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* '''Straight''': Amy, a teacher, directs her class to [[UsefulNotes/SchoolStudyMedia write a book report on]] ''Literature/MobyDick''. Ben spends most of his report rambling about sports and video games.
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* '''Straight''': Amy, a teacher, directs her class to [[UsefulNotes/SchoolStudyMedia [[MediaNotes/SchoolStudyMedia write a book report on]] ''Literature/MobyDick''. Ben spends most of his report rambling about sports and video games.
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** There isn't even a single ''mention'' of a whale, let alone ''Moby-Dick'' himself.
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* '''Inverted''': Ben's "report" is ''too much'' like the book -- he literally just copied the text of ''Moby-Dick'' into a text editor and called it a book report.
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* '''Inverted''': '''Inverted''':
** Ben's "report" is ''too much'' like the book -- he literally just copied the text of ''Moby-Dick'' into a text editor and called it a bookreport.report.
** Amy is an ApatheticTeacher who decides to have a lecture about video games when she's supposed to be teaching ''Moby-Dick.''
** Ben's "report" is ''too much'' like the book -- he literally just copied the text of ''Moby-Dick'' into a text editor and called it a book
** Amy is an ApatheticTeacher who decides to have a lecture about video games when she's supposed to be teaching ''Moby-Dick.''
** Ben was writing about adaptations of ''Moby-Dick,'' with particular focus on a video game adaptation.
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* '''Enforced''': The writers don't know enough about ''Moby-Dick''. To hide this, they avoid having Ben actually talk about it.
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* '''Enforced''': '''Enforced''':
** The writers don't know enough about ''Moby-Dick''. To hide this, they avoid having Ben actually talk aboutit.it.
** The writers wanted an essay about video games to appear in the story, but they didn't think it's a realistic assignment, so they had the paper be an off-topic one.
** The writers don't know enough about ''Moby-Dick''. To hide this, they avoid having Ben actually talk about
** The writers wanted an essay about video games to appear in the story, but they didn't think it's a realistic assignment, so they had the paper be an off-topic one.
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* '''Defied''': Ben makes sure that his report is on ''Moby-Dick'' and nothing else.
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* '''Defied''': '''Defied''':
** Ben makes sure that his report is on ''Moby-Dick'' and nothingelse.else.
**Amy outright refuses to let Ben get started with his off-topic report.
** Ben makes sure that his report is on ''Moby-Dick'' and nothing
**Amy outright refuses to let Ben get started with his off-topic report.
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** Ben's book report is mostly about ''Moby-Dick'', but has a lot of less-than-relevant sports references.
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* '''Straight''': Ben is supposed to [[UsefulNotes/SchoolStudyMedia write a book report on]] ''Literature/MobyDick'', but spends most of it rambling about sports and video games.
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* '''Straight''': Ben is supposed Amy, a teacher, directs her class to [[UsefulNotes/SchoolStudyMedia write a book report on]] ''Literature/MobyDick'', but ''Literature/MobyDick''. Ben spends most of it his report rambling about sports and video games.
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** Ben's book report isn't quite what the teacher asked for because he misunderstood the teacher's prompt.
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** Ben's book report isn't quite what the teacher asked for because he misunderstood the teacher's Amy's prompt.
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** [[OneTractMind Ben is obsessed with sports, and will find a way to talk about them regardless of what the original prompt was]].
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** [[OneTractMind Ben is obsessed with sports, and will find a way to talk about them regardless of what the original prompt was]].was.]]
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** Ben based his essay on a weird adaptation of ''Moby-Dick'' that he incorrectly assumed would be just like the book.
** Ben misunderstood the teacher's prompt.
** Ben misunderstood the teacher's prompt.
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** Ben based his essay on a weird adaptation of ''Moby-Dick'' [[AudienceColoringAdaptation that he incorrectly assumed would be just like the book.
book]].
** Ben misunderstoodthe teacher's Amy's prompt.
** Ben misunderstood
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** Ben hands in a report about video games when his teacher tries to collect book reports. It turns out that ''that'' essay was written for another class, and the teacher gives him another chance to hand in the actual book report.
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** Ben hands in a report about video games when his teacher Amy tries to collect book reports. It turns out that ''that'' essay was written for another class, and the teacher she gives him another chance to hand in the actual book report.
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** (To Subverted #1) Ben's actual book report is mostly rambling about sports.
** (To Subverted #2) Despite Ben's claim that he can tie the out-of-place topic to the original prompt, the connection is dubious at best.
** (To Subverted #2) Despite Ben's claim that he can tie the out-of-place topic to the original prompt, the connection is dubious at best.
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** (To Subverted #1) Ben's actual book report is mostly rambling about sports.
**(To Subverted #2) Despite Ben's claim that he can tie the out-of-place topic to the original prompt, the connection is dubious at best.
