name itself became obsolete during the very heyday of these melodramas ("15-25-35" would have been more accurate.) Titles such as The Still Alarm and Bertha The Sewing Machine Girl would remain beloved punchlines of New York theatrical critics into the middle of twentieth century, long after their popularity had faded into obscurity.
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Forgotten Trope / int_58f28be1	comment	The Godfather, Part II owes a few scenes to this trope.
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Forgotten Trope / int_599703c7	comment	The extravaganza: The American equivalent of English pantomime, the extravaganza was a family-friendly type of musical using many of the typical pantomime characters and settings (though the "dame" played by a man in drag seems not to have fully caught on). The genre survived until the Great Depression. In the first decade of the twentieth century, stage adaptations of The Wonderful Wizard of Oz (which had L. Frank Baum's involvement) and Little Nemo followed the extravaganza format. The only survivor of the genre is Babes in Toyland. The word "extravaganza" is still around but today means any kind of spectacle. Its connection to drag performance does live on in the name of perhaps the most famous drag collectives, the House of Xtravaganza in New York City.
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Forgotten Trope / int_5a2333ef	comment	The pod music in LittleBigPlanet uses typewriters, morse code, and other such sounds. Ditched in the sequels, however.
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Forgotten Trope / int_5b2f178f	comment	Brought up in The X-Files Game when Detective Mary Astadorian is impressed that FBI Agent Craig Willmore's VCR isn't flashing midnight.
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Forgotten Trope / int_5c783167	comment	Typewriter theme music: A minor trope in old newscasts was using thematic music that emulated the ticking sound of teleprinters, news tickers, or typewriters. With the predominance of new technology in the mid-to-late 1990s, those devices eventually were considered obsolete, so using such a style of musicalization wasn't making sense any more (and younger audiences probably wouldn't be able to recognize them anyway) and since then most newscast themes have featured mostly "epic soundtrack" themes with "rockish" (late '90s-mid 2000s) or electronic styles (late 2000s-2010s). During the early years of the decade, however, some radio news bulletins were still using it as a sort of homage and/or Affectionate Parody of old-time newscasts such as CBS Evening News with Walter Cronkite. The theme for the 2011-2017 BBC2/Showtime comedy Episodes (which revolves around a couple of British scriptwriters in Hollywood) is a jaunty tune backed by typewriter noises. Interludes between are also frequently bridged with typewriter sounds, such as typing, dinging bells, and ratcheting. The pod music in LittleBigPlanet uses typewriters, morse code, and other such sounds. Ditched in the sequels, however. One popular present-day show that integrates typewriter sounds into the theme is Taskmaster and all its international incarnations.
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Forgotten Trope / int_5c8bdf2e	comment	A modern example of Invasion Literature most Australians will know of is Tomorrow: When the War Began, wherein Australia is invaded by an unnamed country.
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Forgotten Trope / int_5cdad167	comment	Although this was used in the movie Minority Report, with the aid of an electronic device to relax the muscles.
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Forgotten Trope / int_5d05d4af	comment	Cracked magazine spoofed this phenomenon soon after it became big in the late '60s with a few pages of strips of many other modes of transportation being hijacked, including ice-cream trucks, rickshaws, magic carpets, and horses in the Old West.
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Forgotten Trope / int_5df90da2	comment	In Issue #27 of the Animaniacs comic, one passenger on the plane Slappy and Skippy are on tries to hijack the plane to go to Cuba, but things escalate out of control as other passengers make their own attempts to hijack the plane to go to different places and several members of different federal agencies announce themselves.
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Forgotten Trope / int_60156176	comment	This gets a modern use in the Vorkosigan Saga novel Memory where his parents and other relatives are tempted to steal away his new cook, Ma Kosti, but that's probably because the series is often social comedy Recycled In Space.
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Forgotten Trope / int_60e46926	comment	The "What, Me Worry?" Kid as Advertising: You probably recognize Alfred E. Neuman as the mascot of MAD Magazine. But they didn't invent it, they actually just use it. No one really knows how it started but was one early example of Memetic Mutation: it was used as an advertising tool, mostly by medical services/dentists (but popular enough in other areas like insurances or auto-parts), and it consisted in claiming the procedures the doctor used were painless, with the kid stating "What, me worry?", "It didn't hurt at all" or other similar phrases. This was usually a lie but a very well-liked one, and it was still used all the way to the early twentieth century. But once the satirical magazine appeared and started to employ this image, it was completely associated with the publication, with its history in advertising forgotten incredibly soon. The humorous stock poster of a "crazy person" depicted in Breakfast of Champions seems very similar to this.
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Forgotten Trope / int_6606c1bc	comment	The only survivor of the genre is Babes in Toyland.
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Forgotten Trope / int_6b2813f2	comment	Spy Kids: All the Time in the World tried Smell-O-Vision again in 2011. It didn't really work.
