Line #64 PlayingWith/PeopleSitOnChairs


1	'''Basic Trope''': A character sits on a chair.
2	* '''Straight''': Bob sits on a chair.
3	* '''Exaggerated''':
4	** Alice, Bob, Charlie, Claire, Danny and Eve all sit on the same chair at once.
5	** Alternatively: Bob sits on 5 chairs at once.
6	** The entire series revolves around a quest upon which Bob embarks to sit on every existent chair on planet Earth.
7	** Everyone on the entire planet is sitting on chairs.
8	* '''Downplayed''':
9	** Bob only sits on the chair for a short period of time.
10	** Bob sits halfway on the chair, because it's one of those times where there's a mess or something that you don't want to touch on the chair and you can't clean it up, but you're really tired from walking around and you don't want to sit on the floor/ground and this is the only chair you've found in forever for whatever reason, so you just kind of awkwardly position yourself on its edge and try your best to avoid whatever gross thing is there.
11	* '''Justified''':
12	** Bob is tired.
13	** The chair is a universe-destroying weapon that will produce 7 million, 154 thousand supermassive black holes within 4 seconds unless it is defused by making contact with the deactivating ID print located on Bob's rear.
14	** It is a cultural situation where standing up would be rude.
15	** It is a cultural situation where sitting down is rude, and Bob is trying to be a {{Jerkass}}.
16	** The chair is Bob's life support machine.
17	** Bob's boss told him to sit down, so he sat down.
18	* '''Inverted''': [[Administrivia/ChairsSitOnPeople A chair sits on Bob.]]
19	* '''Subverted''':
20	** Bob goes to sit on the chair, but then he sees spikes on it and does not.
21	** Bob goes to sit on the chair, then ultimately decides to stand on it to get everyone’s attention.
22	** Bob goes to sit on the chair, but he misses and falls on the floor.
23	* '''Double Subverted''':
24	** The spikes turn out to be rubber spikes, so Bob sits down after all. (Wait, what? What are rubber spikes? Who put them there?)
25	** The spiked chair belongs to a stereotypical fakir, meaning that they, like with the more common bed of nails, are numerous enough to support Bob's entire weight.[[note]]Not that Bob necessarily knows this.[[/note]]
26	** After getting everyone’s attention, he sits down on the chair for all to see.
27	** After Bob misses the chair and falls on the floor, a second, identical chair magically rises out of the floor underneath Bob's bottom.
28	* '''Parodied''':
29	** [[TooDumbToLive Bob]] sits on a giant chair that eats him.
30	** Bob sits on a table.
31	** Bob stands on a chair.
32	** Bob squats over a chair.
33	** [[Film/AChairyTale The chair won't let Bob sit in it]].
34	* '''Zig-Zagged''':
35	** Then said rubber spikes turn into real spikes, and Bob leaps off the chair, only for the chair to sit on Bob.
36	** Then the chair actually turns out to be part of a mythical creature, the Underground Monster Whose Top Part, Resembling a Chair, Protrudes Along Oft-Traveled Paths in Order to Trick People into Sitting on Top, Whereupon It Sucks Them Down and They Are Never Seen Again. (Actual name.)
37	* '''Averted''':
38	** No chairs exist at all.
39	** Bob stands on the floor.
40	** Bob walks past the chair with no intention of sitting on it.
41	** The show takes place on a planet whose entire surface is covered in chairs. However, despite constant complaints about being tired, nobody ever sits down.
42	* '''Enforced''':
43	** The story is about musical chairs, and this trope is [[AcceptableBreaksFromReality necessary]].
44	** The MeddlingExecutives running the show ''Troperz'', which has no chairs or chair-sitting, notice that people who sit on chairs are drawn to the rival show ''Adventures in Tropeland'', which features heavy quantities of chairs and chair-sitting. As a pandering ploy to increase viewership, chairs are introduced to the show, as is a situation where the characters get tired and need to sit on them.
45	* '''Lampshaded''': "Oh, golly gee, look over there, it's Bob and he's sitting and he's on a chair."
46	* '''Invoked''':
47	** Alice initiates a game of musical chairs.
48	** Alice cuts down a tree, chops the tree into blocks, uses the blocks to build a chair, takes the chair to her house, invites Bob to her house, brings him in front of the chair, turns him around so that his back faces the chair, and shoves him onto the chair.
49	** Alice sells chairs, knowing that people will buy them to sit on them.
50	* '''Exploited''':
51	** Emperor Evulz fits Bob’s favorite chair with explosives.
52	** Alice takes a picture of Bob sitting on a chair and uses it as anti-Bob propaganda, portraying him as so [[LazyBum lazy]] that he has to sit on a chair whenever he gets tired (or as getting tired easily).
53	** Alice uses Bob's penchant for sitting on chairs to sell him an overpriced chair.
54	** The chair is a throne, and sitting on it conveys status.
55	* '''Defied''':
56	** Alice disassembles, pummels, burns, applies high-energy lasers to, and [[NukeEm nukes]] every chair she sees.
57	** Bob refuses to sit on a chair.
58	* '''Discussed''': "Imagine if someone sat on this chair, which is an activity for which chairs are used.”
59	* '''Conversed''':
60	** "Why does Bob always sit around on that chair in this show?”
61	** "You know, the fact that Bob spends so much time in this show sitting on a chair might be a clever metaphor used by the creators to demonstrate that Bob is constantly staying in one place when he should be moving forward in life. Him constantly returning to the same chair represents that the illusion of motion Bob experiences is actually him always going back to the exact same spot, cycling without progress."
62	* '''Implied''':
63	** Bob’s house is full of chairs.
64	** Alice walks into a house with a bucket of red paint. She leaves with an empty bucket. Bob enters the house, saying, "Well, I sure hope there is a chair inside of this house on which I may sit!". Bob leaves the house, with red paint covering his entire rear.
65	* '''Deconstructed''': Sitting on a chair after intense exercise, Bob feels lightheaded due to his blood pressure dropping.
66	* '''Reconstructed''': Bob flexes his muscles to return his blood pressure to a high enough level so that he doesn't faint.
67	* '''Played for Laughs''': Bob, as TheChewToy, sits on a chair that launches him into the stratosphere, complete with [[ImpactSilhouette Impact Silhouettes]] through the clouds.
68	* '''Played for Drama''':
69	** Bob is forced to sit on a chair due to his health having deteriorated to the point where he can barely stand.
70	** Bob accidentally sits on a beetle on the chair. The beetle, fatally injured, bemoans that it will never see its wife and children ever again before expiring.
71	* '''Played for Horror''': Bob sits on a giant chair that eats him. Again.
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