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Fast Eddie: Not sure what this is supposed to be, but it is too wide.

Yes, this was meant to be a dramatic reveal...

Silent Hunter: That would be the fourth Mac Gyver example.

Removed:

Lost: "The Shape of Things to Come: Sawyer, on his way to get Claire (people with no names don't matter), tells some random guy to get in the house because there's about to be trouble. He gets shot. Someone else comes out of the house to see what the noise was about. Sawyer tells him/her to get back in the house. BANG. A THIRD PERSON comes out of the house, and before Sawyer can finish telling him/her to get back in the house, he/she is shot. Redshirt dominoes! Honestly, Lost is usually better with these things.

Because in all honesty, the sheer obviousness of it makes it seem like it was intentional. The Walt crap, however, can stay. :p

Anonymous Mc Cartneyfan: Cut this as natter and put it here. Crowning Moments of Awesome, in general, don't belong under Narm.

The latter doubles as a back-up Crowning Moment Of Awesome for Ransik, as he fights Alex (morphed as Red Ranger), kicks his ass and then makes him do the explode-and-die thing. This Troper can't remember that happening to a Ranger before or since. Of course, Wes was the real Red Ranger of the series and Alex turned out to be Not Quite Dead, but still...

Anonymous Mc Cartneyfan: Cut this and put it here. The opposite of Narm, in this case, is "Funny Aneurysm" Moment.

This troper thought it managed to remain creepy thought the entire scene. However, he had the opposite reaction in Midnight: Sky repeating everything everybody says is laughably ridiculous for a while, but as the episode progresses, you'll probably never find mimicking people funny ever again.

Anonymous Mc Cartneyfan: Cut this and put it here, for now. Narm Charm and deliberate Narm are subverted Narm. This is an aversion, and thus doesn't belong in the main entry.

Cameron makes up for it in the season 2 opener with a powerful subversion. After she gets a goodly chunk of car stuck in the back of her head and turns evil, Cameron does what Terminators do best: Try their hardest to terminate John Connor. With the general level of writing on the show (read: decent, but not extraordinary), this troper was quite expecting after Cameron is pinned between two trucks by Sarah, with John desperately fumbling to get her CPU out, for the monologue starting with a deadpan, "John, you don't know what you're doing." to be pretty Narmtastic overall, but not to turn into a heart wrenching steady shot of her head desperately trying to look back at John, begging with lines like, "I don't want to go away!" and "I ran a test John! I'm sorry, I'm okay now!" finally ending with Sarah ordering John, flat out, to take out her chip, and Cameron replying with, "I love you! I love you John! And you love me!" I'll take a second to remind you that these robots do not feel emotion; No pain, no pity, no anger, no love, no hatred. Which makes John gritting his teeth and yanking out her chip that much harder to watch.

Idler: Why was my line from the Heroes examples deleted? The one about Mohinder asking Elle if she's killed many people?

fleb: Hey Clerval, both of these You Tube links are the same. What did you mean to link to?

And then - the very next installment, mind you - there's Voyage of the Damned. You might think that this [http://youtube.com/watch?v=VEyulv3x6wI&feature=related this]] had already taken teh Narm up to eleven, but this would prove you wrong.

Prfnoff: Moving the page image to Glasses Pull.

Anonymous Mc Cartneyfan: Cut this and put it here. It's not Narm if it's supposed to be funny.

Firefly had the scene in episode ten in which Mal and Wash had a heart-to-heart, periodically interrupted by both characters twitching uncontrollably due to being tortured with nipple electrodes. As one heart-to-heart and one torture scene, these would have been genuinely moving. Together, they become... well, Narm.
- Of course, that was probably the whole point.
- The idea was for them to stay sharp and not be focusing on the pain by talking.

Anonymous Mc Cartneyfan: Cut this and put it here. The page is too long already without listing things that aren't examples.

Probably unintentional at first, but now the Chairman of Iron Chef America seems to revel in his silly introductions for the secret ingredient - from sing-songing the word "beans" to pronouncing "breakfast" as Yoda would - and how they completely undermine the show's oh-so-serious opening sequence, probably causing this to be more Camp than narm.

Anonymous Mc Cartneyfan: Cut this and put it here. If it was probably intended to be funny, then it isn't Narm. In the House episode 'House Divided', there was this classic scene- it was probably meant to be a comedy scene, but this troper decided it was Narm after watching House trying out a domino effect by lighting a bunch of alcohol-filled glasses on fire, and then dropping the glass he was holding and setting fire to the glasses, some paperwork, and a corpse. (He was in the morgue at the time). It always makes me laugh, even though lighting a dead body on fire is not funny at all.

Anonymous Mc Cartneyfan: Cut this and put it here. Full House is a Sitcom underneath the Aesops, so this was probably supposed to be funny.

In an episode of Full House, DJ becomes concerned about her weight when she is invited to a pool party. She narmfully reacts by refusing to eat her sandwich and falling off the elliptical after she overexercises.
- The fact that she's 12 when this happens doesn't help matters.

Anonymous Mc Cartneyfan: Cut this for similar reasons. Family Ties was a sitcom, even if we don't remember it for the funny.

The whole Uncle Ned sequence in Family Ties. Tom Hanks looking for anything with remotely any alcoholic content? Narm all the way.
"It may not be Miller time, but IT'S VANILLA TIME!"
- "And now (sob) I've hit Ale-e-ex..."

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