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February 27

Is there a name for this?

"Guy who you would expect to be silent in a conversation but ends up speaking anyway" trope. Example:
Hero: Okay, this guy's gotta go.
Police officer: (insert celebrity imitation here of them saying "I agree")
Criminal: Hey, is that (celebrity police officer was imitating)?
Police officer: Yeah. Now move along.
TWOrantula^TM (enter the web) 05:39, 27 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Where have you seen this? ←Baseball Bugs ^{What's up, Doc?} carrots→ 07:19, 27 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Why not ask the good folks at TV Tropes? They might be able to help you figure this out. Pablothepenguin (talk) 12:22, 27 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Good idea. I'm gonna ask them TWOrantula^TM (enter the web) 14:34, 27 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]

In particular, TV Tropes has (or once had) a page titled YTTTW (You Know That Thing Where...) for such questions. —Tamfang (talk) 00:45, 4 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

IDK I just keep seeing it on a lot of television shows I watch. TWOrantula^TM (enter the web) 14:35, 27 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Can you provide an example or two? It occurs to me that one thing it could be called is "lazy writing" - going to the same ideas over and over. Like the countless times various characters will say, "I get that." ←Baseball Bugs ^{What's up, Doc?} carrots→ 14:43, 27 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Sorry, I was up at like 11:00 PM. I remember seeing this on Superstore:
Jonah does an impression of Kelly, and then she does an impression of Glenn. Kelly leaves. A random guy with a shopping cart appears out of nowhere and says he could do an accurate impression of someone. TWOrantula^TM (enter the web) 15:00, 27 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Are you asking more about the silent character who suddenly speaks or about someone doing an impression. For a silent character who suddenly speaks, a classic example is Silent Bob. Jay even explains the trope being that because he doesn't speak, when he suddenly does, it is supposed to be deep and meaningful, but it really isn't. 12.116.29.106 (talk) 17:33, 27 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]

I'm asking about the silent character who suddenly speaks. TWOrantula^TM (enter the web) 00:40, 28 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]

"Hi, I'm Larry. This is my brother, Darryl, and this is my other brother, Darryl." Both Darryls speak for the first (and last) time in the final episode of Newhart. Clarityfiend (talk) 06:02, 28 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Another famous example is mime Marcel Marceau, who is, I think, the only actor with a spoken line in "Silent Movie". Xuxl (talk) 14:31, 28 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]

The only audible line; other mouths do move, and have lines shown on cards. —Tamfang (talk) 00:00, 1 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

In one scene Mel appears to say "You dirty rotten son of a bitch!" and the card reads "You bad boy." —Tamfang (talk) 00:46, 4 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

This is a complicated trope. I found this, which goes into details of all the variants. 75.136.148.8 (talk) 13:45, 1 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Cad (sport)

Do we have an article that covers this sport? Rugby union includes this phrase, to which I've just added a link:

Medieval Irishmen played cad, carrying an inflated bladder and using arched trees as goals.

There's nothing sport-related at Cad (disambiguation), but an entire sport not having an article seems unlikely, so I wondered if maybe it's covered under a different name. Initially I thought it might be vandalism or a typo, but the online source confirms it. Nyttend (talk) 19:48, 27 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]

The article is Caid (sport). There's no indication as to whether cad is an accepted (English) spelling of caid. --Wrongfilter (talk) 20:20, 27 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]

I've added the sport to Cad (disambiguation). But the OED Online has no listing for either "cad" or "caid" with this sense. --142.112.220.50 (talk) 05:33, 28 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Just to add that the word caid is Gaelic. Shantavira|^{feed me} 09:00, 28 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]