Dissimile/Playing With

Basic Trope: A simile is used, but is then subverted when the speaker says it's nothing like what it's being compared to.

• Straight: Andy says that Hypothetical Sitcom is like Seinfeld, but with an all female cast, and they work at a supermarket.
• Exaggerated: Andy goes into a five minute talk about how Hypothetical Sitcom resembles Seinfeld, and the takes every single example he used and changes it.
• Downplayed: Andy says HS is like Other Hypothetical Sitcom, but only slightly different.
• Justified: Andy wanted to give Brenda a good idea of what HS was about, but also how it was different.
• Inverted: Andy says that Seinfeld is nothing like HS.
• Subverted: Andy says that HS is like Seinfeld and stops.
• Double Subverted: ...Before adding on how it's with women in a supermarket.
• Parodied: ???
• Deconstructed: ???
• Reconstructed: ??
• Zig Zagged: ???
• Averted: Andy says that HS is a show about women working in a small town supermarket with no mention to Seinfeld
• Enforced: "Hey, you know what people like? People like Seinfeld! Make it sound like that, but different!"
• Lampshaded: "So, in other words, it's not a lot like Seinfeld?"
• Invoked: ???
• Exploited: Andy doesn't especially like Brenda, and he knows she likes Seinfeld, so she sets up her expectations by comparing it to it and then waiting for the disappointment.
• Defied: Brenda stops Andy from talking about how it's like Seinfeld, but...
• Discussed: See Lampshaded.
• Conversed: "Why does Alice keep saying how Hypothetical Show-Within-A-Show is like Other-In-Show, but blabbity-blah-blah? It's stupid, in my opinion."

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