**
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** Ben suspects that his teacher is a LazyBum who doesn't bother to actually read her students' essays, so he intentionally writes a stupid and off-topic paper to see if she notices.
** Ben's naughty classmates get access to his computer, and decide it'd be hilarious to take his paper and replace all the ''Moby-Dick'' analysis with random ramblings.
** Ben's naughty classmates get access to his computer, and decide it'd be hilarious to take his paper and replace all the ''Moby-Dick'' analysis with random ramblings.
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** Ben suspects that his teacher Amy is a LazyBum who doesn't bother to actually read her students' essays, so he [[SecretTestOfCharacter intentionally writes a stupid and off-topic paper to see if she notices.
notices]].
** Ben's naughty classmates get access to hiscomputer, computer and decide [[ItAmusedMe it'd be hilarious hilarious]] to take his paper and replace all the ''Moby-Dick'' analysis with random ramblings.
** Ben's naughty classmates get access to his
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* '''Implied''': While giving Ben advice for his book report, his teacher says, "and please don't randomly talk about baseball this time".
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* '''Implied''': While giving Ben advice for his book report, his teacher Amy says, "and "And please don't randomly talk about baseball this time".time."
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* '''Parodied''':
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* '''Parodied''':
'''Parodied''': Ben's essay ends up talking about every subject in the universe ''except'' what he was assigned.
* '''Zig-Zagged''': With every paragraph, Ben's essay alternates between talking about ''Moby-Dick'' and something else.
* '''Zig-Zagged''': With every paragraph, Ben's essay alternates between talking about ''Moby-Dick'' and something else.
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* '''Enforced''': The writers don't know enough about ''Moby-Dick''. To hide this, they avoid having Ben actually talk about it.
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* '''Discussed''':
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* '''Exploited''':
'''Exploited''': Ben writes a bunch of irrelevant stuff to make his essay a WallOfText, so it seems like he did a lot of research and has meaningful content from a distance.
*'''Defied''':
'''Defied''': Ben makes sure that his report is on ''Moby-Dick'' and nothing else.
*'''Discussed''':
'''Discussed''': "Ben, you better not go off-topic and talk about baseball. Remember the subject."
* '''Conversed''': "I don't think Ben's actually going to read the book. He'll go off and talk about something else, like cartoon characters always do."
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* '''Conversed''': "I don't think Ben's actually going to read the book. He'll go off and talk about something else, like cartoon characters always do."
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* '''Straight''': Ben is supposed to [[SchoolStudyMedia write a book report on]] ''Literature/MobyDick'', but spends most of it rambling about sports and video games.
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* '''Straight''': Ben is supposed to [[SchoolStudyMedia [[UsefulNotes/SchoolStudyMedia write a book report on]] ''Literature/MobyDick'', but spends most of it rambling about sports and video games.
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* '''Inverted''': Ben's "report" is ''too much'' like the book -- he literally just copied the text of ''Moby-Dick'' into a text editor and called it a book report.
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* '''Invoked''': Ben suspects that his teacher is a LazyBum who doesn't bother to actually read her students' essays, so he intentionally writes a stupid and off-topic paper to see if she notices.
* '''Invoked''': Ben suspects that his teacher is a LazyBum who doesn't bother to actually read her students' essays, so he intentionally writes a stupid and off-topic paper to see if she notices.
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* '''Lampshaded''':
'''Lampshaded''': "Wasn't this report supposed to be about ''Moby-Dick''?"
*'''Invoked''': '''Invoked''':
** Ben suspects that his teacher is a LazyBum who doesn't bother to actually read her students' essays, so he intentionally writes a stupid and off-topic paper to see if shenotices.notices.
** Ben's naughty classmates get access to his computer, and decide it'd be hilarious to take his paper and replace all the ''Moby-Dick'' analysis with random ramblings.
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** Ben suspects that his teacher is a LazyBum who doesn't bother to actually read her students' essays, so he intentionally writes a stupid and off-topic paper to see if she
** Ben's naughty classmates get access to his computer, and decide it'd be hilarious to take his paper and replace all the ''Moby-Dick'' analysis with random ramblings.
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** Ben's book report wasn't long enough, so he tried to tie ''Moby-Dick'' to sports and video games in a desperate attempt to [[PaddingThePaper pad out the paper]].
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** Ben's book report wasn't long enough, was a LastMinuteProject. Once he had written what little he knew about ''Moby-Dick'', he was nowhere near the word count requirement and didn't have the time to do more research, so he tried to tie ''Moby-Dick'' the book to sports and video games in a desperate attempt to [[PaddingThePaper pad out the his paper]].
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'''Basic Trope''': A report that has nothing to do with the subject given.
