< Wacky Cravings

Wacky Cravings/Playing With

Basic Trope: A pregnant woman gets very strong cravings often for some very odd stuff, usually sending her husband out to get it.

  • Straight: Jane sends John out for cherry flavored ice cream and pickled pigs feet.
  • Exaggerated: Jane sends John out for Anti Matter Rocket Fuel... with chocolate.
    • Jane craves something that isn't even food.
  • Downplayed: Jane asks John to pick up a Hamburger from a local Burger Fool, which is odd because she doesn't like hamburgers.
  • Justified: This is in fact Truth in Television, some women do crave strange things during pregnancy.
  • Subverted: Jane was just kidding, but she does want John to buy her some apples...
  • Double Subverted: ...With cheese and cucumbers on it!
  • Inverted: Jane, which is usually a very, very Big Eater who likes to eat odd things on a daily basis, suddenly craves something 'normal', like orange juice.
  • Deconstructed: Jane asks for something so strange and outlandish, that John has to travel all the way to the other side of the city to a small restaurant, and John gets fed up having to go that far.
  • Parodied: Jane sends John out for a particular brand of foodstuff that sends John traveling across five states and climbing a mountain to get it, finally when he comes home she no longer craves it.
  • Played For Laughs: Usually is.
  • Lampshaded: "Why do some women have the weirdest cravings?"

Before you go back to Wacky Cravings, why don't you do me a favor and buy me some peanut butter and cheese sandwich... with onions and strawberries on top!

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