More for the Idiolexicon Files

The Shovel Broke - The point in a work of fiction (often a film) at which the willfully suspended viewer's disbelief comes crashing earthward and cannot be re-levitated. Hal tells the full story here, but the basic idea is that fictioneers are in the business of lying to you, creating bullshit, and then shoveling it back out of the way fast enough that it doesn't distract you with its stink. When the shovel breaks, the author is no longer able to get the excrement tossed back out of the reader/auditor/viewer's way fast enough, and so piles up and begins to smell, thus distracting from the immersive fictional experience.

I got a target for ya, but ya gotta be REAL patient - Yes, that is an action I endorse, and hope to take eventually, but circumstances are highly unpropitious at the moment. Comes from an old Bill Mauldin WWII Willie and Joe cartoon, in which one of our protagonists is whispering into his radio to air support, while crouched in a fox hole over which a massive enemy tank is squarely parked.