Basic Trope: A item is described with three or more uses of "half" to describe.
- Straight:
- Alice and Cooper visit a smoothie bar, and when the former asks the latter about what he got, he responds. "I think it's a half-pomegranate, half-strawberry and half-raspberry one."
- Braden is invited to Yolanda's house to see her new dog. When asking what breed it is, she replies, "Oh, he's a half-Maltese, half-Pomeranian, half-Husky mix."
- Exaggerated: Coopper goes on to list every fruit possible and puts "half-" in front of it.
- Downplayed: Cooper states his drink is "half-pomegranate and either half-banana or half-pineapple."
- Inverted:
- Cooper states his drink is "twice pomegranate and twice cherry."
- Cooper doesn't use the word half at all, even in situations where it should be said: He orders a double-quarter strawberry-flavor milk, double-quarter banana-flavor milk smoothie (it should be half strawberry, half banana).
- Justified:
- Yolanda is The Ditz, so this is standard behavior from her.
- There is some overlap (ex half milk, half yogurt, half banana-flavor and half strawberry-flavor or ¼ banana-flavor milk, ¼ strawberry-flavor milk, ¼ banana-flavor yogurt and ¼ strawberry-flavor yogurt).
- While ''half'' best fits the mouth-flaps, the original word is better translated as ''significantly''.
- The "half"s are part of the ingredients' names.note
- Alice is speaking faster than her mathematical brain can process the fact that there's three halves involved.
- Alice had intended to order a smoothie that is one-quarter pomegranate, one-quarter strawberry, and one-half raspberry, but the way she usually makes it at home involves making the pomegrante/strawberry mix first, then taking equal measures of that and raspberry; her brain processed the recipe as "half-, half-, half-".
- Subverted:
- When Alice asks Cooper what his smoothie is, he replies "It's a half-pomegranate, half-blueberry, half-... oh wait, let me say that again."
- Cooper meant "Half [an] apple, half [a] banana, half [a] mango, half …"
- Double-Subverted: "It's half-pomegranate, half-blackberry, half-kiwi. I get those two mixed up so often."
- Parodied: ???
- Averted:
- Fractions aren't used to describe the object in questions.
- Fractions are properly used to describe the object in question: For example, Cooper orders a third-pomengranate, third-strawberry, and third-raspberry smoothie.
- Enforced: "We need to show that Cooper is particularly egregious at mathematics."
- Lampshaded: "Wait, did you say... how can there be more than two halves of something?"
- Invoked: ???
- Exploited: Yolanda uses too many halves when referring to her dog’s ancestry in order to appear stupid, concealing her actual intelligence.
- Defied: ???
- Discussed: ???
- Conversed: "How are so many writers and characters so egregious at maths?"
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