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Forgotten Trope / int_6c535f55	comment	My Dog Skip is a rare modern example as the protagonist's father lost a leg fighting in Spain. It's not a major plot point, but it's used to present the character as something of a disillusioned idealist.
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Forgotten Trope / int_6c9193a1	comment	Shows up in one episode of The Venture Brothers, with Pete White and Billy Quizboy insulting Rusty, calling him old, asking him if he had to take a break to watch Matlock.
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Forgotten Trope / int_6deda021	comment	When Wagner's TannhÃ¤user was being premiered in Paris, he was told that they'd have to insert a ballet; he could either write one, or they'd pay someone's brother-in-law to arrange some of the thematic material from the opera into it. He said he'd write one, and that the place where it would make the most sense plot-wise would be in the very first scene. The management told him it would have to be in "the middle of the middle" because that was when they seated latecomers. Said latecomers were aristocratic patrons of the Paris Opera, who liked to dine at their clubs and thus couldn't be bothered to be there when the opera started, but still wanted to see the ballet, as they were romantically interested in the dancers themselves. TannhÃ¤user still premiered with its ballet at the beginning, but the uproar it caused led to interruptions, and the production was withdrawn after three performances.
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Forgotten Trope / int_704aa74	comment	AntÃ´nio Carlos Jobim's "Girl from Ipanema" is best known nowadays for being a stock choice for "elevator scenes".
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Forgotten Trope / int_727259ac	comment	In an episode of The Ren & Stimpy Show, Ren and Stimpy try to rob a bank to get into prison (because it was advertised as a Luxury Prison Suite). During the robbery, Stimpy says "Give us a full tank of gas. We're taking this bird to Cuba".
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Forgotten Trope / int_72d0f2b1	comment	At the beginning of One-Trick Pony, the protagonist is accosted by a Hare Krishna in an airport, to his irritation.
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Forgotten Trope / int_73b4d4c1	comment	In the Call of Cthulhu episodes of Chapo Trap House, Matt's character Dr. Matthew Pennyfarthing is a doctor who lost his medical license and potency due to implanting goat testicles into himself and others. At one point, he implants goat testicles into Felix, with horrible results.
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Forgotten Trope / int_7441e1d9	comment	The original 1923 version of The Ten Commandments is an odd example in which the Biblical scenes are far better known than the modern story that actually takes up most of the running time. This was so much the case that when Cecil B. DeMille did the 1956 remake, he dropped the modern story entirely and made the whole movie about Moses.
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Forgotten Trope / int_7680545c	comment	The Nanny: After she learns that several people have tried to woo Niles away from Maxell in the "Curse of the Grandmas" episode, Fran gets upset when Maxell laughs at the idea that anyone would try to woo her away.
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Forgotten Trope / int_7884ec15	comment	Seinfeld references the Cuban hijacker trope with Dominican characters that are repeatedly mistaken for Cubans.
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Forgotten Trope / int_788e0c4c	comment	Chorus Girl voices: In the 1940s and 1950s, Chorus Girls, especially in cheap burlesque shows, would often be heard singing together in a loud, screechy quasi-unison, producing a Cute, but Cacophonic effect sometimes deliberately imitated in musicals such as Cover Girl and Guys and Dolls. Improvements in microphone technology may have made this singing style obsolete, though the modern-day counterparts of these performers are more likely to be lip-synching.
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Forgotten Trope / int_78db2b3b	comment	Gulliver's Travels is perhaps the most famous story in this genre. Common Knowledge may interpret it as a whimsical fantasy, but literary experts recognize it as a thinly-veiled social satire. Other works, such as The Mikado, similarly disguised their parodies of local foibles by transposing them to "exotic" foreign settings, or sometimes by showing them through the eyes of foreign travellers to Europe.
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Forgotten Trope / int_7aaf9e41	comment	Superheroes with a vehicle as their gimmick: The hero whose sole gimmick is a super-vehicle of some kind — such as Taxi Taylor, Captain X, and the 1940s Red Torpedo — is all but forgotten, having long since been absorbed by superhero characters like Batman who have other gimmicks and talents besides a Batmobile or the like. A particular subset of these characters, the aviator hero with a special plane, exists today almost entirely in the form of the Blackhawk characters, who also have the gimmick of being a multinational team of flyers. Captain Falcon of the F-Zero video game series is a modern-day example of this trope: He is a professional race car driver who chases down criminals when not racing. This premise, in turn, is undoubtedly an homage to Speed Racer, the most famous example of this trope, albeit a character no longer taken seriously due to his campiness. A brief revival happened on TV during the 1980s, following the success of Knight Rider. Series like Airwolf, Blue Thunder and Street Hawk kept the trope going for a while. The Hulk Hogan vehicle Thunder in Paradise was the last mainstream series that followed this plot. In these cases, often the hero was member of some kind of underground vigilante group, mercenary force or rogue military.
