Seriously. Like Wikipedia, reading one entry at TV Tropes leads to another and then another and then another and then another still, and suddenly it's like, "Hey, why is it dark outside and what have I been doing for the past ten hours?!" But unlike Wikipedia, which might actually teach you something you didn't already know (whether you retain said knowledge or not), TV Tropes mostly involves browsing humorous descriptions and examples of stuff with which you were probably already familiar... so it's like time has just vanished and you don't have any new trivia about the diet of elephants or the habitat of penguins to share.
In fact, that's the main draw of the site! When I read about a familiar trope and go down the lengthy lists of examples, I mainly scan for shows I've seen so that I can recall the relevant scenes and enjoy a hearty laugh or a knowing smile. Yes.
And now, since I've got about a billion tabs open to TV Tropes entries, I will list them here so that I can clean up my Firefox window!
- Giant Space Flea From Nowhere
- Captain Ersatz
- Huge Schoolgirl (Sakaki-san!)
- The Napoleon
- Punch Punch Punch Uh Oh (This one occurs in almost every anime I've ever seen... and just about every video game I've ever played. Happens quite a bit on "Buffy the Vampire Slayer" and "Angel," too.)
- Samus Is A Girl (I don't remember the "Excel Saga" episode mentioned at all, but I definitely remember Akira's reveal in Rival Schools! I remember King's reveal in Art of Fighting as well, though I never had the opportunity to be fooled by it -- we'd been looking at pictures of her shirt getting blown open in game magazines long before we had the chance to play the title.)
- Shotoclone (Everyone loves Super Uppercut Brothers!)
- Hot Amazon
- List of Horrible Films (I'm so amused that Nukie and The Garbage Pail Kids Movie are on this list, and yet I found both of them to be far more watchable than Flightplan.
- Smug Snake
- Disney Acid Sequence
- Spy Catsuit
- Impossibly Low Neckline
- Horny Devils (See, one definitely led to the next with those last three...)
- Cutey Honey (See, it's even got pages for individual shows! And since I enjoy reading about tropes from shows that I know and love... well, these serve as major jump points for me.)
- Street Fighter: The Legend of Chun-Li (Yep, pages for movies too. As bad as this film was -- and it was quite bad -- I'm kinda looking forward to adding the DVD to my collection. )
- World Heroes (Pages for video games!)
- Capcom VS Whatever (Blanka versus Toucan Sam would be awesome... and I wonder if Snap, Crackle, and Pop would be Shotoclones?)
- Batman Gambit
- For The Evulz (The Master and Baxter Stockman and Angelus and Invader Zim and Shego and Skeletor and Megatron mentioned on the same page?!?!?!? Awesome!!!!!
- Shut Up Hannibal (I'm even getting dragged through more tropes as I compose this list...)
- Hannibal Lecture (MAKE IT STOP!!!)
- Berserk Button
- Cool Old Guy
- Villain With Good Publicity
Okay. Done.
For now.
Hey, what happened to the past four hours?!