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** It may be doll collecting, but nevertheless Gina's obsession is portrayed as life-destroying in a WholePlotReference to ''Film/RequiemToADream''.

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** It may be doll collecting, but nevertheless Gina's obsession is portrayed as life-destroying in a WholePlotReference to ''Film/RequiemToADream''.
''Film/RequiemForADream''.
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%%* * '''Enforced''': RuleOfFunny.



%%* '''Discussed''': "Y'know Gina, there are probably better places to trade stuff than in filthy blind alleyways."
%%* '''Conversed''': "[[ComicallyMissingThePoint What else would I be doing in an alley? Playing marbles?]]"

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%%* * '''Discussed''': "Y'know Gina, there are probably better places to trade stuff than in filthy blind alleyways."Could've sworn Francine and Gina were doing... [[DrugsAreBad That]]. Thank goodness it's just teddy bears."
%%* * '''Conversed''': "[[ComicallyMissingThePoint What else would I be doing in an alley? Playing marbles?]]""Is... Is this supposed to remind me of something? A drug deal, perhaps?"
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* '''Double Subverted''': [[VisualPun Which turns out to be Coca-Cola]]. ("The good stuff, all the way from Mexico. Real cane sugar and everything.")

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* '''Double Subverted''': [[VisualPun Which turns out to be As in, Coca-Cola]]. ("The good stuff, all the way from Mexico. Real cane sugar and everything. None of that corn syrup mess.")
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Head on back to [DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything, fellas. [[JustForFun/TVTropesWillRuinYourLife First hit's free]].

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Head on back to [DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything, DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything, fellas. [[JustForFun/TVTropesWillRuinYourLife First hit's free]].

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* '''Straight''': Francine meets Gina in a back alleyway [[DrugsAreBad to...]] [[SubvertedTrope see her collection of]] [[GirlsLoveStuffedAnimals stuffed animals for sale]].
* '''Exaggerated''': [[ICantBelieveItsNotHeroin The entire affair is treated like a drug deal:]] Francine is [[AddledAddict visibly disheveled and talks about needing "the stuff"]] while Gina is [[TheAggressiveDrugDealer dressed in shades and a trenchcoat and cajoles Francine into making a larger purchase than last time]].

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* '''Straight''': Francine meets Gina in a back alleyway [[DrugsAreBad to...]] [[SubvertedTrope to]]... see her collection of]] [[GirlsLoveStuffedAnimals of stuffed animals for sale]].
sale.
* '''Exaggerated''': [[ICantBelieveItsNotHeroin The entire affair is treated like a drug deal:]] deal]]: Francine is [[AddledAddict visibly disheveled and talks about needing "the stuff"]] while Gina is [[TheAggressiveDrugDealer dressed in shades and a trenchcoat and cajoles Francine into making a larger purchase than last time]].



* '''Zig Zagged''': Gina is the town's [[FriendInTheBlackMarket "gal who can get it for you"]], and has several items for sale--including illicit ones. Francine sticks around for one of her drug deals, after which she makes her own sale to a [[StonersAreFunny ecstasy junkie with a penchant for soft objects]].

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* '''Zig Zagged''': Gina is the town's [[FriendInTheBlackMarket "gal "[[FriendInTheBlackMarket gal who can get it for you"]], you]]", and has several items for sale--including sale -- including illicit ones. Francine sticks around for one of her drug deals, after which she makes her own sale to a [[StonersAreFunny ecstasy junkie with a penchant for soft objects]].



* '''Enforced''': Francine [[TomboyWithAGirlyStreak wants to make sure nobody knows she likes stuffed animals]], [[SlaveToPR as they're "too girly" for her image]].
* '''Lampshaded''': "Are we still talking about stuffed animals?"
* '''Invoked''': Gina [[TheDitz likes pretending she's a drug dealer]].

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%%* '''Enforced''':
* '''Enforced''': '''Lampshaded''':
** "Are we still talking about stuffed animals?"
* '''Invoked''':
**
Francine [[TomboyWithAGirlyStreak wants to make sure nobody knows she likes stuffed animals]], as [[SlaveToPR as they're "too girly" for her image]].
* '''Lampshaded''': "Are we still talking about stuffed animals?"
* '''Invoked''':
image]].
**
Gina [[TheDitz likes pretending she's a drug dealer]]. dealer]].



* '''Discussed''': "Y'know Gina, there are probably better places to trade stuff than in filthy blind alleyways."
* '''Conversed''': [[ComicallyMissingThePoint "What else would I be doing in an alley? Playing marbles?"]]

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* %%* '''Discussed''': "Y'know Gina, there are probably better places to trade stuff than in filthy blind alleyways."
* %%* '''Conversed''': [[ComicallyMissingThePoint "What "[[ComicallyMissingThePoint What else would I be doing in an alley? Playing marbles?"]] marbles?]]"



* '''Deconstructed''': Francine's acquiescence to Gina's unorthodox trading style leads people to [[NotWhatItLooksLike actually believe she's a drug addict]]. People begin to drop hints about her "habit", eventually leading to an [[StagingAnIntervention embarassing public reveal]] of her hobby.

