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* '''Played for Drama''': Alice and Bob, in their own way (yes, [[LaboriousLaziness even Bob]]) have worked hard to get things just the way they want it and the other completely destroys everything by just being themselves (Alice loses her direly-needed extension to her architectural contract and is in the quick path to the poor house because Bob disturbed her dinner guests by harassing them with his LowerClassLout antics, while the notes for Bob's potential-Pulitzer-prize-winning article have been destroyed by Alice incinerating all of his notebooks which she deemed garbage and short-circuiting his laptop by spraying Lysol on it). If there is any possibility [[OddCouple for friendship to flourish]], it is an extremely long shot.

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Alice and Bob, in their own way (yes, [[LaboriousLaziness even Bob]]) have worked hard to get things just the way they want it and the other completely destroys everything by just being themselves (Alice loses her direly-needed extension to her architectural contract and is in the quick path to the poor house because Bob disturbed her dinner guests by harassing them with his LowerClassLout antics, while the notes for Bob's potential-Pulitzer-prize-winning article have been destroyed by Alice incinerating all of his notebooks which she deemed garbage and short-circuiting his laptop by spraying Lysol on it). If there is any possibility [[OddCouple for friendship to flourish]], it is an extremely long shot.
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** The snob Alice wishes to KillThePoor. The slob Bob [[TallPoppySyndrome wishes to kill Ms. Know-It-All]]. Middle-class Winona [[WithUsOrAgainstUs is not allowed to stay neutral]].
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\n* '''Played for Laughs''': It's an homage to ''Film/TheOddCouple'',
* '''Played for Drama''': Alice and Bob, in their own way (yes, [[LaboriousLaziness even Bob]]) have worked hard to get things just the way they want it and the other completely destroys everything by just being themselves (Alice loses her direly-needed extension to her architectural contract and is in the quick path to the poor house because Bob disturbed her dinner guests by harassing them with his LowerClassLout antics, while the notes for Bob's potential-Pulitzer-prize-winning article have been destroyed by Alice incinerating all of his notebooks which she deemed garbage and short-circuiting his laptop by spraying Lysol on it). If there is any possibility [[OddCouple for friendship to flourish]], it is an extremely long shot.
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* '''Invoked''': Bob wants to [[TheGadfly annoy]] [[SuperOCD Alice]], so he goes out of his way to dress like a bum, leave his dirty dishes on the table, etc.

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* '''Invoked''': Bob wants to [[TheGadfly annoy]] [[SuperOCD [[NeatFreak Alice]], so he goes out of his way to dress like a bum, leave his dirty dishes on the table, etc.
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* '''Exaggerated''': Alice is a RichBitch [[BitchInSheepsClothing in Sheep's Clothing]] who owns a PeaceAndLoveIncorporated and has never even ''seen'' real filth before. Bob is a BarbarianHero with an [[AbsurdPhobia irrational fear of water]]. The two barely exchange glances before each summons their guards/tribal mates to kill each other.

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* '''Exaggerated''': Alice is a RichBitch [[BitchInSheepsClothing in Sheep's Clothing]] who owns a PeaceAndLoveIncorporated and has never even ''seen'' real filth before. Bob is a BarbarianHero ShellShockedVeteran with an [[AbsurdPhobia [[WarIsHell irrational fear of water]].war]]. The two barely exchange glances before each summons their guards/tribal mates to kill each other.
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* '''Exaggerated''': Alice is a PrincessClassic who has three baths a day and has never even ''seen'' real filth before. Bob is a BarbarianHero with an [[AbsurdPhobia irrational fear of water]]. The two barely exchange glances before each summons their guards/tribal mates to kill each other.

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* '''Exaggerated''': Alice is a PrincessClassic RichBitch [[BitchInSheepsClothing in Sheep's Clothing]] who has three baths owns a day PeaceAndLoveIncorporated and has never even ''seen'' real filth before. Bob is a BarbarianHero with an [[AbsurdPhobia irrational fear of water]]. The two barely exchange glances before each summons their guards/tribal mates to kill each other.
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* '''Downplayed''': Alice wears pants suits and enjoys the opera. Bob wears T-Shirts and [[MenAreUncultured thinks a Sporano is]] [[Series/TheSopranos a TV drama with a cliffhanger ending]]. The two avoid each other out of mutual distaste.

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* '''Downplayed''': Alice wears pants suits and enjoys the opera. Bob wears T-Shirts and [[MenAreUncultured thinks a Sporano Soprano is]] [[Series/TheSopranos a TV drama with a cliffhanger ending]]. The two avoid each other out of mutual distaste.
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* '''Deconstructed''': All either Alice or Bob knows about the other is how they live, dress and act; they've never even spoken. Yet Alice is convinced that Bob is [[FaceOfAThug a degenerate or a criminal based purely on what little she's seen]] while Bob believes she's [[ConspiracyTheorist part of an Illuminati plot to]] KillThePoor. Eventually things get violent when both decide that they'd rather strike first]]. Both end up dead, hating and fearing each other to their last moments without having spoken a single word to the other.


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* '''Deconstructed''': All either Alice or Bob knows about the other is how they live, dress and act; they've never even spoken. Yet Alice is convinced that Bob is [[FaceOfAThug a degenerate or a criminal based purely on what little she's seen]] while Bob believes she's [[ConspiracyTheorist part of an Illuminati plot to]] KillThePoor. Eventually things get violent when both decide that they'd rather strike first]].first. Both end up dead, hating and fearing each other to their last moments without having spoken a single word to the other.




