Toothy Fell Out of the Bus
In a show that constantly has characters dying and reappearing in the next episode, one episode has one character in the predicament where they may or may not have died. You can imagine the outcome either way, but unless Word of God is here to claim it, you don't know if that character died or not, even if No One Could Survive That!.
This trope is named after the ending of the first season finale of Happy Tree Friends, where one can briefly see Toothy being flung out of the bus. He could had fallen to his death, but it is still left a mystery.
If the Word of God is that the character did die, it is Toothy Fell To His Death. If it is otherwise, then it is Cushioned The Fall For Toothy.
This trope has nothing to do with Tropes on a Bus.
Toothy Fell to His Death
When Word of God reveals the outcome of Toothy Fell Out Of The Bus to be a death. It may overlap They Killed Kenny Again, if the character is revived the next episode. Compare Cushioned The Fall For Toothy.
Cushioned the Fall for Toothy
So, a character in a show where one or more characters routinely die ends up falling victim to Toothy Fell Out Of The Bus. They are put in the predicament where something happened and, lets face it, No One Could Survive That! Right?
Well, if Word of God says no, that's Cushioned the Fall for Toothy.
This is where someone who worked on a work confirms that the character had not died, and rather survived.
Compare Toothy Fell To His Death, where the character is conformed to have actually died.
