Basic Trope: Ordering milk at a bar.
- Straight: Alice goes into Bob's Bar and says to Bob, the bartender, "One milk please."
- Exaggerated: A whole crowd of people order milk at Bob's Bar.
- Downplayed: ???
- Justified:
- Alice doesn't drink.
- Alice is with friends, and they chose her to be the designated driver.
- Alice is pregnant and believes that One Drink Will Kill the Baby.
- Alice is under the legal drinking age and is there with her parents, Charles and Diane.
- Inverted:
- Alice is a baby, who drinks alcohol out of her bottle.
- Alice drinks warm vodka instead of warm milk to get to sleep.
- Alice asks for a cocktail at an ice cream parlor.
- Subverted:
- It turns out that Bob serves a certain type of cocktail and calls it "milk" for some reason.
- Alice asks for milk; Bob obliges.
- Alice is lactose intolerant, so she orders a non-alcoholic drink or just water.
- Double Subverted:
- But when he serves it to Alice, she clarifies that she meant actual milk.
- The milk that was served is non-dairy.
- Alice finds non-dairy milk on the menu, so she orders one
- Parodied: Alice ends up getting Drunk on Milk, literally.
- Zigzagged:
- Averted: Alice orders beer.
- Enforced: Alice initially ordered alcohol, but later it was censored into milk.
- Invoked:
- Exploited: Alice's friends always pick her as the designated driver as she prefers milk to alcohol anyway.
- Defied: Alice considers ordering milk, but ultimately goes for beer instead.
- Discussed: "What do I order? Beer? Milk? Wine?"
- Conversed: "Does that 'Alice' character not drink? She orders milk in the bar!"
- Implied:
- Deconstructed:
- Reconstructed:
- Played for Laughs: Alice ordering milk at a bar is part of a Running Gag about how she's ludicrously straight-laced.
- Played for Drama: Alice avoids drinking alcohol because she doesn't want to end up like her mother.
- Played for Horror: Alice is being possessed by a demon, and one of the early signs is going from a Hard-Drinking Party Girl to ordering milk in a bar.
Back to Lactose over Liquor.
