Basic Trope: Breaking a lull in the plot with a spontaneously chaotic event.
- Straight: Alice and Bob are at a fancy but uneventful party when Chandler breaks down the door, brandishing a gun.
- Exaggerated: Chandler showing up wielding a gun is a Once per Episode occurrence, determined to stop even the slightest quiet time in the plot.
- Downplayed: The fancy party is interrupted by Daniel suddenly proposing to Alice, who was more interested in Bob than him, causing more down-to-earth drama.
- Justified: Chandler understands the value of the element of surprise.
- Subverted: Chandler busts down the party door with a gun, saying "THIS IS A STICKUP! I'M GOING TO STEAL ALL OF THAT DELICIOUS CAKE!" and everybody laughs it off.
- Double Subverted: ...And then Eliza storms in, starting a real stickup.
- Parodied: Chandler, Eliza, Frederick, Gracie, Harold, and Irene all bust into a room from a different angle, guns a-blazing, each trying to individually hold up the place.
- Zig-Zagged: ?
- Averted: There are no surprise bursts of drama in the plot.
- Enforced: "People will get bored if there's nothing exciting happening!"
- Lampshaded: "Wow, Chandler, how original. Bursting through the door like it's a movie."
- Invoked: Chandler is an Attention Whore and wants to be make a name for himself in the criminal underworld by having a dramatic heist.
- Exploited: ?
- Defied: A Genre Savvy character tries to prevent a trope from happening.
- Discussed: "You know, I heard that in improv comedy circles, they really don't like it when you pretend to bust down the door with a gun..."
- Conversed: "I love the novels of Raymond Chandler, but he does tend to overuse the trope of people randomly pulling out guns for drama..."
- Implied: ?
- Deconstructed: This is Chandler's MO and he's so infamous for it, that he gets captured by party goers expecting something dramatic to happen during a quiet moment.
- Reconstructed: ?
- Played for Laughs: Chandler breaks down the door wielding a banana like a gun.
- Played for Drama: Chandler's gunplay at the once-pleasant party turns into a bloodbath.