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Forgotten Trope / int_7ac511a0	comment	This is a major plot point in Maxwell Anderson's 1939 play Key Largo. The movie version, produced after World War II, omits it completely.
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Forgotten Trope / int_7bc16c4f	comment	A big part of Julie Brown's comedy persona especially on the old skit comedy show The Edge.
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Forgotten Trope / int_7c038c18	comment	In the Phineas and Ferb episode "Flop Starz", Phineas' mom was a One-Hit Wonder under the stage name Lindana. To show that her relevancy is fully faded, she hears the elevator music version of her hit "I'm Lindana (And I Wanna Have Fun)" while on an elevator. This appears again at the episode's end as, after Phineas and Ferb refuse to do a follow-up single for their one hit and storm out of their meeting, they board the elevator of the record company and hear an elevator music version of their song "Gitchee Gitchee Goo".
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Forgotten Trope / int_7d122312	comment	The Flintstones: In "The Treasure of Sierra Madrock", Fred feels disappointed after finding out a gold mine he discovered isn't really real gold, but he immediately feels better when at the end of the episode he digs out what it seems to be uranium in a place under the terrain of his home and mentions how he's going to be rich.
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Forgotten Trope / int_7d1c83da	comment	This appears in Better Call Saul, where Jimmy painstakingly apes Matlock's look because he's specializing in elder law and hopes to appeal to those kind of clients. This makes sense given that the series takes place in the early 2000s, where this trope had yet to be completely forgotten.
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Forgotten Trope / int_7f9d3074	comment	Solaris (1972) has an example that's fairly old but still closer to today, in the form of a long and seemingly gratuitous POV scene of driving all over Tokyo highways. While there are a lot of ideas about what it means symbolically, on a practical level getting to see a faraway city and drive a car that much were not experiences the average Soviet citizen would've gotten to do back then, and it would've been more interesting than it is to today's audiences.
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Forgotten Trope / int_7fd1fd91	comment	King Kong (2005) is a rare modern example, and only because of the homage to the original King Kong.
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Forgotten Trope / int_8125b468	comment	Batman and Robin, until the Gay Panic, when the publishers had Dick Grayson's Aunt Harriet move in with him and Bruce Wayne and introduced stories where Bruce dated women.
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Forgotten Trope / int_816181cb	comment	In the first decade of the twentieth century, stage adaptations of The Wonderful Wizard of Oz (which had L. Frank Baum's involvement) and Little Nemo followed the extravaganza format.
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Forgotten Trope / int_82481330	comment	A few Richie Rich stories involve wealthy matrons trying to entice the Riches' butler Cadbury to work for them, and when that fails, engaging in a tug of war with Mrs. Rich over him, or even kidnapping him.
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Forgotten Trope / int_8509db53	comment	All greasers are Italians: A minor trope back in the '50s about the stereotype that all or most greasers were ethnically Italian. It is given a nod in Grease, with roughly half the characters being vaguely of Italian descent (or sometimes not so vague, such as the character of Sonny being bilingual). Nowadays, this subculture is still remembered, but the racial connotation seem to be lost for modern audiences, especially since the '50s youth culture has caught on with all ethnic groups. The reality-TV show Jersey Shore did briefly revive this trope in a more modern context.
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Forgotten Trope / int_862a71c5	comment	The humorous stock poster of a "crazy person" depicted in Breakfast of Champions seems very similar to this.
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Forgotten Trope / int_86904ab8	comment	In the second Iron Man film, Tony Stark drinks a concoction he says involves chlorophyll to stave off palladium poisoning.
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Forgotten Trope / int_87b55b5d	comment	The parody political cartoons from The Onion have one strip bashing internet-loving teens because "computers don't have Matlock".
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Forgotten Trope / int_890d8bac	comment	In The Boxcar Children: "Mystery Ranch," the ranch has uranium ore, which the villains attempt to take control of.
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Forgotten Trope / int_8a08048e	comment	One popular present-day show that integrates typewriter sounds into the theme is Taskmaster and all its international incarnations.
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Forgotten Trope / int_8b419fa5	comment	Mitzi May in Lackadaisy is a modern example in a webcomic set in the '20s. The author is very knowledgeable about the time period, so it's likely an intentional reference.
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Forgotten Trope / int_8c518367	comment	There's a whole segment in the 1977 The Kentucky Fried Movie built around this "Beyond 3-D!" gimmick, with an usher who plays out a romantic scene on the patron to the point of pulling a knife on him when the jilted onscreen lover discovers her paramour's infidelity. The cinemagoer rushes out before the next showing of Deep Throat can start.
