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fridge logic

fridge logic noun: 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.

Noun

fridge logic (uncountable)

  1. (slang) 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.2010 October 7, David Johnston, “What Did You Watch? 2010-10-06 (Wednesday)”, in rec.arts.tv (Usenet), retrieved 24 Aug 2022
    • > 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 :-)2010 December 26, The Face of Po, “Baaaa... Humbug!”, in rec.arts.drwho (Usenet), retrieved 24 Aug 2022

Examples of fridge logic in a sentence

  • 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).2011 July 16, Freezer, “For the Official RACS Gocomics.com Page: E”, in rec.arts.comics.strips (Usenet), retrieved 24 Aug 2022:
  • Fridge Logic can be defined* as the bit in a plot that you except when you watch it, but later (and thus named) when you go to the fridge and then think "What the... that's impossible"2012 March 9, Reader in Invisible Writings, “If you know "Fridge Logic" welcome to "Brandy Logic" Courtesy of Sherlock and Holmes”, in...

Origin of fridge logic

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".

Words formed from fridge logic

Questions about fridge logic

What does fridge logic mean?
Fridge logic means 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.
How do you use fridge logic in a sentence?
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).
What part of speech is fridge logic?
Fridge logic is a noun.

Words near fridge logic in the dictionary

  1. Friden
  2. fridge
  3. fridge freezer
  4. fridge freezers
  5. fridge horror
  6. fridge logic
  7. fridge magnet
  8. fridge magnets
  9. fridge-freezer
  10. fridge-freezers
  11. fridged

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