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** This is Bob's sense of humor stating 'conclusions' the way a circus knife thrower throws at his assistant.

* '''Invoked''': Bob is genuinely alarmed by his son's drawing, but compliments his artistic abilities rather than question why his son apparently wants him to die [[SadClown as a joke, because he feels sad that his son apparently wants him to die]].

-->'''B.J.:''' "Dad looks at my project for my art assignment."\\

-->'''B.J.:''' "Dad look at my project for my art assignment."\\

-->'''Bob:''' "Haha look how dopey and fat the tyrant is, no wonder the peasants are killing---wait that's me! Why would you paint me being killed?! And why'd you make me look so stupid and fat? I know I haven't been working out lately but I'm not ''that'' fat am I?"

* '''Zig Zagged''': B.J has painted a picture of Bob being horrifically killed. Bob praises the dramatic use of colour before flipping out when he realizes who the subject is and sends B.J to a child therapist. Said child therapist points out that B.J's version of Bob is completely out of proportion, with the arms being longer than the legs, before getting a court order to ensure that B.J never goes near Bob again.

* '''Defied''': Bob, who has a trouble understanding the things people tell him, improves his focus and learns to think about what was said before responding so that he doesn't look like an idiot.

-->'''Alice:''' "So you discover several drawings your son made of him killing you and that didn't alarm you at all?"\\

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'''Bob (''Looks at the drawing''):''' "Yeah, it looks goo--wait..." ('''Bob takes a closer looks at the drawing. The tyrant is bloody and crying and looks just like Bob. The village people and the executioner looks just like his son. Bob points a finger at the tyrant.)''' "Is that--?"\\

'''Bob:''' "Um, yeah that's nice, but don't you think the tyrants looks--"\\

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** Not only does Bob remain oblivious to B.J.'s murderous intentions, so does everybody else?

* '''Straight''': Bob's son draws pictures of Bob dying horribly. Bob compliments him on his shading technique.

** Bob's son sets up [[RuleOfFunny 278,948]] contraptions to kill him. All Bob does is repeatedly compliment his son on the thorough sanding of a specific plank of wood in #18.
** Not only does Bob only notice the shading, this is all anyone who sees it notices.

* '''Inverted''': Bob gets the significant point, but the person speaking was only talking about a minor detail, or even about something completely unrelated.
* '''Subverted''': Bob first points out a small detail, then realizes the real point.
* '''Double Subverted''': ...only to go back to obsessing over the small detail.

* '''Averted''': Bob understands most things well enough.

* '''Lampshaded''': "True, but that's not what I meant!"

* '''Deconstructed''': Bob hates Alice. He only pretends to miss the point in order to let Alice get beat up.
* '''Reconstructed''': The "small detail" [[ChekhovsGun actually proves to be more important]] than the more blatantly obvious point.

'''Basic Trope''': A character comes to a conclusion that is technically accurate but inrrelevant.

'''Basic Trope:''' A character comes to a conclusion that is technically accurate but insignificant.
* '''Played Straight:''' Bob's son draws pictures of Bob dying horribly. Bob compliments him on his shading technique.
* '''Exaggerated:'''

* '''Downplayed:''' Bob sees his son drawing pictures of Bob dying horribly, and is concerned that his son doesn't like him, but hasn't picked out just how much.
* '''Justified:'''

* '''Inverted:''' Bob gets the significant point, but the person speaking was only talking about a minor detail, or even about something completely unrelated.
* '''Subverted:''' Bob first points out a small detail, then realizes the real point.
* '''Double Subverted:''' ...only to go back to obsessing over the small detail.
* '''Deconstructed:''' Bob hates Alice. He only pretends to miss the point in order to let Alice get beat up.
* '''Reconstructed:''' The "small detail" [[ChekhovsGun actually proves to be more important]] than the more blatantly obvious point.

* '''Averted:''' Bob understands everything.
* '''Enforced:''' Bob misses the point just because the creators want comedic purpose in cartoons.

* '''Conversed''': "You know, this would be a lot less funny if everyone knew what everyone was talking about."

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* '''Reconstructed:''' The "small detail" actually proves to be more important than the more blatantly obvious point.
* '''Parodied''': ???

* '''Lampshaded''': ???

* '''Conversed''': ???

* '''Exaggerated:''' Bob's son sets up [[RuleOfFunny 278,948]] contraptions to kill him. All Bob does is repeatedly compliment his son on the thorough sanding of a specific plank of wood in #18.

* '''Justified:''' Bob is a {{Cloudcuckoolander}}.

** Or a RalphWiggum.

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