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* '''Deconstructed''': Francine's acquiescence to Gina's unorthodox trading style leads people to [[NotWhatItLooksLike actually believe she's a drug addict]]. People begin to drop hints about her "habit", eventually leading to an [[StagingAnIntervention embarassing embarrassing public reveal]] of her hobby.



Head on back to [[DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything Does This Remind You Of Anything?]], fellas. [[JustForFun/TVTropesWillRuinYourLife First hit's free]].

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Head on back to [[DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything Does This Remind You Of Anything?]], [DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything, fellas. [[JustForFun/TVTropesWillRuinYourLife First hit's free]].
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* '''Zig Zagged''': Gina is the town's [[FriendInTheBlackMarket "gal who can get it for you"]], and has several items for sale--including ilicit ones. Francine sticks around for one of her drug deals, after which she makes her own sale to a [[StonersAreFunny ecstasy junkie with a penchant for soft objects]].

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* '''Zig Zagged''': Gina is the town's [[FriendInTheBlackMarket "gal who can get it for you"]], and has several items for sale--including ilicit illicit ones. Francine sticks around for one of her drug deals, after which she makes her own sale to a [[StonersAreFunny ecstasy junkie with a penchant for soft objects]].
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** It may be doll collecting, but nevertheless Gina's obsession is portrayed as life-destroying in a WholePlotReference to ''Film/RequiemToADream''.

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* '''Played for Drama''': Gina and Francine are accosted by another dealer who mistakes Gina for a rival on the streets. They escape unharmed, but shaken.

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* '''Played for Drama''': Drama''':
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Gina and Francine are accosted by another dealer who mistakes Gina for a rival on the streets. They escape unharmed, but shaken.
** Gina and Francine are arrested by the police for being in the wrong place at the wrong time with a very suspicious disposition, the souvenirs destroyed when checking for concealed drugs, and [[JaywalkingWillRuinYourLife they get a rap sheet that annihilates their lives even when they manage to get it expunged and a public apology from the police]].
* '''Played for Horror''':
** Gina's odd trading habits are explained as a result of being a LoonyFan one day away from escalating in some fashion like going [[Literature/{{Misery}} full Anne Wilkes]] on the dolls' creator.
** A drug dealer mistaking Gina for a rival (or worse yet, knowing she is not dealing drugs but being angry at her trespassing all the same) murders her in a truly horrible fashion [[MakeAnExampleOfThem as a warning for future idiots]].
** Gina and Francine not only get mistaken for drug dealers by the cops, [[ShootHimHeHasAWallet they are murdered in the ensuing act]] of PoliceBrutality.
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Head on back to [[DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything Does This Remind You Of Anything?]], fellas. [[TVTropesWillRuinYourLife First hit's free]].

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Head on back to [[DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything Does This Remind You Of Anything?]], fellas. [[TVTropesWillRuinYourLife [[JustForFun/TVTropesWillRuinYourLife First hit's free]].
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* '''Reconstructed''': Staging a stuffed animal buy as a drug deal allows the viewer to [[NotSoDifferent draw parallels between the drug trade and commercial toy distribution]], [[IntendedAudienceReaction which was the writers' intent]].

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* '''Reconstructed''': Staging a stuffed animal buy as a drug deal allows the viewer to [[NotSoDifferent draw parallels between the drug trade and commercial toy distribution]], distribution, [[IntendedAudienceReaction which was the writers' intent]].
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'''Basic Trope''': A situation is made to resemble another [[DramaticIrony to convey a different meaning than what is actually occurring]].

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'''Basic Trope''': A situation is made to resemble another [[DramaticIrony [[{{Irony}} to convey a different meaning than what is actually occurring]].
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* '''Conversed''': [[ComicallyMissingThePoint "What else would I be doing in a back alleyway? Playing marbles?"]]

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* '''Conversed''': [[ComicallyMissingThePoint "What else would I be doing in a back alleyway? an alley? Playing marbles?"]]
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* '''Played for Laughs''': Gina [[Film/Scarface1983 has an inexplicable (and terrible) Cuban accent during the entire trade]].

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* '''Played for Laughs''': Gina [[Film/Scarface1983 has an inexplicable (and terrible) Cuban accent during the entire trade]].
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* '''Exaggerated''': [[ICantBelieveItsNotHeroin The entire affair is treated like a drug deal:]] [[AddledAddict Francine is visibly disheveled and talks about her need for "the stuff"]] while Gina is [[TheAggressiveDrugDealer dressed in shades and a trenchcoat and cajoles Francine into making a larger purchase than last time]].

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* '''Exaggerated''': [[ICantBelieveItsNotHeroin The entire affair is treated like a drug deal:]] Francine is [[AddledAddict Francine is visibly disheveled and talks about her need for needing "the stuff"]] while Gina is [[TheAggressiveDrugDealer dressed in shades and a trenchcoat and cajoles Francine into making a larger purchase than last time]].
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* '''Exaggerated''': [[ICantBelieveItsNotHeroin The entire affair is treated like a drug deal: [[AddledAddict Francine is visibly disheveled and talks about her need for "the stuff"]] while Gina is [[TheAggressiveDrugDealer dressed in shades and a trenchcoat and cajoles Francine into making a larger purchase than last time]].

