Basic Trope: A list goes, "Item A; Item B; Item A+B."
- Straight: Alice's grocery list reads "bread, eggs, breaded eggs."
- Exaggerated:
- "Bread, eggs, breaded eggs, butter, buttered bread, buttered eggs, milk, buttermilk, buttermilk bread, carrots, buttered carrots, breaded carrots, carrot bread..."
- "Bread, eggs, breaded eggs, poison, pizza, poisoned pizza, pineapple juice, orange juice, pineapple-orange juice."
- "Bread, eggs, breaded eggs, egged bread, 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, breaded breaded bread, and chicken."
- "...breaded chicken, egged chicken, breaded egged chicken, chickened bread, chicken eggs, breaded chicken eggs, chickened breaded eggs, chickened breaded chicken, chickened chicken, breaded chickened bread, egged chicken eggs, egged chickened bread, and poison."
- Downplayed: The list reads "potatoes, salad, potato salad."
- Justified:
- Alice wants to buy breaded eggs (Scotch eggs?) as well as bread and eggs.
- 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.
- Breaded eggs have an actual name, but Alice doesn't remember it, so she resorts to Buffy Speak.
- Inverted:
- "Bread, eggs, eggy bread."
- "Breaded eggs, bread, eggs."
- "Bread, eggs, and something else that is neither bread nor eggs."
- "Bread and eggs, but not breaded eggs."
- Subverted: "Bread, eggs, breaded ... fish sticks."
- Double Subverted: "Don't forget 'breaded eggs'! They save us lots of time at breakfast."
- Parodied: The grocery store has three aisles of breaded eggs.
- Zig-Zagged: "Bread, eggs, milk, butter, buttermilk, cucumbers, breaded eggs, apples."
- Averted:
- "Bread, eggs, milk, butter, carrots, orange juice."
- There is no list.
- Enforced: "Quick! We need a new gag! Any ideas?" "I know! A redundant list!" "Perfect!"
- Lampshaded: Bob asks Alice, "Why do we need bread, eggs, and breaded eggs?"
- Invoked: Alice notices that the list reads "bread, eggs", and decides to add "breaded eggs" for laughs.
- 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.
- Defied: Alice crosses "breaded eggs" off the list, for fear that she might get confused while doing the shopping.
- Discussed:Alice: I'm going grocery-shopping. Is there anything you can think of that we need?Bob: Bread.Alice: Yep.Bob: Eggs.Alice: Got 'em.Bob: Breaded eggs?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...
- Conversed: "Breaded eggs, huh? What was Bob drinking when he wrote that list?"
- Deconstructed:
- It comes at a high price.
- The nature of the item makes it sound ridiculous, and someone calls it bullcrap.
- Reconstructed:
- A competing grocery store offers breaded eggs at a reasonable price.
- Then someone says, "Bull, crap, bullcrap!" and everyone laughs.
- Played for Horror: Bread, Eggs, Milk, Squick
- Played for Horror Comedy: Breaded Eggs and Milked Squick, Breaded Milk and Egged Squick, Squickly Milky Breaded Eggs
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