Talk:Lampshade hanging

I would say that Bender being hurled back to Earth is the only correct example of lampshade hanging that is given here, the others, with the possible exception of the robo-dinosaurs, are simply gags, they are incidental to the plot.

If I can find some better examples could we replace them?

Maybe I have it wrong. Is lampshade hanging directly analogous to deus ex machina?


 * I think these all count as uses of lampshade hanging. There's no reason to remove them.
 * Not according to our definition of lampshade hanging and Wikipedia's definition of deus ex machina. Sanfazer: [ talk] 22:02, 13 January 2015 (CET).

Is lampshade hanging known by any other terminology? Would you say that deus ex machina is a sub-topic of lampshade hanging that solely involves plot continuation? If I could cite a few more examples would it be worth creating a page for deus ex machina?

(Literally, as I have been writing been writing this, an advert that I have never seen before came on the TV, for a film called Ex Machina. Does synchronization fit in with your numerological bent?)


 * Not that I know of.
 * Actually, I'd say that lampshade hanging is a form of deus ex machina.
 * Definitely.
 * (Lol.
 * There's also .) Sanfazer: [ talk] 14:30, 14 January 2015 (CET).

I was doing some searching and came across this Wikipedia page, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk%3ADeus_ex_machina/List_of_deus_ex_machina_examples It seems that the Godfellas example has been noted before but it says that it is a literal example in reverse, I am not sure if that means it is 'god into the machine' or 'machine from the god.' (The page also cites a reference to the phrase in Futurama Comics.)


 * I'm not sure what they mean either. Fudging Wikipedians. Sanfazer: [ talk] 20:18, 15 January 2015 (CET).