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* '''Played For Horror''': Bob is crying over something horrifying, like his cousin in DemonicPossession.



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** There is a couch and a few chairs. Some patients sit on the couch or one of the chairs, some lie in it, and the ShellShockedVeteran who lost his legs in TheGreatOffscreenWar stays in his wheelchair.



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* '''Exploited''': ???TheShrink has placed the couch in his office as a [[SelfDeprecation self-deprecating]] joke to help put the patient more at ease.
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* '''Discussed''': Alice and Bob talk about their friend Cecil who is a therapist. Rumour has it thar Cecil's patients have to lie on a couch.

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* '''Discussed''': Alice and Bob talk about their friend Cecil who is a therapist. Rumour has it thar that Cecil's patients have to lie on a couch.

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

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* '''Lampshaded''': ???Bob points out that he's always lying on the couch during his therapy sessions and likens it to characters in therapy treatment from movies.



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Alice and Bob talk about their friend Cecil who is a therapist. Rumour has it thar Cecil's patients have to lie on a couch.
* '''Conversed''': ???"Have you ever noticed that if there is a psychologist who treats people in fiction, the patients will always lie on a couch? What's up with that? Is Freud still so popular?"
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* '''Zig Zagged''': ???

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* '''Zig Zagged''': ???Dr. Freud redecorates his office a few times.
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In Soviet Russia Trope Mocks You was renamed to Russian Reversal. Misuse and bad examples are being deleted.


* '''Parodied''': Bob is complaining because the [[InSovietRussiaTropeMocksYou couch is on top of HIM!]]

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* '''Parodied''': Bob is complaining because the [[InSovietRussiaTropeMocksYou couch is on top of HIM!]]him.
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* '''Downplayed''': ???

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* '''Downplayed''': ???Bob is slouching, but is still mostly upright on the couch.

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* '''Played For Laughs''': Bob is whining about something trivial on the couch, such as dropping an ice cream cone.

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* '''Played For Laughs''': Laughs''':
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Bob is whining about something trivial on the couch, such as dropping an ice cream cone.
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I actually fell asleep in therapy once. True story.

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** Bob gets a little too comfortable and starts falling asleep.
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* '''Inverted''': ???

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* '''Inverted''': ???The therapist is lying on the couch telling his problems to Bob.
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* '''Parodied''': ???

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* '''Parodied''': ???Bob is complaining because the [[InSovietRussiaTropeMocksYou couch is on top of HIM!]]

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* '''Invoked''': Bob goes to the psychiatrist's office, and is told to lie on the couch.

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* '''Invoked''': '''Invoked''':
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Bob goes to the psychiatrist's office, and is told to lie on the couch.
** When offered eitheir a couch or chair, Bob goes with the
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* '''Played Straight''': Bob is talking about his [[MyBelovedSmother mother]] while lying on a fancy couch.
* '''Exaggerated''': The therapist he's talking to bears a [[NoCelebritiesWereHarmed strong resemblance]] to Dr. Freud

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* '''Played Straight''': '''Straight''': Bob is talking about his [[MyBelovedSmother mother]] while lying on a fancy couch.
* '''Exaggerated''': The therapist he's talking to bears a [[NoCelebritiesWereHarmed strong resemblance]] to Dr. FreudFreud.
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* '''Parodied''': See "double subverted"

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** Bob does not go to therapy

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** Bob does not go to therapytherapy.



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* '''Defied''': The office in question has no couch, and the psychiatrist does not believe in Freudian psychology, preferring more modern and accepted theories instead.

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* '''Exploited''': ???
* '''Defied''': The office in question has no couch, and the psychiatrist does not believe in Freudian psychology, preferring more modern and accepted theories instead.
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Removing wick to Did Not Do The Research per rename at TRS.


* '''Enforced''': AllPsychologyIsFreudian, combined with DidNotDoTheResearch

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* '''Enforced''': AllPsychologyIsFreudian, combined with DidNotDoTheResearchAllPsychologyIsFreudian.

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* '''Basic Trope''': During therapy, the patient is lying on a couch like the one in Sigmund Freud's office.

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* '''Basic Trope''': During therapy, the patient is lying on a couch like the one in Sigmund Freud's office.



* '''Averted''': Bob does not lie on such a couch during therapy, but sits in a regular chair.

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Bob does not lie on such a couch during therapy, but sits in a regular chair.
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* '''Played For Drama''': Bob is upset over something serious, like being molested by a PedophilePriest during childhood.

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* '''Played For Drama''': Bob is upset over something serious, like being molested by a PedophilePriest during childhood.childhood.
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