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1	'''Basic Trope''': A character tries to pass a mistake off as a planned move.
2	* '''Straight''': Alice falls over, knocks over a PricelessMingVase, and lands in a pile of wool. She says, "I meant to do that."
3	* '''Exaggerated''': [[BookDumb Alice]] claims she meant to flunk a test she had previously hoped to get straight A's on.
4	* '''Downplayed''':
5	** Alice claims a half-intentional stunt was all-intentional.
6	** Alice claims a accidental stunt was half-intentional.
7	* '''Justified''': Alice is not above lying and is easily embarrassed.
8	* '''Inverted''': Alice claims something she meant to do was an accident.
9	* '''Subverted''':
10	** When Bob says "Pull the other one," Alice says, "No, I really did mean to do it."
11	** "I meant to do that -- [[NoodleIncident thing I did before this, with the lollipop]]."
12	* '''Double Subverted''':
13	** But she's lying.
14	** "But I meant to do what I did before, too."
15	* '''Parodied''': Alice [[BlatantLies claims she meant to do something she obviously didn't]], or Alice really DID mean to do "that".
16	* '''Averted''':
17	** Nobody is clumsy.
18	** Nobody lies.
19	** Nobody lies about being clumsy.
20	* '''Enforced''': This is Alice's first scene on the show, and the writers want to show she is klutzy, easily embarrassed, and not above lying.
21	* '''Lampshaded''': "I don't think you did mean to do that."
22	* '''Invoked''': Alice is easily embarrassed and not above lying and [[ThePrankster Bob]] trips her up.
23	* '''Exploited''': Alice is not allowed to make mistakes, and she has made one, so she lies, and gets away with it as her friends are holding the IdiotBall.
24	* '''Defied''': Alice has sworn to never tell a lie.
25	* '''Discussed''': "Why does Alice always lie and say she meant to do that? She isn't fooling anybody!"
26	* '''Conversed''': "Why do these characters claim they meant to do something they obviously didn't?!"
27	* '''Deconstructed''': There are only so many times this excuse works. Once Alice has used up her allotment thereof, she becomes a laughingstock, or worse, a pariah.
28	* '''Reconstructed''': Alice becomes [[ImprovisationalIngenuity good enough at improvising]] that it doesn't really matter whether she meant to do something or not. Intended or not, things work out in her favor either way.
29	* '''Played for Laughs''': Alice and/or other people incur AmusingInjuries.
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31	I meant to take you back to IMeantToDoThat.
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33	%%* '''Implied''': ???
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