Be a storm in a teacup12/26/2023 Wish: Angels are running around terrified of what God thinks of their romantic entanglements.When she recovers, she tells to her uncle that the pen got destroyed in the accident - which it didn't. However, in her despair over the news, she doesn't notice an incoming truck and ends up in a coma due to a brain injury. She predictably doesn't pass the first round of examinations and, with how nice her uncle seems to be, it doesn't seem as if would mind her creating a magnifying pendant. She submits an In-Universe Troperiffic detective story to a writing contest with a 5 million yen prize. When her uncle asks her to visit him during the summer break, she freaks out, especially since she just learned how expensive the pen is. She decides to "decapitate" it to weld it to a fancy-looking magnifying glass. Hotori's uncle gifts her a Montblanc fountain pen, which she keeps calling a fountain pendant, upon entering high school. "And Yet the Town Moves": Initially Played for Laughs but then Played for Drama and subverted.Some days later, when things have calmed down, it's implied that Kon does acknowledge Hotori's earnest efforts and they resume their usual dynamic. Fed up, Kon yells at her to stop with the pity party. She then sings "Happy Birthday", offers Kon to buy her a gift from the candy store, and promises to throw her a party next year because she's memorized the date. The mood plummets and Hotori tries to make up for it by sweeping back the confetti back into the cone and throwing it again. It turns out, Kon's birthday is the 8th of September, aka today. Hotori rummages through Kon's purse for her student ID in a careless (although ultimately well-intentioned) impulse. There's no problem until Kon just says that it's not a big deal and tries to change the topic. They are celebrating Toshiko's birthday two days earlier at the Maid Cafe when an excited Hotori starts asking for everyone else's b-days. "Pandora Box": Zigzagged when The Ditz Hotori discovers Aloof Ally Kon's birthday.Not to be confused with the Red Hot Chili Peppers song, which takes the phrase literally, the video game, the Porridge episode, or the Rome-based video game developer. In the US, it's known as "tempest in a teapot". Named after a British idiom that means fussing a lot about something unimportant. May be accompanied by a "Fawlty Towers" Plot. Sister Trope of Milholland Relationship Moment. It may be a case of Poor Communication Kills, as one of the characters is unaware they don't need to worry that much. Dead Pet Sketches are usually reserved for subversions or when this trope is Played for Drama. The cause ranges from a Broken Treasure or a Doomed Autographed Item to trying to find a Meaningful Gift. Or their attitudes may be the reason why another character doesn't want them to learn about the mishap. That's why Bridezillas and Control Freaks are very prone to this. The viewer is well aware from the beginning that there's no need to fret that much despite the character thinking the contrary. The lesson can also be that things will be fine if you ask for other people's support - the character, after all, was trying to solve it alone, so they need to learn to trust and rely on other people sometimes. This might lead to An Aesop about love being more important than material stuff or duty. Alternatively, the task or object was truly valuable, but the second character thinks all of the first character's commitment to salvage the situation more than compensate for it. If it's a task, chances are, it was all for show, so the higher-ups think stuff is being done. If it's a damaged object, then it was about to be thrown away, didn't have emotional value, or was a cheap knock-off. What matters is that, in the end, the mistake wasn't that big of a deal. Note, however, that these elements aren't strictly mandatory for this trope to apply. In most cases, Hilarity Ensues and the character fails their mission, maybe with all ending in a catastrophe. As a result, the character gets involved in various, increasingly desperate shenanigans. It must be fixed at all costs before the boss, parent, or person who owns the MacGuffin learns about it. A standard sitcom plot where a character frantically tries to correct the consequences of an earlier mishap, only to discover all the fuss wasn't necessary.Īt first, to both the character and the viewer, whatever has gone wrong seems to be catastrophic - a valuable object has gotten damaged, a crucial task has been neglected, or the preparations for a special occasion are not ready.
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