Basic Trope: A character puts another's hand in warm water while they're asleep to make them wet the bed.
- Straight: During a slumber party, Alice is asleep, but Bob is still awake, so he pours a bowl of warm water and puts her hand in it, making her wet the bed.
- Exaggerated: Bob is the last one to fall asleep at the slumber party, so he puts everybody's hands into warm water, all of whom wet the bed.
- Downplayed: Bob does put Alice's hand in warm water in hopes of making her wet the bed, but it doesn't work.
- Justified: Bob is The Prankster.
- Inverted: Alice burned her hand cooking and ended up falling asleep with her hand in a bowl of water. Bob, fearing that Alice will wet the bed, takes her hand out and dries it while she's still asleep.
- Subverted:
- Bob tries to put Alice's hand in the water, but she wakes up.
- Bob is seen putting a sleeping Alice's hand in a bowl of water, but it's subsequently revealed that he's trying to give her an exorcism and it's holy water.
- Double Subverted:
- Parodied:
- Zigzagged: Bob makes several attempts to put Alice's hand in warm water without waking her up.
- Averted: Bob leaves Alice alone, or pulls a different prank on her like Face Doodling.
- Enforced:
- Lampshaded:
- "You do realise that putting someone's hand in warm water usually does nothing, right?"
- "Oh no, not the old hand-in-a-bowl-of-warm-water trick!"
- "If it works, you're changing the sheets."
- Invoked:
- Exploited: Bob is an eccentric doctor who uses this trick to get a urine sample from a comatose patient.
- Defied:
- Alice sleeps on her hands so that Bob won't put them in water.
- Bob promises not to put anyone's hand in water.
- Charlie bans Bob from pulling pranks.
- Discussed: "Let's prank Alice!" "Good idea— what should we do?" "Put her hand in warm water?"
- Conversed: "Despite what you hay have seen on TV, putting someone's hand in warm water usually won't make them pee."
- Implied: Alice is seen sleeping with her hand in water and a wet spot on her crotch.
- Deconstructed:
- Reconstructed:
- Played for Laughs:
- Played for Drama: This leads to a Feud Episode between Alice and Bob.
- Played for Horror:
Back to Warm Water Whiz.
