lampshading

Lampshading
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Lampshading") = writers' trick of dealing with any element of the story that threatens the audience's [|Willing Suspension of Disbelief], whether a very implausible plot development, or a particularly blatant use of a [|trope], by calling attention to it and simply moving on. - http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/LampshadeHanging

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