History PlayingWith / DuctTapeForEverything

* '''Exploited''': One person has [[AbsurdPhobia a fear of duct tape]], so another person calls Bob to scare him.

* '''Played For Laughs''':

* '''Played For Drama''': Someone is seriously injured due to the duct tape's misuse.
* '''Played For Horror''': Bob accidentally puts duct tape on a person. He rips the tape off, resulting in {{Gorn}} and {{Squick}}.

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** And then uses duct tape to fix the pipe and charges Bob an arm and a leg.

* '''Reconstructed''': But somehow, it holds together for hours, days, weeks, months, years, and Bob has more time to do things he wants to do.

* '''Zig Zagged''': ???

* '''Inverted''': Bob patches a strip of duct tape with a pipe.

* '''Averted''': Bob calls the plumber, or fixes the leak using something other than duct tape.

* '''Defied''': Bob feels that this job is a little too big of a fix for duct tape and either does ''actual repairs'' or calls the plumber.

* '''Deconstructed''': Duct tape is meant to be a temporary solution. A few days later, everything is broken again, and someone is seriously injured as a result.

* '''Played For Drama''': A hostage is duct taped to a chair.

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* '''Deconstructed''': Duct tape is meant to be a temporary solution.

* '''Invoked''': Alice asks Bob to fix the leaky pipe, but Bob just wants to watch the game on TV. So he wraps tape around the pipe and calls it good.* '''Exploited''': ???

'''Basic Trope''': Objects are conspicuously held together with duct tape.
* '''Played Straight''': Bob seals a leak around a pipe with duct tape.

* '''Inverted''': Bob patches a strip of duct tape with a pipe.
* '''Justified''': Bob is lazy.
** Bob [[DoomItYourself doesn't have much handyman's skill]] and [[WhenAllYouHaveIsAHammer the only tool he really has is duct tape]].

** Bob considers using duct tape... but ends up calling the plumber, who comes over right away.

* '''Double Subverted''': Tomorrow. Today, he's much too busy, so he takes 5 seconds and wraps a length of duct tape over it.
** And then uses duct tape to fix the pipe and charges Bob an arm and a leg.
* '''Deconstructed''': Duct tape is meant to be a temporary solution.
* '''Reconstructed''': But somehow, it holds together for hours, days, weeks, months, years, and Bob has more time to do things he wants to do.

** Duct tape is actually Bob's superpower!
* '''Lampshaded''': "If it ain't broke, don't fix it. If it ''is'' broke, just put some duct tape on it!"

* '''Invoked''': Alice asks Bob to fix the leaky pipe, but Bob just wants to watch the game on TV. So he wraps tape around the pipe and calls it good.

--->"Three hundred dollars?! For a tape job?! I coulda done that myself practically for free!"
* '''Played For Drama''': A hostage is duct taped to a chair.

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* '''Basic Trope''': Objects are conspicuously held together with duct tape.

* '''Exaggerated''': Most of the items in Bob's house are held together with duct tape.

* '''Inverted''' Bob patches a strip of duct tape with a pipe.
** Alternatively, Bob does ''actual'' repairs (you know, the kind that involve more elbow-grease than ripping duct tape off the roll.)
** Or, Bob's duct tape is horribly useless, and always falls apart, requiring it to be glued together.

* '''Subverted''': Bob notices the leaky pipe and considers using duct tape... but then sets out to fix it properly.

* '''Parodied''': The house, Bob's clothes, in fact pretty much everything in town is held together with (or outright ''made of'') duct tape.

* '''Played For Laughs''': It's part of a DoomItYourself project of some sort.

** The situation needs a temporary quick-fix, as there's no time to do an actual repair.

* '''Subverted''': Bob notices the leaky pipe and sets out to fix it or to call a plumber.
** Bob actually does call the plumber, who comes over right away.

* '''Inverted''': Bob seals a leaky pipe with...[[BeyondTheImpossible scotch tape]]

* '''Conversed''': "Well, almost everything..."

** duct tape is very useful, and if it isn't involved with water then duct tape can be a VERY good fix for cracks or broken parts. It may just be better to work over the item with duct tape than to try something else.

-->"Three hundred dollars?! For a tape job?! I coulda done that myself practically for free!"

** Alternatively, Bob does ''actual'' repairs (you know, the kind that involve more elbow-grease than ripping duct tape off the roll.)