Basic Trope: You win a year's supply worth of something.
- Straight: Billy mails in 500 box tops for Chocolate-Frosted Sugar Bombs. He wins a year's worth of the prize and it's delivered in the form of a truckload of the cereal being dumped on his front lawn.
- Exaggerated:
- Billy also wins a year's supply of hats, pencils, cars, and pet rabbits, which are all truckloads of the respective item arriving at his house.
- Billy wins a lifetime supply, and the company sends trucks to deliver cereal to his house every day.
- Downplayed: Billy does win a prize that lasts a year, but it's something sensible, like a gym membership.
- Justified:
- The cereal company has a supply surplus or is discontinuing the brand, and uses the giveaway in order to get rid of the excess food.
- The cereal is so bad that nobody would willingly buy it, so the company unloads it onto contest "winners".
- Inverted:
- Billy hates Chocolate-Frosted Sugar Bombs and his reward is not needing to eat the cereal for an entire year.
- Billy has to wait a year before his prize will be delivered.
- Billy is punished by having a year's worth of cereal taken away from him.
- Subverted: Billy simply receives a supply of coupons that he can trade in for free boxes of Chocolate-Frosted Sugar Bombs, with enough to last a year.
- Double Subverted: When he trades in one of the coupons, a helicopter dumps a bunch of Chocolate-Frosted Sugar Bombs over his house.
- Parodied:
- Billy's family now has to eat the cereal constantly, even though Billy is the only one who likes it.
- Billy is a Big Eater who can finish off his year's supply in just a week. He complains to the company that it didn't last him very long.
- Zig-Zagged: The amount of cereal Billy can get from the year's supply varies by month.
- Averted:
- Billy doesn't win a year's worth of anything.
- Billy wins a one-off prize.
- Enforced: Two Decades Behind.
- Lampshaded: "Look! If I mail in 500 box tops, they'll give us a year's worth of cereal!"
- Invoked: The cereal company's executives decide to run the promotion.
- Exploited: The cereal company uses this to entice customers to buy their products.
- Defied: Billy realizes that a year's supply of a product probably isn't as good as it sounds, and doesn't collect box tops.
- Discussed: "Do you think all this cereal will really last for a year?"
- Conversed: "I wonder if anyone in real life has won one of those 'year's worth of cereal' contests."
- Implied: Billy's friend Joey always has a bunch of Chocolate-Frosted Sugar Bombs at his house. When Billy asks him about it, he just says he "won" it, without specifying further.
- Deconstructed:
- All of Billy's cereal ends up expiring, cheating him out of his prize and leaving him with a bunch of waste to dispose of.
- After winning the chocolate cereal contest, eating an excess of unhealthy food leads Billy to become overweight and lethargic.
- Reconstructed:
- The company apologizes to Billy and gives him coupons to trade in for free cereal, that he can use at his leisure.
- Billy begins to exercise and eat healthier, only eating the cereal as a special treat (if at all).
- Played for Horror: Billy has won a year's worth of Sealed Evil in a Can, and now his family has to constantly fight off monsters.
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