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Forgotten Trope / int_8cc1090a	comment	Inferior Japanese products: For a few years after World War II, there was the stereotype that any product made in Japan was very cheap and of poor quality. We can see this trope was alive as late as the '70s, (e.g., Miles Monroe shouting "Goddamn Japanese model!" in Sleeper). This is even referenced in Back to the Future Part III, where 1955 Doc Brown doesn't seem surprised when a circuit failed since it was made in Japan (Marty then makes it clear that in his time, the best products are actually made in Japan; words that truly shock Doc Brown). Around the '80s, thanks to Japan's economic rise, this image changed, and cutting-edge technology and high quality are usually what people associate with Japanese products. Sure, maybe the idea of Japan Takes Over the World was a li'l too much, but it is still regarded as a superpower that excels in a lot of industries, especially cars and electronic devices. In his book Dave Barry Does Japan, Dave expounds on this idea (excerpt here) with "Back then, of course, we thought all Japanese products were cheap... The suggestion that Japan could make real cars would have been laughable." He then describes how slowly more and more quality Japanese products were being imported until it was too late and Americans were hooked. Good Omens takes advantage of this trope's fall from grace. Newton Pulsifer's car, the Wasabi, was created during the awkward period where Japanese manufacturing was transitioning between the old and new stereotypes. As such, the Wasabi apparently combines the worst aspects of Western cars with a host of spectacular and innovative design failures that made it the perfect template of what not to do going forward for all the major companies. The modern equivalent of this is technology made in China (specifically Hong Kong), where for a long time, products were made so cheaply, with such poor attention to detail, that many Westerners would outright avoid Chinese Manufacturers. This was unfair, as there are good manufacturers in China — it's just the best workers have worked for Western companies over there due to them being most profitable. The image is starting to improve, with such technology as Huawei phones being popular worldwide, and the low price points being a selling point.
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Forgotten Trope / int_8df5521b	comment	This trope cropped up in some early Superman stories, and tellingly, most modern fans list it as a superpower of his, when it was intended as more a case of Charles Atlas Superpower.
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Forgotten Trope / int_8e8ed866	comment	A brief revival happened on TV during the 1980s, following the success of Knight Rider. Series like Airwolf, Blue Thunder and Street Hawk kept the trope going for a while. The Hulk Hogan vehicle Thunder in Paradise was the last mainstream series that followed this plot. In these cases, often the hero was member of some kind of underground vigilante group, mercenary force or rogue military.
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Forgotten Trope / int_8fa51384	comment	Persuasion: Sir Walter and his daughter Elizabeth boast that their acquaintance is "exceedingly sought after" in Bath and that everybody wants to visit them all the time. They are perpetually having cards left by people, even if they don't know them. Mr Elliot pointedly leaves his card in Camden Place by Sir Walter and Elizabeth when he wants to renew their acquaintance. The Elliots receive the calling cards of Dowager Viscountess Dalrymple and the Honourable Miss Carteret. The narrator snidely points out they arrange them wherever they are most visible to other guests to make sure everyone knows they are on calling terms with high nobility. Sir Walter plans to visit Lady Russell, their family friend, but he only intends to "make a civil message" and "only leave his card". Elizabeth "gracefully" distributes the cards "Miss Elliot at home" as invitations to her evening party. In the cancelled chapter, Anne is manoeuvred into visiting Mrs Croft, but then she's afraid Frederick might be there as well. She tries to get out of there and asks Admiral Croft to allow her to leave her card and explain it afterwards.
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Forgotten Trope / int_90f7114	comment	"By the Sea" from Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street and "Wouldn't It Be Loverly" from My Fair Lady are deliberate throwbacks, in shows set in a period when it was a live trope.
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Forgotten Trope / int_92ef018a	comment	Ferris Bueller's Day Off has the titular protagonist lament he got a computer from his parents instead of a car until he realized its usefulness in hacking the school's records, invoking this.
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Forgotten Trope / int_930c87f6	comment	Glen or Glenda begins with a title card bearing a disclaimer of this type:
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Forgotten Trope / int_9333fa57	comment	The Gay Divorcee (and the stage musical it was adapted from) combines this with mistaken identity for its Romantic Comedy plot.
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Forgotten Trope / int_947e2b1e	comment	There's a joke to the effect that this would be the title of an African-American adaptation of Oedipus the King.
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Forgotten Trope / int_95e306c6	comment	Films adapted as radio plays: During the 1940s, films were sometimes adapted into radio plays, usually performed by the original cast of the film. The most popular of these radio programs was Lux Radio Theatre, which if it couldn't get the original cast, usually got other A-listers to perform the parts. Television, being a visual medium like film, made such adaptations redundant, though they did still happen to a limited extent even into the 1980s — Star Wars being a very famous example, and also one of the very last produced in this manner. The genre survives in the UK, where some TV works (most notably Doctor Whonote Done there so that Big Finish can still employ the original surviving cast members when available, particularly with the original series, since the stars are now 30-50 years older than they were when playing their roles on TV but in general still sound vocally very close to their younger selves) have been adapted to radio; and in Japan, where some anime, like Code Geass, get short stories known as "audio dramas" (which, despite their name, are predominantly comedies). The German Long Runner Tatort which is mostly direct-to-TV movies but has also seen some theatrical releases has some radio plays. While a handful are adoptions of episodes shown on TV, the majority of the radio plays are original stories in the same Shared Universe. Interestingly the radio plays aren't a 1970s legacy but a 21st century innovation and addition to the media behemoth that is Tatort.
