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* '''Enforced''': The episode was written with a minor subplot that would convey to the audience exactly how bad Bob is at cooking, because it's important to his character. This made the episode too long to fit into it's timeslot, so it was cut and changed to just be a cutaway.

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* '''Enforced''': '''Enforced''':
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The episode was written with a minor subplot that would convey to the audience exactly how bad Bob is at cooking, because it's important to his character. This made the episode too long to fit into it's timeslot, so it was cut and changed to just be a cutaway.cutaway.
** This is a WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy episode.
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* '''Inverted''': ???

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* '''Inverted''': ???The joke about Chef Bob is actually important to the story.
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* '''Exaggerated''': Alice reminds Bob of the time their house burned down because of his awful cooking. Cut to Bob and Alice looking at the charred remains of their house and going over all the losses with the fire department.
* '''Downplayed''': Only Bob taking the burnt meal out of the oven is shown.

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* '''Exaggerated''': Alice reminds Bob of the time their house burned down because of his awful cooking. Cut [[OverlyLongGag The cut to Bob lasts several minutes]] and Alice looking at includes scenes completely irrelevant to the charred remains of their house and going over all the losses with the fire department.
setup.
* '''Downplayed''': Only Bob taking the burnt meal out We cut to a different part of the oven is shown.kitchen rather than a different scene entirely, showing the damage Bob caused to it when he attempted to cook.



* '''Inverted''': Bob is cleaning up the kitchen after a burnt meal and says someone can cook better than he can. Cut to Alice serving Bob a perfect dinner.
* '''Subverted''': Instead of a cut to Bob cleaning up the mess, Alice or Bob remark that Bob nearly burned the house down.
* '''Double Subverted''': And then that is followed by a cut to Bob cleaning up the kitchen.

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* '''Inverted''': Bob is cleaning up the kitchen after a burnt meal and says someone can cook better than he can. Cut to Alice serving Bob a perfect dinner.
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* '''Subverted''': Instead of a cut to Bob cleaning up the mess, [[GilliganCut Alice or Bob remark then enters the frame, scolding him that Bob nearly burned the house down.
this is exactly what happened last time.]]
* '''Double Subverted''': And then Cut back to the previous scene, with Bob muttering "I can't believe I did that is followed by a cut to Bob cleaning up the kitchen.twice."



* '''Zig Zagged''': Alice and Bob eating dinner are interspersed with past experiences of them having meals together.

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* '''Zig Zagged''': Alice reminds Bob of the time he tried cooking by himself. We cut to a house on fire. The camera then pans to the house next door to show Alice pointing at the burning house through the window, saying "Yeah, like that". Bob says that's not what it was like at all, and we cut to Bob eating dinner are interspersed with past experiences of them having meals together.effortlessly serving Alice a Thanksgiving dinner... before it's revealed to just be Bob's ImagineSpot. Charlie then chimes in, saying that they both have terrible memory, followed by an ''actual'' cutaway to what ''really'' happened.



* '''Invoked''': Bob, knowing what happened the last time he made a meal, tells Alice that she's a better cook than he is.
* '''Exploited''': Every time Alice and Bob eat, it reminds Alice of what a terrible cook Bob is, and she'll never let him live it down.
* '''Defied''': Bob tells Alice that he doesn't want to be reminded about what happened.

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* '''Invoked''': Bob, knowing what happened the last time he made a meal, tells Bob intentionally does things to remind Alice that she's a better cook than he is.
of the event so they can reminisce about it together.
* '''Exploited''': Every time Bob needs to get away from Alice for a brief second without her noticing. [[MediumAwareness So he steps away from the scene while the cutaway plays and Bob eat, it reminds Alice of what a terrible cook Bob is, and she'll never let him live it down.
returns before it's over.]]
* '''Defied''': Bob tells Alice that he doesn't want to be reminded about what happened.anticipates Alice's cutaway setup and interrupts it with another topic, which does not yield a cutaway.
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* '''Justified''': Alice and Bob own a voice activated TV thats programmed to automatically display cutaway gags when it hears a setup for one. Whenever the show cuts to one, we're actually just seeing it's display.

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* '''Justified''': Alice and Bob own a voice activated TV thats that's programmed to automatically display cutaway gags when it hears a setup for one. Whenever the show cuts to one, we're actually just seeing it's its display.
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* '''Justified''': Alice and Bob own a voice activated TV thats progrmmed to automatically display cutaway gags when it hears a setup for one. Whenever the show cuts to one, we're actually just seeing it's display.

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* '''Justified''': Alice and Bob own a voice activated TV thats progrmmed programmed to automatically display cutaway gags when it hears a setup for one. Whenever the show cuts to one, we're actually just seeing it's display.



* '''Enforced''': The episode was written with a minor subplot that would convey to the audience exactly how bad Bob is at cooking, because it's important information about his character. This made the episode too long to fit into it's timeslot, so it was cut and changed to just be a cutaway.