* '''Straight''': Ben is supposed to [[SchoolStudyMedia write a book report on]] ''Literature/MobyDick'', but spends most of it rambling about sports and video games.
* '''Exaggerated''':
** Ben's book report doesn't even bother to pretend it's about ''Moby-Dick''.
** Ben is supposed to write his doctoral thesis on ''Moby-Dick'', but spends most of it talking about completely irrelevant sports.
* '''Downplayed''':
** Ben's book report on ''Moby-Dick'' consists primarily of complaining about how boring it was.
** Ben's book report isn't quite what the teacher asked for because he misunderstood the teacher's prompt.
* '''Justified''':
** [[OneTractMind Ben is obsessed with sports, and will find a way to talk about them regardless of what the original prompt was]].
** Ben's book report wasn't long enough, so he tried to tie ''Moby-Dick'' to sports and video games in a desperate attempt to [[PaddingThePaper pad out the paper]].
** Ben based his essay on a weird adaptation of ''Moby-Dick'' that he incorrectly assumed would be just like the book.
** Ben misunderstood the teacher's prompt.
* '''Inverted''':
* '''Subverted''':
** Ben hands in a report about video games when his teacher tries to collect book reports. It turns out that ''that'' essay was written for another class, and the teacher gives him another chance to hand in the actual book report.
** Ben's book report introduces a topic that ''seems'' out-of-place, but then reveals that he has a nice way to tie it into the original prompt.
* '''Double Subverted''':
** (To Subverted #1) Ben's actual book report is mostly rambling about sports.
** (To Subverted #2) Despite Ben's claim that he can tie the out-of-place topic to the original prompt, the connection is dubious at best.
* '''Parodied''':
* '''Zig-Zagged''':
* '''Averted''': Ben's book report is entirely on-topic.
* '''Enforced''':
* '''Lampshaded''':
* '''Invoked''': Ben suspects that his teacher is a LazyBum who doesn't bother to actually read her students' essays, so he intentionally writes a stupid and off-topic paper to see if she notices.
* '''Exploited''':
* '''Defied''':
* '''Discussed''':
* '''Conversed''':
* '''Implied''': While giving Ben advice for his book report, his teacher says, "and please don't randomly talk about baseball this time".
* '''Played for Drama''': A CorruptPolitician is supposed to address complaints about a MegaCorp, but instead tries to distract everyone by bringing up his {{sleazy|Politician}} rival's scandal.
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* '''Straight''': Ben is supposed to [[SchoolStudyMedia write a book report on]] ''Literature/MobyDick'', but spends most of it rambling about sports and video games.
* '''Exaggerated''':
** Ben's book report doesn't even bother to pretend it's about ''Moby-Dick''.
** Ben is supposed to write his doctoral thesis on ''Moby-Dick'', but spends most of it talking about completely irrelevant sports.
* '''Downplayed''':
** Ben's book report on ''Moby-Dick'' consists primarily of complaining about how boring it was.
** Ben's book report isn't quite what the teacher asked for because he misunderstood the teacher's prompt.
* '''Justified''':
** [[OneTractMind Ben is obsessed with sports, and will find a way to talk about them regardless of what the original prompt was]].
** Ben's book report wasn't long enough, so he tried to tie ''Moby-Dick'' to sports and video games in a desperate attempt to [[PaddingThePaper pad out the paper]].
** Ben based his essay on a weird adaptation of ''Moby-Dick'' that he incorrectly assumed would be just like the book.
** Ben misunderstood the teacher's prompt.
* '''Inverted''':
* '''Subverted''':
** Ben hands in a report about video games when his teacher tries to collect book reports. It turns out that ''that'' essay was written for another class, and the teacher gives him another chance to hand in the actual book report.
** Ben's book report introduces a topic that ''seems'' out-of-place, but then reveals that he has a nice way to tie it into the original prompt.
* '''Double Subverted''':
** (To Subverted #1) Ben's actual book report is mostly rambling about sports.
** (To Subverted #2) Despite Ben's claim that he can tie the out-of-place topic to the original prompt, the connection is dubious at best.
* '''Parodied''':
* '''Zig-Zagged''':
* '''Averted''': Ben's book report is entirely on-topic.
* '''Enforced''':
* '''Lampshaded''':
* '''Invoked''': Ben suspects that his teacher is a LazyBum who doesn't bother to actually read her students' essays, so he intentionally writes a stupid and off-topic paper to see if she notices.
* '''Exploited''':
* '''Defied''':
* '''Discussed''':
* '''Conversed''':
* '''Implied''': While giving Ben advice for his book report, his teacher says, "and please don't randomly talk about baseball this time".
* '''Played for Drama''': A CorruptPolitician is supposed to address complaints about a MegaCorp, but instead tries to distract everyone by bringing up his {{sleazy|Politician}} rival's scandal.
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