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Bold the ones you have done
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Pulled from TV Tropes Wiki, "You Know You Read Too Much TV Tropes When..."

You find almost all your new fiction from TV Tropes Wiki (TVTW)
You watch shows you never planned to, just to see the things listed in Fetish Fuel.
You are so trope savvy, that the thought of a trope Drinking Game gives you a hangover from the last times you tried it.
You think the following are appropriate names for children:
- Xanatos
- Goliath
- Princess
- Haruhi
- Light
- Kamina (for a boy)
- Antimony
- But you will kill anyone who calls your kids Scrappy or Mary Sue.
You think the Idiot Ball is a real thing.
If anyone criticizes something, you tell them, "Stop Complaining About Shows You Don't Like."

You snicker whenever someone orders a "Harvey Wallbanger".
You NEVER have to to ask Do We Have This One.
You forget Jesus is the son of God (or third prophet of God if you're Muslim), and think he's the god of Purgatory.
You wonder why Arrested Development was cancelled, but you just heard of The Love Boat, since that page is so recent.
You think first names have "The" as a prefix.
You really wonder if you have seen a trope a million times.
You want to shield your children, not from sex or from drugs, but from Nightmare Fuel.
You can identify the approximate age of any trope.
If you're a writer, you apply the Mary Sue Litmus Test to every character.

You also think about what tropes you are using in your works and fantasize about the day when your work will have examples on this site

You will use the word wank in highly unusual contexts.
- Trope not applicable in Scotland.
You will go into McDonald's and order a MacGuffin.
- And you can do it so seamlessly that the employee doesn't notice.
You will inappropriately find strokes to be humorous but will feel appropriately guilty afterwards.
You add hyperlinks to your internal dialogue.
- In addition your external dialogue contains weird inflections as you pronounce the blue shifted text.
You start applying Dis Continuity to real life.
You become pleasantly surprised when your Genre Savvy is wrong because a given movie/series has pulled off a good Trick Twist.

You wish you were crazy enough to come up with an example for a given Wild Mass Guessing page, or tropes like Alternate Character Interpretation.

When the "Should I name this trope Playing Xanatos Ball With The Dog, Normal Name or Super Cool But Hard To Write Name?" becomes a serious and recurring question.
When you don't have to look up how to spell Phlebotinum.

You think Phlebotinum is a real word in the dictionary.

You use Wiki Words constantly even when talking to non-tropers and you don't even notice until they ask you what you're on about.
- You break the Fourth Wall when talking to others as often as possible and don't notice you're doing so until someone points it out.
- You live your life in general as though it was a work in Post Modernism.
- You have tried and failed to explain "Lampshading" to a non-troper.
You think it's normal for words to have capital letters in the middle.
Not only do you hang lampshades in everyday conversation, you also hang lampshades on the fact you are hanging lampshades.
You are able to guess what potholes will be in advance.
You predict your life based on the tropes it has been following.
You keep screwing up rough drafts of reports because they are formatted for TVTW, not for Microsoft Word.
- You want to refer to yourself as "This Troper" in those reports
  - You refer to yourself as "This Troper" in your very thoughts.
- You use TVTW rather than Wikipedia as a source for your research papers
- When you have to summarize a movie or book for class, you include a list of relevant tropes
- In fact, your English teacher now knows several tropes by name (despite never having seen TVTW!) because you keep bringing them up in class.
You have ever, at all, referred to the Moral Of The Story as an 'Aesop'.
You refer to Wikipedia as The Other Wiki.
- You hold a latent animosity to The Other Wiki.
When someone asks you why you're playing a video game, you respond, "It's Just For Fun."
- Otherwise, you're probably the Stop Having Fun Guy.
One of your iPod playlists is titled Nightmare Fuel.
- Another is titled Fetish Fuel.
- Another is titled Made Of Win.
- Another is titled So Bad Its Good.
- Another is titled So Bad Its Horrible, just for the hell of it.
- Another is, of course, Crowning Music Of Awesome.
- Another is titled Ominous Latin Chanting.
- Another is titled Ominous Pipe Organ.
- Another is titled Downer Ending.
You try to find examples of trope names being used before they were added to the Wiki.
You have contributed to every one of the Tropes Of Legend.
- You know the meaning of all the Tropes Of Legend from memory.
You pray to the Trope Pantheons.
- You have ever prayed to Crystal Dragon Jesus.
Whenever you explain a new concept to someone, you try to demonstrate it using examples from Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Avatar the Last Airbender and Harry Potter.

Like how Andrew in Buffy The Vampire Slayer season 8, episode 16 "Storyteller" had to use RPG style character description for everybody.

You've written a book report on Sailor Nothing.
In other online communities, you find yourself using single-quotation marks in varying quantities instead of HTML tags when you want to italicize or bold something.
- You also think underlining doesn't exist.
You are watching the explanation of a zombie plague, and you are tempted to shout, "You Fail Biology Forever!"
If someone complains about the frumpy way Queen Elizabeth II dresses, you just note that she's averting the Ermine Cape Effect.
You don't make plans for Christmas. You make Xanatos Gambits.
- For family gatherings, you find these quickly become Xanatos Roulettes.
You think Meta Four actually looks like Antimony.
You start thinking of common real life occurrences as tropes, and sort of mentally propose and categorise them,
- eg. "You Know That Thing Where you think you've turned on the oven, but actually you've just turned on the light...?"
You say "It's Truth In Television" instead of "It happens in Real Life."

