Basic Trope: (Often) Larger-than-normal breasts, used for comedy.
- Straight:
- Alice has huge breasts, and as a result is usually made fun of for this and serves as the butt of many breast-related jokes.
- Alice has to be careful when she turns around, lest she knock over a lamp or short, unaware people.
- Exaggerated:
- Alice has huge breasts, and when and if she can stand is basically a laughingstock among her friends.
- Alice's breasts are so massive, she can swing down skyscrapers with them accidentally.
- Downplayed:
- Alice is really only slightly better-endowed than average, but it's become a Running Gag among her friends to make fun of them.
- Alice’s breasts only cause her to have trouble buttoning shirts sometimes.
- Justified: Alice is a standup comedian who uses her big breasts as part of her routine.
- Inverted: Alice is the only girl with a flat chest on a show where everyone else has huge breasts. She's becomes the butt of many flat chest jokes.
- Subverted: Alice has huge basketball shaped breasts and nobody ever mentions this.
- Double Subverted: ...which becomes a Running Gag in its own right, until one character finally can't help it any longer.
- Parodied:
- Alice has average-sized breasts, but is the only girl in the work who isn't flat as a board; as a result, her boobs are joked about by the other girls.
- Alice's breasts flail around so often that she frequently hits people with them.
- Zig Zagged: Alice has enormous basketball shaped breasts and gets made fun of for it, so she gets a breast reduction...but the loss of her boobs makes her an A-cup and now everyone makes fun of her for being flat. She gets breast implants and returns to her original shape and size.
- Averted: Breast size is simply never discussed.
- Enforced:
- "Bob's going to end up with Della, but everyone's going to want to see a lot of chesty Alice! Boob comedy's always a crowd-pleaser."
- "There's no way the audience would be able to take a character with that kind of bust seriously, make sure to include a lot of breasts joke in the dialogue"
- Alice is played by Pamela Stevenson. It's practically in her contract.
- Lampshaded: Bob: "Now stand straight, chests out..." *Alice pushes up her boobs* Bob: "Not that far out."
- Invoked: Alice got enhancement surgery because she felt she needed something to draw people's attention.
- Exploited: Alice shows her breasts to get what she wants.
- Defied:
- "If you want to keep all your teeth, don't mention my tits."
- Alice straps down her breasts so that her breasts don't keep accidentally bumping into stuff.
- Discussed: "Every time I see her trying to button her shirt I feel like I should make a joke."
- Conversed: "I swear, I don't get this show. Throughout the entire episode, Bob just sort of had wacky mishaps, half of them because Alice wasn't watching where her rack was going."
- Deconstructed: Alice is quite distressed by the way her chest seems to cause trouble in her life, and we see that she still has to pay for anything she accidentally breaks and most people aren't very appreciative of being knocked over when she turns around too quickly. Beyond this, people see her as sex comedy first, and a human being a distant last. Needless to say, this puts a lot of strain on her psyche.
- Reconstructed: Alice has a group of close friends that enjoy her for who she is. The way she accidentally bumps against and falls on people, and the jokes that naturally spring from it, actually help keep the widely varied group together! Alice always has a good time laughing along, even if some of the fun is at her expense, and sometimes brings up the subject herself, or deliberately causes "accidents" just to make people laugh.
- Implied: Alice gets several jokes that suggest she may be a Hidden Buxom.
- Played For Drama: Alice accidentally hits her date Bob in the face with her boobs, causing him to fall onto the ground. Bob's head then falls onto an unfortunately-placed rock on the floor, leaving him with a fatal head injury.
Back to Boob-Based Gag. Look how they bounce!
