Daytime Drama Queen/Playing With

Basic Trope: Someone who is not normally expected to watch soap operas...does.

• Played Straight: Bob watches a Soap Opera
• Exaggerated: Bob is addicted to this series...and is always blubbering over the dramatic scenes. Bonus Points if he gets all the other guys in the series hooked on this soap.
• Inverted: Alice watches a football game
• Justified:
  • Bob has nothing better to do during the day since he lost his job.
  • Alice and Bob are watching together.
  • Bob just likes soap operas.
• Subverted: Bob quickly changes the channel to football when he hears Alice's footsteps.
• Double Subverted: But as soon as she's gone, he's back to his soap opera.
• Deconstructed:
• Reconstructed:
• Parodied: Bob is watching with every bathrobe-clad, curler-wearing Housewife in town...and has a bathrobe and curlers too.
• Lampshaded: "You watch soaps?!"
• Averted: Bob does not watch soap operas.
• Enforced: Rule of Funny
• Invoked: Bob finds himself laid off and between jobs. Since time wears quickly, he turns on the TV, but there isn't much on besides soap operas.
• Defied: Bob feels that watching a soap (however interesting it may be) would be an affront to his masculinity, so he doesn't watch soaps.
• Discussed: "I heard Bob was watching a soap opera..."
• Conversed: "Men watching soaps...what next?"
• Played For Laughs: Bob is more into the soap than Alice is.
• Played For Drama: It shows that Bob has lost everything.

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