< Lampshade-Wearing
Lampshade-Wearing/Playing With
- Basic Trope: A (usually drunk or high) character puts a lampshade on his (or more rarely, her) head.
- Played Straight: Bob gets drunk at a party and puts a lampshade on his head to the amusement of other guests.
- Exaggerated: Bob wears said lampshade home from the party.
- Bob wears several lampshades on his head.
- Justified: Bob is very, very, very drunk and/or high.
- It's a costume party, and Bob forgot his costume, so he grabs the lampshade and hopes nobody notices he didn't come in with it.
- Inverted: Bob crouches on top of the lampshade while drunk.
- Bob puts a lampshade on his head, but isn't drunk or high at all.
- Subverted: Bob drinks at the party, but doesn't put a lampshade on his head, even though he is extremely drunk.
- Double Subverted: But as he stumbles home, he puts a traffic cone on his head.
- Deconstructed: This behavior could cause embarrassment for Bob or others. Also, Bob could get hurt as he cannot see where he's going.
- Reconstructed: Bob doesn't get hurt, and everyone is amused (not embarrassed) by Bob's behavior.
- Parodied: Bob wears the lampshade home. At work the next day, he is still wearing it.
- Everyone has lampshades on their head during the party.
- Alice wears the lampshade as a skirt.
- Lampshaded: "That was some party last night!"
- Averted: Bob doesn't put anything on his head. He may not get that drunk (or get drunk at all), and he may not even be at a party.
- Enforced: Rule of Funny
- Invoked: Bob has had too many drinks at the party, and eyes a lamp.
- Defied: Bob doesn't drink at the party, knowing he'll make a fool of himself if he does.
- Discussed: "I swear, he does this at every party."
- Conversed: "Yeah. It's amusing and embarrassing at the same time."
- Played For Laughs: Almost always is.
- Played For Drama: Bob's behavior embarrasses his wife, gets him fired, or otherwise comes back to haunt him.
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