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* '''Subverted''': It seems like Bob is going to give up on his dream...then a local newspaper writes up his cakes, which causes a huge influx of business. He eventually succeeds.

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* '''Subverted''': It seems like Bob is going to give up on his dream... then a local newspaper writes up his cakes, which causes a huge influx of business. He eventually succeeds.
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** Bob never achieves his goal of having the best bakery around. The inevitable failure takes its toll on him, causing him to develop into a bitter, unhappy shell of a man.
** Alternatively, Bob quits.

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** Bob never achieves his goal of having the best bakery around. [[TookALevelInCynic The inevitable failure takes its toll on him, causing him to develop into a bitter, unhappy shell of a man.
man.]]
** Alternatively, [[KnowWhenToFoldEm Bob quits.]]

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* '''Implied''': Bob announces he wants to start the world's best bakery. In his next appearance, someone asks him about his bakery. He tells them to shut up.



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* '''Inverted''': Bob almost immediately succeeds at running a successful bakery.

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* '''Inverted''': '''Inverted''':
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Bob almost immediately succeeds at running a successful bakery.bakery.
** SpringtimeForHitler: Bob was trying to make an awful bakery, but it ends up successful anyway.
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** "[[DeadpanSnarker You know how my life goes,]] [[SadClown I'm always successful in my goals.]]"

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** "[[DeadpanSnarker You know how my life goes,]] [[SadClown I'm always successful in my goals.]]"goals]]."



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'''Basic Trope''': No matter what one does, one can NOT achieve one's ultimate goal.

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'''Basic Trope''': No matter what one does, one can NOT cannot achieve one's ultimate goal.

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* '''Inverted''':
** Bob almost immediately succeeds at running a successful bakery.

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* '''Inverted''':
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'''Inverted''': Bob almost immediately succeeds at running a successful bakery.
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** No matter how hard Bob tries to turn his bakery into a commercial failure, [[SpringtimeForHitler it just keeps getting more popular and successful]].
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* '''Played for [[MindScrew Confusion]]''': Alice pregnant with Charlie's child. She wants her child to be born healthy, but it neither dies nor even gets born ''[[LongestPregnancyEver at all]]''.

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* '''Lampshaded''': "Why is it that every time I try to get the word out, I fail somehow?"

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"Why is it that every time I try to get the word out, I fail somehow?"somehow?"
** "Man, I can't do anything right."



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

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* '''Exploited''': ???Bob manages to find a way to use his bad luck to destroy other people's businesses.



* '''Discussed''': "Everything I do just ends in disaster."

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* '''Discussed''': '''Discussed''':
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"Everything I do just ends in disaster.""
** "[[DeadpanSnarker You know how my life goes,]] [[SadClown I'm always successful in my goals.]]"



* '''Played For Laughs''': Bob is a complete UnsympatheticComedyProtagonist and all of his failures wind up with him on the receiving end of the AmusingInjuries stick.
* '''Played For Drama''': Bob's failures make him wind up deeper and deeper in debt and before long he loses his home.



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* '''Downplayed''': Bob is okay with the way his business is going.

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* '''Downplayed''': Bob is okay with the way his business is going.going, but he's slightly disappointed because it doesn't live up to his highest expectations.

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

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* '''Downplayed''': ???Bob is okay with the way his business is going.
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* '''Plotted a Good Waste''': ???
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* ''Plotted a Good Waste'': ???

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* ''Plotted '''Plotted a Good Waste'': Waste''': ???
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* '''Downplayed''': ???



** Alternatively, although Bob's a very good baker, his little bakery is overshadowed by a large chain bakery not far away.

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** Alternatively, although Bob's a very good baker, his little bakery is overshadowed by a large chain bakery not far away.



** Or: No matter how hard Bob tries to turn his bakery into a commercial failure, [[SpringtimeForHitler it just keeps getting more popular and successful]].

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** Or: No matter how hard Bob tries to turn his bakery into a commercial failure, [[SpringtimeForHitler it just keeps getting more popular and successful]].



* '''Deconstructed''':
** Bob never achieves his goal of having the best bakery around. The inevitable failure takes its toll on him, causing him to develop into a bitter, unhappy shell of a man.
** Alternatively, Bob quits.
* '''Reconstructed''': Bob revisits his goals and resets his parameters. He decides that it's OK as long as he has a ''good'' bakery, even if it's not the best, which makes him much happier and takes undue stress off of him.



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



* '''Deconstructed''':
** Bob never achieves his goal of having the best bakery around. The inevitable failure takes its toll on him, causing him to develop into a bitter, unhappy shell of a man.
** Alternatively, Bob quits.
* '''Reconstructed''': Bob revisits his goals and resets his parameters. He decides that it's OK as long as he has a ''good'' bakery, even if it's not the best, which makes him much happier and takes undue stress off of him.



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* '''Justified''': Bob isn't a very good baker at all, despite his desire to have a great bakery.

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* '''Justified''': '''Justified''':
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Bob isn't a very good baker at all, despite his desire to have a great bakery.



* '''Inverted''': Bob almost immediately succeeds at running a successful bakery.

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* '''Inverted''': '''Inverted''':
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Bob almost immediately succeeds at running a successful bakery.



* '''Deconstructed''': Bob never achieves his goal of having the best bakery around. The inevitable failure takes its toll on him, causing him to develop into a bitter, unhappy shell of a man.

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* '''Deconstructed''': '''Deconstructed''':
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Bob never achieves his goal of having the best bakery around. The inevitable failure takes its toll on him, causing him to develop into a bitter, unhappy shell of a man.
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* '''Reconstructed''': Bob revisits his goals and resets his parameters. He decides that as long as he has a ''good'' bakery, even if it's not the best, which makes him much happier and takes undue stress off of him.

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* '''Reconstructed''': Bob revisits his goals and resets his parameters. He decides that it's OK as long as he has a ''good'' bakery, even if it's not the best, which makes him much happier and takes undue stress off of him.



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'''Basic Trope''': No matter what one does,one can NOT achieve one's ultimate goal.

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'''Basic Trope''': No matter what one does,one does, one can NOT achieve one's ultimate goal.
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** Or: No matter how hard Bob tries to turn his bakery into a commercial failure, [[SpringtimeForHitler it just keeps getting more popular and successful]].
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** Alternatively, Bob quits.
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** Alternatively, although Bob's a very good baker, his little bakery is overshadowed by a large chain bakery not far away.

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