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'''Basic Trope''': A wife leaves her domestic duties to her husband as a challenge.
* '''Played Straight''': [[Lazy Husband|Bob]] makes an insensitive remark about how Alice's job as a [[Housewife|homemaker]] isn't "real" work. She leaves him in charge for the day, and Bob proves the trope [[Men Can't Keep House]] true.
* '''Exaggerated''': The house is practically destroyed when Alice comes back.
* '''Downplayed''': Bob does okay for the most part, but he just doesn't do housework as well as Alice.
* '''Inverted''': Alice is challenged (perhaps in addition to Bob looking after the house) to go to [[:Category:White Collar Tropes|his work]] for the day. 
** Bob the [[House Husband]] challenges Alice the Career Woman to take care of the house; Alice learns that homemaking is every bit as much real work as her job is. 
** Bob does Alice's housework for the day and finds out it's as easy as he thought.
* '''Justified''': This is a challenge to prove that homemaking ''is'' real work, and not nearly as easy as it sounds.
* '''Subverted''': Bob seems to be managing the house alright while Alice is gone.
* '''Double Subverted''': But then the baby starts crying, and the roast burns in the oven, and chaos generally breaks loose.
* '''Parodied''': The house is in shambles as soon as Alice walks out the door. 
* '''Deconstructed''': Because Bob is so inept at housekeeping, he ends up burning the house down and leaving them homeless.
* '''Reconstructed''': [[Alice and Bob]] find another home, which Bob promises to take better care of.
* '''Lampshaded''': "[[Just Fine Without You|Oh, everything's fine dear...]][[Suspiciously Specific Denial|no, no that wasn't the fire extinguisher...]]"
* '''Averted''': Bob manages to hold down the house while Alice is gone.
** [[Alice and Bob]] do not switch duties.
* '''Enforced''': "Let's give 'em [[An Aesop]] about respecting the work done by an average [[Housewife]]!"
* '''Invoked''': [[Alice and Bob]] get into a [[Cavemen Versus Astronauts Debate]] about whose work is harder, who contributes more to the household, etc.
* '''Defied''': See "Reconstructed" without even using this trope.
** [[Alice and Bob]] agree that they both work equally hard (if in different ways) and contribute equally to the running of the household.
* '''Discussed''': "[[Genre Savvy|Haha, Bob's gonna fail]]!"
* '''Conversed''': "Why can't [[Alice and Bob]] see that they both contribute a lot to the household?"
* '''Played For Laughs''': Almost always is.
* '''Played For Drama''': The argument becomes [[Serious Business]] that threatens their marriage.

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