Basic Trope: A character suggests to another that since they like something so much, they should marry it.
- Straight: Charlie mentions liking salads. His older brother Derek suggests that since Charlie likes salad so much, he should marry it.
- Exaggerated: Charlie mentions a long list of things he likes, and Derek suggests that Charlie should marry all of them.
- Downplayed: Charlie mentions liking a girl in his class named Erin, who he became friends with. Derek suggests that Charlie marries her.
- Justified: Derek is a snarker.
- Inverted: ???
- Subverted: ???
- Double Subverted: ???
- Parodied: A Cutaway Gag shows Charlie several years in the future actually marrying a bowl of salad.
- Zig-Zagged: Charlie loves ice cream until Derek does this, and the plot revolves around him trying to avoid the marriage. It looks like Derek grew out of it and they part ways... until Charlie is promptly informed that Miss I. Scream has turned up at the altar.
- Averted:
- Charlie doesn't mention liking anything.
- Derek doesn't suggest that Charlie marries anything.
- Enforced:
- Lampshaded: ???
- Invoked: ???
- Exploited: ???
- Defied:
- Charlie decides not to mention his favorite things in front of Derek, knowing that he will make jokes like that.
- Derek's parents tell him to knock it off.
- Discussed: ???
- Conversed: ???
- Deconstructed:
- Charlie is Literally Minded and actually believes that he will have to marry salad when he's older, which worries him.
- Charlie starts thinking that he can't share his interests around his brother due to him making these jokes all the time.
- Reconstructed:
- Charlie later learns that Derek was just joking.
- Alternatively, Derek apologizes.
- Played for Laughs: Charlie fires back at Derek.Derek: If you like salads so much why don't you marry one?
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