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Basic Trope: A very thirsty person drinks from a very big cup.

• Straight: Bob has to spend all night working on his report, so he gets a bucket-sized cup of coffee.
• Exaggerated: Bob works with a dozen barrel-sized cups of coffee nearby.
• Justified:
  • Bob has a sleep disorder that requires greater-than-normal doses of coffee to stay awake.
  • Alternatively, Bob isn't exactly a human and needs more coffee.
• Inverted:
  • Bob drinks from a bucket-sized cup of coffee, then spends all night working because he can't sleep.
  • Alternatively, Bob drinks coffee from a vodka glass.
• Subverted: Bob is too busy working all night on the report to drink anything.
• Double Subverted:
  • After work, however, he goes and orders a huge drink from a fast-food joint.
  • Alternately, coworker Charlie makes a food run and brings back a large softdrink for Bob.
• Zig Zagged: ???
• Parodied: Bob is seen sitting next to a massive container of coffee with an IV drip in his arm.
• Deconstructed: Bob develops kidney problems from drinking such excessive quantities.
• Reconstructed: ???
• Averted: Bob doesn't want to spend the money/risk the calories on such a large drink.
• Enforced: The bucket-sized cup is a new Gag Gift from the show's sponsors.
• Lampshaded: Bob tells Alice he has an all-night project, then asks her to fill up "Gargantua".
• Invoked: Alice, anticipating that Bob would hit an all-night deadline in the near future, gives him a bucket-sized cup as a gift.
• Defied: Upon hearing that Bob has to pull an all-nighter, Alice smashes Bob's bucket-sized cup.
• Discussed: ???
• Conversed: ???
• Played For Laughs:
  • Bob drinks from his bucket-sized cup of coffee, but ends up too hyperactive to actually get the report done.
  • Bob downs the entire bucket in one gulp, then finishes in half a second during the Caffeine Bullet Time. He then proceeds to finish the backlog of work he hadn't finished, and fill the next month's quota, too... all before 3:00 AM. And then promptly falls asleep.
• Played For Drama: Bob drinks from his bucket-sized cup of coffee, then falls over from cardiac arrest.

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