Basic Trope: A character is caught doing something embarrassing on the Jumbotron at a sports event.
- Straight:
- Alice is caught having an argument with her girlfriend Brittany on the Jumbotron during a baseball game.
- Brittany rejects Alice’s marriage proposal while on the Jumbotron.
- Alice, who was Playing Sick, is caught on the Jumbotron.
- Alice is caught taking bribes on the Jumbotron.
- Exaggerated:
- Brittany slaps Alice, reveals that she learned about her cheating on her and storms off.
- Alice is caught handcuffed naked to a pole on the Jumbotron.
- Alice and Brittany are caught having sex on the Jumbotron.
- Alice is caught masturbating on the Jumbotron.
- Alice is caught scheming to nuke China and start a nuclear war.
- Downplayed:
- Alice is caught yawning on the Jumbotron.
- Alice is caught picking her nose on the Jumbotron.
- Alice is caught Flipping the Bird to her brother Alex on the Jumbotron.
- Justified:
- Alice has bad luck.
- The broadcaster has a grudge against Alice.
- Alice's choice to take a lower seat in the south goal box was just asking for it.
- Inverted:
- Subverted:
- Less Disturbing in Context
- Something covers the Jumbotron so no one can see what happened.
- Double Subverted:
- It's still weird enough.
- However, the event can still be heard.
- Parodied: The sportscaster has the Jumbotron point towards his ex-girlfriend Alice repeatedly and makes insulting comments to her. She insults him back through a megaphone.
- Zig Zagged:
- Averted:
- Alice is never seen on the Jumbotron.
- Alice is doing something relatively normal when seen on the Jumbotron.
- Enforced: Alice is the show's Butt-Monkey, and something embarrassing needs to happen to her this episode.
- Lampshaded:
- Invoked:
- Exploited:
- Alice’s ex Bob zaps her with The Nudifier as she appears on the Jumbotron.
- Secret agent Charles strips Alice the terrorist naked and handcuffs her hands behind a pole in an empty part of the stadium. He threatens to have his fellow agent Diana expose her on the Jumbotron if she doesn’t tell him the location of the bomb.
- Hoping to humiliate her for cheating on her, Brittany pressures Alice into stripping naked and giving her a lap-dance.
- Defied: Alice goes to the bathroom to make out with Brittany.
- Discussed: ???
- Conversed: "!"
- Implied: Alice is seen looking away in embarrassment as the stadium laughs.
- Deconstructed: Alice sues the stadium for broadcasting her private life.
- Reconstructed: The stadium settles the issue out of court with a lump sum and free seasonal tickets for her and her family.
- Played For Laughs: Alice and Brittany meet Alice’s ex Bob, who starts to talk crap about Alice. Alice and Brittany argue with Bob and all their remarks are caught on the Jumbatron.
- Played for Drama:
- Alice is caught cheating on Brittany on the Jumbatron.
- Alice is outed as a lesbian when caught kissing Brittany on the Jumbatron and disowned by her family.
- Brittany is sniped dead by an assassin. Alice cradles her body and cries over her, which is all captured live on the Jumbatron.
- Alice broke her leg in a fall and is seen screaming in pain on the Jumbotron, her bone peeking out of her flesh.
- Alice considers suicide and heads to the stadium roof. The sportscaster tries Talking Down the Suicidal.
- Alice's true colors are revealed through the Jumbotron.
- Played for Horror:
- Alice is found brutally stabbed to death on the Jumbotron.
- Alice is caught stabbing Brittany to death.
- Alice looks up at the Jumbotron and sees herself but not Brittany, who was sitting beside her. Brittany dies of a heart attack mid-game.
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