Basic Trope: A character becomes tired or falls asleep because they ate too much.
- Straight: Alice eats a big dinner and then falls asleep.
- Exaggerated:
- Alice falls asleep after one cookie.
- Alice falls Asleep for Days after eating too much.
- A feast leads to a mass pass-out.
- Downplayed: Alice looks a bit groggy for a short time after eating.
- Justified: Sometimes Truth in Television due to amino acids.
- Inverted:
- Hunger Causes Lethargy.
- Eating gives Alice a rush of adrenaline.
- Eating before bed gives Alice insomnia.
- Subverted:
- Alice is shown Faceplanting into Food, but then it's revealed that she was tired for another reason (Sleep Deprivation, has the flu, hungover, etc).
- Alice passes out after eating. Bob thinks it was just that she ate too much, but it turns out the food was laced with knockout drugs.
- Double Subverted:
- She was lying because she doesn't want to admit she ate too much.
- Then, it turns out that the "drugs" were a placebo.
- Parodied:
- Zigzagged:
- Averted:
- Alice is never seen eating.
- The food does not make Alice sleepy.
- Enforced:
- Invoked: Bob tricks Alice into eating too much so she can fall asleep and thus he can conduct his secret plan.
- Exploited: "Now she's asleep, let's steal her wine!"
- Defied: Alice refuses to eat too much, not wanting to get sleepy.
- Discussed: "Will I get sleepy if I ate all that?"
- Conversed: "The Thanksgiving Episode was fine, but that scene where they were all lethargic from too much turkey was unpleasant to watch."
- Implied: Alice is seen sleeping at the table.
- Deconstructed:
- Reconstructed:
- Played for Laughs:
- Played for Drama: The reason why Alice ate too much in the first place was because she was sad that Bob dumped her.
- Played for Horror:
Back to Food Coma.
