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'''Basic Trope''': Disco music and/or it's fans are derided.
* '''Played Straight''': After Bob says he likes disco music early in the story, Alice [[RunningGag occasionally]] mocks him for his cheesy tastes.

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'''Basic Trope''': Disco music and/or it's fans are derided.
derided by a character.
* '''Played Straight''': After Bob says he likes disco music early in the story, Alice [[RunningGag occasionally]] often]] mocks him for his cheesy tastes.



** Disco haters like Alice are mocked as tasteless and stuck in their ways, engaging in a trend that in itself is dated when everyone else has moved on.

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** Disco haters like Alice Alice's dislike of disco are mocked by Bob as being tasteless and is done to show how stuck in their ways, her ways she is, engaging in a trend that in itself is dated when everyone else has moved on.

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* '''Justified''': Alice considers Bob a DiscoDan and thinks he's ''way'' too stuck in The70s.

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* '''Justified''': Alice '''Justified''':
**Alice
considers Bob a DiscoDan and thinks he's ''way'' too stuck in The70s.The70s.
**Bob is a time traveller who frequently visits the year Disco genre was oversaturated.

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* '''Downplayed''': Alice only says a "dude, [[Film/SaturdayNightFever Tony Manero]] is a [[AntiHero shitty role model]]" quip when Bob reveals his love of disco and then lets it go.

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* '''Downplayed''': Alice only says a minor "dude, [[Film/SaturdayNightFever Tony Manero]] is a [[AntiHero shitty role model]]" quip when Bob reveals his love of disco and then lets it go.



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* '''Played for Laughs''': Bob's love of disco being constantly revealed in embarrassing occasions is a RunningGag: he has The Bee-Gees' "Saturday Night Fever" as an EmbarrassingRingtone, his media player [[IncessantMusicMadness got stuck playing]] The Tramps' "Disco Inferno" and when he tries to do something about it [[FromBadToWorse he starts a fire]] (with "Disco Inferno" [[SuspiciouslyAproposMusic still playing]]), he accidentally [[TapedOverTurmoil taped over]] his orchestral conductor best friend's tape of "Fifth of Beethoven" with the Walter Murphy version, and it seems his [[InstantHumiliationJustAddYouTube Instagram account]] is nothing but gifs of perverted pictures of his girlfriend all set to Donna Summer's "Hot Stuff".

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* '''Played Straight''': When Bob says he likes disco music, Alice mocks him for cheesy tastes.

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* '''Played Straight''': When After Bob says he likes disco music, music early in the story, Alice [[RunningGag occasionally]] mocks him for his cheesy tastes.tastes.
* '''Exaggerated''': [[AlphaBitch Alice]] turns Bob into the town pariah because [[DisproportionateRetribution of his love of Disco]].
* '''Downplayed''': Alice only says a "dude, [[Film/SaturdayNightFever Tony Manero]] is a [[AntiHero shitty role model]]" quip when Bob reveals his love of disco and then lets it go.

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* '''Played for Drama''': A wedge in Alice and Bob's friendship forms over disco.

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* '''Played for Drama''': Drama''':
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A wedge in Alice and Bob's friendship forms over disco.disco.
** Bob's love of disco is because it brings back fond memories of his mother. He gets bullied for his love of disco. Whether or not his bullies find out about that and [[MyGodWhatHaveIDone feel remorse because of it]] depends on the writer.
* '''Played for Horror''': Bob is not bullied over his love of disco. He is [[DisproportionateRetribution lynched]].
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* '''Played Straight''': When Bob says he likes likes disco music, Alice mocks him for cheesy tastes.
* '''Justified''':

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* '''Played Straight''': When Bob says he likes likes disco music, Alice mocks him for cheesy tastes.
* '''Justified''': Alice considers Bob a DiscoDan and thinks he's ''way'' too stuck in The70s.
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''Basic Trope'': Disco music and/or it's fans are derided.

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''Basic Trope'': '''Basic Trope''': Disco music and/or it's fans are derided.

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Basic Trope: Disco music and/or it's fans are derided.

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Basic Trope: ''Basic Trope'': Disco music and/or it's fans are derided.



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** Alice expresses favourable opinions of disco.
** Disco haters are mocked as tasteless and stuck in their ways, engaging in a trend that in itself is dated when everyone else has moved on.

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** Alice expresses favourable opinions of disco.
disco to show how cool she is.
** Disco haters like Alice are mocked as tasteless and stuck in their ways, engaging in a trend that in itself is dated when everyone else has moved on.
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Basic Trope: Disco music and/or it's fans are derided.
* '''Played Straight''': When Bob says he likes likes disco music, Alice mocks him for cheesy tastes.
* '''Inverted''':
** Alice expresses favourable opinions of disco.
** Disco haters are mocked as tasteless and stuck in their ways, engaging in a trend that in itself is dated when everyone else has moved on.
* '''Played for Drama''': A wedge in Alice and Bob's friendship forms over disco.
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