Basic Trope: A pregnant woman gets very strong cravings, often for very odd food, usually sending her husband out to get it.
- Straight: Jane, who's pregnant, sends John out for cherry-flavored ice cream and pickled pigs' feet.
- Exaggerated:
- Jane sends John out for a canister of xenon ... with chocolate.
- Jane craves something that isn't even edible or tangible, like gravity or ideas.
- Downplayed: Jane asks John to pick up a hamburger from a local Burger Fool, which is odd because she doesn't like hamburgers.
- Justified: This is in fact Truth in Television, some women do crave strange things during pregnancy.
- Inverted: Jane, which is usually a very, very Big Eater who likes to eat odd things daily, suddenly craves something 'normal', like orange juice.
- Subverted: Jane was just kidding, but she does want John to buy her some apples...
- Double Subverted: ...With cheese and cucumbers on it!
- Parodied:
- Jane sends John out for a metric ton of surströmming. And she wolfs it down like a literal pig when he brings it to her. With nose plugs, of course.
- Jane sends John out for a particular brand of foodstuff that sends John traveling across five states and climbing a mountain to get it, but by the time he gets home she no longer craves it.
- John gets Wacky Cravings, leading everyone to discover that John is a Mister Seahorse.
- Jane's avid desire for copious amounts of multigrain bread and distilled water is treated as Wacky Cravings (rye bread and tap water being preferred where she lives).
- Jane craves pickled, deep-fried liver and onions despite not even being pregnant.
- Zig-Zagged: Jane's diet isn't thought of by the characters as unusual, until the viewers see what she's eating. Hilarity Ensues!
- Averted: Jane's diet doesn't change during her pregnancy at all.
- Enforced: "We need to reference Jane's pregnancy and throw in some quick jokes in the process ... I know! Jane can send John out for pickles and ice cream!"
- Lampshaded: "Why do some women have the weirdest cravings?"
- Invoked: Alice and Bob serve Jane cherry ice cream and pickled pigs' feet together early in her pregnancy, hoping she'll like them.
- Exploited: John stocks up on odd and unusual foods when he learns Jane is pregnant.
- Defied: Jane is a very Picky Eater, refusing to eat anything she didn't eat when not pregnant.
- Discussed: "I heard last time Jane was pregnant she sent John out for coleslaw with apples and strawberries on top!"
- Conversed: "Here we go again! Another pregnant woman craving pickles and ice cream or something equally absurd!"
- Implied: Jane is seen lying on the sofa content, an empty gallon-tub of ice cream and an empty pickle jar on the floor next to her hand.
- Deconstructed: Jane asks for something so strange and outlandish, that John has to travel all the way to the other side of the city to a small restaurant, and John gets fed up having to go that far.
- Reconstructed: John is a very devoted husband.
- Played for Drama: Jane gets craving for some pretty disturbing stuff like live frogs, signaling something is not quite right...
- Played for Laughs: Jane craves helium, which makes her voice high and makes her and John laugh.
Before you go back to Wacky Cravings, why don't you do me a favor and make me a peanut butter and cheese sandwich ... with onions and strawberries on top!
