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Basic Trope: The interviews for a job goes awry as the interviewees are quirky.

  • Straight: Bob holds auditions for someone to be his Foil. Hilarity Ensues as people auditioning are too quirky for his tastes.
  • Exaggerated: Bob gets a succession of screaming lunatics, serial killers, and generally terrifying people.
  • Downplayed: ???
  • Justified: Bob (or Tom!) holds a serious audition, but due to a miscommunication ends up interviewing people who think they're auditioning for something else entirely.
  • Inverted: Bob goes to thousands of job interviews, but his quirkiness gets him rejected from all of his jobs.
  • Subverted: Bob soon finds Alice he thinks would be perfect for the role...
  • Double Subverted: ...until Alice shows her True Colors Colors.
  • Parodied: ???
  • Zig Zagged: ???
  • Averted: Bob decides that instead of holding auditions, he asks his buddy Alex to be his foil.
  • Enforced: ???
  • Lampshaded: "I'm going to be saying "Next!" a lot, will I?"
  • Invoked: ???
  • Exploited: ???
  • Defied: ???
  • Discussed: ???
  • Conversed: ???
  • Deconstructed: A handful of the interviewees were threatening Bob that if he rejects them, they will kill him.
  • Reconstructed: Bob then holds auditions for a bodyguard and it still goes awry.

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