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** "We mixed up the puppeteering wires for [[NoodleImplements the Camel and the Kangaroo]], but I think that …" "Agreed, [[ThrowItIn that's pure comedy gold]], be a shame to lose it."

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* '''Enforced''': "Let's [[MindScrew confuse the audience]] while also adding a joke."

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"Let's [[MindScrew confuse the audience]] while also adding a joke."
** "[[LostInTranslation How do we translate this Tropestani]] VisualPun?" "[[DoNotExplainTheJoke Let's not]], the 'huh'-factor alone makes it funny.
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* '''Enforced''': Bob was jammed into a teleporter, and decided to go the safest way out, into the mashed potato pot.

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* '''Enforced''': Bob was jammed into a teleporter, and decided to go "Let's [[MindScrew confuse the safest way out, into the mashed potato pot.audience]] while also adding a joke."



* '''Invoked''': Bob pops out of a mashed potato pot using a clever illusionary trick.

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Bob pops out of a mashed potato pot using a clever illusionary trick.trick.
** Bob was jammed into a teleporter, and decided to go the safest way out, into the mashed potato pot.
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** The selling point of the show's humor is all the MindScrew[=s=].

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* '''Exaggerated''': Bob, dressed up in leotard and riding on a rainbow Segway, flies out of a mashed potato pot.

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Bob, dressed up in leotard and riding on a rainbow Segway, flies out of a mashed potato pot.pot.
** All of the show's humor is derived from odd situations.



* '''Discussed''': "I was going to pop out of a mashed potato pot, but that's just stupid.

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* '''Discussed''': "I was going to pop out of a mashed potato pot, but that's just stupid."

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** Bob is normal and jokey.



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* '''Zig Zagged''': Bob pops out of a mashed potato pot, but it was all part of the plan. But the plan was highly surreal anyway. Except that was a cover up for the darkly sinsister plan. Which is PlayedForLaughs and a ctually makes no sense.

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* '''Zig Zagged''': Bob pops out of a mashed potato pot, but it was all part of the plan. But the plan was highly surreal anyway. Except that was a cover up for the darkly sinsister plan. Which is PlayedForLaughs and a ctually actually makes no sense.
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'''Basic Trope''': Bizarreness makes something funny.

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'''Basic Trope''': Bizarreness makes something funny.Something is funny because or partly because of how bizarre it is.
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* '''Invoked''': Bob pops out of a mashe potato pot using a clever illusionary trick.

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* '''Invoked''': Bob pops out of a mashe mashed potato pot using a clever illusionary trick.
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* '''Justified''': ???

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* '''Justified''': ???Bob lives in a strange universe.



* '''Zig Zagged''': ???

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* '''Zig Zagged''': ???Bob pops out of a mashed potato pot, but it was all part of the plan. But the plan was highly surreal anyway. Except that was a cover up for the darkly sinsister plan. Which is PlayedForLaughs and a ctually makes no sense.



* '''Invoked''': ???

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* '''Invoked''': ???Bob pops out of a mashe potato pot using a clever illusionary trick.



* '''Discussed''': ???

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* '''Discussed''': ???"I was going to pop out of a mashed potato pot, but that's just stupid.



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** Or with mirrors.



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** Or with mirrors.



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* '''Conversed''': ???"This show is weird."

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* '''Straight''': [[WeirdAlYankovic Bob pops out of a mashed potato pot.]]

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* '''Straight''': [[WeirdAlYankovic [[Music/WeirdAlYankovic Bob pops out of a mashed potato pot.]]



* '''Inverted''': Bob is very sane and very boring

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Bob is very sane and very boring
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** SurrealHorror
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* '''Parodied''': ???

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* '''Parodied''': ???Bob is a magician who explains every one of his tricks with "It's a trapdoor" even if the trick wouldn't logically include a trapdoor.
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* '''Justified''': Bob is a RealityWarper.

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* '''Justified''': Bob is a RealityWarper.???



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'''Basic Trope''': Bizarreness makes something funny.
* '''Straight''': [[WeirdAlYankovic Bob pops out of a mashed potato pot.]]
* '''Exaggerated''': Bob, dressed up in leotard and riding on a rainbow Segway, flies out of a mashed potato pot.
* '''Downplayed''': Bob, for some reason, burps into the pot for a second.
* '''Justified''': Bob is a RealityWarper.
* '''Inverted''': Bob is very sane and very boring
* '''Subverted''': Bob pops out of a mashed potato pot, but it was AllJustADream.
* '''Double Subverted''': Bob pops out of a mashed potato pot, but it was AllJustADream. Then he found out ThatWasNotADream.
* '''Parodied''': ???
* '''Zig Zagged''': ???
* '''Averted''': Bob never does anything like that.
* '''Enforced''': Bob was jammed into a teleporter, and decided to go the safest way out, into the mashed potato pot.
* '''Lampshaded''': "Why did Bob just go out of my pot?"
* '''Invoked''': ???
* '''Exploited''': Alice, in a place Bob can't get to normally, sets up a mashed potato pot to get him there.
* '''Defied''': Alice goes over to Bob and tells him to not pop in.
* '''Discussed''': ???
* '''Conversed''': ???
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