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: The machine
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?"
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