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'''Basic Trope''': A character puts another's hand in warm water while they're asleep to make them [[EmbarrassingDampSheets wet the bed]].
* '''Straight''': During a slumber party, Alice is asleep, but Bob is still awake, so he pours a bowl of warm water and puts her hand in it, making her wet the bed.
* '''Exaggerated''': Bob is the last one to fall asleep at the slumber party, so he puts ''everybody's'' hands into warm water, all of whom wet the bed.
* '''Downplayed''': Bob does put Alice's hand in warm water in hopes of making her wet the bed, but it doesn't work.
* '''Justified''': Bob is ThePrankster.
* '''Inverted''': Alice burned her hand cooking and ended up falling asleep with her hand in a bowl of water. Bob, fearing that Alice will wet the bed, takes her hand out and dries it while she's still asleep.
* '''Subverted''':
** Bob tries to put Alice's hand in the water, but she wakes up.
** Bob is seen putting a sleeping Alice's hand in a bowl of water, but it's subsequently revealed that he's trying to give her an exorcism and it's holy water.
* '''Double Subverted''':
* '''Parodied''':
* '''Zigzagged''': Bob makes several attempts to put Alice's hand in warm water without waking her up.
* '''Averted''': Bob leaves Alice alone, or pulls a different prank on her like FaceDoodling.
* '''Enforced''':
* '''Lampshaded''':
** "You do realise that putting someone's hand in warm water usually does nothing, right?"
** "Oh no, not the old hand-in-a-bowl-of-warm-water trick!"
** "If it works, you're changing the sheets."
* '''Invoked''':
* '''Exploited''': Bob is an eccentric doctor who uses this trick to get a urine sample from a comatose patient.
* '''Defied''':
** Alice sleeps on her hands so that Bob won't put them in water.
** Bob promises not to put anyone's hand in water.
** Charlie bans Bob from pulling pranks.
* '''Discussed''': "Let's prank Alice!" "Good idea-- what should we do?" "Put her hand in warm water?"
* '''Conversed''': "Despite what you hay have seen on TV, putting someone's hand in warm water usually won't make them pee."
* '''Implied''': Alice is seen sleeping with her hand in water and a wet spot on her crotch.
* '''Deconstructed''':
* '''Reconstructed''':
* '''Played for Laughs''':
* '''Played for Drama''': This leads to a FeudEpisode between AliceAndBob.
* '''Played for Horror''':
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