This occurs when you are at a movie theater and are peacfully watching cars two eating baked beans you smuggled in to the theater. Then you are clumsy as fuck and spill the beans all over your fucking lap giving you third degree burns. Then, to add salt to the wound, a black teenager yells, "This nigga eating beans."
"Hey why did you take so much time off work?"
"Oh, I was eating baked beans while watching cars two and spilled them on my lap and got third degree burns, i knew i shouldn't have put them in the oven."
A phenomenon in film/television series, most notably streaming series, where the main premise is drawn out to such a point that it takes an entire season or more to get the parts of the series the audience is actually interested in seeing.
For example, if a series is titled "Surf Dracula," a majority of viewers would tune in expecting to see Dracula surfing by the first or second episode. However, the entire first season would instead be tedious padding and backstory before finally ending with Dracula surfing in the last five minutes of the season finale.
I watched "Smallville" on Netflix the other day. Dude, it was ten seasons of filler before he finally flew! Major Surf Dracula Syndrome!
Finding your way back to the truth by fixing on one verified fact and working out from there, the way you navigate by the North Star when everything around you is spinning.
Rumours were flyingeverywhere, so she went northstarring — one checked fact at a time.