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'''Basic Trope''': A [[Jerkass]] diplomat.
* '''Played Straight''': Bob comes from Tropestan as an ambassador to [[Cloudcuckooland]]. He gets drunk and insults the Emperor, hits on the emperor's wife, and [[Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking|puts his elbows on the table]].
* '''Exaggerated''':
** Bob uses the flag of [[Cloudcuckooland]] [[Refuge in Audacity|as a napkin ''and'' a tissue]] at the dinner, as well as doing all of the above.
** Bob commits not only a faux pas, but [[Diplomatic Impunity|a felony]].
* '''Downplayed''': [[Jerk
* '''Inverted''': Bob remains on his absolute best behavior while at the imperial palace of [[Cloudcuckooland]].
* '''Justified''':
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* '''Subverted''':
** Bob burps at the dinner table, but quickly excuses himself.
** Bob is not a diplomat, but merely [[Hawaiian
** Bob is the Ambassador to the Klingon Empire. They ''absolutely love'' him for it there.
**"Most honorable, and glorious emperor, before whose works [[Servile Snarker|Ozymandias looks on in despair.]] My master beseeches you to pardon him and begs for forgiveness for all his subjects of the blasphemous insult to your Immanent Majesty I am ordered to deliver in this Declaration of War."
* '''Double Subverted''':
** Only to learn that "excuse me" is ''not'' the proper response to a burp in [[Cloudcuckooland]].
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