moriarty baiting

When you write a show, and you can't excite your audience with nothing but empty promises of a long-dead villain appearing over and over again in every situation you can put him into without saying he's alive or dead. You're trying to keep your audience, but you'll never gonna bring him back, while basically basing your whole show on the fact that he MIGHT be back. It's bad writing and it makes people sad.

"Did you see the new season of Sherlock? Is Jim really alive?"
"Nah, it was a total moriarty baiting the whole time... there's Sherlock's evil sister instead."

"what"

by TheAlec January 29, 2017

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Red-bait

Also known as Reductio ad Stalinum, Reductio ad Marxisum, Reductio ad Chomskynum, Reductio ad Bakunum/Reductio ad Bakuninum, Reductio ad Libertarianum, Reductio ad Leninum, or Red-tag, is a logical fallacy (part of ad hominem) when someone dismiss speaker's argument by accusing them as a leftist

A: You're fascist <=A is deliberately doing reductio ad Hitlerum by accusing B as a fascist
B: STFU you leftist liberal special snowflake <= B is deliberately doing red-bait fallacy by name-calling A as leftist liberal special snowflake

by Sir. B February 16, 2021

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butcher-bait

Someone that is so obnoxious they convince you that their sole purpose is to test your morality.

Steven: What the fuck is that shitwad babbling about over there?

Sean: He was talking about how much of a shame it was that Bush couldn't run for a third term.

Steven: That asshat is butcher-bait for sure.

by Chaddy80 December 18, 2008

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