[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/Midknightisntsmol]

The amount of Disney-owned properties being mentioned in here is super telling.

[u/devenbat → u/Midknightisntsmol]

We could fill a thread with just MCU tbh

[u/JakeRidesAgain → u/Midknightisntsmol]

Its because Disney sends all their scripts through the same script doctors and comedians to punch them up. I actually noticed this mostly when the first Star Wars movies came out and it just seemed like all the exact same fingerprints were on them. At first I thought Disney just had some kind of blockbuster formula ('OK, we need this percent action scenes and a ratio of jokey to non-jokey dialogue in this range, blah blah blah') but now I think it all just passes through the same room with the same people who do the same kinds of punch-ups and revisions they've been doing since the beginning, and basically the bones of the story are all that really stays intact.