Basic Trope: Gas that causes laughter.
- Straight: A gas is released that causes Bob and Alice to laugh.
- Exaggerated: The gas causes Bob and Alice to laugh so hard that they wet their pants.
- Downplayed: The gas causes Bob and Alice to smile and say Non Sequiturs but not laugh.
- Justified: ???
- Inverted: The gas causes Bob and Alice to cry.
- Subverted: It turns out Bob and Alice were faking it.
- Double Subverted: So the perpetrator douses them with more gas.
- Parodied: ???
- Zig-Zagged: ???
- Averted: The gas acts exactly like real-life nitrous oxide — that is, to say, it merely makes them euphoric.
- Enforced: "Well, it's labeled laughing gas. What would viewers expect?"
- Lampshaded: "Why are we laughing? Nothing funny is happening."
- Invoked: Bob asks a doctor to make laughing gas.
- Exploited: ???
- Defied: "You want a gas that causes laughter? I'm an apothecary, not a miracle worker."
- Discussed: ???
- Conversed: "That is totally unrealistic. Laughing gas doesn't make you laugh uncontrollably — it will just make you euphoric and maybe give you the giggles."
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