Line #22 PlayingWith/TheyWastedAPerfectlyGoodSandwich


1	'''Basic Trope''': A character orders food, which they then walk away from without eating.
2	* '''Straight''': AliceAndBob are in a restaurant. Little sooner has Bob's delicious sandwich arrived than the plot demands that they leave.
3	* '''Exaggerated''':
4	** There is a RunningGag that every time Bob is handed an item of food, he's called away urgently and throws it in the trash.
5	** Bob spends a lot of time perusing the menu and ordering a full three-course meal at [[ChezRestaurant the fanciest restaurant in town]]. He leaves before he can eat anything.
6	* '''Downplayed''': Bob orders small fries but has to run out when he's only had a few.
7	* '''Justified''':
8	** Bob has an eating disorder and hides it by arranging to eat in public and being called away "unexpectedly".
9	** The interruption was very important.
10	** The guy at table 7 also ordered the special and [[Film/AlieN again]] had an [[Film/SpaceBalls alien burst out of his chest]], that'll definitely ruin your appetite
11	* '''Inverted''':
12	** The sandwich sprouts legs and forgets Bob to go on an adventure in a shocking BigLippedAlligatorMoment ... or turns out to be a MacGuffin that Alice and Bob can ''never'' forget.
13	** The FiveManBand order something so they can enter the restaurant while waiting for a contact to arrive, and when nothing happens, they eat what they've ordered. Just after, the contact arrives.
14	** DineAndDash.
15	* '''Subverted''':
16	** Bob turns around and grabs the sandwich as he's leaving.
17	** "Bugger off, I'm on lunch."
18	** The characters have their plot-relevant conversation over plates of untouched food. Eventually, Bob smiles and says, "Anyway, enough business. Our food is getting cold here!" They tuck in, and the camera cuts away.
19	* '''Double Subverted''': Bob grabs the sandwich as he's leaving, only to [[WalkAndTalk walk down the street talking to Alice]], his sandwich ignored in his hand.
20	* '''Parodied''': Bob keeps going to take a bite of his sandwich, but each time, someone interrupts him with a question. He gets increasingly frustrated, especially since nobody else is eating their own food.
21	* '''Zig-Zagged''': Bob orders a sandwich, but some plot happens outside and he runs out before the sandwich is given to him. The plot is quickly resolved, though, so he walks back in and gets his sandwich. As he sits down, Alice walks in, and the two have an extended conversation, without Bob ever touching his sandwich. Finally, the conversation dies down. Bob is about to take a bite out of his sandwich, until more plot happens outside. Alice and Bob run out, but Bob takes his sandwich with him. Later that evening, he walks into his house, plops a paper bag on the table and sits down -- he still has it with him. He takes a bite ... "Goddamnit, I said no mayo."
22	* '''Averted''': Alice and Bob have a conversation in a restaurant, eating as they chat, like normal people.
23	* '''Enforced''': They're filming the conversation from three different angles and the actors keep flubbing their lines, so they're told not to eat anything to make it easier to shoot and edit the scene.
24	* '''Lampshaded''':
25	** "It's not like I'm going to be forced to drop everything to go on some epic quest." Bob bites into sandwich, and epic quest ensues.
26	** Charlie, the diner's owner, sees Bob running out and comments, "Again? Must be something important," and asks his staff to preserve it for when he returns.
27	** As Alice and Bob walk out the door, [[FelonyMisdemeanor the camera zooms in on the sandwich and sad music plays as Bob walks out in the background]].
28	* '''Invoked''': "Something happens whenever I buy a sandwich. I am bored, so I will purchase a sandwich."
29	* '''Exploited''': Charlie is trying to help Bob lose weight, so he bombards him with Plot to get him to eat less.
30	* '''Defied''':
31	** Bob politely asks to have the sandwich in a doggy bag, because they have to run to stop the Third Seal from being broken on the Gates of Hell.
32	*** Or basically just order takeaway. Or delivery. Anything's better than eating dine-in and getting interrupted.
33	** The whole FiveManBand orders from a BadGuyBar, and [[TheHero Bob]] insists they finish before leaving.
34	* '''Discussed''':
35	-->'''Bob:''' Whenever we go into one of those places, I end up without my money or my sandwich!
36	-->'''Alice:''' Eat faster.
37	* '''Conversed''': "Why do they always leave perfectly good food behind on this show?"
38	* '''Deconstructed''': Bob is visibly angry during the next scenes because he's hungry and was taken away from his food that was right in front of him (and he ''still'' had to pay for it).
39	* '''Reconstructed''': Alice (who interrupted Bob earlier) invites Bob to lunch and offers to pay for it after they finish this deal.
40	* '''Intended Audience Reaction''': There is a theme of ConspicuousConsumption and the wastefulness of middle-class culture running through the work. If you watch closely, whenever the protagonists leave the restaurant, you can see the waiter in the background clearing away their untouched food with a disgusted expression on his face.
41	* '''Implied''': A fresh sandwich is on a table with chairs out, as if there were people there until very recently.
42	* '''Played for Laughs''': A string of surprisingly good jokes at DinnerTheatre distract Bob from his food.
43	* '''Played for Drama''': Bob comes to starve because the plot always intervenes to keep him from eating.
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