I hate that one trope where there's an alien or a guy from an isolated tribe that's never been to America, and they come to America and their new American friends show them shopping malls and fast food and the outsider is all "This is amazing! I love America!"

Just once I'd like this trope to be subverted with the alien or whatever spitting out the fast food and saying something like, "Oh god, what is this shit? It's giving me a heart attack!" or they go to a mall and are mortified by the advertising and that they have to slave away to afford any of it.

Are there any tropes you're tired of? They can be as dumb and petty as you want. It's fun to rip on pointless things sometimes.

  • Nakoichi [they/them]
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    3 years ago

    Reminds me of that episode of Stranger Things when the Russian scientist guy basically dies saying how much he loves capitalism.

    • AtomPunk [he/him]
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      3 years ago

      Cue the little sister giving glib monologue on why she also love capitalism :cringe:

    • Dirt_Owl [comrade/them, they/them]
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      3 years ago

      Yeah, it was a huge trope in the 80s' so it makes sense that a show emulating the 80s' would have that.

      Stranger things was okay for like the first season, but the third season especially sucks with all it's capitalism deepthroating. Also, the creators of that show are apparently creepy fucks.

    • Kanna [she/her]
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      3 years ago

      That show just continues to disappoint more and more

    • purr [undecided]
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      3 years ago

      speaking of stranger things, i never really saw much of the show beyond a few episodes but i absolutely absolutely hate the trope of the main boy meeting a ~girl from out of this world~~ whose feminity becomes apparent when she Wears a dress and then nerd boy realizes he's liked her the whole time. not entirely sure stranger things played this so on the nose but i saw the scene where eleven wears a dress and the boys are like OMGWOW and i had to dip. suburban boyhood centric shit is so played out

      after the 2000s im so tired of watching the seemingly charming idyllic nostalgic setting of teenage boys obsessing over girls with each other and dealing with purberty in suburbia. as a woman from the city ive always been like what do yall want me to do with this. why am i able to know so intimately what the white male suburban experience was like from 1970-the present even though ive never had it

      • makotech222 [he/him]
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        3 years ago

        Because all the writers on all the popular shows are white surburbanites lol.

        • purr [undecided]
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          3 years ago

          exactly. its so telling too when their nostalgia is specifically 70s/80s/90s focused. like at least linklater gave us early 2000s nostalgic white suburbia. just say ur a boomer and go