# Warning: Tv tropes link **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [December 2, 2010, 10:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/warning-tv-tropes-link/562727 "2010-12-02T22:56:43Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![drastic\_quench](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e36b37/32.png) [@drastic\_quench](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/drastic_quench)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2010, 10:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/warning-tv-tropes-link/562727/1 "2010-12-02T22:56:43Z")
Who gives a fuck? I hate the obligatory cutesy presumption that TV Tropes is \*soooo \*entertaining and addicting. Fuck off with that shit. ---
**Author:** ![Bosstone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/22d042/32.png) [@Bosstone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosstone)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2010, 11:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/warning-tv-tropes-link/562727/2 "2010-12-02T23:01:18Z")
Well…it is. ---
**Author:** ![Giles](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/giles/32/60_2.png) [@Giles](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Giles)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2010, 11:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/warning-tv-tropes-link/562727/3 "2010-12-02T23:04:45Z")
It is for most of us. And if it isn’t for the OP, then he/she can take it as a warning to avoid something that he/she finds boring. ---
**Author:** ![Peeta\_Mellark](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/bc8723/32.png) [@Peeta\_Mellark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Peeta_Mellark)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2010, 11:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/warning-tv-tropes-link/562727/4 "2010-12-02T23:14:39Z")
God, thank you. I am so sick of idiots who think that they’re being clever with such warnings. Newsflash: nobody gives a shit. You’re basically bragging about what a slack-jawed geek you are. ---
**Author:** ![Merneith](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/57b2e6/32.png) [@Merneith](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Merneith)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2010, 11:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/warning-tv-tropes-link/562727/5 "2010-12-02T23:18:03Z")
Warning: Sticks-up-asses alert ---
**Author:** ![Ichbin\_Dubist](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/51bf81/32.png) [@Ichbin\_Dubist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ichbin_Dubist)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2010, 11:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/warning-tv-tropes-link/562727/6 "2010-12-02T23:25:14Z")
I’m going to start linking to TV Tropes pages saved as PDFs, that will scare the shit out of everyone. ---
**Author:** ![Giles](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/giles/32/60_2.png) [@Giles](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Giles)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2010, 11:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/warning-tv-tropes-link/562727/7 "2010-12-02T23:30:34Z")
> [@Ichbin\_Dubist](#): > > I’m going to start linking to TV Tropes pages saved as PDFs, that will scare the shit out of everyone. Try to make them not safe for work as well, to cover all the bases. ---
**Author:** ![Max\_the\_Immortal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/6de8d8/32.png) [@Max\_the\_Immortal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Max_the_Immortal)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2010, 11:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/warning-tv-tropes-link/562727/8 "2010-12-02T23:40:46Z")
I wonder if this is a case of [Hype Backlash](http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/HypeBacklash), or just [Hype Aversion](http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/HypeAversion). ---
**Author:** ![Bosstone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/22d042/32.png) [@Bosstone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosstone)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2010, 11:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/warning-tv-tropes-link/562727/9 "2010-12-02T23:42:26Z")
Dude, you didn’t flag the links! ---
**Author:** ![MrDibble](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mrdibble/32/114_2.png) [@MrDibble](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MrDibble)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2010, 12:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/warning-tv-tropes-link/562727/10 "2010-12-03T00:04:27Z")
> [@Giles](#): > > Try to make them not safe for work as well, to cover all the bases. Naah, for the full spread, name all the links “this” rather than anything meaningful. ---
**Author:** ![woodstockbirdybird](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/woodstockbirdybird/32/7905_2.png) [@woodstockbirdybird](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/woodstockbirdybird)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2010, 12:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/warning-tv-tropes-link/562727/11 "2010-12-03T00:16:35Z")
> [@Max\_the\_Immortal](#): > > I wonder if this is a case of [Hype Backlash](http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/HypeBacklash), or just [Hype Aversion](http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/HypeAversion). I applaud. ---
**Author:** ![An\_Gadai](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/d6d6ee/32.png) [@An\_Gadai](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/An_Gadai)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2010, 12:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/warning-tv-tropes-link/562727/12 "2010-12-03T00:21:01Z")
Assholes on the tvtropes boards are always linking to our shit too. ---
**Author:** ![Autolycus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/22d042/32.png) [@Autolycus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Autolycus)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2010, 12:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/warning-tv-tropes-link/562727/13 "2010-12-03T00:22:29Z")
Between TV Tropes, [Cracked.com](http://Cracked.com), and Wikipedia… ---
**Author:** ![Bosstone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/22d042/32.png) [@Bosstone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosstone)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2010, 12:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/warning-tv-tropes-link/562727/14 "2010-12-03T00:28:37Z")
> [@Autolycus](#): > > Between TV Tropes, [Cracked.com](http://Cracked.com), and Wikipedia… …lies the Slack-Jawed Geek Zone. ---
**Author:** ![An\_Gadai](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/d6d6ee/32.png) [@An\_Gadai](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/An_Gadai)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2010, 12:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/warning-tv-tropes-link/562727/15 "2010-12-03T00:46:43Z")
Hey did you see that really funny thing on the Onion guys? ---
**Author:** ![Frank](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Frank](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Frank)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2010, 12:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/warning-tv-tropes-link/562727/16 "2010-12-03T00:48:12Z")
> [@Bosstone](#): > > …lies the Slack-Jawed Geek Zone. Some of us are Slack-Jawed Yokels. [/ amusing and topical Simpsons reference] ---
**Author:** ![Ichbin\_Dubist](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/51bf81/32.png) [@Ichbin\_Dubist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ichbin_Dubist)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2010, 2:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/warning-tv-tropes-link/562727/17 "2010-12-03T02:18:25Z")
> [@Frank](#): > > [/ amusing and topical Simpsons reference] If there’s not an opening code, does that mean all of the Internet previous to this is an amusing and topical Simpsons reference? ---
**Author:** ![Ludovic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ab992/32.png) [@Ludovic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ludovic)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2010, 2:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/warning-tv-tropes-link/562727/18 "2010-12-03T02:41:35Z")
> [@Ichbin\_Dubist](#): > > If there’s not an opening code, does that mean all of the Internet previous to this is an amusing and topical Simpsons reference? You mean it’s _not_?:eek: ---
**Author:** ![Simplicio](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c37758/32.png) [@Simplicio](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Simplicio)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2010, 2:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/warning-tv-tropes-link/562727/19 "2010-12-03T02:49:23Z")
Yea. Its kinda like the “hated movie never happened” joke (Higlander 2, Star Wars Prequels etc). It was only mildly funny the first time I saw it, and now, thousands of iterations later, I can’t imagine why people bother. Especially annoying when someone posts to a thread _just_ to throw in that incredibly over-played joke. ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2010, 3:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/warning-tv-tropes-link/562727/20 "2010-12-03T03:04:11Z")
Aww. Poor baby. Somebody on the Internet did something you don’t like. Wahhhhh. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/warning-tv-tropes-link/562727.md?page=2)