Basic Trope: A competition that involves spelling words, often as a plot.
- Straight: An episode of "Bob and Friends", the titular character and his friends in Troper Elementary School compete to spell words.
- Exaggerated: The competition involves spelling every word in the English language, including ones that are very long and hard to spell.
- Downplayed: Instead of a spelling bee, it's more of a spelling test.
- Justified: Truth in Television at some schools, but not as common in real life as it is in fiction.
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- Parodied:
- The "spelling bee" is just characters lining up to spell the word "bee".
- Words like pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis, hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia, antidisestablishmentarianism, floccinaucinihilipilification, and pseudopseudohypoparathyroidism are some of the words that contestants have to spell.
- Bob gets the word "there", and asks if it can be used in a sentence. The judge says, "They're going to build their house over there."
- Zig-Zagged: ???
- Averted: No spelling bee occurs.
- Enforced: ???
- Lampshaded: ???
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- Defied: ???
- Discussed: ???
- Conversed: ???
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