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'''Basic Trope''': A character is shown to enjoy partying with lots of drugs and sex (often with sex workers), usually to demonstrate a fall into depravity.
* '''Straight''': Bob is caught in a hotel room doing cocaine with Monica, an attractive [[High
* '''Exaggerated''': Bob engages in coked-up sex marathons with a harem of prostitutes on a nightly basis.
* '''Justified''': Bob is extremely wealthy and likes to party.
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* '''Subverted''': Upon receiving his wealth, Bob momentarily imagines living a life of promiscuity and excess... then laughs it off and puts all his money to better use instead.
** Bob hires Monica under the pretext of a sex-and-drug party, but it turns out to be a case of [[Platonic Prostitution]].
** Alternatively we see [[Boisterous Bruiser|Bob]] telling Alice with a huge grin that he'll be back in a week after they get the big payoff. Alice reacts in mild disgust. Next scene [[Pet the Dog|he is seen stroking the hair of his daughter]] [[Ill Girl|Karen]] while she's asleep in the hospital bed. A doctor comes in and informs Bob that she was cured thanks to the transplant.
* '''Double Subverted''': At least, that's what he tells Alice he's going to do. Next time we see Bob, he's in a hot tub surrounded by call girls gleefully snorting a large line of cocaine directly from Monica's bare breasts.
** Bob was just joking about the [[Platonic Prostitution]] bit.
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* '''Parodied''': The party that Bob is invited to is not the party he thought it was going to be; he ends up bringing cocaine and prostitutes to a Tupperware party.
** Bob doesn't have any cocaine, so he tries to lure Monica with a less 'dangerous' alternative, such as fruit.
* '''Deconstructed''': Bob's predilection for cocaine and prostitutes is part of a downward spiral into drug- and sex-addiction which will end up ruining him.
* '''Reconstructed''': Bob is careful to manage his baser urges most of the time to prevent him from losing everything to his lusts, but sometimes he needs to blow off a bit of steam.
* '''Zig Zagged''': Bob is seen snorting cocaine off a woman. But [[Bizarre Alien Biology|it is just a harmless aphrodisiac for his species.]] However the woman is his wife and not a prostitute. Then the prostitutes come in for the orgy with hard drugs. If you're a human that is....
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* '''Defied''': Bob is appalled by the excesses of sex and drugs he sees around him and determines not to fall into the same traps.
** Bob is a rock star, but consider the typical 'sex, drugs and rock 'n' roll' lifestyle a tedious cliche that he determines to avoid at all costs.
** Bob has seen [[Genre Savvy|too many stories]] of people who indulged their appetites for sex and drugs, only to end up losing everything in the inevitable crashing and burning, and doesn't want that for him.
* '''Discussed''': "Is that fool Bob burning his money away on hookers and blow again?"
** "I have to go. The coke won't snort itself off their breasts, you know."
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** Bob goes [[Out with a Bang]]. This is played for laughs, with most of the comments centring around how he died 'doing what -- and who -- he loved'.
* '''Played For Drama''': One of the call girls has an overdose during Bob's frentic party, and the resulting scandal ruins his life.
** As a result of over-exertion from the drugs and sex, Bob has a heart-attack and dies during sex with Monica. While he goes [[Out with a Bang]], this causes Monica a lot of problems as she must somehow deal with a dead client and a lot of drugs...
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Wanna party? You better get yourself back to the [[Hookers and Blow]], then...
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