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Basic Trope: The witness called to the stand is an animal or an inanimate object. * Played Straight: Tropey the Wonder Dog is called to the witness stand to testify. * Exaggerated: The witness in question is a goldfish in a bowl. * The witness is a water cooler. When asked a question, a bubble comes up through the cooler. * Downplayed: The witness in question is a talking parrot. * Inverted: A human being (or in fantasy-type settings, perhaps one of the Fair Folk) is called to testify. * The lawyers and judge are animals, while the witnesses are all human. * Justified: Tropey is a Talking Animal or Funny Animal and therefore can speak. * Tropey is called up by a Bunny Ears Lawyer who doesn't seem to know what he's doing, but actually does. * Subverte

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  • Basic Trope: The witness called to the stand is an animal or an inanimate object. * Played Straight: Tropey the Wonder Dog is called to the witness stand to testify. * Exaggerated: The witness in question is a goldfish in a bowl. * The witness is a water cooler. When asked a question, a bubble comes up through the cooler. * Downplayed: The witness in question is a talking parrot. * Inverted: A human being (or in fantasy-type settings, perhaps one of the Fair Folk) is called to testify. * The lawyers and judge are animals, while the witnesses are all human. * Justified: Tropey is a Talking Animal or Funny Animal and therefore can speak. * Tropey is called up by a Bunny Ears Lawyer who doesn't seem to know what he's doing, but actually does. * Subverte
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  • Basic Trope: The witness called to the stand is an animal or an inanimate object. * Played Straight: Tropey the Wonder Dog is called to the witness stand to testify. * Exaggerated: The witness in question is a goldfish in a bowl. * The witness is a water cooler. When asked a question, a bubble comes up through the cooler. * Downplayed: The witness in question is a talking parrot. * Inverted: A human being (or in fantasy-type settings, perhaps one of the Fair Folk) is called to testify. * The lawyers and judge are animals, while the witnesses are all human. * Justified: Tropey is a Talking Animal or Funny Animal and therefore can speak. * Tropey is called up by a Bunny Ears Lawyer who doesn't seem to know what he's doing, but actually does. * Subverted: Bob is called to the witness stand, and brings Tropey up there with him. * Double Subverted: But Bob is an interpreter for Tropey. * Deconstructed: This wouldn't hold up in any Real Life courtroom, and is usually done when the lawyer is getting desperate. * Reconstructed: The lawyer has done his homework, and only calls up material witnesses. Since Tropey is a material witness, and able to speak and reason, the lawyer is justified in calling him up to testify. * Alternatively, see "Defied" * Parodied: The witness called to the stand is Mr. Stilton...a wedge of cheese. * Lampshaded: "I now call Tropey the Wonder Dog as my next witness..." * Averted: Nothing that isn't human is called up to testify. * Enforced: "We need to liven up this comedic series' courtroom episode with some Courtroom Antics!" * Invoked: The case is getting desperate, and Bernie the Attorney's client is facing life in Prison. * Defied: Bernie knows that no one would take a dog seriously, and that a dog cannot legally testify (even if it does talk), and so calls only relevant human witnesses or experts and hopes for the best. * Discussed: "Did he just call the dog to testify?!" * Conversed: "That wouldn't hold up in any court. Well, OK, maybe in Ruritania." * Played For Laughs: Almost always is. * Played For Drama: Bernie's client is losing the case badly, despite being innocent; calling up Tropey is a desperate last-ditch tactic to turn the trial around.
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