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A tactic whereby a character acts in a manner that can be perceived as eccentric or insane, in order to prompt other, bickering, characters into cooperation. This usually happens because of shared concern for the welfare of the first character, or a joint desire to "not upset the crazy person." When it works, it results in An Aesop about cooperation and conflict resolution. Named for the classic folk tale in which a strange wanderer breezes into town asking for a meal. When the greedy villagers deny him any food, he cheerfully offers to make everyone a bowl of his remarkable Stone Soup (made by putting his soupstone — a seemingly ordinary rock — into a pot of water and boiling it). When everyone gathers to laugh at the man boiling a stone, he gradually persuades them to add to the pot, saying Stone Soup tastes best with a little salt... and perhaps a beef bone if you can spare one?... and maybe just a bit of onion... until (magically!) the simple stone has created a wonderful soup for all to enjoy. Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_mobile_ad_1'); })The story tends to have An Aesop, but the moral varies depending on how the teller wants to spin the tale. In idealistic versions, the villagers realize that they've been tricked but have to admit that cooperation and sharing meant a better meal for everyone. In (cynical) versions, the stranger is playing a well-rehearsed Con Game: the villagers don't realize they've been had and spend all their money to buy that magical soupstone. In this case, the Aesop is more "If it sounds Too Good To Be True, it probably is." Compare Fence Painting and Bavarian Fire Drill. For the comic strip, see here. |
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It backfired in The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress when the Congress actually gets work done. | |
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Possibly inverted in Discworld, where, among bickering, arguing and ignorant nobles, Lord Vetinari has them form committees, telling them to brainstorm solutions. The real reason he does this is to get them all out of the way so he can work out the problem with people who know what they're talking about. | |
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In My Time at Portia the Winter Solstice festival features a communal hotpot. Before the event starts Minister Lee relates a story about how during the Age of Darkness people shared what little food they had to make a similar pot and so the town has one every year in remembrance and celebration. | |
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In The Walking Dead Carol uses the orginal version when Alexandria is going through a lean period. | |
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Referenced and subverted in Fables. When Jack tries to sell soup stones. Snow White mentions she kept hers, which implies that here, Soup Stones are actually magical. | |
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In Kill Six Billion Demons, Posthumous Character lord Intra once found himself as the stranger in one of these, with a twist on the idealistic version: witnessing the cruelty of a lord and his men racketing poor villagers after killing their old lieges, he confronts them. After the lord declares that the farmers "could eat stones for all he cares", Intra picks up a rock and answers that he will feed the people with it. First he announces that he will turn it into fire, and by striking his sword with it over dry bushes he builds a fire. Then he announces that he will turn the rock into earth and water, and by using it to dig into the muddy ground and carve bricks, he builds a bread oven; in the hole he dug, he draws muddy water and put it to boil clean over the fire. As the cruel lord warns him that he will not allow Intra to take any grain he stole from the people to make bread, Intra announces that he will turn the rock into air. By skipping it on the ribcages of the cruel lord's henchmen, he kills them all and they draw their final breath. After the cruel man flees, Intra reminds the villagers that by working together, even without much more than a rock (which are plentiful and more numerous than tyrants), they can accomplish much. | |
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Soup stones are also an alchemical item in Dungeons & Dragons, even coming in different flavours. | |
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Used in Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End, as Jack begins rocking the boat by running back and forth across the deck, pretending to see something. The others follow, at first out of curiosity, but eventually they catch on. | |
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Little House on the Prairie had a similar episode. | |
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The "get rid of the idiots" version also occurs in the backstory of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy in The Restaurant at the End of the Universe; the Golgafrinchan homeworld is threatened by a meteor, so they put all the thinkers on one ship, the doers on another, and the middlemen like hair stylists and phone cleaners on a third...and then send the third away, having made up the meteor story in order to "clear the chaff" from their society. The rest of the Golgafrinchans die off from a disease contracted from a literal dirty telephone, while the "useless" members of their civilization land on an insignificant blue planet and use their advanced technology to build a floating city, which turns out to be a terrible idea. | |
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In an episode of Land of the Lost, Rick has had enough of Will and Holly fighting over a trivial issue and pretends to have snapped. By cooking "stone soup" and eliciting their help in finding "a few extra ingredients", the father teaches them what their real priorities ought to be. Later in the episode, he pulls the same trick on the Pakuni leader Taa, though for a different purpose. | |
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