Basic Trope: Someone makes up a fake name, only to find out there is a person with that name.
- Straight: Bob prank calls Alice for someone named Anita Bath. Only it turns out she really knows a woman named, Anita Bath, and she ends up talking with Bob.
- Exaggerated: Every time Bob asks Alice for a fake person with a Punny Name, she just so happens to know someone with that name, like Anita Bath, Oliver Clothsof, Mike Rotch, Sugma Dick, etc.
- Downplayed: Bob asks Alice for Anita Bath. She replies that she knows someone named Anita, but her last name is Smith and she knows no one with the name Anita Bath.
- Justified: Alice has just come back from a foreign country where everyone has Punny Names, and she sure has made a lot of friends there.
- Inverted: Bob wants to meet a man named Charles Dinn and calls Alice for him. Alice says she doesn't know anyone named Charles Dinn, and that is when Bob realizes there was no Charles Dinn all along.
- Subverted:
- Alice knew the name was fake, so she had one of her friends use that name to get back at Bob.
- Bath turns out to be a misreading of B'ath.
- Double Subverted:
- Specifically, her friend, Anita Bath.
- But Anita's full name is actually Anita B'ath Hugh Jass.
- Parodied: Bob asks Alice for Yuar Sosmel Hee Endyu Mustekah Bath. Alice replies all of her sisters have that name and they answer him all at once.
- Zig-Zagged: Bob asks Alice for Anita Bath. She replies she knows her and gets her on the phone. Bob then asks for Oliver Clothsof, and Alice replies she knows no one with that name. He then asks Alice for Charles Dinn, and Alice gets him on the phone. Then Bob asks her for Mike Rotch and she gets him on the phone. Finally, Bob asks Alice for Sugma Dick, and she quickly realizes she's being pranked and calls him out for it.
- Averted:
- Bob asks Alice for Anita Bath. She quickly realizes she's getting a prank call and hangs up, but not before giving him a few words.
- Bob asks Alice for Anita Bath. She replies she knows no one with that name and hangs up.
- Enforced: The creator knows someone named Anita Bath, so they decided to add her name in as an inside joke.
- Lampshaded: "Wow, Mr. and Mrs. Bath REALLY did not think their daughter's name through." "Either that, or they have a sick sense of humor."
- Invoked: Hearing a call from Bob, Alice knows Bob's going to prank call him again, so she calls over her friend Anita Bath so he can mess with him.
- Exploited: Lord Evulz knows Anita Bath is an important part of his evil plan to conquer the multiverse, so he tracks down Anita Bath's location using Bob's phone call with Alice.
- Defied: Judge Charlie declares Anita Bath's name as inappropriate and orders her to change her name.
- Discussed: "You're making these phone calls again? I bet you're going to find out one of your fake Punny Name friends is real all along if you put Alice's number in again."
- Conversed: "Why does Anita Bath even have a name like that? Do people in Fictionland feel no embarrassment?"
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