The Most Subtle Lampshade Hanging EVER!

[SandroTheMaster]

Comic 546 has the one of the best Lampshade Hangings (http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/LampshadeHanging) I've seem. Having a Hobgoblin inquire about an actual lampshade at the time was priceless! Very subtle Rich, very subtle. But still, that's what you get for doubting the well known ability of paladins to be epic-scale thick. Reck, that's even the only redeeming quality of that sorry-ass excuse for a movie called "Jumper". Those guys got the hang of what a paladin is just right, at least morally.

Rich, I salute you. Not the first to actually call a lampshade for the scene, but surely the first to not only show it, but also mention it, and imply it very visibly just before it. Although, Redcloak is on the borderline of being a Scully (http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/AgentScully) right there. Still, incredible!

[Remirach]

I liked it, but for god's sake, man.

SUBTLE.

Look it up.

Because I do not think the word means what you think it means.

[bluish_wolf]

He is being sarcastic.

[Remirach]

And I'm drunk...

[Halvormerlinaky]

He is being sarcastic.

And about as subtle as 200.

[Woofsie]

And about as subtle as 200.

Don't you mean 300? :smallconfused:

[Remirach]

And about as subtle as 200.

Not 300????!!??!

[Calemyr]

Not 300????!!??!

No, they're talking about only the first two thirds of the movie.

[hanzo66]

Well, I guess the fact that the users here are highly knowledgeable of TV Tropes has sort of picked up on Rich, I guess.

[Halvormerlinaky]

Well, I guess the fact that the users here are highly knowledgeable of TV Tropes has sort of picked up on Rich, I guess.

Exactly. Which is why I said 200 instead of 300. One is from a TV show, the other from history.

[Halvormerlinaky]

Exactly. Which is why I said 200 instead of 300. One is from a TV show, the other from history.

But maybe others are picking up on that. In which case I salute you. If not, you can go Belkar yourself.

Edit - OK this would have worked much better with the original quote. See above.

[Max_Sinister]

Being a big fan of tvtropes, I was very happy to see it.

[Alex Warlorn]

I guess it all depends... if your culture considers promises to be promises regardless of how silly they are.

[Weiser_Cain]

What exactly is he hanging a lampshade on?

[Nerd-o-rama]

What exactly is he hanging a lampshade on?The outright Lawful Stupidity of the Paladins not holding an active interest in the other gates, when they were charged with protecting the fabric of reality.

[malagigi]

I admit I compleatly missed this refference, but now that I'm on the ball, I like it.

[Helanna]

I started laughing like crazy. "I have your lampshade, sir." "Just hang it anywhere." Priceless!!! It was TV Tropes that introduced me to OotS to begin with, and I was really surprised at how many people on these forums Waste hours of their precious lives fixated on the screen reading pointless entries visit TV Tropes. I can waste hours on end there . . .

[SlightlyEvil]

I got to this comic via TvTropes as well, so I loved this one. There are enough OotS fans on the site that I was bound to get here eventually.

[Spiky]

The outright Lawful Stupidity of the Paladins not holding an active interest in the other gates, when they were charged with protecting the fabric of reality.

I would've said the trope is RC disbelieving the obvious, truthful facts staring him in the face. Later he (Giant) makes fun of it again, when O'Chul speaks.

[SandroTheMaster]

I got to this comic via TvTropes as well, so I loved this one. There are enough OotS fans on the site that I was bound to get here eventually.

Interestingly enough, I found each other independently. The OotS I found through an game forum some years ago. The TV tropes I found out of a professor when I was discussing with him about literary tools and he advised me on looking on the site. I'm happy he did.

About the lampshade, it's certainly about the puppet paladin army who never thought of just... I don't know, being smart. At least Shojo seemed to be monitoring things.

But how I said, RC is being a bit too skeptic in the moment.

[Remirach]

I got to this comic via TvTropes as well, so I loved this one. There are enough OotS fans on the site that I was bound to get here eventually.

Whoa, me three -- I got linked in through the "always chaotic evil" entry, which linked to 511 (http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0511.html). You OOTS-Tropers ought to be proud -- you're bringing in a real crowd here!

[Tass]

I found tropes through these boards...