Currently watching an episode of Good Luck Charlie. PJ says that a girl he's dating told him that her mom used to know his dad. PJ tells his parents this and Bob says she was the last girl he dated before Amy. Amy gets upset for absolutely no accountable reason. He hasn't been talking to this woman or even thinking about her, much less doing anything romantic with her. How dare he have dated other girls before Amy. How dare he not have just waited around for her his whole life. How dare the women he dated not retroactively disappear from existence. To be fair this is Amy Duncan, the irrational drama queen. Sidenote, I'm pretty sure the actress is MAGA and currently does conservative kids shows.

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[–] 4 points 3 months ago

Yeah, "retroactive jealousy" is a very dumb trope that should seldom if ever be used in a story, IMO. Tropes aren't inherently bad, most stories are full of them. But some of them are weak sauce, and this is one of them. I tried to find an entry for it on tvropes.org and couldn't find one, which is surprising. It's a fairly common trope, and they have a lot of jealousy-themed tropes in their database. Could be a skill issue on my part and I just didn't find it.

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