Basic Trope: A character gets sprayed by a skunk, and uses tomato sauce to remove the smell.
- Straight: Bob gets sprayed by a skunk, and uses tomato sauce to remove it.
- Exaggerated:
- Bob's friends also get sprayed by the skunk, and they all get in a bathtub filled with tomato sauce to get rid of it.
- It works so well that it outright prevents a Smelly Skunk from using their Weaponized Stench if they're doused in it.
- Downplayed: Bob smells somewhat bad after interacting with a skunk, and puts some tomato on it to hide the smell.
- Justified:
- Bob thinks that this is how skunk spray is actually removed.
- The tomato sauce in Bob's universe really can get rid of skunk spray.
- Inverted: For some reason, Bob uses skunk spray to remove the smell of tomato sauce.
- Subverted: Bob tries using tomato sauce to remove the smell. Surprisingly Realistic Outcome, and it doesn't work.
- Double Subverted: And then he does it again next time, and it works somehow.
- Parodied:
- A Funny Animal skunk has a Trademark Favorite Food of tomatoes, as it keeps the bad smells away.
- Or, skunks themselves are repelled by tomatoes.
- Zig-Zagged: ???
- Averted:
- No one is sprayed by a skunk.
- Bob is sprayed by a skunk, but uses a remedy that is known to work in Real Life.
- Enforced: Rule of Funny.
- Lampshaded: "Hey, I can't believe that worked!"
- Invoked: Bob bothers a skunk to test the myth of whether or not tomato sauce gets rid of the smell.
- Exploited: Bob wonders what other smells he can remove with tomato sauce.
- Defied:
- Bob is sprayed by a skunk, and looks up the actual treatment for it.
- Bob avoids bothering a skunk he encounters so that it won't spray him.
- Discussed: "Are you sure this is gonna work?" "Yeah, I Saw It in a Movie Once!"
- Conversed: "I wonder why people in fiction think tomato sauce gets rid of skunk smell."
- Deconstructed: The treatment doesn't work - the only thing tomato sauce really does for skunk smell is cover it, although it may wash off some of the chemical components causing the smell.
- Reconstructed: So then Bob tries the actual treatment for skunk spray. (1 quart of hydrogen peroxide, quarter of a cup of baking soda, and 1-2 teaspoons of dish soap)
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