Daytime Drama Queen/Playing With

Basic Trope: Someone who is not normally expected to watch soap operas...does.
 * Played Straight: Bob watches a Soap Opera
 * Exaggerated: Bob is addicted to this series...and is always blubbering over the dramatic scenes. Bonus Points if he gets all the other guys in the series hooked on this soap.
 * Inverted: Alice watches a football game
 * Justified:
 * Bob has nothing better to do during the day since he lost his job.
 * Alice and Bob are watching together.
 * Bob just likes soap operas.
 * Subverted: Bob quickly changes the channel to football when he hears Alice's footsteps.
 * Double Subverted: But as soon as she's gone, he's back to his soap opera.
 * Deconstructed:
 * Reconstructed:
 * Parodied: Bob is watching with every bathrobe-clad, curler-wearing Housewife in town...and has a bathrobe and curlers too.
 * Lampshaded: "You watch soaps?!"
 * Averted: Bob does not watch soap operas.
 * Enforced: Rule of Funny
 * Invoked: Bob finds himself laid off and between jobs. Since time wears quickly, he turns on the TV, but there isn't much on besides soap operas.
 * Defied: Bob feels that watching a soap (however interesting it may be) would be an affront to his masculinity, so he doesn't watch soaps.
 * Discussed: "I heard Bob was watching a soap opera..."
 * Conversed: "Men watching soaps...what next?"
 * Played For Laughs: Bob is more into the soap than Alice is.
 * Played For Drama: It shows that Bob has lost everything.

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