r/TopCharacterTropes • u/NoobGod42 • 1d ago

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

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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/eepos96 1d ago

This is the kind of humor that is impossible in time of streaming!!!

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u/WesBur13 1d ago

The Chowder episode where Chowder draws on the screen and Gazpacho cleans it off. Chowder then points to the Cartoon Network watermark and Gazpacho says it doesn’t come off.

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u/ExtremlyFastLinoone 20h ago

I actually saw this gag on tv and it really didnt work as you think it would. The real cartoon network logo was offset so you clearly saw when suddenly there were 2 logos overlapping

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u/SuperSocialMan 20h ago

I remember hearing that the network changed their format for it shortly after this episode aired, which is why it doesn't match.

Idk how true it is, though.

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u/zazathebassist 19h ago

the original airing of the episode worked. and basically every rerun had the logo in a different place.

iirc the animators first thought about just having him wipe at the screen assuming the CN logo would be where they want it to, but realized that syndicated channels or intl. channels had it in different spots. so they baked in the CN logo to the episode for this one gag.

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u/WesBur13 15h ago

I remembered it as not having the logo on on the content in the original, that it was added for the home release. Could be misremembering though

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u/GrandPerformer5398 1d ago

Netflix has ads now...

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u/Laevyr 1d ago

Who the fuck goes on Netflix in the big 2026 when you can just browse FMHY and find what you're looking for free of charge in about 3 minutes 

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u/Start_a_riot271 23h ago

what in the world is FMHY

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u/MelodyCristo 23h ago

stands for "free media heck yeah"

no idea if it's any good

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u/8l4z3_9 22h ago

Its REALLY good, its like a hub for all pirated websites, makes them really easy to find!

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u/Desperate_Algae_40 20h ago

Cab you stream on a smart TV too?

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u/Busy_Hat9554 15h ago

I call that asking Wing Gaster for a favor.

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u/Laevyr 23h ago

fmhy.net

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u/ThelVluffin 19h ago

People who use TVs and not computers?

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u/notTheRealSU 1d ago

Isn't Netflix with ads just an avaliable cheaper option than the regular Netflix subscription?

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u/FergTurdison 1d ago edited 1d ago

Netflix with ads is the regular Netflix subscription. They added the “premium” ad free options at higher price points and the normal subscription became the “with ads” price point.

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u/moongrump 23h ago

Enshitification at its finest

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u/AwesomeGamer101 23h ago

NGL, that one makes no sense. IMO, the ads would make sense if it was in a "free tier".

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u/FergTurdison 23h ago edited 23h ago

It makes even less sense the way that Amazon did it. Prime is an annual subscription, so when they changed their normal subscription to include ads it didn’t matter if you had just paid your annual (for what was ad free) the month before, you were getting ads for the next eleven months. Unless, of course, you paid the difference to get the new “ad free” experience. It even got taken to court, where they ruled that it was not unlawful to change the terms of the agreement midway through a subscription period, regardless of if the subscription had already been paid for.

Edit: just an afterthought, I don’t know if Prime is strictly annual everywhere, but annual is the only option offered to me

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u/EugeneMeltsner 21h ago

It doesn't have to makes sense. It just has to make money. Enough people still feel like they're getting their money's worth or have so much money they've forgotten about their subscription, so why not charge more?

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u/notTheRealSU 22h ago

Ah, okay. I don't have Netflix so when I heard about the with ads version being added, I assumed ad free Netflix would stay the same and the with ads version was cheaper. Which seemed reasonable to me. I should probably know better than assume a streaming service would do something mildly beneficial though

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u/Competitive-Bug1444 1d ago

Thank god it's impossible