Do you play spot the trope at your house?

Honestly, this whole post was originally destined to be a toss-away one-liner comment to share my abounding glee at discovering a time-honored trope in a movie. Okay, it was actually my abounding glee at *recognizing* this trope in the movie and feeling absolutely flabbergasted that this beat-to-death old horse of a trope found new life. Then came the hated pause where the old brain said: wait a