Literal-Minded/Playing With

Basic Trope: Someone has a tendency to take things literally in defiance of common sense.

• Straight: After telling Alice to "Hit the road", Alice goes out and punches the road.
• Exaggerated: Telling Alice to go to hell will cause the gates to hell to open, and a giant black hand will spring from it, pulling her in.
• Justified: Alice is a robot, and her AI is not programmed with figures of speech.
• Inverted: Alice tells Bob to go punch the road, and Bob just leaves.
  • "Um...that taxi's yellow." "My taxi is not a coward!"
• Subverted: Alice is told to hit the road; she looks like she's going to hit it, but she just leaves.
• Double Subverted: However, when she's told to go fly a kite, she does so.
• Parodied: In a short time frame she "hits the road", "goes kite flying", "chases a wild goose", "shoots a fish in a barrel" and "puts and elephant in the living room".
• Deconstructed: Alice stops punching the road.
• Reconstructed: Alice then easily finds "a needle in a haystack."
• Zig Zagged:"Hit the road Alice": Alice punches the road. "Go fly a kite" Alice "OK so I made a mistake". "Alice could not hit the broad side of a barn" Alice shoots a barn,
• Averted: Despite the cast using many ideas nobody ever takes them literally.
• Enforced: We need people to know Alice is a robot. Let's have her punch roads
• Lampshaded: "Um, OK, but I don't see what I'm accomplishing by doing this..." *punch*
• Invoked: ???
• Defied: ???
• Discussed: ???
• Conversed: Bob "You got to stop punching roads Alice" Alice "Then stop telling me to."
• Played for laughs: Bob "Well I will be a monkey's uncle." Alice "You should talk to your brother about his taste in women."
• Played for drama: Alice is nearly hit by a car while she is hitting the road.
• Played for Black Comedy: Bob "Alice you kill me." Alice "If you say so." *picks up an Axe*

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