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And a propeller! We can use it to rescue people! It's a flying machine, made out of a boat with oars. Here - look at this, I came up with a new invention today.

Whit denies any evidence that he's losing it (chiefly, giving terrible advice) thusly:.

"There's no sense in a long, drawn-out, seemingly-never-to-end engagement."

Connie and Eugene finally give in to their latent feelings for each other and decide to get married immediately.

While the April Fools episode "I Slap Floor" has everyone acting comically out of character, it works in a few jokes about the show at large amid the wackiness:.

The inevitable pokes at this have gone from prefacing it with a "(Ready?)" in "Switch", to having the show's production team hijack it over her protests in "500", which was topped in "Live at the 25" when she led the entire audience in reciting it.

Just to name one example, the narrator, Chris, ends every episode by giving the show's address and listing the main credits for the episode.

Adventures in Odyssey has been around for over twenty years, and it knows it.

Take it, Don.ĭon Wilson, the show's MC: "Jell-o." Take it, Jack. Jack Benny: And now a word from our sponsor. The "You start the game as a Level 1 human with no class" joke eventually morphed into "You start the game as Level 1 with no class and no style" and "You start the game as a Level 1 zombie with no Mojo (as this is a zombie movie, nobody has any class.)"

Munchkin basically exists to hang lampshades, not only on the tropes of the genres each version is parodying, but eventually on itself.

To his surprise, the sky responded with a fierce energy he'd never thought to see again." until the 11th edition, with the flavor text, "The sparkmage shrieked, calling on the rage of the storms of his youth. It was never reprinted after the 4th edition.

Lightning bolt was a card introduced in the early generations, and is widely regarded as being overpowered. For example, Ow's flavor text is "Have you ever noticed how some flavor text has no relevance whatsoever to the card it's on?" Also shows up occasionally in the regular game. Shows up fairly often in the joke "Unglued" and "Unhinged" sets from Magic: The Gathering.

Leaning on the Fourth Wall is for things which make sense in the story but also have a second meaning outside of the story. Once again, Lampshade Hanging is when attention is drawn to something that is so strange it threatens to break the Willing Suspension of Disbelief. Not to be confused with Lampshade Wearing. No Fourth Wall happens when characters not only discuss tropes, but the writers as well. Compare Discussed Trope, Postmodernism and Playing with a Trope. Sometimes takes the form of This Is the Part Where. Meta Guy is the fellow who does this all the time. Hypocrisy Nod and Inspiration Nod are specific types of this. If large numbers of lampshades are hung, then the writers believe lampshades are Better than a Bare Bulb, this trope's Logical Extreme.Īt times you may even just have a Puff of Logic, because of this. Can also be combined with an active attempt to avoid the trope, in which case the Lampshade Hanging turns into a Defied Trope.Ĭommonly seen in the self-aware shows that make up the Deconstructor Fleet rarely used in the presence of a Drop-In Character. When breaking internal consistency is deliberate this trope can be used to show that, yes, it is deliberate instead of a plot hole. The Turkey City Lexicon refers to this flavor of Lampshade Hanging as a "Signal from Freud", and reminds the author that if your characters are complaining about how stupid the latest plot development is, maybe your subconscious is trying to tell you something.Ĭan also be combined with a Hand Wave, sometimes invoking an unreveal, to make explaining a plot inconsistency unnecessary. The creators are using the tactic of self-deprecatingly pointing out their own flaws themselves, thus depriving critics and opponents of their ammunition. It also assures the audience that the world of the story is like Real Life: what's implausible for you is just as implausible for these characters, and just as likely to provoke an incredulous response. This assures the audience that the author is aware of the implausible plot development that just happened, and that they aren't trying to slip something past the audience. Lampshade Hanging (or, more informally, "Lampshading") is the writers' trick of dealing with any element of the story that threatens the audience's Willing Suspension of Disbelief, whether a very implausible plot development, or a particularly blatant use of a trope, by calling attention to it and simply moving on.