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"I just want to say to you guys: Get out of my head! Thanks to the amount of time I've spent here, it's been months since I was able to sit down and watch a movie or TV show without knowing by the first commercial break, every major event that was going to happen in the Plot."
—Red Shoe
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Abandon free time all ye who enter here.
—Anonymous
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"Do you know the end? Did Mom tell you that Fox is--" —"Magic for Beginners", by Kelly Link
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I FORGOT TO TIE OFF A ROPE AND NOW I'M DROWNING"
—queenanthai, on scans_daily
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the TVtropes QC page is every single idiotic comment from my forums distilled into one HTML document
—Jeph Jacques
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TV Tropes must be the only wiki where I can start off looking at Doctor Who and end up with advice over what gun I should buy.
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The main reason to avoid putting something incorrect or unrealistic-looking in a TV show or film is that it disrupts people's suspension of disbelief ... [but] the only people whose ability to suspend their disbelief might suffer are those who work in TV — and they will have lost that ability long ago. When they watch telly, all they can see is the work that's gone into it and the mistakes. It's like taking an Egyptian slave on a tour of the pyramids — he doesn't marvel, he just gets sympathy backache.
—David Mitchell
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10. *BZZRT* WE DON'T *ZAP* ZOMBIES *ZAP* MENTION *BZZRRT* TVTROPES HERE *BZZRT* CAAAEEEEEEEEEKK! *BZZRT* *STATIC* *BUZZ* ore you wil dai.
—the rules for http://www.fsdlcookies.myadopts.com/
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I once overheard two —Hagberd Celine, of the The Illuminatus Trilogy, on tv tropes
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Go ahead, wreck your life, —"Spiraling Shape," They Might Be Giants
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Last thing I remember, I was —"Hotel California," The Eagles
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TV Tropes is a veritable black hole of hyperlinks, each leading further into the center of oblivion. The entire site is made up of a community that spends its life collecting patterns and commonalities between fictional worlds. It applies names to every plot device, every story arc and every cinematic tool ever captured by a camera and then links them to one another. The result is like being in the mind of a paranoid schizophrenic deciphering hidden codes in newspapers. Clicking on one link will ensure that you click on another, and another until you have lost your way back home and forgotten who you are.
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There are two things about the book that make it purest evil: the first is that anyone can add to it, so it's always changing and growing larger. The second is that every entry contains several references to other cleverly-named tropes, and touching one of those names sends you to an explanation of that trope's name, complete with references to other tropes . . . and at some point you look up and see you're eight years older than when you started.
—Kingdom of Loathing, "Tome Of Tropes" encounter
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During Lost, after writing scripts and editing episodes all day, it was nearly impossible for me to come home and watch scripted television without my critical brain kicking in. Instead of being caught up in the narrative, I could see only what was underneath — the blueprints and building materials.
—Show Runner Carlton Cuse, The New York Times
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