Line #21 PlayingWith/DoorstopBaby


1	'''Basic Trope''': An unwanted baby is placed on a doorstep for the occupants of the house to raise.
2	* '''Straight''': Bob's mother leaves him at the doorsteps of his aunt and uncle's home.
3	* '''Exaggerated''':
4	** Babies are piled on the doorstep, resulting in a WaveOfBabies when the door is opened.
5	** Every doorstep in the neighborhood has an abandoned baby on it, and no one thinks that anything is out of the ordinary.
6	* '''Downplayed''': The new parents of Bob know they'll be adopting a baby and greet his mother or a social worker at the door with Bob.
7	* '''Justified''':
8	** Bob's parents can't afford a baby, and there is no orphanage in town.
9	** Same as above, except the parents simply don't want a baby.
10	** Bob's parents are on death's door; It's only a matter of time before they pass, and they don't want little Bob to live life without parents.
11	* '''Inverted''':
12	** Bob is an adult and can no longer take care of his aging mother, so he leaves her on someone's doorstep.
13	** A mother leaves the baby on her own doorstep, in hopes that someone else will take it.
14	** Someone goes door to door asking for unwanted children.
15	** Becky needs help getting pregnant, so she sits herself down on the nearest doorstep and waits.
16	* '''Subverted''':
17	** Bob's mother leaves him at the doorsteps of his aunt and uncle's home...before they arrive back home, Bob is stolen by a thief.
18	** The doorstep is a church or orphanage and it is understood in that town that babies left there have been surrendered for adoption.
19	* '''Double Subverted''':
20	** The thief changes his mind and leaves Bob on another doorstep.
21	** But then another baby is left at the door of a house.
22	* '''Parodied''':
23	** The kindly parents take the infant in. The next day, a dozen more babies of different species are waiting for them on the doorstep.
24	** Bob's parents celebrate "[[FictionalHoliday National Baby-Swapping Day]]": they leave Bob on another couple's doorstep, and the other couple gives their baby to Bob's parents in the same way.
25	* '''Zig Zagged''': The baby is sick, but is healed, but gets sick again when it isn't on the doorstep, and gets thrown out for being too much of a hassle, whereupon it gets sick again.
26	* '''Averted''': No babies are left on doorsteps.
27	* '''Enforced''': "If they just find the baby in the open, they may assume it's just lost. If the baby's on the doorstep, people will understand it was left for them to find."
28	* '''Lampshaded''': "What the? I don't remember placing a baby on my doorstep. Someone must have left it here."
29	* '''Invoked''':
30	** A [[LawOfInverseFertility desperate, infertile couple]] puts a sign up on their door requesting foundlings.
31	** The father kidnaps the baby and places him on the doorstep.
32	* '''Exploited''': Someone who wants to adopt a child attempts to encourage people to abandon babies on their doorstep, not someone else's.
33	* '''Defied''':
34	** The mother abandons the child where she knows it will not be discovered.
35	** The baby is put up for adoption the normal way.
36	** The mother knocks on the door, and hands the baby directly to the couple.
37	* '''Discussed''': "Anything on the doorstep this morning? Milk? Newspaper? Baby?"
38	* '''Conversed''': "Why do so many babies get abandoned on this show?" "I guess it's better than [[GoodGirlsAvoidAbortion killing]] [[DeathOfAChild them]]."
39	* '''Deconstructed''': The baby is very sick and malnourished.
40	* '''Reconstructed''': The baby is reared back to health.
41	* '''Played For Laughs''': The first house has a sign on the door which reads "no babies please". The mother has to stop by twelve more houses before finding one without such a sign.
42	* '''Played For Drama''':
43	** The baby dies of exposure.
44	** The owners of the house raise the baby as a SexSlave.
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46	Please, kind sir, won't you take this child back with you to DoorstopBaby?
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48	%% Optional items, added after Conversed, at your discretion:
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