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AnOminous said:
It's supposed to be when something supposed to be really serious happens but is actually funny.

Back when people actually knew what the fuck it was, the main example would be the literal aneurysm Nate had in Six Feet Under when he was talking when it hit and tried to say "numb arm" and then gargled "NARM!" before keeling over. This was supposed to be serious but the scene was inappropriately hilarious instead.

That Blues Brothers example is not one. It would be a Harsher in Hindsight or some other autistic trope.
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Not really. That’s the definition for Narm.
TVTropes said:
A "funny aneurysm" moment is when a scene, joke, or offhand line that was originally meant to be funny or lighthearted becomes cringeworthy due to the unfortunate and/or traumatic events in future installments/episodes of a work or in real life. When someone says that a bit of comedy has been "overtaken by events," it is this that is in play.
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I still don’t understand why this has to be a separate trope from Harsher in Hindsight.
 
Gingervitis said:
I still don’t understand why this has to be a separate trope from Harsher in Hindsight.
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according to tv tropes, Harsher in Hindsight is a serious event, plotline, or comment where a later event (in the story or real life) comes up and only serves to amplify the already bitter-tasting effect. their example is a quote by Lewis Schiliro, Head of the FBI's New York Office, after the 1993 World Trade Center Bombing
"This building will stand forever."
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not even a decade later 9/11 happens
 
Perducci said:
I once saw a Tumblr post, presumably in response to all the SU Critical junk (that has its own thread here), that said “imagine if people where this intensely analytical about My Gym Partner’s a Monkey”.

Welp, there you have it, guy.
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So basically it was a 'tarded Tunblr joke people took seriously, that sounds about right.
 
The trope name for Funny Aneurysm Moment comes from Buffy:

This often has to do with a character or actor's death and is named for a line from the Buffy episode "The Freshman" in which Buffy hopes that her mother will have "a funny aneurysm" when she sees the cost of Buffy's college textbooks. This would come back to bite her in the next season.
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It's not that deep, fellas.
 
iafiv said:
Eventually all pop culture made before circa 2008 will be considered offensive by tropers.If you're going to look for something wrong with culture you're gonna find it.Even 'woke' culture made before 2008 they'll find something wrong with it.Either the characters are too white/not using the right words/too laid back when it comes to serious issues.The real scary part is that this kind of thinking has started to dominate large portions of the political elite in some states and the law of averages says that eventually one of them will gain power.
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Only 2008?
 
If a cartoonist says something politically incorrect in a forest, and there's no one around to hear it, Tropers will still be offended.
 
FatFuckFrank said:
What do they see in Haruhi?
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It's a fun show with interesting characters that is a bit of a clusterfuck and extremely meta but you can feel smart for "getting it" and laugh when it references or subverts a common anime trope.
It's also completely entry level and by KyoAni so a lot of people have seen it who haven't actually seen a lot and don't have a wide pool of anime to draw from hyping it up.
Honestly I'm kind of surprised the Endless Eight didn't scare more people off and the show hit the internet popularity that it did.
 
The Old Lurker said:
It's a fun show with interesting characters that is a bit of a clusterfuck and extremely meta but you can feel smart for "getting it" and laugh when it references or subverts a common anime trope.
It's also completely entry level and by KyoAni so a lot of people have seen it who haven't actually seen a lot and don't have a wide pool of anime to draw from hyping it up.
Honestly I'm kind of surprised the Endless Eight didn't scare more people off and the show hit the internet popularity that it did.
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Didn't some anon solve that problem when it came to Endless Eight? Not that they would care, because it came from 4chan.
 
Has anyone noticed TVTropes tries to push off this series called Whately Universe or something because it's like an example in almost every page I believe.
 
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