Basic Trope: A non-lethal prank that is still considered to have crossed a line for whatever reason.
- Straight: Alan dumps a bucket of water on Betty's head, causing her to get mad and tell him "Dude, Not Funny!"
- Exaggerated:
- Alan dumps a bucket of water on Betty's head, causing Betty to fly into an Unstoppable Rage and give Alan a No-Holds-Barred Beatdown.
- Everyone finds that Alan's prank was much too far.
- Downplayed: Betty isn't necessarily outraged by the prank, but doesn't find it amusing and tells Alan not to do it again.
- Justified:
- While the prank wasn't lethal, it could've potentially been.
- Betty got her new clothes wet, and possibly damaged them (or something on her, like her phone) in the process.
- The prank set off Betty's Trauma Button.
- Or worse, it brings her back to those days and into survival mode, better stay out of the way until the episode has abated.
- Inverted: Betty finds the prank Actually Pretty Funny.
- Subverted: "Alan, you've dumped water on my head and replaced my hand soap with ketchup... but you also made me laugh quite a lot."
- Double Subverted: "...Still, you really pissed off Charlotte, so you should go apologize to her."
- Parodied: ???
- Zig-Zagged: ???
- Averted: No pranks are considered to have gone too far.
- Enforced:
- Alan was getting to be The Scrappy because of how infrequently he ever gets punished for his actions, so the producers wanted to acknowledge that and give him some comeuppance.
- To discourage the audience from playing pranks on others.
- Lampshaded: ???
- Invoked: ???
- Exploited: ???
- Defied:
- Alan absolutely refuses to do the prank.
- Alan decides on a prank that is 100% non-harmful to Betty in any way, shape or form (such as making the "is your refrigerator running? Go get it!" joke).
- Discussed: ???
- Conversed: ???
Alan: Back to Prank Gone Too Far!
Betty: Dude, Not Funny! - here's the real link to the main page.
