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Basic Trope: Flushing things down the toilet, often for fun.

  • Straight: Allie flushes random objects down the toilet to see what happens.
  • Exaggerated:
    • Allie manages to flush herself down the toilet.
    • Allie puts so many items in the toilet that it clogs and overflows.
    • Allie flushes her parents.
  • Downplayed:
    • Allie puts an object in the toilet and flushes - the item doesn't actually go down the toilet due to being too big, but she enjoys watching it spin around.
    • Allie flushes an empty toilet just to watch the water go down the hole.
  • Justified:
    • Allie is a very young child, and doesn't actually know what toilets are for (which includes not realizing that flushing random things down the toilet isn't a good idea).
    • Allie is trying to get rid of something.
  • Inverted: ???
  • Subverted: ???
  • Double Subverted: ???
  • Parodied: ???
  • Zig-Zagged: ???
  • Averted: Allie doesn't flush random things down the toilet.
  • Enforced: The creators want to add some comedy to the Toilet Training Plot.
  • Lampshaded: ???
  • Invoked: Allie's friend, Bobby, encourages her to flush objects down the toilet to see what happens.
  • Exploited: ???
  • Defied: Allie's parents teach her what kinds of things she shouldn't flush down the toilet.
  • Discussed: ???
  • Conversed: ???
  • Played for Drama:
    • Allie ends up flushing something important down the toilet, such as her parents' wedding ring.
    • Allie clogs the toilet, leading to an expensive water bill.

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