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From tvtropes.com: "Lampshade Hanging (or, more informally, "Lampshading") is the writers' trick of dealing with any element of the story that seems too dubious to take at face value, whether a very implausible plot development or a particularly blatant use of a trope, by calling attention to it and simply moving on."
What do we call lampshadey cruxes? "Cluxes?" "clumsy" + "crux"?