I'm not crazy!

So, minus the long involved story... I had a moment today when I was trying to remember something from my introduction to theratre class from college like..... 9 years ago. It was one of those, "word is on the tip of my tongue" moments... and I got home and googled it, and yes!

A deus ex machina (lat. IPA: [ˈdeːus eks ˈmaːkʰina], literally "god from a/the machine")[1] is an improbable contrivance in a story characterized by a sudden unexpected solution to a seemingly intractable problem.[1]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deus_ex_machina