Man, alone, sits down at the bar and tells the bartender, “Whiskey.” Bartender fills a glass with whiskey, and gives him the glass and the entire bottle.
I think it did on occasion. I recall a discussion on divorce many years ago (I think on this forum) where somebody mentioned a couple they knew that divided their house like that, then spent the ensuring decades refusing to talk or otherwise interact with each other.
At least some of the time the original date is in tiny lettering in the paneling between frames. For the strip you mention a year of 2002 is given.
For shame, Daredevil! Everyone knows you’re supposed to use a flexible blackjack or sap to minimize the probability of skull fracture.
I imagine it’s still pretty common on Nickleodeon shows. I’m a big Supernatural fan, and I was surprised to learn that Kim Rhodes (Jody Mlls) had put in her time on Zack & Cody and thus had her share of pie fights and cake face-plants. I figure that’s gotta be a sad resigned sigh for a lot of actors…they get cast on a Nick series and their first question must be “Ah well, which episode do I fall into a sheet cake?”
“Did I say that out loud?” haven’t seen that one since (I’m sure) Friends reruns, but maybe that hoary punchline still gets an airing now and then.
Winning a talent competition of some kind solves all the protagonist’s financial worries. Scrubs had an episode in which J.D. imagined the hospital as a sitcom, and they played with that trope.
The original strip was on November 27, 2002.
(should be que’d up to the line and ends with the crumbling away!)
School age child meets a famous person. His friends don’t believe him. Then at his birthday party the celebrity shows up. However, this did actually happen for my friend’s son. His uncle was a WWE referee and Andre’s road manager and Andre did come to his birthday party.
Corollary: man sits at bar and orders a beer. Bartender doesn’t ask “which of our dozen domestic brands or 57 varieties / brands of craft microbrews would you like?”, just pours a generic beer.
It appears that science fiction editor David Hartwell and science fiction writer and editor Kathryn Cramer continued to live together for four years, presumably in different sections of the house, until his death although they were separated.
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This was probably just good screenwriting at the time, where every line of dialogue was supposed to drive the story forward.
True, not really a trope, per se.
Television taught me never to get on an elevator with a pregnant woman.
Paging Mr. Lewis…
Speaking of… why was that ever funny!?
…or worse yet, a plane! 
I know I never get on an elevator with a plane.
Exactly, you don’t want to be around when hijinks ensue… and ensue they will!
I never get on a plane on a treadmill.