fridge logic

noun

Etymology

Coined by TV Tropes in 2007. Based on the earlier icebox scene, a term coined by director Alfred Hitchcock for an illogical scene which, in his words, "hits you after you've gone home and start pulling cold chicken out of the icebox".

Definitions

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An initially overlooked detail in a story, which, upon further contemplation, is more…
An initially overlooked detail in a story, which, upon further contemplation, is more nonsensical or unrealistic than originally assumed, often to the point of creating a plot hole.
- Obviously the CIA wouldn't put their NOC lists on a system that could be remotely accessed that way no matter what kind of encryption they were using for them. So that's fridge logic for ya.
- > These are pretty big plot points that are brushed aside. They were things I didn't think about too hard while watching, but occurred to me while on the road today. I think the term for this is, quite appropriately, fridge logic :-)
- I've been reading Endtown since it was strictly a webcomic. It's a must-read for me. Though some might get thrown by the fridge logic (the aforementioned street lamps and such) and the deep archive (where most of the backstory is).

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Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for fridge logic. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA