Comment on Homer

• norbert@kbin.social ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Lampshade Hanging (or, more informally, "Lampshading") is the writers' trick of dealing with any element of the story that seems too dubious to take at face value, whether a very implausible plot development or a particularly blatant use of a trope, by calling attention to it and simply moving on.

  https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/LampshadeHanging

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• Kiosade@lemmy.ca ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Calling themselves out on how ridiculous the situation is, basically.

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• Obi@sopuli.xyz ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I also never heard it before, probably should have, here’s the first part of the definition from TV tropes:

  “Lampshade Hanging (or, more informally, “Lampshading”) is the writers’ trick of dealing with any element of the story that seems too dubious to take at face value, whether a very implausible plot development or a particularly blatant use of a trope, by calling attention to it and simply moving on.”

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