[Loved Trope] The Comedy Suddenly Stops Joking Around

[u/MostInteraction3184]

There's nothing I love more than being in a comedy, and you get that one moment, usually a single look from a character, and all of the sudden we stop joking around. Whatever's going on from this point forward is played completely straight in stark contrast to everything that came before.

1). A moment from the comedy show Scrubs. Our man Dr. Cox is exchanging jokes with his best friend when he is asked "Where do you think we are?" Suddenly it is revealed Cox's best friend isn't actually there, and they are at his funeral.

2). An dark comedy called Haunted Hotel. The whole show specializes in dark humor with ghosts, demons, and plenty of death. But when near the end of season 1, it is revealed that always happy go lucky ghost Nathan died from suicide, everything slows way down. Suddenly the whole show gains this tiny bit of underlying seriousness they never joke about.

3). From an anime called Gintama. One two episode story arc involves an old alien dog that wants to conquer the earth now that his old owner is hospitalized. Near the end, suddenly all jokes are off as the two old timers struggle to avoid dying of old age as neither wants the other to feel lonely.

[u/TheVoicesOfBrian]

https://giphy.com/gifs/4T9dXcA0mWnUPr6tcD

And now I've made myself sad.

[u/AlduinRoar4 → u/TheVoicesOfBrian]

The only episode in television history that gets an automatic skip on every single rewatch.

[u/Miserable-Let3212 → u/AlduinRoar4]

I don't find it particularly sad, but "The Luck of the Fryrish" and the "Original Martian" tho...

[u/ArtHoe-Kage → u/Miserable-Let3212]

Luck of the Fryrish absolutely fucks my shit every time

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Futurama, the hilarious whacky sci-fi cartoon that every now and again says "We need to give our viewers a laser-guided emotional gut punch that'll have them reeling for years on end", and does exactly that with the precision of a neurosurgeon, for seemingly no reason.

[u/bretshitmanshart → u/Miserable-Let3212]

Game of Tones is it for me.

"I've dreamed a lot about you since you disappeared"

[u/-Tesserex- → u/bretshitmanshart]

Same. Lost my mom 2 weeks before that episode. It wrecked me. 

[u/booroms → u/Miserable-Let3212]

Game of Tones as well

[u/TheVoicesOfBrian → u/AlduinRoar4]

Depends on my mood. But yeah, it's rough.

[u/Glum-World1214 → u/TheVoicesOfBrian]

That episode made me walk out my room crying

[u/YourBestFriend158 → u/TheVoicesOfBrian]

Don’t do this to me