Line #11 PlayingWith/PhraseCatcher

Context PlayingWith / PhraseCatcher

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1	'''Basic Trope''': Characters say something when another character is present.
2	* '''Straight''': When Alice, who is TheAce, is around, other people say "Yowsah, yowsah, yowsah!"
3	* '''Exaggerated''': "Yowsah, yowsah, yowsah" is the ''only'' thing people say to Alice.
4	* '''Downplayed''': The characters say "Yowsah, yowsah, yowsah" whenever they are impressed and Alice impresses them the most, or [[CharacterCatchphrase only Bob says]] "Yowsah, yowsah, yowsah" when Alice is around.
5	* '''Justified''': They are impressed by Alice, because, well, she's impressive.
6	* '''Inverted''':
7	** The characters stop talking when Alice is around.
8	** Alice has a CharacterCatchphrase.
9	** The characters say something when Alice is ''not'' around.
10	** The characters make sure not to say something when Alice isn't around.
11	* '''Subverted''': The characters stop saying "Yowsah, yowsah, yowsah" when Alice is around after the first time.
12	* '''Double Subverted''': But then start again.
13	* '''Parodied''': In addition to the people exclaiming the phrase, the animals make noises and it is subtitled "Yowsah, yowsah, yowsah" when Alice is around.
14	* '''Zig Zagged''': Some characters say "Yowsah" when Alice is around and others don't.
15	* '''Averted''': There are no phrases associated with characters, or there is no dialogue.
16	* '''Enforced''': "We need a memetic phrase to spread the word about our show!"
17	* '''Invoked''': A wizard can't do proper curses yet so he "curses" everyone to say a certain phrase whenever someone in particular is around.
18	* '''Lampshaded''': "Yowsah, yowsah... why do we always say that when Alice is around?"
19	* '''Exploited''': To preserve the element of surprise, Bob had people say, "Yowsah, yowsah, yowsah", to notify him that Alice is coming.
20	* '''Defied''':
21	** Characters make sure not to talk when Alice is present.
22	** [[SitcomArchNemesis Jim]] very deliberately says another word like "Yeesh!" (and varying them, too, else he turns that term into another reflexive catch phrase) when everybody else uses 'yowsah, yowsah, yowsah'.
23	** "I want to make clear that the next guy to use the word 'yowsah' is gonna lose teeth! Now... let's talk about Alice's...! [[NotHyperbole What did I said?!?!]]"
24	* '''Discussed''': "Why do we always say 'yowsah yowsah yowsah' when Alice is around, like she's some sort of TV character?"
25	* '''Conversed''': "Why do these characters always say that when that one is present?"
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27	Yowsah, yowsah, yowsah! It's a link back to PhraseCatcher!
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Context PlayingWith / PhraseCatcher