Basic Trope: A tiny deserted island.
- Straight: An island consisting of a couple of feet of sand with a palm tree or two in the center.
- Exaggerated: The said island has an entire tribe living on it, somehow.
- Downplayed: The island isn't so small, but it doesn't have many trees and is tiny in comparison of other islands in its archipelago.
- Justified: There really are tiny islands, and they likely would be uninhabited (unless a castaway did find him/herself unlucky enough to be marooned on one).
- Inverted: A large sprawling continent, heavily populated.
- Subverted: The island in question is actually decently sized, with a jungle and lots of wildlife.
- Double subverted: But it's still uninhabited for one reason or another.
- Parodied: The person(s) on the island have steel drum music, fruity drinks, leis, etc.
- Zig-Zagged: The island seems to be uninhabited, but then the castaway Bob sees somebody, except he imagined them. But the sight of a domesticated animal makes him think there must be people there, except he imagined that as well.
- Averted: No such island, and no castaways attempting to live on one.
- Enforced:
- The artist can only draw islands this way.
- The series is about How to Survive on a Deserted Island.
- Lampshaded: "If you were on a desert island and could only bring one (X), what would you bring?"
- Invoked: A boat crashes on or near one of these.
- Exploited: ???
- Defied: The survivors get into a life raft rather than attempt to live on a tiny island.
- Discussed: "How can they live there?"
- Conversed: "I dunno..."
- Deconstructed: Someone cannot live on what essentially amounts to a sandbar with (at best) a few coconuts for food and no water. Especially not more than one someone.
- Reconstructed: The people on the island have good survival skills, enabling them to live on this tiny island until help arrives.
- Played for Drama: People not getting along, searching for food and potable water, and just generally trying to survive.
- Played for Laughs: People are thrust into unfamiliar situations and end up Laughing Mad.
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