Basic Trope: A character names something by using the names of objects around him.
- Straight:
- Bob is doing Last-Minute Baby Naming for his newborn daughter. He glances outside and sees a rose bush, so the girl's name is Rose.
- Bob needs a name for his newly-formed band. He looks at a green wall and a painting of a pineapple, so the band is called The Green Pineapples.
- Exaggerated:
- Bob glances outside and sees a bird defecating. He names his daughter Birdshit.
- Bob does this whenever he has to name anything at all.
- Downplayed: Bob sees a rose bush outside, and decides to name his daughter Lily or something similar.
- Justified:
- In Bob's culture, babies are customarily named by objects around them.
- Doorstop or not, Bob wasn't expecting a Baby.
- Bob's bandmate Alice encourages him to be inspired by his surroundings in naming the band.
- Bob simply didn't have an active mind in naming that day.
- Inverted: Bob names something after the furthest object he can see.
- Subverted:
- Bob almost names his daughter after the rose bush outside, but decides to name her after his deceased mother, Carol instead.
- After coming up with "The Green Pineapples" Bob thinks it's not A Good Name for a Rock Band and names the band after himself instead.
- Double Subverted:
- Bob's wife Alice hated her mother-in-law, so glances out the window and suggests "Rose" as a name.
- Bob's bandmate Alice doesn't want him to hog the spotlight, so she decides to rename the band herself ... and she ends up doing this when she looks out the nearest window, sees two robins on the lawn, and proposes "The Robins on the Lawn."
- Parodied: Rose's full name is Rose Fishpond Hospitalwindow, despite her parents being Alice and Bob Smith.
- Zig-Zagged: The band's name changes several times, from "Green Pineapples" to "The Bob Band" to "Robins on the Lawn" to "House of Alice" to something that is a Shout-Out to something Bob and Alice like.
- Averted:
- Alice and Bob had a name planned for their baby.
- Alice and Bob use other ways to name their band.
- Enforced: The editors want the naming of the baby/band to be spontaneous.
- Lampshaded:
- Alice follows Bob's gaze. "Did you just name our daughter by something you were looking at?"
- When asked about the band's name, Bob is sheepish. "It's like words strung together, no? Well, the wallpaper at the bar where we played our first gig was green..."
- Invoked: Bob names his daughter/band the way he's seen spontaneously in movies: after random things around him.
- Exploited: Alice knows Bob has difficulty naming his future daughter, so Alice sets up the decorations in their house to always have rose motifs in order to give him an idea.
- Defied:
- Alice follows Bob's gaze and sees the rose bush. "I am not naming our child after something you were looking at!"
- Alice follows Bob's gaze and sees the pineapple poster on the green wall. "What is this, some movie? You're not getting away with just naming the band after random things."
- Discussed:
- "Your dad named you after a rosebush out the window? That's so romantic, like a movie!"
- "Yeah, we named the band after a pineapple poster on a green wall. It's like a comedy, you know."
- Conversed: ???
- Played for Laughs: Bob has to name his newborn daughter. He looks at a trash can, then at a picture of a boat, and names his daughter Trash Boat.
I think my new name will be... uh, Line ... er, Of ... Sight ... Name. Yeah. Line-of-Sight Name.
