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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