Basic Trope: An enormous SUV that rarely, if ever, goes off-road.
- Straight: Bob's Dummer Inquisitor is 20 feet long, gets 6 miles per gallon, and weighs 7 tons... and he never takes it off-road.
- Exaggerated: Bob's Dummer Grand High Inquisitor XL is 50 feet long, gets 1 mile per gallon, and weighs 40 tons... and he only even drives the thing on special occasions, let alone outside of his small suburban town.
- Downplayed: Bob owns a Dummer Inquisitor Rally that he takes off-road on weekends, is 17 feet long, gets 14 miles per gallon, and weighs 4 tons.
- Justified: Bob is a hunter, explorer, or some other profession or hobby that requires a 4x4.
- Inverted: Bob drives a Starline Roadster that he almost exclusively off-roads in. It's only 10 feet in length, weighs in at 1,500 pounds, and gets a whopping 100 miles per gallon.
- Subverted: It's eventually revealed that Bob didn't just buy the Dummer as a status symbol; he actually needs it for off-road work.
- Double Subverted: Bob just said that so others wouldn't make fun of him for having bought it.
- Parodied: Alice the Soccer Mom drives an APC.
- Zig-Zagged: ???
- Averted:
- No one drives an SUV.
- Most people drive an SUV off-road or rallying.
- Enforced:
- The episode was sponsored by the Dummer corporation.
- The episode was sponsored by one of the Dummer corporation's competitors, which wanted to make their rival look bad by portraying their cars as lumbering, inefficient behemoths.
- Lampshaded: "Is that a car or an aircraft carrier?"
- Invoked: ???
- Exploited: ???
- Defied: Bob's friend comes to the dealership with him, and convinces him to buy a more compact, fuel-efficient car.
- Discussed: "Why did Bob feel the need to buy that gigantic SUV? Obviously, he's Compensating for Something."
- Conversed: "I wonder if any car that big could ever exist in the real world."
- Deconstructed: The car is extremely polluting, is near-impossible to park, high fuel and maintenance prices plus being a guzzler and constantly needing to go to the shop equals it being a money sink, and people think Bob is compensating for something.
- Reconstructed: The show is set in the early 2000s, where giant SUVs were seen as status symbols, so Bob is still fairly respected.
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