Yes, we were playing with your mom last night. She's actually quite the diligent Troper.
Basic Trope: A character insults another's mother.
- Straight: Bob insults Dave by yelling “Your Momma’s so fat, when she goes to the beach, Greenpeace thinks she’s a beached whale!"
- Gender-Inverted: "Your Papa's so slow, Greenland thinks he's a glacier!"
- Exaggerated:
- Basically every insult Bob makes is a "Your Mom" joke or even worse, "One Bad Mother".
- Bob dedicates an entire musical number to insulting Dave's mom.
- Downplayed: "Yer Mom's a whore."
- Justified:
- Bob and Dave are Vitriolic Best Buds; this is just typical of their conversations.
- Bob had a Freudian Excuse of his last encounters with Evil Matriarchs.
- Dave’s mother is a Supervillain or Corrupt Politician, and Bob is laying a devastating critique on her.
- Inverted:
- "Your mother’s so good at cooking, Iron Chef goes to her for ideas."
- "My mom's so fat, when she goes to the beach, Greenpeace thinks she's a beached whale!"
- "Your son's so fat, that a lady mistook him for her giant potato at the state fair!"
- Subverted:
- "Your mom ... would be very disappointed in your behaviour, Dave."
- "For my mamma, being called that is a compliment."
- Double Subverted: “Then again, maybe not. She has pretty low standards.”
- Parodied:Bob: Your mom's a whore.Dave: Your mom's mom is a whore.Bob: Well, your mom's grandma is a whore!Dave: Well, your mom's great grandma is a bigger whore!
- Dave is Bob’s brother.
- Dave’s mother is standing right behind Bob.
- Dave's mother makes the joke.
- Zig-Zagged:Bob: Your mom is an intelligent, classy lady. Unfortunately, you didn't inherit either of those characteristics.Dave: You take that back!Bob: Okay. Your mom's not a lady.
- Averted: No parents are insulted or complimented.
- Enforced: The writers want to introduce Bob as someone who's a bit impolite and Dave up as a Family Man.
- Lampshaded:Dave: A predictable insult by a predictable prick.
- Invoked: Bob needs to enrage Dave, and the latter has a mother complex, making it the ideal insult.
- Exploited: “You momma's so slow, I activated this detonator while you were busy waiting for this insult!”
- Defied:
- "I won't stoop so low as to insult your mother. She isn't the jackass here; you are."
- "Let me make something clear—nobody insults anyone's mother!!"
- "I wouldn't insult anyone."
- Discussed:
- "He's totally gonna insult your mom, isn't he?"
- "Why does he keep insulting my mom?" "I don't know."
- Conversed: "What is your favourite 'Your mom' joke for this series?"
- Implied:
- We see an Orphaned Punchline:“...She has to be hoisted up with a crane!”
- Dave responds to Bob's Foreign-Language Tirade with "Leave my mother out of this."
- We see an Orphaned Punchline:
- Played for Laughs: Bob and Dave go back and forth on the "Yo Mama" jokes, but after a while they turn into Lame Comebacks.
- Played for Drama: While Bob only meant it as friendly teasing, he didn't realize that Dave is very sensitive about people insulting his mother, leading to a genuine falling out between them.
- Played for Horror: While Bob only meant it as friendly teasing, little did he realize the insult brought Dave's deceased mother back from the dead as a vengeful spirit who will stop at nothing to make Bob's life a living hell until he dies, right down to even creating nightmares where the whole world insults his mother en masse.
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