History PlayingWith / DonutMessWithACop

* '''Downplayed''': Officer Bob admits he likes a donut every now and then, but is hardly ever seen eating one.

* '''Played For Laughs''': A scene taking place at Dippy's involves an entire donut shop full of cops.

** [[StupidCrooks Someone tries to]] [[WhatAnIdiot rob a donut shop]]...but is foiled by all the cops hanging out there.

* '''Justified''': [[YouWannaGetSued Dippin' Donutz]] is one of the few places open late at night and early in the morning, while Officer Bob is working. It's also cheap (maybe even free for law enforcement) and close by the precinct.

** [[Film/WreckItRalph The cops ARE donuts.]]

'''Basic Trope''': Police officers eating donuts

* '''Exaggerated''': Officer Bob's only sustenance is [[MustHaveCaffeine coffee]] and donuts.

** [[TheVamp Alice]] is stopped for speeding, and she unbuttons her shirt to show some cleavage...and [[FoodAsBribe bribes Officer Bob with a donut]] pulled out of VictoriasSecretCompartment. He lets her off with a warning.

* '''Conversed''': "I dunno...what if the police officers actually ''don't'' like donuts?"

** Donuts eating police officers.

* '''Played For Laughs''': A scene taking place at Dippy's involves an entire donut shop full of cops.
* '''Implied''': Alice mentions Officer Bob has just captured a criminal and remarks that the suspect was pretty dumb to try to rob a donut shop.

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* '''Inverted''': Officer Bob's TrademarkFavoriteFood is something healthier than a donut, and in fact, he doesn't really care for donuts.

* '''Exploited''': ???

** [[WreckItRalph The cops]] ''[[WreckItRalph are]]'' [[WreckItRalph donuts!]][[hottip:*:named Dunkin and Winchill]]

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

* '''Played Straight''': [[CowboyCop Officer Bob]] stops at a donut shop.

* '''Justified''': [[YouWannaGetSued Dippin' Donutz]] is one of the few places open late at night and early in the morning, while Officer Bob is working. It's also cheap (maybe even free for law enforcement) and close by the precinct.

** Officer Bob is seen at his desk, eating lunch while grinding through paperwork.

** But he can't resist eating one on the way home.
* '''Deconstructed''': The new [[DaChief Chief]] is a ''seriously'' ByTheBookCop, and vows that any officer caught accepting freebies from local businesses will be fired. Bob's wife persuades him it's a good thing because he was putting on a lot of weight eating nothing but coffee and donuts.
* '''Reconstructed''': Officer Bob is shown working out to make up for eating donuts, and presents all of his donut receipts during the internal affairs audit.

** A police car is seen with lights and sirens on, speeding as if to an emergency, and Officer Bob is talking to other cops over the radio...and arrives at Dippy's to buy a box of donuts.

** Officer Bob pulls someone over, not for speeding or DUI or any other traffic violation...but because they have a box of donuts.

** [[StupidCrooks Someone tries to]] [[WhatAnIdiot rob a donut shop]]...but is foiled by all the cops hanging out there.

** [[TwoGamersOnACouch Two officers in a car]] have a SeinfeldianConversation about donuts.
* '''Averted''': No police officers are ever seen eating or talking about donuts.
* '''Enforced''': TheCoconutEffect

** Officer Bob is on a diet, and needs to resist the temptation to eat donuts.

* '''Played For Laughs''': Almost always is.
* '''Played For Drama''': Someone with a grudge against either police/authority figures in general or Officer Bob puts a bomb inside of a jelly donut and gives it to Officer Bob.

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* '''Subverted''': Officer Bob is seen at his desk, eating lunch while grinding through paperwork.

* '''Double Subverted''': But later, he goes to Dippy's and buys a donut and a cup of coffee.

* '''Parodied''': The precinct is located ''inside'' the donut shop.

* '''Lampshaded''': "Welcome to Dippin' Donuts, Officers. The usual?"

* '''Defied''': Officer Bob is on a diet, and needs to resist the temptation to eat donuts.

* '''Reconstructed''':

** Offier Bob quite likes donuts, usually, but refuses to eat them on duty because [[StopBeingStereotypical he's sick of the stereotype]].

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

* '''Basic Trope''': Police officers eating donuts

** [[WhatAnIdiot Someone tries to rob a donut shop]]...but is foiled by all the cops hanging out there.