Donut Mess with a Cop/Playing With

Basic Trope: Police officers eating donuts ""I'll need to confiscate these.""
 * Played Straight: Officer Bob stops at a donut shop.
 * Exaggerated: Officer Bob's only sustenance is coffee and donuts.
 * Justified: Dippin' Donutz is one of the few places open late at night and early in the morning, while Officer Bob is working. It's also cheap (maybe even free for law enforcement) and close by the precinct.
 * Inverted: Officer Bob's Trademark Favorite Food is something healthier than a donut, and in fact, he doesn't really care for donuts.
 * Subverted:
 * Officer Bob is seen at his desk, eating lunch while grinding through paperwork.
 * Officer Bob is at the donut shop, but the donuts he buys are for his wife and kids at home.
 * Double Subverted:
 * But later, he goes to Dippy's and buys a donut and a cup of coffee.
 * But he can't resist eating one on the way home.
 * Deconstructed: The new Chief is a seriously By-The-Book Cop, and vows that any officer caught accepting freebies from local businesses will be fired. Bob's wife persuades him it's a good thing because he was putting on a lot of weight eating nothing but coffee and donuts.
 * Reconstructed: Officer Bob is shown working out to make up for eating donuts, and presents all of his donut receipts during the internal affairs audit.
 * Parodied:
 * The precinct is located inside the donut shop.
 * A police car is seen with lights and sirens on, speeding as if to an emergency, and Officer Bob is talking to other cops over the radio...and arrives at Dippy's to buy a box of donuts.
 * Alice is stopped for speeding, and she unbuttons her shirt to show some cleavage...and bribes Officer Bob with a donut pulled out of Victoria's Secret Compartment. He lets her off with a warning.
 * Officer Bob pulls someone over, not for speeding or DUI or any other traffic violation...but because they have a box of donuts.


 * Someone tries to rob a donut shop...but is foiled by all the cops hanging out there.
 * Officer Bob has sex with a donut.
 * Lampshaded:
 * "Welcome to Dippin' Donuts, Officers. The usual?"
 * Two officers in a car have a Seinfeldian Conversation about donuts.
 * Averted: No police officers are ever seen eating or talking about donuts.
 * Enforced: The Coconut Effect
 * Invoked: While working a late-night patrol or stakeout, Officer Bob gets really hungry and buys himself a donut and a cup of coffee to keep himself going.
 * Defied:
 * Officer Bob is on a diet, and needs to resist the temptation to eat donuts.
 * Officer Bob quite likes donuts, usually, but refuses to eat them on duty because he's sick of the stereotype.
 * Discussed: "You think I could get rich if I opened up a donut shop near the police station?"
 * Conversed: "I dunno...what if the police officers actually don't like donuts?"
 * Played For Laughs: Almost always is.
 * Played For Drama: Someone with a grudge against either police/authority figures in general or Officer Bob puts a bomb inside of a jelly donut and gives it to Officer Bob.

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