Basic Trope: A parody of the song "Singing in the Rain", usually a Shout-Out to the movie Singin' in the Rain.
- Straight: After Alice and Bob agree to go steady, Bob goes dancing in the rain and sings a parody of "Singin' in the Rain", at one point hugging a lamppost.
- Exaggerated: The plot parodies the movie in its entirety— Bob is a famous actor who met Alice while escaping from a horde of admirers, he has a wacky best friend named Charles Gray and a snooty, high-voiced costar named Diane Dubois, who Alice ends up lip-synching for.
- Downplayed: Bob does sing a parody of the song, but doesn't hug the lamppost.
- Justified: Bob has seen the movie and was deliberately referencing it.
- Inverted:
- Subverted: Bob starts to sing a parody of "Singin' in the Rain", but then gets too shy to when he sees people are watching.
- Double Subverted: The people leave, so he does sing.
- Parodied:
- Zigzagged: Bob starts to sing, but then he becomes shy and clams up when he sees that other people are watching. They leave, so he starts to sing again, but then it clears up.
- Averted: Bob does a Happy Dance but doesn't parody "Singin' in the Rain".
- Enforced: The executives wanted a reference, so the writers decide to reference one of their favourite movies.
- Lampshaded: "What's with that guy goofing around in the pouring rain, singing?"
- Invoked: Alice requests, "Hey, Bob, it's raining outside, what do you say you do the little song and dance about it?"
- Exploited:
- Defied: "There's no way I'm going out in the rain, and I have a terrible singing voice anyway!"
- Discussed: "Ugh, it's been such a drought lately that I swear, when it rains, I'm gonna go out and parody 'Singin' in the Rain'."
- Conversed: "Most parodies of the song 'Singin' in the Rain' reference the movie, but the song actually existed before the movie."
- Implied: We see Bob dancing around outside and hugging the lamppost and we see his lips moving, but the scene takes place inside and looking through a window, so we can't hear what he's saying.
- Deconstructed: Bob ends up slipping and falling during his dance.
- Reconstructed:
- Played for Laughs: Everyone who Bob meets looks at him in puzzlement.
- Played for Drama: Bob sings the song because he's going mad.
- Played for Horror:
- Bob is a vampire and is singing because he's happy that it's raining since there's no sun to burn him.
- Bob's parody of "Singin' in the Rain" is a parody of its usage in A Clockwork Orange, in which he sings the song while doing a horribly depraved act.
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