History PlayingWith / SeinfeldianConversation

** Alice and Bob start a pointless conversation but it quickly becomes important.

** Alice and Bob are having a casual conversation[[CasualDangerDialogue during a huge shootout]].

** Alice and Bob are having a Seinfeldian CasualDangerDialog during a huge shootout.

** The conversation becomes SeriousBusiness, eventually becoming a CavemenVersusAstronautsDebate.

* '''Plotted A Good Waste''': [[TheRival Bob]] establishes [[NoNonsenseNemesis what kind of a man he is]] by ordering Alice to [[SpareThePleasantries get to the damn point already]].

** They realize Alice and Bob are calm and in control at all times, and instead peg them for as being cool and collected instead.

* '''Straight''': Alice and Bob talk about socks.

* '''Exploited''': Alice walks up to [[MauveShirt Charlie]] and starts a petty conversation, where she casually [[CouldSayItBut says something important]] or [[DidIJustSayThatOutLoud gets him to]] without [[DangerouslyGenreSavvy being obvious]].

%%* '''Implied''': ???
%%* '''Plotted A Good Waste''': ???
%%* '''Played For Laughs''': ???

* '''Played For Drama''': Alice and Bob are [[ElephantInTheRoom trying to avoid a serious issue]], like the death of Charlie.

'''Basic Trope''': Characters share an idle, pointless conversation.

* '''Played Straight''': Alice and Bob talk about socks.
* '''Exaggerated''': The conversation becomes SeriousBusiness, eventually becoming a CavemenVersusAstronautsDebate.

* '''Justified''': Alice and Bob have nothing else to talk about, but wish to break the silence.

* '''Subverted''': Alice and Bob start a pointless conversation but it quickly becomes important.

* '''Double Subverted''': Alice and Bob then start to TalkAboutTheWeather.

* '''Deconstructed''': Alice and Bob have nothing to discuss, which can be awkward.
** Alice and Bob are pegged as being unproductive and blase.
* '''Reconstructed''': Alice and Bob find stuff to discuss, and find that they have stuff in common.
** They realize Alice and Bob are calm and in control at all times, and instead peg them for as being cool and collected instead.

* '''Averted''': Alice and Bob don't discuss stupid things.
** Alice and Bob don't speak to one another.
* '''Enforced''': "We need these characters to be sympathetic, so we need to introduce a few humanizing elements here."
* '''Invoked''': Alice is standing alone in a slow elevator with Bob.

* '''Defied''': Bob ignores Alice when she starts going on about socks.
** Alice tells Bob to shut the hell up about the pointless conversations about the varieties of motorcycle fenders.

* '''Played For Laughs''': Almost always is.

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* '''Averted''' Alice and Bob don't discuss stupid things.

* '''Discussed''': "This is usually the part where we listen in, but they're usully talking about how a pair of socks look like they're making love or something."

* '''Subverted''': Alice and Bob start a conversation, but it doesn't last too long.

** Alice and Bob, as it turns out, are being literal, or double meanings and idioms to have a Seinfeldian conversation.

* '''Downplayed''': ???

* '''Played For Drama''': Alice and Bob are [[ElephantInTheRoom trying to avoid a serious issue]], like the death of Charlie.

* '''Downplayed''':

* '''Basic Trope''': Characters share an idle, pointless conversation.

* '''Basic Trope''': Idle, pointless chatter.

* '''Subverted''': Alice and Bob start a conversation, but it doesn't last too long.

* '''Parodied''': Someone writes an entire PhD dissertation on the merits of different kinds of socks.
* '''Zig Zagged''': Sometimes Alice and Bob have serious conversations, other times silly ones, and every kind in between.

* '''Enforced''': RuleOfFunny

* '''Discussed''':
* '''Conversed''':

* '''Played For Drama''': Alice is ignored by Bob and gets angry.

* '''Double Subverted''': Alice and Bob then start TalkingAboutTheWeather.