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1'''Basic Trope''': A character willingly eats things not meant to be eaten.
2* '''Straight''': Bob eats a brick or some other inedible object.
3* '''Exaggerated''':
4** Bob can eat anything, whether it's immeasurably large, poisonous, still living, or even [[AbstractEater a nonphysical thing, like time, gravity, or thoughts]].
5** Bob ''only'' eats nonedible things, and normal foods don't agree with his system.
6* '''Downplayed''':
7** Bob doesn't eat bricks. He ''does'' regularly eat things that may have once been edible, but likely aren't anymore, such as spoiled foods.
8** Bob enjoys a variety of exotic foods or concoctions made of edible foods, which the other characters find disgusting.
9* '''Justified''':
10** Bob has a superhuman digestive system and finds most things to taste at least tolerable.
11** He has pica, and wants to eat non-food all the time, even if he can’t digest it.
12* '''Inverted''':
13** Bob gets eaten [[AnimateInanimateObject by a brick]].
14** Bob is incapable of eating.
15** Bob doesn't need to eat and therefore doesn't.
16** Bob gets eaten by almost everything, even the wall.
17** PickyEater
18** Bob will pretty much drink anything.
19* '''Subverted''': Bob eats something he shouldn't, and promptly gets a nasty stomachache...
20* '''Double Subverted''': Which was only caused by the hot sauce he put on the object.
21* '''Parodied''': [[TastesLikePurple Bob also can taste everything,]] [[LogicBomb even nothingness.]]
22* '''Zig Zagged''': It turns out that Bob can only eat ''very specific'' inedible things.
23* '''Averted''': Nobody eats anything other than food.
24* '''Enforced''': "How funny would it be if we have someone eating something like a lightbulb?"
25* '''Lampshaded''': "What does 'inedible' mean, guys?"
26* '''Invoked''':
27** Bob wonders what a brick would taste like, and decides to eat one.
28** Someone makes a bet with Bob to see if he can eat something he shouldn't.
29* '''Exploited''': Alice feeds Bob her trash.
30* '''Defied''': Bob is sensible and realizes that, as tasty as that folding chair looks, it wouldn't make a healthy meal.
31* '''Discussed''': "No, Alice, I'm not going to eat your garbage. I may be greedy, but like all normal people, I only eat food."
32* '''Conversed''': "Bob eats bricks? That can't be healthy!"
33* '''Implied''': Bob licks his lips when he sees a lawn chair in Alice's front yard.
34* '''Deconstructed''': Bob eats something that wreaks havoc on his digestive tract, resulting in hospitalization and possibly death.
35* '''Reconstructed''': He gets better, and proceeds to stick with more edible objects, occasionally sneaking a wood screw or a paper clip.
36* '''Played For Laughs''':
37** Seeing what new "cuisine" Bob tries this episode is one of the main running gags of the series.
38** Bob states that he needs a snack and then eats a tool that someone else was using.
39* '''Played For Drama''':
40** Bob has a disorder causing him to subconsciously eat things, which he tries to get over as best he can during the course of the show.
41** Bob dies due to his strange diet, and Alice becomes DarkerAndEdgier [[CynicismCatalyst because she thinks he was murdered]].
42* '''Played For Horror''': Bob eats radioactive waste. He spends the next couple of days dying in a BodyHorror-laden way exactly similar to Series/{{Chernobyl}} victims.
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