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1'''Basic Trope''': A list goes, "Item A; Item B; Item A+B."
2* '''Straight''': Alice's grocery list reads "bread, eggs, breaded eggs."
3* '''Exaggerated''':
4** [[OverlyLongGag "Bread, eggs, breaded eggs, butter, buttered bread, buttered eggs, milk, buttermilk, buttermilk bread, carrots, buttered carrots, breaded carrots, carrot bread..."]]
5** "Bread, eggs, breaded eggs, [[BreadEggsMilkSquick poison]], pizza, poisoned pizza, pineapple juice, orange juice, pineapple-orange juice."
6** "Bread, eggs, breaded eggs, egged bread, [[DepartmentOfRedundancyDepartment breaded bread, egged eggs,]] egged breaded eggs, breaded egged bread, breaded egged eggs, egged breaded bread, breaded breaded eggs, egged egged bread, egged egged eggs, [[OverlyLongGag breaded breaded bread,]] and chicken."
7** "[[ButWaitTheresMore ...breaded chicken,]] egged chicken, breaded egged chicken, chickened bread, [[DepartmentOfRedundancyDepartment chicken eggs,]] breaded chicken eggs, chickened breaded eggs, chickened breaded chicken, chickened chicken, breaded chickened bread, egged chicken eggs, egged chickened bread, and [[BreadEggsMilkSquick poison]]."
8* '''Downplayed''': The list reads "potatoes, salad, potato salad."
9* '''Justified''':
10** Alice wants to buy breaded eggs (Scotch eggs?) as well as bread and eggs.
11** Breaded eggs are a real in universe type of dish similar to a breakfast burrito but sealed in a pastry shell instead which resembles an egg of bread.
12** Breaded eggs have an actual name, but Alice doesn't remember it, so she resorts to BuffySpeak.
13* '''Inverted''':
14** "Bread, eggs, eggy bread."
15** "Breaded eggs, bread, eggs."
16** "Bread, eggs, and something else that is neither bread nor eggs."
17** "Bread and eggs, but not breaded eggs."
18* '''Subverted''': "Bread, eggs, breaded ... fish sticks."
19* '''Double Subverted''': "Don't forget 'breaded eggs'! They save us lots of time at breakfast."
20* '''Parodied''': The grocery store has three aisles of breaded eggs.
21* '''Zig-Zagged''': "Bread, eggs, milk, butter, buttermilk, cucumbers, breaded eggs, apples."
22* '''Averted''':
23** "Bread, eggs, milk, butter, carrots, orange juice."
24** There is no list.
25* '''Enforced''': "Quick! We need a new gag! Any ideas?" "I know! A redundant list!" "Perfect!"
26* '''Lampshaded''': Bob asks Alice, "Why do we need bread, eggs, ''and'' breaded eggs?"
27* '''Invoked''': Alice notices that the list reads "bread, eggs", and decides to add "breaded eggs" for laughs.
28* '''Exploited''': Some weeks after Alice writes "breaded eggs" on the grocery list, Bob is depressed for unknown reasons. Alice gives him a good laugh by showing him the old list.
29* '''Defied''': Alice crosses "breaded eggs" off the list, for fear that she might get [[MindScrew confused]] while doing the shopping.
30* '''Discussed''':
31-->'''Alice''': I'm going grocery-shopping. Is there anything you can think of that we need?
32-->'''Bob''': Bread.
33-->'''Alice''': Yep.
34-->'''Bob''': Eggs.
35-->'''Alice''': Got 'em.
36-->'''Bob''': Breaded eggs?
37-->'''Alice''': ''Breaded eggs?'' I don't know that we need breaded eggs; heck, I don't even know how you would put ''bread'' on the outside of ''eggs''...
38* '''Conversed''': "Breaded eggs, huh? What was Bob drinking when he wrote that list?"
39* '''Deconstructed''':
40** It comes at a high price.
41** The nature of the item makes it sound ridiculous, and someone calls it bullcrap.
42* '''Reconstructed''':
43** A competing grocery store offers breaded eggs at a reasonable price.
44** Then someone says, "Bull, crap, bullcrap!" and everyone laughs.
45* '''Played for Horror''': BreadEggsMilkSquick
46* '''Played for HorrorComedy''': Breaded Eggs and Milked Squick, Breaded Milk and Egged Squick, Squickly Milky Breaded Eggs
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50%%Optional items, added after Conversed, at your discretion:
51%%* '''Implied''': ???
52%%* '''Played for Laughs''': ???

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