Pretty much any story...

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...becomes funny if it unexpectedly ends with some variant on “and that’s how I met my wife.”

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I was thinking about chrysanthemums, which led me to think “flower show,” which reminded me of a story a guy told on twitter involving his father’s grave, the untended grave next to it that led him to feel sorry for the occupant until he’d looked up the name and discovered the man had been a murderer-suicide, which led him to go leave flowers on the victims’ graves, which led to a woman asking him why he, a stranger, was leaving flowers on her grandparents’ grave….

But also I saw an episode of a webcomic yesterday that began with a battle between two spider-like extraterrestrials, and there was one a few months back in which the narrator tells of how her girlhood friend died, then came back as a vampire, then appeared to her in the woods and urged who to leave their village, as it was cursed. “I never saw her again.” (Last panel shows the narrator telling this story to her grandchildren.) “But we do write, from time to time.”

So I think this counts as a trope.