Basic Trope: A character who is kicked out of a place returns wearing a bad disguise to get back in.
- Straight: Spencer gets kicked out of Mary's house party for being annoying and eating all the food. He tries to get back in, wearing a top hat and a fake mustache.
- Exaggerated: After Spencer is kicked out, he simply turns his shirt backwards and then claims to be someone else.
- Downplayed: Spencer asks if he can get back in, and modifies his voice slightly in hopes that the partygoers won't overhear and recognize him.
- Justified: Spencer believes he's a master of disguise.
- Inverted:
- Spencer thinks Mary's party is boring, but doesn't want to say it to her face. He pretends to be a rude, inconsiderate party guest to get kicked out.
- It's a costume party, where Spencer tries removing his disguise to get back in.
- Subverted: Spencer declares his plans to get back into the party. We see a montage of him crafting a very complicated costume, which makes him look like a different person.
- Double Subverted: He leaves the costume at home and simply wears a pair of fake glasses when he's approaching Mary's house.
- Parodied:
- The partygoers consist of people who have been kicked out of Mary's previous parties; they just slightly disguised themselves to get back in.
- It turns out that what looks like Spencer in a bad disguise is actually a completely separate person.
- Undisguised, Spencer claims that he's just Spencer's friend, "Recneps". Mary lets him in.
- Zig-Zagged: Spencer is kicked out of various parties. Sometimes he gets back in without a disguise, sometimes he needs one, and other times he isn't let back in.
- Averted: After Spencer is kicked out, he gives up on trying to get back in.
- Enforced: The show's budget is running low, so they don't have the money to give Spencer a convincing disguise to get back in.
- Lampshaded: Mary says, "I can still tell it's you, Spencer. That's a really obvious disguise."
- Invoked: One of Spencer's friends advises him to try putting on a disguise to get back in.
- Exploited: Spencer's friends know that he will come back with a disguise, so they put a sign that disallows disguises.
- Defied: As Spencer leaves, Mary says, "And don't try that cheap disguise trick on me!"
- Discussed: Spencer: "I bet I can put on an easy disguise to get back in!"
- Conversed: "Cartoon characters always seem to fall for the Paper-Thin Disguise trick. I'm surprised this one didn't."
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