Twitter Users Make Fun of Cliched Film and TV Tropes

By Petr Knava | Social Media | March 1, 2021 |

Here’s a light bit of fluff for your Monday, as Twitter users poke fun at some well-worn film and TV character and representation tropes using the ‘Hello, I am’ template. Enjoy:

Hello I am the hijab wearing face in the crowd to represent diversity but I won't have any speaking lines. https://t.co/lPlGqTr0ye
— Hend Amry (@LibyaLiberty) February 28, 2021

Hello. I am a person administering CPR in on TV or film and I absolutely must shout “Don’t you die on me” at least once. https://t.co/6Zxv6hbcQm
— Jay Faerber (@JayFaerber) February 27, 2021

Hello. I am a woman on TV who just threw up. I am definitely pregnant. https://t.co/nTCMOm3LZ0
— emily ell elong (@ectannenbaum) February 27, 2021

Hello I am a child in an apocalypse movie. I have asthma and we WILL lose my inhaler https://t.co/joPlNPScRX
— Johnny Berchtold 🎃🔪 (@JohnnyBerchtold) February 28, 2021

Hello. I am a college professor in a movie or TV show. When not pontificating in a large, echoey wood-paneled lecture hall, I live alone in a large home filled with antique furniture, 4 million books, and a dozen or so tweed jackets. I am either 75 or 29 years old.
— Derek Kompare (@d_kompare) February 28, 2021

hello. i am a lesbian on TV. i have passed away https://t.co/ZD4mcMnZuk
— Jill Gutowitz (@jillboard) February 28, 2021

Hello, I’m someone on TV with chronic pain who takes pills without water.
— Laraine Newman (@larainenewman) February 28, 2021

Hello. I am a full-figured woman who isn't Queen Latifah. Even though the average American woman wears a size 14, my size will be used for comic relief as I navigate dating. By the end I will learn how to dress better and date an average guy because I love myself pic.twitter.com/adL1a9Iu02
— CocoDeLoco (@CocoaNo5) February 28, 2021

Hello. I am a person driving a car on TV or in a film and not looking at the road for a full ten seconds. https://t.co/xA8XMWBlVu
— lisa (@JLisaJay) February 27, 2021

Hello. I am a hacker on TV and will now use the DOS prompt to hack the pentagon.
— Barry T. Smith (@BCoffeeMonkey) February 28, 2021

Hello, I'm a coconut in a 60s sitcom, whose job it is to conk someone on the head and give them amnesia. Not crush their skull or give brain damage. My brother is in the tree waiting to help restore their memory.
— Dr. Miss Communicate (@cosmicsoup221b) February 28, 2021

Hello, I am a chronically ill person in a TV drama. I am a prop for doctors to do heroic things with. https://t.co/Hf3pST1IRY
— Alex Haagaard (they/them) (@alexhaagaard) February 27, 2021

Hello. I am a person talking on a phone in a film. I never say goodbye when I hang up, and weirdly nobody else in that film ever seems to think that is really fucking rude.
— Tom Cox (@cox_tom) February 26, 2021

Hello. I am a person in a movie and I answer the phone.

No really I just straight up answer it instead of staring at it in dread and waiting for that shit to go to voicemail. https://t.co/GIAwvTNw85
— torionic (@Torionic) February 28, 2021

Hello, I am a cancer patient on TV or film and my only purpose is to die to teach the non-cancer protagonist/audience to live boldly/life is fragile or to live and die later to evoke an emotional reaction from the cast/audience and teach the above lesson that way.
— Victor Nelson (@victorsonofnel) February 28, 2021

Hello. I am a full latte onscreen that gets waved around during walking conversations with no drips, and then the person takes a deep drink from a full, piping hot coffee.
— Seattle Wildfires (@karsea) February 28, 2021

Hello. I am a person waking up in the morning in a film and I don’t need a wee. Nobody else in that film thinks I’m a medical marvel
— Lisa Sollors (@LisaSollors) February 26, 2021

Hello, I am a disabled person in a TV drama. I exist only as a disabled person, and any storyline about me or scene featuring me revolves around my disability. I am Inspirational and Brave. https://t.co/7gW6lxLzN6
— Dr Jo Edge 🎧🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿💅 (@hagenilda) February 27, 2021

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