Let's coin some needed movie phrases.

My favourite is still 'James Bond Parking': the ability of occupants of any vehicle to pull up outside of any said designated building and never have to worry about parking restrictions, meters, enforcement, etc.

 

^ This is popular in television series' main title sequences. The stars' car stops in the middle of the street, then they all get out and start walking toward the camera while the theme plays.

 

That's similar to "24 Traffic," wherein the hero can get anywhere in a major metropolitan area in 5 minutes or less, at any time of the day.

 

A great example of this is Donna on The West Wing, as a way to explain Congressional procedure and the like to the audience.

 

In one of the TNG Nitpicker books, I believe Farrand designates none other than Counselor Troi as the episode's Cabbage Head when she has to have someone explain to her how the warp core works.

 

The Novice Educator and Cabbage Head seem to be the same thing. I like the term Cabbage Head a lot better.

 

I call that "McGarrett Parking". I rewatched the original 5-0 a few years ago, and was amazed how he always screeched to a stop in front of headquarters at a totally random angle, often diagonally across three parking spaces, and leaped out of the car to run into the building.

 

"The 5-Ending Ending"

...like in LOtR where you think it is over...but no...now?...nope...surely now?...not yet...

 

The definition I gave of the Kansas Stretch is much more specific than that.

 

Not really. Your description fits the definition of "the setup" to a T.

 

No it doesn't. Go back and reread my definition. All Kansas Stretches are setups, but very few setups are Kansas Stretches.

 

Boys, boys...

 

"It's a breath mint!...It's a candy mint!"....it's two...two...two phrases in one!...

 

The Tatooine stretch?

 

And, just exactly WHERE in the hell was that "Power Station"...???...you ask me, it was a babe and a beer...or whatever the equivelent was on Tatooine...

 

I like the term "Vocational Irony Narrative" coined by TV critic Daniel Fienberg:

 

I'm surprised the phrase, "it is what it is..." hasn't made it into Hollywood dialogue as ubiquitous as it is in today's vernacular.

 

Not really the focus of the thread.

 

I call it Saved by Achilles.

This is whenever the heroes of our story are being overwhelmed by numbers and arms by the enemies but are able to win the battle/save the day by simply destroying the enemies' ONE weak spot that happens to render all of them defeated.

(Example: Taking out the mother ship in Independence Day, Avengers, Oblivion and probably so many others.)

 

Seems to me I've been hearing this a lot on TV lately, but I can't quite place where. Teen Wolf? Defiance? Dominion?