History PlayingWith / NoTellMotel

'''Basic Trope''': It's the sleazy motel that rents rooms by the hour. The clerk doesn't ask what for, and doesn't want to know. The scene of various criminal activity, or at the very least, affairs.

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** In more modern stories: The criminals/dealers/prostitutes/cheating couple are too poor to afford something better and more wholesome-looking.
** In more modern stories: The people involved see getting involved at such places as a {{fetish}}, or a ShoutOut to the nostalgia of the past.

** The setting is in a fundamentalist PoliceState and heavily monitored. Even married couples don't have sex there -- let alone any criminal activity.

* '''Enforced''': ???

* '''Straight''': Bob goes to the NoTellMotel to [[YourCheatingHeart cheat on his wife]] and do {{drugs|AreBad}}, or Alice visits the NoTellMotel to investigate a crime that took place there.

* '''Conversed''': ???

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%%* '''Played for Drama''': ???

* '''Straight''': Bob goes to the NoTellMotel to cheat on his wife and do drugs, or Alice visits the NoTellMotel to investigate a crime that took place there.
* '''Exaggerated''':

** A story set in the 1930s-1980s, where such motels were far more commonly used and when they were found in such ways.
** In more modern stories: The criminals / dealers / prostitutes / cheating couple are too poor to afford something better and more wholesome-looking.

** The NoTellMotel is actually the most crime-free, safe place to stay in town - all of the really dangerous criminals stay and conduct their business in far better places.
** The setting is in a fundamentalist PoliceState and heavily monitored. Even married couples don't have sex there - let alone any criminal activity.

* '''Zig Zagged''': ???
* '''Averted''': No motels are shown.

* '''Played For Laughs''': The NoTellMotel is both sleazy and the only place to get any privacy in the town. Thus mob bosses, criminals, and others end up having very awkward meetings related to their crimes.

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* '''Inverted''': The NoTellMotel is actually the most crime-free, safe place to stay in town - all of the really dangerous criminals stay and conduct their business in far better places.

%%* '''Played For Laughs''': ???

* '''Invoked''': ???

* '''Parodied''':
** A perfectly sane, upstanding establishment markets itself as the NoTellMotel simply to get hipsters thinking they're being retro and oh-so-transgressive to stay there.
** See Exaggerated #1

* '''Averted''': ???

* '''Defied''': "Just because we're not the Hilton doesn't mean we have no standards! Let's get this place cleaned up and hire some security!"
* '''Discussed''': ???

%%* '''Plotted A Good Waste''': ???

* '''Defied''': ???

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

** People, criminals or otherwise, stop using the motel/hotel out of fear of arousing people's suspicions.

* '''Deconstructed''': The NoTellMotel gets closed down for being that, or is a RedHerring.

* '''Exaggerated''': The NoTellMotel has, among other things, a recreational drug vending machine, a directory of sex workers, and even more outrageous things, is styled to look as over the top as possible, and yes, [[GoingByTheMatchbook advertises via matchbooks]].

** See Exaggerated

* '''Parodied''': A perfectly sane, upstanding establishment markets itself as the NoTellMotel simply to get hipsters thinking they're being retro and oh-so-transgressive to stay there.

* '''Played Straight''': Bob goes to the NoTellMotel to cheat on his wife and do drugs, or Alice visits the NoTellMotel to investigate a crime that took place there.

* '''Justified''': A story set in the 1930s-1980s, where such motels were far more commonly used and when they were found in such ways.
** In more modern stories: The criminals / dealers / prostitutes / cheating couple are too poor to afford something better and more wholesome-looking.
** In more modern stories: The people involved see getting involved at such places as a {{fetish}}, or a ShoutOut to the nostalgia of the past.

* '''Double Subverted''': Because the places that are of higher quality and taste are known for this, they become in their own way the SpiritualSuccessor of the old NoTellMotel.

* '''Deconstructed''': The NoTellMotel gets closed down for being that, or is a RedHerring.
* '''Reconstructed''': Something bad or criminal did happen at the NoTellMotel, for the justified reasons above.
* '''Lampshaded''': "The last time we stopped at a motel we hadn't seen before, it was one of those creepy places. Keep driving."

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* '''Played For Laughs''':
* '''Played For Drama''':
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* '''Parodied''': As [[ExaggeratedTrope exaggerated]] above, but entirely PlayedForLaughs as below.
** A perfectly sane, upstanding establishment markets itself as the NoTellMotel simply to get hipsters thinking they're being retro and oh-so-transgressive to stay there.

* '''Deconstructed''':
* '''Reconstructed''':
* '''Lampshaded''':
* '''Parodied''':

* '''Inverted''': TheNoTellMotel is actually the most crime-free, safe place to stay in town - all of the really dangerous criminals stay and conduct their business in far better places.