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Forgotten Trope / int_97a70962	comment	In the pilot episode of the The Professionals, the leader of the Heroes "R" Us organization is stated to have fought in the war for the Republicans and got his leg limp there, which is brought up when one of the leads dismiss his "The end justify means" speech about the CI 5's M.O as having "fascist overtones".
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Forgotten Trope / int_97b2bd33	comment	One of the later examples is the comic book series Invasion!, which ran from 1977-9 in 2000 AD. The creators had to change the Russians to "Volgans" and remove representations of Margaret Thatcher and other real-life people.
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Forgotten Trope / int_9891fcdd	comment	Disney's Dumbo, released in 1941 and set in the then-present, features a circus parade, depicted with some zany cartoon antics.
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Forgotten Trope / int_9a7088bc	comment	In the lengthy Star Trek: The Original Series fan novel Alternate Universe 4, James Kirk learns to do this when he becomes an Action Agent in Lightfleet after being kicked out of Starfleet.
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Forgotten Trope / int_9b530c26	comment	Whoopee caps were common in the early 20th century amongst working-class men, and evolved out of a trend to buy cheap second-hand felt fedoras as head protection from chemicals doing auto work. Creative people soon discovered they could customise them by turning them inside out and trimming off the brim with a scalloped or 'crown' effect, then adding buttons, grommets, and patches to them. This made them a popular accessory with teenage boys. The result was they were used in fiction to express a working-class tough or juvenile delinquent/non-conformist. Nowadays no one knows what they are, except that they look ridiculous, and except for Jughead's signature hat in Archie Comics, a holdover from his earliest days that stuck around well beyond the point that even adults knew what it was.
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Forgotten Trope / int_9c608bbc	comment	The trope held on long enough to make it into the pilot episode of Bewitched, where actual magic is necessary to get a table lighter to work.
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Forgotten Trope / int_9e876c22	comment	Good Omens takes advantage of this trope's fall from grace. Newton Pulsifer's car, the Wasabi, was created during the awkward period where Japanese manufacturing was transitioning between the old and new stereotypes. As such, the Wasabi apparently combines the worst aspects of Western cars with a host of spectacular and innovative design failures that made it the perfect template of what not to do going forward for all the major companies.
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Forgotten Trope / int_a04b0ca3	comment	Tintin and Captain Haddock
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Forgotten Trope / int_a4a6b86a	comment	The genre survives in the UK, where some TV works (most notably Doctor Whonote Done there so that Big Finish can still employ the original surviving cast members when available, particularly with the original series, since the stars are now 30-50 years older than they were when playing their roles on TV but in general still sound vocally very close to their younger selves) have been adapted to radio; and in Japan, where some anime, like Code Geass, get short stories known as "audio dramas" (which, despite their name, are predominantly comedies).
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Forgotten Trope / int_a5a0dd85	comment	The idea of olfactory accompaniment for movies was even older; the "scent organ" in Brave New World was merely a futuristic extrapolation of what was already being done occasionally in musical revues of the late 1920s.
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Forgotten Trope / int_a7674994	comment	In Paint Your Wagon, Ben sends Jennifer east to be educated at one of these. Her song "All For Him," listing what she learned there, has been cut from some revivals.
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Forgotten Trope / int_a78cc92f	comment	Chick Tracts insist that Freemasonry is a Satanic cult that worships Baphomet.
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Forgotten Trope / int_a895e9d3	type	Forgotten Trope
Forgotten Trope / int_a895e9d3	comment	Near the start of Portal 2, the player enters a cubicle similar to the one where they began the original Portal. The original cubicle had a clock counting down the seconds to when the exit portal opened; in the deserted and overgrown version of Portal 2, the clock is now blinking 12:00.
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Forgotten Trope / int_ac03a2dd	comment	An odd modern example would be in Little Shop of Horrors, where "Somewhere That's Green" describes the type of locale that Audrey would like to live with Seymour.
