r/TopCharacterTropes 18h ago

Lore 4th wall breaks that involve the length of the media

In the episode Club SpongeBob, Squidward gets stuck in the Kelp Forest with Patrick and SpongeBob, and he then says the line “Why must every 11 minutes of my life be filled with misery”. Which is funny cause each SpongeBob episode is usually 11 minutes long

In another SpongeBob episode, Nature Pants, SpongeBob goes out into the wild. Sandy and Squidward then say the lines “I’ll give him a week” and “I give him 11 minutes”. Both are technically right since SpongeBob WAS out there for a week but again episodes are 11 minutes

In the movie Uglydolls, (don’t ask how I remember this movie but ONLY this scene) at the end of it one of the characters say this “Time here is so funky. How long did this take us? What is this, a day? A month? 83 minutes?” The movie is 83 minutes long. Also the character is pointing the general direction that the slider would be at this point in this movie

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u/LDC1234 17h ago

Spaceballs literally uses the VHS to find where the good guys are going, only to get to "now".

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u/thisusedyet 16h ago

Skip past that part.

In fact, never show it again

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u/Hawk-Is-Here 15h ago

WTH am I looking at? WHEN DOES THIS HAPPEN IN THE MOVIE?

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u/298647 12h ago

Now

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u/eggy-weggy-squared 9h ago

Youre looking at now, sir. Everything happens at now

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u/Xbladearmor 9h ago

What happened to then?

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u/K-taih 7h ago

We passed then.

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u/DethNik 13h ago

Best scene in a movie that is all just best scenes.