Basic Trope: Non-anthropomorphic animals that take on human jobs.
- Straight: Bob's office hires a monkey as an employee.
- Exaggerated:
- Bob's office may as well be a zoo - all of the employees are animals.
- Bob is the Token Human.
- Downplayed:
- The monkey that works at Bob's office is actually pretty good at his job, to the point in which the fact that he's a monkey rarely ever comes up.
- A Half-Human Hybrid who is part monkey works at Bob's office.
- A guy in a monkey suit works at Bob's office. Aside from his odd attire choice, he's a decent employee.
- Justified:
- Bob had nobody else to hire.
- Bob is a Bunny-Ears Lawyer or Cloud Cuckoolander.
- The monkey Bob hires is actually very competent.
- Bob is running an experiment based on the infinite monkeys theorem.
- Inverted: Humans are hired to do animal's jobs, such as service dogs.
- Subverted: The "monkey" was actually just someone in a disguise, or a very hairy-looking human.
- Double Subverted:
- After the monkey removes his disguise, he is actually a gorilla.
- Later, a lemur is hired at the office.
- Parodied: The only thing the monkey ever does is make messes, and is still the best employee.
- Zig-Zagged: ???
- Averted: No non-anthropomorphic animals work at human jobs.
- Enforced: Rule of Funny
- Lampshaded: "My — my coworker is a monkey. Doesn't anyone else find this weird?"
- Invoked: Bob told Aaron, his most incompetent employee, that a monkey could do a better job than him. Aaron asked Bob to prove it.
- Exploited: The company manages to avoid bankruptcy by claiming that their monkey employee means they technically qualify as a wildlife preserve and thus deserve funding for this.
- Defied: "This isn't a zoo!"
- Discussed: ???
- Conversed: "Why do they have a monkey in this office?"
- Implied: Aaron brings up the time his boss hired a monkey.
- Deconstructed: An office isn't a suitable place for a monkey. The monkey makes messes, attacks employees, and/or is uncomfortable with the stress of the job.
- Played for Drama: Bob is genuinely upset that he's considered no better than a monkey.
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