Basic Trope: A dirty ball pit.
- Straight: Alice goes in a ball pit at a Suck E. Cheese's and sees a lot of garbage.
- Exaggerated: The ball pit is full of urine, feces, blood, and an empty Coke can.
- Downplayed: The ball pit has some plastic in it, but nothing too gross.
- Justified:
- The ball pit is often used by toddlers who do not know how to dispose of waste easily.
- The crew doesn't have the time or budget to clean the pit more than once a month.
- The ball pit was closed by the authorities decades ago.
- Inverted:
- The ball pit is exceedingly clean.
- The entire Suck E. Cheese's is filthy, but the ball pit is the one place where it's actually decently clean.
- Subverted: The ball pit seems to be filled with garbage... but they're actually balls made to look like garbage.
- Double Subverted: However, deep inside the ball pit, there is a lot of garbage. And they're not balls this time.
- Parodied: The ball pit has a sign saying "DISPOSE OF YOUR WASTE HERE, WE DON'T CARE".
- Zig-Zagged: ???
- Averted: The ball pit isn't dirty and full of garbage.
- Enforced: The creators wanted to mock real-life Suck E. Cheese's.
- Lampshaded: "Why is the ball pit so dirty? Do people not know how to dispose of waste?"
- Invoked: A group of rowdy or drunk teenagers dump a bin of trash into the pool.
- Exploited: A competitor restaurant reports this to the inspector in order to get the place shut down.
- Defied: Many people decide to start cleaning the ball pit.
- Discussed: "I'm scared to go in the ball pit, mommy. What if it's dirty?"
- Conversed: "The ball pit is so dirty. I've always seen these kinds of ball pits in comedy films."
- Implied: Alice goes in the ball pit, and comes back out looking like she wants to vomit.
- Deconstructed: The dirtiness of the ball pit causes the Suck E. Cheese's to lose customers, thus forcing it to close down.
- Played for Laughs: The nastiness of the ball pit is played as Toilet Humor and/or Vulgar Humor.
- Played for Drama: Alice gets a disease from playing in the nasty ball pit.
- Played for Horror: The ball pit is full of corpses that were dropped inside by a serial killer.
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