Basic Trope: A character wants something but is made to experience it excessively to the point of not wanting it anymore.
- Straight: Alice likes cupcakes, but Bob makes it so that she can only eat cupcakes. Eventually, Alice grows bored of cupcakes and misses eating other foods and so she begs Bob to let her eat other food.
- Exaggerated: Alice gets so bored of cupcakes that they go from her Trademark Favorite Food to her least-favorite food permanently.
- Downplayed:
- Alice doesn't grow bored of cupcakes, but she does miss other food. She doesn't stop liking them either, but she does become less obsessed with them.
- Bob doesn't make Alice only eat cupcakes, but tells her to imagine what it would be like if she only ate cupcakes.
- Justified: Alice never really wanted only cupcakes, and getting bored of something if there's no variety is pretty feasible. Bob did it because he was mean and/or it was the only way he could think of to stop her annoying him for cupcakes.
- Inverted: Alice doesn't like cupcakes, so Bob uses Reverse Psychology on her to make her want them.
- Subverted: Alice doesn't get bored of cupcakes.
- Double Subverted:
- Not getting bored of them means she goes too long eating nothing but cupcakes, which causes her nutrition to suffer and her to learn her lesson.
- She eventually does.
- Parodied: The lesson Alice learns is to not trust Bob, rather than not to eat too many cupcakes.
- Zig Zagged: Bob decides to only let Alice eat cupcakes, but she doesn't get bored of them. Then, she seems to be having trouble with her nourishment but it turns out she was only faking, then she does miss other foods and starts eating them again, but she doesn't stop bothering Bob for cupcakes.
- Averted:
- Bob does not give Alice only cupcakes.
- Alice could eat all of the cupcakes in the world, every single day for as long as she lived, and she would never get fed up with them.
- Enforced: Executive Meddling advices the writers that Alice's love of cupcakes plus kids loving her means that there is a trackable worsening in kids' nutrition, so they ask the writers to write a story where Alice gets fed up with having cupcakes all the time and will seek other kinds of food. So the writers decide to give this Running Gag its glorious last hoorah by having Alice eating nothing but cupcakes for a month straight and getting violently sick of them.
- Lampshaded: "I never said I wanted only cupcakes!"
- Invoked: "Just give her nothing but cupcakes, she'll get bored of them pretty quick!"
- Exploited: Charlie makes a profit out of Bob buying his cupcakes for Alice.
- Defied:
- "Alice bothering me for cupcakes may be annoying but I don't want to make her stop liking them."
- "Better not bother Bob for cupcakes too much or he might try to make me stop liking them and I don't want that."
- "More! MORE!! MORE!!!"note
- Discussed: "Alice keeps bothering me for cupcakes. Should I make her eat only them in hopes she'll get bored of it or would that be too much risk of her getting sick?"
- Conversed: "Not the 'they-stop-liking-something-because-they-had-too-much-of-it' plot again!"
- Implied: We never see Alice declaring herself to be bored of cupcakes but we never see her eating them after that episode.
- Deconstructed:
- Alice's nutrition suffers.
- Feeding Alice's addiction only makes her even more addicted. Or worse yet, it causes her to be addicted to begin with.
- Alice's parents become loathed by her fellows once they disclose that they tried this on their little girl, being seen as an act of cruelty.
- Alice never changes her ways and for one month she lived her dream life. Overall this was only a big waste and Heaven only knows what this will bring in the long term.
- Reconstructed: It seems like Alice's nutrition will suffer, but she grows bored of cupcakes before that point.
- Played for Laughs: This trick works... for about six seconds.
- Played for Drama: Alice gets really ill and Bob regrets what he did.
- Played for Horror:
- Alice is forced to endure this torture even long past the point she (or any other sane person) wishes to call it quits.
- Alice's health deteriorates in very graphic detail, as we see a little girl taking a quick ride down the path to becoming a diabetic.
- Alice not only refuses to stop her addiction, she escalates in methods to keep it fed. After a month of living her dream life, she threatens to hurt her parents if they think of stopping.
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