Slippery Soap/Playing With

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Basic Trope: A character is taking a shower or bath and tries to grab a bar of soap, only to have it slip out of their hands constantly.

  • Straight: Alice is trying to enjoy her nice, hot bubble bath, and makes a grab for her favorite bar of soap, only to have it slip on the ground out of her reach.
  • Exaggerated: All Alice has to do is touch it and it flies out of her grasp.
  • Downplayed: ???
  • Justified: Alice is naturally clumsy.
  • Inverted: The soap is always stable, even if Alice's hands are greasy.
  • Subverted: Alice almost drops the soap, but doesn't.
  • Double Subverted: ???
  • Parodied: ???
  • Zig Zagged: ???
  • Averted: Alice uses shower gel.
  • Enforced: ???
  • Lampshaded: "I'm tired of the soap falling out of my hands every time I turn the shower on!"
  • Invoked: ???
  • Exploited: ???
  • Defied: ???
  • Discussed: "Alice, remember that the soap is slippery, and not to drop it"
  • Conversed: ???

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