British Stuffiness/Playing With

Basic Trope: British characters are uptight and stuffy.
 * Straight: Clarice Victoria Preston IV is the only British character on the show and is more uptight than any of the other characters.
 * Exaggerated: Clarice is a walking British stereotype who acts like it's still the Victorian age.
 * Justified: Clarice was raised in an upper-class, conservative household which encouraged emotional repression.
 * Inverted:
 * Clarice is more open and free-spirited than any of the other characters.
 * Alternatively, Bob (an American) is more uptight than any of the other characters (all British).
 * Subverted:
 * Everyone assumes Clarice is uptight because she's British, but she actually has a Freudian Excuse.
 * Clarice is constipated.
 * Clarice is an American pretending to be British.
 * Double Subverted: But she only responded to her problem by becoming uptight because she was raised to keep a Stiff Upper Lip. By a distant British relative.
 * Parodied: Clarice combines several British stereotypes without any rhyme or reason, sometimes being overly posh and other times suddenly becoming Cockney.
 * Deconstructed: Clarice is unable to adjust to a more open culture. She dies alone and unloved.
 * Reconstructed: Clarice's Stiff Upper Lip helps her get through a life or death situation.
 * Zig Zagged: Clarice's stuffiness varies Depending on the Writer.
 * Averted: Clarice is neither more uptight nor more free-spirited than the other characters.
 * Enforced: "We have to make Clarice act stuffy because that's what an American audience would expect."
 * Lampshaded: "Sorry I have trouble expressing my feelings. I'm British."
 * Invoked: Clarice deliberately acts the British steroytype because she feels her nationality makes her superior to the other characters.
 * Defied: Clarice doesn't act stuffy because she doesn't want to reinforce the steroytype.
 * Discussed: Clarice talks about being emotionally repressed with another character.
 * Conversed: "Why do they always make British characters act so stuffy on this show?"

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