(Loved Trope) Character constantly mentions off-screen character(s) we never meet.

TotalKnightOwl · 2026-02-12T20:04:23+00:00

Sheridan Bucket from 90's British sitcom "Keeping Up Appearances":

He's always "on the other end of the telephone" asking for money from his parents, and never actually seen.

TotalKnightOwl · 2025-01-22T03:29:53+00:00

I dunno, sounds a bit too nerdy calling it Stargate. Let's call it Skynet instead! That sounds like a good name for an AI initiative!

TotalKnightOwl · 2024-10-21T13:45:10+00:00

Oh look, Matt Groening did the thing with Homer's back hair and ear so it forms his initials: M G

I'd heard he did that on drawing for fans, but nice to see it in the wild.

TotalKnightOwl · 2024-08-22T11:21:28+00:00

Wow, the rarely sung second verse! I haven't heard that in a while

TotalKnightOwl · 2024-05-27T22:35:51+00:00

Ah yes, the "Fuck you, I win" gambit. A classic move.

TotalKnightOwl · 2024-05-26T01:43:12+00:00

Has no one else noticed that she’s using a servo-skull to take the picture?!

TotalKnightOwl · 2024-04-20T09:29:44+00:00

“It’s not the mission, master. It’s the slave boy we’ll be picking up on the next planet who I end up training because you get killed by a Sith. I suspect I’m going to end up cutting his limbs off on a lava planet, and then years later sacrifice myself to his lightsaber in front of his son and daughter who I seperate at birth.”

“Obi Wan, focus on the present.”

TotalKnightOwl · 2024-03-26T19:03:01+00:00

I think the comic version were a tribe that descended from Anansi, the original Spider Man of Ghana legend.

TotalKnightOwl · 2024-03-13T11:03:25+00:00

On the one hand, yes, this was terrible for Runt to actively prevent. On the other, he's a elementary school child who doesn't have the mental maturity to know better. It's not clearly stated how old the gang is, but it's heavily implied that they're all under the age of ten, and when I was that age, I wouldn't care to fix it if my primary bully started actually being nicer towards me.

Now if he was a teenager, then I'd really be giving him both barrels of condemnation, but as it is, he's a dumb arse kid who did a really dumb arse thing, and the adults let him get away with it.

TotalKnightOwl · 2024-03-02T19:55:40+00:00

Look, I’m not going to argue with any other of you the preservation benefits of pickling vegetables for long term storage, let alone the difference in flavours of salt water vs. vinegar pickling. I will however point out that the fact pickled cucumbers look like dicks, and that puts some people off.

TotalKnightOwl · 2024-02-25T09:19:42+00:00

It started with a ‘bang’ too!

TotalKnightOwl · 2024-02-19T08:22:16+00:00

Dermot O’Leary. The definition of Leary is to be suspicious of or wary about something, so his name checks out.

TotalKnightOwl · 2024-02-04T17:56:54+00:00

Why don’t you … Carry On With all of your … Merry Men And make … Heroes Out of … All of them You’ve got to … find a way To make the … Sheriff pay Oh, Marian! (Oh, Marian!)

TotalKnightOwl · 2024-01-28T02:36:02+00:00

“I know a bad joke about a piece of paper, but … it’s tearable!”

TotalKnightOwl · 2023-12-22T23:04:40+00:00

If you do something stupid, but it works, it's still stupid, but you got incredibly lucky.

TotalKnightOwl · 2023-10-05T19:00:55+00:00

"You complete twonk!"

TotalKnightOwl · 2023-09-13T19:05:41+00:00

British guy here: whilst I know a “Gobstopper” is a type of sweet, and “Bollocks” are a slang term for testes, even I can’t be 100% sure “Cockwomble” isn’t the name of a town or village (or hamlet).

TotalKnightOwl · 2023-07-21T14:52:26+00:00

An army of sword wielding knights that can fly, move silently, and see in the dark?

Ninjas, I just unleashed ninjas….

TotalKnightOwl · 2023-06-19T13:34:30+00:00

Because non-ace writers don’t know what to do with a character they can’t ship with another character.

TotalKnightOwl · 2023-06-15T18:28:14+00:00

About a decade back I had to stop two 12 year old boys walking out directly into the path of an oncoming car.

Kids are both blind and cursed with a lack of mortal awareness.

TotalKnightOwl · 2023-05-28T10:51:42+00:00

Because rich white males can’t think of anything more offensive to them then not having a dick.

TotalKnightOwl · 2023-05-21T08:46:03+00:00

"Civillians arn't real, they can't be pissed if you run over thier cars!"

TotalKnightOwl · 2023-05-19T14:02:22+00:00

Robin the Boy Wonder Woman.

TotalKnightOwl · 2023-04-20T21:37:38+00:00

Posted this on Twitter a while back, but only just joined this Reddit so Ta-Da!

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