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* '''Exaggerated''': [[ICantBelieveItsNotHeroin The entire affair is treated like a drug deal: deal:]] [[AddledAddict Francine is visibly disheveled and talks about her need for "the stuff"]] while Gina is [[TheAggressiveDrugDealer dressed in shades and a trenchcoat and cajoles Francine into making a larger purchase than last time]].
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* '''Exaggerated''': The entire affair is treated like a drug deal: [[AddledAddict Francine is visibly disheveled and talks about her need for "the stuff"]] while Gina is [[TheAggressiveDrugDealer dressed in shades and a trenchcoat and cajoles Francine into making a larger purchase than last time]].

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* '''Exaggerated''': [[ICantBelieveItsNotHeroin The entire affair is treated like a drug deal: [[AddledAddict Francine is visibly disheveled and talks about her need for "the stuff"]] while Gina is [[TheAggressiveDrugDealer dressed in shades and a trenchcoat and cajoles Francine into making a larger purchase than last time]].
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* '''Straight''': Francine meets Gina in a side alleyway [[DrugsAreBad to...]] [[SubvertedTrope see her collection of]] [[GirlsLoveStuffedAnimals stuffed animals for sale]].

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* '''Straight''': Francine meets Gina in a side back alleyway [[DrugsAreBad to...]] [[SubvertedTrope see her collection of]] [[GirlsLoveStuffedAnimals stuffed animals for sale]].
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'''Basic Trope''': A situation is made to resemble another [[DramaticIrony to convey a different meaning than what is actually occurring]].

* '''Straight''': Francine meets Gina in a side alleyway [[DrugsAreBad to...]] [[SubvertedTrope see her collection of]] [[GirlsLoveStuffedAnimals stuffed animals for sale]].
* '''Exaggerated''': The entire affair is treated like a drug deal: [[AddledAddict Francine is visibly disheveled and talks about her need for "the stuff"]] while Gina is [[TheAggressiveDrugDealer dressed in shades and a trenchcoat and cajoles Francine into making a larger purchase than last time]].
* '''Downplayed''': Francine meets Gina in a private room instead of an alleyway.
* '''Justified''': The stuffed animal market is [[SeriousBusiness that intense]].
* '''Inverted''': Harry treats doing heroin [[MundaneHorror like getting a doctor's shot]].
* '''Subverted''': Francine and Gina conduct their business, then move on to discussing their real reason for meeting: [[MoodWhiplash buying some coke]].
* '''Double Subverted''': [[VisualPun Which turns out to be Coca-Cola]]. ("The good stuff, all the way from Mexico. Real cane sugar and everything.")
* '''Parodied''': Stuffed animals are listed as a Schedule One substance by the DEA. Francine and Gina are busted by police and sent to jail.
* '''Zig Zagged''': Gina is the town's [[FriendInTheBlackMarket "gal who can get it for you"]], and has several items for sale--including ilicit ones. Francine sticks around for one of her drug deals, after which she makes her own sale to a [[StonersAreFunny ecstasy junkie with a penchant for soft objects]].
* '''Averted''': Francine and Gina trade stuffed animals without any subterfuge.
* '''Enforced''': Francine [[TomboyWithAGirlyStreak wants to make sure nobody knows she likes stuffed animals]], [[SlaveToPR as they're "too girly" for her image]].
* '''Lampshaded''': "Are we still talking about stuffed animals?"
* '''Invoked''': Gina [[TheDitz likes pretending she's a drug dealer]].
* '''Exploited''': Gina [[GuileHero takes advantage of her shady image]] as a cover for her side project: [[ManOfTheCity cleaning up the bad side of town]].
* '''Defied''': Dealing in stuffed animals and/or drugs is presented without irony or visual dissonance.
* '''Discussed''': "Y'know Gina, there are probably better places to trade stuff than in filthy blind alleyways."
* '''Conversed''': [[ComicallyMissingThePoint "What else would I be doing in a back alleyway? Playing marbles?"]]
* '''Implied''': Gina gives Francine complicated instructions for their meeting time and place, and tells her to come alone.
* '''Deconstructed''': Francine's acquiescence to Gina's unorthodox trading style leads people to [[NotWhatItLooksLike actually believe she's a drug addict]]. People begin to drop hints about her "habit", eventually leading to an [[StagingAnIntervention embarassing public reveal]] of her hobby.
* '''Reconstructed''': Staging a stuffed animal buy as a drug deal allows the viewer to [[NotSoDifferent draw parallels between the drug trade and commercial toy distribution]], [[IntendedAudienceReaction which was the writers' intent]].
* '''Played for Laughs''': Gina [[Film/Scarface1983 has an inexplicable (and terrible) Cuban accent during the entire trade]].
* '''Played for Drama''': Gina and Francine are accosted by another dealer who mistakes Gina for a rival on the streets. They escape unharmed, but shaken.

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Head on back to [[DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything Does This Remind You Of Anything?]], fellas. [[TVTropesWillRuinYourLife First hit's free]].

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