Basic Trope: A store only sells one thing.
- Straight: Bob's Spatula World is a store that only sells spatulas.
- Exaggerated: Bob's Spatula World only sells one very specific brand and model of spatula.
- Downplayed: Bob's Kitchen Utensil World is a store that only sells kitchen utensils.
- Justified:
- Bob has a weird obsession with spatulas.
- Bob gets a really good deal on spatulas from his supplier.
- Bob invented a technique for making really good spatulas, but it doesn't work for anything else.
- Inverted: Bob's General Store sells everything but spatulas.
- Subverted: Bob's Spatula World looks like it only sells spatulas from the outside, but when you go inside, you'll see that they have other kitchen equipment for sale too.
- Double Subverted:
- But the spatulas are the only things actually being sold. The other kitchen equipment is just display models.
- Alice goes shopping at Bob's Spatula World and finds it sells more than just spatulas. But she learns she made a wrong turn and accidentally wandered into Charlie's Kitchen Equipment Warehouse, believing it to be Bob's Spatula World. Bob's Spatula World indeed only sells spatulas.
- Parodied:
- When Alice goes shopping, she buys a spatula at Bob's Spatula World, a frying pan at Dan's Frying Pan Shop, an Air Conditioning Unit at Eddy's A/C Market, and a nuclear reactor at Dr. John's Nuclear Reactor Emporium.
- Bob's Spatula World is a massive department store, filled with nothing but shelves of identical spatulas.
- Zig-Zagged: ???
- Averted: Bob's store sells a variety of items.
- Enforced: Rule of Funny
- Lampshaded: "Does this place seriously only sell spatulas."
- Invoked: Bob decides to open a store that sells only spatulas.
- Exploited: Alice is looking to buy a very specific model of spatula, so rather than shop around, she figures a store dedicated to selling spatulas is most likely to have what she's looking for.
- Defied: Bob decides to come up with a few other things to sell rather than opening a store that sells only spatulas.
- Discussed: "You need a new spatula? Try shopping at Bob's Spatula World."
- Conversed: ???
- Implied: "I was going to stop at Bob's store, but I'm not looking for a new spatula."
- Deconstructed: Bob is struggling to run his business, as there isn't enough demand from selling only spatulas to keep him afloat.
- Played for Horror: During the Zombie Apocalypse, a group of survivors hide out at Bob's Spatula World.
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