Catch Phrase/Playing With

Basic Trope: A character has a recurring remark.

Straight: Bob keeps tacking on "You dumb broad" to some of his comments.
Exaggerated: See Verbal Tic, except with an entire Catch Phrase.
- Bob's speech is composed entirely of Catch Phrases.
Justified: Bob's Catch Phrase is a habit that he picked up, and his friends either don't mind it or think it's funny enough for him to keep using it.
Inverted:
- Phrase Catcher
- There is one thing that Bob will never say, no matter what the circumstances.
Subverted: Bob says a catchy saying once, but everyone thinks its a Catch Phrase.
Double Subverted: He then starts using that as a catchphrase.
Parodied: The only thing Bob says is his catch phrase.
Deconstructed: Bob has a disorder that forces him to repeat some of his phrases endlessly.
Reconstructed: Bob does not have a disorder, he just likes saying his phrase.
Zig Zagged: Bob's little phrase is present in some episodes, completely absent in others, and varies in frequency.
Averted: Bob has no Catch Phrase.
Enforced: The writer says, "Oh, really?" a lot, so he makes the main character say that as well, so he won't feel alone.
Lampshaded: "Bob really says, 'I know, right!' often."
Invoked: Bob really likes that line, so he says it as much as he can.
Defied:
- Bob says "You dumb broad" twice, then stops saying it to avoid repeating himself over and over.
- Bob never says the same thing more than once.
Discussed: "You're a superhero, a superhero has to have a catchphase!"
Conversed: "Like the way the Hulk is always going "HULK SMASH"."

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