Basic Trope: Going to your fridge for food when you should be asleep.
- Straight: Spencer wakes up at midnight, goes downstairs, and checks the fridge to find some food.
- Exaggerated: Spencer wakes up at 3 AM and makes himself a full three-course meal.
- Downplayed: Spencer's about to go to bed, but decides to get something quick to eat first.
- Justified:
- Spencer's hungry and doesn't want to wait until morning.
- Spencer is some kind of alien who regularly needs food, or else he'll die; it doesn't matter how late it is, he needs to eat.
- Inverted:
- The first thing Spencer does after he wakes up is check his fridge for a snack.
- At midnight, the monsters in Spencer's fridge go and eat him.
- Subverted: Spencer goes to the fridge in the middle of the night, but doesn't eat anything and goes back to bed.
- Double Subverted: He wakes up just 30 minutes later and does get something to eat.
- Parodied: Spencer keeps a fridge at arm's reach from his bed.
- Averted: Spencer doesn't eat anything late at night.
- Lampshaded: "12 AM! Perfect time for a snack!"
- Invoked: Spencer gets convinced by a fake news source that food is most nutritious if it's eaten at midnight, and he believes it.
- Defied: Spencer has an important operation the next day. The doctor tells him that he can't eat anything after midnight.
- Discussed: "I couldn't sleep last night, so I went and got something to eat."
- Conversed: "I wonder if food in their universe just tastes better if you eat it when you're supposed to be sleeping?"
- Played for Laughs: Spencer the Big Eater regularly sleepwalks and eats food in the middle of the night.
(yawn) Mmm, 2 AM... I wonder if there's any food at Midnight Snack...