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Forgotten Trope / int_aeb84363	comment	Christmas ghost stories: Actually very common in the Victorian era. Today the only one widely remembered is A Christmas Carol and thus most people don't realize there were many others of its ilk, but telling ghost stories around Christmas was a common tradition. (M.R. James wrote stories for this purpose, which have aged rather well apart from the more obscure Biblical and literary allusions.) A reference to it remains in the song "The Most Wonderful Time of the Year" which seems fairly weird to modern listeners (to the point where it is often replaced with a phrase like "long funny stories"). It also occurs in the framing prologue of The Turn of the Screw. While this trope is completely unfamiliar in America, it's a bit better known in Britain; in the seventies, the BBC often broadcast M.R. James adaptations at Christmastime, and new ones have been sporadically made since 2005 (the most recent one aired in 2022). A vestige of the trope lives on in Canada, where a radio broadcast of the ghost story The Shepherd remains a Christmas tradition. May or may not be related: bizarre and morbid Victorian Christmas cards featuring surreal pictures of dead robins and mice, frogs swordfighting, and stranger things.
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Forgotten Trope / int_b08e1fd0	comment	A few such songs appear in Victor Herbert's operetta catalogue, including "The Hen and the Weather Vane" from Little Nemo (1908) and "The Ivy and the Oak" from Sweethearts (1913). Harry B. Smith, the pun-loving lyricist of Little Nemo, could not resist putting the phrase "whether vain or not" into the former song.
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Forgotten Trope / int_b2ac2311	comment	Some early Peanuts strips had one or more characters struggling to memorize a poem for school.
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Forgotten Trope / int_b30ae4db	comment	Used in Game of Thrones when Janos Slynt suggests he'll be hiring Tyrion's cook.
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Forgotten Trope / int_b89f31da	type	Forgotten Trope
Forgotten Trope / int_b89f31da	comment	The young readers' novel Montmorency could be considered a parody, as it features a dirt-poor youth who ascends to the aristocracy through hard work... by robbing Londoners and faking his way into high society.
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Forgotten Trope / int_b8fd85	comment	Sense and Sensibility: After Mrs Jennings comes to her home in London, she spends most of her mornings visiting her friends acquaintances, and Elinor and Marianne Dashwood accompany her. Mr Willoughby tries to avoid them because everyone assumes he's engaged or about to be engaged to Marianne, but he has found a wealthier bride. He only leaves a card. Lady Middleton is interested in being acquainted with Miss Smith, future Mrs Willoughby, and is determined to leave her card with her as soon as she marries. Her husband doesn't approve because it's a slight against Marianne who is his distant cousin and neighbour. Lucy Steele has seldom been happier than she was on receiving Fanny Dashwood's card. She's a sister of her secret fiance and she loves that she can pursue her acquaintance. Edward comes to Mrs Jennings' house to leave his farewell card when he leaves London.
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Forgotten Trope / int_b96564e6	comment	Basil Fawlty excuses his wife Sybil's giggling by claiming "I'm afraid her local finishing school was bombed."
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Forgotten Trope / int_b9eade07	comment	The Water-Babies (1862) occasionally turns into an Author Tract against the Irish, who are portrayed as compulsive liars.
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Forgotten Trope / int_ba838263	comment	In a modern example, Cold Clay, the second book of the Shady Hollow series, has an etiquette school move into the series' eponymous vaguely Gilded Age town. This just confuses locals because the town is mostly quiet and polite enough, not to mention provincial, that the residents don't really need it. (For that matter, there are only two upper-class young women in town, neither of whom it could help.) Unsurprisingly, it turns out to be a scam run by a thieving, murderous Con Artist who isn't even terribly good at faking the politeness.
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Forgotten Trope / int_bd447006	comment	Sherlock Holmes and Watson (before the latter got married and moved out; and then again for a few years after his first wife died).
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Forgotten Trope / int_bd8daeac	comment	This is played with and parodied to hilarious effect in To Say Nothing of the Dog by Connie Willis.
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Forgotten Trope / int_be9b3374	comment	Fat Albert and the Cosby Kids: The episode "Playing Hooky" doesn't have the gang eating lunch but does have them hanging out in their junkyard during school lunch while discussing skipping school. They agree they can't play hooky during the second half of the school day and vow to take the next day off from school.
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Forgotten Trope / int_c23062c	type	Forgotten Trope
Forgotten Trope / int_c23062c	comment	Surrogate Cool Big Brother: Characters in anime and manga, that is, older characters who hung around with younger characters who weren't necessarily related to them, but went on exciting adventures with them anyway, were fairly big in the early days of Shonen demographic manga as well as some tokusatsu, such as Goro and Hiroshi in Godzilla vs. Megalon. This trope was killed for twofold reasons: The changing family dynamic in Japanese culture after the '70s were over, and the fact that adult men hanging around child characters in dangerous situations constantly is frowned upon heavily. In addition, the character dynamics of many, such as the aforementioned Goro and Hiroshi, simply leads modern audiences to think that the "big bros" are simply a gay couple with an adopted child. If this ever shows up in a modern work, expect the kid to be more mature than the adult(s).
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Forgotten Trope / int_c2ab3494	comment	Turandot illustrates this trope's decline: the Emperor's entrance in the middle of the second act gets a huge build-up with massive clouds of incense spilling out over the stage, but the chorus gets nothing more to actually sing than a short anthem at the end.
