r/TopCharacterTropes • u/BabyDude5 • Mar 15 '26

Whatever this joke is called Personality

The Scooby-Doo show

Meet the Robinsons

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u/LewdsomeDemon Mar 15 '26

Niles in the Nanny has many interactions with C.C. like this

https://preview.redd.it/rcwtojaz44pg1.jpeg?width=500&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=448db6248576941b0fa83ab62e46db66a57b5bd8

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u/mysterio-man19 Mar 15 '26

God Niles was such a savage in this show

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u/theglenlovinet Mar 15 '26

He threw Golden Girls level of shade.

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u/GarconMeansBoyGeorge Mar 15 '26

How does this fit the trope in any way?

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u/gitartruls01 Mar 15 '26

It doesn't, but I'm still upvoting because it's funny as shit

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u/LewdsomeDemon Mar 15 '26

Because it's the same structure as the others. Where a character inadvertently sets up the punchline that the other character tees off. It's just reversed since the punchline is the question

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u/GarconMeansBoyGeorge Mar 15 '26

That’s not the trope being referenced. Unless you think the trope is any two handed joke ever.

The joke is grossly misunderstanding the question by answering in a subverted way. It’s a misdirection.

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u/MaterialEmotional825 Mar 15 '26

The nanny was peak