Comments on: Just in time for the end of Friends

Just in time for the end of Friends

turbodog — Thu, 11 Mar 2004 14:57:16 -0800

TV Tropes Catalogued: like the As You Know, "Character A explains to Character B something that they both know, but the audience doesn't. "As you know, Simon, Jennifer has never been the same since the tragic codfish incident." "As you know, Jennifer, my Death Ray depends on codfish balls." Boing-Boing Filter

By: elendil71

elendil71 — Thu, 11 Mar 2004 15:22:38 -0800

Humerous. The author is also clearly a BtVS fan, which is not a bad thing.

By: planetkyoto

planetkyoto — Thu, 11 Mar 2004 15:30:00 -0800

Bart: What an odd thing to say.

By: vacapinta

vacapinta — Thu, 11 Mar 2004 15:32:41 -0800

ah yeah, the gilligan cut. You can see it coming from a mile away.

By: LittleMissCranky

LittleMissCranky — Thu, 11 Mar 2004 15:39:59 -0800

Anything with that many references to Buffy is okay with me.

By: edlundart

edlundart — Thu, 11 Mar 2004 15:59:27 -0800

this is kind of cool, but why is each entry written without spaces LikeThis?

By: linux

linux — Thu, 11 Mar 2004 16:01:32 -0800

And why am I able to edit the entries? (I tested it)

By: linux

linux — Thu, 11 Mar 2004 16:02:13 -0800

Oh. Nevermind. Remind me to read the paragraph explaining the page.

By: DevilsAdvocate

DevilsAdvocate — Thu, 11 Mar 2004 16:26:40 -0800

Excellent find, turbodog. I added Set Right What Once Went Wrong.

By: yeahyeahyeahwhoo

yeahyeahyeahwhoo — Thu, 11 Mar 2004 16:30:59 -0800

it reminds me of why i am glad i dont have cable and why i miss cable all at once

By: 4easypayments

4easypayments — Thu, 11 Mar 2004 16:53:21 -0800

edlundart and linux: welcome to the wonderful world of wiki. The InterCapsThing annoys me too. FrickinInterCaps.

By: alumshubby

alumshubby — Thu, 11 Mar 2004 16:56:28 -0800

You mean CamelCaps, don't you? (They make humps in the middle of words, you see....)

By: weston

weston — Thu, 11 Mar 2004 19:29:34 -0800

Orson Scott Card points out several of these in his How to Write Science Fiction and Fantasy while tackling the problems of exposition. Apparently the mechanism highlighted in this post was used a lot by hard SF writers who were trying to explain how things worked to the reader.

By: logovisual

logovisual — Thu, 11 Mar 2004 20:30:44 -0800

Ha ha ha ha ha! I liked WaifProphet best. Man, I hate that kind of shit. (I also liked the reference in DoTheyKnowItsChristmas -- which is also hilarious -- to "dead as a subcategory of ill" in re: the WaifProphet.

By: PrinceValium

PrinceValium — Thu, 11 Mar 2004 20:54:31 -0800

Yeah, I kinda wish they had more references to 80s sitcoms, where a lot of these cliches were repeated ad nauseum, rather than constant Buffy references. Yes, I know, since it's a wiki, if I don't like it I'm supposed to go in and fix it.

By: skallas

skallas — Thu, 11 Mar 2004 21:19:19 -0800

Its just exposition, if it didn't exist people would be complaining about how nothing makes sense. See complaints about Dune and Blade Runner for reference.

By: ao4047

ao4047 — Thu, 11 Mar 2004 22:19:15 -0800

If you're looking for a drama/tragedy bent - I'd say just watch a season of 24. That show burns through the entirety of tried and true plot twists, tricks and tactics hourly.

By: Katemonkey

Katemonkey — Fri, 12 Mar 2004 02:55:16 -0800

I cheer for the inclusion of the HoYay. (with proper citation too!)