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Gigantic Gulp/Playing With

Basic Trope: A very thirsty person drinks from a very big cup.

  • Straight: Bob has to spend all night working on his report, so he gets a bucket-sized cup of coffee.
  • Exaggerated: Bob works with a dozen barrel-sized cups of coffee nearby.
  • Justified:
    • Bob has a sleep disorder that requires greater-than-normal doses of coffee to stay awake.
    • Alternatively, Bob isn't exactly a human and needs more coffee.
  • Inverted:
    • Bob drinks from a bucket-sized cup of coffee, then spends all night working because he can't sleep.
    • Alternatively, Bob drinks coffee from a vodka glass.
  • Subverted: Bob is too busy working all night on the report to drink anything.
  • Double Subverted:
    • After work, however, he goes and orders a huge drink from a fast-food joint.
    • Alternately, coworker Charlie makes a food run and brings back a large softdrink for Bob.
  • Zig Zagged: ???
  • Parodied: Bob is seen sitting next to a massive container of coffee with an IV drip in his arm.
  • Deconstructed: Bob develops kidney problems from drinking such excessive quantities.
  • Reconstructed: ???
  • Averted: Bob doesn't want to spend the money/risk the calories on such a large drink.
  • Enforced: The bucket-sized cup is a new Gag Gift from the show's sponsors.
  • Lampshaded: Bob tells Alice he has an all-night project, then asks her to fill up "Gargantua".
  • Invoked: Alice, anticipating that Bob would hit an all-night deadline in the near future, gives him a bucket-sized cup as a gift.
  • Defied: Upon hearing that Bob has to pull an all-nighter, Alice smashes Bob's bucket-sized cup.
  • Discussed: ???
  • Conversed: ???
  • Played For Laughs:
    • Bob drinks from his bucket-sized cup of coffee, but ends up too hyperactive to actually get the report done.
    • Bob downs the entire bucket in one gulp, then finishes in half a second during the Caffeine Bullet Time. He then proceeds to finish the backlog of work he hadn't finished, and fill the next month's quota, too... all before 3:00 AM. And then promptly falls asleep.
  • Played For Drama: Bob drinks from his bucket-sized cup of coffee, then falls over from cardiac arrest.

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