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* '''Subverted''': It looks like Bob is listing weird names for the baby while he and Alice are in the car--turns out he was just really hungry and [[OneSceneTwoDialogues naming all the fast food places they passed]] while Alice was listing baby names.

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* '''Subverted''': It looks like Bob is listing weird names for the baby while he and Alice are in the car--turns out he was just really hungry and [[OneSceneTwoDialogues [[OneDialogueTwoConversations naming all the fast food places they passed]] while Alice was listing baby names.
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* '''Enforced''': It's one of the safer ways, [[ImpliedTrope due to how implicit it is]], to let the audience know that there is a baby on the way.
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* '''Subverted''':
'''Subverted''': It looks like Bob is listing weird names for the baby while he and Alice are in the car--turns out he was just really hungry and [[OneSceneTwoDialogues naming all the fast food places they passed]] while Alice was listing baby names.
* '''Double Subverted''':Subverted''': Through a mouthful of burger, Bob continues, "And think, every single one of those places would make a great, strong name for the baby!"
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** The baby's name isn't discussed [[LastSecondBabyNaming until it's born]], whereupon she immediately names him Chris and Bob goes along with it.
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** The baby's name isn't discussed [[LastSecondBabyNaming [[LastMinuteBabyNaming until it's born]], whereupon she immediately names him Chris and Bob goes along with it.
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'''Basic Trope''': Debating what to name a baby, pet, or thing.
* '''Straight''': Alice is pregnant and she and her husband Bob are talking about what to name the baby. She suggests Giovanni for a boy, but he thinks that sounds too much like a Renaissance artist and suggests Jack, which Alice thinks is too plain.
* '''Exaggerated''':
** They go through ''every name in history''.
** They need to think of names for quadruplets, a new cat, ''and'' a new boat.
* '''Downplayed''': Alice briefly says, "If it's a girl, what about Denise?", but we don't hear Bob's reply.
* '''Justified''': That's the kind of conversation that pops up when you're expecting a baby.
* '''Inverted''': Alice gives birth to a baby boy, and she and Bob ''immediately'' decide to call him Chris, even [[SpeakInUnison speaking in unison]].
* '''Subverted''':
* '''Double Subverted''':
* '''Parodied''':
* '''Zigzagged''':
* '''Averted''':
** Alice is not pregnant.
** Alice and Bob immediately agree on what to name the baby.
** The baby's name isn't discussed [[LastSecondBabyNaming until it's born]], whereupon she immediately names him Chris and Bob goes along with it.
* '''Enforced''':
* '''Lamsphaded''': "We ''still'' haven't decided on a name!"
* '''Invoked''': "Hey, let's discuss names for the baby."
* '''Exploited''':
* '''Defied''': Alice decides to just choose something random and Bob decides to go along with whatever she suggests.
* '''Discussed''': "Should we have kids? Would we ever be able to decide on a name for the kid?"
* '''Conversed''': "Sitcom characters always have the hardest time naming babies."
* '''Implied''': The conversation the parents have when the baby is born implies they've talked about names before:
-->'''Alice''': "Whoa, he does ''not'' look like a David!"
-->'''Bob''': "He doesn't look like a Paul either!"
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* '''Reconstructed''':
* '''Played for Laughs''': Bob keeps suggesting ridiculous names, like "Goopy" or "[[EdibleThemeNaming Potato]]", but when Alice suggests Olga, he turns it down for being "[[HypocriticalHumour an unusual name]]".
* '''Played for Drama''': Alice suggests naming the baby Edith, but Bob says no because [[MissingMom that's the name of his dead mother and it makes him sad]].
* '''Played for Horror''':
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