Playing With / Impossibly Mundane Explanation

• Straight: Bob is behaving oddly at work...because he has a dentist appointment after and he's nervous about going.
• Exaggerated: Bob was acquiring a lot of unusual items that seemingly have no relation to one another...because he was helping to set up for his kids' fundraising carnival at school.
• Downplayed: Bob, who loves sweets, doesn't pack a dessert one day...because his doctor told him to cut back on the sugar.
• Justified: Bob is often doing strange, extraordinary or dangerous things, so for him to give a mundane explanation for anything is a bit jarring for the other characters.
• Inverted: Bob is doing mundane things (i.e. grocery shopping, cleaning his house, fixing the shed) for an extraordinary reason (i.e. He adopted a pet dragon).
• Subverted: Bob is learning how to fence because he's joining the circus as a professional fencer.
• Double Subverted: ...at least that's what he tells people. He's actually learning fencing because his son is getting into it and needs someone to practice with.
• Parodied: ?
• Zig-Zagged: Bob's friends ask him why they didn't see him for a few weeks, thinking that he'd been kidnapped, that he'd gone to another dimension, or that he'd been on a business trip. He says that he'd been on a business trip...although he did get kidnapped by a few gangsters who mistook him for someone else...
• Averted: No theories, mundane or extraordinary, are given to explain Bob's behavior.
• Enforced: "Why do you think we haven't seen Bob lately?" "I don't know." "Do you think he's doing something really cool? Maybe he's become a superhero, or he's met an alien, or..." "Or maybe he's just picking up extra shifts at work."
• Defied: There is no reasonable/mundane explanation for what Bob is doing.
• Discussed: "Do you really think he's training so hard in karate because he likes The Karate Kid?" "I'm just saying it makes sense; he saw it in theaters at least three times."
• Conversed: "Do you think Bob's never outside anymore because he turned into a vampire?" "No, I think it's because he's been working the night shift lately."
• Implied: "No, Steven, I don't think that's why he'd buy five bounce houses."
• Deconstructed: The person who came up with the mundane theory questions why everyone else came up with their outlandish theories. After all, weird people can still have every day problems.
• Reconstructed: Everyone else reminds said person that they are all superheroes living in a city that's regularly attacked by monsters, supervillains, etc, so something like a broken lawn mower wouldn't have Bob acting the way he is.
• Played for Laughs: Bob has been doing/buying weird things all day, and a betting pool has formed among his coworkers over why he's acting that way. Alice bets that he's just setting up for his kids' birthday party, but everyone tells her that can't be right. It's revealed at the end of the day that, yes, Alice was right and she wins the pot.
• Played for Drama: Bob isn't behaving weird because he's been infected with an alien parasite...but because he possibly has cancer and he's awaiting the test results from his doctor.
• Played for Horror: Bob has been killing all of the people who considered him a friend because of very minor, mundane slights against him (i.e. Alice didn't pay him back after they went to lunch together, Charlie didn't visit him in the hospital after he broke his toe, Steve told him he didn't like his taste in music, etc).