Awkwardly-Placed Bathtub/Playing With

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  • Basic Trope: A bathtub is placed out in the open.
  • Played Straight: Alice's bathtub is in her living room.
  • Exaggerated: Alice's bathtub is on her front lawn.
  • Justified:
    • Alice doesn't have running water; instead, she heats buckets of water and fills a washtub as needed.
    • Alice is a Cloudcuckoolander with unusal decorating practices.
    • Alice only has one room in her house or apartment.
  • Inverted:
    • Alice's bathtub is in the bathroom.
    • The Couch is an integral part of the bathroom.
  • Subverted: Alice's bathtub is in an en suite bathroom.
  • Double Subverted:
    • That features a large window overlooking the beach.
    • Due to lack of running water, Alice must bathe in a lake, hot spring, river, etc.
  • Deconstructed: May lead to a Please Put Some Clothes On situation.
  • Reconstructed:
  • Parodied:
  • Lampshaded: "Rub a dub dub, watching TV, in my tub!"
  • Averted:
    • Alice's bathtub is in the bathroom.
    • Alice doesn't bathe.
  • Enforced: We need some Fan Service.
  • Invoked: Alice moves into a house or apartment that has no room for her beloved claw-foot bathtub.
  • Defied: Alice decides she'll make do with the shower in her bathroom and sells the tub.
  • Discussed:
  • Conversed:
  • Played For Laughs: Naked First Impression
  • Played For Drama: Alice takes a Candlelit Bath.