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Back to [[Main/SlobsVsSnobs]]SlobsVsSnobs. But won't you PLEASE wipe your feet first?[[note]] WAIT, NOT ON MY NEW CURTAINS!! [[/note]]
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* '''Justified''': Alice is an [[AristocratsAreEvil raging]] RichBitch and/or Bob's a [[{{Jerkass}} belligerent]] LowerClassLout with a criminal record for mugging wealthy pedestrians. Aesthetics and ValuesDissonance aside, one or both has real reason to fear an mistrust the other.

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* '''Justified''': Alice is an [[AristocratsAreEvil raging]] RichBitch and/or Bob's a [[{{Jerkass}} belligerent]] LowerClassLout with a criminal record for mugging wealthy pedestrians. Aesthetics and ValuesDissonance aside, one or both has real reason to fear an and mistrust the other.



--> '''Alice''': Ugh, did he REALLY just eat peanut butter straight out of the jar with his fingers!

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--> '''Alice''': Ugh, did he REALLY just eat peanut butter straight out of the jar with his fingers!fingers?
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'''Basic Trope''': [[SeriousBusiness Charged social conflict]] between two characters, one neat and elegant, the other slobby and poorly groomed.
* '''Straight''': Alice is a ProperLady from [[BlueBlood Old Money]] while Bob is a WorkingClassHero with PermaStubble who [[ThePigPen uses the laundromat maybe once a decade]]. The two [[HateAtFirstSight instantly hate each other]].
* '''Exaggerated''': Alice is a PrincessClassic who has three baths a day and has never even ''seen'' real filth before. Bob is a BarbarianHero with an [[AbsurdPhobia irrational fear of water]]. The two barely exchange glances before each summons their guards/tribal mates to kill each other.
* '''Downplayed''': Alice wears pants suits and enjoys the opera. Bob wears T-Shirts and [[MenAreUncultured thinks a Sporano is]] [[Series/TheSopranos a TV drama with a cliffhanger ending]]. The two avoid each other out of mutual distaste.
* '''Justified''': Alice is an [[AristocratsAreEvil raging]] RichBitch and/or Bob's a [[{{Jerkass}} belligerent]] LowerClassLout with a criminal record for mugging wealthy pedestrians. Aesthetics and ValuesDissonance aside, one or both has real reason to fear an mistrust the other.
* '''Inverted''': Alice and Bob ''like'' each others' lifestyles better than their own. Bob immediately cleans his one-room apartment, starts bathing regularly and buys some tickets to a Broadway show while Alice decides that she just has more fun on the weekend if she doesn't bathe or clean and instead spends the entire day watching sports with a six-pack of cold beer.
* '''Subverted''': Alice and Bob initially clash over their differences in personal priorities, but either get over it quickly or find that they've got more important things to worry about.
* '''Double Subverted''': ...but Alice STILL wishes Bob would at [[ThePigpen least put on some cologne]] and Bob goes out for a smoke whenever Alice starts chatting about [[AllWomenLoveShoes her $3000 pumps]].
* '''Parodied''': After [[DamselInDistress Bob rescues Alice]], she [[UngratefulBastard immediately starts]] [[ComplainingAboutRescuesTheyDontLike raving about how filthy he and his]] RagtagBunchOfMisfits [[ComplainingAboutRescuesTheyDontLike are; they even got mud on her new dress!]]. Bob takes it in stride... until returns to his hideout one evening and discovers (to his horror) that it's now [[SpringCleaningFever spotless and redecorated in a less Man Cave-y way]]. (All Alice says is "You're welcome".) HilarityEnsues.
* '''Zig Zagged''': Alice and Bob keep finding new ways to enrage and disgust each other, though each always ends up accepting the other's lifestyle even if they strongly disagree with it.
* '''Averted''': Alice and Bob either share a similar mindset regarding manner, personal cleanliness, fashion and culture or don't respect each other less for the differences in the above.
* '''Enforced''': Since [[TheHero Bob]] comes from a poorer background, the showrunners decide that [[BigBad Alice]] would be a more effective {{Foil}} if she were a [[ManOfWealthAndTaste Woman of Wealth And Taste]].
* '''Lampshaded''':
--> '''Alice''': Ugh, did he REALLY just eat peanut butter straight out of the jar with his fingers!
--> '''Bob''': Ugh, did she REALLY just drop $30 on a jar of designer-brand PB?
* '''Invoked''': Bob wants to [[TheGadfly annoy]] [[SuperOCD Alice]], so he goes out of his way to dress like a bum, leave his dirty dishes on the table, etc.
* '''Exploited''': There's a serious political tension building between the nobility and the commoners. A rabble-rouser escalates said-tension by playing on each side's disgust with the others' lifestyles.
* '''Defied''': Alice and Bob refuse to let their private lives interfere with their [[BashBrothers teamwork]].
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* '''Conversed''': ???
* '''Deconstructed''': All either Alice or Bob knows about the other is how they live, dress and act; they've never even spoken. Yet Alice is convinced that Bob is [[FaceOfAThug a degenerate or a criminal based purely on what little she's seen]] while Bob believes she's [[ConspiracyTheorist part of an Illuminati plot to]] KillThePoor. Eventually things get violent when both decide that they'd rather strike first]]. Both end up dead, hating and fearing each other to their last moments without having spoken a single word to the other.


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