Basic Trope: Jokes involving complaining about a fly in someone's soup (or a similar pest in food).
- Straight: Bob complains to the waitress Alice that there's a fly in his soup.
- Exaggerated:
- There are a whole bunch of flies and other pests in Bob's soup.
- There are flies in everyone's soup.
- Downplayed: Bob is complaining because flies are getting close to his soup.
- Justified: Bob knows that flies can carry diseases, and doesn't want that in his soup.
- Inverted:
- Bob complains because there's soup in his fly.
- Bob complains because there is not a fly in his soup. If he's a Frog Man, however (or similar animal that eats flies), this is understandable.
- Flynn the Fly complains about a tiny man in his soup.
- Subverted: It turns out to not be a fly, but a large chunk of pepper or a raisin.
- Double Subverted:
- And then a fly comes into Bob's soup.
- Bob doesn't like pepper or raisins, though, so this has the same effect.
- Parodied:
- Bob is a Funny Animal fly complaining that there's a fly in his soup... it's him, eating the soup.
- Visual Pun, such as a zipper or baseball in the soup instead of an actual fly.
- Zig-Zagged: ???
- Averted: There are no references to flies in soup.
- Enforced: Stock Jokes.
- Lampshaded: ???
- Invoked: Alice is tired of Bob treating her rudely, so she catches a fly and puts it in his soup.
- Exploited: ???
- Defied: Alice checks the soup to make sure that no flies get near it.
- Discussed: "Alice, what's this fly doing in my soup?" "The backstroke."
- Conversed: ???
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