You totalled your car, you got mugged on your way home, your house burned down, you discovered that you have cancer, and your Tamagotchi died, yet all you can think of is how all of this would make such a great Troper Tales example for Butt Monkey.
You tell people that a certain dramatic or comedic device is Older Than Radio

You confound them further when you tell them that another one is Older Than Dirt

Nothing Squicks you any more.
You watch movies with other tropers for pure MSTing purposes.
You expect other people to know what a Big Bad is.

You expect other people to know that when you say The Dragon you don't actually mean a dragon.

You expect other people to be able to recognize a Five Man Band.

You run into more difficulty than usual when talking about tropes to real people because you realize you can't call tropes by their names but you don't know what else to call them.
You have ever used a metaphorical dog in Real Life.
You have ever referred to an especially awesome smart guy as a Magnificent Bastard, The Chessmaster, or Xanatos. That last one also counts for phrases of the form "Xanatos X"
You have ever used Chekhov without referring to the writer Anton Chekhov, in a phrase other than Chekhov's Gun.
- You don't know who Anton Chekhov is but you do know what Chekhov's Armoury is.
You are very careful not to confuse Chekhov and Chekov.

You have ever used the MST3K Mantra or Bellisarios Maxim in Real Life.
- Bonus points if you just used the title and not the actual mantra/maxim.
You hate Crowning Moments Of Awesome because they will make the page even bigger than it already is.
- However if you manage a crowning moment in Real Life, you will be disappointed that there wasn't any matching Crowning Music.
You keep misspelling actual words as Wiki Words, like "fandumb" instead of "fandom".
You confuse YKTTW with YTMND.
- Bonus points if you attempt to pronounce YKTTW like it's an actual word ("Eektoo!" "Yickt-wuh!").
You start conversations with non-tropers with words to the effect of "I read something interesting on YKTTW/the TV Tropes fora the other day..."
You have a mental list of tropes that have occurred to you for the current day, week, month, year, and lifetime since originally coming to TV Tropes (and memorable events before then) sorted alphabetically, by importance, by occurrences, by relation to the person you believe the trope applied to, and all sub-combinations of those lists applicable.
When you say "Take That!" And think of TV Tropes.
- When you hear a song by Take That and think of TV Tropes.
When you do something awesome, and instead of using it to your own advantage in Real Life (ie. picking up a date with the sheer power of your recent badassery) you put it in Troper Tales and wait patiently for somebody to comment on it.
You say "You are not alone" instead of "Me too".
You refer to anything that turns you on as Fetish Fuel, and anything that scares you as Nightmare Fuel.
You shrink any picture files you have that are wider than 300 pixels.
People can't make small talk to you because you keep saying it's Natter.
When people start speaking about any series, despite you having never seen it, you can give an accurate estimation of what happens in it.

To you, Hammer Time has nothing to do with M.C. Hammer

If someone is overacting about X, you sarcastically note that "X is Serious Business."
You think retcon is two words.
'Dissonance' has become a regular part of your vocabulary.

So has Wall Banger.
And Narm
And Anvilicious

The best thing that's happened to you all week is getting your first Made Of Win point.
You have drawn Trope-tan fanart.
- You have drawn a Rule Thirty Four variant of Trope-tan.
- You have written Trope-tan Fan Fic.
You will yell out trope names as you watch them on your favourite show...and have people stare at you oddly for it.
- Except for your best friends or household members, who find this perfectly normal behaviour for you.
  - Whenever you say a word that your friends don't recognize, they respond "Which trope is that now?"
  - You have friends (or household members) who have learned several tropes from you without actually having visited TVTW.
Your first thought after watching the first episode of a new series of something with your family or friends isn't to discuss it with them- you rush off, fire up the computer and add the new examples you've spotted.

You have your TV Tropes open whenever you're watching something, specifically so you can add the examples as they appear.

You think that having a complimentary reference on TVTW is more flattering than being on the New York Times Bestseller list.
You mark January 12 on your calendar so you can take a day off to mourn the tropes that were lost during the The Great Crash, and celebrate the stalwart tropers who shed sweat, blood, and tears to pick through the rubble and fix what could be fixed.
You begin attempting to log into other pages using the password used to edit trope pages.
You can identify tropers by what they Entry Pimp. Bonus points if you see that they've updated a specific article, and, knowing what they Entry Pimp, you can guess precisely what the example they added entailed.
When a new Subjective Trope makes it through YKTTW (especially if it's a particularly negative one), you start taking bets on how soon it'll be on the Cut List.
- Or, possibly, you're the one jumping to put it on the Cut List.
You name a recipe after a trope. Tomato Surprise: contains a can of soup, a can of kidney beans, and a cup and a half of macaroni.
You have ever contemplated the possibility of actually adding tropes to the dictionary.
You've come across someone saying or doing something awesome and immediately thought you want to award it a Made Of Win.
You become aware that TV Tropes has ruined your vocabulary, and among other counter-measures, make a conscious effort to not even think the words "Xanatos-Anything"... then start to worry if this is all falling into someone's plan to bring you off your guard.
When someone makes a scathing retort against a work of fiction, you mentally Pothole it as a Take That.
You see the words imminently about to attack in a piece of fanfic and actually go to pothole it to the Department Of Redundancy Department before remembering that you can't.
You refer to someone's overriding interest/speciality as their "Hat".

Bonus points if you do it by referencing Star Trek.

Your room-mate can tell you're on TVTW from across the room, and you try to hide it as if it were porn.
You have linked TVTW enough that you stumble upon Real Life examples from your own personal life, added by the people you converted, without your knowledge.

It's rather long, I know, but rather fun.

Meme-time

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