Basic Trope: That one song a person can't stand hearing.
- Straight: Mary despises "Stupid Things" by Artist and the Band, because the singing is bad, the lyrics don't make sense, it's way too long, and it plays everywhere. Hearing it sends her into a fit of rage.
- Exaggerated: Mary hates the song so much that when she hears "Stupid Things", she drops everything else to find out what's playing it and immediately put a stop to it.
- Downplayed: Mary doesn't like "Stupid Things", but is just mildly annoyed by it more than anything.
- Justified:
- "Stupid Things" just really is a bad song.
- "Stupid Things" is an insensitive handling of a real-world experience that traumatized Mary. Of course she'd be mad about it.
- Artist and the Band has a beef with Mary and "Stupid Things" is a Piss-Take Rap directly insulting her.
- "Stupid Things" is the top song of the moment, which means Mary has heard it three hundred thousand times per hour, twenty-four hours a day, for the last two weeks everywhere she goes.
- "Stupid Things" is a Reggaeton song. Even if it was the best Reggaeton song in the history of Reggaeton, Mary hates the whole genre, so she hates "Stupid Things" too (well, if it is the best song in the whole genre, she would hate it above them all).
- "Stupid Things" is the favorite song of Mary's mom. And when Mary has tried to protest her playing it in any way, her mom has the trump card of "honor your father and mother" on her side.
- Inverted: Mary loves "Stupid Things" and dances to it whenever she hears it.
- Subverted:
- Mary hates "Stupid Things" at first, but grows to have an ironic appreciation for it.
- "Stupid Things" is actually a Guilty Pleasure for Mary. She just pretends to hate it when other people are around so she won't be judged.
- Double Subverted: Mary only said she grew to like it because she was with a group of Artist and the Band superfans and didn't want to risk incurring fandom wrath. Really, she still hates the song.
- Parodied: The lyrics of "Stupid Things" include "Man, Mary's really gonna get pissed when she hears this!"
- Zig-Zagged: Mary's opinion on "Stupid Things", and her reactions to it, vary Depending on the Writer.
- Averted: Mary is neutral to "Stupid Things".
- Enforced: "Stupid Things" was originally produced for the show, but the producers hated it so much that they decided to have Mary hate it on the show, too.
- Lampshaded: "'Stupid Things' is one of the worst songs I've ever heard!"
- Invoked: Mary is the ex of the lead singer for Artist and the Band. Grant, the Lead Bassist now, wrote a song specifically to incur her wrath.
- Exploited:
- People will get Mary to do what they want by threatening to play "Stupid Things" if she doesn't.
- Spencer sees Mary in a fit of rage hearing "Stupid Things" and uses this as the perfect opportunity to be a caring, comforting boyfriend.
- Lead Bassist Grant pesters former Bandmate Mary by playing "Stupid Things" every time they are near each other. He probably even hoped she would try to punch him over it in front of many witnesses.
- Defied: Spencer hears "Stupid Things" and realizes it's exactly the kind of music Mary would hate, so he tries to prevent her from hearing it.
- Discussed: "I don't think I've seen anyone hate anything as much as Mary hates 'Stupid Things'."
- Conversed: "So they have this character who really hates 'Stupid Things', but it doesn't sound like that bad of a song to me."
- Played For Laughs:
- "Stupid Things" really is that bad of a song (especially from an out-of-universe perspective) and Mary is the Only Sane Man for hating it.
- Mary's hatred of "Stupid Things" reaches Disproportionate Retribution levels (she shoots radios playing it with rocket launchers, for example).
- Mary has a Trauma Button of "Stupid Things" so bad she reacts to similar songs (a Running Gag being that "Stupid Things" has the same rhythm as "Tainted Love", so Mary freezes in horror/rage at the opening notes of "Tainted Love" and relaxes when she hears it's not "Stupid Things").
- Played For Drama:
- It is revealed that an extremely tragic thing happened to Mary (ex. her mother's car was sideswiped by a drunken teen and it killed her and left Mary paraplegic) and "Stupid Things" is a Trauma Button for Mary (the car that sideswiped them had that song playing on its stereo).
- The things Mary has done during her berserk rages when she hears "Stupid Things" (up to and including physically assaulting people who played the song) have brought great shame to her family and herself.
- Played For Horror:
- "Stupid Things" is a Brown Note for Mary (whether for supernatural reasons or a result of Mary being deranged is up to the writer).
- "Stupid Things" is a murderous Berserk Button for Mary.
- Mary is placed in an Ironic Hell where "Stupid Things" will play for eternity.
- "Stupid Things" removes the mental blocks of Mary's assassin personality Yarm.
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