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Forgotten Trope / int_c2cc7c42	comment	She also shows up in a flashback sequence in one episode of American Gods (2017) — though not in the source novel.
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Forgotten Trope / int_c46cf0c1	comment	In the 1999 film The Green Mile, a Cajun character screams the word in a fit of anger... in the setting of 1930s Louisiana. While it's true that some Cajuns were racially mixed, this one certainly didn't look like he could be. It's probably just a case of Present-Day Past.
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Forgotten Trope / int_c67be877	comment	Uncle Sam himself replaced the almost entirely forgotten Brother Jonathan as national personification of the USA. (Jonathan was the brother of Britain's national personification John Bull, the satirical joke was that they did not get on although they looked almost identical). Brother Jonathan is referred to in the Flashman novel Flashman and the Mountain of Light.
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Forgotten Trope / int_c73f511c	comment	One episode of set-in-the-1920s Boardwalk Empire shows its work when black gangster Chalky uses the word and white protagonist Nucky has never heard it before.
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Forgotten Trope / int_ca171922	comment	The idea of Cuba as a hotbed of sin is seen in Guys and Dolls.
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Forgotten Trope / int_ca5d97f1	comment	Monty Python's Flying Circus played with this. One passenger on a direct flight to Cuba tries to hijack the plane and go to Luton. He ends up getting talked into jumping off the plane just in time to catch a bus "Straight to Luton," which is then hijacked by a man who demands to be taken to Cuba. The bus changes its sign to "Straight to Cuba" and turns around.
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Forgotten Trope / int_cf2d20a8	comment	It used to show up in a lot of Cartoon Network shows like Johnny Bravo and Dexter's Laboratory, with the joke being that someone is a genius but is still unable to reset the VCR, or this being used as an example of newfound brainpower. It even managed to reach into The New '10s, specifically an early episode of Teen Titans Go! when Cyborg slips a complaint about this into his fast-talking explanation of what a VCR even is.
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Forgotten Trope / int_cf7739d0	comment	The first of the Ramona Quimby books have Ramona come home for lunch daily (a plot point when she comes home and decides not to come back to class); by the time of Ramona the Brave, she's having lunch at school (due to the books slipping forward).
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Forgotten Trope / int_cf92e85a	comment	The first part of Valley of the Dolls is centered on the production of a new musical called Hit the Sky, which has this plotline.
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Forgotten Trope / int_d010a732	comment	Night at the Museum has Larry hiding from the exhibits in an elevator while an instrumental version of "Mandy" plays. The joke is clearly the fact a museum devoted to historical artifacts would be the only place to still have this.
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Forgotten Trope / int_d1515d27	comment	Found extensively throughout the cutscenes in the Aerosmith pinball machine, but considering its theme, this is very likely a throwback to the era of Aerosmith's music.
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Forgotten Trope / int_d2bb929d	comment	A modern reference to it is in Soul Calibur V as the name of Dampierre's Critical Edge, "Cockaigne, the Land of Plenty"; a powerful counterattack that involves sliding between the opponent's legs and launching them into the air with a Kancho.
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Forgotten Trope / int_d4f6f3fb	comment	Captain Falcon of the F-Zero video game series is a modern-day example of this trope: He is a professional race car driver who chases down criminals when not racing. This premise, in turn, is undoubtedly an homage to Speed Racer, the most famous example of this trope, albeit a character no longer taken seriously due to his campiness.
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Forgotten Trope / int_d60cbd5a	comment	This is referenced in Amadeus, where the king has banned ballet sequences in operas because he considers them to be too overused.
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Forgotten Trope / int_d7c4626a	comment	The original Greek Muses: The nine Greek Muses represented art forms that are almost all discarded now (though the Muses live on, they've been reincarnated as patrons of different arts). Clio (Muse of History) and Terpsichore (Muse of Dance) are the only two Muses you can expect a reasonably large number of people to remember, and then only because their names live on in the somewhat obscure words "cliometrics" and "terpsichorean." Erato (Muse of Romantic Poetry) shows up from time to time as well, as the vowel structure in her name makes her a common crossword puzzle answer, and Calliope (Muse of Epic Poetry) made a memorable appearance in The Sandman (1989).
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Forgotten Trope / int_db6a22a6	comment	A four-way example would be Biggles and his three chums Algy, Ginger, and Bertie.
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Forgotten Trope / int_dbd98c25	comment	The 1999 comic Batman: Fortunate Son depicts Batman as exactly this sort of (surrogate) parent towards Robin.
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Forgotten Trope / int_dc5b6bd3	comment	"Love Is Like a Cigarette" from The Rose of Algeria is one example.
