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Basic Trope: A museum dedicated to something boring.

  • Straight: Peter doesn't like going to the Neon City Stamp Museum.
  • Exaggerated: The subject of the museum is so impossibly boring that you wonder why it was ever built.
  • Downplayed: The museum is about a subject that most people are neutral about.
  • Inverted: Peter likes going to the Museum of Motorcycles and Cool Cars.
  • Subverted: Peter thinks he's going to hate the Stamp Museum, but then he finds some cool exhibits.
  • Double Subverted: They're not open yet, so he has to look at the stamps.
  • Parodied: It's a literal Museum of Boredom, listing some of the most boring things in history.
  • Zig-Zagged: Peter's parents are stamp enthusiasts, so they find it interesting, while Peter doesn't.
  • Averted:
    • The museum specializes in something interesting.
    • There is no museum.
  • Enforced: "Wouldn't it be funny if Peter's class was going on a trip to a museum, and it was for something like paperclips or boxes?"
  • Lampshaded: "Who would even want to visit a stamp museum? That's so boring!"
  • Exploited: The museum is actually a front for one of Damien's evil plans; he disguised it as something nobody would want to visit so they won't interrupt him.
  • Defied: The museum tries to cater to a variety of topics so there's something for everyone.
  • Conversed: "Only in a cartoon would you see a Plain White Rock Museum."

Okay, everybody, single file, now let's continue our tour of the Museum of Boredom with a look at the history of tofu...

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