Phrase guide
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Sound
Each Play button uses your device's default local English voice, or a natural local fallback. The selected voice name appears after playback. This is synthesized speech, not a source recording.
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noun
A joke in a film, television show, book etc, in which there is a substantial gap between set-up and punchline; typically bringing back an unresolved plot point after the audience is expected to have forgotten about it.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: media
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History
First coined on media analysis wiki TV Tropes, inspired by an older pair of jokes. In the first joke, a man throws a brick in the air in the punchline. The second joke appears to be unrelated, but then ends with a dog catching the brick.