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Forgotten Trope / int_df2122ef	comment	The Little House on the Prairie series has a whole chapter about calling cards in one later book in the series. They're shown to be a trendy must-have for young adults who get them custom-made at a shop in town and exchange them with each other.
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Forgotten Trope / int_df735678	type	Forgotten Trope
Forgotten Trope / int_df735678	comment	Rugrats Go Wild! tried to bring back the scratch-and-sniff version of Smell-O-Vision in 2003, with indicators on-screen in the theatrical release corresponding to icons on promotional cards that were given out in places like Blockbuster and Burger King.
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Forgotten Trope / int_e25322af	comment	Homestar Runner referred to this phenomenon in a Strong Bad Email, acknowledging its omnipresence and the nigh-impossibility of fixing it. Strong Bad asks Bubs to fix the clock on his VCR, and Bubs "fixes" it by duct-taping another digital clock to the VCR.
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Forgotten Trope / int_e253aa98	type	Forgotten Trope
Forgotten Trope / int_e253aa98	comment	The song "Monkey Doodle Doo", from the Marx Bros. movie The Cocoanuts (1929), written by Irving Berlin.
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Forgotten Trope / int_e38778a5	comment	Dolly Levi in Hello, Dolly! is faintly recognizable as one of these. Though the musical doesn't make much of her widowhood, it's based indirectly on a much older farce.
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Forgotten Trope / int_e5a61646	comment	The Family Tree Series uses this realistically for Abby's father Luther, who considers whiteness to be White Anglo-Saxon Protestant and no one else. He doesn't want her to interact with Orrin Umhay because his mother is Irish Catholic, and dissuades her from being friends with Marie, a French Canadian.
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Forgotten Trope / int_e5c6748d	comment	The 1958 The Three Stooges short Oil's Well That Ends Well was a remake of the 1939 short Oily to Bed, Oily to Rise, but with a uranium subplot added in, where the Stooges tried to get the ore to pay for their father's surgery.
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Forgotten Trope / int_e6758d93	comment	Columbia, Marianne, John Bull, Britannia, and Uncle Sam are all gods in the World War II setting in Scion.
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Forgotten Trope / int_ea91a4bf	comment	The Elder Scrolls II: Daggerfall includes one in the in-universe play "Fools' Ebony", apologizing to its audience for its bawdy humor and lack of coherence.
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Forgotten Trope / int_f01496c4	comment	Subversion in The Archers, where one character was rumoured to have fought in the Spanish Civil War. When asked, he replies that he did... but for the fascists.
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Forgotten Trope / int_f0a86c12	comment	A bizarre variation of this trope happens in the How I Met Your Mother episode "Last Time in New York" (originally aired in 2013). In that episode, the actor Mandy Patinkin is shown to be like catnip to the elderly, with the mere mention of his name attracting droves of them. The gag is quite similar to the older Matlock jokes, but it remains unclear why Mandy Patinkin of all people would work as a 2010s substitute for Matlock.
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Forgotten Trope / int_f0aae232	comment	Pagliacci resurrected this old practice with some Lampshade Hanging.
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Forgotten Trope / int_f57525ab	comment	In It's a Wonderful Life, this trope is the reason why George Bailey always wishes for a million dollars before activating the cigar lighter in the drug store. Since the device working is such a rare occurrence, he might as well use it as a good luck charm.
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Forgotten Trope / int_f5799bd9	comment	One episode of The Critic has Duke assuming Jay is close to his mother because he's gay. He isn't, and he isn't.
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Forgotten Trope / int_f59e218	comment	One of the very last works to portray this unironically was Rock: It's Your Decision in 1982, and many people who have reviewed it feel that it is Two Decades Behind.
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Forgotten Trope / int_f634206e	comment	Applies to European cities as well; Linguini from Ratatouille lives in one of these with a great view of the Eiffel Tower, which CinemaSins took offence with. The thing is though, that apartment is actually the kind of place where Linguini would be living, depending on which arrondisement it's located in.
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Forgotten Trope / int_fb50b167	comment	A lot of schoolchildren are taught that Shakespeare was revolutionary because he "broke off" with the Law of Unities. He didn't (theater of the day is often derived from the folk theater such as Nativity plays), and there's plenty of ancient Greek plays still surviving that did not keep the unities, for instance The Frogs.
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Forgotten Trope / int_fc7f736a	comment	It was also used in Innerspace.
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Forgotten Trope / int_fd7de151	comment	Used in Psycho-Pass, though ruthlessly lampshaded. It's explained that the idea of a "lady" is completely irrelevant to the modern world, but as long as rich old men want a wife like that, there's a market for schools that produce them.
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Forgotten Trope / int_fda9c8b	comment	Shows up in Downton Abbey at several points. One of Mary's suitors attempts to convince Carson, the butler, to work for him as part of his portrayal as evil bastard, and O'Brien is Put on a Bus this way when her actress decided to leave the show.
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