History PlayingWith / OnePhoneCall

* '''Deconstructed''': Criminals use their phone calls to instruct their accomplices to attack the station.

* '''Justified''': Bob needs to get in contact with someone.

** Bob calls a phone sex line.

* '''Zig Zagged''': ???

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* '''Exaggerated''':
** Instead of using the call wisely, Bob chats with a friend on the phone.
** Bob orders a pizza.
** Bob calls a phone sex line.

** Bob is ''required'' to make his phone call.

* '''Exploited''': Bob tries the aforementioned call-forwarding scam, because he is DangerouslyGenreSavvy to know that most people believe this trope.

* '''Exploited''': ???

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* '''Exploited''': "Don't I get a phone call?" "No, that's a {{Hollywood|Law}} myth. Clearly, you watch too many police movies."

* '''Discussed''': ???

* '''Straight''': Bob is arrested for {{jaywalking|WillRuinYourLife}}. He calls his lawyer.
* '''Exaggerated''': Instead of using the call wisely and calling his attorney, Bob calls his girlfriend or one of his buddies to chat.
* '''Downplayed''': Bob is allowed to make a second phone call.
* '''Justified''': Bob needs to get in contact with someone (to get a good defense attorney, to let his spouse or significant other know he's down at the precinct and therefore won't be able to pick Timmy up from soccer practice, etc.)

* '''Subverted''': Bob asks if he can make a phone call and the arresting officer says no.
* '''Double Subverted''': But when Bob explains that it's important and that he otherwise will cooperate with the officer, he is allowed to make the call, or the officer makes it for him.

** Bob orders a pizza.
** Bob calls a phone sex line.

* '''Averted''':
** Bob is allowed to make multiple calls.
** Bob is not allowed to make a phone call.
** Bob isn't under arrest.

* '''Lampshaded''': "You get OnePhoneCall."

* '''Exploited''': Bob is a con-artist using the [[http://www.snopes.com/inboxer/scams/forward.asp call-forwarding scam]], banking that his mark will believe it's Bob's only call and forward him to another number.
* '''Defied''': Bob chooses not to make a call.

** Bob uses his one chance to perform a PrankCall.
** Bob calls Alice at home, but she's CheatingWithTheMilkman, or listening to music, or absorbed in her soap opera, and doesn't pick up.

* '''Conversed''': "Why does every prisoner get to make OnePhoneCall? There's no law guaranteeing that."

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* '''Exaggerated''':
** Instead of using the call wisely and calling his attorney, Bob calls his girlfriend or one of his buddies to chat.
** Bob orders a pizza.
** Bob calls a phone sex line.

* '''Parodied''': Bob dials the wrong number and calls a total stranger, who somehow ''knows'' that Bob is in prison and it's his OnePhoneCall.

* '''Exaggerated''': Instead of using the call wisely and calling his attorney, Bob calls his girlfriend or one of his buddies to chat.
* '''Downplayed''': ???

** Alternatively, Bob is allowed to make multiple calls.

* '''Parodied''': Bob orders a pizza or calls a phone sex line.

* '''Averted''': Bob either does not choose to make such a call or is not allowed to make one or isn't under arrest.
* '''Enforced''': HollywoodLaw.

* '''Conversed''': ???

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* '''Exploited''': ???

* '''Played Straight''': Bob is arrested for [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking jaywalking]]. He calls his lawyer.

* '''Inverted''': Bob is on the receiving end of such a call.
** Alternatively, Bob is allowed to make multiple calls.

* '''Deconstructed''':
* '''Reconstructed''':

* '''Lampshaded''': "You get OnePhoneCall."

* '''Enforced''': HollywoodLaw

* '''Discussed''':
* '''Conversed''':
* '''Played For Laughs''': See "parodied" and "exaggerated"

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* '''Basic Trope''': An arrested person is granted the right to call someone.

* '''Played For Drama''':