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* '''Enforced''': The episode was written with a minor subplot that would convey to the audience exactly how bad Bob is at cooking, because it's important information about to his character. This made the episode too long to fit into it's timeslot, so it was cut and changed to just be a cutaway.
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A justified trope is specifically defined as in-universe. The example given here is an Enforced example.


* '''Justified''': The setup is made to demonstrate that Alice is a good cook and Bob is terrible at it.

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* '''Justified''': The setup is made to demonstrate that Alice is a good cook and Bob is terrible at it.own a voice activated TV thats progrmmed to automatically display cutaway gags when it hears a setup for one. Whenever the show cuts to one, we're actually just seeing it's display.



* '''Enforced''': ???

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* '''Enforced''': ???The episode was written with a minor subplot that would convey to the audience exactly how bad Bob is at cooking, because it's important information about his character. This made the episode too long to fit into it's timeslot, so it was cut and changed to just be a cutaway.

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''{{Beat}}.''\\
'''Alice''': But you didn't.\\
'''Bob''': Oh, right.

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''{{Beat}}.''Cutaway Gag to Bob literally doing that.''\\
'''Alice''': But you didn't.\\
'''Bob''': Oh, right.
How the hell does this relate to me dropping a salt shaker?
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* '''Parodied''': Bob gets up and reenacts exactly what happened in the gag, ending with him putting out a fire in the kitchen. He then says, "Just like last time!"

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* '''Parodied''': '''Parodied''':
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Bob gets up and reenacts exactly what happened in the gag, ending with him putting out a fire in the kitchen. He then says, "Just like last time!"time!"
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--> ''Alice accidentally drops a salt shaker.''\\
'''Bob''': Oh, man. This is just like the time I went to the International Space Station with only my undies on while smoking a bubble pipe.\\
''{{Beat}}.''\\
'''Alice''': But you didn't.\\
'''Bob''': Oh, right.
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* '''Double Subverted''': And then that is followed by cut to Bob cleaning up the kitchen.

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* '''Double Subverted''': And then that is followed by a cut to Bob cleaning up the kitchen.
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* '''Implied''': ???
* '''Plotted A Good Waste''': ???
* '''Deconstructed''': ???
* '''Reconstructed''': ???
* '''Played for Laughs''': ???
* '''Played for Drama''': ???

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%% * '''Implied''': ???
%% * '''Plotted A Good Waste''': ???
%% * '''Deconstructed''': ???
%% * '''Reconstructed''': ???
%% * '''Played for Laughs''': ???
%% * '''Played for Drama''': ???
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'''Basic Trope''': A character sets up a joke to accompany a cut that has little or nothing to do with the plot.
* '''Straight''': While Alice and Bob eat dinner, Alice reminds Bob of the time he tried cooking by himself. Cut to Bob [[LethalChef spraying a burnt meal with a fire extinguisher while the smoke alarm rings]].
* '''Exaggerated''': Alice reminds Bob of the time their house burned down because of his awful cooking. Cut to Bob and Alice looking at the charred remains of their house and going over all the losses with the fire department.
* '''Downplayed''': Only Bob taking the burnt meal out of the oven is shown.
* '''Justified''': The setup is made to demonstrate that Alice is a good cook and Bob is terrible at it.
* '''Inverted''': Bob is cleaning up the kitchen after a burnt meal and says someone can cook better than he can. Cut to Alice serving Bob a perfect dinner.
* '''Subverted''': Instead of a cut to Bob cleaning up the mess, Alice or Bob remark that Bob nearly burned the house down.
* '''Double Subverted''': And then that is followed by cut to Bob cleaning up the kitchen.
* '''Parodied''': Bob gets up and reenacts exactly what happened in the gag, ending with him putting out a fire in the kitchen. He then says, "Just like last time!"
* '''Zig Zagged''': Alice and Bob eating dinner are interspersed with past experiences of them having meals together.
* '''Averted''': Alice and Bob never mention a previous dinner.
* '''Enforced''': ???
* '''Lampshaded''': "Alice, what did that have to do with the meal we're having now?"
* '''Invoked''': Bob, knowing what happened the last time he made a meal, tells Alice that she's a better cook than he is.
* '''Exploited''': Every time Alice and Bob eat, it reminds Alice of what a terrible cook Bob is, and she'll never let him live it down.
* '''Defied''': Bob tells Alice that he doesn't want to be reminded about what happened.
* '''Discussed''': ???
* '''Conversed''': ???
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This reminds me of the time I [[CutawayGag clicked on the wrong link]] to Cutaway Gag!
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* '''Implied''': ???
* '''Plotted A Good Waste''': ???
* '''Deconstructed''': ???
* '''Reconstructed''': ???
* '''Played for Laughs''': ???
* '''Played for Drama''': ???

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