Rube Goldberg Device/Playing With

Basic Trope: A complex machine using a chain reaction is used to perform a simple task.
 * Straight: Bob sets up a machine to flush his toilet. It involves marbles rolling, dominos toppling over, and items falling.
 * Exaggerated: Bob sets up a machine to flush his toilet. It extends throughout the entire city, going as far as to even using bigger objects such as actual vehicles.
 * Downplayed: Bob sets up a machine to flush his toilet, which only consists of a marble rolling and knocking over some dominos.
 * Justified: Bob likes coming up with crazy contraptions.
 * Inverted: Bob uses a simple machine to perform a complex task.
 * Subverted: Bob appears to have a complex machine set up, but flushing his toilet is what sets it into motion.
 * Double Subverted: The machine actually opens a door elsewhere in Bob's house.
 * Parodied: ???
 * Zig Zagged: Many machines are set up, some performing simple tasks and some being triggered by them.
 * Averted: No elaborate machine is set up for anything that is simple.
 * Enforced: The creators wanted to show a huge chain reaction to invoke the Rule of Cool.
 * Lampshaded: "Wow! This complex machine is there to perform this simple task?"
 * Invoked: ???
 * Exploited: ???
 * Defied: Bob thinks about making a complex machine, then decides against it.
 * Discussed: ???
 * Conversed: ???


 * Played For Laughs: The machine involves things such as pies being thrown or funny noises.
 * Played For Drama: The machine is very expensive to make and takes up lots of space in Bob's house.