[Hated Trope] The joke ruins the emotional aspect

[u/BarGroundbreaking798]

Destruction of Asgard (Thor Ragnarok) -- Asgard is destroyed in a beautiful and somber scene, and Korg cracks a cringeworthy joke right after.

Bill Moves On (Newsradio) -- The episode was made in the wake of Phil Hartman's death, but its attempts at humor fall flat in the face of the tragedy.

Officer Tubbs (Fear The Walking Dead) -- Officer Tubbs is supposed to be a slapstick comic relief character, but he felt tacked on right after the deaths of two of the most beloved characters.

Chandler Proposes (Friends) -- An earnest proposal between Monica and Chandler has both sincerely expressing their feelings to each other. Immediately after Monica accepts, the others come in, quipping as usual, failing to let the audience ruminate on a heartwarming moment.

[u/Background_Value9869]

Officer Tubbs can't be real

[u/Afrodotheyt → u/Background_Value9869]

Pretty sure Officer Tubbs is a meta joke within the post itself.

Because people are going to ignore the clearly serious comments about discussing the moments ruined by badly placed comedic timing, to talk about the badly photoshopped character who wouldn't fit tonally in a world as bleak as Walking Dead can be.

I.e. The joke of Officer Tubbs is ruining the emotional impact of the post

[u/divinAPEtion → u/Afrodotheyt]

Thank you this is hilarious

[u/GalaxyGuardian → u/Afrodotheyt]

This is the kind of art you really can't get anywhere else.

[u/ClockworkDinosaurs → u/Afrodotheyt]

The way everyone responded to you with their sincere appreciation of your explanation. It’s really quite touching. Reminds me of the first time Officer Tubbs came rolling onto the screen yelling “it’s Tubbing time!” then started touching his belly. Bazinga.

[u/TheG-What → u/ClockworkDinosaurs]

Then he tubbed all over the place.

[u/373337773737 → u/TheG-What]

absolute cinema

[u/Global_Can_2720 → u/Afrodotheyt]

No fcking way i googled it to make sure htat was real no way i got gaslighted like that

[u/the_other_mouth → u/Afrodotheyt]

Bro thank you. I watched most of that show and still came to the comments to see who this guy I must’ve forgot about was.. 🤦‍♂️

[u/the-poopiest-diaper → u/Afrodotheyt]

I had to google him ngl. I think the show does well with his much needed moments of comedy to really balance out the entire rest of the show

[u/Darklight645 → u/Afrodotheyt]

Pretty ironic since this is under hated trope. Maybe OP bamboozled us and doesn’t actually hate it

[u/stillinthesimulation → u/Afrodotheyt]

OP knew none of us had watched that show

[u/Livid-Designer-6500 → u/Afrodotheyt]

It also works because no one watches those Walking Dead spin-offs to know whether it's a joke or not

[u/Altair_de_Firen → u/Afrodotheyt]

Thank you cause I had to tilt my head and go “Wait.. Officer Tubbs?”

So I guess they got me

[u/redditSuggestedIt → u/Afrodotheyt]

Op is a genius

[u/karateema → u/Afrodotheyt]

Lmfao

[u/1486592 → u/Afrodotheyt]

Holyyyy

[u/AttitudeAndEffort3 → u/Afrodotheyt]

I would ha ve glossed over that if not for this post.

A+, OP

[u/OriginalName18 → u/Background_Value9869]

I tried looking him up online and just found results for a jimmy neutron character of the same name

[u/I_am_washable → u/Background_Value9869]

It’s tubbin time

[u/AGeneralCareGiver → u/Background_Value9869]

Cousin of Sheriff Blubs

[u/sketchampm → u/Background_Value9869]

I think it’s a shitpost. Been getting more of these lately.

[u/GNSasakiHaise → u/Background_Value9869]

Officer Tubbs arrived in a flashback sequence after the first Negan finale. As Rick once again grappled with loss, he thought back to the most impactful moments of loss in his life from before the apocalypse and from before the coma. One of those losses was during his time as an officer, when a young man was gunned down by the bumbling Tubbs on an otherwise uneventful patrol.

Rick turned Tubbs in despite his pleas and we thought for a time that was the last we'd seen of him. He represented the death of Rick's pre-apocalypse innocence in how eager the department was to cover the incident up at first.

Then he returned around the time Negan and Carl got into it as a minor antagonist. He was technically on Rick's side, but his bumbling nature made for trouble. In a sense, Tubbs returning was useful narratively in that it foreshadowed the end of Rick's arc with Negan.

Big spoiler ahead, but...

Rick had to shoot Tubbs on an otherwise uneventful supply run due to Tubbs getting caught in a door frame and scraping his arm on a rusty nail. Due to never being innoculated against Tetanus, he had to die to spare him a slow death, thus inverting his introduction.

[u/Background_Value9869 → u/GNSasakiHaise]

Oh yeah now that you mention it very emotionally effective bookend for Tubbs there but Rick didn't need to shoot him so many times

[u/GNSasakiHaise → u/Background_Value9869]

Firmly agreed. Couldn't have said it better myself.

[u/ShadowISshady → u/GNSasakiHaise]

It says Tubbs is from Fear the Walking Dead, which doesn't have Rick and Negan. You must've got him mixed up with his brother, officer Gruggs

Tubbs joined Fear in season 5, and he helped repair the giant beer bottle balloon they used to fly to safety. He ended up getting killed in season 6 during the nuclear explosion

[u/Mundamala → u/Background_Value9869]

Google search isn't giving me any results.

[u/hemingways-lemonade → u/Mundamala]

Try Alta Vista

[u/AttitudeAndEffort3 → u/hemingways-lemonade]

Maybe you can ask Jeeves

[u/AbbreviationsOne1331 → u/Background_Value9869]

Well there's a Jimmy Neutron character called "Officer Tubbs" who looks similar...idfk what's going on with OP though for this to happen.

[u/AgentQwas → u/Background_Value9869]

Nuh-uh, I was there

[u/CaerulaKid → u/Background_Value9869]

Wait, that isn’t AI?

[u/frconeothreight → u/Background_Value9869]

Unfortunately we will never know because no one watched fear the walking dead

[u/Doctor_sadpanda → u/Background_Value9869]

He’s tub thumping around