[Loved Trope] The Comedy Suddenly Stops Joking Around

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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.

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"A girl worth fighting—" (music stops)

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And it stopped for good.

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No kidding, it's the last song in the film until the credits.

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Hats off to the movie makers who successfully made an enjoyable ascent to the peak of Mulan's rollercoaster. Then launched us straight into the ground like we were on an unfinished track in Rollercoaster Tycoon.

I rewatched Mulan as an adult which let me officially ride that rollercoaster. Yaaaay~ Anyways, my neck is still broken from that crash.

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My neck is still broken by how Li Shang seemed awfully disappointed that Ping was a girl.

But the light heartedness to absolutely serious is why Mulan is my favorite Disney movie. Plus Mulan is a G

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They find a girl worth fighting for, though.