Line #5 PlayingWith/ShapedLikeWhatItSells

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1	'''Basic Trope''': The easiest way to know what a store sells is by looking at the appearance of it.
2	* '''Straight''': A pizza restaurant has a billboard shaped like a giant pizza.
3	* '''Exaggerated''':
4	** A convenience store has pictures of everything they sell painted on the walls and sculpted on the billboard. They even have statues of groceries.
5	** The entire building is shaped like pizza.
6	* '''Downplayed''': A bakery has a small board with the picture of a loaf of bread on it.
7	* '''Justified''': The clientèle is mostly illiterate.
8	* '''Inverted''': A restaurant shaped like a giant pizza... sells seafood. They couldn't afford to renovate what the previous owner had done.
9	* '''Subverted''':
10	** The owners planned to make a billboard of what they sell, but they decided it would cost too much money, and it would be cheaper to send brochures.
11	** The building resembles a product that isn't offered there.
12	* '''Double Subverted''':
13	** Then again, they did have more than enough money to send brochures and make a billboard.
14	** But later, they start selling the item the building resembles due to popular demand.
15	* '''Parodied''':
16	** A running gag has everything shaped like what it sells. This results in incredibly impractical buildings like a needle shaped sewing store that is only two feet wide and sixty feet deep.
17	** A novelty restaurant goes out of business, and the new one that takes over the site has to bankrupt itself renovating the facade to resemble what they sell.
18	* '''Zig Zagged''': ???
19	* '''Averted''': The store isn't shaped like what it sells at all, just a regular building.
20	* '''Enforced''': The creators want the kind of businesses that operate in town to be immediately obvious from a shot of the street.
21	* '''Lampshaded''': ???
22	* '''Invoked''': The manager thinks the sight of a pizza will make people want a pizza.
23	* '''Exploited''': ???
24	* '''Defied''': "I'm not making my restaurant look like a giant pizza, I want this to be a classy Italian restaurant, not some novelty shop!"
25	* '''Discussed''': "Why do we always seem to find a place, any place shaped like anything they sell every five kilometers?"
26	* '''Conversed''': [[CaptainObvious "That restaurant Alice is going to sure looks like a pizza. It must be a pizza restaurant!"]]
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32	%%* '''Implied''': ???
33	%%* '''Deconstructed''': ???
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35	%%* '''Plotted A Good Waste''': ???
36	%%* '''Played For Laughs''': ???

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