Basic Trope: A prank that involves putting a thumbtack on a chair.
- Straight: Alice puts a thumbtack on Bob's chair. Bob then sits on that chair and injures his ass.
- Exaggerated: Alice somehow puts a huge spike on Bob's chair. Bob somehow doesn't notice and sits on the chair.
- Downplayed: Alice puts a blunt thumbtack on Bob's chair. Bob sits on it and feels slightly annoyed rather than in tremendous pain.
- Justified: Alice is a jokester who likes to play pranks on people
- Inverted:
- Alice puts a whoopee cushion on Bob's chair. Bob sits on it and it makes a fart noise.
- Bob is a carpenter who needs nails for his work. Alice pranks him by putting chairs over all his boxes of nails.
- Subverted: Alice puts a thumbtack on Bob's chair. Bob walks by the chair... and walks past it.
- Double Subverted: And then Charles comes by and sits on the chair.
- Parodied: ???
- Zig-Zagged: ???
- Averted: Alice doesn't put a thumbtack on Bob's chair.
- Enforced: The creator was a huge prankster when he was a child, and putting a thumbtack under someone's chair was his favorite prank, so they decided to incorporate it into their work.
- Lampshaded: "Oh my god! That was painful! Who left this thumbtack here?"
- Invoked: Diane encourages Alice to put a thumbtack on Bob's chair because she thinks it would be funny.
- Exploited: ???
- Defied: Bob sees Alice about to put a thumbtack on his chair and lectures her about injuring people. He tells her not to do that again, and Alice has stopped doing that prank ever since.
- Discussed: "Hey! I saw that thumbtack on my chair, Alice! Do you think this is a sitcom?"
- Conversed: "That prank reminded me of that comedy movie we watched last week."
- Implied: Alice walks into the room with a thumbtack in hand. She leaves, and Bob enters. After a while, he screams in pain.
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