History PlayingWith / CrushParade

** CringeComedy example: A marching band parades through a pile of RoadApples. TheShowMustGoOn, so the band members keep a StiffUpperLip until it's all over. Cue the MassOhCrap and the VomitChainReaction.

** After the [=MacGuffin=] gets run over once, the ScrewySquirrel redirects a passing parade over the same spot for good measure.

* '''Implied''': The [=MacGuffin=] lands in the street as circus music is heard from a rapidly decreasing distance. The camera pans to the horrified heroes. Alice yells, "Oh no, not the circus!" and makes an ICantLookGesture. Then Bob yells, "Oh no, not the jugglers!" and makes an ICantLookGesture. [[RuleOfThree Then Charlie yells]], "Oh no, not the clowns!" and makes an ICantLookGesture. Alice asks, "Are they gone?" and the heroes peek between their fingers. Alice yells "[[OhNoNotAgain Oh no, there's more of them!]]" and covers her eyes again. Bob yells, "Oh no, not the elephants!" and covers his eyes again. [[RunningGag Then Charlie yells]], "Oh no, not the [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking poodles]]!" and covers his eyes again. As the circus music fades away, the camera pans to the SquashedFlat [=MacGuffin=].

** To show that ArmiesAreEvil, the invaders march over a [[EmpathyDollShot child's doll]] (presumably the kid is dead).

** To show that ArmiesAreEvil, the invaders march over a [[EmpathyDollShot dead child's doll]].

* '''Implied''': The [=MacGuffin=] lands in the street as circus music is heard from a rapidly decreasing distance. The camera pans to the horrified heroes. Alice yells, "Oh no, not the circus!" and makes an ICantLookGesture. Then Bob yells, "Oh no, not the clowns!" and makes an ICantLookGesture. [[RuleOfThree Then Charlie yells]], "Oh no, not the elephants!" and makes an ICantLookGesture. [[RunningGag Then Daniel yells]], "Oh no, not the [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking poodles]]!" and makes an ICantLookGesture. As the circus music fades away, the camera pans to the SquashedFlat [=MacGuffin=].

* '''Zig Zagged''': Numerous things look set to destroy the [=MacGuffin=] but miss or cancel one another out in [[LuckyCharm increasingly coincidental ways]], while also hindering the efforts of the guy trying to retrieve it. He finally reaches it, loses his footing, and steps on it. Wincing, he looks under his foot... and it's undamaged! Then ''he'' gets hit by a car, a bike, another car...

* '''Inverted''': The MacGuffin, in the form of a HyperDestructiveBouncingBall, falls into the middle of a parade. Carnage ensues, until the ball finally comes to rest, unmarked, AtopAPileOfCorpses.

* '''Invoked''': The villain deliberately throws the [=MacGuffin=] in front of a fleet of trucks.
* '''Exploited''': After the [=MacGuffin=] gets run over once, the ScrewySquirrel redirects a passing parade over the same spot for good measure.

* '''Discussed''': Bob, after getting hit by a bike. "[[NonSequiturThud What, no elephants?" *thud*]]
* '''Conversed''': ???

%%* '''Implied''': ???

%%* '''Plotted A Good Waste''': ???
%%* '''Played For Laughs''': ???

* '''Exaggerated''': After the motorcycle comes a random parade, a bunch of elephants, army tanks, a large rolling rock, [[SerialEscalation a cruise liner, a stray moon, a T-rex]]...and [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking a little old lady with a cane.]]

* '''Inverted''': The MacGuffin lands on top of a parade, [[DroppedABridgeOnHim squashing everyone to death]].

* '''Parodied''': The MacGuffin is crushed by a bunch of little pre-school children on big wheels and tricycles.
* '''Zig Zagged''': ???

* '''Lampshaded''': ???
* '''Invoked''': The MacGuffin lands in the street during a parade.
* '''Exploited''': [[EliteMook Captain Lulz]] knocks the MacGuffin out of her hand so the parade will destroy it.

* '''Discussed''': "A cruise liner? A stray moon? [[ArtisticLicensePaleontology A dinosaur]]? [[Wrestling/TheMiz Really?"]]
* '''Conversed''': "Man, that MacGuffin is beyond toast!"

* '''Discussed''': "A cruise liner? A stray moon? [[ArtisticLicensePaleontology A dinosaur]]? [[TheMiz Really?"]]

* '''Discussed''': "A cruise liner? A stray moon? [[SomewhereAPaleontologistIsCrying A dinosaur]]? [[TheMiz Really?"]]

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

** The MacGuffin is destroyed, and it was [[AchillesHeel the only way to destroy]] [[CompleteImmortality Emperor Evulz]]... [[ShootTheShaggyDog Now what?]]

* '''Basic Trope''': An item of some sort is crushed beyond any and all repair during an OverlyLongGag
* '''Played Straight''': The MacGuffin is crushed by two cars, a truck, and a motorcycle.

* '''Justified''': The MacGuffin landed in the middle of the street during a very bad time, such as a holiday parade or the arrival of the circus.

* '''Deconstructed''':
* '''Reconstructed''':

* '''Lampshaded''':
* '''Averted''': Nothing runs over the MacGuffin

* '''Invoked''': The MacGuffin lands in the street during a parade

* '''Exploited''': [[EliteMook Captain Lulz]] knocks the MacGuffin out of her hand so the parade will destroy it.

* '''Played For Laughs''': Almost always is.

** The MacGuffin is destroyed...now what?
** The MacGuffin in question is some kind of LivingMacGuffin

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* '''Played For Drama''': The MacGuffin is destroyed...now what?

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* '''Exaggerated''': After the motorcycle comes a random parade, a bunch of elephants, army tanks, a large rolling rock, [[SerialEscalatioon a cruise liner, a stray moon, a T-rex]]...and [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking a little old lady with a cane.]]

* '''Exaggerated''': After the motorcycle comes a random parade, a bunch of elephants, army tanks, a large rolling rock, [[BeyondTheImpossible a cruise liner, a stray moon, a T-rex]]...and [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking a little old lady with a cane.]]