History PlayingWith / OhWaitThisIsMyGroceryList

* '''Zig Zagged''': Lord Badguy reads his evil plan, which sounds like a shopping list. But it's actually a code... which, when cracked, reveals another shopping list. But the innocent sounding food items are required for his evil plan... but then Lord Badguy realizes he's reading the wrong shopping list.

** Lord Badguy used the back of his grocery list for writing down his plan but read the wrong side. ([[PragmaticVillain He's evil, not wastefull]])

* '''Zig Zagged''': Lord Badguy reads his evil plan, which sounds like a shopping list.But it's actually a code... that when cracked reveals another shoping list. But the innocent sounding food items are required for his evil plan... but then Lord Badguy realizes he's reading the wrong shopping list.

* '''Enforced''': "We need to show that Lord Badguy is a {{Harmless Villain}}, let's have him mix up his evil plan with his grocery list"
* '''Lampshaded''': "Oh wait, that's my grocery list... Hah, how silly of me to do something like that again and again..."

* '''Defied''': The villain explicitly checks what he's reading before he starts reading. And he keep a copy of his evil plan on the back of every shopping list, just in case he forgot the original evil plan document.

* '''Conversed''': "So, in one of the episodes, Lord Badguy comes in looking all pompous and says: 'Beware, Bob, for now you shall experience the terror of my plan! Eggs, breads, milk-- pffthahahaha!"

** Lord Badguy used the back of his grocery list for writing down his plan. ([[PragmaticVillain He's evil, not wastefull]])

** After Lord Badguy readed the list out loud, other characters laugh at his foolishness, except TheSmartGuy. He recognizes several ingredients for making an improvised bomb in that list.

** After Lord Badguy readed the list out loud, other characters laugh at his foolishness, except the SmartGuy. He recognizes several ingredients for making an improvised bomb in that list.

* '''Deconstructed''': After Bob accidentally begins reading his shopping list when he's supposed to give an important lecture, he is laughed out of the room and mocked for years afterward, eventually giving him a phobia of shopping.

** "On searching the suspect's home, we found 6 pounds of marijuana, half a pound of crack, an ounce of heroin, 500 micrograms of LSD... no, wait, this is my shopping list."

Back to Eggs, Bread, Milk... OhWaitThisIsMyGroceryList.

* '''Justified''': The grocery list is formatted exactly like the evil plan, and even begins similarly. And Lord Badguy is absent-minded.

* '''Subverted''': Bob: "Gentlemen! Hear me out as I read to you this vital announcement! Eggs, bread, milk... are the foodstuffs that might become very expensive in the coming months!"

* '''Double Subverted''': Bob actually meant to give another announcement, but accidentally took his shopping list instead, and hastily ad-libbed something fitting.

* '''Parodied''': Everything Lord Badguy says or writes down, ranging from memos to his subordinates to hour-length speeches before his armies, is expressed in the form of shopping lists, him being unable (or unwilling) to express himself in any other way. His minions have long since got used to this and are actually fairly competent at figuring out what their Lord actually means.

* '''Deconstructed''': After Bob accidentally begins reading his shopping list when he's supposed to give an important lecture, he is laughed out of the room and mocked for years afterward, eventually giving him a phobia of shopping.
* '''Reconstructed''': After Bob accidently begins reading his grocery list and everyone starts laughing, he finds his lecture under it. Now that everyone is laughing and feeling good, they're more willing to listen to him.

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* '''Exaggerated''': Lord Badguy reads off his entire long shopping list (with a bunch of humorous gags in it) for several minutes before he realizes what he's reading.

** Lord Badguy actually requires bread, milk, and eggs for his evil plan.

** The "shopping list" is actually Lord Badguy's secret evil plan, coded with a special cipher that looks like a shopping list.

* '''Deconstructed''': After Bob accidentally begins reading his shopping list when he's supposed to give an important lecture, he is laughed out of the room and mocked for years afterward, eventually giving him a phobia of shopping and driving him to suicide.

* '''Conversed''': "So, in one of the episodes, Lord Badguy comes in looking all pompous and says: 'Beware, Bob, for now you shall experience the terror of my plan! Eggs, breads, milk'pffthahahaha!"

** "On searching the suspect's home, we found 6 pounds of marijuana, half a pound of crack, an ounce of heroin, 500 micrograms of LSD, ... no, wait, this is my shopping list."

* '''Zig Zagged''': Lord Badguy reads his evil plan, which sounds like a shopping list.But it's actually a code...that when cracked reveals another shoping list. But the innocent sounding food items are required for his evil plan...but then Lord Badguy realizes he's reading the wrong shopping list.

** "On searching the premises, we found 6 pounds of marijuana, half a pound of crack, an ounce of heroin, 500 micrograms of LSD, ... no, wait, this is my shopping list."

* '''Parodied''': ???

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* '''Reconstructed''': ???
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* '''Enforced''': ???