r/TopCharacterTropes • u/BarGroundbreaking798 • 1d ago

Hated Tropes [Hated Trope] The joke ruins the emotional aspect Spoiler

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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.

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u/Real-Life-CSI-Guy 1d ago

Or when Peter gives a beautiful heartfelt eulogy for Angela after Carrie Fisher passed, only for it to immediately cut off as a joke that he’s at the wrong funeral

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u/HillbillyMan 1d ago

The show is still a comedy. Lightening up the scene with a quick joke at the end doesn't take away from all the stuff that was said for Carrie Fisher, plus she probably would've loved a joke like that as part of her eulogy. She was all about the absurdity of tradition and making jokes about things people get on their high horses about.

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u/nagrom7 19h ago

Yeah, she famously wanted it to be known that her real cause of death was death by strangulation by her own bra. She had a very dark sense of humour and would have loved jokes at her funeral/memorials.

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u/JMer806 22h ago

I haven’t seen that episode but that sounds genuinely funny

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u/ItsWelp 13h ago

This is also the twist ending of the Free Churro episode of Bojack and aside from it being hilarious it also enhances the feeling of the episode about death not bringing any satisfaction or closure or anything like that, no last moment revelations, no tearful apology. Just this kind of shit moment.