Basic Trope: A deep-colored piece of fabric ends up staining the whole load of laundry with its color.
- Straight: Bob puts in a load of laundry while forgetting he put a red sock in there as well, which ends up turning all of the light-colored laundry pink or red.
- Exaggerated: Somehow, it turns the already black clothing pink/red as well.
- Downplayed: Bob has a few spots of a darker color on some of his light clothing.
- Justified: Bob uses an older laundry detergent, and/or some of his clothing has dyes that leach into other fabrics.
- Inverted: A light-colored piece of laundry ends up bleaching the rest of the load.
- Subverted:
- Bob sees that some red has stained the load of laundry, but is able to wash it out easily.
- Bob is told not to put any deep-colored clothes into the load, but he does anyway, and suffers no ill effects.
- Double Subverted: Until he looks closer into the laundry to find that a white shirt has turned pink.
- Parodied: Bob doesn't put any red clothing in with the wash, but somehow all of his clothing (including the darker-colored ones) turn pink when he takes them out of the wash.
- Zig-Zagged: ???
- Averted: The laundry doesn't get stained by any deep-colored fabrics.
- Enforced: To show why you should buy Tropeson Laundry Detergent (maintains color integrity) instead of X-Brand Laundry Detergent (does not).
- Lampshaded: "Oh no! A singular red sock! My laundry is entirely ruined!"
- Invoked:
- Bob wants to dye his clothes pink, so he puts a red sock in with the rest of the load to see if it'll work.
- Someone adds a red sock to Bob's laundry in order to get back at him.
- Exploited: ???
- Defied:
- Bob separates his laundry by color before putting it in.
- Bob uses more modern-day detergents that don't cause fabric colors to leach.
- Discussed: ???
- Conversed: ???
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