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1	'''Basic Trope''': Someone who's [[PeripheryDemographic not normally expected to]] watch {{Soap Opera}}s... does.
2	* '''Straight''': Bob is a guy who looks and acts like he watches a football game... But he's shown watching a soap opera.
3	* '''Exaggerated''': Bob is ''addicted'' to this series... and is always blubbering over the dramatic scenes. He [[ExplainingTheSoap gets all the other guys in the series hooked on this soap.]]
4	* '''Downplayed''': Bob mentions watching the series in his spare time, and will talk about it if asked, but not a lot of attention is drawn to it otherwise.
5	* '''Justified''':
6	** Bob has nothing better to do during the day since he lost his job.
7	** AliceAndBob are watching together.
8	** [[RealMenWearPink Bob's a guy who just happens to like soap operas.]]
9	** The soap-opera features some {{Fanservice}} clearly aimed at men, as a way to attract said PeripheryDemographic. So, the sexy bits caught Bob's attention, but he started following it [[JustForFun/ComeForTheXStayForTheY for the surprisingly intriguing plot]].
10	** Bob is such a hardcore TV addict he'll watch anything that's on.
11	* '''Inverted''': Alice is a girl who looks and acts like she watches a soap opera... But she's shown watching a football game.
12	* '''Subverted''':
13	** Bob quickly changes the channel to football when he hears Alice's footsteps.
14	** Bob is watching a popular PrimeTimeSoap.
15	** [[LeadPoliceDetective Bob]] is investigating one of the actors as a suspect in this week's homicide case.
16	* '''Double Subverted''':
17	** But as soon as she's gone, he's back to his soap opera.
18	** Said PrimeTimeSoap is primarily [[GirlShowGhetto geared towards women]], and the other guys make fun of Bob for it (or he worries that they will and so he keeps his interest in it a secret.)
19	** That's how his interest in the series started, but it only grew from there.
20	* '''Parodied''': Bob is watching with every bathrobe-clad, curler-wearing {{housewife}} in town...and has a bathrobe and curlers too.
21	* '''Zig-Zagged''': ???
22	* '''Averted''': Bob does not watch soap operas.
23	* '''Enforced''': RuleOfFunny.
24	* '''Lampshaded''': "You watch soaps?!"
25	* '''Invoked''': Bob finds himself laid off and between jobs. Since time wears quickly, he turns on the TV, but there isn't much on besides soap operas.
26	* '''Exploited''': Charlie records Bob watching a soap opera, and uses the footage to {{Blackmail}} Bob.
27	* '''Defied''': Bob feels that watching a soap (however interesting it may be) would be an affront to his masculinity, so he doesn't watch soaps.
28	* '''Discussed''': "I heard Bob was watching a soap opera..."
29	* '''Conversed''': "Men watching soaps... What's next?"
30	* '''Played For Laughs''': Bob is more into the soap than Alice is.
31	* '''Played For Drama''': Bob displays a disturbing degree of obsession for the program, which is a not so subtle hint towards his broken state of mind triggered by causes not related to the show itself.
32	* '''Implied''': Bob gets a reference to a soap that a female friend makes. He comes up with an excuse, but it seems like he might actually watch the show.
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