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1'''Basic Trope''': The setting is a garbage dump or junkyard.
2* '''Straight''': An episode takes place in a dump or junkyard.
3* '''Exaggerated''': The entire series takes place there.
4* '''Downplayed''': [[Film/SilentNightDeadlyNightPart2 Garbage Day!]]
5* '''Justified''': The main character or a ChekhovsGunman lives and/or works in such a setting.
6* '''Inverted''': The show is all about garbage dumps and junkyards, but those places are never the setting for the show.
7* '''Subverted''': The main story doesn't take place in a dump or junkyard.
8* '''Double Subverted''': But a side story does.
9* '''Parodied''': The story is told from the perspective of...the garbage.
10* '''Zig Zagged''': ???
11* '''Averted''': The series makes no mention of a dump or junkyard.
12* '''Enforced''': We need a setting that could best be described as DarkerAndEdgier.
13* '''Lampshaded''': "What are we doing in [[{{Pun}} a dump like this]]?"
14* '''Invoked''': Someone tries to get a MacGuffin back that wound up in the garbage.
15* '''Exploited''': ???
16* '''Defied''': The characters refuse to go to a dump or junkyard, feeling that it's too dangerous or gross.
17* '''Discussed''': ???
18* '''Conversed''': ???
19* '''Played For Laughs''': "Hey! I think I found the MacGuffin!" *pulls out old boot*
20* '''Played For Drama''':
21** A fight takes place in the junkyard.
22** Someone gets tetanus or another junk-borne disease.
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26%% Optional items, added after Conversed, at your discretion:
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28%%* '''Implied''': ???
29%%* '''Deconstructed''': ???
30%%* '''Reconstructed''': ???

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