Basic Trope: Any scenes set in Hawaii focus only on its idyllic aspects, such as beaches, luaus, surfing, and attractive hula girls.
- Straight: Bob spends an entire Story Arc in Hawaii. He only ever seems to spend time on the beach or in lavish resort areas, and he only ever wears Hawaiian shirts. Dancing hula girls, always clad in coconut bras and grass skirts, appear as Fanservice Extras in several scenes.
- Exaggerated:
- Hawaii is depicted as a sort of island Utopia, free from crime, pollution, and disease.
- Bob and his colleagues commute to and from their job (professional luau planners) by surfing.
- The only beverages Bob will drink are pina coladas, out of novelty cups shaped like tiki statues.
- There is now a hula girl main character, that appears in every scene accompanying Bob. She has large breasts and an impeccable hourglass figure, and she only ever wears a skimpy coconut bra and grass skirt, even at formal business meetings and funerals. She has a rare genetic condition where she lactates coconut milk. It seems like her only purpose in the plot is to distract badguys or extract favors from side characters by flashing them, hula dancing topless for them, or allowing them to suck on her breasts.
- In one such scene, we see her from behind as two unseen characters enjoy her genetic condition, and she complains to Bob that she feels like she's just a sex object. Bob stands up from her front, wipes the milk mustache off his mouth, and assures her that's never been true.
- Downplayed: Bob spends part of the Hawaii arc on the beach, but otherwise spends his time in the cities, downtowns, or other urban areas.
- Justified:
- Bob works for one of the major resorts.
- Bob won the lottery, and can afford to spend as much time as he wants in the most beautiful areas.
- Inverted: The arc spends almost all of its time in urban areas of Hawaii, and Bob sees firsthand that Hawaii has deep-seated issues of economic inequality.
- Gender-Inverted: Alice takes the trip to Hawaii, and the ubiquitous hula girls are replaced by extremely fit, male hula dancers.
- Subverted: Bob can't swim, so he stays away from the beaches.
- Double Subverted: The resort has indoor luaus, around the clock.
- Parodied: Bob's boss warns him that this Hawaii trip is going to be nothing but hula and luaus, so he should bring some sunblock. When Bob arrives at his accommodations, it's a dumpy motel far away from the beaches, named "Hula and Luaus."
- Zig-Zagged: Bob occasionally visits other areas of Hawaii, where non-luau plot is allowed to occur in short bursts. But in between those scenes, Bob's back on the beach or surfing the waves.
- Averted: At the last minute, Bob cancels his flight to Hawaii.
- Enforced: "We need Fanservice while Bob travels. How about a place where there's a flimsy excuse to have scantily clad women around all the time?"
- Lampshaded: "Hawaii sure is nice, isn't it? Feels like it's literally just luaus and hula girls, 24-7. I wonder if they have notaries or tax specialists."
- Invoked: By keeping Bob in the resort area, crime boss Evulz keeps Bob thinking that Hawaii is just luaus and hula dancers all the time, so then Evulz can launch his criminal operations from literally any other part of Hawaii.
- Exploited: As Bob flees the police at a large luau, he needs a distraction, and recalls that dancing hula girls are conveniently located every twenty feet. He jumps on top of the luau stage and runs past the bustiest, bounciest hula girl that he can find, then grabs the string holding up her coconut bra. The hula girl manages to awkwardly catch it in place, but the cops storm in and demand that everyone put their hands up. She complies with a shriek as her coconut bra clatters to the stage, and the luau audience bursts into a chorus of gasps, oohs and aahs, and wolf-whistles, while the police tell the hula girl to keep her hands up for, uh, um, security reasons. Bob escapes into the night.
- Defied: One of Bob's friends tells him that he should go to Hawaii, it's just luaus and hula dancers. Bob replies that Hawaii actually has a considerable number of its own problems, and what his friend is describing is just the part designed for tourists.
- Discussed: "Wow, there's so much surfing to be done! Let me finish my pina colada, first."
- Conversed: "So Bob's in Hawaii now, and they just make it look like luaus all the time." "More of a tourism video than anything else."
- Implied: After returning from Hawaii, a friend asks Bob how his trip was. Bob replies that it was okay, but he could have done with less surfing and pina coladas.
- Deconstructed:
- Hawaii's economy begins to collapse, as the citizens do nothing but surf and have luaus all the time.
- Professional hula dancing work becomes hard to find, as some absurd percentage of the population are trained hula dancers.
- Reconstructed:
- With the economy in shambles and companies going out of business, it becomes increasingly true that there's nothing to do all day but surf and have even more luaus, in a tragic luauboros of self-annihilation.
- Out-of-work hula dancers busk at airports, malls, restaurants, and beaches, thus contributing even more to the idea that Hawaii has hula dancers everywhere.
- Played for Laughs:
- The luau personnel have job titles with official-sounding names, like luau administrator, director of luau marketing, and chief luau R&D specialist.
- A young Hawaiian boy tells his parents he wants to grow up and become a tax specialist. The father angrily throws his pina colada across the table, and angrily reminds his son that this is a luau family.
- Bob infiltrates a hospital by stealing a real doctor's credentials, and is then pulled aside by nurses who tell him today is the appointment for the big group physical. Bob tries to make up some excuse to get out of it, until he meets the patients; it turns out the physical is for the women's hula championship team. Bob pulls the curtain closed as the team members doff their coconut bras all at once. While other plot occurs just outside the area, the audience sees (via Sexy Silhouette) that Bob is rigorous in checking them for breast cancer, premature lactation, and vaginal health. Following the exam, Bob exits the area covered in Lipstick Marks, and the nurse commends him for his diligence.
- Played for Drama: Bob discovers the constant luaus and hula performances are actually rituals to keep a long-dormant evil deity in slumber, and the deity will cause untold destruction if allowed to awaken.
Surf on over back to Hula and Luaus, and grab your free lei!
