Basic Trope: A father tries to do something with his son to bond with him, which the son doesn't want to do.
- Straight: Bob tries to go camping with his son, Chase. Chase is more interested in video games, and he finds the camping trip to be Incredibly Lame Fun.
- Exaggerated: Bob is constantly trying to get Chase to participate in something relating to his interests, and Chase always hates doing them.
- Downplayed: Chase is okay with going camping with his father, but Bob keeps trying to force the "bonding" aspect of the activity and/or keeps telling Chase that he's doing things "wrong", which annoys Chase.
- Justified: Bob is trying to get to know his son better.
- Inverted: Chase tries to play video games with Bob in order to bond with him better, but Bob doesn't want to do this.
- Gender-Inverted: Alice tries to do something with her daughter, Denise, in order to bond with her better — except that Denise doesn't want to do it.
- Subverted: Though the audience initially thinks Chase will respond negatively to the idea of having to go camping with Bob, Chase is actually excited when Bob suggests the idea.
- Double Subverted: However, things go badly when Bob keeps insisting that Chase is "doing it wrong".
- Parodied: ???
- Zig-Zagged: ???
- Averted: Bob doesn't try to do anything to bond with Chase.
- Enforced: "We should show that Bob is trying to get along with Chase, but doesn't know how to do it. Let's have the two of them do an activity where they try to bond with each other."
- Lampshaded: ???
- Invoked: Bob asks his friends what he should try to do in order to bond with Chase better, and they suggest doing an activity with him.
- Exploited: Bob makes Chase participate in the camping trip in order to punish him for bad behavior.
- Defied:
- Instead of forcing Chase to do something that only Bob would be interested in, Bob instead asks Chase to pick an activity that he'd find legitimately enjoyable.
- Bob doesn't make Chase go camping with him if he doesn't want to.
- Discussed: ???
- Conversed: ???
- Played for Laughs: Bob and Chase's camping trip is played for Cringe Comedy.
- Played for Drama: Bob tries to do "masculine" things with Chase because he Wanted a Gender-Conforming Child, and Chase is painfully aware of this.
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