Nitpick: It’s not a split infinitive. It’s a type 3 (separable) phrasal verb.
“Put out that cigarette!” = “Put that cigarette out!” Both are acceptable.
Corollary: A tough woman suddenly becomes attractive and likeable once she drops the “bitch” act. Examples: Carol Burnett’s woman Marine on Gomer Pyle, USMC, Margaret Houlihan on MASH, and Elaan of Troyus on Star Trek: TOS.
Just saw it in the brand-new One Hundred Years of Solitude.
Only in first-world countries. For a while Covid-19 took its place as the single leading cause of death from an infectious agent, but now TB is back, baby!
Fair enough. It could very well be just the luck of the draw that I haven’t run across it lately.
I don’t think anybody syncronizes watches anymore.
Gender/roll swapping for humor is almost dead.
That’s a interesting observation. It seems to have been replaced with gender/casting swapping. But not for humor, necessarily.
Now I’m envisioning an episode of The Simpsons where all the characters are depicted gender-reversed without comment or explanation.
That would be … fascinating. And very funny if they really ran with it.
A trope that I hope fully enters this category (it’s far less common that it was at least, but I’d say say it’s closer to sitting up and saying “I’m not dead yet, I think I’ll go for a walk”):
It hasn’t been moving or food for thought since at least the 80s, and hasn’t been original or at least, not overused for at least a decade before, but I want it on it’s deathbed. It is still at least more rare in speculative/science fiction, but the borefest 65 proved it had legs yet. And it was barely even a twist.
Sadly, a parallel trope of Ancient Aliens/Ancient Humans is far more alive and flourishing, and doing great work (/s) at fueling racism, bigotry, and conspiracy theories every day.
I agree. The trope is nearly dead, or needs to die. In the TV Tropes sreenshot you linked, I see the classic Statue of Liberty ruin from Planet of the Apes, which as a kid blew my mind. Whoah! But that was probably the last best time for the trope. Everything has a season.
My wife and I watched this in the theater, I’m embarrassed to admit. Terrible movie. How did they screw up the dinosaurs so bad? I’m no paleontologist, but the designs of those dinos were weird and stupid.
I think that Stargate did a great version of this one of the later episodes of season 1
a problem happens when Carter and O’Neill discover they’ve ended up on what appears to be an ice planet. It’s actually a 2nd stargate on Earth in Antarctica
It plays more with the “planet of hats” trope than with Earth all along
An outtake from that episode:
Well, that was funnier than anything that actually aired on the series.
I never got that bit, to be honest. Even when I watched it for the first time as a little kid, I assumed from the start they were on Earth. After all, the place had apes, humans, trees, horses and so on and so on. Why would anyone think it was an alien planet?
I was raised on Star Trek, where every alien planet the crew visited had English-speaking, human-looking aliens (other than being green or blue and maybe having antennae). So the concept of a planet with humans, trees, horses and English-speaking apes didn’t seem too far-fetched by comparison.
Or, maybe you were just a much smarter kid than I was 
Because we thought that all of that was convention to facilitate the narrative as in many other movies.
So what you’re saying is that just because a planet looks like Earth onscreen, it didn’t actually look like Earth, it was just a convention, like having people in the future wear contemporary haircuts. If we had actually been there and looked closely, we would have noticed that it was really an alien world - or in this case, that it wasn’t.
So my question is this: why didn’t Charlton Heston notice? He was an astronaut, a pretty smart guy, and probably well-educated. Why didn’t HE realize that the planet he was on just wasn’t alien enough?
They finally made a monkey out of him.