Playing With / Ode to Food

Basic Trope: A song singing the praises of either a specific type of food or food in general.

• Straight: Mike sings a song about how he loves burgers.
• Exaggerated:
  • Mike sings a 20-minute List Song about the various types of burgers he likes eating.
  • Every single time Mike eats a meal, he sings a song about the dish he's about to eat.
• Downplayed:
  • Mike sings a brief ditty about burgers to himself.
  • Mike sings a song about the various things he enjoys in life. One of those things is eating burgers.
• Justified:
  • Mike is a musically-inclined Big Eater.
  • A restaurant pays Mike to sing about their food.
• Inverted:
  • Mike sings a song about how he doesn't like burgers.
  • Mike cooks a dish inspired by his favorite song.
  • Angus the Talking Burger sings a song about how great humans are.
• Subverted:
  • Mike constantly talks about his love of burgers. Eventually, he prepares to sing a song about it, at which point it's revealed that "eating burgers" is actually his way of referring to something that has nothing to do with food.
  • Mike sings about how the burger joint has paid him to make a song promoting their, IHHO indigestible, burgers.
• Double Subverted: He also likes actually eating burgers, and part of the song is about that as well.
• Parodied:
  • Mike sings a long, absurdly dramatic ballad with full orchestral backing, operatic vocals, and electric guitars. It's about burgers.
  • Mike sings a song about the new burger at his favorite fast food place while waiting in line for it. This enrages everyone else in the line, and he winds up getting kicked out for his disruptive behavior.
• Zig-Zagged: ???
• Averted: The characters do not sing about food.
• Enforced:
  • The producers want the work to have a comic relief song, and Food Songs Are Funny.
  • The work was commissioned by a fast food chain. (compare Justified #2)
  • The work is a PSA praising the benefits of healthy food.
• Lampshaded: "I love burgers so much, I'm going to sing about it!"
• Invoked: ???
• Exploited: Alice wants to leave Mike’s potluck dinner party early without looking like she doesn’t care, so she brings extra-delicious burgers, knowing that they’ll cause him to break into a musical number that will last long enough for her to sneak away before it ends.
• Defied: "A musical number about food? No way. Even I have standards."
• Discussed: ???
• Conversed: ???

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