TV tropes & idioms

Saturday 13 March 2004This is over 20 years old. Be careful.

Speaking of conventions in movies (I mentioned a starving person seeing someone turned into a chicken in my post on Charlie Chaplin), Television Tropes, Idioms, and Devices catalogues all of the commonly-used devices in TV shows. An example:

Door Focus
When a character leaves a room and the focus stays on the door. Within seconds, the character comes charging back in for some unfinished business; usually to collect a much-needed object left behind, or to deliver a funny line. Used at least five times per Friends episode.

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Roger Ebert has listed a ton of these cliches for movies. They usually appear at the end of his "Movie Answer Man" columns.

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