Basic Trope: Someone loves a piece of food like a person or a pet, and keeps it for a very long time.
- Straight: Bob disturbingly loves his fries so much that he keeps it and treats it like a person or a pet.
- Exaggerated: Bob loves his fries to the point he dresses it up in clothes, talks to it every day, and even gives it a high-paying job.
- Downplayed:
- Bob loves his fries, but doesn't do anything crazy to it.
- Bob briefly pretends his fries are alive before he eats them.
- Justified:
- Bob is insane, and he thinks that fries are sentient beings.
- Bob is an alien and the fries remind him of an animal on his home planet.
- Inverted: Bob disturbingly eats a pet.
- Subverted: Bob loves his fries, but decides to eat it anyway.
- Double Subverted: He begins to regret his decision, and decides to cut his stomach to get the fries back out.
- Parodied: ???
- Zig-Zagged: ???
- Averted: Bob loves his fries but doesn't treat it like a human or a pet.
- Enforced: The creators wanted to make Bob insane.
- Lampshaded: "Why do you love your fries so much, Bob?"
- Invoked: ???
- Exploited: Emperor Evulz uses Bob's love of fries to lure Bob into his Death Trap.
- Defied: Alice eats all the fries before Bob finds them.
- Discussed: "Bob, don't eat fries so much. If you do that you will begin to treat it like a pet.
- Conversed: ???
- Implied: Bob's house is full of pictures of fries.
- Played for Drama: Bob is so lonely he's resorted to pretending that his fries are his friends.
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