History PlayingWith / CompressedVice

** By the end of the episode, Bob is in the hospital, dying of emphysema and/or cancer.

* '''Subverted''': Bob has his very first cigarette and though he coughs when he takes a drag on it, nothing otherwise too terrible happens.

* '''Deconstructed''': No matter how well-intentioned, being this {{Anvilicious}} has the effect of breaking the audience's WillingSuspensionOfDisbelief. (Using the above example, we all know someone who smokes, and many of us know someone who has/had serious health problems and/or died of smoking-related disease. But very few, if any, of us could claim to know (or even know of) someone who managed to compress the effects of decades' worth of smoking into 30 minutes.) Things just don't happen this way, so the {{Aesop}} becomes a LostAesop.
* '''Reconstructed''': If the effects of the action are presented in a more realistic fashion and spread out over the course of the series, the {{Aesop}} remains intact, and so does the WillingSuspensionOfDisbelief. The audience may actually learn something.

** The episode had a {{timeskip}}.

* '''Enforced''': MoralGuardians, VerySpecialEpisode, CantGetAwayWithNuthin, SomeAnvilsNeedToBeDropped, ScareEmStraight

* '''Played For Laughs''': The vice is something small, like [[JaywalkingIsASpecialKindOfEvil drinking out of the milk carton]].
* '''Played For Drama''': Bob's ordinarily a health nut, but when he has to smoke a cigarette to keep up his facade, he finds himself quickly addicted, and continues to smoke even long after the need is over. His friends and colleagues try to get him to quit, but his smoking has made him so irritable that every attempt ends in a huge fight. Bob's mother eventually tells him that smoking is what killed his grandfather, and that their family is particularly predisposed to developing lung cancer, but even that is unable to waver him from his path. By the end of the episode, Bob's near death, and it's only through a miraculous last minute procedure that he's able to survive. Bob apologizes to all his tearful friends and laments that if only he had listened to them, none of this would have ever happened.

* '''Played For Laughs''': The vice is something small, like [[JaywalkingIsASpecialKindOfEvildrinking out of the milk carton]].

* '''Played For Laughs''': The vice is something small, like [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking drinking out of the milk carton]].

* '''Parodied''': Bob has his first cigarette and [[YouFailYourMedicalBoardsForever instantly dies of cancer]].

* '''Played For Laughs''': The vice is something small, like [[MurderArsonAndJaywalking drinking out of the milk carton]].

* '''Exaggerated''': By the end of the episode, Bob is in the hospital, dying of emphysema and/or cancer.

* '''Downplayed''': ???

* '''Basic Trope''': A flaw is introduced very suddenly and exaggerated for effect.
* '''Played Straight''': [[UnluckyEverydude Bob]] has his very first cigarette. Halfway through the episode, he's already gone through an entire pack of cigarettes, his teeth are yellow, and he is easily irritated without his cigarettes.

* '''Deconstructed''': No matter how well-intentioned, being this {{Anvilicious}} has the effect of breaking the audience's WillingSuspensionOfDisbelief. (Using the above example, we all know someone who smokes, and many of us know someone who has/had serious health problems and/or died of smoking-related disease. But very few, if any, of us could claim to know (or even know of) someone who managed to compress the effects of decades' worth of smoking into 30 minutes.) Things just don't happen this way, so the {{Aesop}} becomes a LostAesop.
* '''Reconstructed''': If the effects of the action are presented in a more realistic fashion and spread out over the course of the series, the {{Aesop}} remains intact, and so does the WillingSuspensionOfDisbelief. The audience may actually learn something.
* '''Parodied''': Bob has his first cigarette and [[YouFailYourMedicalBoardsForever instantly dies of cancer]].

* '''Lampshaded''': "Bob, weren't you going on just last week about how bad smoking is for you?"

* '''Defied''': "What, were you expecting me to have just started up smoking like a chimney over night? Get real."

* '''Conversed''': "Yeah...although smoking causes lots of health problems, they usually take decades to show up, not minutes."

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* '''Deconstructed''': No matter how well-intentioned, being this {{Anvilicious}} has the effect of breaking the audience's WillingSuspensionOfDisbelief. (Using the above example, we all know someone who smokes, and many of us know someone who has/had serious health problems and/or died of smoking-related disease. But very few, if any, of us could claim to know (or even know of) someone who [[BeyondTheImpossible managed to compress the effects of decades' worth of smoking into 30 minutes]].) Things just don't happen this way, so the {{Aesop}} becomes a LostAesop.

* '''Justified''': CantGetAwayWithNuthin for a VerySpecialEpisode

* '''Averted''': Bob doesn't smoke in-series.

* '''Inverted''': Bob, who has chain-smoked his way through the whole series, has his last cigarette and [[BeyondTheImpossible effortlessly goes cold turkey.]]

* '''Lampshaded''': ???

* '''Defied''': See "averted."

* '''Played For Laughs''': The vice is something small, like [[MurderArsonAndJaywalking drinking out of the milk carton]]
* '''Played For Drama''': Very often is.

* '''Invoked''': The tobacco company adds something to the cigarettes they make to produce addiction (and thus [[MoneyDearBoygenerate revenue]]) faster.