Basic Trope: A government office (often the Department of Motor Vehicles or an equivalent) that causes trouble for the customers.
- Straight: Alice tries to go to the DMV to get a driver's license. It takes forever, and several of the employees there are Obstructive Bureaucrats.
- Exaggerated: Alice ends up waiting several days to get her driver's license, and the employees are all extreme Jerkasses.
- Downplayed: Alice ends up waiting a little longer than expected, and the employees are somewhat unhelpful.
- Justified:
- There are always a lot of Unsatisfiable Customers at the DMV, and the employees are Beleaguered Bureaucrats who are tired of taking the abuse.
- The computers used at the DMV are The Alleged Computer, making it difficult for the employees to do their jobs.
- Inverted: Alice manages to get her driver's license very quickly and efficiently, and the DMV employees are friendly and helpful towards her.
- Subverted: Alice dreads going to the DMV because she knows it'll take forever. After taking a number, though, she gets called up very quickly...
- Double Subverted: ...but then the employees take forever to get her license ready.
- Parodied: The DMV is entirely staffed by Sluggish Sloths.
- Zig-Zagged: Alice goes to the DMV several times. Sometimes it takes a long time, and sometimes it goes by relatively quickly.
- Averted: Alice never goes to the DMV or other government offices.
- Enforced: One of the writers has a beef with the DMV because of inconviences they had to endure getting their license renewed, so the episode is a Take That!
- Lampshaded: ???
- Invoked: ???
- Exploited: ???
- Defied: The Department of Motor Vehicles is restructured to be one of the most effective, user-friendly and quick government departments.
- Discussed: ???
- Conversed: ???
Take a Number and go wait at Department of Major Vexation. We'll be with you... someday.
