Basic Trope: A man is beaten at bowling by a woman.
- Straight: Alice beats Bob at bowling.
- Exaggerated: Alice bowls a perfect game, Bob puts every ball in the gutter.
- Downplayed: It's an extremely close match, but Alice squeaks out a victory.
- Justified:
- Bob doesn't even try to win.
- Alice is a professional or just a highly skilled bowler.
- Bob is just plain terrible at bowling.
- Inverted: Bob beats Alice at bowling.
- Subverted: Alice is a better bowler, but lets Bob win.
- Double Subverted: Bob realizes that Alice let him win and still feels inferior.
- Parodied: Alice even beats Bob using silly irrational things, like dogs or books.
- Zig Zagged: Alice and Bob keep going ahead of each other during their game. They play a total of three games: Alice wins the first, Bob wins second, and they tie on the third. But they'll have a tiebreaker tomorrow, and Bob is worried.
- Averted:
- Alice beats Carol at bowling.
- Bob beats Charles at bowling.
- Enforced: It adds comedy to the Bowling for Ratings episode.
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