1 | '''Basic Trope''': An embarrassing old photo of someone. |
2 | * '''Straight''': While Charlie takes his girlfriend Diane to meet his parents, Alice and Bob, they show Diane an old photo of Charlie as a baby [[NakedPeopleAreFunny in the bathtub]]. |
3 | * '''Exaggerated''': |
4 | ** There are a whole bunch of embarrassing old photos that Charlie's parents show Diane. |
5 | ** The old photos are of Charlie naked in his high school hallway, being laughed at by other students. |
6 | * '''Downplayed''': |
7 | ** Alice and Bob show Diane a picture of Charlie's slightly embarrassing emo phase. |
8 | ** Charlie is slightly amused by the picture, but still thinks it's embarrassing. |
9 | * '''Justified''': |
10 | ** Alice and Bob want to show Diane that their son is NotSoAboveItAll. |
11 | ** Alice and Bob are already AmazinglyEmbarrassingParents. |
12 | ** It was right next to the one they wanted to show to prove that Charlie did meet [[Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration 'Captain]] [[Creator/PatrickStewart Jean-Luc Picard']] at that age. |
13 | * '''Inverted''': Alice and Bob show Diane a really cool picture of Charlie. |
14 | * '''Subverted''': Charlie looks uncomfortable when his parents first show the picture to Diane. However, he later privately admits to them that he found it ActuallyPrettyFunny, but intentionally played up his embarrassment. |
15 | * '''Double Subverted''': Later, Alice and Bob show Diane a picture of Charlie when he was in middle school, which legitimately embarrasses him. |
16 | * '''Parodied''': The old picture of Charlie somehow becomes a [[InstantHumiliationJustAddYoutube instant viral hit]] in ''seconds'', to the point in which everyone in the world has seen it. |
17 | * '''Zig-Zagged''': ??? |
18 | * '''Averted''': There are no embarrassing old photos. |
19 | * '''Enforced''': |
20 | ** "We should show just how embarrassing Charlie's parents really are!" |
21 | ** "If there's anything related to Charlie's past he'd prefer no one knows about, it would certainly be a naked baby picture or a photo of him being toilet-trained." |
22 | * '''Lampshaded''': "Oh, you ''had'' to show my girlfriend the picture of me in the bathtub!" |
23 | * '''Invoked''': ??? |
24 | * '''Exploited''': ??? |
25 | * '''Defied''': Charlie doesn't let his parents show anyone any embarrassing old photos of him. |
26 | * '''Discussed''': "When I first brought my girlfriend to meet my parents, they showed her a picture of me doing something really stupid when I was a kid, and I wanted to crawl under a rock." |
27 | * '''Conversed''': "Why are [[AmazinglyEmbarrassingParents fictional parents]] ''always'' showing crappy old pictures of their children?" |
28 | * '''Implied''': |
29 | ** The photo isn't shown onscreen, but Alice, Bob, and Diane are laughing at it while Charlie seems embarrassed. |
30 | ** Charlie brings up a NoodleIncident involving his parents showing people a picture of him in his younger days. |
31 | * '''Played for Laughs''': CringeComedy |
32 | * '''Played for Drama''': |
33 | ** The photo is of a [[TraumaButton traumatic memory that Charlie is trying to forget]]. |
34 | ** Charlie disowns his parents over them showing that photo. |
35 | ** Charlie destroys the photo and [[SelfMadeOrphan murders his parents]] so no one will know about it. |
36 | ** Charlie is killed or goes missing and the photo becomes a TragicKeepsake for his parents. |
37 | ** The photos are child pornography of young Charlie being molested. |
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39 | Back to EmbarrassingOldPhoto... oh, you just had to show them ''that'' one! |
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41 | %% Optional items, added after Conversed, at your discretion: |
42 | %% * '''Deconstructed''': ??? |
43 | %% * '''Reconstructed''': ??? |
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