Basic Trope: A plot that involves a character getting embarrassed over something.
- Straight: The plot of an episode of "The Alice and Bob Show" is Alice getting embarrassed over vomiting in public.
- Exaggerated:
- The entire show involves Alice getting embarrassed.
- The episode's plot involves everyone suffering embarrassment in some way.
- Alice suffers a long Humiliation Conga in the episode, ending with her naked in front of her school.
- The entire show is about Alice being forced to attend school naked and attempting to get used to it while bullies try to further embarrass her.
- The show begins with Alice exposed naked in front of her school. The rest of the series is of her trying to recover from the humiliation.
- Downplayed:
- Alice getting embarrassed is a subplot - the main plot of the episode is Bob getting ready for his first day at school.
- Alice gets embarrassed over something relatively minor.
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- Subverted: ???
- Double Subverted: ???
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- Zig-Zagged: ???
- Averted: The plot doesn't involve anyone's embarrassment.
- Enforced: To add Cringe Comedy, or some kind of drama/conflict.
- Lampshaded: ???
- Invoked: ???
- Exploited: ???
- Defied: ???
- Discussed: ???
- Conversed: ???
- Played for Drama: Alice is traumatised by her incident.
- Played for Horror: The show is about how Alice's humiliation led to her going through Sanity Slippage and becoming a Serial Killer.
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