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.
Cute it may seem to be, but Victor Saville was a wise and quite a subversive soul, and you'll find few other films from this period that so ably blend the dark with the light.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. Parker's role is very clearly based on Hitler, a times quite unsettlingly so, and it is in the bold but successfully intermingling of whimsy with dictatorial manners that the film gains its particular power. But underlying this story (adapted from a German play by James Bridie) is a subtle satire of dictatorship as was then current in Germany and Italy. It's all very funny and delightfully played by all concerned. There's Vivien Leigh as the provost's daughter and Rex Harrison on top form as the journalist who makes the silly story national news. Why isn't this excellent comedy better known? More to the point, why is it so consistently misinterpreted? Most commentators view it as an amusing piece of froth about the provost of a small Scottish town (Cecil Parker) ordering that a dog be put down because its owner cannot pay for its licence.
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