tvtropes.org is a site dedicated to cataloging themes and tropes in entertainment. For example, there's a trope called "Kicking the Dog", which is what a villain does to demonstrate that he's evil -- but is not to be confused with "Petting the Dog" (which demonstrates that he's capable of goodness and may foreshadow his changing sides later), "Raping the Dog" (which is doing something so evil that there's no way to sympathize with him), and so on.

Don't go to TVTropes. Left to your own devices, you WILL indulge that nerdy streak you try so hard to conceal, and it may be days before you stop recursively clicking links. (Yes, there is a term for doing that; I leave it to you to stay on tvtropes.org long enough to find it.)

TV Tropes ruined my life?

Eventually you learn to gain control over it and not spend half your day reading about random nerd shit. But that initial learning curve is pretty painful.

I missed an episode of Burn Notice once, and ended up there when I looked up a plot synopsis for it. Their synapses seem to have one goal: cram as many of their own terms into a single paragraph.

"While X demonstrates a classic example of Snogging the Frog during his kidnapping of Y, the Rockabye Romance between Y and Z gets hotted up after Y seems to develop a case of Holy Knight Syndrome. B, however, blows any chance of a Apricot Ham Sundae Romance with C in a scene that realld Backhands The Shark."

Yeah, I checked it out for a bit until I noticed almost every entry has as examples a ton of crappy anime and webcomics and, like a creeping fungus there's tons of entries where under "Web Original" examples some awful sounding shared-setting online fiction series called The Whately Universe is cited. It appears to be a really awful blending of the X-Men, HP Lovecraft and magical gender-switching as written by a clique of angsty emo teenagers.

To be fair, the bulk of Anime is extremely formulaic, and the genre in general is very prolific. You could argue that being formulaic is actually what allows them to churn out so much product. God knows how many anime titles are released each year, each one deliberately crammed full of tropes.

I don't really need a website to tell me that a shitload of anime comes out of the copy-paste factory every year.

I wouldn't consider it fair to call anime derivative and mass-produced. I wouldn't say it was incorrect either. . .

"I LOVE Ash in his swim trunks!"

"Gotta Catch Em All... then have sex with them."

A dry broadcaster reading might have been listenable.

To be fair, everyone I've ever been attracted to also had functional internal organs. Well, mostly.

I'm just picturing the Sonic person playing Smash Bros. Player character: Sonic. Opponents: One. Difficulty: Lowest setting. Time limit: Infinite. Item frequency: highest. All items besides food: turned off. Pants: removed.

And then an hour of Sonic running back and forth grabbing cupcakes over and over again, while on the other side of the stage, Link does retard backflips and falls off the platform on his own.

This.
Have them *****

Line up ladies, I have a fully working urinary system!

In the 3 years since I wrote that I developed prostate problems, for real. This is a classic example of the "Foreshadowing boast" trope in action.

So...which entry being read was yours?

The one about people on POETV having the shittiest sense of humor.

Dude if you don't like POETV then fuck off. All you ever do these days is talk shit about this site.

Did you ever think that maybe he would like it better if Chet thought to give it a functioning URINARY system?

To be fair, he rips on POE-News, too.

Internet atrocity gold, marred by shitty readers. Someone get the F Plus crew on this, stat.

he rips on everything over the age of 15

Neither of these websites are over 15 years old.

skewing younger, eh?

Yeah, you keep telling yourself that.