Basic Trope: A person jumps out of a cake.
- Straight: Sorpresa the Clown jumps out of a cake.
- Exaggerated: Sorpresa and an entire Clown Car worth of her clown friends pop out of the cake.
- Downplayed: Sorpresa's head pops out of the cake, but the rest of her body is still inside the cake.
- Justified: The cake has Hammerspace and is able to store things bigger things than itself inside of it.
- Inverted:
- Sorpresa spits out a whole cake.
- A cake jumps into Sorpresa's mouth.
- Sorpresa's act ends with her being stuffed inside a cake.
- Subverted:
- The cake bursts open, but nobody comes out.
- Someone eats the cake whole, with Sorpresa still inside it. And maybe spits out one of her clown shoes.
- The cake's top is too heavy for Sorpresa to jump out. note
- Double Subverted:
- Only for Sorpresa to jump out of the open cake later, after everyone stopped paying attention.
- And then she jumps out of the person's mouth, puts her shoe back on, and performs as if nothing happened.
- Parodied:
- Thumbelina jumps out of a cupcake.
- Sorpresa leaves an Impact Silhouette of herself onto the cake when jumping out of it.
- Zig Zagged: ???
- Averted: No one comes out of the cake. There is no cake.
- Enforced: Rule of Funny, Rule of Cool or Rule of Sexy.
- Lampshaded: "What's with people jumping out of cakes?"
- Invoked: Bob, wanting to liven up his party, hires Sorpresa to jump out of the cake.
- Exploited: Sorpresa is a female secret agent, and uses the cake as a Trojan Horse
- Defied: Sorpresa doesn't want to ruin the cake, so she goes with a different method of surprise instead.
- Discussed: "That cake looks big enough for a clown to jump out of."
- Conversed: "I'm pretty sure if they did that stunt at a retirement home, everyone would have a heart attack and die."
- Implied: "Sorpresa really livened up my kid's birthday party, though she got cake everywhere."
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