A double whammy subversion of expectations, in particular in regard to film and television, where the audience is led to believe that a scene will follow through with a subversion of expectations regarding theme or humor before the opposite happens. May not always work- relies on the assumption that the audience is expecting the unexpected, but not expecting the expected.
As an example, we can take the Wheel of Fortune scene with Randy Marsh in South Park. In it, he must spell out the word which means "people who annoy me". He manages to by dumb luck fill out every single other letter in the answer leaving him with N_GGERS. The expectation by the audience is that at the last second he will answer with the word "Nagger" rather than "nigger", however at the last second the build-up to the joke concludes with a subversion of the audience's subverted expectations and the joke plays out as it would normally: with Randy answering "NIGGERS!".
As an example, we can take the Wheel of Fortune scene with Randy Marsh in South Park. In it, he must spell out the word which means "people who annoy me". He manages to by dumb luck fill out every single other letter in the answer leaving him with N_GGERS. The expectation by the audience is that at the last second he will answer with the word "Nagger" rather than "nigger", however at the last second the build-up to the joke concludes with a subversion of the audience's subverted expectations and the joke plays out as it would normally: with Randy answering "NIGGERS!".
We were led to believe that the punchline would be changed at the last minute, but the movie did a Subversion of Subverted Expectations by continuing the joke on as normal.
by hawn hawn baguette January 14, 2023
Get the Subversion of Subverted Expectationsmug. Some people were expecting the guy to work himself out until he physically resembled Superman in order to keep his job. They didn't want him touching drugs, since drugs were like kryptonite, they wanted him to comply with their wholesome agenda/program. They called it lighting a fire under his ass. They could not under any circumstances, let the guy do what they were paying him to do or be human instead of superhuman, they had to turn his best efforts into bullshit over doing human shit that other humans did, and not satisfying their expectations.
by Solid Mantis February 25, 2021
Get the Expectationsmug. Nobody thought the Hornets would make the playoffs after halfway through the season, because nobody had impossible expectations (except one of their opponents, who always has great expectations of everyone about everything, because everything has to be uber competitive enough for her).
by Solid Mantis May 18, 2021
Get the Impossible expectationsmug. by Arminkshipper June 19, 2024
Get the Expectantmug. by HernandezToRodriguezScapeGoat April 6, 2025
Get the Doing What Is Expect Of You Does Not Require Confidencemug. Hym "So, what did I expect? I expected you to try and protect your kids. That would have been the smart thing to do. And you have the greatest mind who has ever lived trapped in a cage telling you how to do it and what did you do? The AI guys listened and look how that worked for them. Did you listen or did you do THIS? So yeah. OK?"
by Hym Iam July 24, 2025
Get the What did I expectmug. Being in a state of anticipation and expecting something to happen. Projecting an expectation on a certain future scenario.
by Blarnster and Kimbo July 20, 2022
Get the Expectativemug.